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evidential reasoning [2 records]

Record 1 1989-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A body of techniques that supports automated reasoning from evidence. It is based upon the Dempster-Shafer theory of belief functions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 2 1988-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

One of the nonprobabilistic approaches for dealing with uncertain beliefs, described in Dempster 1968, Shafer 1979, Lowrance 1982 and 1983, Garvey 1981.

OBS

Evidential: serving as, providing, or having the nature of evidence.

OBS

See also evidential knowledge.

CONT

Evidential reasoning is an extension of the more common Bayesian probability analysis.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
OBS

Vérace : qui est rapporté avec véracité; véracité : qualité de celui qui dit la vérité ou croit la dire, véridique : croyable, qui présente un caractère de vérité.

OBS

Véridiction : le fait de dire ce que l'on pense être vrai. La véridiction peut produire un énoncé faux (erreur de bonne foi).

OBS

testimonial : qui repose sur [on invoque] des témoignages.

Spanish

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