A New Multi-source Information Fusion Method Based on Belief Divergence Measure and the Negation of Basic Probability Assignment

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Abstract

Dempster-Shafer theory (DST) can effectively distinguish between imprecise information and unknown information, which is widely used in information fusion. However, when the evidence highly contradicts each other, it may lead to counter-intuitive results. In addition, the existing information fusion methods do not take the negation of BPA into consideration, which can be improved. In this paper, we propose a new information fusion method by taking into account not only the information in basic probability assignment (BPA) but also the information contained in the negation of BPA. In the method, the belief divergence measure is not only used to calculate the difference between BPA and its negative BPA to reflect the information volume carried by its initial BPA, but also to calculate the difference between BPA and other BPA to consider the discrepancy between evidence. The efficiency of the method is verified by case studies.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBelief Functions
Subtitle of host publicationTheory and Applications - 6th International Conference, BELIEF 2021, Proceedings
EditorsThierry Denœux, Eric Lefèvre, Zhunga Liu, Frédéric Pichon
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages237-246
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030886004
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event6th International Conference on Belief Functions, BELIEF 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 15 Oct 202119 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12915 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Belief Functions, BELIEF 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period15/10/2119/10/21

Keywords

  • Belief divergence measure
  • Dempster-Shafer theory
  • Information fusion
  • Negation

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