Flexible data fusion (& fission)

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Yeh

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'85 Proceedings of the 9th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

An approach is described for developing methods for "data fusion": given how events A & B occurring by themselves influence some measure, estimate the influence (on that measure) of A and B occurring together. An example is "combine the effects of evidence on the belief (likelihood) of some hypothesis." This approach also deals with the opposite problem of estimating the effects on a measure of A and B by themselves when only their combined effects are known: data fusion. The methods developed will both 1) try to make intuitive estimations at information not given, and 2) not conflict with any information given (unless it is inconsistent).