Towards context-aware hard/soft information fusion: Incorporating situationally qualified human observations into a fusion process for intelligence analysis

2011 IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support, CogSIMA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 74-81

  Jenkins, Michael P ^a   Gross, Geoff ^a   Bisantz, Ann M ^a   Nagi, Rakesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Age Estimation; Data Fusion; Fuzzy Membership Functions; Human Observations; Intelligence Analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AGE ESTIMATION; FUZZY MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION; HUMAN OBSERVATIONS; INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

DATA FUSION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; INFORMATION FUSION; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79956101937     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COGSIMA.2011.5753757     Document Type: Conference Paper

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