Evidence Combination Based on Multi-criteria Rank-level Fusion: Evidence Combination Based on Multi-criteria Rank-level Fusion

Dempster-Shafer evidence theory has been widely used in many important applications in information fusion,but Dempster s rule of combination always brings some counter-intuitive behaviors,e.g.,the paradoxes of conflict,belief transfer,and belief absorbtion.Accordingly,a novel evidence combination approach based on multi-criteria rank-level fusion is proposed in this paper.It uses the criteria of evidence precision,evidence credibility,and evidence auto-conflict together to evaluate all the bodies of evidence to be combined.The combination result can be obtained based on selective fusion.The experimental results and related analysis show that the proposed approach is rational and effective.