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Local Möbius transforms of monotone capacities

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The concept of local Möbius transform of a capacity is introduced and shown to provide a handier characterization of K-monotonicity than the standard Möbius transformation. It is moreover used to give a new proof of the preservation of K monotonicity by conditional lower probabilities.

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  1. CERMSEM, Université Paris I, France

    Alain Chateauneuf

  2. LAFORIA, Université Paris VI, France

    Jean-Yves Jaffray

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  1. Alain Chateauneuf
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Christine Froidevaux Jürg Kohlas

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Chateauneuf, A., Jaffray, JY. (1995). Local Möbius transforms of monotone capacities. In: Froidevaux, C., Kohlas, J. (eds) Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty. ECSQARU 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 946. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60112-0_14

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