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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 294578, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/294578
Research Article
A Minimax Unbiased Estimation Fusion in Distributed Multisensor Localization and Tracking
1College of Computer Science and Technology, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
2College of Mathematics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, China
Received 30 August 2012; Accepted 26 October 2012
Academic Editor: Long Cheng
Copyright © 2012 Xiaomei Qu and Jie Zhou. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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