Hall / Chong / Llinas Distributed Data Fusion for Network-Centric Operations

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4398-6033-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 498 Seiten

With the recent proliferation of service-oriented architectures (SOA), cloud computing technologies, and distributed-interconnected systems, distributed fusion is taking on a larger role in a variety of applications—from environmental monitoring and crisis management to intelligent buildings and defense. Drawing on the work of leading experts around the world, Distributed Data Fusion for Network-Centric Operations examines the state of the art of data fusion in a distributed sensing, communications, and computing environment.
Get Insight into Designing and Implementing Data Fusion in a Distributed Network
Addressing the entirety of information fusion, the contributors cover everything from signal and image processing, through estimation, to situation awareness. In particular, the work offers a timely look at the issues and solutions involving fusion within a distributed network enterprise. These include critical design problems, such as how to maintain a pedigree of agents or nodes that receive information, provide their contribution to the dataset, and pass to other network components. The book also tackles dynamic data sharing within a network-centric enterprise, distributed fusion effects on state estimation, graph-theoretic methods to optimize fusion performance, human engineering factors, and computer ontologies for higher levels of situation assessment.
A comprehensive introduction to this emerging field and its challenges, the book explores how data fusion can be used within grid, distributed, and cloud computing architectures. Bringing together both theoretical and applied research perspectives, this is a valuable reference for fusion researchers and practitioners. It offers guidance and insight for those working on the complex issues of designing and implementing distributed, decentralized information fusion.

Zielgruppe

Government, industry, and academic researchers, system developers, and engineers working in data fusion cloud computing, signal processing, robotics and control, computer science and computer engineering, information theory, sensors, instrumentation and measurement, information fusion, aerospace engineering, and electronics; advanced undergraduate or graduate students studying distributed data fusion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, David

Chong, Chee-Yee

Llinas, James

Liggins II, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung Cloud-Computing, Grid-Computing
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Verteilte Datenbanken

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Perspectives on Distributed Data Fusion
David L. Hall

Distributed Data Fusion: Overarching Design Concerns and Some New Approaches
David Nicholson, Steven Reece, Alex Rogers, Stephen Roberts, and Nick Jennings

Network-Centric Concepts: Impacts to Distributed Fusion System Design
James Llinas

Distributed Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
Pramod K. Varshney, Engin Masazade, Priyadip Ray, and Ruixin Niu

Fundamentals of Distributed Estimation
Chee-Yee Chong, Kuo-Chu Chang, and Shozo Mori

Essence of Distributed Target Tracking: Track Fusion and Track Association
Shozo Mori, Kuo-Chu Chang, and Chee-Yee Chong

Decentralized Data Fusion: Formulation and Algorithms
Paul Thompson, Eric Nettleton, and Hugh Durrant-Whyte

Toward a Theoretical Foundation for Distributed Fusion
Ronald Mahler

Object Classification in a Distributed Environment
James Llinas and Chee-Yee Chong

A Framework for Distributed High-Level Fusion
Subrata Das

Threat Analysis in Distributed Environments
Hengameh Irandoust, Abder Benaskeur, Jean Roy, and Froduald Kabanza

Ontological Structures for Higher Levels of Distributed Fusion
Mieczyslaw M. Kokar, Brian E. Ulicny, and Jakub J. Moskal

Service-Oriented Architecture for Human-Centric Information Fusion
Jeff Rimland

Nonmyopic Sensor Management
Viswanath Avasarala and Tracy Mullen

Test and Evaluation of Distributed Data and Information Fusion Systems and Processes
James Llinas, Christopher Bowman, and Kedar Sambhoos

Human Engineering Factors in Distributed and Net-Centric Fusion Systems
Ann Bisantz, Michael Jenkins, and Jonathan Pfautz

Distributed Data and Information Fusion in Visual Sensor Networks
Federico Castanedo, Juan Gomez-Romero, Miguel A. Patricio, Jesus Garcia, and Jose M. Molina

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. David L. Hall is the dean for The Pennsylvania State University College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST). He also serves as a professor of IST and director of the Center for Network Centric Cognition and Information Fusion (NC2IF). Dr. Hall has industrial experience and has lectured internationally on the topics of multisensor data fusion, artificial intelligence, and research management and technology forecasting.
Dr. Chee-Yee Chong is a chief scientist at BAE Systems Technology Solutions. He has been involved in distributed fusion research for over 25 years, starting with the Distributed Sensor Networks (DSN) program for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the 1980s. Dr. Chong’s research interests include centralized and distributed estimation, target tracking, information fusion, optimization and resource management, and application to real-world problems.
Dr. James Llinas is a professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He created the Center for Multisource Information Fusion (CMIF) at the University at Buffalo, the only university research center conducting information fusion research in a systemic context, and is currently director emeritus of the Center. An expert on data fusion, he has lectured internationally on the subject for over 20 years, co-authored the first integrated text on information fusion, and has consulted extensively and internationally for many years.
Martin E. Liggins II is an engineer with The MITRE Corporation. He has more than 20 years of research and development experience in industry and with the U.S. Department of Defense. He has performed fusion research in a number of areas, including sensor and data fusion, multisensor and multitarget tracking, radar, high-performance computing, and program management.