title: Cumulative distribution functions from Dempster-Shafer belief structures.
abstract: We discuss the Dempster-Shafer belief structure. We introduce the idea of a cumulative distribution induced by a Dempster-Shafer belief structure. We call these belief-cumulative distribution (B-CDs) functions. We study the properties of these distribution functions and show that they are interval functions. We investigate the possibility of using these distribution functions as a tool for knowledge representation.
authors.affiliation: Machine Intelligence Institute, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY 10801, USA. yager@panix.com
authors.forename: Ronald R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Yager
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D017143:Fuzzy Logic; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D015233:Models, Statistical; D016008:Statistical Distributions