Dynamic Performance Evaluation of High-Valued Complex Systems Based on Belief Rule Base
Can Li, Zhichao Feng, Zhijie Zhou, Yongjia Gao · IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement · 2025
This study presents a novel dynamic method for evaluating the performance of high-valued complex systems. It aims to address the following 3 problems in performance evaluation of this type of system, including limited observation data of system states, uncertainty in expert knowledge, and high real-time requirement. To address these challenges, we expand the discernment frame of the Belief Rule Base (BRB) to the power set (BRB-P), enhancing its capacity to handle limited data and uncertain expert knowledge. The belief rules are integrated using the evidential reasoning algorithm, ensuring the interpretability of the framework. Simultaneously, we introduce a new optimization model to enhance the real-time performance of the framework and mitigate the explosion of belief rule combinations when dealing with multiple input features. Furthermore, we develop a utility-based framework reduction method to adaptively adjust the discernment framework of BRB-P. This enables the structure and parameters of the framework to be dynamically trained using real-time observation data. An experimental illustration is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.