Abstract. Given several Dempster-Shafer belief functions, the framework of valuation networks describes an efficient method for computing the marginal of the combined belief functi...
Online communities have grown to be an alternative form of communication for many people. This widespread growth and influence of the members of these communities in shaping the d...
Ebrahim Bagheri, M. Barouni-Ebrahimi, Reza Zafaran...
The problem of fusing beliefs in the Dempster-Shafer belief theory has attracted considerable attention over the last two decades. The classical Dempster's Rule has often bee...
In many applications of graphical models arising in computer vision, the hidden variables of interest are most naturally specified by continuous, non-Gaussian distributions. There...
Erik B. Sudderth, Alexander T. Ihler, William T. F...
—We consider distributed estimation of the inverse covariance matrix in Gaussian graphical models. These models factorize the multivariate distribution and allow for efficient d...