Decomposition of possibilistic belief functions into simple support functions
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- Chapter
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- 2011, 107 pp. 31 - 42
- Issue Date:
- 2011-11-22
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In Shafer evidence theory some belief functions, called separable belief functions, can be decomposed in terms of simple support functions. Moreover this decomposition is unique. Recently, a qualitative counterpart to Shafer evidence theory has been proposed. The mass functions in Shafer (addition-based) evidence theory are replaced by basic possibilistic assignments. The sum of weights is no longer 1, but their maximum is equal to 1. In such a context, a maxitive counterpart to belief functions, called possibilistic belief functions can be defined, replacing the addition by the maximum. The possibilistic evidence framework provides a general setting for describing imprecise possibility and necessity measures. This paper investigates a qualitative counterpart of the result about the decomposition of belief functions. Considering the qualitative Möbius transform, conditions for the existence of a decomposition of possibilistic belief functions into simple support functions are presented. Moreover the paper studies the unicity of such a decomposition. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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