An introduction to DSmT

Jean Dezert (1) , Florentin Smarandache (2)

1 ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab [Châtillon]
2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics [Albuquerque]

The management and combination of uncertain, imprecise, fuzzy and even paradoxical or high conflicting sources of information has always been, and still remains today, of primal importance for the development of reliable modern information systems involving artificial reasoning. In this introduction, we present a survey of our recent theory of plausible and paradoxical reasoning, known as Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSmT), developed for dealing with imprecise, uncertain and conflicting sources of information. We focus our presentation on the foundations of DSmT and on its most important rules of combination, rather than on browsing specific applications of DSmT available in literature. Several simple examples are given throughout this presentation to show the efficiency and the generality of this new approach.

Mots clés: DSmT; Dezert-Smarandache Theory; information fusion

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Jean Dezert, Florentin Smarandache (Dir.). An introduction to DSmT. Arp. , 3, pp.760, 2009, Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion, Collected Works, F. Smarandache & J. Dezert, 1599730731. ⟨hal-00365080⟩