On ontologies for high-level information fusion

Abstract

It is now commonly accepted that on- tologies will facilitate the information fusion activity. However, it is not clear what should be the exact form of this facilitation process. It is relatively well under- stood what information fusion is; the question of what ontologies are has also been extensively mplored. How- ever, it is not clear what ontology-based information fusion is. This paper indicates crucial aspects of on- tologies, and attempts to provide some links between ontologies and infomation fusion.