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Deadlines
Abstracts/Statements Due: March 31, 2005 (extended from March 15, 2005)
Draft Papers Due: June 7, 2005 (extended from May 31, 2005)
Notifications Due: July 15, 2005 (extended from July 7, 2005)
Final Papers Due: August 15, 2005 (extended from August 5, 2005)
According to modern US defense doctrine, future wars will be
characterized by heightened mobility, increased operational tempo and
more complex and dynamic situations. As a result, military commanders
will require effective methods of situation monitoring, awareness and
control -- operations collectively identifiable as Situation Management.
Critical aspects of situation management include managing and
controlling sources of information, processing real-time or near
real-time streams of events, representing and integrating low-level
events and higher-level concepts, multi-source information fusion,
information presentation that maximizes human comprehension, reasoning
about what is happening and what is important. Furthermore, commanders
will require management support systems that include control over their
current command options, prediction of probable situation evolutions,
and analysis of potential threats and vulnerabilities. Similar
situation management tasks exist in several other domains including
network management, homeland security, emergency/crisis management and
real-time management of situations in financial, medical, and other
service-related domains.
As a rule, situations often involve a large number of dynamic objects
that change states in time and space, and engage each other into fairly
complex spatio-temporal relations. From the management viewpoint it is
important to understand the situations in which these objects
participate, to recognize emerging trends and potential threats, and to
undertake required actions. Understanding dynamic requires complex
cognitive modeling, the building of ontologies, and continuous
collection, filtering, and fusion of sensor, intelligence, database,
Internet-based and related information sources.
The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for scientists,
engineers and decision makers from government, industry and academia to
present the state of their research, development and systems needs in
situation management, to discuss fundamental issues and problems and to
identify future R&D directions. This workshop encourages contributions
from multiple domains and disciplines. Technical papers are invited on
topics describing specific information systems, techniques and
algorithms that facilitate the process of situation management,
including but not limited to the following topics:
- Situation Monitoring and Awareness
- Logical Foundations of Situation Calculus
- Situation Specification Languages
- Situations Ontologies and Semantics
- Reasoning about Situations
- Learning and Situation Discovery
- Predictive Situation Models
- Level 2+ Fusion Systems
- Threat Identification and Analysis
- Cognitive Models of Information Fusion
- Real-Time Event Management
- Operational Situations
- Battlespace Management
- Homeland Security Monitoring & Awareness
- Emergency Situations & Crisis Management
- Sensor and Ad Hoc Network Management
Papers (max 6 pages) have to be submitted at MILCOM's Web site: http://www.milcom.org/2005/
Papers will be published on CD and appear in IEEE Xplore. Besides
authors, workshop participants are encouraged to submit a short position
statement expressing their thoughts on situation management.
Send notifications on your submissions and inquiries to sima@comsoc.org, or call 857-225-0329
| Workshop Co-Chairs: |
Dr. Gabriel Jakobson, Altusys Corporation
Dr. Mieczyslaw Kokar, Northeastern University |
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| TPC Co-Chairs: |
Dr. Lundy Lewis, Southern New Hampshire University
Dr. Christopher Matheus, Versatile Information Systems, Inc. |
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