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Aggregation in Decision Making with Belief Structures

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Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 12))

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We consider the problem of decision making in environments in which there exists some uncertainty about the state of nature. A general approach to the representation of uncertainty using the Dempster-Shafer belief structure is presented.

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  1. Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

    Maria Teresa Lamata

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LIP6 — Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4, Place Jussieu, Case 169, F-75252, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier

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Lamata, M.T. (1998). Aggregation in Decision Making with Belief Structures. In: Bouchon-Meunier, B. (eds) Aggregation and Fusion of Imperfect Information. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 12. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1889-5_7

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