Welcome to the DSmT homepage

 

"One step beyond the classical approaches in data fusion...
dealing with Sorites paradoxes and unrefinable frame of discernment"

 

What is DSmT ?

The Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSmT) of plausible and paradoxical reasoning is a natural extension of the classical Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST) but includes fundamental differences with the DST. DSmT allows to formally combine any types of independent sources of information  represented in term of belief functions, but is mainly focused on the fusion of uncertain, highly conflicting  and imprecise quantitative or qualitative sources of evidence. DSmT  is able to solve complex, static or dynamic fusion problems beyond the limits of the DST framework, specially when conflicts between sources become large and when the refinement of the frame of the problem under consideration becomes inaccessible because of vague, relative and imprecise nature of elements of it. …

Download a short introduction to DSmT.

To know more on DSmT, download our recent published books : Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion (Collected works), edited by F. Smarandache, J. Dezert [Vol. I; Vol. II new, Erratum to the printed version].

 

Call For Papers for a Special Session on DSmT at Fusion 2008 International Conference on Information Fusion, Cologne, Germany, July 2008

 

Call for Contribution to Vol. 3 (Fall 2008)

A third volume on Advances and applications of DSmT for information fusion is planned for publication by Fall 2008.  Any contribution on applications and comparison of DSmT with other approaches is very welcome as well as theoretical investigations on DSmT. If you want to contribute to this third forthcoming volume, please directly contact the editors F. Smarandache and J. Dezert at smarand@unm.edu and jean.dezert@onera.fr.  Only 8 pages minimum (one column format) contribution will be considered. No limitation on the maximum numbers of pages. Inclusion of color figures is accepted for the final electronic version of the book. The book (paper version) however will be printed by publisher in B/W.  LaTeX format is preferred. Deadline: 30 June 2008. 

You can download the flyer for this Call for Contribution here.

 

List of publications related to DSmT

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Ph. D. Dissertations:

Papers from the special session: Applications and advances of plausible and paradoxical reasoning for data fusion, devoted on DSmT, published in the Proceedings of The 7th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2004, Clarion Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden, 28 June -1 July 2004.

2003

Papers from the special session: Plausible and Paradoxical reasoning for information fusion devoted on DSmT published in the Proceedings of The 6th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2003, Radisson Hotel, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 8-11 July 2003, http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/DSmT2003.htm.

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Seminars on DSmT

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Biographies of F. Smarandache and J. Dezert

Florentin Smarandache was born in Balcesti, Romania, in 1954.  He got a M. Sc. Degree in both Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Craiova in 1979, received a Ph. D. in Mathematics from the Moldova State University at Kishinev in 1997, and continued postdoctoral studies at various American Universities (New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, Los Alamos National Laboratory) after emigration.  In 1988 he escaped from his country, pasted two years in a political refugee camp in Turkey, and in 1990 emigrated to USA.  In 1996 he became an American citizen.  Dr. Smarandache worked as a professor of mathematics for many years in Romania, Morocco, and United States, and between 1990-1995 as a software engineer for Honeywell, Inc., in Phoenix, Arizona.  In present, he teaches mathematics at the University of New Mexico, Gallup Campus.  Very prolific, he is the author, co-author, and editor of over 75 books and 120 scientific articles, and contributed to about 50 scientific and 100 literary journals from around the world (in mathematics, computer science, physics, philosophy, rebus, literature, and arts).  He wrote in Romanian, French, and English.  Some of his work was translated into Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Arabic, Esperanto, Swedish, Farsi, Arabic, Chinese. He was so attracted by contradictions that, in 1980s, he set up the "Paradoxism" avant-garde movement in literature, philosophy, art, even science, which made many advocates in the world, and it’s based on excessive use of antitheses, antinomies, paradoxes in creation - making an interesting connection between mathematics, engineering, philosophy, and literature [http://www.geocities.com/charlestle/paradoxism.html] and led him to coining the neutrosophic logic, a logic generalizing the intuitionistic fuzzy logic that is able to deal with paradoxes. In mathematics there are several entries named Smarandache Functions, Sequences, Constants, and especially Paradoxes in international journals and encyclopedias. He organized the 'First International Conference on Neutrosophics' at the University of New Mexico, 1-3 December 2001 [http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/FirstNeutConf.htm]. Small contributions he had in physics and psychology too. Much of his work is held in "The Florentin Smarandache Papers" Special Collections at the Arizona State University, Tempe, and Texas State University, Austin (USA), also in the National Archives (Rm. Vâlcea) and Romanian Literary Museum (Bucharest), and in the Musée de Bergerac (France). In 2003, he organized with Dr. Jean Dezert, the first special session devoted to plausible and paradoxical reasoning for information fusion at the Fusion 2003 International conference on Information Fusion in Cairns, Australia.

