On reliability and trustworthiness of high-level fusion-based decision support systems: basic concepts and possible formal methodologies

The paper summarizes the result of a literature study of robust uncertainty management methodologies, carried out to indicate options available in the design and construction of trustworthy decision support systems based on high-level information fusion methods. Among the candidate methodologies briefly discussed for creating trustworthy decision support are robust Bayesian statistics, imprecise probabilities and sensitivity analysis of simulation models. However, few reports of the application of such techniques in information fusion software systems were found