[agents] CFP: Special Session on Trust in Fused Information at FUSION conference

[murat sensoy]

Special Session on Trust in Fused Information at 16th International Conference on Information Fusion, July 9-12, 2013 Istanbul/TURKEY

The volumes of information streamed and collected from disparate sensor, data and information sources have increased dramatically in recent years. Fusing such multimodal information have increased the decision maker's ability to make informed decision in rapidly changing complex environments which would not have been possible if the information were taken individually. While such approaches have drawn a considerable attention from the community, the trustworthiness of the fused information stands as a critical issue yet to be addressed.

To estimate trust in the information, one may reason about the diverse information sources and consistency of the provided information with respect to domain constraints. These sources can be soft (e.g., humans, organisations) and hard (e.g., wireless sensors) or structured (e.g., databases) and unstructured (e.g., open-source data on the internet). Their sensing capabilities may vary based on the context. To avoid revealing sensitive information, some of them may obfuscate information before sharing while others may maliciously disseminate misleading information.
This special session will focus on how different strains of knowledge can be processed, analysed, and combined to model trust in information and how such models can be exploited to improve the trustworthiness of the fused information. The purpose of this special session is to highlight different aspects of information fusion and trust research from coalition's (or decision maker's) perspectives and to discuss about the interesting topics in trust and information fusion in the wider context.

The topics of interest include but not limited to the following:

•	Data-to-Decision frameworks
•	Modelling trust in information and sources
•	Stream reasoning and trust
•	Detecting and reasoning about conflicts in information
•	Trust-based fusion in Dempster-Shafer Theory, Transferable Belief Model, Subjective Logic, etc.

If you want to submit a paper to this special session, please contact murat.sensoy at ozyegin.edu.tr before March 1, 2013.

The papers should be submitted through the conference paper submission system at the conference web site http://www.fusion2013.org before March 1, 2013. While submitting your paper, please indicate that the paper is for this session. A menu will appear on the paper submission site listing all special sessions.

Session Organizers are
Murat Sensoy, Department of Computer Science, Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey
Tien Pham, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, USA
Geeth de Mel, IBM T. J Watson, USA