Journal
SOFT COMPUTING
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 543-558Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-007-0227-2
Keywords
ensemble systems; rule-based models; belief functions; Dempster-Shafer evidence theory; ordered weighted averaging operator
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A pervasive task in many forms of human activity is classification. Recent interest in the classification process has focused on ensemble classifier systems. These types of systems are based on a paradigm of combining the outputs of a number of individual classifiers. In this paper we propose a new approach for obtaining the final output of ensemble classifiers. The method presented here uses the Dempster-Shafer concept of belief functions to represent the confidence in the outputs of the individual classifiers. The combing of the outputs of the individual classifiers is based on an aggregation process which can be seen as a fusion of the Dempster rule of combination with a generalized form of OWA operator. The use of the OWA operator provides an added degree of flexibility in expressing the way the aggregation of the individual classifiers is performed.
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