Interpreting evidential distances by connecting them to partial orders: application to belief function approximation

DOI10.1016/j.ijar.2016.01.001zbMath1352.68248OpenAlexW2279675410MaRDI QIDQ256476

Sebastien Destercke, John Klein, Olivier Colot

Publication date: 9 March 2016

Published in: International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2016.01.001

zbMATH Keywords

convex optimizationmetricdistancepartial ordersemanticsbelief functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex programming (90C25) Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Logic in artificial intelligence (68T27) Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37)

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