Dynamic Directed Evidential Networks with Conditional Belief Functions: Application to System Reliability

  • Wafa Laâmari
  • Boutheina Ben Yaghlane
  • Christophe Simon
Part of the Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS, volume 299)

Abstract

The temporal dimension is a very important aspect which must be taken into consideration when reasoning under uncertainty.

The main purpose of this paper is to address this problem by a new evidential framework for modeling temporal changes in data. This method, allowing to model uncertainty and to manage time varying information thanks to the evidence theory, offers an alternative framework for dynamic probabilistic and dynamic possibilistic networks. It is applied to a system reliability analysis for the sake of illustration.

Keywords

Dynamic graphical models theory of evidence time varying information managing uncertainty 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Wafa Laâmari
    • 1
  • Boutheina Ben Yaghlane
    • 1
  • Christophe Simon
    • 2
  1. 1.LARODEC LaboratoryInstitut Supérieur de Gestion de TunisTunisia
  2. 2.UMR 7039CRAN - Université de Lorraine - CNRSFrance

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