May 17 - 21, 2010
The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center
Chicago, Illinois, USA
The 2nd International Workshop on
Collaborative Trusted Sensing (TS 2010)
CALL FOR PAPERS
As part of
The 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2010)
http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/10/main/callForPapers.jsp
Submission Deadline: January 18, 2010
SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES
The daunting challenges of counter-terrorism and homeland defense drive a
capabilities-based research strategy focused on the need to detect, mitigate, and prevent
bold, asymmetric attacks or natural disasters. Decision makers need to be able to
find and resolve
what
is needed
when
it is needed in the minimum cognitive bandwidth (
Universal Situational Awareness
).
Universal Situational Awareness can be defined as "the ability to detect and understand
the capabilities, intents, and locations - as well as the ability to cause harm - of any
entity, no matter where it is, what its nature is, or how it is organized."
This level of situational awareness requires a robust, multi-layer space (for global
access, episodic events), air (regional, persistent surveillance and reconnaissance,
continuous forensics), ground (proximate and varied), and cyberspace (anticipatory and
forensic) sensing architecture with fused knowledge delivery enabling
proactive/anticipatory/predictive/forensic capabilities.
These capabilities, in turn, establish an "unblinking eye" over the area of interest,
providing
anticipatory and persistent decision support
to a wide range of users in preparation for application of a wide range of tailored
effects supporting a wide range of contingencies.
In terms of the community's widely accepted situational awareness components:
- Sensors provide the "sensing"
components (data collection - detection and identification of relevant objects, states,
values, action)
- Collaborative, advanced exploitation
provides:
- Comprehension (the interpretation and synthesis of data that gives meaning in
a given situation)
- Projection (prediction and simulation aimed at possible outcomes, future
scenarios)
- Resolution (intentions, courses of action supporting decisions and planning)
One organization that is aggressively pursuing research in this area, the Air Force
Research Laboratory, uses the term
"Layered Sensing"
to describe the combination of sensors, infrastructure, and collaborative exploitation
techniques to:
"provide decision makers at all levels with timely,
actionable, trusted, and relevant situation awareness to ensure their decisions achieve
the desired effects. Layered Sensing is characterized by the appropriate sensor or
combination of sensors/platforms, collaborative infrastructure and exploitation
capabilities to generate that awareness."
This workshop on Collaborative Trusted Sensing - to be held as part of the 2010
International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS'10) - will focus on
assessing the state of the art in all phases (sensing, routing and storing, discovery,
transformation, analysis, visualization, and exploitation) of Layered Sensing
products. The objective is to highlight key issues, and possible solution spaces, to
use collaboration techniques, tools and principles to realize the Layered Sensing
situational awareness vision. We invite original contributions from researchers and
practitioners in academia, government, and industry in this emerging collaboration
specialty. The special session scope covers
all aspects of sensor technology, wireless sensor
networking, and applications of networked sensor systems
.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topic areas of interest for this workshop focus in three fundamental areas: the
underlying science of establishing trust (where actors will likely be unknown and/or have
various levels of trustworthiness); measurement and portrayal of trust to decision makers;
and abstraction limits in accurately modeling trust in M&S efforts.
Topics of interest in the underlying science of
establishing trust include:
- Methodologies for establishing trust among unknown/un-trusted entities
- Methodologies to portray trust level/accuracy/veracity of data/sensors
- Technologies that enable trusted collaboration among heterogeneous sensors
- Web backbone technologies and methods to provide reliable, trusted sensor
interactions
- Encryption, steganography, embedded data images, non-Type-1 encryption, secure
data sharing
Topics of interest in the measurement and
portrayal of trust to decision makers include:
- New methodologies to measure and display trust in networks and complex systems
- Techniques to enable trusted, collaborative operation across heterogeneous,
distributed sensor systems
- Techniques, tools, and methods to quantify, monitor, and manage trust over
multiple network layers
- Technologies to determine susceptibilities and vulnerabilities
- Testbeds and special purpose test equipment (HW, SW, firmware) to assess
technologies, techniques, and methodologies
- Means to transfer data between network entities and to detect/correct errors
- Methods and techniques to perform network layer measurements to characterize
devices
- Ways to evaluate normal behavior and assess potential for malicious activities
Topics of interest in abstraction limits in
accurately modeling trust in M&S efforts include:
- Thoughts on acceptable levels of abstraction in developing a system of systems
trust model (e.g. decomposing complex systems to achieve an acceptable, trust-worthy
model)
- Use of ontologies in modeling trust
- Models and related tools used to evaluate the trustworthiness of components,
subsystems, systems, and system of system capabilities
- Cost models to evaluate affordability for potential acquisition, fielding,
operation, and maintenance of trust techniques and methodologies
PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers to the workshop organizers
by December 20, 2009. Electronic (pdf) submissions are encouraged and should be sent
to
Michael.Nowak@wpafb.af.mil
and
zywienm@saic.com
. For other review electronic formats, please check with the organizer. Papers
submitted for review should not exceed 10 pages in IEEE single-spaced, double-column
format. Additional pages will be charged at additional fee. Include up to 6 keywords
and an abstract of no more than 350 words. Submissions should also include the
title, authors name, affiliation, e-mail address, fax number and postal address. In
case of multiple authors, an indication of which author is responsible for correspondence
should also be included. If accepted, the final manuscript will follow the CTS 2010
format that is available on the conference Web site at
http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/10/main/callForPapers.jsp
.
Consistent with standard practice, each submitted paper will receive a minimum of three
reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness,
significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Initial selection will be
based on full papers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the
authors to register and present the paper, once accepted. All accepted papers are
required to be presented and will be included in the conference proceedings. It is
our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be
available at the time of the conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
| Paper submission Deadline |
|
January 18, 2010 |
| Notification of Acceptance |
|
February 9, 2010 |
| Registration and Camera Ready Manuscript Due |
|
March 1, 2010 |
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Michael
J. Nowak
Air Force Research Lab
2241 Avionics Circle
WPAFB, OH 45433-7334
Voice: (937) 320-9068 x182
Fax: (937) 320-9037
michael.nowak@wpafb.af.mil
Michael L. Zywien
SAIC
4031 Col Glenn Highway
Beavercreek, OH 45431
Voice: (937) 431-4303
Fax: (937) 431-2244
zywienm@saic.com
Technical Program Committee:
All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the workshop technical program
committee members.
- Dave Bunker, SAIC, Inc., Ohio, USA
- Ken Edge, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Ohio, USA
- John Erickson, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Ohio, USA
- Michael Nowak, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Ohio, USA
- Jim Pollard, SAIC, Inc., Ohio, USA
- Chris Reuter, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Ohio, USA
- Brian Rigling, SAIC Inc., Ohio, USA
- Michael Zywien, SAIC, Inc., Ohio, USA
If you have questions regarding workshop paper submission or the workshop content, please
contact the workshop organizers.
For information or questions about Symposium's paper submission, tutorials, posters,
workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral
consortium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper
formatting, etc., please consult the Symposium's web site at URL:
http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/10/main/callForPapers.jsp
or contact one of the Symposium's Co-Chairs: Bill McQuay at
William.McQuay@us.af.mil
and Waleed W. Smari at
Smari@arys.org
.