Data fusion with correlation weights

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3408, Issue , 2005, Pages 275-286

  Wu, Shengli ^a   McClean, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINEAR SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMBINATION METHODS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA FUSION; VOTING PROCESS;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 24644458150     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-31865-1_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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