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In this method, the uncertain degree in the original BPA and the negation of BPA are considered simultaneously. The degree of uncertainty of BPA and negation of BPA is measured by the Deng entropy, and the two uncertain measurement results are integrated as the final uncertainty degree of the evidence. This new method can not only deal with the data fusion of conflicting evidence, but it can also obtain more uncertain information through the negation of BPA, which is of great help to improve the accuracy of information processing and to reduce the loss of information. We apply it to numerical examples and fault diagnosis experiments to verify the effectiveness and superiority of the method. In addition, some open issues existing in current work, such as the limitations of the Dempster-Shafer theory (DST) under the open world assumption and the necessary properties of uncertainty measurement methods, are also discussed in this paper.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e23040402","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,28]],"date-time":"2021-03-28T22:09:01Z","timestamp":1616969341000},"page":"402","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Measuring the Uncertainty in the Original and Negation of Evidence Using Belief Entropy for Conflict Data Fusion"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Yutong","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2568-9628","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yongchuan","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Big Data and Software Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"23","DOI":"10.1016\/j.inffus.2018.04.003","article-title":"Multi-sensor data fusion based on the belief divergence measure of evidences and the belief entropy","volume":"46","author":"Xiao","year":"2019","journal-title":"Inf. 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