Combination rules of evidence for situation assessment and target identification

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6235, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sun, Hongyan ^a   Farooq, M ^a  

^a ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dempster shafer's combination rule; DSm's combination rule; Dubois and Prade's combination rule; Situation assessment; Sources of information; Target identification; The disjunctive combination rule; Yager's combination rule

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DEMPSTER-SHAFER'S COMBINATION RULE; DSM'S COMBINATION RULE; DUBOIS AND PRADE'S COMBINATION RULE; SITUATION ASSESSMENT; SOURCES OF INFORMATION; TARGET IDENTIFICATION; THE DISJUNCTIVE COMBINATION RULE; YAGER'S COMBINATION RULE;

LOGIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33748654011     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.669579     Document Type: Conference Paper

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