<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jean Dezert</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Albena Tchamova</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">On the Effectiveness of Measures of Uncertainty of Basic Belief Assignments</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information &amp; Security: An International Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">belief functions</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">measure of uncertainty</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MoU</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shannon entropy</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2022</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">52</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9-36</style></pages><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;This article examines many existing measures of uncertainty of basic belief assignments proposed in the literature related to the theory of belief func&amp;shy;tions. Some measures capture only a particular aspect of the uncertainty, others propose a total measure of uncertainty to characterize the information quality of a source of information. We discuss the effectiveness of these measures with respect to four main important desiderata that we consider essential for the definition of a satisfactory measure of uncertainty, i.e. effective entropy of basic belief assignment.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jean Dezert</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Albena Tchamova</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">On Inequalities Bounding Imprecision and Nonspecificity Measures of Uncertainty</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information &amp; Security: An International Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">belief functions</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">convex combination</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">inequalities</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">measures of uncertainty</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2022</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2022</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">52</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">37-51</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;This article presents proof of two inequalities about two measures of uncertainty of basic belief assignments, called respectively Imprecision measure and U-uncertainty measure, that have been introduced by Dubois and Prade in the 1980s. These inequalities have been considered as obvious by the authors, but to prove them rigorously requires some effort, as demonstrated in this article.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Julien Moras</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jean Dezert</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Benjamin Pannetier</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Grid Occupancy Estimation for Environment Perception Based on Belief Functions and PCR6</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion, and Target Recognition XXIV</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">21 May 2015</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Baltimore, Maryland, United States</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9474</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Albena Tchamova</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jean Dezert</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Performance evaluation of fuzzy-based fusion rules for tracking applications</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year></dates><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1-9</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Erik Blasch</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jean Dezert</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">B. 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C</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jean Dezert</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Valin P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Florentin Smarandache</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Anne-Laure Jousselme</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adaptative combination rule and proportional conflict redistribution rule for information fusion</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cogis 2006 Conference</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paris France</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jean Dezert</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Florentin Smarandache</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DSmT: A new paradigm shift for information fusion</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cogis’06 conference</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paris France</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Xinhan HUANG</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Xinde LI</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Min WANG</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jean Dezert</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A fusion machine based on DSmT and PCR5 for robot's map reconstruction</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Journal of Information Acquisition</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">201-211</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Florentin Smarandache</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jean Dezert</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fusion of qualitative beliefs</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year></dates><edition><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Collected Works</style></edition><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">American Research Press Rehoboth</style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>6</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Florentin Smarandache</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jean Dezert</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fusion of qualitative beliefs using DSmT</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Infinite Study</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jean Dezert</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Florentin Smarandache</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Introduction to the Fusion of Quantitative and Qualitative Beliefs</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information &amp; Security: An International Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Conflict management</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dezert-Smarandache Theory</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DSmT</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information Fusion</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Qualitative belief</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quantitative belief</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">20</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9-49</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The efficient management and combination of uncertain and conflicting sources of information remain of primal importance for the development of reliable information fusion systems. Advanced fusion systems must deal both with quantitative and qualitative aspects of beliefs expressed by the different sources of information (sensors, expert systems, human reports, etc). This paper introduces the theory of plausible and paradoxical reasoning, known as DSmT (Dezert- Smarandache Theory) in literature, developed originally for dealing with imprecise, uncertain and potentially highly conflicting sources of information providing quantitative beliefs on a given set of possible solutions of a given problem. We
also propose in this paper new ideas on a possible extension of DSmT for the combination of uncertain and conflicting qualitative information in order to deal
directly with beliefs expressed with linguistic labels instead of numerical values to be closer to the nature of information expressed in natural languages and available
directly from human experts.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jean Dezert</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Albena Tchamova</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tzvetan Semerdjiev</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pavlina Konstantinova</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Multitarget Tracking in Clutter based on Generalized Data Association: Performance Evaluation of Fusion Rules</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">American Research Press, Rehoboth</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">12</style></section></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Albena Tchamova</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jean Dezert</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Florentin Smarandache</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A New Class of Fusion Rules Based on T-Conorm and T-Norm Fuzzy Operators</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information &amp; Security: An International Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Combination rules</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Conjunctive rule</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fuzzy operators</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Information Fusion</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">20</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">65-82</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In this paper a particular combination rule based on specified fuzzy TConorm/ T-Norm operators is proposed and analysed - TCN Rule of Combination. It does not belong to the general Weighted Operator Class. The nice features of
the new rule could be defined as: very easy to implement, satisfying the impact
of neutrality of Vacuous Belief Assignment; commutative, convergent to idempotence, reflecting majority opinion, assuring an adequate data processing in case of total conflict. Several numerical examples and comparisons with the new advanced
Proportional Conflict Redistribution Rules proposed recently by Florentin Smarandache and Jean Dezert within their theory of plausible and paradoxical reasoning
are presented.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Florentin Smarandache</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jean Dezert</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proportional Conflict Redistribution Rules for Information</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" 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