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Adobe pdf version available at: http://stids.c4i.gmu.edu/pdfs/STIDS2015_CFP.pdf [Apologies for duplication] [Please distribute as you deem appropriate] ** Note: Paper submission deadline is *Friday, September 4, 2015 ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Tenth International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security (STIDS 2015) George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA November 18-20, 2015 http://stids.c4i.gmu.edu stids@c4i.gmu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Tenth International Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense, and Security (STIDS 2015) will be held in November 2015 at Dewberry Hall in the Johnson Center on the George Mason University Fairfax campus. The main conference will be held Thursday and Friday, November 19–20, with a tutorial session on Wednesday, November 18 and a classified session at a venue to be announced for those with TS/SCI clearances on November 17. 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. Conference Theme This year the STIDS theme will be semantics in cyberphysical systems. Paper submissions related to this topic are most welcome, though there is no requirement for submissions to conform to the theme. Audience STIDS is a premier opportunity for collaboration and crossfertilization between researchers and practitioners of semantic-based technology with particular experience in the problems facing the Intelligence, Defense, and Security communities. It will feature invited talks from prominent semantic researchers and recognized leaders from the target application domains. To facilitate interchange among communities with a clear commonality of interest, STIDS encourages submissions that showcase original, significant research as well as papers that present implementations and lessons learned or discuss, compare, and evaluate the use of semantic techniques. In the tradition of an academic conference, submissions are expected to make a tangible contribution to the field of semantics, and so marketing white papers and the like will not be accepted. Topic List STIDS welcomes the submission of papers related to semantic technology and ontology relevant to the fields of Intelligence, Defense, and Security. We are especially interested in papers on the following topics: • Best practices in the engineering of ontologies • Collaboration • Command and Control (C2) and Situation Awareness (SA) • Cyberspace: defense, exploitation, and counterattack • Decision making • Economics and financial analysis • Emergency response • Human factors and usability issues related to semantic technologies • Information sharing • Infrastructure protection • Intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination • Law and law enforcement • Planning: representation of and reasoning over plans and processes • Predictive analysis • Provenance, source credibility, and evidential pedigree • Resiliency, risk analysis, and vulnerability assessment • Science and technology(biology,health, chemistry,engineering, etc.) • Sensor systems • Sociology (social networks, ethnicity, religion, culture, politics, etc.) • Spatial and temporal phenomena and reasoning • Uncertainty as it relates to ontologies and reasoning Submission Details Submissions of technical papers or extended abstracts are welcomed. 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, 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 attending STIDS 2015. All accepted authors will be invited to participate in a poster and demo session to provide an opportunity for extended informal discussion. Submissions are accepted only in electronic format and must closely follow the US Letter version of the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Technical papers must have between six and eight pages, including figures. Extended abstracts must have between two and four pages. Submissions outside these limits 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. Submissions for the general session must be unclassified and releasable in a public forum. They should be sent via the conference submission site. Details on submissions for the classified session will be posted on Intelink. Important Dates Fri, September 4 Paper submission deadline Fri, October 2 Paper acceptance notification Fri, October 16 Early bird rates end Mon, October 26 Camera-ready papers due Sat, November 14 Presentations due Tue, November 17 Classified session Wed, November 18 Tutorials Thurs/Fri, November 19–20 Main Conference Organizing Committee General Chairs: Paulo Costa, George Mason University Alessandro Oltramari, Carnegie Mellon University Technical Chairs: Ian Emmons, Raytheon BBN Technologies Kathryn Laskey, George Mason University Publicity Chair: Amanda Vizedom, Criticollab, LLC Tutorials Chair: Mary Parmelee, MITRE Corporation Program Committee • Carl Andersen, BBN Technologies • Erik Blasch, AFRL • Rommel Novaes Carvalho, Brazil’s Office of the Comptroller General • Werner Ceusters, SUNY at Buffalo • Paulo Costa, George Mason University • Ian Emmons, Raytheon BBN Technologies • Matthew Fisher, Progeny Systems • Mark Greaves, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory • Peter Haddawy, Mahidol University • John Hebeler, University of Maryland, Baltimore County • Terry Janssen, Quantum Cybersecurity Systems LLC • Gregory Joiner, BBN Technologies • AnneLaure Jousselme, NATO Centre for Martime Research and Ex perimentation (CMRE) • Mieczyslaw Kokar, Northeastern University • Dave Kolas, BBN Technologies • Kathryn Laskey, George Mason University • Louise Leenen, CSIR • David Mireles, Raytheon BBN Technologies • Ranjeev Mittu, US Naval Research Laboratory • Jeffrey Morrison, Office of Naval Research • Leo Obrst, MITRE • Alessandro Oltramari, Carnegie Mellon University, CyLab • Mary Parmelee, MITRE Corporation • Andrew PerezLopez, BBN Technologies • Plamen Petrov, Raytheon BBN Technologies • Setareh Rafatirad, George Mason University • Douglas Reid, Google • Patrice Seyed, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • Barry Smith, SUNY Buffalo • Tony Stein, Raytheon BBN Technologies • Kathleen Stewart, University of Maryland • Gheorghe Tecuci, George Mason University • Brian Ulicny, Thomson Reuters • Amanda Vizedom, Criticollab, LLC • Andrea Westerinen, Nine Points Solutions, LLC • Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University We look forward to seeing you in Fairfax!
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