- From: Kathryn Blackmond Laskey <klaskey@gmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 10:04:43 -0400
- To: <semantic-web@w3.org>
Apologies for duplicate copies. Adobe pdf version available at: http://stids.c4i.gmu.edu/pdfs/STIDS2014_CFP_v1.pdf You can also join the community at LinkedIn STIDS Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2626426&trk=hb_side_g *********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Ninth International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security - STIDS 2014 George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA November 18-21, 2014 http://stids.c4i.gmu.edu stids@c4i.gmu.edu *********************************************************************** The Ninth International Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense, and Security (STIDS 2014) will be held in November 2014 at Dewberry Hall in the Johnson Center. The main conference will be held on November 1920, with a tutorial session on November 18 and a classified session at a venue to be announced for those with TS/SCI clearances on November 21. 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 support of collaboration. Paper submissions related to this topic are most welcome, though there is no requirement for submissions to conform to the theme. AUDIENCE STIDS is an opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization 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 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 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. However, 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 on semantic technology and on- tology relevant to the fields of Intelligence, Defense, and Security. We are especially interested in papers on the following topics: Best practices in ontological engineering Biology and health Collaboration Command and Control (C2) and Situation Awareness (SA) Conditions that foster or inhibit outbreak of violence Controlled substance interception Course-of-action planning Cyberspace: defense, exploitation, and counter-attack Decision making Emergency response Ethnicity, religion, culture, and politics Financial analysis Human factors Infrastructure protection Information sharing Intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination International law Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Money laundering Predictive analysis Provenance, source credibility, and evidential pedigree Resiliency Risk analysis Science and Technology (S&T) Sensors and intelligence collection Social networks Spatial and temporal phenomena Uncertainty as it relates to ontologies and reasoning Usability issues Vulnerability assessment 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 2014. 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. For complete details and to download LATEX and MS Word templates, choose the US Letter size from the IEEEs Manuscript Template webpage. Technical pa- pers 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 conferences submission site. Details on submissions for the classified session will be posted on Intelink. IMPORTANT DATES September 5 Paper submission deadline October 3 Paper acceptance notification October 17 Early bird rates end October 24 Camera-ready papers due November 14 Presentations due November 18 Tutorials November 1920 Main Conference November 21 Classified Session ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Paulo Costa, George Mason University Technical Chairs: Ian Emmons, Raytheon BBN Technologies Kathryn Laskey, George Mason University Publicity Chairs: William Mandrick, Data Tactics Corporation Alessandro Oltramari, Carnegie Mellon University We look forward to seeing you in Fairfax!
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