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ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Volume 91, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2020.103543
Keywords
Dempster-Shafer evidence theory; Dependence; DEMATEL; Discounting evidence; Fractal; Decision-making
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61973332]
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Dempster combination rule in evidence theory is widely used in data fusion system. One assumption of Dempster combination rule is the independence among different evidences. However, it is difficult to satisfy this requirement due to many influencing factors. The main contribution of this paper is to propose a systematic model to deal with dependence evidences in evidence theory. The core of the model can be divided into two parts: handling inner dependence and handling outer dependence. For the inner dependence, we use DEMATEL model to establish the relationships between different components in the system and get their relative weights considering their influences. For the outer dependence, we use BPAs inherent fractals features to deal with the uncertainty in the outer environment as well as the dependence among each collected evidence. After that we combine these two aspects of dependence and make decisions. By discounting evidences we avoid redundant calculation thus obtain useful information as much as possible. A case study of transportation project selection problem is used to illustrate our proposed method.
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