Call for Book Chapters
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Upcoming Book: “Recent Advances on Computational Intelligence in Defense and Security”
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Website: http://www.ieeeottawa.ca/ci/cids-book/

Abstract submission deadline: October 30, 2014

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Volume Co-Editors:
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Rami Abielmona, Larus Technologies Corporation, Canada
Rafael Falcon, Larus Technologies Corporation, Canada
Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada
Hussein Abbass, Australian Defense Force Academy, Australia

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Motivation:
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Given the rapidly changing and increasingly complex nature of global security, we continue to witness a remarkable interest within the defense and security communities in novel, adaptive and resilient techniques that can cope with the challenging problems arising in this domain. These challenges are brought forth not only by the overwhelming amount of data reported by a plethora of sensing and tracking modalities, but also by the emergence of innovative classes of decentralized, mass-scale communication protocols and connectivity frameworks such as cloud computing, sensor networks, intelligent transportation systems and the Internet of Things. Realizing that traditional techniques have left many important problems unsolved, and in some cases, not addressed, further efforts have to be undertaken in the quest for algorithms and methodologies that can accurately detect and easily adapt to emerging threats.

We sense there is a need for gathering a representative set of the most recent undertakings having to do with novel applications of Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques to the defense and security sectors.

This volume aims at publishing high-quality research efforts rooted in Computational Intelligence as applied to defense and security problems. First-class contributions addressing research challenges in these areas and their CI-based solutions (i.e., neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, rough sets, granular computing, and other emerging learning or optimization techniques) are solicited.

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Submission Topics
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Papers should present original work validated via analysis, simulation or experimentation, including but not limited to the following topics:

Advanced Architectures for Defense Operations
– Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
– Hard-Soft Data Fusion
– Context-Aware Data Fusion
– Employment of Autonomous Vehicles
– Intelligence Gathering and Exploitation
– Mine Detection
– Situation Assessment
–  Impact Assessment
– Process and User Refinement
– Automatic Target Recognition
– Mission Weapon Pairing and Assignment
– Sensor Cueing and Tasking
– Self-Healing Systems

Modeling and Simulation of Defense Operations
– Logistics Support
– Mission Planning and Execution
– Resource Management
– Red Teaming
– Computational Red Teaming
– Course of Action Generation and Recommendation
– Models for War Games
– Risk-Aware Decision Support
– Multi-Agent Based Simulation
–  Critical Infrastructure Protection
– Strategic Planning
–  Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency
–  Behavioral or Cognitive Learning
–  Human Modeling: Behavior, Emotion, Motion

Security Applications
– Surveillance
– Suspect Behavior Profiling
–  Anomaly Detection
– Automated Handling of Dangerous Situations or People
– Stationary or Mobile Object Detection, Recognition and Classification
– Intrusion Detection Systems
– Cyber-Security
– Air, Maritime & Land Security
– Network Security
–  Biometrics Security
–  Authentication Technologies

Keywords:
security and defense; surveillance; computational intelligence; target tracking; mission planning;
multi-sensor data fusion; intrusion detector; maritime domain awareness; multi-agent systems; unmanned aerial vehicles;

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Technical Program Committee (preliminary)
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Andrzej Najgebauer, Military University of Technology, Poland
David Van Veldhuizen, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Krzysztof Slot, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Moufid Harb, Larus Technologies Corporation, Canada
Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Suresh Sundaram, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Timothy Havens, Michigan State University, USA
Branko Ristic, DSTO, Australia
Dmitry Gorodnichy, Canadian Border Services Agency, Canada
Fred Petty, US Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy
Nathalie Japkowicz, University of Ottawa, Canada
James Dankert, BAE Systems, USA
Srinivas Mukkamala, ICASA, USA
Misty Blowers, Air Force Research Lab, USA
Alain Auger, DRDC Valcartier, Canada

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Submission Guidelines
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Authors should only submit original work that has neither appeared elsewhere for publication, nor is presently under review for another refereed publication. Extensions of previously published works are welcome as long as the contributions made in the extended version are significant to warrant publication.

Please follow the instructions posted on http://www.ieeeottawa.ca/ci/cids-book/author_guidelines.html

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Important Dates:
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   * Abstract submission deadline: October 30, 2014

   * Abstract notification deadline: November 30, 2014

   * Full chapter submission deadline: January 31, 2015

* Full chapter notification deadline: March 31, 2015

* Camera-ready submission deadline: May 31, 2015

* Volume publication expected: late August, 2015