2026 Philippe Smets: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	60	3198	30	127	17530

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Computer Science

3198

127

17530

Overview

Philippe Smets was affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium during their academic career. Their research contributions were primarily linked to this institution.

There are no records of recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, main fields or subfields of study, or main topics of work available in the current data.

There are also no documented awards associated with Philippe Smets in the provided information.

As the scientist is deceased, their profile is presented in past tense reflecting their completed career and contributions as recorded.

Best Publications

The transferable belief model

Philippe Smets

3108
Citations
Belief Functions: The Disjunctive Rule of Combination and the Generalized Bayesian Theorem

Philippe Smets

1657
Citations
The combination of evidence in the transferable belief model

P. Smets

1561
Citations
Decision making in the TBM: the necessity of the pignistic transformation

Philippe Smets

880
Citations
Constructing the Pignistic Probability Function in a Context of Uncertainty

Philippe Smets

637
Citations
Analyzing the combination of conflicting belief functions

Philippe Smets

565
Citations
The paradoxical success of fuzzy logic

C. Elkan;H.R. Berenji;B. Chandrasekaran;C.J.S. de Silva

465
Citations
Data fusion in the transferable belief model

P. Smets

432
Citations
The Transferable Belief Model for Quantified Belief Representation

Philippe Smets

400
Citations
Implication in fuzzy logic

Philippe Smets;Paul Magrez

324
Citations
Imperfect Information: Imprecision and Uncertainty

Philippe Smets

295
Citations
Belief functions and default reasoning

S. Benferhat;A. Saffiotti;P. Smets

269
Citations
Assessing sensor reliability for multisensor data fusion within the transferable belief model

Z. Elouedi;K. Mellouli;P. Smets

258
Citations
The Transferable Belief Model

Philippe Smets;Yen-Teh Hsia;Alessandro Saffiotti;Robert Kennes

236
Citations
The canonical decomposition of a weighted belief

Philippe Smets

230
Citations
Belief functions on real numbers

Philippe Smets

227
Citations
Fusion: General concepts and characteristics

Isabelle Bloch;Anthony A. Hunter;Alain A. Appriou;Andr A. Ayoun

224
Citations
The degree of belief in a fuzzy event

Philippe Smets

217
Citations
Classification Using Belief Functions: Relationship Between Case-Based and Model-Based Approaches

T. Denoeux;P. Smets

189
Citations
What is Dempster-Shafer's model?

Philippe Smets

187
Citations
The Transferable Belief Model.

Philippe Smets;Robert Kennes

29
Citations
Handbook of defeasible reasoning and uncertainty management systems: volume 2: reasoning with actual and potential contradictions

Philippe Besnard;Anthony Hunter;Dov M. Gabbay;Philippe Smets

23
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Didier Dubois Paul Sabatier University

Henri Prade Paul Sabatier University

Alessandro Saffiotti Örebro University

Branko Ristic RMIT University

Salem Benferhat Artois University

Michel Grabisch Charles University

Jérôme Lang Paris Dauphine University

Piero P. Bonissone General Electric (United States)

Rudolf Kruse Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Frédéric Cuppens Polytechnique Montréal

External Links

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