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SWIFT 2008

Proceedings of the second Skövde Workshop on Information Fusion Topics

Editors Henrik Boström, Ronnie Johansson and Joeri van Laere
Skövde Studies in Informatics 2008:1
ISBN (on-line edition) 978-91-633-3697-3
ISSN 1653-2325

Organizing Committee

  • Sten F. Andler (general chair)
  • Henrik Boström (program chair)
  • Ronnie Johansson (program co-chair)
  • Joeri van Laere (program co-chair)
  • Pernilla Klingspor (local arrangement)
  • Anne-Louise Elowson (local arrangement)
  • Marcus Brohede (financial chair)
  • Anita Andler (sponsor liaison)

Tuesday, November 4th

Afternoon session: Future directions and applications

p. 1 Keynote: "Research issues in 'soft and hard' data and information fusion", Dr. James Llinas (University of Buffalo and Center for multisource information fusion, USA)
p. 2-4 "Social network analysis of uncertain networks", Pontus Svenson (Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI)

p. 5-8 "Reflections on fusion systems requirements analysis for maintenance planning", Joeri van Laere, Maria Nilsson, Sandor Ujvari and Per Hilletofth (University of Skövde)
p. 9-12 "Object oriented environment model for autonomous systems", Ioana Gheta, Michael Heizmann and Jürgen Beyerer (Universität Karlsruhe and Fraunhofer-Institut, Germany)
p. 13-16 "Using semantic technology in intelligence analysis", Christian Mårtenson and Andreas Horndahl (Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI)
p. 17-20 "Information retrieval combined with extraction to assist decision making", Elzbieta Dura and Björn Olsson (Lexware Labs and University of Skövde)

Wednesday, November 5th

Morning session: Performance evaluation, situation awareness and human decision-making

p. 21 Keynote: Trends in fusion performance evaluation by the interactive user", Dr. Erik Blasch (US Air Force Research Laboratory and Wright State University, USA)
p. 22-24 "A survivability-based testbed for comparing threat evaluation algorithms", Fredrik Johansson and Göran Falkman (University of Skövde)
p. 25-28 "Task-based analysis of an online map service with different display types", Timothy D. Dixon, Stavri G. Nikolov, Martin Groen and Jan Noyes (University of Bristol and Attentive Displays Ltd.)
p. 29-33

"Extending local contextual reasoning to multicamera environments", Ana M. Sánchez, Miguel A. Patricio, Jesús Garcí­a, and José M. Molina (Universidad Carlos III, Spain)

p. 34-38 "Formalising distributed cognition into a tool to capture information fusion processes", Maria Nilsson, Tarja Susi, Joeri van Laere and  Tom Ziemke (University of Skövde)

Afternoon session: Decision and classifier Fusion

p. 39 Keynote: "Classifier ensembles for handling concept change in streaming data", Dr. Ludmila Kuncheva (University of Wales, UK)
p. 40-43 "Information fusion based moving person detection", Jiagen Jin and Wenfeng Li (Wuhan University of Technology, China)
p. 44-47 "Using optimized optimization criteria in ensemble member selection", Tuve Löfström, Ulf Johansson and Henrik Boström (University of Borås and University of Skövde, Sweden)
p. 48-50 "Analyzing strategies for predicting probabilities with fused classifiers by decomposing the mean squared error of constituent classifiers", Henrik Boström (University of Skövde)
p. 51-56 "Extension of Inagaki general weighted operators and a new fusion rule class of proportional redistribution of intersection masses", Florentin Smarandache (University of New Mexico, USA)
p. 57-61 "Practical application of ranking based fusion methods on a soccer pool", Joeri van Laere, Henrik Boström, Ronnie Johansson and Alexander Karlsson (University of Skövde)

Thursday, November 6th

Morning session: Infrastructure and tools

p. 62 Keynote: "Fusion challenges in scalable sensor networks", Dr. David Lindgren (Swedish Defense Research Agency)
p. 63-66 "Exploring a multi-tiered whiteboard infrastructure for information fusion in wireless sensor networks", Gunnar Mathiason, Sten F. Andler and Woochul Kang (University of Skövde and University of Virginia, USA)
p. 67-70 "Adaptive application and resource management", Jonas Mellin and Ronnie Johansson (University of Skövde)
p. 71-73 "Information fusion for WSID", Li Wenfeng, Li Bin and Chen Weike (Wuhan University of Technology, China)
p. 74-76 "An overview of the Impactorium tools 2008", Robert Forsgren, Lisa Kaati, Christian MÃ¥rtenson, Pontus Svenson and Edward Tjärnhammar (Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI)
p. 77-80 "A vision of a toolbox for intelligence production", Joel Brynielsson, Andreas Horndahl, Lisa Kaati, Christian Mårtenson  and Pontus Svenson (Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI)

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