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Table 1 Evidence combination results based on different combination methods

From: Conflicting evidence combination based on uncertainty measure and distance of evidence

Evidence

Method

m(A)

m(B)

m(C)

m(AC)

Target

\(m_1,m_2\)

Dempster’s method (Dempster 1967)

0

0.8969

0.1031

0

B

Murphy’s method (Murphy 2000)

0.0964

0.8119

0.0917

0

B

Deng et al.’s method (Deng et al. 2004)

0.0964

0.8119

0.0917

0

B

The proposed method

0.0964

0.8119

0.0917

0

B

\(m_1,m_2,m_3\)

Dempster’s method (Dempster 1967)

0

0.6575

0.3425

0

B

Murphy’s method (Murphy 2000)

0.4939

0.4180

0.0792

0.0090

A

Deng et al.’s method (Deng et al. 2004)

0.4974

0.4054

0.0888

0.0084

A

The proposed method

0.7614

0.1295

0.0961

0.0130

A

\(m_1,m_2,m_3,m_4\)

Dempster’s method (Dempster 1967)

0

0.3321

0.6679

0

C

Murphy’s method (Murphy 2000)

0.8362

0.1147

0.0410

0.0081

A

Deng et al.’s method (Deng et al. 2004)

0.9089

0.0444

0.0379

0.0089

A

The proposed method

0.9379

0.0173

0.0361

0.0087

A

\(m_1,m_2,m_3,m_4,m_5\)

Dempster’s method (Dempster 1967)

0

0.1422

0.8578

0

C

Murphy’s method (Murphy 2000)

0.9620

0.0210

0.0138

0.0032

A

Deng et al.’s method (Deng et al. 2004)

0.9820

0.0039

0.0107

0.0034

A

The proposed method

0.9837

0.0021

0.0110

0.0032

A