This paper presents the case for using the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence and a derivative of it, to model the reasoning process in debates on difficult philosophical, theological and scientific questions. This gives a useful formal framework within which to enhance the debating process. A well-known theological debate and two scientific exemplars are given for illustration of the working a...

In this paper we develop methods for selection of templates and use these templates to recluster an already performed Dempster-Shafer clustering taking into account intelligence to template fit during the reclustering phase. By this process the risk of erroneous force aggregation based on some misplace pieces of evidence from the first clustering process is greatly reduced. Finally, a more reli...

Today AI systems are rarely made without Machine Learning (ML) and this inspires us to explore what aptly called composite argumentation with ML components. Concretely, against two theoretical backdrops of PABA (Probabilistic Assumption-based Argumentation) DST (Dempster-Shafer Theory), we present a framework for such c-PABA. It is argued that c-PABA lends itself development tool as well demons...

An approach to fuse multiple images based on Dempster-Shafer evidential reasoning is proposed in this article. Dempster-Shafer theory provides a complete framework for combining weak evidences from multiple sources. Such situations typically arise in the image fusion problems, where a ‘real scene’ image has to be estimated from incomplete and unreliable observations. By converting images from t...

Issues of formalisirig and interpreting epistemic uncertainty have always played a prominent role in Artificial Intelligence. The Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory of partial beliefs is one of the most-well known formalisms to address the partial knowledge. Similarly to the DS theory, which is a généralisation of the classical probability theory, fuzzy logie provides an alternative reasoning apparatu...

There are described some algebraic structures on a space of belief functions on a two element frame namely so called Dempster s semigroup with Dempster s operation dempsteroids and their basic properties The present paper is devoted to the investi gation of automorphisms of Dempster s semigroup Full characterization of general and ordered automorphisms is obtained their parametric description i...

This paper is concerned with the combination of argumentation with the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence. In particular, we show how logical elements of evidence, associated with numerical degrees of belief, can be combined into arguments.

This paper is concerned with model based parameter estimation for noisy processes when the process models are incomplete or imprecise The underlying representation of our models is qualitative in the sense of Interval Arithmetic and Qualitative Reasoning QR and Qualitative Physics from the Arti cial Intelligence literature We adopt a speci c qualitative representation namely that advocated by K...

We study the problem of decision making with Dempster-Shafer belief structure. We analyze the previous work developed by Yager about using the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator in the aggregation of the Dempster-Shafer decision process. We discuss the possibility of aggregating with an ascending order in the OWA operator for the cases where the smallest value is the best result. We sugg...