On Information Fusion in the Life-Sciences
In the present text, we shall discuss soft computing as concerned with the fusion of qualitative percepts and quantitative measurements. Whereas the former is obtained from observation, we shall assume that the latter is collected through measurements. Bo
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Series Editors: The Rectors Sandor Kaliszky - Budapest Mahir Sayir - Zurich Wilhelm Schneider - Wien The Secretary General Bernhard Schrefler - Pad.ua Former Secretary General Giovanni Bianchi - Milan Executive Editor Carlo Tasso - Udine
The series presents lecture notes, monographs, edited works and proceedings in the field of Mechanics, Engineering, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. Purpose of the series is to make known in the international scientific and technical community results obtained in some of the activities organized by CISM, the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences.
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MECHANICAL SCIENCES COURSES AND LECTURES - No. 4:11
DATA FUSION AND PERCEPTION
EDITED BY GIACOMO DELLA RICCIA UNIVERSITY OF UDINE HANZ-JOACHIM LENZ FREE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN RUDOLF KRUSE UNIVERSITY OF MAGDEBURG
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© 2001 by Springer-Verlag Wien Originally published by Springer-Verlag Wien New York in 2001
SPIN 10862894
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ISBN 978-3-211-83683-5
ISBN 978-3-7091-2580-9 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-7091-2580-9
PREFACE
This volume contains revised papers read originally at the 5th workshop on "Data Fusion and Perceptions", Centre International des Sciences Mecaniques (CISM), Udine, Italy, October 5-7, 2000. As usual this international workshop was peifectly conveyed by the International School for the Synthesis of Expert Knowledge (ISSEK) and held in the impressive Palazzo del Torso of the Centre International des Sciences Mecaniques (CISM), Udine. G. Della Riccia (University of Udine), R. Kruse (University of Magdeburg), and H.-J. Lenz (Free University Berlin) jointly recruited leading researchers from various fields in Europe, and planned the final scientific program. The (innocent) reader may ask why the topic of this conference was chosen as above. First, Data Fusion and Perceptions are mainstream topics of current research. Second, their semantics and pragmatics are continuously extended, and more and more fields of applications are discovered despite of the curse of dimension and size of databases. This became possible due to the progress of computing power and storage devices. In its proper sense Data Fusion is understood as a rather new methodology, where heterogeneous data are merged and a measure of quality is computed. This measure differs from complexity measures used in database joins and data access plans. For example, hit rates equal to one minus error rates may be approp
