Third International Conference on
Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations (KSCO-2004)
26-28 October 2004, IHMC, Pensacola, Florida, USA
[Postponed]
The KSCO-2004 conference will bring together practitioners and key
decision makers in coalition operation management together with
researchers from areas of knowledge representation and reasoning,
planning and multi-agent systems in order to exchange experience
and ideas, share inspiration and suggest novel concepts. Practitioners
will benefit from meeting each other and from learning possibilities
of research achievements while researchers will get inspiration from
each other and potential end users of their ideas.
Conference Flyer
CONFERENCE INFORMATION
KSCO - Knowledge Systems For Coalition Operations is an international
working group exploring research in Knowledge Systems for Coalition
Operations. Biennially, KSCO organizes a technical conference where
practitioners and key decision makers in coalition operations management
meet and discuss with researchers from areas of knowledge-based systems,
planning and multi-agent systems, exchange experience and ideas, share
inspiration and suggest novel concepts. It can also lead to joint project
proposals.
After very successful events in Edinburgh, UK and Toulouse, France the KSCO
conference in 2004 will be organized at IHMC, Pensacola, Florida.
KSCO 2004 welcomes submission of original research papers from the areas of
knowledge-based systems, coalition formation and multi-agent systems related
to coalition operations management. We will review theoretical,
experimental, methodological papers as well as case studies, prototype
evaluations and application reports. KSCO organizers particularly encourage
submission of reports presenting larger coalition related national and
international project and programmes.
Participation will be by invitation of the organizing committee and there
will be a limited number of attendees to encourage a productive exchange of
ideas between those involved.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Expression of Interest: Now
- Submission of contribution: April 30, 2004
- Notification of acceptance: June 18, 2
- Request for invitation to participate: June 30, 2004
- Notification of invitation: July 31, 2004
- Camera-ready submission: July 31, 2004
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Interested authors shall submit either long (up to 16 pages in the
proceedings) or short (approx. 4 pages in the proceedings) papers
describing the work on knowledge systems for coalition
operations. Short papers are particularly suitable for
project/programmes introduction, descriptions of demonstrations and
prototypes.
The IEEE Intelligent Systems editorial board has agreed to consider
the best KSCO-2004 papers for publication. The KSCO programme
committee will invite the authors of the best papers to submit them to
the full review process of IEEE Intelligent Systems.
Formating instructions and templates (MS Word and LaTEX formats)
are available here.
Please, submit the paper (either short or full) by April 30, 2004 to
ksco2004@labe.felk.cvut.cz
CONTACT
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
- Jeff Bradshaw (IHMC US)
(Chairman and Local Arrangements)
- Scott Fouse, (ISX US)
- Nort Fowler (AFRL US)
- Paul Losiewicz (EOARD/London, US)
- Vijay Kowtha (ONR Global/London USA)
- Michal Pechoucek (Czech Technical University)
(Programme Chairman)
- Nigel Shadbolt (Southampton University)
- Austin Tate (AIAI UK)
AREAS OF CONFERENCE
Suggested topics to be discussed include but are not limited to:
- innovative theory and techniques for coalition formation
- requirements for knowledge-based coalition planning and operations
- knowledge-based approaches to command and control
- knowledge-based approaches to coalition logistics
- applications and requirements for knowledge-based coalition planning
- knowledge-based approaches to Operations-Other-Than-War
- multi-agent systems and the concept of agency in coalitions
- tools and techniques for knowledge-based simulation and modeling of
coalition operations
- security and maintenance of private information or knowledge in coalition
operations
- autonomous vs. centrally managed coalition operations
- mobility, agile and autonomous computing in coalition operation
- complexity issues and scalability in coalition operations
- deployed systems, case studies
All resources made available here are unrestricted, but are copyright
of the individual authors or organizations involved. Those authors or
organizations assert copyright over these materials, even in cases
where an explicit copyright notice is not included in the file
provided. Please do not make copies or use the material except for the
purposes of this workshop without the express written content of the
copyright owner.
Supported by
The Technical Cooperation Prorgram (TTCP) C3I AG1
European Office of Aerospace Research and Development
(Air Force Office of Scientific Research,
United States Air Force Research Laboratory)
Ofice of Naval Research Global
IEEE Intelligent Systems
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