Combining belief functions based on distance of evidence

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 489-493

  Yong, Deng ^a   WenKang, Shi ^a   ZhenFu, Zhu ^b   Qi, Liu ^c  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Natl Def Key Lab Target E   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Decision making; Distance function; Evidence theory

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY;

COMBINATION PROBLEMS; COMBINING BELIEF FUNCTIONS (CBF); DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; EVIDENCE THEORY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 4544357255     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2004.04.015     Document Type: Article

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