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A short note on the axiomatic requirements of uncertainty measure

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In this note, we argue that the axiomatic requirement of range to the measure of aggregated total uncertainty (ATU) in Dempster-Shafer theory is not reasonable. Keywords: Dempster-Shafer theory, Uncertainty measure Dempster-Shafer theory [1, 2] is widely applied to uncertainty modeling [3, 4]. Two types of uncertainty, namely nonspecificity and discord, are coexisting in the Dempster-Shafer theory [5, 6]. A justifiable measure to these uncertainty is necessary to describe the essential characters of basic probability assignment function(BPA). To be justifiable, for a measure called as aggregated total uncertainty (ATU), some requirements are necessary.