Weighted Combination Method of Conflict Evidence Based on Deviation
Jian Liu · Advanced materials research · 2012
To solve the problem that D-S evidence combination method may lose effectiveness when evidences are highly or full conflict, we propose weighted combination method of conflict evidence based on deviation. We think, different evidence source is under different circumstance, so the importance of each evidence is different. It is necessary to give weight to every evidence, then conflict probability can only just be assigned. Deviation is a good standard to measure errors. In the circumstance the difference between probabilities from certain evidence source and their mean is too large, that indicates confidence of the evidence is small. So we can use deviation to structure the weight coefficient of each evidence. Based on the weight coefficients, conflict evidences are combined. This method corresponds to people’s thinking habit, only little calculation is needed, and satisfying consequence can be achieved.