World Health Organization reports that African Trypanosomiasis affects mostly poor populations living in remote rural areas of Africa that can be fatal if properly not treated. This paper presents Dempster-Shafer Theory for the detection of African trypanosomiasis. Sustainable elimination of African trypanosomiasis as a public-health problem is feasible and requires continuous efforts and innov...

Landslide databases and input parameters used for modeling landslide hazard often contain imprecisions and uncertainties inherent in the decision-making process. Dealing with imprecision and uncertainty requires techniques that go beyond classical logic. In this paper, methods of fuzzy k -means classification were used to assign digital terrain attributes to continuous landform classes whereas ...

This paper presents UOWD-Sharif team’s approach for XML information retrieval. This approach is an extension of PLIR which is an experimental knowledge-based information retrieval system. This system like PLIR utilizes plausible inferences to first infer the relevance of sentences in XML documents and then propagates the relevance to the other textual units in the document tree. Two approaches ...

Based on World Health Organization (WHO) report in the 2011 Skin diseases still remain common in many rural communities in developing countries, with serious economic and social consequences as well as health implications. Directly or indirectly, skin diseases are responsible for much disability (and loss of economic potential), disfigurement, and distress due to symptoms such as itching or pai...

The spatial prediction of land cover at the field scale in winter appears useful for the issue of bare soils reduction in agricultural intensive regions. High variability of the factors that motivate the land cover changes between each winter involves integration of uncertainty in the modelling process. Fusion process with Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST) presents some limits in generating errors i...

This paper analyzes the theoretical under­ pinnings of recent proposals for computing Dempster-Shafer Belief functions from ATMS labels. Such proposals are intended to be a means of integrating symbolic and numeric rep­ resentation methods and of focusing search in the ATMS. This synthesis is formalized us­ ing graph theory, thus showing the relation­ ship between graph theory, the logic-theore...

In this paper, five conditions that have been proposed by Cobb and Shenoy are studied for nine different mappings from the Dempster-Shafer theory to the probability theory. After comparing these mappings, one of the considerable results indicates that none of the mappings satisfies the condition of invariance with respect to the marginalization process. In more details, the main reason for this...