Situation Management(SIMA)
The 2nd IEEE Workshop on Situation Management – SIMA 2006
Monday, October 23, 2006, Washington, D.C.
Omni-Empire Room
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.
Workshop Chairman:
Gabriel Jakobson, Altusys Corp.
TPC Co-Chairmans:
Lundy Lewis, Southern New Hampshire University
John Salerno, AFRL
Technical Program Committee:
Joe Antonik, AFRL John Buford, Altusys Corporation
Joao Cabrera, Scientific Systems
Todd Carrico, Cougaar Software
Gabi Dreo, University of Federal Armed Forces, Germany
Rajeev Gopal, Hughes Network Systems
Robert Higgins, Boeing
Kenneth Jones, NASA
Mieczyslaw Kokar, Northeastern University
Dale Lambert, Defense Science and Technology Organization, Australia
James Llinas, SUNY at Buffalo Christopher Matheus, Versatile Information Systems
Alexander Meystel, Drexel University
Brad Rhodes, BAE Systems Galina Rogova, Encompass Consulting Waleed Smari, University of Dayton Alexander Smirnov, SPIIRAS, Russia
Moises Sudit, University at Buffalo Per Svensson, Swedish Defense Research Agency, Sweden
George Tadda, AFRL Richard Tango-Lowy, Cognita
Klas Wallenius, SAAB, Sweden Allen Waxman, BAE Systems
6:30-8:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
8:00-9:30 |
SIMA Opening and Session 1 Panel "Network-Centric Warfare Situation Management: Lessons Learned" |
9:30-10:00 |
Coffee Break |
10:00-11:45 |
Session 2 “Advanced Situation Management Architectures” |
12:00 -13:15 |
Lunch |
13:15-15:15 |
Session 3 – “Situation Modeling” |
15:15-15:30 |
Snack Break |
15:30-17:00 |
Session 4 - Applications and Case Studies SIMA Closing |
17:00-18:00 |
SIMA TC Meeting (Open to everybody) |
SIMA Opening and Session 1 - Panel
"Network-Centric Warfare Situation Management: Lessons Learned"
Panel Organizer:
Michael R. Kincaid, Project Manager – L-3 Communications (ComCept Division)
Michael Kincaid has over 35 years experience in telecommunication network design, engineering, and applications development. He has provided comprehensive analysis and design solutions for service and application problems for government and Fortune 500 companies, and has organized, chaired and presented papers at major IEEE conferences since 1978. Currently is chair of IEEE Communications Society’s Globecom/ICC Management and Strategy Committee and Comsoc’s liaison to Milcom. Michael holds MS Degree in Telecommunications Management, Marylhurst University, 1994, BS Degree in Business Administration, Portland State University, 1980, and AAS Degree - Electronics Engineering Technology, Multnomah College, 1964.
Panel Chair:
Ray Ivie, Capt., USN (Ret), Vice President, Strategic Development, L-3 ComCept Division
Mr. Ivie is the Vice-President for Strategic Development at L-3 Communications, ComCept Division in Rockwall, Texas. He previously served as the Director for Strategic Development of Naval Programs at ComCept. While at ComCept, Mr. Ivie designed the architecture leading to the integration of the Air Force’s Network Centric Collaborative Targeting and the Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability networks being demonstrated during the Navy’s Trident Warrior exercise in late 2005. Furthermore, he developed an architectural vision for sensor networking, which is rapidly being accepted as the foundation as DoD’s sensor networking standard. A retired Navy Captain, he served over 22 years in carrier aviation, Battle Group and Joint staff as well as Congressional staff/Liaison positions. Operationally he flew as a Naval Flight Officer/ Mission Commander in S-3B Viking aircraft flying off aircraft carriers around the world including Desert Storm Operations. As a squadron Commanding Officer, his squadron flew Deliberate Guard missions over Bosnia and Operation Southern Watch missions over Kuwait and Iraq. During his several operations staff tours he also accumulated flight time in a variety of Navy and Air Force aircraft, including all current aircraft carrier aircraft. Additionally, he served in the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, as a flight/weapons instructor and as J-3 (Current Plans and Operations) action officer on The Joint Staff. Mr. Ivie earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M University in 1981. He is also a graduate of the US Naval War College, Armed Forces Staff College and the Georgetown University Congressional Fellowship program.
Panel Abstract: The Panel will discuss evolving Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) architectures, development, testing and “lessons learned” from each presenter’s perspective. NCW programs encounter several challenges as they move forward including vertical vs. horizontal funding and security issues, programmatic, integration requirements with existing and future communications, sensors, platforms and other technical challenges. As several NCW projects are underway, and a few have matured, lessons learned have been identified and can be passed to others to improve the process. The presenters will discuss the extensive lessons learned from the “first fielding” NCW program. Highlights will include hurdles encountered from its origins as an Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD), technical and programmatic challenges overcome, and its acceptance as a program of record. Using NCW as an example the panel aims to address the issues and challenges associated with the design, development and testing of battlefield Situation Management systems.
