Refined modeling of sensor reliability in the belief function framework using contextual discounting

Information Fusion

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 246-258

  Mercier, David ^a,b   Quost, Benjamin ^a   Denœux, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

^b SOLYSTIC   (France)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Dempster Shafer theory; Evidence theory; Information fusion; Transferable belief model; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FUSION; RELIABILITY THEORY; SENSOR DATA FUSION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONTEXTUAL DISCOUNTING; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; EVIDENCE THEORY; REFINED MODELING; TRANSFERABLE BELIEF MODELS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 39749138782     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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