Data fusion application from evidential databases as a support for decision making

We present in this paper, a data fusion [Third International Conference in Information Fusion, Paris, 2000] algorithm from evidential databases [IEEE SMC'02, 2002]. This algorithm has the specificity of using a hybrid operator avoiding the overwhelming trace problem. Besides, it uses a specific scale for computing reliabilities of information's sources. We apply then data fusion to a company in order to improve the decision-making process. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.