A Novel Justification of the Disjunctive Combination Rule
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In this paper, a novel justification of the disjunctive combination rule for multiple independent sources of information based on the redefined combination-mapping rule of multiple multi-valued mappings in the product space of multiple independent sources of information is being proposed. The combination rule reveals a type of logical inference in the human judgment, that is, the OR rule. It overcomes the shortcoming of the Dempster-Shafer’s combination rule with the AND rule, especially, the one that is counterintuitive, and provides a more plausible judgment than the Dempster-Shafer’s combination rule over the elements that are judged by different sources of information.
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