Issues in Adaptive and Automatic Information Fusion Resource Management

This panel position paper addresses issues and challenges of resource management (facilitating adaptive and automatic information fusion) and identifies the necessary interaction with levels 2 and 3 components of "information fusion". Starting with the definitions of fusion levels, implicit and explicit interactions among the levels are examined from several perspectives: identifying commensurate measures to model interactions; selection of objective functions at each level or globally; representation of optimum decision making under uncertainty; effects of local optimization at each fusion level vs. joint optimization; representation of interactions among fusion levels by the perceptual reasoning machine paradigm-based adaptive anticipatory planning and control model; and identifying research directions