Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations 2007

The KSCO-2007 conference brought 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 benefitted from meeting each other and from learning possibilities of research achievements while researchers got inspiration from each other and potential end users of their ideas.

CONFERENCE MATERIALS

Lawton, J., Patel, J. and Tate. A. (eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations (KSCO-2007), Waltham, MA, USA, 1-2 May 2007. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems Modeling, Evolution and Engineering (KIMAS-2007).

• Conference Program
• Proceedings Cover - PDF Format - 1.8MB
• Proceedings - PDF Format - 12.4MB

• Invited Talks
  • Multinational Planning Augmentation Team and Asia-Pacific Area Network (MPAT & APAN) in Asia and the Pacific, COL John M Bratton, USA (Ret.) [PPT Format, PDF Format]
  • Multinational Interoperability Council (MIC), LtCol Mike Cuccio [PPT Format, PDF Format]

• Intoduction
  • Austin Tate, KSCO Community Presentation [PPT Format, PDF Format]

• Conference Papers
  • Presentations [all in PDF Format, PPT and AVI where available]

CONFERENCE INFORMATION

After successful events in Edinburgh, UK, Toulouse, France, and Prague, Czech Republic, the KSCO conference in 2007 was held at the Westin Hotel in Waltham, Massachusetts (USA), in conjunction with the International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS-07). The goal of the 2007 conference was to foster the formation of collaborations between coalition practitioners and the academic community. Joining with KIMAS furthered that goal by leveraging the operational background of the regular attendees.

The format of the conference consisted of two days of sessions which will be a mixture of keynote talks, research paper presentations, panel sessions and "Birds of a Feather" style breakout meetings.

ORGANIZERS

• General: Jitu Patel <jmpatel@dstl.gov.uk>, Dstl, UK
• Program: James Lawton <James.Lawton@rl.af.mil>, AFRL, USA
• Other Organizing Committee Members:
  • Vijay Kowtha, ONR/NRL, USA
  • Ray McGowan, US Army, USA
  • Michal Pechoucek, Gerstner Laboratory, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Austin Tate, AIAI, The University of Edinburgh, UK