A new distance between two bodies of evidence

Information Fusion

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 91-101

  Jousselme, Anne Laure ^a   Grenier, Dominic ^a   Bossé, Éloi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Ctr Rech pour la Def Valcartier   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evidential theory; Fusion systems; Measure of performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010623928     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-2535(01)00026-4     Document Type: Article

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