• DocumentCode
    539132
  • Title

    Is entropy enough to evaluate the probability transformation approach of belief function?

  • Author

    Deqiang Han ; Dezert, J. ; Chongzhao Han ; Yi Yang

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Integrated Autom., Xi´an Jiaotong Univ., Xi´an, China
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    26-29 July 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    7
  • Abstract
    In Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST) of evidence and transferable belief model (TBM), the probability transformation is necessary and crucial for decision-making. The evaluation of the quality of the probability transformation is usually based on the entropy or the probabilistic information content (PIC) measures, which are questioned in this paper. Another alternative of probability transformation approach is proposed based on the uncertainty minimization to verify the rationality of the entropy or PIC as the evaluation criteria for the probability transformation. According to the experimental results based on the comparisons among different probability transformation approaches, the rationality of using entropy or Probabilistic Information Content (PIC) measures to evaluate probability transformation approaches is analyzed and discussed.
  • Keywords
    belief networks; decision making; entropy; inference mechanisms; probability; uncertainty handling; Dempster-Shafer theory; belief function; decision-making; entropy; probabilistic information content; probability transformation; transferable belief model; Compounds; Decision making; Entropy; Minimization; Probabilistic logic; Probability distribution; Uncertainty; TBM; decision-making; evidence theory; pignistic probability transformation; uncertainty;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Fusion (FUSION), 2010 13th Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Edinburgh
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-9824438-1-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIF.2010.5711937
  • Filename
    5711937