Data fusion

Data fusion, is generally defined as the use of techniques that combine data from multiple sources and gather that information in order to achieve inferences, which will be more efficient than if they were achieved by means of a single source.

Application areas

 * Business intelligence
 * Business performance management
 * Discovery science
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 * Cheminformatics
 * Quantitative structure-activity relationship
 * Bioinformatics
 * Intelligence services

Books

 * David L. Hall, Sonya A. H. McMullen, Mathematical Techniques in Multisensor Data Fusion (2004), ISBN 1580533353 (Bookpool.com)
 * Springer, Information Fusion in Data Mining (2003), ISBN 3540006761 (Bookpool.com)