Energy minimization for data merging and fusion

Details Energy minimization for data merging and fusion Energy minimization for data merging and fusion

2005-11-22

2005-11-22

Amsbury, Wayne (Department: 2171)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

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ABSTRACT:
A data merging/fusion comprises using a preprocessing step, an energy minimization step, and a postprocessing step to merge or fuse data. In a particular embodiment, ordinal data are processed by mapping the ordinal data to a lower triangular matrix of ordinal data, processing the matrix using non-metric individual differences multidimensional scaling and subsequently processing the result.

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