Survey on game-theoretic information fusion

This paper surveys the research of the information fusion approaches based on game theory. How to resolve the high level fusion problem in the conflict and cooperation environment of multiple sources information is a key problem in the current research of information fusion. Game theory is promising to successfully model conflict and cooperative interactions. So, the relatively new interdisciplinary study of information fusion based on game theory deserves further exploration. Based on the state-of-the-art of the game-theoretic information fusion study, this paper analyzes the two characters (interdisciplinary and high-level) and two study routes (direct route and indirect route via Artificial Intelligence). The most representative processing models, architectures and algorithms in this field are described. The military and several civilian applications and the validity of the game-theoretic information fusion approaches are summarized. Finally, the issues and challenges are summarized and the further research directions are discussed.