[okfn-br] STIDS 2012: 1st CFP

Quarta Julho 4 12:35:20 UTC 2012

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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

*http://stids.c4i.gmu.edu*

stids em c4i.gmu.edu

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<http://www.acc-masoninnandconferencecenter.com/index.cfm>
*. 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!
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