Possibilistic information fusion using maximal coherent subsets

  • Authors:
  • Sebastien Destercke;Didier Dubois;Eric Chojnacki

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France;Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France;Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Cadarache, France

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

When multiple sources provide information about the same unknown quantity, their fusion into a synthetic interpretable message is often a tricky problem, especially when sources are conflicting. In this paper, we propose to use possibility theory and the notion of maximal coherent subsets (MCSs), often used in logic-based representations, to build a fuzzy belief structure that will be instrumental both for extracting useful insight about various features of the information conveyed by the sources and for compressing this information into a unique possibility distribution. Extensions and properties of the basic fusion rule are also studied.