Title
Combining partially independent belief functions
Abstract
The theory of belief functions manages uncertainty and also proposes a set of combination rules to aggregate opinions of several sources. Some combination rules mix evidential information where sources are independent; other rules are suited to combine evidential information held by dependent sources. In this paper we have two main contributions: First we suggest a method to quantify sources' degree of independence that may guide the choice of the more appropriate set of combination rules. Second, we propose a new combination rule that takes consideration of sources' degree of independence. The proposed method is illustrated on generated mass functions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.dss.2015.02.017
Decision Support Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
sources' independence,independence,combination rule choice,theory of belief functions,combination rules,clustering
Journal
73
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
C
0167-9236
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.56
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mouna Chebbah1195.58
Arnaud Martin215818.26
Boutheina Ben Yaghlane318933.49