Using Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence for situation inference

  • Authors:
  • Susan McKeever;Juan Ye;Lorcan Coyle;Simon Dobson

  • Affiliations:
  • Systems Research Group, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland;Systems Research Group, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland;Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland;Systems Research Group, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • EuroSSC'09 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Smart sensing and context
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In the domain of ubiquitous computing, the ability to identify the occurrence of situations is a core function of being 'context-aware'. Given the uncertain nature of sensor information and inference rules, reasoning techniques that cater for uncertainty hold promise for enabling the inference process. In our work, we apply the Dempster Shafer theory of evidence to infer situation occurrence with minimal use of training data. We describe a set of evidential operations for sensor mass functions using context quality and evidence accumulation for continuous situation detection. We demonstrate how our approach enables situation inference with uncertain information using a case study based on a published smart home activity data set.