By analyzing the relationships among chance, weight of evidence and degree of belief, it is shown that the assertion \chances are special cases of belief functions" and the assertion \Dempster's rule can be used to combine belief functions based on distinct bodies of evidence" together lead to an inconsistency in Dempster-Shafer theory. To solve this problem, some fundamental postulates of the ...

The power transformer is one of the most critical and expensive components for the stable operation of the power system. Hence, how to obtain the health condition of transformer is of great importance for power utilities. Multi-attribute decision-making (MADM), due to its ability of solving multi-source information problems, has become a quite effective tool to evaluate the health condition of ...

This paper presents a clinical diagnosis support system which combines the advantages of Dempster-Shafer theory with Bayesian networks in order to simulate the uncertain medical reasoning. We propose a hierarchical structure using Dempster-Shafer at the upper level for evaluating more general hypothesis (disease groups) and Bayesian networks at the lower level for a more accurate analysis of sp...

An intrusion detection system (IDS) detects unauthorized manipulations of computer systems. Operation as feature reduction (including feature extraction and feature selection) plays an important role in the sense of improving classification performance and reducing the computational complexity of intrusion detection system. Feature reduction is even more important at online detection when less ...

In this paper, a new Fuzzy Morphology (FM) based on the GeneralizedDempster-Shafer Theory (GDST) is proposed. At first, in order to clarify the similarity ofdefinitions between Mathematical Morphology (MM) and Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST),dilation and erosion morphological operations are studied from a different viewpoint. Then,based on this similarity, a FM based on the GDST is proposed. Unlik...

I: Introduction Steve Shafer and Red Whittaker Introduction Accomplishments Personnel Publications 11: NAVLAB: An Autonomous Navigation Testbed K. Dowling, R. Guzikowski, J. Ladd, H. Pangels, J. Singh, and W. Whittaker 111: Vision and Navigation for the Carnegie-Mellon NAVLAB C. Thorpe, M. Heberf, T. Kanade, and S. Shafer IV: The CMU System for Mobile Robot Navigation Y. Goto and A. Stentz 1