9:30-10:00 Break
10:00-11:45
Session 2 Advanced Situation Management Architectures
Session Chair: John Salerno, AFRL
Papers to be Presented
185 User-Centric Information Management for Decision Support in Disaster Relief & Evacuation
Alexander Smirnov, SPIIRAS, Tatiana Levashova, SPIIRAS, Michael Pashkin, SPIIRAS, Andrew Krizhanovsky, SPIIRAS, Alexey Kashevnik, SPIIRAS, Anna Komarova, SPIIRAS, Nikolay Shilov, SPIIRAS
207 Agent-Based Situational Reasoning for In-Theater Distribution
Todd Carrico, Cougaar Software, Inc., Bobby Chin, Battelle
1322 A tactical active information sharing system for military MANets
Lionel BARRERE, LaBRI, Université Bordeaux 1, Serge CHAUMETTE, LaBRI, Université Bordeaux 1, Jacques TURBERT, CELAR, Centre d'Electronique de l'Armement
1644 Reflective Situation Management
John Buford, Altusys Corp, Gabriel Jakobson, Altusys Corp, Lundy Lewis, Southern New Hampshire University
1844 Biology-inspired Architecture for Situation Management
Kennie Jones, NASA Langley Research Center, Kenneth Lodding, NASA Langley Research Center, Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, Larry Wilson, Old Dominion University, Chunsheng Xin, Norfolk State University
12:00-13:15 Lunch
13:15-17:30
Session 3 - Situation Modeling
Session Chair: Kennie Jones, NASA Langley Research Center
Papers to be Presented
570 Using Environmental Modeling to Optimize Sensor Placement for Detecting Underwater Threats
Lucas Vickers, Stevens Institute of Technology, Rustam Stolkin, Stevens Institute of Technology, Jeffrey Nickerson, Stevens Institute of Technology
949 Automated Military-Civilian Information Sharing
Bob Dourandish, Quimba Software, Nina Zumel, Quimba Software, Michael Manno, AFRL
1395 A Framework of Cognitive Situation Modeling and Recognition
Gabriel Jakobson, Altusys Corp., John Buford, Altusys Corp., Lundy Lewis, Southern New Hampshire University
1477 Addressing Information Display Weaknesses in Common Operation Pictures
Mike Gilger, FYI Corporation
1822 Intelligent Situation Awareness on GIS Basis
Vasily Popovich, SPIIRAS, A Pankin, SPIIRAS, M. Voronin, SPIIRAS, S. Shaida, SPIIRAS
121 KUPS: Knowledge-based Ubiquitous and Persistent Sensor networks for Threat Assessment
Qilian Liang, University of Texas at Arlington
15:15-15:30 Break
15:30-17:00
Session 4 - Applications and Case Studies
Session Chair: Lundy Lewis, Southern New Hampshire University
Lundy Lewis is the Chair of the Department of Information Technology at Southern New Hampshire University. His areas of research include artificial intelligence, telecommunications management, and situation management. He has published three books and holds twenty-two patents in telecommunications management. He received the PhD from the University of Georgia.
Papers to be Presented
749 Evaluating Threat Assessment for Multi-stage Cyber Attacks
Shanchieh Jay Yang, Rochester Institute of Technology, Jared Holsopple, Calspan-UB Research Center (CUBRC), Moises Sudit, SUNY Buffalo
1555 MEDRN - A Mutual Aid Information Network for Emergency Response
Jaime Gomezjurado, Semandex Networks, Daniel Reininger, Semandex Networks
1685 SeeCoast: Automated Port Scene Understanding Facilitated by Normalcy Learning
Brad RHODES, BAE Systems, Advanced Information Technologies, Neil BOMBERGER, BAE Systems, Advanced Information Technologies, Michael SEIBERT, BAE Systems, Advanced Information Technologies, Allen WAXMAN, BAE Systems, Advanced Information Technologies
1846 Towards Global Maritime Domain Awareness-- A Technical Perspective: Potentials and Challenges
Metin Balci, NATO CC-MAR NAPLES HQ, Russ Pegg, NATO CC-MAR NAPLES HQ
1870 Human Perspective Based Context Acquisition, Learning and Awareness in the Design of Context Aware Systems
Ashish Godbole, and Waleed W. Smari, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Dayton
17:00-18:00
SIMA Technical Committee Meeting (Open to everybody)
