Toward a Dempster-Shafer theory of concepts

Sabine Frittella; Krishna Manoorkar; Alessandra Palmigiano; Apostolos Tzimoulis; Nachoem M. Wijnberg

doi:10.1016/j.ijar.2020.05.004

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Toward a Dempster-Shafer theory of concepts

Sabine Frittella ¹ Krishna Manoorkar ² Alessandra Palmigiano ^{3, 4} Apostolos Tzimoulis ⁴ Nachoem M. Wijnberg ^{5, 3}

1 SDS - Sécurité des Données et des Systèmes

LIFO - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans

2 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology [Haifa]

3 UJ - University of Johannesburg

4 VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam]

5 UvA - Universiteit van Amsterdam

Abstract : In this paper, we generalize the basic notions and results of Dempster-Shafer theory from predicates to formal concepts. Results include the representation of conceptual belief functions as inner measures of suitable probability functions, and a Dempster-Shafer rule of combination on belief functions on formal concepts.

Keywords : Epistemic logic Dempster-Shafer theory Formal concept analysis

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Computer Science [cs] / Logic in Computer Science [cs.LO]

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