An Approach for Level 2/3 Fusion Technology Development in Urban/Asymmetric Scenarios

Author

Nagi, Rakesh ; Sudit, Moises ; Llinas, James

Author_Institution

Dept. of ISE, Buffalo Univ., NY

fYear

2006

fDate

10-13 July 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Asymmetric/urban warfare, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and dirty bombs are dominating over conventional warfare, and there is an urgent need to deal with them systematically. Effective strategies of thwarting terrorism continue to be the top priority for international communities. This paper presents a research approach for situation awareness and threat/impact assessment strategies for a genre of UW problems. The approach is based on a formal domain ontology and a scenario authoring and simulation environment. A class of hybrid deductive (model-based) and inductive reasoning approaches are applied to the scenario simulation and performance evaluation studies are conducted. Such an approach can be used for training purposes as well as fusion technology development. An example will be presented

Keywords

authoring systems; formal logic; military communication; military computing; model-based reasoning; ontologies (artificial intelligence); sensor fusion; terrorism; IEDs; asymmetric-urban warfare; authoring environment; formal domain ontology; hybrid deductive approach; improvised explosive devices; inductive reasoning approach; level 2/3 fusion technology; threat-impact assessment strategies; thwarting terrorism; Aggregates; Explosives; Guidelines; Intelligent sensors; Intelligent systems; Ontologies; Sensor fusion; System testing; Terrorism; Weapons; Level 2/3 fusion; hybrid deductive-inductive approaches; scenario authoring and simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Fusion, 2006 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Florence

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0953-5

Electronic_ISBN

0-9721844-6-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIF.2006.301662

Filename

4085948