An Introduction to the DSm Theory for the Combination of Paradoxical,
  Uncertain, and Imprecise Sources of Information
  The management and combination of uncertain, imprecise, fuzzy and even
paradoxical or high conflicting sources of information has always been, and
still remains today, of primal importance for the development of reliable
modern information systems involving artificial reasoning. In this
introduction, we present a survey of our recent theory of plausible and
paradoxical reasoning, known as Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSmT) in the
literature, developed for dealing with imprecise, uncertain and paradoxical
sources of information. We focus our presentation here rather on the
foundations of DSmT, and on the two important new rules of combination, than on
browsing specific applications of DSmT available in literature. Several simple
examples are given throughout the presentation to show the efficiency and the
generality of this new approach.
