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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-016-01-0037</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">29571</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>I.2.9 - Robotics</subject>
          <subject>I.6.1 - Simulation Theory</subject>
        </subj-group>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Track-To-Track Measurement Fusion Architectures and Correlation Analysis</article-title>
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      <contrib-group content-type="authors">
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Oussalah</surname>
            <given-names>Mourad</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">m.oussalah@bham.ac.uk</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Messaoudi</surname>
            <given-names>Zahir</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Ouldali</surname>
            <given-names>Abdelaziz</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom</addr-line>
        <institution>University of Birmingham</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Birmingham</addr-line>
        <country>United Kingdom</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Military Polytechnic School, Algiers, Algeria</addr-line>
        <institution>Military Polytechnic School</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Algiers</addr-line>
        <country>Algeria</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Mourad Oussalah (<email xlink:type="simple">m.oussalah@bham.ac.uk</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2010</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2010</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>16</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>37</fpage>
      <lpage>61</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/28771628-0456-58A8-B6FE-73B973E78790">28771628-0456-58A8-B6FE-73B973E78790</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/7001039">7001039</uri>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Mourad Oussalah, Zahir Messaoudi, Abdelaziz Ouldali</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>The purpose of this paper is to address some theoretical issues related to the track-to-track fusion problem when the measurements tracking the same target are inherently correlated by the common process noise of the underlying target. This problem has been intensively investigated using standard Kalman filter with some appealing theoretical results, however such results are no longer valid in case of suboptimality due to either the presence of strong nonlinearity or to the discrete uncertainty pervading the origin of the measurement. This paper reviews several architectures of parallelized blocks of Kalman filters, including the augmented stacked measurement, sequential and data compression architectures. Next, convex combination architecture will be investigated and some theoretical results concerning its extension as well as in case of presence of correlation are investigated. Two special cases of correlation are highlighted. This concerns the case of presence of only two correlated tracks among all tracks and the case of weak correlation. In both cases some original theoretical results are put forward. Finally, links with related fusion architectures is investigated.</p>
      </abstract>
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