ADVANCED ALGORITHMS FOR EFFECTIVELY FUSING HARD

NATO LECTURE SERIES STO IST-134
BACKGROUND
Thème
The mission of STO is to conduct and promote co-operative
research and information exchange. STO consists of a three
level organization: the Science and Technology Board
(STB), the Panels and the Technical Teams. The Information Systems Technology (IST) Panel is one of the seven
Panels under the STB.
Série de conférences de l’IST-134 – ALGORITHMES
PERFECTIONNÉS POUR LA FUSION EFFICACE DE
DONNÉES OBJECTIVES ET SUBJECTIVES
The Mission of the Information Systems Technology (IST)
Panel is to advance and exchange appropriate technologies
in order to provide timely, affordable, dependable, secure
and relevant information and to improve C3I systems including special focus on Interoperability and Cyber Security.
THEME
ADVANCED ALGORITHMS FOR
EFFECTIVELY FUSING
HARD AND SOFT INFORMATION
Fraunhofer FKIE, Wachtberg (DEU)
October 12 - 13, 2015
University of Salamanca (ESP)
October 15 - 16, 2015
US Army Research Lab, Adelphi, MD (USA)
November 16 - 17, 2015
DRDC, Ottawa (CAN)
November 19 - 20, 2015
Please respect latest enrolment dates (no fees):
NATO Nations:
September 25, 2015 (European locations)
October 30, 2015 (USA/Canada locations)
Non-NATO Nations: September 18, 2015 (European locations)
October 23, 2015 (USA/Canada locations)
This Lecture Series is open to citizens from NATO
and Partnership for Peace Nations
organized by
Information Systems Technology Panel
For NATO’s crisis reaction and peace-keeping missions,
information dominance has been a proven key element for
preventing open conflicts. To this end, vast amounts of
“hard” and “soft” data have to be exploited and intelligently
“fused” to usable pieces of operationally relevant information. In this process, a variety of data from very diverse
sources has to be considered: distributed networks of heterogeneous sensors, networking data base systems, providing context and background information, and human observers delivering language-encoded messages via various
channels. Only on a sound informational basis can reasonable and morally justifiable decisions be made. Since
NATO’s success story of preserving peace has been depending to a large extent on NATO’s broad societal acceptance, strict boundary conditions defined by fundamental
human rights are particularly relevant to future missions.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED
The Lecture Series Team will present, in a tutorial fashion,
core methodologies and algorithms that solve the various
aspects of “hard” and “soft” information fusion. The lectures
will address sensor and textual data in its physical and environmental context (typically determined while operating the
system), partially known context (often described by statistical models), and language-encoded context. Often these
categories do not appear isolated from each other. Even
legal and socio-political constraints are context information
that must be properly taken into account. The lectures will
extend the highly successful paradigm of sensor data fusion
to broader applications. On the other hand, computerlinguistic approaches enable fusion of language-encoded
information that was out of reach before.
Dans les missions de l’OTAN de gestion de crises et/oui de
maintien de la paix, il a été démontré que la maitrise de
l’information est un élément essentiel pour empêcher les
conflits ouverts. À cette fin, de grandes quantités de données précises et d’informations incertaines doivent être
exploitées et intelligemment « fusionnées » en renseignements utilisables et pertinents pour les opérations. Au
cours de ce processus, il convient d’étudier toute une série
de données provenant de sources très diverses : réseaux
distribués de capteurs hétérogènes, systèmes de mise en
réseau de bases de données fournissant des informations
de context et de fond, observateurs humains adressant des
messages en langage chiffré par différentes voies. Pour être
raisonnables et moralement justifiables, les décisions ne
peuvent reposer que sur une base d’informations saines.
Les succès de l’OTAN dans la préservation de la paix sont
en grande partie dus à sa très large acceptation par la société, il est particulièrement important, pour des missions
futures, de respecter des conditions strictes d’intervention
définies par les droits fondamentaux de la personne.
