Kohlas, JürgInstitute for Automation and Operations Research University of Fribourg, Switzerland
1988
Published in:
Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences. - Cambridge University Press. - 1988, vol. 2, no. 4, p. 415-433
English
The mathematical theory of evidence (Shafer et al. [9]) has recently found much interest as an approach to treat uncertainty in expert and knowledge-based systems. Although the theory is very promising, there are not yet many practical applications. Modeling practice has still to be developed. This is a crucial task in view of facilitating the application of evidential modeling. It is the aim of this paper to discuss an important element of evidential modeling-conditional belief-within the scope of the mathematical theory of evidence