This chapter presents the DSm Field and Linear Algebra of Refined Labels (FLARL) in DSmT framework in order to work precisely with qualitative labels for information fusion. We present and justify the basic operators on qualitative labels (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, root, power, etc).

In this chapter, we examine several issues for ordering or partially ordering elements of hyper-power sets involved in the DSmT. We will show the benefit of some of these issues to obtain a nice and interesting structure of matrix representation of belief functions. 3.

The purpose of this paper is to present a concept of so called ‘intelligent consultant’ – that is a tool that provides C&C system operator a support in case the gathered information (acquired from observation means) is incomplete, imprecise or even conflicted. It is the intention of the authors to focus on the methodological aspect of the problem which may be formed as: Does Dezert-Smarandache ...

The spatial prediction of land cover at the field scale in winter appears useful for the issue of bare soils reduction in agricultural intensive regions. High variability of the factors that motivate the land cover changes between each winter involves integration of uncertainty in the modelling process. Fusion process with Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST) presents some limits in generating errors i...

Robot perception is becoming more and more popular with the development of artificial intelligence in computer science. Many sensors are usually involved to get a better perception of the surrounding unknown environment, especially multi-sonar sensors because of their low cost, simplicity and convenience. However the information acquired from multi-sonar sensors in building maps presents charac...

Florentin Smarandache Department of Mathematics University of New Mexico Gallup, NM 87301, U.S.A. [email protected] Jean Dezert ONERA 29 Av. de la Division Leclerc 92320 Châtillon, France. [email protected] Abstract – This paper introduces the notion of qualitative belief assignment to model beliefs of human experts expressed in natural language (with linguistic labels). We show how qualitativ...