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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JDS</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Data Science</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">1680-743X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1680-743X</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>SOSRUC</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">130307</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.6339/JDS.201504_13(2).0007</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Efficacy of Data Fusion Using Convolved Multi-Output Gaussian Processes</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Vasudevan</surname>
            <given-names>Shrihari</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_000"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_000">Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Melkumyan</surname>
            <given-names>Arman</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_001">Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Scheding</surname>
            <given-names>Steven</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_002"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_002">Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>13</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>341</fpage>
      <lpage>368</lpage>
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        <p>Abstract: This paper evaluates the efficacy of a machine learning approach to data fusion using convolved multi-output Gaussian processes in the context of geological resource modeling. It empirically demonstrates that information integration across multiple information sources leads to superior estimates of all the quantities being modeled, compared to modeling them individually. Convolved multi-output Gaussian processes provide a powerful approach for simultaneous modeling of multiple quantities of interest while taking correlations between these quantities into consideration. Experiments are performed on large scale data taken from a mining context.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Gaussian process</kwd>
        <kwd>Machine learning</kwd>
        <kwd>Data fusion</kwd>
        <kwd>Geological resource modeling</kwd>
        <kwd>Mining</kwd>
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