[ACT-R-users] IEEE Conference: Computational Intelligence in Defense Applicatio ns

[Bello, Paul F Civ AFRL/IFSB]

Dear colleagues,
I'm pleased to announce that the IEEE is actively requesting papers for the
2007 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Defense Applications (see
below for details). The topic of computational cognitive process models in
defense-related R&D will be addressed in the symposium, and given your
current and past research programs, I'm hoping that you will consider
submitting past unpublished results, summaries, lessons-learned, or reports
on active research in this area.  If you have colleagues who you think would
be interested in submission and aren't listed on this distribution, I'd
encourage you to forward this along to them as well. 

I hope to see you in Honolulu,
Paul

What: First IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and
Defense Applications (CISDA 2007)
Where: Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
When: April 1-5, 2007

Important Dates:

Submission:  November 30, 2006
Notification:  December 30, 2006
Camera-Ready:  January 15, 2007
Conference:  April 1-5, 2007

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
Given the current global security environment, there has been increased
interest within the military and security communities in novel techniques
for solving challenging problems within their domains. The genesis of this
interest lies in the fact that repeated attempts of using traditional
techniques have left many important problems unsolved, and in some cases,
not addressed.

Additionally, new problems have emerged within the broad areas of the global
war on terrorism, homeland security, and force protection that are difficult
to tackle with conventional methods, since social, cultural and human
behavioral factors tend to be at the heart of these new types of problems.
The purpose of the conference is to present current and ongoing efforts in
computational intelligence (e.g., Neural networks, Fuzzy systems,
Evolutionary computation/algorithms, Swarm intelligence, and other emerging
learning or optimization techniques) as applied to military and defense
security problems. The military and security problems domains of interest
for this session include, but are not limited to the
following:
* Command and Control of Military Operations * Intelligence Gathering and
Exploitation * Modeling and Simulation of Military Operations * Advanced
Computer Architectures for Military Operations * Cyber Security *
Computational Cognitive Modeling * Automatic Target Recognition * Programs
for Training * Models for War Games * Mine Detection * Situation Assessment
* Logistics Support * Design of military systems/subsystems * Course of
Action Generation * Mission Planning and Execution * Airspace Management and
Deconfliction * Resource Management * Route/Sortie Planning * Mission Weapon
Pairing and Assignment * Employment of Autonomous Vehicles

CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS
CISDA 2007 also solicits proposals for special sessions with the technical
scope of the symposium, generally focusing on a special hot topic. Papers
submitted to special sessions are to be peer reviewed with the same criteria
used for the contributed papers. Researchers interested in organizing a
special session are invited to submit a proposal which includes the session
title, a brief description of the scope, a list of potential authors that
might submit papers to the special session, and brief bios of the special
session organizers.

PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than eight (8)
pages including results, figures and references. Authors should submit their
papers as PDF through the online submission system, which will be available
at the website http://www.cidefense.org/Submissions. The title page of the
paper should include author name(s), affiliation, mailing address,
telephone, fax, and e-mail address. Prospective authors are expected to
present their paper at the symposium.

PRESENTED BY:
2007 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2007)

SSCI 2007:
General Chair: David Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc., USA Honorary Chair:
Evangelina Micheli-Tzanakou, Rutgers University, USA Finance Chair: Mohamed
El-Sharkawi, University of Washington, USA

CISDA 2007:
Co-Chairs: Misty K. Blowers, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
                    Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
                    Vincenzo Pluri, University of Milan, Italy 
Technical Co-Chairs: Alex Sisti, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
                     Sushil Lewis, University of Nevada, 
USA Publicity Co-Chairs: Rob Bird, Red Lambda, Inc., USA
                         Peter Lamonica, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA

INQUIRIES
For general inquiries of SSCI 2007, please contact:
General Chair David Fogel at dfogel at natural-selection.com

For CISDA 2007 inquiries, please contact:
Co-Chair Misty Blowers misty.blowers at rl.af.mil 

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Paul Bello, Ph.D.
Air Force Research Laboratory
Information Directorate
525 Brooks Rd., Rome NY 13441-4515
Tel/DSN: 315-330-3189/587-3189
Email: Paul.Bello at rl.af.mil
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