Context-Aware Knowledge Fusion for Decision Support

The purpose of this chapter is to investigate knowledge fusion processes with reference to context-aware decision support. Various knowledge fusion processes and their possible outcomes are analyzed. A context-aware decision support system for emergency management serves as a possible application in which knowledge fusion processes go on. This system provides fused outputs from different knowledge sources. It relies upon context model, which is the key to fuse information/knowledge and to generate useful decisions. The discussion is complemented by examples from a fire response scenario.

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