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Welcome to the Special Sessions Page!

OBJECTIVES

Special sessions provide an opportunity to focus on a specific topic such as an innovative theoretical approach for Information Fusion, a particular non-classical application or a state of the art in a particular domain.

Updated List of All Special Sessions Appearing at Fusion 2009

Below is the updated list of all Special Sessions appearing at Fusion 2009. Shown for each item in the list is the proposer(s) of the session, the session title, and the case sensitive special session code (used in PaperPlaza). Note, each item in the list is hyperlinked to a detailed abstract, and authors need to know the special session codes in order to submit their papers to the correct special sessions in PaperPlaza. Also, sessions 2, 10, and 12 have been cancelled.

1) Lawrence Stone (Metron), "Data Fusion on Networks" (PJmgA)

2) Moses Chan (Lockheed Martin), Paul-Andre Monney (University of California at Los Angeles), Enrique Hector Ruspini (Independent Consultant), "Modeling and Resolving Conflict, Dependence, and Redundancy in Multi-Agent Information Fusion" (86V89) -- (CANCELLED)

3) Joeri van Laere (University of Skövde), Maria Nilsson (University of Skövde), "The Role of the User in Information Fusion" (xQq67)

4) Gerd Wanielik (Chemnitz University of Technology), Robin Schubert (Chemnitz University of Technology), "Advances in Information Fusion for Automotive Applications" (D784d)

5) Jim Ferry (Metron), "Data Association" (5wT42)

6) Ronald Mahler (Lockheed Martin), "Finite- Set Statistics (FISST): Theory and Applications 2009" (b87oG)

7) David Hall (Pennsylvania State University), James Llinas (State University of New York), "Integrating the Human Analyst into Hybrid Sensing" (6L4te)

8) John Lavery (US Army Research Office), James Llinas (State University of New York), "Fusion of Hard and Soft Information for Asymmetric, Urban Operations" (yH5DV)

9) Joachim Biermann (FGAN-FKIE), John Lavery (US Army Research Office), "Methods and Tools for Automated Support of Model- and Context-based Information Fusion in Intelligence" (Sgm7V)

10) James Llinas (State University of New York), "Graphical Methods for Fusion of Soft Information" (Ki6XP) -- (CANCELLED)

11) John Lavery (US Army Research Office), "Fusion of Networked Physical Sensor Data for Asymmetric, Urban Operations" (HH62d)

12) Angelia Nedic (University of Illinois), "Distributed in Network Information Processing" (ptwq5) -- (CANCELLED)

13) Jean Dezert (ONERA), Florentin Smarandache (University of New Mexico), "Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion" (P3438)

14) Alexander Toet (TNO Defense), Stavri Nikolov (Attentive Displays Ltd), Maarten Hogervorst (TNO Defense), Allen Waxman (DARPA/IPTO), "Color in Image and Information Fusion" (QKWP8)

15) Uwe Hanebeck (University of Karlsruhe), Marcus Baum (University of Karlsruhe), "Extended Object and Group Tracking" (Urq86)

16) Uwe Hanebeck (University of Karlsruhe), Vesa Klumpp (University of Karlsruhe), "Beyond Classical Bayesian Estimation Theory (6BP3p)

17) Uwe Hanebeck (University of Karlsruhe), Peter Krauthausen (University of Karlsruhe), "Probabilistic Information Fusion for Intention Recognition" (JBXwY)

18) Genshe Chen (DCM Research Resources LLC), Erik Blasch (AFRL/SNAA), "Fusion Evaluation over dynamic data and intelligent targets" (yAB1y)

19) Tien Pham (US Army Research Laboratory), Lance Kaplan (US Army Research Laboratory), "Fusion & Policy Issues and Capabilities for Coalition Operations" (4TbBV)

20) David Krout (Applied Physics Lab / University of Washington), "Multistatic Tracking" (rjW4V)

21) Jesus Garcia Herrero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Jose Molina (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), "Hybrid Techniques for Adaptation of Data Fusion Systems" (k3U8U)

22) Fok Bolderheij (Netherlands Defence Academy), Vincent van Leijen (CAMS/Force Vision), "Command and Control through Sensor Management and Picture Compilation" (H8FP1)

23) Dr. Reza Ghanadan (BAE Systems), Dr. John Baras (University of Maryland), and Dr. Michael Martin (Carnegie Mellon University), "Information Fusion in Socio-Cognitive and Communications Networks" (5on6b)

24) Steve Lien (Boeing), Changzhou Wang (Boeing), "Boeing Special Session" (XR474)

Guidelines for Submitting Proposals

SUBMISSION (Proposals are due February 2, 2009)

Prospective organizers of a special session must notify the Special Session Chair, Chris Hempel ( christian.hempel@navy.mil), of their intention by sending him 1 to 3 pages containing the following information:

Basic information--Title of the special session, contact information for the organizer(s) (name, email address, affiliation), keywords, and scope or objective of the proposed special session.

Abstract--A brief description of the session, suitable for inclusion in the conference registration brochure.

Topic of interest--Full description of the proposed special session explaining its potential interest for the information fusion community, as well as the benefit sought by deepening this particular topic.

Organizers' biography--A brief resume of the organizer(s), highlighting the background in the proposed special session area.

The evaluation of the proposal will mainly be based on its general interest for Fusion 2009 attendees and the quality of the proposal.

Special session papers will follow the same review process and deadlines as regular papers. http://www.fusion2009.org

A Special Sessions program will be available soon.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Special session organizers will be responsible for the following:

1) Publicizing the session and finding enough papers so that the session can be held.

2) Chairing the special session at Fusion 2009.

3) The Fusion 2009 Organizing Committee may decide to cancel any special session if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, if deadlines are missed, or if too many papers expected to be part of the special session are rejected by the technical committee.

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