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This contribution deals with a belief processing which enables managing of multiple and overlapping elements of a frame of discernment. An outline of the Dempster-Shafer theory for such cases is presented, including several types of constraints for simplification of its large computational complexity. DSmT – a new theory rapidly developing the last five years – is briefly introduced. Finally, it is shown that the DSmT is a special case of the general Dempster-Shafer approach.
This work was supported by the grant 1ET100300419 GA AV ČR, and in part by the Institutional Research Plan AV0Z10300504 “Computer Science for the Information Society: Models, Algorithms, Applications”.
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Daniel, M. (2007). The DSm Approach as a Special Case of the Dempster-Shafer Theory. In: Mellouli, K. (eds) Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty. ECSQARU 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4724. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75256-1_35
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