A dissimilarity measure based on singular value and its application in incremental discounting

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1391-1397

  Ke, Xiaolu ^a   Ma, Liyao ^a   Wang, Yong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

BPA matrix; discounting; dissimilarity measure; evidence theory; singular value

Indexed keywords

BASIC PROBABILITY ASSIGNMENT; DISCOUNTING; DISCOUNTING METHODS; DISSIMILARITY MEASURES; EVIDENCE THEORIES; ITS APPLICATIONS; SIMILARITY MATRIX; SINGULAR VALUES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION FUSION;

EID: 84890844714     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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