A new multi-feature fusion technique based on Dempster-Shafer's evidential reasoning for classification of image texture is presented. The proposed technique is divided into three main steps. In the first step, the fractal dimension and gray co-occurrence matrix entropy are extracted from a texture image. In the second step, we focus on how to design a probability assignment function m(A) repre...

In this article, we present the belief-function approach to aggregating audit evidence. The approach uses an evidential network to represent the structure of audit evidence. In turn, it allows us to treat all types of dependencies and relationships among accounts and items of evidence, and thus the approach should help the auditor conduct an efficient and effective audit. Aggregation of evidenc...

The semantics of evidentials is often analyzed as a subcase or a special case of modality in the recent formal literature (Izvorski, 1997; Faller, 2002; Speas, to appear; McCready and Ogata, 2005, among others). Moreover, some modern linguists consider the analysis of modality as a subcase of evidential or a speech act modifier (Papafragou 2000; Huddleston and Pullum 2002; Drubig 2001, among ot...

This study presents pioneering data on how adult early bilinguals (heritage speakers) and late bilingual speakers of Turkish and German process grammatical evidentiality in a visual world setting in comparison to monolingual speakers of Turkish. Turkish marks evidentiality, the linguistic reference to information source, through inflectional affixes signaling either direct (-DI) or indirect (-m...

The SHRUTI model demonstrates how a structured connectionist network can be used to encode relational causal knowledge and provide a basis for rapid inference. This paper explores the extent to which the evidential reasoning in SHRUTI can be viewed as probabilistic. An interpretation of the link weights is provided with which the results of spreading activation in the model accord well with pro...

Advanced engineering systems possess a large number of components with complicated failure dependencies. To accurately assess the system reliability, degradation models should be known in advance and model parameters estimated via quantity historical time-to-failure data. In real-world situations, due to limited data, lack knowledge, vague judgments from experts, components’ are, however, inevi...

Pandeism is the belief that God chose to wholly become our Universe, imposing principles at this Becoming have fostered lawful evolution of multifarious structures, including life and consciousness. This article describes defends a particular form pandeism: living pandeism (LGP). On LGP, Universe inherits all God's unsurpassable attributes—reality, unity, consciousness, knowledge, intelligence,...

A new clustering method for object data, called ECM (Evidential c-means) is introduced, in the theoretical framework of belief functions. It is based on the concept of credal partition, extending those of hard, fuzzy and possibilistic ones. To derive such a structure, a suitable objective function is minimized using a FCM-like algorithm. A validity index allowing the determination of the proper...