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The transferable belief model

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Smets, P., Hsia, Y.T., Saffiotti, A., Kennes, R., Xu, H., Umkehren, E. (1991). The transferable belief model. In: Kruse, R., Siegel, P. (eds) Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Uncertainty. ECSQARU 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 548. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54659-6_72

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