Evaluating spreading activation for soft information fusion

Fusion 2011 - 14th International Conference on Information Fusion

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kandefer, Michael ^a   Shapiro, Stuart C ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Context exploitation; Human based sensing; Soft information fusion

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ALGORITHM; CONTEXT EXPLOITATION; CONTEXT-BASED INFORMATION; DATA ASSOCIATION; F-MEASURE; FUSION PROCESS; HUMAN-BASED SENSING; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PARAMETER SETTING; PROBLEM DOMAIN; PROCESS PERFORMANCE; SECOND PHASE; SOFT INFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION FUSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 80052522347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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