Global cost of assignment in the TBM framework for association of uncertain ID reports

Aerospace Science and Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 303-309

  Ristic, Branko ^a   Smets, Philippe ^a  

^a DSTO Maribyrnong   (Australia)

Author keywords

Belief function theory; Combat identification; Data association; Distance measure; Transferrable belief model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

BELIEF FUNCTION THEORY; COMBAT IDENTIFICATION; DATA ASSOCIATION; TRANSFERRABLE BELIEF MODEL;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 34247570880     PISSN: 12709638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ast.2006.10.008     Document Type: Article

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