Evidence supporting measure of similarity for reducing the complexity in information fusion

Information Sciences

Volumn 181, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1818-1835

  Li, Xinde ^a   Dezert, Jean ^b   Smarandache, Florentin ^c   Huang, Xinhan ^d  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ONERA   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Belief function; Complexity reduction; Distance; DSmT; Information fusion; Lattice; Measure of similarity; Robot perception

Indexed keywords

BELIEF FUNCTION; COMPLEXITY REDUCTION; DISTANCE; DSMT; LATTICE; MEASURE OF SIMILARITY; ROBOT PERCEPTION;

INFORMATION FUSION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 78650925150     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2010.10.025     Document Type: Article

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