Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations 2009

31st March and 1st April 2009
Chilworth Manor, Southampton, UK

http://ksco.info/ksco/ksco-2009.html

The KSCO-2009 conference will bring 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 benefit from meeting each other and from learning possibilities of research achievements while researchers get inspiration from each other and potential end users of their ideas.

PROGRAMME INFORMATION

Programme details are available here.

CONFERENCE INFORMATION

KSCO - Knowledge Systems For Coalition Operations is an international working group exploring research in Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations. KSCO regularly 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 successful events in Edinburgh, UK, Toulouse, France, Prague, Czech Republic, and Waltham, MA, USA, the next KSCO event is to be held in Southampton, UK.

KSCO-09 welcomes submission of original research and application papers related to coalition operations management. Both full-length (10 page) and poster session (4 page) submissions are welcome. We will review theoretical, experimental, methodological papers, but we are especially interested in case studies, prototype evaluations and application reports. KSCO organizers particularly encourage submission of reports presenting larger coalition related national and international projects and programs. Authors wishing to present emerging efforts, especially student projects, are encouraged to submit papers for the poster session. Key KSCO topics include:

  • Deployed systems, case studies
  • 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
  • Cross-cultural issues in coalition operations

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Submission deadline: 2 January 2009
  • Acceptance notification: 6 February 2009
  • Final Papers deadline: 6 March 2009

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

The registration page will present you with the 4 package options listed below. Attendees who select Package 4 may purchase tickets for the Conference Dinner for 30 each. Rooms at the Conference Hotel (Chilworth Manor) have been blocked until 20 Feb 2009. Accommodations for registrations made after that date cannot be guaranteed.

 

 

 

Package

Included

1

2

3

4

Conference registration, 31 March

X

X

X

X

Conference registration, 1 April

X

X

X

X

Hotel B&B, 30 March

X

X

 

 

Hotel B&B, 31 March

X

X

X

 

Conference Dinner, 31 March

X

X

X

 

Dinner, 30 March

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Delegate Cost

400

375

300

175

Student Cost

350

325

250

125

 

Getting there: directions to the conference hotel.

 

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Interested authors should submit either full-length papers (10 pages maximum) or papers for the poster session (4 pages maximum) by email to the program chair, James.Lawton@london.af.mil. Final formatting guidelines will be included with acceptance notifications, and will be posted to the conference web site (http://ksco.info/ksco/ksco-2009.html).

ORGANIZERS

  • Conference Chair: Jitu Patel <jmpatel@dstl.gov.uk>, Dstl, UK
  • Program Chair: James Lawton <James.Lawton@london.af.mil>, AFRL/EOARD, USA
  • Other Organizing Committee Members:
    • Susan Davies, University of Southampton
    • Paul Losiewicz, ONR Global, USA in UK
    • Mike Strub, ARL, USA
    • Michal Pechoucek, Gerstner Laboratory, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
    • Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton
    • Austin Tate, AIAI, The University of Edinburgh, UK
    • Gerhard Wickler, AIAI, The University of Edinburgh, UK

CONTACT

 

SPONSORS

We wish to thank the following for their contribution to the success of this conference:

 

Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

http://www.dstl.gov.uk

European Office of Aerospace Research and Development, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, United States Air Force Research Laboratory

http://www.london.af.mil/

Office of Naval Research Global

http://www.onrglobal.navy.mil/

US Army International Technology Center - Atlantic

http://www.usaitca.army.mil/home.html

The University of Southampton

http://www.soton.ac.uk/

The Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute

University of Edinburgh

http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/

The Gerstner Laboratory

Czech Technical University

http://gerstner.felk.cvut.cz/