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OBJECTIVES

The purpose of tutorials is to educate conference attendees about specific topics, or to provide background necessary to understand technical advances. Tutorials should then serve one or more of the following objectives:

Introduce novices to major topics of Information Fusion research
Provide instruction in established practices and methodologies
Survey a mature area of Information Fusion research and/or practice
Motivate and explain an Information Fusion topic of emerging importance

List of Accepted Tutorials for Fusion 2009

The following is a list of all tutorials appearing at Fusion 2009. Shown for each tutorial is the author(s) and title (one or two 3 hour sessions), which are hyperlinked to a detailed abstract describing each tutorial. Two session tutorials will be given a lunch break in between. Note, all tutorials will be scheduled on Monday, 6 July.

1) Ron Mahler (Lockheed Martin), "Implementation and Application of PHD/CPHD Filters 2009" (3 hour session)

2) Angelia Nedich (University of Illinois), "Decentralized in Network Information Processing" (3 hour session)

3) Elzbieta Dura (Lexware Labs Ltd and University of Skövde), "Information Retrieval and Extraction from Fusion Proceedings" (3 hour session)

4) X. Rong Li (University of New Orleans), Vesselin P. Jilkov (University of New Orleans), "Maneuvering Target Tracking: Overview and Selected Topics" (Two 3 hour sessions)

5) H. B. Mitchell (ELTA Systems Ltd), "Multi-Sensor Data Fusion: An Overview with Emphasis on Recent Developments" (3 hour session)

6) Vikram Krishnamurthy (University of British Columbia), "Sensor Scheduling and Radar Resource Management" (3 hour session)

7) Jean Dezert (ONERA), Florentin Smarandache (University of New Mexico), "Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion" (3 hour session)

8) Erik Blasch (AFRL/RYAA), "Information Fusion Systems Evaluation" (3 hour session)

9) Subrata Das (Xerox European Research Center), "Computational Approaches to Situation Assessment and Decision Support" (3 hour session)

10) Yaakov Bar-Shalom (University of Connecticut), "Multitarget Tracking and Multisensor Fusion" (Two 3 hour sessions)

11) Roy Streit (Metron), "Nonhomogeneous Poisson Point Processes and Their Applications" (3 hour session)

12) Wolfgang Koch (FGAN-FKIE), "Sensor Data Fusion: Methods and Advanced Applications" (Two 3 hour sessions)

13) Mitch Kokar (Northeastern University), "Ontology Based Situation Awareness and High Level Fusion: Methods and Tools" (3 hour session)

14) Audun Jøsang (University of Oslo), "Reasoning with Subjective Logic" (3 hour session)

Guidelines for Submitting Proposals

SUBMISSION (Proposals are due February 2, 2009)

The tutorial should attract a wide audience, provide an introduction to the chosen research area and it should also cover the most important works in depth. Proposals should not exclusively focus on the presenter's own work nor promote commercial products.

Prospective organizers of a tutorial must notify the Tutorial Chair, Ivan Kadar ( ikadar@systemssciences.com), of their intention by sending him 2 to 4 pages containing the following information:

Basic information--Title of the tutorial, contact information for the presenter(s) (name, email address, affiliation), duration (half day or full day), keywords, and scope or objective of the proposed tutorial.

Target audience--Characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial, including prerequisite knowledge.

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

Detailed outline--A detailed outline of the tutorial addressing the following issues: references to past tutorials or teaching materials, why the topic is of interest for Fusion 2009 attendees and the expected benefit to participant, depth and scope of the exposed topics, excercises, software demonstrations, etc.

Presenters' biography--A brief resume of the presenter, highlighting her/his background in the tutorial area and evidences of teaching experience.

PROPOSAL EVALUATION

The evaluation of the proposal will take into account its general interest for Fusion 2009 attendees, the quality of the proposal as well as the expertise of the presenters.

The selection of the tutorials to be included in the final Fusion 2009 program will also be based upon the need to avoid strictly overlapping tutorials, and the need to limit the overall number of selected tutorials.

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