Inference Degradation in Information Fusion: A Bayesian Network Case

Data and information becomes very rich if not overwhelming in many modern applications, such as real-time driving assistance systems that integrate information from the sensors installed at different locations of a vehicle, or military C3I systems that make critical decisions based on efficient command and intelligence processing in complex battlefield. The 911 tragedy asks for essential security applications such as event surveillance and detection, intelligence monitoring and analysis, intrusion and deception detection, as well as their implementations in terrorism tracking, analysis, and response. aBStraCt