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Semantics of the relative belief of singletons
- International Workshop on Uncertainty and Logic UNCLOG’08
, 2008
"... Summary. In this paper we introduce the relative belief of singletons as a novel Bayesian approximation of a belief function. We discuss its nature in terms of degrees of belief under several different angles, and its applicability to different classes of belief functions. ..."
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Summary. In this paper we introduce the relative belief of singletons as a novel Bayesian approximation of a belief function. We discuss its nature in terms of degrees of belief under several different angles, and its applicability to different classes of belief functions.
An interpretation of consistent belief functions in terms of simplicial complexes
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Two k-additive generalizations of the pignistic transform for imprecise decision making
"... The Transferable Belief approach to the Theory of Evidence is based on the pignistic transform which, mapping belief functions to probability distributions, allows to make “precise ” decisions on a set of disjoint hypotheses via classical utility theory. In certain scenarios, however, such as medica ..."
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The Transferable Belief approach to the Theory of Evidence is based on the pignistic transform which, mapping belief functions to probability distributions, allows to make “precise ” decisions on a set of disjoint hypotheses via classical utility theory. In certain scenarios, however, such as medical diagnosis, the need for an “imprecise ” approach to decision making arises, in which sets of possible outcomes are compared. We propose here a framework for imprecise decision derived from the TBM, in which belief functions are mapped to k-additive belief functions (i.e., belief functions whose focal elements have maximal cardinality equal to k) rather than Bayesian ones. We do so by introducing two alternative generalizations of the pignistic transform to the case of k-additive belief functions. The latter has several interesting properties: depending on which properties are deemed the most important, the two distinct generalizations arise. The proposed generalized transforms are empirically validated by applying them to imprecise decision in concrete pattern recognition problems.
MOEBIUS INVERSES OF PLAUSIBILITY AND COMMONALITY FUNCTIONS AND THEIR GEOMETRIC INTERPRETATION
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UNCERTAINTY, FUZZINESS AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS
, 2007
"... In this work we extend the geometric approach to the theory of evidence in order to study the geometric behavior of the two quantities inherently associated with a belief function. i.e. the plausibility and commonality functions. After introducing the analogous of the basic probability assignment fo ..."
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In this work we extend the geometric approach to the theory of evidence in order to study the geometric behavior of the two quantities inherently associated with a belief function. i.e. the plausibility and commonality functions. After introducing the analogous of the basic probability assignment for plausibilities and commonalities, we exploit it to understand the simplicial form of both plausibility and commonality spaces. Given the intuition provided by the binary case we prove the congruence of belief, plausibility, and commonality spaces for both standard and unnormalized belief functions, and describe the point-wise geometry of these sum functions in terms of the rigid transformation mapping them onto each other. This leads us to conjecture that the D-S formalism may be in fact a geometric calculus in the line of geometric probability, and opens the way to a wider application of discrete mathematics to subjective probability.
