On the fusion of imprecise uncertainty measures using belief structures

Information Sciences

Volumn 181, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3199-3209

  Yager, Ronald R ^a,b  

^a MACHINE INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Dempster Shafer; Multi source fusion; Normalization; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; BELIEF STRUCTURES; DEMPSTER RULE; DEMPSTER-SHAFER; DEMPSTER-SHAFER BELIEF STRUCTURE; FUSION METHODS; MULTI-SOURCE FUSION; MULTIPLE SOURCE; NORMALIZATION; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY MEASURES;

EID: 79955769802     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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