• DocumentCode
    1393569
  • Title

    A qualitative discriminant approach for generating quantitative belief functions

  • Author

    Bryson, Noel ; Mobolurin, Ayodele

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Bus., Howard Univ., Washington, DC, USA
  • Volume
    10
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1998
  • Firstpage
    345
  • Lastpage
    348
  • Abstract
    The authors present an approach that will be useful in knowledge acquisition from experts on the degree of belief in, or the probability of, the truthfulness of various propositions. Its advantages include exploring the given problem situation using linguistic quantifiers; avoiding the premature use of numeric measures; and identifying input data that is inconsistent with the theory of belief functions
  • Keywords
    belief maintenance; computational linguistics; knowledge acquisition; experts; inconsistent input data identification; knowledge acquisition; linguistic quantifiers; probability; proposition truthfulness; qualitative discriminant approach; quantitative belief function generation; Aerospace engineering; Computer Society; Decision support systems; Knowledge acquisition;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-4347
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/69.683765
  • Filename
    683765