Master practitioner Das explains cutting-edge diffusion techniques that help professionals develop powerful situation assessment skills, providing them the tools they need to design high level fusion services, select algorithms and software, simulate performance, and evaluate systems. He assesses object and situation fusion processes that handle uncertainties as well as emerging technologies such as particle filtering, spatiotemporal clustering, net-centricity, agent formalism, and distributed fusion. He also explains models, architecture, and data through target tracking, target classification and aggregation, model base situation assessment, modeling time for situation assessment, nonlinear and hybrid models, decision support, linear effusion models, cognitive agents for data fusion, and distributed fusion. Das provides all the necessary algorithms and mathematical preliminaries. This is also suitable as a classroom text or supplemental. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less