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This paper deals with the evaluation of a piece of information when successively reported by several agents. It describes a model based on the Theory of Evidence in which the evaluation of a reported piece of information is defined by a plausibility degree and depends on validity degrees of agents which report it.

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Cholvy, L. (2010). Evaluation of Information Reported: A Model in the Theory of Evidence. In: Hüllermeier, E., Kruse, R., Hoffmann, F. (eds) Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. Theory and Methods. IPMU 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 80. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14055-6_27

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