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The sixth International Conference on Information Fusion

FUSION 2003  -   8-11 July 2003
Radisson Hotel, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
http://www.fusion2003.org

Call for Papers for a special session on

Applications of Plausible, Paradoxical, and Neutrosophical Reasoning 
for Information Fusion

Chair : Dr. Jean Dezert =09=09=09Co-Chair : Prof. Florentin Smarandache 
ONERA =09=09=09=09=09Department of Mathematics
29 Avenue de la Division Leclerc=09=09University of New Mexico
92320 Ch?tillon, France=09=09=09Gallup, NM 87301, USA
Email: Jean.Dezert@onera.fr=09=09=09Email: smarand@unm.edu 
 

Session description 

The processing of uncertain information has always been a hot topic of
research since the 18th century and deep theoretical advances have been
obtained for the theory of probability theory and statistics.  During the
second half of the 20th century, several new and interesting mathematical
theories have emerged in parallel with the development of computer science
and technology in order to combine many types of information (fuzzy,
uncertain, imprecise, etc.) provided by different sources (human
expertise, sensor measurements, AI expert systems, neural network, quantum
theory, economics predictions).  The problem of combination of such
diverse information is very difficult and is great challenge for all
researchers working in this field.  The information fusion is very
important in many fields of applications and particularly in all modern
defense systems.  Up to now, the principal theories available for data
fusion are the axiomatic probability theory (Kolmogorov 1933), the fuzzy
set theory (Zadeh 1965), the possibility theory (Dubois and Prade 1985)
and the theory of evidence developed by G. Shafer in 1976.

Only recently, in 1995, Dr. Smarandache has introduced in philosophy the
notion of 'neutrosophy', as a generalization of Hegel's dialectic, which
is the basement of his researches in mathematics and economics, such as
'neutrosophic logic', 'neutrosophic set', 'neutrosophic probability', and
'neutrosophic statistics' (1995-2002).  Neutrosophy is a new branch of
philosophy that studies the origin, nature, and scope of neutralities, as
well as their interactions with different ideational spectra.  
Neutrosophic Logic is a logic in which each proposition is estimated to
have the percentage of truth in a subset T, the percentage of
indeterminacy in a subset I, and the percentage of falsity in a subset F,
where T, I, F are standard or non-standard intervals included in ]-0, 1+[. 
 
There is no boundary restriction on sup(T)+sup(I)+sup(F), neither on
inf(T)+inf(I)+inf(F), which leave room for the fusion of incomplete and
respectively paraconsistent information too.  Dr. Smarandache also defined
the neutrosophic logic connectors.  Neutrosophic Logic is a generalization
of the fuzzy logic (especially of IFL), intuitionistic logic (which
supports incomplete theories), paraconsistent logic (which deals with
paraconsistent information), dialetheism (which says that some
contradictions are true), faillibilism (which asserts that
uncertainty/indeterminacy belongs to every proposition), etc. and tries to
unify all existing logics in a common mathematical framework.  In
neutrosophic logic it is possible to characterize contradictions,
antitheses, antinomies, paradoxes (while in the fuzzy logic it was not),
and to distinguish between relative, and respectively, absolute truth.
Similarly, Dr. Smarandache proposed an extension of the classical
probability and the imprecise probability to the 'neutrosophic
probability', that he defined as a tridimensional vector whose components
are subsets of the non-standard interval ]-0, 1+[. Also, he generalized
the fuzzy set to the 'neutrosophic set' (and its derivatives:
'intuitionistic set' , t set', 'tautological set') and defined the
neutrosophic set operators.

In parallel, Dr. Jean Dezert has developed a new theory for plausible and
paradoxical reasoning that can be interpreted as a generalization of the
Dempster-Shafer Theory. The neutrosophical information processing can be
regarded as a prelude to the plausible and paradoxical inference developed
in the DSmT, acronym for Dezert-Smarandache Theory - as called by
researchers.  It has been recently proved that the DSmT is able to
correctly solve many problems where the classical Dempster-Shafer theory
fails.  The main idea of the DSmT is basically not to accept the third
exclude principle and to deal directly in the formalism with the possible
paradoxical, inconsistent (and even incomplete or redundant) nature of the
information.  Doing this, the DSmT allows us to get easily results without
approximations or requirement of heuristics for combining any sources of
information (even for those appearing as in full contradiction).  Details
about neutrosophic logic and DSmT can be found in following free e-books
available at:

http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/NeutrosophicProceedings.pdf 
http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBook-Neutrosophics2.pdf   
http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/IntroNeutlogic.pdf

Potential authors can also ask organizers for additional references.

