Issues and challenges in resource management and its interaction with levels 2/3 fusion with applications to real-world problems: An annotated perspective

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6567, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Blasch, Erik ^a   Kadar, Ivan ^b   Hintz, Kenneth ^c   Biermann, Joachim ^d   Chong, Chee Yee ^e   Salerno, John ^a   Das, Subrata ^f  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Interlink Systems Sciences Inc   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FRAUNHOFER FKIE   (Germany)

^e BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^f CHARLES RIVER ANALYTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Information fusion; Sensor management; Situation impact assessment; User refinement

Indexed keywords

SENSOR MANAGEMENT; SITUATION / IMPACT ASSESSMENT; SYSTEM MANAGEMENT; USER REFINEMENT;

DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION FUSION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 35948966842     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.719613     Document Type: Conference Paper

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