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A new rule to combine dependent bodies of evidence

Authors: Xiaoyan Su, Lusu Li, Hong Qian, Sankaran Mahadevan, Yong Deng

Published in: Soft Computing | Issue 20/2019

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Dempster’s rule of combination can only be applied to independent bodies of evidence. This paper proposes a new rule to combine dependent bodies of evidence. The rule is based on the concept of joint belief distribution, and can be seen as a generalization of Dempster’s rule. When the bodies of evidence are independent, the new combination rule will be reduced into Dempster’s rule. Two examples are illustrated to show the use and effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Title: A new rule to combine dependent bodies of evidence
Authors: Xiaoyan Su
Lusu Li
Hong Qian
Sankaran Mahadevan
Yong Deng
Publication date: 01-02-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Soft Computing / Issue 20/2019
Print ISSN: 1432-7643
Electronic ISSN: 1433-7479
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-019-03804-y

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