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The performance of this concept has remarkably increased with the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT). Indeed, a myriad of innovative devices are being extensively deployed to collaboratively recognize and track events, objects, and activities of interest. A wide range of IoT-based approaches have focused on representing and managing shared information through formal operators for group awareness. However, despite their proven results, these approaches are still refrained by the inaccuracy of information being shared between the collaborating distributed entities. In order to address this issue, we propose in this paper a new belief-management-based model for a collaborative Internet of Drones (IoD). The proposed model allows drones to decide the most appropriate operators to apply in order to manage the uncertainty of perceived or received information in different situations. 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