Interpretation and Computation of alpha-Junctions for Combining Belief Functions
Résumé
The alpha-junctions are the associative, commutative and linear operators for belief functions with a neutral element. This family of rules includes as particular cases the unnormalized Dempster's rule and the disjunctive rule. Until now, the -junctions suffered from two main limitations. First, they did not have an interpretation in the general case. Second, it was difficult to compute a combination by an -junction. In this paper, an interpretation for these rules is proposed. It is shown that the alpha-junctions correspond to a particular form of knowledge about the truthfulness of the sources providing the belief functions to be combined. Simple means to compute a combination by an alpha-junction are also laid bare. These means are based on generalizations of mechanisms that exist to compute the combination by the unnormalized Dempster's rule.
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