The goal of this session is to present and discuss theoretical advances in
neutrosophic logic and DSmT, together with applications in information
fusion.  The session will focus on fundamental aspects of processing of
uncertain and paradoxical information, architecture of intelligent hybrid
systems, and applications of DSmT to solution of military as well as
non-military problems.  Authors are encouraged to submit their questions
and contributions for this session (LaTeX, ps, pdf, or MS Word files)
directly to organizers through email at Jean.Dezert@onera.fr and
smarand@unm.edu.

Deadline for submission: January 15th, 2003

Brief biographies of organizers

Jean Dezert was born in l'Hay les Roses, France, in 1962.  He received the
electrical engineering degree from the Ecole Fran?aise de Radio?lectric
it?
Electronique and Informatique (EFREI), Paris, in 1985, the D.E.A. degree
in 1986 from the University Paris VII (Jussieu), and his Ph. D. from the
University Paris XI, Orsay, in 1990, all in Automatic Control and Signal
Processing.  During 1986-1990 he was with the Systems Department at the
French Aeronautics and Space Research Center (ONERA), Ch?tillon, France,
and did research in tracking.  During1991-1992, he visited the Department
of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs,
as an European Space Agency (ESA) Postdoctoral Research Fellow.  During
1992-1993 he was a teaching assistant in Electrical Engineering at the
University of Orl?ans, France.  Since 1993, he is senior staff research
engineer in the Image Estimation and Decision (IED) Research Lab with the
Modeling and Information Processing Department (DTIM) at ONERA.  His
current research interests include autonomous navigation, estimation
theory, stochastic systems theory and its applications to
multisensor-multitarget tracking (MS-MTT), information fusion and
plausible reasoning.  Dr. J. Dezert has one international patent in the
autonomous navigation field and has published several papers in
international conferences and journals.  He coauthored one chapter of
Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Applications and Advances, Vol.2 (Y.
Bar-Shalom Editor).  He is a member of IEEE and of Eta Kappa Nu, reviewer
for International Journals, teaches a MS-MTT course at the French ENSTA
Engineering School, collaborates for the development of the International
Society of Information Fusion (ISIF), and has served as Local Arrangements
Chair for the Third International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION
2000, July 10-13, in Paris, and has been involved in the Program Committee
of Fusion 2001 and Fusion 2002 International Conferences.  Since 2001, he
is a member of the board of the Intern a erves as secretary for ISIF.  He
also participates in the development of the ISIF JAIF (international
electronic Journal of Advances in Information Fusion).

Florentin Smarandache was born in Balcesti, Romania, in 1954.  He got a M.
Sc. Degree in both Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of
Craiova in 1979, received a Ph. D. in Mathematics from the State
University of Kishinev in 1997, and continued postdoctoral studies at
various American Universities (New Mexico State University in Las Cruces,
Los Alamos National Laboratory) after emigration.  In 1988 he escaped from
his country, pasted two years in a political refugee camp in Turkey, and
in 1990 emigrated to USA.  In 1996 he became an American citizen.  Dr.
Smarandache worked as a professor of mathematics for many years in
Romania, Morocco, and United States, and between 1990-1995 as a software
engineer for Honeywell, Inc., in Phoenix, Arizona.  In present, he teaches
mathematics at the University of New Mexico, Gallup Campus.  Very
prolific, he is the author, co-author, and editor of 57 books, over 70
scientific notes and articles, and contributed to about 50 scientific and
100 literary journals from around the world (in mathematics, informatics,
physics, philosophy, rebus, literature, and arts).  He wrote in Romanian,
French, and English.  Some of his work was translated into Spanish,
German, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Esperanto. He was so attracted by
contradictions that, in 1980s, he set up the ?Paradoxism? avant-garde
movement in literature, philosophy, art, even science, which made many
advocates in the world, and it?s based on excessive use of antitheses,
antinomies, paradoxes in creation - making an interesting connection
between mathematics, philosophy, and literature
[http://www.geocities.com/charlestle/paradoxism.html] and led him to
coining the neutrosophic logic, a logic able to deal with paradoxes. In
mathematics there are several entries named Smarandache Functions,
Sequences, Constants, and especially Paradoxes in international journals
and encyclopedias. He organized the 'First International Conference on
Neutrosophics' at the University of New Mexico, 1-3 December 2001
[http://w w tm].Small contributions he had in physics and psychology
too.Much of his work is held in "The Florentin Smarandache Papers" Special
Collections at the Arizona State University, Tempe, and Texas State
University, Austin (USA), also in the National Archives (Rm. V?lcea) and
Romanian Literary Museum (Bucharest), and in the Mus?e de Bergerac
(France).