A complex weighted discounting multisource information fusion with Its application in pattern classification
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2023
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Xiao, F.
Cao, Z.
Lin, C.T.
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IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2023; 35(8):7609-7623
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Complex evidence theory (CET) is an effective method for uncertainty reasoning in knowledge-based systems with good interpretability that has recently attracted much attention. However, approaches to improve the performance of uncertainty reasoning in CET-based expert systems remains an open issue. One key to performance improvement is the adequate management of conflict from multisource information. In this paper, a generalized correlation coefficient, namely, the complex evidential correlation coefficient (CECC), is proposed for the complex mass functions or complex basic belief assignments (CBBAs) in CET. On this basis, a complex conflict coefficient is proposed to measure the conflict between CBBAs; when CBBAs turn into classic BBAs, the complex correlation and conflict coefficients will degrade into traditional coefficients. The complex conflict coefficient satisfies nonnegativity, symmetry, boundedness, extreme consistency, and insensitivity to refinement properties, which are desirable for conflict measurement. Several numerical examples validate through comparisons the superiority of the complex conflict coefficient. In this context, a weighted discounting multisource information fusion algorithm, which is called the CECC-WDMSIF, is designed based on the CECC to improve the performance of CET-based expert systems. By applying the CECC-WDMSIF method to the pattern classification of diverse real-world datasets, it is demonstrated that the proposed CECC-WDMSIF outperforms well-known related approaches with higher classification accuracy and robustness.
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