This is a working paper summarizing results of an ongoing research project whose aim is to uniquely characterize the uncertainty mea sure for the Dempster-Shafer Theory. A set of intuitive axiomatic requirements is pre sented, some of their implications are shown, and the proof is given of the minimality of re cently proposed measure AU among all mea sures satisfying the proposed requirements.
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