During the SPIE 2012 conference, panelists convened to discuss “Real world issues and
challenges in Human Social/Cultural/Behavioral modeling with Applications to Information …

Computer networks no longer simply enable military and civilian operations, but have
become vital infrastructures for all types of operations ranging from sensing and …

Increasing interest in human-centered information fusion systems involves;(1) humans as
sensors (viz.,“soft sensors”),(2) humans performing pattern recognition and participating in …

High-level information fusion (situation and threat assessment, process and user refinement)
requires novel solutions for the operational transition of information fusion designs. Low …

There is a debate within the information fusion community whether situation and threat
assessment (SA/TA) are separate as called out in the Joint Directors of the Lab (JDL) or …

While there are multiple reference models for data fusion, there are no formal processes in
which to design a complete fusion system. Even though high-level fusion, ie, impact and …

Information fusion consists of organizing a set of data into meaningful reports to answer
queries, forge a consistency story, and determine situation awareness. To provide situation …

This paper presents several lessons learned from the ongoing work of a series of NATO
Research Task Groups (IST-106, IST-132 and IST-165) which have focused on the changing …

The goal of the High-Level Information Fusion (HLIF) Panel Discussion is to present
contemporary HLIF advances and developments to determine unsolved grand challenges …

To effectively design a data-fusion system (DFS), users goals and situation and impact
needs must be addressed for efficient action. Using the User-Fusion model, we explore the …