[HTML][HTML] Representing uncertainty and imprecision in machine learning: A survey on belief functions

Z Liu, S Letchmunan - Journal of King Saud University-Computer and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Uncertainty and imprecision accompany the world we live in and occur in almost every
event. How to better interpret and manage uncertainty and imprecision play a vital role in …

Uncertainty measure in evidence theory with its applications

X Wang, Y Song - Applied Intelligence, 2018 - Springer
Uncertainty measure in evidence theory supplies a new criterion to assess the quality and
quantity of knowledge conveyed by belief structures. As generalizations of uncertainty …

Plausibility entropy: A new total uncertainty measure in evidence theory based on plausibility function

Y Cui, X Deng - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evidence theory provides an effective representation and handling framework for uncertain
information. However, the quantification for the uncertainty of mass function in this theory is …

A new distance-based total uncertainty measure in the theory of belief functions

Y Yang, D Han - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
The theory of belief functions is a very important and effective tool for uncertainty modeling
and reasoning, where measures of uncertainty are very crucial for evaluating the degree of …

Improving experimental studies about ensembles of classifiers for bankruptcy prediction and credit scoring

J Abellán, CJ Mantas - Expert Systems with Applications, 2014 - Elsevier
Previous studies about ensembles of classifiers for bankruptcy prediction and credit scoring
have been presented. In these studies, different ensemble schemes for complex classifiers …

[HTML][HTML] A new definition of entropy of belief functions in the Dempster–Shafer theory

R Jiroušek, PP Shenoy - International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2018 - Elsevier
We propose a new definition of entropy of basic probability assignments (BPAs) in the
Dempster–Shafer (DS) theory of belief functions, which is interpreted as a measure of total …

Credal-C4. 5: Decision tree based on imprecise probabilities to classify noisy data

CJ Mantas, J Abellan - Expert Systems with Applications, 2014 - Elsevier
In the area of classification, C4. 5 is a known algorithm widely used to design decision trees.
In this algorithm, a pruning process is carried out to solve the problem of the over-fitting. A …

Fractal-based belief entropy

Q Zhou, Y Deng - Information Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
The total uncertainty measurement of basic probability assignment (BPA) in Dempster-
Shafer evidence theory (DSET) has always been an open issue. Although some scholars …

The negation of a basic probability assignment

L Yin, X Deng, Y Deng - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the field of information science, how to represent the uncertain information is still an open
issue. The negation is an important way to represent the information. However, existing …

On the negation of a Dempster–Shafer belief structure based on maximum uncertainty allocation

X Deng, W Jiang - Information Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Probability theory and Dempster–Shafer theory are two germane theories to
represent and handle uncertain information. Recent study suggested a transformation to …