Information Theories Based on Belief Functions for Decision-Making Support

Dear Colleagues,

The field of information fusion has been developed and explored very much in the last two decades due to its multiple practical applications in target tracking, situation analysis, drones, target identification, etc.
We invite you to submit state-of-the-art papers on information fusion theories and their applications.

Scope:

Information fusion is involved in almost all modern information systems dealing with multiple sources, as well as at low level fusion (sensors level) or at high level (human level), or both. Its requirement is primordial for reliability and security improvement purposes, and that is why it has been developed and explored intensively in the last two decades. Its practical applications are multiple, e.g., for situation analysis, target tracking and identification, biometrics, network surveillance, medicine, remote sensing, robot perception, etc. This Special Issue is devoted to information theories (typically Dempster–Shafer theory, Dezert–Smarandache theory, transferable belief model, etc.) dealing with uncertainty thanks to the belief functions representation for information fusion, information/uncertainty characterization (e.g., entropy-alike measures) and for decision-making support. You are welcome to submit your state-of-the-art papers and original research papers related to these Special Issue topics. 

Prof. Florentin Smarandache
Dr. Jean Dezert
Guest Editors

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