Title
Discounted combination of unreliable evidence using degree of disagreement.
Abstract
When Dempster's rule is used to implement a combination of evidence, all sources are considered equally reliable. However, in many real applications, all the sources of evidence may not have the same reliability. To resolve this problem, a number of methods for discounting unreliable sources of evidence have been proposed in which the estimation of the discounting (weighting) factors is crucial, especially when prior knowledge is unavailable. In this paper, we propose a new degree of disagreement through which discounting factors can be generated for discounting combinations of unreliable evidence. The new degree of disagreement is established using distance of evidence. It can be experimentally verified that our degree of disagreement describes the disagreements or differences among bodies of evidence well and that it can be effectively used in discounting combinations of unreliable evidence. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.ijar.2013.04.002
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Keywords
Field
DocType
Evidence theory,Belief function,Distance of evidence,Discounting
Econometrics,Weighting,Discounting,Proof theory,Artificial intelligence,Dempster–Shafer theory,Machine learning,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
54
8
0888-613X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
24
0.73
26
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi Yang1474.35
Deqiang Han221822.90
Chongzhao Han344671.68