Dempster's rule of combination

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$m_{1,2}(Z)=m_1(Z) \bigoplus m_2(Z)=\frac{1}{1-K}\sum_{X\cap Y=Z}m_1(X)m_2(Y)$

Where K is:

$K=\sum_{X\cap Y=\emptyset}m_1(X)m_2(Y)$

[edit] References

^ Joseph C. Giarratano and Gary D. Riley (2005); Expert Systems: principles and programming, ed. Thomson Course Tech., ISBN 0-534-38447-1
^ Kari Sentz and Scott Ferson (2002); Combination of Evidence in Dempster-Shafer Theory, Sandia National Laboratories SAND 2002-0835