US-M-AA
SIMA WorkShop
Salerno, John ORGANIZER: Salerno, John
As it was at the first Situation Management workshop last year, the objective of this second workshop is to provide a forum for researchers, engineers and decision makers from government, industry and academia to present the state of their research, development and experience in Situation Management, to discuss issues and challenges, and to identify future R&D directions. Since the first workshop in 2005, we have witnessed increasing interest in Situation Management in many research and development groups in United States, Europe, Russia, Australia, and in other places. For the first time the Situation Management technical paper track was organized at The 9 th International Conference on Information Fusion in Florence, Italy, July 2006. Presentations on Situation Management were made in many conferences and workshops including, AAMAS, ISCRAM, INES, JCKBSE and others. We have sharpened our understanding of Situation Management and see it as a synergistic goal-directed process of control, diagnostics and prediction of situations in the managed dynamic systems so that desired goal situations are reached within the pre-defined quality, resource and time constraints. Situation Management is becoming a critical technological enabler in many applications areas, such as modern battlefield operations management, disaster response and crisis management, physical infrastructure and cyber security monitoring, mobile /autonomic robotics, and many others.
John Salerno has been employed at the Air Force Research Laboratory for the past 27 years where he has been involved in many research disciplines. He began his career in the Communications Division where he was involved in and ran a number of research efforts in both voice and data communications networks. In 1989 he moved from the Communications Division into the Intelligence and Exploitation Division. Since then he has been involved in research in distributed heterogeneous data access architectures, web interfaces, and in the further definition and implementation of fusion to various application areas. He has designed, built and fielded a number of operational systems for the Intelligence Community. He holds two US patents and has over 50 publications. John received his PhD from Binghamton University (Computer Science), a MSEE from Syracuse University, his BA (Mathematics and Physics) from SUNY at Potsdam and an AAS (Mathematics) from Mohawk Valley Community College. He is an AFRL Fellow.
John Salerno has been employed at the Air Force Research Laboratory for the past 27 years where he has been involved in many research disciplines. He began his career in the Communications Division where he was involved in and ran a number of research efforts in both voice and data communications networks. In 1989 he moved from the Communications Division into the Intelligence and Exploitation Division. Since then he has been involved in research in distributed heterogeneous data access architectures, web interfaces, and in the further definition and implementation of fusion to various application areas. He has designed, built and fielded a number of operational systems for the Intelligence Community. He holds two US patents and has over 50 publications. John received his PhD from Binghamton University (Computer Science), a MSEE from Syracuse University, his BA (Mathematics and Physics) from SUNY at Potsdam and an AAS (Mathematics) from Mohawk Valley Community College. He is an AFRL Fellow.