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Developed a theory of belief functions and evidence combination that reinterpreted Dempster's upper and lower probabilities as degrees of belief and treated the combination rule as fundamental.
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The record is Shafer's sole-author 1976 monograph. It explicitly builds on and reinterprets A. P. Dempster's work; later naming, AI adoption, extensions and criticism remain separate, and the theory is not claimed as universally calibrated inference.
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- Glenn Shafer author page for A Mathematical Theory of Evidence
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Glenn Shafer
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Shafer: A Mathematical Theory of Evidence
Developed a theory of belief functions and evidence combination that reinterpreted Dempster's upper and lower probabilities as degrees of belief and treated the combination rule as fundamental.
Scientific scope
The record is Shafer's sole-author 1976 monograph. It explicitly builds on and reinterprets A. P. Dempster's work; later naming, AI adoption, extensions and criticism remain separate, and the theory is not claimed as universally calibrated inference.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Glenn Shafer
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.