Soft Methods for Handling Variability and Imprecision - Dubois, Didier; Lubiano, Maria Asuncion; Prade, Henri; Gil, María Angeles; Grzegorzewski, Przemyslaw; Hryniewicz, Olgierd; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Invited Papers -- Imprecise Probabilistic Prediction for Categorical Data: From Bayesian Inference to the Imprecise Dirichlet-Multinomial Model -- Fuzzy Bayesian Inference -- Soft Methods for Treating Uncertainties: Applications in the Field of Environmental Risks -- Robert Féron: A Pioneer in Soft Methods for Probability and Statistics -- Foundations -- Relating Prototype Theory and Label Semantics -- Fuzzy Probabilities Based on the Likelihood Function -- Possibility Measures in Probabilistic Inference -- Non-well-Founded Probabilities on Streams -- Relating Epistemic Irrelevance to Event Trees -- Probability Revision, the Uniformity Rule, and the Chan-Darwiche Metric -- Statistical Methods -- On Nonparametric Predictive Inference for Bernoulli Quantities with Set-Valued Data -- Inferring a Possibility Distribution from Very Few Measurements -- Statistics with Vague Data and the Robustness to Data Representation -- On a Linear Independence Test for Interval-Valued Random Sets -- A Small-Sample Nonparametric Independence Test for the Archimedean Family of Bivariate Copulas -- Defuzzification of Fuzzy p-Values -- Testing 'Two-Sided' Hypothesis about the Mean of an Interval-Valued Random Set -- Asymptotic Tests for the Variance of a Fuzzy Random Variable Using the D K -Metric -- Empirical Results Concerning a Fuzzy-Based Measure of Symmetry of Real Random Variables -- Fuzzy Kendall Statistic for Autocorrelated Data -- Mixture Model Estimation with Soft Labels -- Imprecise Functional Estimation: The Cumulative Distribution Case -- Non-parametric Density Estimation Based on Label Semantics -- Empirical Comparisons of Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Binomial Distributions Based on Fuzzy Representations -- Mathematical Aspects -- A Generalization of Hukuhara Difference -- A Note about Bobylev's Differential -- On Boundary Value Problems for Fuzzy Differential Equations -- On Fuzzy Sets Convolution, Fuzzy Lipschitz Sets and Triangular Fuzzy Sets of Rank p -- Generalised p-Boxes on Totally Ordered Spaces -- The F. Riesz Representation Theorem and Finite Additivity -- Set-Valued Stochastic Integrals with Respect to a Real Valued Martingale -- On Stochastic Differential Equations with Fuzzy Set Coefficients -- Strong Solution of Set-Valued Stochastic Differential Equation -- Convergences of Random Variables with Respect to Coherent Upper Probabilities Defined by Hausdorff Outer Measures -- On Convergence in Necessity and Its Laws of Large Numbers -- The Omnipresence of Cycle-Transitivity in the Comparison of Random Variables -- Geometry of Cores of Submodular Coherent Upper Probabilities and Possibility Measures -- On Transformations between Belief Spaces -- Lower and Upper Covariance -- Some Properties of the d K -Variance for Interval-Valued Random Sets -- Triangular Conorms on the Space of Non-decreasing Lists of Non-negative Real Numbers -- On Patchwork Techniques for 2-Increasing Aggregation Functions and Copulas -- Engineering -- A Hierarchical Fusion of Expert Opinion in the TBM -- Application of Non-convex Fuzzy Variables to Fuzzy Structural Analysis -- Handling Uncertainty in Higher Dimensions with Potential Clouds towards Robust Design Optimization -- Reliability of Structures under Consideration of Uncertain Time-Dependent Material Behaviour -- A New Insight into the Linguistic Summarization of Time Series Via a Degree of Support: Elimination of Infrequent Patterns -- An Autoregressive Model with Fuzzy Random Variables -- Tackling Multiple-Instance Problems in Safety-Related Domains by Quasilinear SVM -- An Efficient Normal Form Solution to Decision Trees with Lower Previsions -- Group Decision Making with Soft AHP Based on the Random Set View of Fuzzy Sets.
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