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A New Qualitative Rough-Set Approach to Modeling Belief Functions

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The paper presents a novel view of the Dempster—Shafer belief function as a measure of diversity in relational data bases. The Dempster rule of evidence combination corresponds to the join operator of the relational database theory. This rough-set based interpretation is qualitative in nature and can represent a number of belief function operators.

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Kłopotek, M.A., Wierzchoń, S.T. (1998). A New Qualitative Rough-Set Approach to Modeling Belief Functions. In: Polkowski, L., Skowron, A. (eds) Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing. RSCTC 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1424. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-69115-4_47

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