Current Trends and Applications of Dempster-Shafer Theory (Review)

TL;DR

This review paper summarizes recent research and applications of Dempster-Shafer theory across various fields, highlighting current trends, developments, and practical uses in engineering, manufacturing, diagnostics, and social systems.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent advancements and diverse applications of Dempster-Shafer theory, emphasizing its practical relevance and research directions.

Findings

Recent research focuses on engineering and technological applications.

Dempster-Shafer theory is applied in manufacturing and diagnostics.

The review highlights current state and future research directions.

Abstract

The article provides a review of the publications on the current trends and developments in Dempster-Shafer theory and its different applications in science, engineering, and technologies. The review took account of the following provisions with a focus on some specific aspects of the theory. Firstly, the article considers the research directions whose results are known not only in scientific and academic community but understood by a wide circle of potential designers and developers of advanced engineering solutions and technologies. Secondly, the article shows the theory applications in some important areas of human activity such as manufacturing systems, diagnostics of technological processes, materials and products, building and construction, product quality control, economic and social systems. The particular attention is paid to the current state of research in the domains under consideration and, thus, the papers published, as a rule, in recent years and presenting the achievements of modern research on Dempster-Shafer theory and its application are selected and analyzed.