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Sensor data are often imprecise, resulting in low-quality inference results and wrong decisions. Correspondingly, single-context data are insufficient for making an accurate decision. In this paper, a novel compound context-aware scheme is proposed based on Bayesian inference to achieve accurate fusion and inference from the sensory data. In the proposed scheme, multi-sensor data are fused based on the relation and contexts of sensor data whether they are dependent or not on each other. 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