A Note on the Measure of Discord

A new entropy-like measure as well as a new measure of total uncertainty pertaining to the Dempster-Shafer theory are introduced. It is argued that these measures are better justified than any of the previously proposed candidates.

• Publication year

  1992

• Venue

  Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence

• Publication date

  1992-06-01

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1016/B978-1-4832-8287-9.50023-2arXiv 1303.5409
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