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On Decombination of Belief Function

Sur la décombinaison de fonctions de croyance

Deqiang Han
Yi Yang

Résumé

The evidence combination is a kind of decision-level information fusion in the theory of belief functions. Given two basic belief assignments (BBAs) originated from different sources, one can combine them using some combination rule, e.g., Dempster's rule to expect a better decision result. If one only has a combined BBA, how to determine the original two BBAs to combine? This can be considered as a defusion of information. This is useful, e.g., one can analyze the difference or dissimilarity between two different information sources based on the BBAs obtained using evidence decombination. Therefore, in this paper, we research on such a defusion in the theory of belief functions. We find that it is a well-posed problem if one original BBA and the combined BBA are both available, and it is an under-determined problem if both BBAs to combine are unknown. We propose an optimization-based approach for the evidence decombination according to the criteria of divergence maximization. Numerical examples are provided illustrate and verify our proposed decombination approach, which is expected to be used in applications such the difference analysis between information sources in information fusion systems when the original BBAs are discarded, and performance evaluation of combination rules.
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hal-02355671 , version 1 (08-11-2019)

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Deqiang Han, Yi Yang, Jean Dezert. On Decombination of Belief Function. FUSION 2019, Jul 2019, OTTAWA, Canada. ⟨hal-02355671⟩
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