Subjective Effects-Based Assessment

In this paper we develop a subjective effects-based assessment method. This method takes subjective assessments regarding the activities of a plan as inputs. From these assessments and a cross impact matrix that represents the impact between all elements of the plan we calculate assessments for all other plan elements. The method is based on belief functions and their combination under a new generalization of the discounting operation. The method is implemented in a collaboration synchronization management tool (CSMT).