Refined labels for qualitative information fusion in decision-making support system

Author

Smarandache, Florentin ; Dezert, Jean ; Li, Xinde

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math. & Sci. Dept., Univ. of New Mexico, Gallup, NM, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

6-9 July 2009

Firstpage

1203

Lastpage

1210

Abstract

This paper introduces the Dezert-Smarandache (DSm) Field and Linear Algebra of Refined Labels (FLARL) useful for dealing accurately with qualitative information expressed in terms of qualitative belief functions. This work extends substantially our previous works done in DSmT framework which were mainly based on approximate qualitative operators. Here, new well justified accurate basic operators on qualitative labels (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, root, power, etc) are presented. The end of this paper is devoted to an examples of qualitative fusion rules based on this new FLARL approach for decision-making support.

Keywords

decision making; decision theory; information theory; linear algebra; Dezert-Smarandache field; approximate qualitative operators; decision making support system; linear algebra; qualitative belief function; qualitative fusion rules; qualitative information fusion; qualitative labels; refined labels; Automation; Decision making; Educational institutions; Humans; Information processing; Information retrieval; Linear algebra; Quality management; Research and development management; Uncertainty; 2-Tuples; DSmT; Decision-making; Qualitative information fusion; Refined label;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Fusion, 2009. FUSION '09. 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

978-0-9824-4380-4

Type

conf

Filename

5203614