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Call for Book Chapters
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Upcoming Book: "Recent Advances in Computational Intelligence in
Defense and Security"
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To be published in: Springer's Studies in Computational
Intelligence Series
Website:
http://www.ieeeottawa.ca/ci/cids-book/
Abstract submission deadline: October 30, 2014
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Volume Co-Editors:
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Rami Abielmona, Larus Technologies Corporation, Canada
Rafael Falcon, Larus Technologies Corporation, Canada
Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada
Hussein Abbass, Australian Defense Force Academy, Australia
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Motivation:
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Given the rapidly changing and increasingly complex nature of
global security, we continue to witness a remarkable interest
within the defense and security communities in novel, adaptive
and resilient techniques that can cope with the challenging
problems arising in this domain. These challenges are brought
forth not only by the overwhelming amount of data reported by a
plethora of sensing and tracking modalities, but also by the
emergence of innovative classes of decentralized, mass-scale
communication protocols and connectivity frameworks such as
cloud computing, sensor networks, intelligent transportation
systems and the Internet of Things. Realizing that traditional
techniques have left many important problems unsolved, and in
some cases, not addressed, further efforts have to be undertaken
in the quest for algorithms and methodologies that can
accurately detect and easily adapt to emerging threats.
We sense there is a need for gathering a representative set of
the most recent undertakings having to do with novel
applications of Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques to
the defense and security sectors.
This volume aims at publishing high-quality research efforts
rooted in Computational Intelligence as applied to defense and
security problems. First-class contributions addressing research
challenges in these areas and their CI-based solutions (i.e.,
neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, swarm
intelligence, rough sets, granular computing, and other emerging
learning or optimization techniques) are solicited.
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Submission Topics
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Papers should present original work validated via analysis,
simulation or experimentation, including but not limited to the
following topics:
Advanced Architectures for Defense Operations
- Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
- Hard-Soft Data Fusion
- Context-Aware Data Fusion
- Employment of Autonomous Vehicles
- Intelligence Gathering and Exploitation
- Mine Detection
- Situation Assessment
- Impact Assessment
- Process and User Refinement
- Automatic Target Recognition
- Mission Weapon Pairing and Assignment
- Sensor Cueing and Tasking
- Self-Healing Systems
Modeling and Simulation of Defense Operations
- Logistics Support
- Mission Planning and Execution
- Resource Management
- Red Teaming
- Computational Red Teaming
- Course of Action Generation and Recommendation
- Models for War Games
- Risk-Aware Decision Support
- Multi-Agent Based Simulation
- Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Strategic Planning
- Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency
- Behavioral or Cognitive Learning
- Human Modeling: Behavior, Emotion, Motion
Security Applications
- Surveillance
- Suspect Behavior Profiling
- Anomaly Detection
- Automated Handling of Dangerous Situations or People
- Stationary or Mobile Object Detection, Recognition and
Classification
- Intrusion Detection Systems
- Cyber-Security
- Air, Maritime & Land Security
- Network Security
- Biometrics Security
- Authentication Technologies
Keywords:
security and defense; surveillance; computational intelligence;
target tracking; mission planning;
multi-sensor data fusion; intrusion detector; maritime domain
awareness; multi-agent systems; unmanned aerial vehicles;
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Technical Program Committee (preliminary)
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Andrzej Najgebauer, Military University of Technology, Poland
David Van Veldhuizen, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Krzysztof Slot, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Moufid Harb, Larus Technologies Corporation, Canada
Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Suresh Sundaram, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Timothy Havens, Michigan State University, USA
Branko Ristic, DSTO, Australia
Dmitry Gorodnichy, Canadian Border Services Agency, Canada
Fred Petty, US Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy
Nathalie Japkowicz, University of Ottawa, Canada
James Dankert, BAE Systems, USA
Srinivas Mukkamala, ICASA, USA
Misty Blowers, Air Force Research Lab, USA
Alain Auger, DRDC Valcartier, Canada
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Submission Guidelines
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Authors should only submit original work that has neither
appeared elsewhere for publication, nor is presently under
review for another refereed publication. Extensions of
previously published works are welcome as long as the
contributions made in the extended version are significant to
warrant publication.
Please follow the instructions posted on
http://www.ieeeottawa.ca/ci/cids-book/author_guidelines.html
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Important Dates:
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* Abstract submission deadline: October 30, 2014
* Abstract notification deadline: November 30, 2014
* Full chapter submission deadline: January 31, 2015
* Full chapter notification deadline: March 31, 2015
* Camera-ready submission deadline: May 31, 2015
* Volume publication expected: Late August, 2015