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From: ahlenius@motcid.uucp (Mark Ahlenius)
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Subject: Re: Dempster-Shafer theory
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Date: 14 Aug 90 13:13:24 GMT
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Posted-Date: Fri Aug 17 07:04:21 GMT 1990

sapong@dvinci.usask.ca (Kofi Sapong) writes:

>If anyone has any information on expert system shells that use the
>Dempster-Shafer approach to handle uncertainty, could he/she kindly
>pass it on to me. On the other hand if you have or know of any program
>that implements any form of a propagation scheme using the above 
>approach, I will interested in having it.

Maybe someone else can comment on this - but I thought that the Depster-
Schafer theory was considered dead, and that all work was now being
done in fuzzy and Bayesian type theories.  Please correct me if wrong,
this is my impression from talking with others at the AAAI-90.
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