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	การหลอมรวมข้อมูล	ทฤษฎีหลักฐานของ Dempster-Shafer
สาขาวิชา	การหลอมรวมข้อมูล	การคำนวณแบบอ่อน
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Machine learning
ปีกำเนิด	1997	1976
ผู้ริเริ่ม	David Hall & James Llinas	Arthur P. Dempster & Glenn Shafer
ประเภท	Multi-level information integration pipeline	Uncertainty calculus for combining evidence
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Hall, D. L., & Llinas, J. (1997). An introduction to multisensor data fusion. Proceedings of the IEEE, 85(1), 6–23.	Dempster, A. P. (1967). Upper and lower probabilities induced by a multivalued mapping. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 38(2), 325–339.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Sensor Data Fusion, Information Fusion, Multi-source Data Fusion, Veri Füzyonu	evidence theory, belief functions, evidential reasoning, Dempster-Shafer kanıt teorisi
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	3	4
สรุป	Data fusion is a multi-level process that combines data and information from multiple sensors and sources to achieve improved accuracy, completeness, and confidence in estimates that cannot be obtained from any single source alone. Formally introduced as the Joint Directors of Laboratories (JDL) model by Hall and Llinas in 1997, the framework organizes fusion into hierarchical processing levels ranging from raw signal combination to higher-order situation and threat assessment.	Dempster-Shafer theory is a mathematical framework for reasoning under uncertainty that generalizes Bayesian probability by representing ignorance explicitly. Instead of forcing a single probability on each hypothesis, it assigns belief mass to sets of hypotheses and derives a belief-plausibility interval, and it provides Dempster's rule for fusing evidence from multiple independent sources. Developed from Arthur Dempster's 1967 work and Glenn Shafer's 1976 monograph, it underpins evidential reasoning and sensor/decision fusion.