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From: sima at samrg.org (sima at samrg.org)
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:41:15 -0700
Subject: [OWL] CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine feature topic on
	Situation	Management
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                        Call for Papers
                 IEEE Communications Magazine
                        Feature Topic on
      Situation Management: Technology, Design and Applications

Important dates:

     Submission Deadline:       March 29, 2009
     Author notifications:      May 1, 2009
     Final manuscript due:      June 1, 2009
     Publication date:          August 1, 2009

Call for papers:

Many domains, such as battlefield operations management, disaster
response and crisis management, and physical infrastructure and
cyber security monitoring are characterized by dense real-time
sensing, large numbers of distributed heterogeneous information
sources, and  a variety of distributed, communicating, and
network-enabled actors and agents. In these domains, there is
the need to automatically and continuously identify and act
on complex, often incomplete and unpredictable dynamic situations.
As a result, effective methods of situation recognition, prediction,
reasoning and control are required -- operations collectively
identifiable as Situation Management.

Situation Management intersects with trends in information fusion,
intelligent sensing, sensing grids, complex event processing
architectures, and situation-awareness and context-awareness.
Often situations involve a large number of inter-dependent
dynamic objects that change their states in time and space,
and engage each other into fairly complex relations. From a
management viewpoint it is important to understand the situations
in which these objects participate, to recognize emerging trends
and potential threats, and to undertake required actions.
Understanding of dynamic situations requires complex cognitive
modeling of situations and continuous sensing, collection, and
fusion of signal and human intelligence events and reports.

With growing interests from the research, military and industrial
communities, there is a growing need to further formulate the
domain of situation management as well as to highlight recent
progress in research and applications in this area. This
special issue will focus on recent advances as well as overview
papers in situation management. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to the following topics:

    - Large-scale sensor-based data collection architectures
    - Measurement and sensing grids
    - Event correlation complex event processing (CEP), and
      distributed event processing
    - Multi-source, multi-resolution, hierarchical and high-level
      information fusion
    - Autonomic and self-organizing sensing and fusion architectures
    - Situation management in tactical, ad hoc, sensor, mobile and
      emergency communication networks
    - Reflective sensing and fusion
    - Situation monitoring and awareness
    - Applications in cyber security, disaster response, crisis
      management, home land security, intelligent transportation,
      health care, and enterprise management
    - Situation modeling, reasoning and decision support
    - Predictive situation modeling
    - Coupling with Dynamic Data-Driven Application System (DDDAS)
      grids and systems
    - Multi-agent systems and distributed situation management
    - Integration with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and
      enterprise event processors
    - Peer-to-peer architectures for situation awareness
    - Deployment experience and testbeds

Manuscript Submissions

Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written
in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of
the field. All submissions will be reviewed based on technical
merit, relevance and readability. Articles should have no more
than 4,500 words, no more than 6 tables/figures, and no more
than 15 references. Authors must follow the IEEE Communications
Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript.
Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at

www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. All articles
to be considered for publication must be submitted through
IEEE Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com).
Select "August 2009/Situation Management" from the drop down menu
in order to have your manuscript submitted to this feature topic.

Guest Editors:

    Gabriel Jakobson
    Altusys Corp.
    jakobson at altusystems.com

    John Buford
    Avaya Labs Research
    buford at avaya.com

    Lundy Lewis
    Southern New Hampshire University
    l.lewis at snhu.edu

Call for papers:

http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/info/cfp/cfpcommag809.htm