Download or read book On The Validity of Dempster's Rule of Combination of Evidence written by Lotfi A. Zadeh and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on 1979-10-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a seminal paper published in 1967, Dempster has described a rule for combining independent sources of information. More recently, Dempster's rule has been employed as a basis for a mathematical theory of evidence. It is suggested in this note that there is a serious flaw in Dempster's rule which restricts its use in many applications.