STIDS 2012: 1st CFP
Rommel Carvalho
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Preliminary
Call for Papers
Seventh International Conference on Semantic Technologies for
Intelligence, Defense, and Security – STIDS 2012
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Oct 2326, 2012
The 7th International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security (STIDS 2012) will be held in October 2012 at the confortable facilities of the Mason Inn Conference Center. The main conference will be held on October 24-25, with a tutorial session on October 23 and a classified session for those with TS/SCI clearances only on October 26.
STIDS provides a forum for academia, government and industry to share the latest research on semantic technology for defense, intelligence and security applications. Semantic technology is a fundamental enabler to achieve greater flexibility, precision, timeliness and automation of analysis and response to rapidly evolving threats.
AUDIENCE
The conference is an opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between researchers and practitioners of semantic-based technologies with particular experience in the problems facing the Intelligence, Defense, and Security communities. It will feature invited talks from prominent semantic technology researchers and recognized leaders from the target application domains.
To facilitate interchange among communities with a clear commonality of interest but little history of interaction, STIDS will host two separate tracks. The Research Track will showcase original, significant research on semantic technologies applicable to problems in intelligence, defense or security. Submissions to the research track are expected to clearly present their contribution, demonstrate its significance, and show the applicability to problems in the target applications domain. The Applications Track provides a forum for presenting implemented semantic-based applications to intelligence, defense, or security, as well as to discuss and evaluate the use of semantic techniques in these areas. Of particular interest are comparisons between different technologies or approaches and lessons learned from applications. By capitalizing on this opportunity, STIDS could spark dramatic progress toward transitioning semantic technologies from research to the field.
TOPIC LIST
Both tracks welcome the submission of papers on semantic technologies applied to the fields of Intelligence, Defense, and Security. We are especially interested in papers on the following topics:
Creating an interoperable suite of public-domain semantic technology/ontologies relevant to intelligence, defense, and security covering areas such as:
Biology and health
Command and Control and Situation Awareness
Conditions that foster or inhibit outbreak of violence
Controlled substance interception
Course-of-action planning
Cyberspace: Computer network operations (defense, exploitation, counter-attack)
Emergency response
Ethnicity, religion, culture and politics
Financial Analysis
Human factors
Infrastructure protection
Information sharing
Intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination
International law
ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance)
Money laundering
Predictive analysis
Resiliency
Risk analytics
Science and Technology (S&T)
Social networks
Spatial and temporal phenomena
Vulnerability assessment
Ontologies and reasoning under conditions of uncertainty
Semantic technology and ontological Issues related to:
Source credibility and evidential pedigree
Use of sensing devices including security, e.g. global infrastructure grid (GIG), images and intelligence collection in general
Usability issues relating to semantic technology
Best practices in ontological engineering
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Both tracks will accept submissions of technical papers. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, topicality and clarity. Because all accepted papers are to be presented at the conference, we require that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered participant committed to attend STIDS 2012.
Submissions are accepted
only in electronic format and should be sent via the conference’s
submission site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stids2012.
Papers must closely follow the US Letter version of the IEEE
format for conference proceedings. For complete details and to
download MS Word and Latex templates (choose the US Letter size), see
IEEE’s Manuscript Template webpage at:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.
Technical papers must not exceed 8 pages, including figures. Submissions exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. In addition, papers that, at the time of submission, are under review for or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference will not be accepted to the STIDS conference. All papers must be unclassified and suitable for release in a public forum.
IMPORTANT DATES
June 15 System open for submissions
July 24 Paper submissions deadline
August 28 Paper acceptance notification
September 18 Camera-ready papers due
September 25 Early bird rates end
October 17 Presentations due
October 24 7th STIDS
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Rommel Carvalho George Mason University
Werner Ceusters SUNY at Buffalo
Paulo Costa George Mason University
Mike Dean Raytheon BBN Technologies
Katherine Goodier L-3
Simon Spero UNC Chapel Hill
Richard Haberlin EMSolutions Inc.
Terry Janssen Lockheed Martin
Mieczyslaw Kokar Northeastern University
Kathryn Laskey George Mason University
Nancy Lawler U.S. Department of Defense
Daniel Maxwell KaDSci, LLC
Leo Obrst MITRE
Mary Parmelee MITRE Corporation
Lenard Simpson Optech Inc.
Barry Smith SUNY Buffalo
Gheorghe Tecuci George Mason University
Andreas Tolk Old Dominion University
Brian Ulicny VIStology, Inc.
Amanda Vizedom Wind River Consulting, LLC
Duminda Wijesekera George Mason University
We look forward to seeing you in Fairfax!