This article examines many existing measures of uncertainty of basic belief assignments proposed in the literature related to the theory of belief functions. 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.
BT - Information & Security: An International Journal DO - https://doi.org/10.11610/isij.5201 N2 -This article examines many existing measures of uncertainty of basic belief assignments proposed in the literature related to the theory of belief functions. 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.
PY - 2022 SP - 9 EP - 36 T2 - Information & Security: An International Journal TI - On the Effectiveness of Measures of Uncertainty of Basic Belief Assignments VL - 52 ER -