Technologies for Army Knowledge Fusion

Abstract

The fusing of information to provide a real-time situational awareness and common relevant operational picture of events both within and outside the battlespace requires the integration and use of heterogeneous civilian and military sources. Knowledge fusion, also called information fusion and multisensor data fusion, names the body of techniques needed to accomplish this critical need of the U.S. Army. The area builds upon and integrates results from a variety of fields, including multiagent systems, information integration, the semantic web, and the classical (mathematically based, engineering in orientation) fusion methodologies. The goal of work in knowledge fusion is to intelligently fuse massive amounts of heterogeneous information (not only from sensors, but also from databases, files, web pages, etc.) into a form which may be used by humans to yield actionable knowledge. This report surveys the literature relevant to the evolving field of knowledge fusion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA426738

Entities

People

  • Dana L. Ulery
  • Richard Scherl

Organizations

  • Western Oregon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Mining
  • Databases
  • Geography
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Ontologies
  • Reasoning

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development