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Therefore, inspired by the maximum posterior criterion of target identification and the target identification confirmation mechanism, we study a sensor management method that preferentially allocates resources to identifiable targets. Firstly, in the distributed target identification framework based on Bayesian theory, an improved identification probability prediction method that provides feedback the global identification results to local classifiers is proposed, which can improve the accuracy of identification probability prediction. Secondly, an effective sensor management function based on information entropy and expected confidence level is proposed to optimize the identification uncertainty itself rather than its variation, which can increase the priority of targets that satisfy the desired confidence level. In the end, the sensor management for target identification is modeled as a sensor allocation problem, and the optimization objective function based on the effective function is constructed, which can improve the target identification speed. The experimental results show that the correct identification rate of the proposed method is comparable to the methods based on information gain, discrimination, discrimination gain, and quadratic entropy in different scenarios, but the average time to confirm the identification is the shortest.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23083959","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,14]],"date-time":"2023-04-14T02:03:38Z","timestamp":1681437818000},"page":"3959","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Sensor Management Method of Giving Priority to Confirmed Identified Targets"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8499-553X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chunshan","family":"Ding","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China"},{"name":"Jiangsu Automation Research Institute, Lianyungang 222006, China"}]},{"given":"Chunguo","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"2761","article-title":"Survey on the progress and prospect of sensor management","volume":"42","author":"Ding","year":"2020","journal-title":"Syst. 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