In this paper one proposes a simple algorithm of combining the fusion rules, those rules which first use the conjunctive rule and then the transfer of conflicting mass to the non-empty sets, in such a way that they gain the property of associativity and fulfill the Markovian requirement for dynamic fusion. Also, a new fusion rule, SDL-improved, is presented.

A NewsFusion System is a logic-based system for merging heterogeneous structured news reports. Structured news reports are XML documents, where the text entries are restricted to individual words or simple phrases, such as names and domain-specific terminology, and numbers and units. We assume structured news reports do not require natural language processing. In previous papers [Hun00, Hun02b,...

We show that the fusion rule for a modular invariant Ertype conformal field theory, which is constructed from the one for the A,(l) Kac-Moody algebra by naive extension, is not associative. Then by imposing .further restrictions to this naive fusion rule, we obtain associative fusion rules for the E7-type conformal field theory. Unlike the case of an E6-type conformal field theory, these fusion...

In this paper, we present a fusion rule for distributed multihypothesis decision systems where communication patterns among sensors are given and the fusion center may also observe data. It is a specific form of the most general fusion rule, independent of statistical characteristics of observations and decision criteria, and thus, is called a unified fusion rule of the decision system. To achi...