Despite their predominant application in robotics, the utility of methods for information fusion is not limited to sensor-based fusion tasks. The paper presents an information retrieval (IR) system for multimedia weather documents which makes use of linguistic fusion methods and a semantically rich retrieval model based on methods from fuzzy set theory. The computational problem of how to efficiently organize the query evaluation process is solved by object-based mediation and asynchronous parallel invocations both of the document evaluation and fusion methods.
I. Glöckner and A. Knoll
Query Evaluation and Information Fusion in a Retrieval System
for Multimedia Documents
In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information
Fusion (Fusion '99), Sunnyvale, CA, July 1999, pp. 529-536.