Title
Conflicting evidence combination from the perspective of networks
Abstract
Dempster-Shafer evidence theory is widely used in the field of information fusion especially when confronting with uncertainties. However, Dempster’s rule of combination may lead to counter-intuitive results when dealing with highly conflicting bodies of evidence (BOEs). Numerous methods were proposed to address this problem. Enlightened by the research of interaction among nodes in complex networks, this paper study the combination of evidences from the perspective of networks: BOEs are regarded as nodes, the conflicting degree between BOEs is considered as one possible interaction between nodes. The direct and indirect interactions among nodes in networks are considered together to determine the weights of the BOEs. After process of weighted average, the modified BOEs can be efficiently combined by Dempster’s rule of combination. A numerical example is illustrated to show the use and better performance of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.ins.2021.08.088
Information Sciences
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Evidence theory,Sensor data fusion,Distance function,Networks
Journal
580
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0020-0255
3
0.40
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Leihui Xiong130.40
Xiaoyan Su21227.83
Hong Qian396.22