This paper studies the combination of basic probability assignment (bpa) in evidence theory. After introducing an interpretation of the mass function we show that given two bpa Dempster's rule of combination does not build a coherent bpa with respect to the interpretation. Next we give a new combination function that overcomes this problems and study some of its properties. 0. Introduction One ...

A new combination, Lapanthus vidaliorum (O.B.C. Ribeiro & C.C. Paula) Louzada & Wand. is proposed for Orthophytum vidaliorum O.B.C. Ribeiro & C.C. Paula. In addition notes on taxonomy, geographic distribution and conservation are provided.

In the field of pattern recognition, combining different classifiers into a robust classifier is a common approach for improving classification accuracy. Recently, this trend has also been used to improve clustering performance especially in non-hierarchical clustering approaches. Generally hierarchical clustering is preferred in comparison with the partitional clustering for applications when ...