“…Evidence theory, also called Dempster Shafer evidence theory [ 1 , 2 ], plays an important role in data fusion because of the efficiency to deal with uncertainty [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ]. It is widely used in many applications, such as fault diagnoses [ 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ], project assessment [ 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 ], risk management [ 17 , 18 , 19 ], target recognition [ 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 ], decision making [ 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 ] and so on [ 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 ].…”