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We study the method of multi-source fusion in incomplete multi-source systems. This paper presents a method for fusing incomplete multi-source systems based on information entropy; in particular, by comparison with another method, our fusion method is validated. Furthermore, extensive experiments are conducted on six UCI data sets to verify the performance of the proposed method. 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