“…Compared with Bayesian theory, it needs weaker conditions so that it is often deemed as an extension of the Bayesian theory. D-S theory is widely applicated in many fields, such as decision making [6,22,30,44,71], pattern recognition [40,41,43,73], evidential reasoning [15,42,74,[83][84][85], risk and reliability [52,54], information fusion [59,61,75], uncertainty modelling [19,25,58] and conflict management [36,68,81].…”