
Belief Functions in Business Decisions
Physica (Publisher)
Published on 21. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 346 pages
978-3-7908-2503-9 (ISBN)
Description
The book focuses on applications of belief functions to business decisions. Section I introduces the intuitive, conceptual and historical development of belief functions. Three different interpretations (the marginally correct approximation, the qualitative model, and the quantitative model) of belief functions are investigated, and rough set theory and structured query language (SQL) are used to express belief function semantics. Section II presents applications of belief functions in information systems and auditing. Included are discussions on how a belief-function framework provides a more efficient and effective audit methodology and also the appropriateness of belief functions to represent uncertainties in audit evidence. The third section deals with applications of belief functions to mergers and acquisitions; financial analysis of engineering enterprises; forecast demand for mobile satellite services; modeling financial portfolios; and economics.
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2002
Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
X, 346 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
546 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7908-2503-9 (9783790825039)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-7908-1798-0
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Rajendra P. Srivastava | Theodore J. Mock
Belief Functions in Business Decisions
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03/2002
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Content
Foundations.- to Belief Functions.- Decision Making in a Context where Uncertainty is Represented by Belief Functions.- Empirical Models for the Dempster-Shafer-Theory.- Systems and Auditing Applications.- The Descriptive Ability of Models of Audit Risk.- The Effectiveness and Efficiency of Belief Based Audit Procedures.- Auditors' Evaluations of Uncertain Audit Evidence: Belief Functions versus Probabilities.- Conflict, Consistency and Consonance in Belief Functions: Coherence and Integrity of Belief Systems.- Operations Management, Finance and Economics Applications.- Evaluating Mergers and Acquisitions: A Belief Function Approach.- Possibilistic Belief Network Constructed by Operators of Composition and its Application to Financial Analysis.- Using Belief Functions to Forecast Demand for Mobile Satellite Services.- Modeling Financial Portfolios Using Belief Functions.- Futures Hedging under Prospect Utility and Knightian Uncertainty.