A simple view of the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence and its implication for the rule of combination

Dempster’s combination rule in Dempster–Shafer theory of evidence is widely used to combine multiple pieces of evidence. However, when the evidence is severely conflicting, the result could be counter-intuitive. Thus, many alternative ...

• Identify some properties that an evidential combination rule should follow.
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The theory of belief functions is a generalization of probability theory; a belief function is a set function more general than a probability measure but whose values can still be interpreted as degrees of belief. Dempster's rule of combination is a ...

Dempster-Shafer evidence theory is a powerful reasoning method in handling uncertain problems. Since Zadeh highlighted the counter-intuitive behaviour of Dempser’s combination rule, a lot of alternative rules have been proposed. However, most of these ...