Syllabus

The fundamentals:

1. Introduction to problem of merging of information

2. A historical review of the logical approach to merging

3. Logical representation of the information fusion

4. Rationality Postulates

5. Representation Theorem

Constructions:

1. Distance based operators

2. Formula-based operators

3. DA2 operators

4. Disjunctive operators

Relations with other operators:

1. Merging operators and revision operators

2. Merging operators and update operators

3. Merging operators and confluence operators

Complex representations and links with Social Choice Theory:

1. Merging complex epistemic states

2. Modular representations theorems

3. Merging operators and impossibility

4. Merging operators and strategy-proofness