Generalized Evidence Theory
This addresses conflict management in evidence theory, which is incremental as it builds on existing methods.
The paper tackles the open issue of conflict management in Dempster-Shafer evidence theory by proposing a new generalized evidence theory (GET) that assumes an open world due to uncertainty and incomplete knowledge, resulting in a more reasonable way to handle conflicting evidence.
Conflict management is still an open issue in the application of Dempster Shafer evidence theory. A lot of works have been presented to address this issue. In this paper, a new theory, called as generalized evidence theory (GET), is proposed. Compared with existing methods, GET assumes that the general situation is in open world due to the uncertainty and incomplete knowledge. The conflicting evidence is handled under the framework of GET. It is shown that the new theory can explain and deal with the conflicting evidence in a more reasonable way.