[IEEEComMag-SIMA] CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine feature topic on Situation Management

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IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on

Situation Management

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: March 29, 2009
SUBMIT TO: http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com

Many domains, such as battlefield operations management,
disaster response and crisis management, and physical infrastructure
and cyber security monitoring are characterized by dense real-time
sensing, large numbers of distributed heterogeneous information sources,
and a variety of distributed, communicating, and network-enabled actors
and agents. In these domains, there is a need to automatically and
continuously identify and act on complex, often incomplete and
unpredictable dynamic situations. As a result, effective methods of
situation recognition, prediction, reasoning and control are required —
these are collectively identifiable as Situation Management.

Situation Management intersects with trends in information fusion,
intelligent sensing, sensing grids, complex event processing
architectures, and situation-awareness. Often situations involve
a large number of inter-dependent dynamic objects that change their
states in time and space, and engage each other into fairly complex
relations. From a management viewpoint it is important to understand
the situations in which these objects participate, to recognize emerging
trends and potential threats, and to undertake required actions.
Understanding of dynamic situations requires complex cognitive modeling
of situations and continuous sensing, collection, and fusion of signal
and human intelligence events and reports.

With growing interests from the research, military and industrial
communities, there is a growing need to further formulate the domain
of situation management as well as to highlight recent progress in
research and applications in this area. This special issue will focus on
recent advances as well as overview papers in situation management.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following topics:

* Large-scale sensor-based data collection architectures
* Measurement and sensing grids
* Event correlation complex event processing (CEP),
and distributed event processing
* Multi-source, multi-resolution, hierarchical and high-level
information fusion
* Autonomic and self-organizing sensing and fusion architectures
* Situation management in tactical, ad hoc, sensor, mobile and
emergency communication networks
* Reflective sensing and fusion
* Situation monitoring and context awareness
* Applications in cyber security, disaster response, crisis management,
home land security, intelligent transportation, health care, and
enterprise management
* Situation modeling, reasoning and decision support
* Predictive situation modeling
* Coupling with Dynamic Data-Driven Application System (DDDAS)
grids and systems
* Multi-agent systems and distributed situation management
* Integration with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and enterprise
event processors
* Peer-to-peer architectures for situation awareness
* Deployment experience and testbeds

Schedule

Manuscript submission: March 29, 2009
Final manuscripts due: June1, 2009
Publication date: August 1, 2009

Submission

Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style
comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the field. All
submissions will be reviewed based on technical merit, relevance and readability. Articles should have no more than 4,500 words, no more
than 6 tables/figures, and no more than 15 references. Authors must follow
the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html.

All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through
IEEE Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com).
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Contacts
Dr. Gabriel Jakobson, Altusys Corp. jakobson@altusystems.com
Dr. John Buford, Avaya Labs Research buford@avaya.com
Dr. Lundy Lewis, SNHU l.lewis@snhu.edu