Standard techniques for data fusion are quantitative in character. Numerical methods, however, are not always suitable for data that are not numerical but rather qualitative and/or relational in character. In Russia Professor Victor K. Finn has developed an approach to data fusion in qualitative contexts that he calls "the JSM Method of Hypothesis Generation". This report is a brief survey of Finn's approach. 2000 Int. Soc. Inf. Fusion.
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Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Fusion
