Abstract: How to measure the similarity or distance between the basic probability assignment (BPA) in evidence theory is an open issue. The existing evidence distance function has the shortcoming that ...

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In the past few years, I’ve moved more than once. Time and again, I have had to measure rooms or furniture and then check whether I can arrange everything just as I had planned. When we use a tape ...

Next-generation communications systems generally strive to achieve higher capacities than previous generations. Physical limitations of channel bandwidths led to the use of four-level amplitude ...