Towards the Rational Development and Evaluation of Complex Fusion Systems: A URREF-Driven Approach
G. Pavlinll, Anne-Laure Jousselme, J. P. de Villiers, Paulo Costa, Patrick de Oude · 2018
The choices of the uncertainty representations and reasoning methods have a critical impact on the development and deployment of modern fusion solutions. They influence the development effort, the quality of the resulting solutions as well as the deployment costs. However, such choices require an analysis that considers many operational and theoretical aspects. The Uncertainty Representation and Reasoning Evaluation Framework (URREF) concepts enable such an analysis. The proposed URREF -driven development approach establishes relations between the URREF criteria and evaluation subjects in the context of a development and deployment life cycle. In this way the relevant theoretical elements of the fusion techniques employed are emphasized and evaluated at various stages of the development process, facilitating informed design choices as well as systematic and tractable evaluation of complex fusion solutions. The concepts are illustrated through the assessment of a high-level fusion approach supporting estimation of the whereabouts of wildlife poachers.