Journal
KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS
Volume 257, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2022.109898
Keywords
Combination rule; Conflict measurement; Evidence theory; Focal element
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Funding
- Application of Collaborative Precision Positioning Service [2016YFB0501805-1]
- National Development and Reform Commission [JZNYYY001]
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This article introduces the application of the Dempster-Shafer evidence theory (DSET) in the fusion of multisource information and points out the issues with using Dempster's Combination Rule (DCR). To solve this problem, a new combination rule is proposed and its advantages over existing methods are demonstrated through experiments.
The Dempster-Shafer evidence theory (DSET) has been commonly used in the fusion of multisource in-formation in various fields. Owing to the normalization process based on the conflict measurement, the conclusion when fusing high conflict evidence is counter-intuitive when using Dempster's Combination Rule (DCR). To solve the DCR issue, several combination rules have been developed. However, each of them has unreasonable behaviors in certain cases. In this study, the set of mathematical properties that must be satisfied by all the combinatorial rules is further refined. Under the framework of DSET, a novel combination rule is proposed by comprehensively considering the conflict focal elements and metrics. The conflict measurement is achieved through the newly proposed compromise conflict indicator. The advantages of the proposed combination rule over the existing methods are demonstrated by experiments on a few numerical examples and applications.(c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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