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The goal of this panel discussion is to identify key technical issues for information fusion at both lower and higher levels, and promising agent-based development approaches. Currently there are high expectations in the industrial, military, and business fusion communities that agent technologies can provide insights into and solutions for some of the most complex problems. Moreover, such expectations...
Summary form only given. The routing and munitions management of multiple formations of unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) through network enabled sensing will be discussed. The ability of the UCAVs to group into large formations and to divide into smaller formations on their way to high-value, tactical targets will be cast in the optimization. To solve such problem a sensory information management...
Summary form only given. Despite significant recent progress in automatic target exploitation (ATE) and recognition (ATR), current ATE systems do not meet the requirements of modern battlefield environments. Next generation ATE systems must actively manage sensor resources, aggregate sensed information across multiple platforms and diverse signaling modalities, and adapt to increasingly agile adversaries...
Summary form only given. The problem of track-to-track association and track fusion has been considered in the literature where the local trackers assume the same target motion model and send their local state estimates to the fusion center on demand. Many issues arise when local trackers use different target motion models or even operate on different target state spaces. In this case, selecting an...
As part of the track-management process it is necessary to know when new tracks start and when old ones die. Thus some knowledge of the theory of detection of statistical changes is important, and the purpose of this talk is to give the audience some overview of what is available. Specifically, we shall discuss sequential testing, this information necessary as a precursor to an understanding of the...
Cyber-physical networks promise to identify the spatial diffusion-dispersion phenomena by utilizing sensors to measure the underlying physical phenomenon and using models and information operations executed on computational nodes to estimate the parameters. We propose a projective space that utilizes the parameters of the underlying phenomenon, each of which might be measured or computed or both using...
The rapid evolution of distributed sensor systems involving multiple heterogeneous sensors, the combination of mobile and stationary sensors, and dynamic information requirements presents a challenge for system resource utilization. On one hand, evolving standards and service oriented architecture concepts enables creation and use of multiple sensors and resources (including human reports). These...
Summary form only given. The topic of multisensor tracking has been of interest to researchers for more than 30 years. However, the development and successful fielding of multisensor tracking systems have lagged significantly behind the research activities. In this presentation, a historical perspective of the key algorithmic developments associated with multisensor tracking will be given and their...
The formalization of network centric warfare (NCW) signaled a new Department of Defense drive towards systems that could conceivably interact towards the accomplishment of a common goal. But the debate regarding NCW possibilities and practicalities in terms of existing and potential technologies highlight that much work is needed before the theortical NCW can be realized. The Information and Cyberwarfare...
The international defense and security community is moving ahead at flank speed to realize the vision of network centric warfare (NCW; aka network-enabled capability (NEC) and etc). Extensive efforts are being put forth to define, design, and develop many of the technical components of such a capability, to include varieties of networked communications systems, various highly-capable military platforms,...
Evidential-reasoning methods, such as the Dempster-Shafer calculus of evidence, are widely applied to information fusion problems. In this paper we examine methodological requirements as well as conceptual issues that are relevant to their understanding and applicability. These matters include interpretation of its basic constructs and that of the notion of evidential independence, the characterization...
By observing various battlefield situations as they unfold and by interacting with peers and with battlefield artifacts, such as sensors and information processing systems, intelligence analysts form internal, mental models of things that they are observing and with which they are interacting. These models provide predictive and explanatory power for understanding a specific situation at hand, for...
The contemporary operating environment (COE) imposes significant challenges for military personnel and systems. The asymmetric nature of the threat and the proliferation of sophisticated weapon systems to rogue nations and trans-national terrorist organizations only further the need to ensure friendly forces maintain a high-level of warfighter readiness. As this threat evolves the importance of higher-level...
Defence Research and Development Canada at Valcartier is pursuing the exploration of situation analysis concepts and the prototyping of computer-based decision support systems to maintain the state of situational awareness for the decision maker. The integration of the human element at the beginning of the analysis process is an important facet of our approach. The mathematical formalism and methodology...
Contemporary situational awareness problems such as automated normalcy learning for anomaly detection and motion behavior prediction are addressed with biologically-inspired processing, representation, and learning approaches. Issues and challenges are discussed and our responses to them described. Relatively simple neural principles provide considerable power in providing capabilities required to...
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