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Coarsening approximations of belief functions

Coarsening approximation of basic belief assignments


References:

A. Ben Yaghlane, T. Denoeux and K. Melloui. Coarsening approximations of belief functions. 
In S. Benferhat and P. Besnard, Eds, Proceedings of ECQSARU'2001, pages 362-373, Toulouse, 
September 2001, Springer-Verlag.

T. Denoeux and A. Ben Yaghlane. Approximating the Combination of Belief Functions using the
Fast Moebius Transform in a coarsened frame. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, to appear.


Contents:

- appcoars.m (Inner and outer coarsening approximation of a single basic belief assignment)
- appcoars_m.m(Joint inner and outer coarsening approximation of several basic belief assignments)
- comb_coars.m (Approximate conjunctive combination of several basic belief assignments using the coarsening approximation method)
- comb_coars_disj.m (Approximate disjunctive combination of several basic belief assignments (bba's),using the coarsening approximation method)