A Comparison of Merging Operators in Possibilistic Logic by Guilin Qi, Weiru Liu and David Bell has topic maps written all over it doesn’t it?
The article is not yet available on my university server but I will keep a watch for it and will report back when I have more details. The author links are to their DBLP records.
Try the following searches on “merging operators” in DBLP and CiteSeerX:
- merging operators (DBLP, as of today 15 “hits”)
- “merging operators” (CiteSeerX, as of today, 2814 “hits”)
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Update: 28 August 2010
A Comparison of Merging Operators in Possibilistic Logic (another source for the paper) More comments to follow.
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Update: 28 August 2010
Qi’s PhD thesis (2006) FUSION OF UNCERTAIN INFORMATION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF POSSIBILISTIC LOGIC starts with:
Possibilistic logic provides a good framework for dealing with merging problems when information is pervaded with uncertainty and inconsistency. Many merging operators in possibilistic logic have been proposed. However, there are still some important problems left unsolved.
Makes me curious about the “Many merging operators….” No promises of when but it would be interesting to start a list of those both within and without possibilistic logic.