-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers! Situation Management Workshop (SIMA) @ MILCOM 2006 Datum: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:31:06 -0400 Von: ComSocConferences@comsoc.org Antwort an: Conferencesx@comsoc.org An: Conferencesx@comsoc.org

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*MILCOM 2006*

*2nd IEEE Workshop on Situation Management - SIMA 2006 **24 October 2006 \ Washington, DC*

*In conjunction with MILCOM

Call For Papers*

*Many domains, such as modern battlefield operations management, disaster response and crisis management, physical infrastructure and cyber security monitoring, and mobile/autonomic robotics, are characterized by heightened mobility, large number of distributed heterogeneous information sources, and existence of complex, often incomplete and unpredictable dynamic situations. As a result, there is need for effective methods of situation recognition, prediction, reasoning and control -- operations collectively identifiable as Situation Management. Often situations involve a large number of inter-dependent dynamic objects that change their states in time and space, and engage each other into fairly complex relations. >From a 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 of dynamic situations requires complex cognitive modeling of situations, building situation ontologies, and continuous collection, perception, and fusion of signal and human intelligence events and reports.

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. Technical papers are invited in areas including but not limited to the following topics: *

* *Situation Calculus * * *Situation Modeling * * *Situation Ontologies and Semantics * * *Situation Specification Languages and Tools * * *Situation Monitoring and Awareness * * *Reasoning about Situations * * *Learning and Situation Discovery * * *Predictive Situation Modeling * * *Cognitive Models of Information Fusion * * *Situation Management Architectures * * *Agents, Grids and Distributed Situation Management * * *Situation Management in Autonomic and Self-Organizing Systems * * *Net-Centric Warfare and Battlespace Situation Management * * *Disaster Response & Crisis Management * * *Infrastructure and Cyber Security Situation Management *

*Please submit a title and a brief abstract of your paper at http://www.milcom.org/2006/index.htm http://www.milcom.org/2005/. For inquiries regarding SIMA 2006 use sima@comsoc.org mailto:sima@comsoc.org.

Important Dates: Abstracts Due: 21 April 2006 Draft Papers Due: 31 May 2006 Author Notifications: 7 July 2006 Final Papers Due: 4 August 2006

Workshop Chair: Gbriel Jakobson, Altusys Corporation TPC Co-Chairs: Lundy Lewis, Southern New Hampshire University John Salerno, Air Force Research Lab *

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