“…Evidence theory was developed by Shafer and was firstly proposed by Dempster [ 30 ], thus it is also called D–S evidence theory. Recently, theoretical research on evidence theory has played a very important role in many applications such as decision-making [ 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 ], complex networks [ 35 , 36 ], fault diagnosis [ 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 ], classification [ 42 , 43 ] and so on [ 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 ].…”