Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations, Southampton, UK

Abbrevation

KSCO

Link

http://www.ksco.info/ksco/2009.html

City

Southampton

Country

Deadline Paper

2009-01-02

Start Date

2009-03-31

End Date

2009-04-01

Abstract

<h3>CONFERENCE INFORMATION</h3> KSCO – Knowledge Systems For Coalition Operations is an international working group exploring research in Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations. KSCO regularly organizes a technical conference where practitioners and key decision makers in coalition operations management meet and discuss with researchers from areas of knowledge–based systems, planning and multi–agent systems, exchange experience and ideas, share inspiration and suggest novel concepts. It can also lead to joint project proposals. After successful events in Edinburgh, UK, Toulouse, France, Prague, Czech Republic, and Waltham, MA, USA, the next KSCO event is to be held in Southampton, UK. KSCO–09 welcomes submission of original research and application papers related to coalition operations management. Both full–length (10 page) and poster session (4 page) submissions are welcome. We will review theoretical, experimental, methodological papers, but we are especially interested in case studies, prototype evaluations and application reports. KSCO organizers particularly encourage submission of reports presenting larger coalition related national and international projects and programs. Authors wishing to present emerging efforts, especially student projects, are encouraged to submit papers for the poster session. Key KSCO topics include: <ul type=″disc″><li class=″MsoNormal″ style=″″>Deployed systems, case studies </li><li class=″MsoNormal″ style=″″>Innovative theory and techniques for coalition formation </li><li class=″MsoNormal″ style=″″>Requirements for knowledge–based coalition planning and operations </li><li class=″MsoNormal″ style=″″>Knowledge–based approaches to command and control </li><li class=″MsoNormal″ style=″″>Knowledge–based approaches to coalition logistics </li><li class=″MsoNormal″ style=″″>Applications and requirements for knowledge–based coalition planning </li><li class=″MsoNormal″ style=″″>Knowledge–based approaches to Operations–Other–Than–War </li><li class=″MsoNormal″ style=″″>Multi–agent systems and the concept of agency in coalitions </li><li class=″MsoNormal″ style=″″>Tools and techniques for knowledge–based simulation and modeling of coalition operations </li><li class=″MsoNormal″ style=″″>Security and maintenance of private information or knowledge in coalition operations </li><li class=″MsoNormal″ style=″″>Autonomous vs. centrally managed coalition operations </li><li class=″MsoNormal″ style=″″>Mobility, agile and autonomous computing in coalition operation </li><li class=″MsoNormal″ style=″″>Complexity issues and scalability in coalition operations </li><li class=″MsoNormal″ style=″″>Cross–cultural issues in coalition operations</li></ul>