US-M-AB
SIMA WorkShop
Jones, Kennie Lewis, Lundy ORGANIZER: Jones, Kennie Lewis, Lundy
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.
Lundy Lewis is chair of the Department of Information Technology at Southern New Hampshire University and the CTO for Altusys Corporation, a company specializing in situation management. Prior to this he was the Director of Research at Aprisma Management Corporation, recently acquired by Computer Associates. He has written three books on network management and holds twenty-two US patents. Lundy’s research covers situation management and artificial intelligence. He received the PhD from the University of Georgia, MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and BS and BA from the University of South Carolina.
Lundy Lewis is chair of the Department of Information Technology at Southern New Hampshire University and the CTO for Altusys Corporation, a company specializing in situation management. Prior to this he was the Director of Research at Aprisma Management Corporation, recently acquired by Computer Associates. He has written three books on network management and holds twenty-two US patents. Lundy’s research covers situation management and artificial intelligence. He received the PhD from the University of Georgia, MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and BS and BA from the University of South Carolina.