Modified Dempster-Shafer approach using an expected utility interval decision rule

Ali Cheaito; Michael Lecours; Eloi Bosse

doi:10.1117/12.341366

12 March 1999 Modified Dempster-Shafer approach using an expected utility interval decision rule

Ali Cheaito, Michael Lecours, Eloi Bosse

Proceedings Volume 3719, Sensor Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications III; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.341366
Event: AeroSense '99, 1999, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The combination operation of the conventional Dempster- Shafer algorithm has a tendency to increase exponentially the number of propositions involved in bodies of evidence by creating new ones. The aim of this paper is to explore a 'modified Dempster-Shafer' approach of fusing identity declarations emanating form different sources which include a number of radars, IFF and ESM systems in order to limit the explosion of the number of propositions. We use a non-ad hoc decision rule based on the expected utility interval to select the most probable object in a comprehensive Platform Data Base containing all the possible identity values that a potential target may take. We study the effect of the redistribution of the confidence levels of the eliminated propositions which otherwise overload the real-time data fusion system; these eliminated confidence levels can in particular be assigned to ignorance, or uniformly added to the remaining propositions and to ignorance. A scenario has been selected to demonstrate the performance of our modified Dempster-Shafer method of evidential reasoning.

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Ali Cheaito, Michael Lecours, and Eloi Bosse "Modified Dempster-Shafer approach using an expected utility interval decision rule", Proc. SPIE 3719, Sensor Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications III, (12 March 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.341366

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