Empirical study on combining complementary and contradictory information in a fuzzy-based system

In today's military environment large quantities of distinct information are available. In a time-constrained environment it is vital to have some way to judge the relative importance of information. Recent research has developed a fuzzy-based system to assign a Value of Information (VoI) determination for individual pieces of information. Subsequent work presented ideas for integrating complementary and/or contradictory information into the VoI process. This paper presents the results from experiments examining the idea of using complementary and/or contradictory new information to impact the previously used fuzzy membership values for the information content characteristic applied in the VoI calculations.