An Ontology Fusion Plus DSmT - that is the Fusion of the Fusion Approaches in C&C systems

The purpose of this paper is to present experiences related to a combination of two contrary approaches to information fusion: the first typically deterministic ontology fusion and the second based on the theory of evidence by Dezert and Smarandache (DSmT). It is the expectation of the authors that the appropriate synergy of these two approaches may bring satisfactory results when fusing diverse types of information originated from miscellaneous sensors. For this reason a concept of the combination of these two approaches has been presented and a comparison of hard-decision fusion, DSmT fusion and a combination of DSmT and ontology fusion algorithms has been established. Some numerical experiments had been made and their results have been delivered in this paper