Human-Centered Information Fusion

Hall and Jordan (information sciences and technology and supply chain and information systems, Pennsylvania State U.) explore human-centered trends in information fusion that are valuable to military applications, analysis of health hazards and cyberattacks, and identifying and characterizing human networks, including physical communications and virtual relationships, such as the locations, identity, and interactions of individuals and groups, and two new sources of information: human observations and web-based information. They examine traditional sensing resources, dynamic communities of human observers, and resources such as archived sensor data, blogs, reports, and dynamic reports from citizen reporters online; calibration issues; the new role of the analyst; and the concept of ad hoc distributed collaboration on analysis and problem solving through virtual world technologies. They also consider hybrid computing, the use of advanced visualization for pattern recognition, the use of sound for understanding data, the concept of intelligent preparation of the battlefield and its adaptation, and information markets. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)