Web info: http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/

E-mail:smarand@unm.edu, fsmarandache@yahoo.com

Jean Dezert was born in l'Hay les Roses, France, on August 25, 1962.  He received the electrical engineering degree from the École Française de Radioélectricité Électronique et Informatique (EFREI), Paris, in 1985, the D.E.A. degree in 1986 from the University Paris VII (Jussieu), and his Ph. D. from the University Paris XI, Orsay, in 1990, all in Automatic Control and Signal Processing.  During 1986-1990 he was with the Systems Department at the Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), Châtillon, France, and did research in tracking. During 1991-1992, he visited the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, U.S.A. as an European Space Agency (ESA) Postdoctoral Research Fellow. During 1992-1993 he was teaching assistant in Electrical Engineering at the University of Orléans, France.  Since 1993, he is senior research scientist in the Image Estimation and Decision (IED) Research Lab. with the Information and Modelling and Processing Department (DTIM) at ONERA. His current research interests include autonomous navigation, estimation theory, stochastic systems theory and its applications to multisensor-multitarget tracking (MS-MTT), information fusion and plausible reasoning.  Dr. Jean Dezert is developing since 2001 with Professor Smarandache a new theory of plausible and paradoxical reasoning for information fusion (DSmT) and has edited the first textbook (collected works) devoted to this new emerging research field published by American Research Press, Rehoboth in 2004. He owns one international patent in the autonomous navigation field and has published several papers in international conferences and journals.  He coauthored one chapter in Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Applications and Advances, Vol.2 (Y. Bar-Shalom Editor).  He is member of IEEE and of Eta Kappa Nu, serves as reviewer for different International Journals, teaches a MS-MTT course at the French ENSTA Engineering School, collaborates for the development of the International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF) since 1998, and has served as Local Arrangements Organizer for the Third International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2000, July 10-13, in Paris. He has been involved in the Technical Program Committees of Fusion 2001-2004 International Conferences.  Since 2001, he is a member of the board of the International Society of Information Fusion (http://www.isif.org) and served as secretary for ISIF since 2001. He serves as executive vice-president of ISIF in 2004. In 2003, he organized with Professor Smarandache, the first special session devoted to plausible and paradoxical reasoning for information fusion at the International Conference on Information Fusion, Fusion 2003, Cairns, Australia and also a panel discussion and a special session on DSmT at Fusion 2004, Stockholm in June 2004.

E-mail: jean.dezert@onera.fr, jdezert@gmail.com

Web info: http://www.bas.bg/clpp/mmosi/partners/jeandezert.html

 

Keywords:

Plausible and paradoxical reasoning, Data Fusion, Information fusion, Dezert-Smarandache Theory, DSmT, DSm hybrid rule, Rules of Combination, uncertainty, paradoxes, conflicts, Dempster-Shafer Theory, DST, Belief functions, hyper-powersets, free lattice, Dedekind's sequence, isotone boolean functions, neutrosophy, neutrosophic logic, neutrosophic set, artificial intelligence, expert systems.

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