Title
Contextual merging of uncertain information for better informed plan selection in BDI systems
Abstract
Sensor information (e.g. temperature, voltage, etc.) obtained from heterogeneous sources in SCADA systems may be uncertain and incomplete, while sensors may be unreliable or conflicting. To address these issues we apply Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory to correctly model the information so that it can be merged in a consistent way. Unfortunately, existing merging operators are not suitable for every situation. We adapt a context-dependent strategy from possibility theory where we determine the context for when to merge using Dempster's rule of combination (i.e. for low conflicting information) and then resort to Dubois and Prade's disjunctive rule to merge information which is highly conflicting. We demonstrate the suitability of our approach with a scenario of a smart grid SCADA system modelled using the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) multi-agent framework. In particular, we use the notion of epistemic states to model combined uncertain sensor information for better informed selection of predefined plans.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/WCICSS.2015.7420326
2015 World Congress on Industrial Control Systems Security (WCICSS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Dempster-Shafer theory,information fusion,context-dependent merging,BDI,uncertain beliefs
Smart grid,Computer science,Context model,Possibility theory,SCADA,Artificial intelligence,Operator (computer programming),Cognition,Merge (version control)
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sarah Calderwood121.39
Kevin McAreavey2238.16
Weiru Liu31597112.05
Jun Hong4498.74