Title :
Identity uncertainty
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Div., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
We are often uncertain about the identity of objects. This phenomenon appears in theories of object persistence in early childhood; in the well-known Morning Star/Evening Star example; in tracking and data association systems for radar; in security systems based on personal identification; and in many aspects of our everyday lives. The paper presents a formal probabilistic approach to reasoning about identity under uncertainty in the framework of first-order logics of probability, with application to wide-area freeway traffic monitoring
Keywords :
formal logic; inference mechanisms; probability; traffic engineering computing; uncertainty handling; first-order logics; formal probabilistic approach; identity uncertainty; object identity; object persistence; probability; reasoning; uncertainty; wide-area freeway traffic monitoring; Computer science; Data security; Formal languages; Humans; Intelligent agent; Logic; Object recognition; Radar theory; Radar tracking; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
IFSA World Congress and 20th NAFIPS International Conference, 2001. Joint 9th
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7078-3
DOI :
10.1109/NAFIPS.2001.944751
