Belief Functions in Business Decisions

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Srivastava, Rajendra P. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mock, Theodore J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint: Physica, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 88
• Subjects: Operations research.; Decision making.; Information technology.; Business-Data processing.; Accounting.; Bookkeeping .; Artificial intelligence.; Economic theory.; Operations Research/Decision Theory.; IT in Business.; Accounting/Auditing.; Artificial Intelligence.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

The book focuses on applications of belief functions to business decisions. Section I introduces the intuitive, conceptual and historical development of belief functions. Three different interpretations (the marginally correct approximation, the qualitative model, and the quantitative model) of beli...