The assumptions behind Dempster's rule

  • Authors:
  • Nic Wilson

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK

  • Venue:
  • UAI'93 Proceedings of the Ninth international conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

This paper examines the concept of a combination rule for belief functions. It is shown that two fairly simple and apparently reasonable assumptions determine Dempster's rule, giving a new justification for it.