"Diagnostic Information Fusion"
Special Session
during
> The 2nd International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION99)
> 6-8 July 1999 * Sunnyvale Hilton Inn * Silicon Valley, CA, USA
> http://www.inforfusion.org/fusion99
>
This session focuses on methods and tools which can be used to aggregate information stemming from
different diagnostic tools to arrive at a unified - and presumably better - diagnostic estimate about
the state of the system. Today, different tools are developed to accommodate particular diagnostic
needs. This reflects the shortcomings of any one tool to deal with all faults of interest at the
desired level of accuracy. Some tools respond to slight environmental changes with less deterioration
of their diagnostic capabilities than others; some cannot easily be expanded to included new faults;
some are really good picking up certain faults and worthless for others, etc. Therefore, it seems to
be near at hand to use a scheme which gathers the different methods and tries to leverage the
advantages of each one. Such a fused scheme holds the promise to deliver a result which is at least
as good as the best one of the tools used. But it seems intuitive that it should be better because
there is a fair amount of redundant information available which should be able to compensate for
shortcomings of the better tool. If several tools agree on the diagnostic state, the task is
straightforward and the resulting output should be done with more confidence. However, if tools
disagree, one has to decide which tool to believe or to what degree. In addition, information is
probably expressed in different domains, such as probabilistic information, fuzzy information, binary
information, weights, etc. The fusion scheme has to map the different domains into a common one to be
able to properly use the encoded data. The fusion scheme has to also deal with tools which are
operated at different sampling frequencies.
> Authors are invited to submit papers describing advances, applications, and ideas in diagnostic
> multi-sensor/multi-source information fusion. All accepted papers will be published in the
> conference proceedings, to be available at the Conference in July 1999.
>
> SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
>
> Regular Papers:
> Authors should submit a 300-500 summary of their paper and 3-5 keywords. The summary should clearly
> state the significance of the problem and identify their contribution to the field. Submission
> should include address for correspondence (including phone, fax, and email).
> Submission should be made electronically in the ASCII text format to Kai Goebel
> (Session Chair) at goebelk@crd.ge.com by March 12, 1999. If electronic submission is not
> possible, three hard copies of each summary should be mailed to
>
Kai Goebel
GE CR&D-ITL
K1-5C4A
One Research Circle
Niskayuna, NY 12309, USA
> Submissions by FAX will NOT be considered. Upon acceptance, a final
> camera-ready manuscript of the paper should be prepared according to instructions found
> at http://www.inforfusion.org/fusion99/kit.htm. Papers should be limited to
> eight (8) pages - longer papers will be subject to a charge on each extra page.
>
> IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
>
> 500-word summaries due: March 12, 99
> Notification of acceptance: April 1, 99
> Camera ready papers due: May 15, 99
> Conference Proceedings ready: July 6, 99
>
> CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
>
> Honorary Chair: Yaakov Bar-Shalom,
> University of Connecticut
>
> Steering Committee Chair: Frank White
> NAVY SPAWAR, San Diego, CA
>
> Advisory Committee Chair: Ken Ford
> NASA Ames Research Center, CA
>
> General Chair: Daniel Zhu
> Zaptron System, Inc., CA
>
> General Vice Chair: Mark Bedworth
> Defense Evaluation & Research Agency, UK
>
> General Vice Chair: Rong X. Li
> University of New Orleans, LA
>
> Program Chair: Pramod Varshney
> Syracuse University, NY
>
> Program Vice Chair: Peter Willett
> University of Connecticut
>
> Publicity Chair: Belur Dasarathy
> Dynetics Inc., AL
>
>
> Publication Chair: Robert Levinson
> University of California at Santa Cruz
>
> Sponsors Program Chair: Erik Blasch
> Air Force Research Lab/SNAT, OH
>
> Financial Chair: Chee-Yee Chong
> Booz-Allen & Hamilton, San Francisco, CA
>
> Local Arrangement Chair:
TBD
> Co-Sponsored by
> International Society of Information Fusion
> US Army Research Office
> NASA Ames Research Center
> IEEE Control Systems Society
> IEEE Aerospace and Electroincs Society
>
> In Cooperation with
> IEEE Signal Processing Society
>
>
> Kai
> _________________________________________
> GE CR&D
> Information Technology Lab
> Service Informatics Program
URL: http://best.ME.Berkeley.EDU/~goebel/kai.html