CALL FOR PAPERS

Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations 2017

6th to 8th November 2017 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Co-located with the 22nd International Command and Control Research
and Technology Symposium (ICCRTS 2017)


History of the KSCO

KSCO – Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations – is an
international working group exploring research in Knowledge-based
Systems and Information Management, with a focus on the challenges of
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, information management, 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 beginning in 1999, Toulouse
France, Prague Czech Republic, Waltham MA USA, Southampton UK,
Vancouver BC Canada, Pensacola Florida USA, in 2016, the UK MoD joined
with researchers from around the world to plan and host the 21st
ICCRTS in London, UK in September 2016.  This event was co-located
with the 8th Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations (KSCO) 2016.
In 2017, the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) host the 22nd ICCRTS in
the Los Angeles area, to be held November 6-8, 2017 and once has
invited the KSCO community to co-locate their 9th Knowledge Systems
for Coalition Operations (KSCO) conference.


Review and Acceptance Process

KSCO 2017 will use a two step paper submission process. Authors should
initially submit a one to two page extended abstract. Abstracts should
also include a title, author list with contact information, and a brief
(250 word max) description of the contents of the paper. Selected authors
will be notified and asked to produce their full length submission as
a draft paper. Final acceptance and paper format instructions will be
sent out along with author notifications.

Please submit papers in PDF format via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccrtsksco2017

Select the KSCO track rather than one of the one nine ICCRTS tracks.

The Proceedings and KSCO papers will be published on the KSCO-2017 web
site. In addition, accepted papers will be included in the ICCRTS-2017
Symposium Proceedings.

Key Dates

15 April 2017     	Last day to submit an abstract 
15 May 2017        	Latest you will receive an invitation to submit a formal draft paper 
15 June 2017        	Last day to submit your formal draft paper
15 August 2017      	Latest you will receive reviewer comments and notification of acceptance
15 September 2017 	Last day to submit your final paper 
1 November 2017 	Last day to submit your presentation

These dates align with ICCRTS submissions at key points, but the initial
abstract submission date is later than for ICCRTS.

Topics of Interest

KSCO-2017 welcomes submission of original research, application and
project description papers related to intelligent and knowledge
systems for coalition operations management. A coalition includes, but
not limited to, military, inter-agency and cross organization
alliances engaged in a cooperative endeavour and joining capabilities
together for a common cause.

Topics may be related to knowledge systems requirements and knowledge
systems potential or actual use for coalition and inter-agency
operations (i.e., multi-national and multi-agency, civil authorities,
home land safety and security, expeditionary or domestic
operations). Both full-length (maximum of 20 pages, not including
appendices, endnotes, or references) and shorter position paper
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 and inter-agencies related national and international
projects and programmes. Authors wishing to present emerging efforts,
especially student projects, were encouraged to submit position
papers.

KSCO 2017 areas may include: 

* Intelligent Command and Control (C2)
* Coalition and Team Information Sharing
* Coalition and Team User Interfaces
* Planning and Scheduling
* Coordination and Collaboration
* Data to Decision Support
* Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Recovery
* Cultural Influences
* Human-Machine Teams
* Virtual Coalition Organizations
* KSCO related Research Programmes & Projects
* Deployed Systems & Case Studies

KSCO related papers that are also in line with the ICCRTS-2017
(www.dodccrp.org) theme of "Frontiers of C2" will be looked upon
favourably.

Address any questions to the KSCO Track Programme Chair via ksco-2017@ksco.info

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