An improved D-S algorithm under the new measure criteria of evidence conflict

Tien Tzu Hsueh Pao/Acta Electronica Sinica

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1578-1583

  Hu, Chang Hua ^a   Si, Xiao Sheng ^a   Zhou, Zhi Jie ^a,b   Wang, Peng ^a  

^a XI'AN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Combination rule; D S theory; Evidence conflict; Information entropy; Pignistic transformation

Indexed keywords

COMBINATION RULE; D-S THEORY; EVIDENCE CONFLICT; INFORMATION ENTROPY; PIGNISTIC TRANSFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 69249083255     PISSN: 03722112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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