2 papers
cs.AI2013
Is Shafer General Bayes?
Paul K. Black
This paper examines the relationship between Shafer's belief functions and convex sets of probability distributions. Kyburg's (1986) result showed that belief function models form…
cs.AI2013
Hierarchical Evidence and Belief Functions
Paul K. Black, Kathryn Blackmond Laskey
Dempster/Shafer (D/S) theory has been advocated as a way of representing incompleteness of evidence in a system's knowledge base. Methods now exist for propagating beliefs through…