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