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Fusion of sources of evidence with different importances and reliabilities

Year: 2010

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper presents a new approach for combining sources of evidences with different importances and reliabilities. Usually, the combination of sources of evidences with different reliabilities is done by the classical Shafer's discounting approach. Therefore, to consider unequal importances of sources, if any, a similar reliability discounting process is generally used, making no difference between the notion of importance and reliability. In fact, in multicriteria decision context, these notions should be clearly distinguished. This paper shows how this can be done and we provide simple examples to show the differences between both solutions for managing importances and reliabilities of sources. We also discuss the possibility for mixing them in a global fusion process.

Source: International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)

DOI: 10.1109/icif.2010.5712071

Authors: F Smarandache, J Dezert, J Tacnet

Institutions: University of New Mexico, Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales, Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement, Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies pour l'Environnement et l'Agriculture

Language: English

Topic: Multi-Criteria Decision Making

Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2140084089

FWCI: 13.03

Cites: 11

Cited by: 130

Related to: 10