Extension of Inagaki General Weighted Operators and A New Fusion Rule Class of Proportional Redistribution of Intersection Masses

TL;DR

This paper introduces Double Weighted Operators (DWO) and a new fusion rule called CPRIM, enhancing information fusion by redistributing conflicting and intersection masses, applicable to multiple sources.

Contribution

It extends Inagaki Weighted Operators by redistributing intersection masses and proposes CPRIM, a flexible class of fusion rules for multiple information sources.

Findings

DWO improves conflict management in fusion.

CPRIM encompasses various fusion strategies.

Application shows competitive performance.

Abstract

In this paper we extend Inagaki Weighted Operators fusion rule (WO) in information fusion by doing redistribution of not only the conflicting mass, but also of masses of non-empty intersections, that we call Double Weighted Operators (DWO). Then we propose a new fusion rule Class of Proportional Redistribution of Intersection Masses (CPRIM), which generates many interesting particular fusion rules in information fusion. Both formulas are presented for any number of sources of information. An application and comparison with other fusion rules are given in the last section.