A generalized belief fusion algorithm

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2003

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1126-1132

  Sudano, John J ^a  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized belief fusion; Pignistic probability transform

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; INFORMATION FUSION; PROBABILITY;

BELIEF FUSION; DEMPSTER-SHAFER; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; FUSION METHODOLOGY; MULTISOURCES; PIGNISTIC PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY ESTIMATE; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84901677106     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIF.2003.177364     Document Type: Conference Paper

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