Evidence combination rule with contrary support in the evidential reasoning approach

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Highlights：

• An improved combination rule for evidence in the evidential reasoning approach is proposed.

• Combination algorithm for solving MCDM problems is established.

• Contrary support is used to construct the rule by bounding mutual influence.

• The rule separates contrary support from global ignorance to hold evidence specificity.

• Conjunctive reasoning process is constituted so that results can be easily explained.

摘要

•An improved combination rule for evidence in the evidential reasoning approach is proposed.•Combination algorithm for solving MCDM problems is established.•Contrary support is used to construct the rule by bounding mutual influence.•The rule separates contrary support from global ignorance to hold evidence specificity.•Conjunctive reasoning process is constituted so that results can be easily explained.

论文关键词：Evidential reasoning,Evidence combination rule,Contrary support,Multiple criteria decision making,Information fusion

论文评审过程：Received 10 January 2017, Revised 30 June 2017, Accepted 30 June 2017, Available online 1 July 2017, Version of Record 10 July 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.06.045