PROCEEDINGS IPMU '08
Aggregating Non-Independent Dempster-Shafer Belief Structures
Ronald R. Yager.
We suggest an approach to the
aggregation of non-independent belief
structures that makes use of a weighted
aggregation of the belief structures
where the weights are related to the
degree of dependence. It is shown that
this aggregation is non-commutative,
the fused value depends on the
sequencing of the evidences. We then
consider the problem of how best to
sequence the evidence. We investigate
using the measure of information
content of the fused value as a method
for selecting the appropriate way to
sequence the belief structures.
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