ADAPTIVE DISTRIBUTED DETECTION WITH APPLICATIONS TO CELLULAR CDMA by Jian-Guo Chen Chair and Varshney have derived an optimal rule for fusing decisions based on the Bayesian criterion. To implement the rule, probabilities of detection PD and false alarm PF for each detector must be known, which is not readily available in practice. This dissertation presents an adaptive fusion model which estim...

ion and Refinement This chapter focuses on relationships between models known as abstraction and refinement. These terms are symmetric in that the statement “model A is an abstraction of model B” means the same thing as “model B is a refinement of model A.” As a general rule, the refinement model B has more detail than the abstraction A, and the abstraction is simpler, smaller, or easier to und...

In order to reach the goal of frictionless information sharing, firms form different types of business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces that facilitate transactions among trading partners along any supply chain. Forecasts of the amount of revenue that will be generated over these technology platforms reach billions of dollars. Our aim in this paper is to present a novel approach to look at the fo...

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