Classic Works of the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Belief Functions

This book brings together a collection of classic research papers on the Dempster-Shafer theory of belief functions. By bridging fuzzy logic and probabilistic reasoning, the theory of belief functions has become a primary tool for knowledge representation

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Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Volume 219 Editor-in-chief Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences ul. Newelska 6 01-447 Warsaw Poland E-mail: [email protected] Further volumes of this series can be found on our homepage: springer.com

Diagnosis and Medication, 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-49707-3

Vol. 205. Mika Sato-Ilic, Lakhmi C. Jain Innovations in Fuzzy Clustering, 2006 ISBN 978-3-540-34356-1

Vol. 213. Peter Lucas, José A. Gámez, Antonio Salmerón (Eds.) Advances in Probabilistic Graphical Models, 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-68994-2

Vol. 206. A. Sengupta (Ed.) Chaos, Nonlinearity, Complexity, 2006 ISBN 978-3-540-31756-2 Vol. 207. Isabelle Guyon, Steve Gunn, Masoud Nikravesh, Lotfi A. Zadeh (Eds.) Feature Extraction, 2006 ISBN 978-3-540-35487-1 Vol. 208. Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin, Janusz Kacprzyk, Witold Pedrycz (Eds.) Hybrid Intelligent Systems, 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-37419-0 Vol. 209. Alexander Mehler, Reinhard Köhler Aspects of Automatic Text Analysis, 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-37520-3 Vol. 210. Mike Nachtegael, Dietrich Van der Weken, Etienne E. Kerre, Wilfried Philips (Eds.) Soft Computing in Image Processing, 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-38232-4 Vol. 211. Alexander Gegov Complexity Management in Fuzzy Systems, 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-38883-8 Vol. 212. Elisabeth Rakus-Andersson Fuzzy and Rough Techniques in Medical

Vol. 214. Irina Georgescu Fuzzy Choice Functions, 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-68997-3 Vol. 215. Paul P. Wang, Da Ruan, Etienne E. Kerre (Eds.) Fuzzy Logic, 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-71257-2 Vol. 216. Rudolf Seising The Fuzzification of Systems, 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-71794-2 Vol. 217. Masoud Nikravesh, Janusz Kacprzyk, Lofti A. Zadeh (Eds.) Forging New Frontiers: Fuzzy Pioneers I, 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-73181-8 Vol. 218. Masoud Nikravesh, Janusz Kacprzyk, Lofti A. Zadeh (Eds.) Forging New Frontiers: Fuzzy Pioneers II, 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-73184-9 Vol. 219. Roland R. Yager, Liping Liu (Eds.) Classic Works of the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Belief Functions, 2007 ISBN 978-3-540-25381-5

Roland R. Yager · Liping Liu (Eds.)

Classic Works of the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Belief Functions With 81 Figures 43 Tables

Dr. Roland R. Yager

Liping Liu

Machine Intelligence Institute Iona College 715 N. Avenue New Rochelle, NY 10801-1890 USA [email protected], [email protected]

Department of Management and Information Systems University of Akron College of Business Administration 351 Akron, OH 4325-4801 USA [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007933149

ISSN print edition: 1434-9922 ISSN electronic edition: 1860-0808 ISBN 978-3-540-25381-5 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965,