From: Mitch Kokar (kokar@coe.neu.edu)
Date: 09/25/01
Dear DAML Researchers,
I am editing a special issue of the Information Fusion journal. It seems to
me that this would be a good opportunity to the DAML community to connect
with the fusion community (which deals with sensory information). Please
contact me if you need more details about this special issue.
I am one of the team members of the Lockheed Martin UBOT Project in the DAML
program.
==Mitch Kokar
Call for papers for a special issue on
Fusion of Symbolic and Sensory Information
in
Information Fusion: An International Journal on Multi-Sensor,
Multi-Source Information Fusion
An Elsevier Science Publication
HTML: http://www.coe.neu.edu/~kokar/SymbolicFusion.htm
PDF: http://www.coe.neu.edu/~kokar/SymbolicFusion.pdf
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Belur V. Dasarathy
belur.d@dynetics.com; ifjournal@yahoo.com
Guest Co-Editor Mieczyslaw M. Kokar
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Tel: 1-617-373-4849;
Fax: 1-617-373-8970
Email: kokar@coe.neu.edu
Deadline for Submission: October 31, 2001
Symbolic information may come into the fusion process from two
directions, or at two different levels. It is most likely that
the requirements for a fusion system are first stated in
natural language. These requirements guide the development of
the fusion system and, ultimately, are translated into code in
a programming language. In such a case, the linguistic
information is transformed and encoded into the fusion
program. On the other hand, one of the information sources may
be represented in textual format. The symbolic information can
be structured (like in databases), semi-structured (e.g.,
annotated using XML, RDF, DAML, or other annotation
languages), formal (e.g., sentences in predicate calculus), or
unstructured (text documents). This special issue is devoted
to research related to information fusion where symbolic
information is processed by the fusion system.
Authors are encouraged to submit original, unpublished
research papers in the areas related to the topic of symbolic
fusion. Papers on both theory and applications of fusion of
symbolic information and other non-symbolic data sources will
be welcome. Specific areas of interest include (but are not
limited to):
- Theoretical aspects (linguistics and fusion, symbolic fusion)
- Design methodologies for symbolic fusion systems
- Formal methods approaches and reasoning in information fusion
- Case studies of designs from symbolic specifications
- Design of fusion systems using formal methods
- Fusion of information in text documents with other sources (imagery,
radar data,
acoustic, IR and other)
- Fusion of annotated data sources
- Fusion of ontologies used for annotation of data sources
Prospective authors should follow the regular paper preparation
guidelines found at
http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/6/2/0/8/6/2/index.htt.
Both regular and correspondence items will be considered.
Submit: a hard copy to the Guest Co-Editor and an electronic copy in PDF or
Postscript format to the Guest Co-Editor: Kokar@coe.neu.edu and to
Editor-in-Chief: belur.d@dynetics.com.
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