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C Romer1, A Kandel

  • 1Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Part B, Cybernetics : a Publication of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
|February 7, 2008
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Summary

This study validates belief measure results using a topological approach, confirming findings for Borel sets with countable components. A new proof for uncountable components enhances fuzzy data analysis combining fuzzy sets and Dempster-Shafer methods.

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