Uncertainty measure in evidence theory

Y Deng - Science China Information Sciences, 2020 - Springer
As an extension of probability theory, evidence theory is able to better handle unknown and
imprecise information. Owing to its advantages, evidence theory has more flexibility and …

An ELECTRE-based multiple criteria decision making method for supplier selection using Dempster-Shafer theory

L Fei, J Xia, Y Feng, L Liu - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The selection of the optimal supply is an open and crucial issue in supply chain
management (SCM), which can be considered as a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) …

A new classification method based on the negation of a basic probability assignment in the evidence theory

D Wu, Z Liu, Y Tang - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2020 - Elsevier
In the practical application of classification, how to handle uncertain information for efficient
classification is a hot topic. In this paper, in the frame of Dempster–Shafer evidence theory, a …

Investigating consumer preferences on product designs by analyzing opinions from social networks using evidential reasoning

CY Ng, KMY Law - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
The rapid growth of e-commerce and social networking sites has created various challenges
for the extraction of user-generated content (UGC). In the era of big data, customer opinions …

An evidential reasoning approach based on risk attitude and criterion reliability

C Fu, M Xue, W Chang, D Xu, S Yang - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
In the evidential reasoning (ER) approach, in addition to the weight of a criterion, reliability is
another important concept in connection with the criterion although it attracts little attention …

Towards achieving consistent opinion fusion in group decision making with complete distributed preference relations

M Zhou, M Hu, YW Chen, BY Cheng, J Wu… - Knowledge-based …, 2022 - Elsevier
Belief distribution (BD) is a scheme of representing qualitative information with subjective
uncertainty and imprecision. Distributed preference relation (DPR) extends BDs to the form …

A new belief entropy measure in the weighted combination rule under DST with faulty diagnosis and real-life medical application

P Dutta, S Shome - International Journal of Machine Learning and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract In Dempster-Shafer's theory (also called DST or evidence theory or theory of belief
function), conflict management is a well-known issue in information fusion. The paper …

Comparison of evidential reasoning algorithm with linear combination in decision making

C Fu, B Hou, W Chang, N Feng, S Yang - International Journal of Fuzzy …, 2020 - Springer
Evidential reasoning (ER) approach is a representative method for analyzing uncertain multi-
criteria decision-making (MCDM) and multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM) …

Information fusion based on reputation and payoff promotes cooperation in spatial public goods game

J Quan, Y Zhou, X Wang, JB Yang - Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2020 - Elsevier
Reputation information plays an important role in human behavioral interactions. There have
been many studies that have considered reputation in spatial public goods game models …

Safety assessment of dynamic systems: An evidential group interaction-based fusion design

Z Liu, Y Deng, Y Zhang, Z Ding… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Considering the inherent unknown risks in the operation of complex dynamic system, it is
very important to assess its safety accurately. Within the framework of human-in-the-loop, we …