Shafer-dempster reasoning with applications to multisensor target identification systems
- 1 November 1987
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
- Vol. 17 (6) , 968-977
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tsmc.1987.6499307
Abstract
Shafer-Dempster logic is discussed and described, with emphasis placed on providing realistic examples of its use drawn from the field of multisensor target identification systems and on simulating its operation. Shafer-Dempster reasoning is a generalization of Bayes reasoning that offers a way to combine uncertain information from disparate sensor sources with different levels of abstraction. Bayes theory is provably optimal whenever all the sensor sources are contributing information at a single Bayesian level of abstraction. Often, however, this is not the case, which dilemma motivates this study of Shafer-Dempster reasoning.Keywords
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