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Foundations of Data Fusion for Automation*

S. Sitharama Iyengar

Florida International University

Shivakumar Sastry

The University of Akron

N. Balakrishnan

Carnegie Mellon University Indian Institute of Science

16.1    Introduction

16.2    Automation Systems

System CharacteristicsOperational ProblemsBenefits of Data Fusion

16.3    Data Fusion Foundations

Representing System StructureRepresenting System Behavior

16.4    Security Management for Discrete Automation

Goal-Seeking FormulationApplying Data Fusion

16.5    Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

16.1    Introduction

Data fusion is a paradigm for integrating data from multiple sources to synthesize new information such that the whole is greater than the sum of its ...

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