Title : 
The belief function theory within the framework of localizing an object
         
        
            Author : 
Yahia, Samah ; Fterich, Souhir ; Abdelkrim, Mohamed Naceur
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
MACS: Modeling Analyzing & Command of Syst., Gabès, Tunisia
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper attempts to show and apply the principle of information fusion of the belief function theory to the localization context. In fact, the main objective is to use imprecise and uncertain information stemming from two categories of sensors that are used to estimate the position of an object. What is more, we try to benefit from the advantages presenting the belief function theory, especially when they are compared to the probability approach, so as to consider the disjunctions and model the notions of uncertainty and imprecision.
         
        
            Keywords : 
belief maintenance; estimation theory; probability; sensor fusion; belief function theory; information fusion; localization context; position estimation; probability approach; Concrete; Error probability; Measurement uncertainty; Proposals; Sensor fusion; Uncertainty; The information fusion; belief function theory; disjunctions;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO), 2013 5th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Hammamet
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-5812-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552574