Objective
The intended purpose of the project is to enhance the practical applicability of the relevant techniques in the different kinds of fusion problems, and to implement and integrate them on representative examples of problems provided by the industrial partners associated with the project or with its participants.
The problem of combining pieces of evidence issued from several sources of information can be encountered in various fields of application, particularly in i) sensor fusion, i.e. when pieces of information coming from different sensors are to be aggregated, ii) multiple source interrogation systems where several databases can provide precise, imprecise or uncertain information about attribute values of interest, iii) expert opinion pooling, when different individual statements about numerical parameters have to be synthesised.
In all these situations we may be faced with conflicting, partially inconsistent information provided by heterogeneous sources having different levels of reliability. In such situations when information is poor, scarce and lacks precision, standard approaches to data fusion based on probabilistic models are not always enough to deal with the problem in an appropriate way. Depending on the nature of the available information, various models can be used for its representation, ranging from probability theory, belief function-based evidence theory, and upper and lower probabilities on the one hand, to more qualitative frameworks such as possibility theory and nonmonotonic logics on the other hand. In all these models, techniques for combining information have been suggested.
The project will focus on database fusion, expert opinion fusion and sensor fusion in order to lay bare
- what these problems have in common and how they differ, and
- how the different theoretical frameworks which have been studied by the members of the project (probability theory, belief functions, possibility theory, upper and lower probabilities, nonmonotonic logics) apply to these problems.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- natural sciences mathematics applied mathematics statistics and probability
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Coordinator
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
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