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International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems

IPMU 1994: Advances in Intelligent Computing — IPMU '94 pp 292–301Cite as

Possibility theory and independence

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We study the links between uncertainty and the notion of dependence. We investigate three possible definitions of dependence that are constructed from possibility measures. One of them has been proposed be Zadeh, and the two others are based on the notion of conditional possibility. We show that the latter have enough expressive power to support the whole possibility theory and that complete axiomatizations can be given.

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  1. I.R.I.T.- Université Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, F-31062, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Luis Fariñas del Cerro & Andreas Herzig

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  1. Luis Fariñas del Cerro
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Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier Ronald R. Yager Lotfi A. Zadeh

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del Cerro, L.F., Herzig, A. (1995). Possibility theory and independence. In: Bouchon-Meunier, B., Yager, R.R., Zadeh, L.A. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Computing — IPMU '94. IPMU 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 945. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0035962

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