Issues and challenges of knowledge representation and reasoning methods in situation assessment (level 2 fusion)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6235, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Blasch, Erik ^a   Kadar, Ivan ^b   Salerno, John ^a   Kokar, Mieczyslaw M ^c   Das, Subrata ^d   Powell, Gerald M ^e   Corkill, Daniel D ^f   Ruspini, Enrique H ^g  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Interlink Systems Sciences Inc   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CHARLES RIVER ANALYTICS   (United States)

^e U S ARMY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^g SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Human Fusion Interaction; Human Machine Interface; Information Fusion; Situation Awareness

Indexed keywords

HUMAN FUSION INTERACTION; INFORMATION FUSION; PERFORMANCE METRICS;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; USER INTERFACES;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33748655883     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.669779     Document Type: Conference Paper

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