Knowledge-based executive car evaluation using the evidential reasoning approach

This paper presents the application of the Evidential Reasoning (ER) approach to an executive car selection problem. Both quantitative data and qualitative judgements are involved in evaluating each car on individual attributes defining the attractiveness of a car. What would be of interest to both customers and manufacturers is to find a framework in which to combine different types of knowledge for generating an overall picture for each car and furthermore a clear ranking of all cars in question, The ER approach provides a general and flexible framework for such synthesis in a rational way, Details are provided for modelling the car selection problem. Analytic results are generated and discussed using the ER approach.