A real Z-box experiment for testing Zadeh's example

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a real experiment for building and realizing the physical combination of basic belief assignments associated with two independent, informative, and equireliable sources of information, according to the famous Zadeh's example. This experiment is based on a particular electronic circuit box, called Z-box, enabling to observe and to check the fusion result experimentally. Our experimental results clearly invalidate the fusion result obtained by Dempster-Shafer's rule of combination and show that it is physically possible to consider in a natural fusion process two independent and equi-reliable sources of evidences at same time, even if they appear as highly conflicting in Shafer's sense.