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Information Fusion Process Design Issues for Hard and Soft Information: Developing an Initial Prototype

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Intelligent Methods for Cyber Warfare

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The Data and Information Fusion (DIF) process can be argued to have three main functions: Common Referencing (CR) (also known as “Alignment”), Data Association (DA), and State Estimation, as shown in Fig. 1.

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    The Army’s DCGS-A future system requirements for example include user-modifiable DA capabilities.

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Llinas, J. (2015). Information Fusion Process Design Issues for Hard and Soft Information: Developing an Initial Prototype. In: Yager, R., Reformat, M., Alajlan, N. (eds) Intelligent Methods for Cyber Warfare. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 563. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08624-8_6

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