“…The Dempster-Shafer evidence theory was first proposed by Dempster [ 13 ] in 1967, and then further developed by his student Shafer [ 14 ] in 1976. This theory is a reasoning theory that can effectively deal with uncertain information [ 20 , 21 ], and is widely used in many fields, such as fault diagnosis [ 22 , 23 ], decision making [ 24 , 25 , 26 ], risk assessment [ 27 , 28 ], classification [ 29 , 30 , 31 ], and so on [ 32 , 33 ], which solves many problems caused by uncertain information. However, in application, the classic combination rule of DS theory has been found to have some problems.…”