Credal classification rule for uncertain data based on belief functions

Credal sets approximation by belief functions

Classification Trees Based on Belief Functions

Decision trees classifiers are popular classification methods. In this paper, we extend to multi-class problems a decision tree method based on belief functions previously described for 2-class problems only. We propose two ways to achieve this extension: combining multiple 2-class trees together and directly extending the estimation of belief functions within the tree to the multi-class settin...

Belief rule-based classification system: Extension of FRBCS in belief functions framework

Among the computational intelligence techniques employed to solve classification problems, the fuzzy rule-based classification system (FRBCS) is a popular tool capable of building a linguistic model interpretable to users. However, it may face lack of accuracy in some complex applications, by the fact that the inflexibility of the concept of the linguistic variable imposes hard restrictions on ...

An Interval-Valued Dissimilarity Measure for Belief Functions Based on Credal Semantics

Evidence theory extends Bayesian probability theory by allowing for a more expressive model of subjective uncertainty. Besides standard interpretation of belief functions, where uncertainty corresponds to probability masses which might refer to whole subsets of the possibility space, credal semantics can be also considered. Accordingly, a belief function can be identified with the whole set of ...

Credal Classification for Mining Environmental Data

Classifiers that aim at doing reliable predictions should rely on carefully elicited prior knowledge. Often this is not available so they should be able to start learning from data in condition of prior ignorance. This paper shows empirically, on an agricultural data set, that established methods of classification do not always adhere to this principle. Common ways to represent prior ignorance ...