Since the development of belief function theory introduced by Shafer in seventies, many combination rules have been proposed in the literature to combine belief functions specially (but not only) in high conflicting situations because the emblematic Dempster’s rule generates counter-intuitive and unacceptable results in practical applications. Many attempts have been done during last thirty yea...

Previous investigators have shown that observers' visual cue combination strategies are remarkably flexible in the sense that these strategies adapt on the basis of the estimated reliabilities of the visual cues. However, these researchers have not addressed how observers' acquire these estimated reliabilities. This article studies observers' abilities to learn cue combination strategies. Subje...

on december 11, 2008, the united nations adopted the “convention on contracts for the international carriage of goods wholly or partly by sea”, more colloquially known as the “rotterdam rules” for the city which hosted the convention’s signing ceremony on september 23, 2009. rotterdam convention approved the “presumption of responsibility” as the basis of carrier’s responsibility and listed the...

Dempster’s rule, Yager’s rule and Dubois-Prade’s rule for belief functions combination are generalized to be applicable to hyper-power sets according to the DSm theory. A comparison of the rules with DSm rule of combination is presented.

cooperation in pastoralism and indigenous knowledge of dairy management had been considered for many years in iran and had been adapted with culture and environment of every region. this research had illustrated the analysis of indigenous knowledge and social cohesion in dairy management of grazing livestock in ghasr e yaghub village. research method was a combination of filed studies, direct o...

We explore the implications of three basic and intuitive axioms for income redistribution problems: equal treatment equals , additivity stability . show that combination characterizes two focal polar rules: laissez-faire full • study problem from an axiomatic perspective. focus on axioms: equals, additivity, stability. Two rules are redistribution. They characterized by axioms. Compromises betw...

At present, fixed rules for classifier combination are the most used and widely investigated ones, while the study and application of trained rules has received much less attention. Therefore, pros and cons of fixed and trained rules are only partially known even if one focuses on crisp classifier outputs. In this paper, we report the results of an experimental comparison of well-known fixed an...

A model for simultaneous optimization of combinations of test-based decisions in psychology and education is proposed using Bayesian decision theory. The decision problem addressed consists of a combination of a placement and a mastery decision. Weak and strong decision rules are distinguished. As opposed to strong rules, weak rules are allowed to take prior test scores in the series of decisio...