We address recent criticisms of evidential reasoning, an approach to the analysis of imprecise and uncertain information that is based on the Dempster-Shafer calculus of evidence.
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Typical bottom-up, forward-chaining reasoning systems such as hyperresolution lack goal-directedness while typical top-down, backward-chaining reasoning systems like Prolog or model elimination repeatedly solve the same goals.
W. Neuenschwander, Pascal V. Fua, G. Szekely, & O. Kubler
We propose a snake-based approach that lets a user specify only the distant endpoints of the curve he wishes to delineate without having to supply an almost complete polygonal approximation. We greatly simplify the initialization process and achieve much better convergence properties...
