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Similarity as a Foundation for Possibility
Ninth IEEE International Conference of Fuzzy Systems
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2000
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Abstract
A semantics for possibilistic evidential reasoning is presented based on similarity with paradigmatic examples. The acquisition of evidence generates a pseudo-metric on the universe of discourse. It is shown that every possibility distribution can be realized as an embedding in a pseudo-metric space with the possibility values determined by the distance from distinguished elements in that space. Determining support based on similarity captures the fundamental characteristics of possibilistic analysis: optimistic and independent evaluation of the alternatives. The similarity semantics distinguishes possibility from classical approaches to classification and diagnosis problems based on probabilistic techniques.
DOI
10.1109/FUZZY.2000.839123
Citation Information
Thomas Sudkamp. "Similarity as a Foundation for Possibility" Ninth IEEE International Conference of Fuzzy Systems (2000) p. 735 - 740 ISSN: 1098-7584 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/thomas_sudkamp/90/
Presented at the Ninth IEEE International Conference of Fuzzy Systems, 2000, San Antonio, TX.