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Using Dempster-Shafer Theory in Knowledge Representation
Alessandro Saffiotti
In this paper, we suggest marrying Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory with Knowledge Representation (KR). Born out of this marriage is the definition of "Dempster-Shafer Belief Bases", ab…
cs.AI2013★ 62 cited
Pulcinella: A General Tool for Propagating Uncertainty in Valuation Networks
Alessandro Saffiotti, Elisabeth Umkehrer
We present PULCinella and its use in comparing uncertainty theories. PULCinella is a general tool for Propagating Uncertainty based on the Local Computation technique of Shafer and…
cs.AI2013
Belief Functions and Default Reasoning
Salem Benferhat, Alessandro Saffiotti, Philippe Smets
We present a new approach to dealing with default information based on the theory of belief functions. Our semantic structures, inspired by Adams' epsilon-semantics, are epsilon-be…