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A genetic algorithm for determining nonadditive set functions in information fusion. (English) Zbl 0935.28014
Summary: As a class aggregation tool, the weighted average method is widely used in information fusion. It is the Lebesgue integral with respect to the weights, essentially. Due to some inherent interaction among diverse information sources, the weighted average method does not work well in many real problems. To describe the interaction, an intuitive and effective way is to replace the additive weights with a nonadditive set function defined on the power set of the set of all information sources. Instead of the weighted average method, we use the Choquet integral or some other nonlinear integrals, especially, the new nonlinear integral introduced by the authors recently. The crux of making such an improvement is how to determine the nonadditive set function from given input-output data when the nonlinear integral is viewed as a multi-input single-output system. In this paper, we employ a specially designed genetic algorithm to realize the optimization in determining the nonadditive set function.

##### MSC:
 28E10 Fuzzy measure theory 68U35 Computing methodologies for information systems (hypertext navigation, interfaces, decision support, etc.) 68T05 Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence
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