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Helper robots will be critical in many sectors: helping our elderly and disabled in assisted living facilities, conducting search-and-rescue missions in unforgiving terrain to save human lives, assisting our astronauts on the space station, or even monitoring our surroundings to keep us safe from national security threats. The ultimate goal of our research is to endow robots in these critical sectors...
Traditional security mechanisms can not satisfy the pervasive computing environment commendably. A dynamic trust model is proposed, utilizing the Dempster-Shafer (D-S) theory to model the diminution of the hypothesis set on trust evaluation with the accumulation of evidence. The trust expression of relationship between entities, the general formula of direct trust, indirect trust and integrated trust...
In many data mining applications, a large number of expert statements have to be fused, for example statements concerning class labels of data samples. Often, the experts do not agree, that is, they hold conflicting beliefs. There exist various combination rules that could be used to fuse such expert knowledge. We claim that, in addition to existing requirements in combination rules, the numerical...
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