How to preserve the conflict as an alarm in the combination of belief functions?

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 326-333

  Lefèvre, Eric ^a   Elouedi, Zied ^b  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Alarm of singular source; Belief function theory; Conflict management; Data fusion

Indexed keywords

BELIEF FUNCTION THEORY; COMBINATION OF BELIEF FUNCTIONS; COMBINATION RULES; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; DISSIMILARITY MEASURES; INFORMATION SOURCES; NORMALIZATION PROCESS; SINGULAR SOURCES;

ALARM SYSTEMS; DATA FUSION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84889094405     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2013.06.012     Document Type: Article

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