How should opinions of control knowledge sources be represented and combined? These issues are addressed for the case where control knowledge is used to form an agenda, i.e., a proposed knowledge source execution order. A formal model is developed in the Dempster/Shafer belief calculus and computational problems are discussed as well. The model is applicable to many other problems where it is d...

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