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SWIFT 2008
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Skovde
Country
Sweden
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<span><h2>Call for Participation and Extended Abstracts</h2> <p><a href=&#8243;http://www&#046;his&#046;se/upload/70120/cfpart&#8211;swift2008&#046;pd…; orgurl=&#8243;/upload/70120/cfpart&#8211;swift2008&#046;pdf&#8243;>Download Call for participation</a><br><a href=&#8243;http://www&#046;his&#046;se/upload/70120/cfp&#8211;swift2008&#046;pdf&#…; target=&#8243;_blank&#8243; orgurl=&#8243;/upload/70120/cfp&#8211;swift2008&#046;pdf&#8243;>Download CFP announcement</a></p> <p>The Information Fusion Research Program at University of Skövde invites you to the Skövde Workshop on Information Fusion Topics (SWIFT) on November 4&#8211;6, 2008&#046; </p> <p>The objective of the workshop is to gather practioners from research and industry in the area of information fusion to get a snapshot of the rapidly developing research field of information fusion and contribute to its further development by providing an arena for discussion and reflection&#046;</p><!&#8211;&#8211;<P>Information on last year&#8242;s workshop may be found at: <A href=&#8243;http://www&#046;his&#046;se/infofusion/swift2007&#8243; orgurl=&#8243;http://www&#046;his&#046;se/infofusion/swift2007&#8243;>http://www&#046…; <h2>News</h2> <ul><li>2008&#8211;10&#8211;27 &#8211; <u><font color=&#8243;#800080&#8243;>Program</font></u> updated</li><li>2008&#8211;10&#8211;14 &#8211; <a href=&#8243;http://www&#046;his&#046;se/templates/vanligwebbsida2&#046;aspx?id=4917…; orgurl=&#8243;http://www&#046;his&#046;se/templates/vanligwebbsida2&#046;aspx?id=4917… program</a> updated with accepted contributions&#046;</li><li>2008&#8211;10&#8211;09 &#8211; <a href=&#8243;http://www&#046;his&#046;se/templates/vanligwebbsida2&#046;aspx?id=4917…; orgurl=&#8243;http://www&#046;his&#046;se/templates/vanligwebbsida2&#046;aspx?id=4917… program</a> added and <a href=&#8243;http://www&#046;his&#046;se/templates/vanligwebbsida2&#046;aspx?id=4936…; orgurl=&#8243;http://www&#046;his&#046;se/templates/vanligwebbsida2&#046;aspx?id=4936… info</a> updated&#046; Early registration deadline changed to Oct 17th&#046;</li><li>2008&#8211;10&#8211;06 &#8211; Updated doc template and latex instructions for camera&#8211;ready <a href=&#8243;http://www&#046;his&#046;se/templates/vanligwebbsida2&#046;aspx?id=5036…; orgurl=&#8243;http://www&#046;his&#046;se/templates/vanligwebbsida2&#046;aspx?id=5036… &#8211; Added fee and payment instructions (<a href=&#8243;http://www&#046;his&#046;se/templates/vanligwebbsida2&#046;aspx?id=4936…; orgurl=&#8243;http://www&#046;his&#046;se/templates/vanligwebbsida2&#046;aspx?id=4936… registration page</a>)</li><!&#8211;&#8211; <LI>2008&#8211;09&#8211;18 &#8211; Updated dates for submission deadline etc&#046; See below&#046;</LI> <LI>2008&#8211;09&#8211;11 &#8211; New invited speaker on Infrastructure: Dr&#046; David Lindgren from the Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI)</LI> <LI>2008&#8211;09&#8211;04 &#8211; Updated info about submissions (see below)</LI> <LI>2008&#8211;07&#8211;24 &#8211; New invited speaker: Erik Blasch, US Air Force Research Laboratory and Wright State University, USA</LI> <LI>2008&#8211;07&#8211;24 &#8211; Updated CFP</LI> &#8211;&#8211;><li>2008&#8211;06&#8211;28 &#8211; Webpage opened</li></ul> <h2>Highlights from the workshop program </h2> <p>The <a href=&#8243;http://www&#046;his&#046;se/templates/vanligwebbsida2&#046;aspx?id=4917…; orgurl=&#8243;/templates/vanligwebbsida2&#046;aspx?id=49177&#8243;>program</a> includes invited talks by </p> <ul><li>Dr&#046; James Llinas (University of Buffalo and Center for multisource information fusion, USA)</li><li>Dr&#046; Ludmila Kuncheva (University of Wales, UK), </li><li>Dr&#046; Erik Blasch (US Air Force Research Laboratory and Wright State University, USA), and</li><li>Dr&#046; David Lindgren (Swedish Defense Research Agency)&#046;</li></ul> <h3>Information Fusion</h3> <p>Briefly information fusion (IF) may be defined as the synergistic use of multiple pieces of information&#046; IF has found its use in various application fields, such as computer vision, robotics, defense, and machine learning&#046; IF is an interdisciplinary subject and concerns a collection of methods for combining information utilizing other disciplines such as digital signal processing, estimation theory, control theory, and artificial intelligence&#046;</p> <p>The research field of IF is not limited to the actual combination of information, but also includes the technological infrastructure of data acquisition and processing, pre&#8211;processing of data, representation of information, control of fusion processes and the acquisition of new information, and user aspects etc&#046; </p> <h3>Submissions</h3>Topics of interest for SWIFT 2008 include, but are not limited to, <ul><li>Situation awareness and human decision&#8211;making <ul><li><em>Fusion aspects on, e&#046;g&#046;, decision&#8211;support, information visualization, mixed&#8211;initiative interaction, HCI, user requirements</em></li></ul> </li><li>Decision and classifier fusion <ul><li><em>Approaches to represent and fuse competitive information from, e&#046;g&#046;, classifiers</em></li></ul> </li><li>Support and infrastructure issues <ul><li><em>Middleware and architectures for fusion, pre&#8211;processing and association of observations, meta&#8211;data, sensor and information modelling</em></li></ul> </li><li>Future directions for information fusion <ul><li><em>Otherwise novel ideas for information fusion and ongoing work</em></li></ul></li></ul> <p>We are inviting authors to submit extended abstracts of 2&#8211;4 pages preferably with relation to the aforementioned topics&#046; The abstracts may include problem descriptions, possible approaches, preliminary results, and industrial experience&#046; 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