Title
Revision Rules in the Theory of Evidence
Abstract
Combination rules proposed so far in the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence, especially Dempster rule, rely on a basic assumption, that is, pieces of evidence being combined are considered to be on a par, i.e. play the same role. When a source of evidence is less reliable than another, it is possible to discount it and then a symmetric combination operation is still used. In the case of revision, the idea is to let prior knowledge of an agent be altered by some input information. The change problem is thus intrinsically asymmetric. Assuming the input information is reliable, it should be retained whilst the prior information should be changed minimally to that effect. Although belief revision is already an important subfield of artificial intelligence, so far, it has been little addressed in evidence theory. In this paper, we define the notion of revision for the theory of evidence and propose several different revision rules, called the inner and outer revisions, and a modified adaptive outer revision, which better corresponds to the idea of revision. Properties of these revision rules are also investigated.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ICTAI.2010.50
ICTAI (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
modified adaptive outer revision,inner revision,combination rule,different revision rule,artificial intelligence,belief revision,inference mechanisms,dempster-shafer theory,revision rule,input information,evidence theory,jeffrey's rule,belief maintenance,uncertainty handling,prior information,revision rules,combination rules,outer revision,ds theory,theory of evidence,bayesian methods,kinematics,merging,artificial intelligent,dempster shafer theory,bipartite graph,reliability
Belief maintenance,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Merge (version control),Dempster–Shafer theory,Uncertainty handling,Theory of evidence,Machine learning,Belief revision,Bayesian probability
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1
1082-3409
978-1-4244-8817-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.67
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jianbing Ma124215.73
Weiru Liu21597112.05
Didier Dubois3108551320.77
Henri Prade4105491445.02