SUJETS ABORDÉS
L’équipe conférenciers présentera, sous forme de tutoriel,
les méthodologies et les algorithmes essentiels qui répondent aux différents aspects de la fusion des données précises et des informations incertaines. Les conférences traiteront des données des capteurs et des données textuelles
dans leur contexte physique et leur environnement (habituellement déterminés pendant l’exploitation du système),
dans leur contexte partiellement connu (souvent décrit par
des modèles statistiques) et dans le contexte d’un langage
chiffré. Il est fréquent que ces catégories ne soient pas
strictement séparées les unes des autres. Les contraintes
légales et socio-politiques, elle-mêmes, sont des informations contextuelles qui doivent être correctement prises
en compte. Les conférences étendront le paradigme très
efficace de la fusion des données des capteurs à un plus
grand nombre d’applications. D’autre part, les approches de
linguistique informatique permettent désormais une fusion
naguère hors de portée des informations en langage chiffré.
LECTURE SERIES DIRECTOR
DAY ONE
08:00
Registration
08:30
STO overview and introduction
09:00
Analytic combinatorics in data fusion: the
hard, the soft and the approximate I
R. Streit
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Fundamentals of multiple-hypothesis
tracking
S. Coraluppi
12:30
Lunch Break
13:30
Hard & soft fusion – military applications
W. Koch
15:00
Coffee Break
15:30
Architectures for contextual information
exploitation
J. Garcia
Priv.-Doz. Dr Wolfgang KOCH (DEU)
Fraunhofer FKIE
Phone: +49.228.9435.373
[email protected]
Prof. Dr. Roy STREIT
Metron, Fraunhofer FKIE,
and University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
USA
[email protected]
Dr. Stefano CORALUPPI
Systems & Technology Research
Woburn MA
USA
[email protected]
17:00
Aspects of uncertainty in soft data fusion
K. Rein
18:30
End of Day 1
09:00
Analytic combinatorics in data fusion: the
hard, the soft and the approximate II
R. Streit
Dr. Kellyn REIN (DEU)
Fraunhofer FKIE
Wachtberg
Germany
[email protected]
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Recent advances in multiple-hypothesis
tracking
S. Coraluppi
12:30
Lunch Break
13:30
Hard & soft fusion – security applications
W. Koch
15:00
Coffee Break
15:30
Ontologies for representation and exploitation of contextual information
J. Garcia
17:00
When triples are not enough – exploring
context issues within soft data
K. Rein
18:30
End of Day 2
All presentations and discussions will be in English.
LECTURE SERIES IST-134
WACHTBERG (DEU) ……... Oct. 12-13, 2015
LECTURERS
Prof. Dr. Jesus GARCIA
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Madrid
Spain
[email protected]
DAY TWO
APPLICATION TO ENROL
SALAMANCA (ESP) …………….
Oct. 15-16, 2015
ADELPHI, MD (USA) ……… Nov. 16-17, 2015
OTTAWA, (CAN) ………….. Nov. 19-20, 2015
Please respect the latest Enrolment Dates (no fees)
NATO Nations:
September 25, 2015 (European locations)
October 30, 2015 (USA/Canada locations)
Non-NATO Nations: September 18, 2015 (European locations)
October 23, 2015 (USA/Canada locations)
Enrolment must be made via internet only at
http://www.cso.nato.int/Meetings.aspx
NOTE: if you enrolled for other RTO-STO activities in
the past, please use the same e-mail address as previously. If your e-mail address has changed, please inform
the STO-CSO contact before enrolling.
LOCAL COORDINATORS
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Wolfgang KOCH, October 12 – 13, 2015
Fraunhofer FKIE, Wachtberg (DEU)
Phone: +49.228.9435.373
[email protected]
Prof. Juan Manuel CORCHADO, October 15 – 16, 2015
University of Salamanca (ESP)
Phone: : +34.923.294.430
[email protected]
Dr. Tien PHAM, November 16 – 17, 2015
US Army Research Lab, Adelphi, MD (USA)
Phone: +1.301.394.4282
[email protected]
Dr. Bhashvam BALAJI, November 19 – 20, 2015
DRDC, Ottawa (CAN)
Phone: +1.613.998.2215
[email protected]
Once your enrolment has been validated, you will receive a General Information Package with the latest
information on travel, accommodation and local arrangements. Please note that participants are to make
their own travel arrangements and hotel bookings. The
are no fees to be paid for attending to the lecture series.
If you are unable to enrol via the internet,
please contact
NATO Collaboration Support Office (CSO)
Enrolment coordinator Anne Reboul
PHONE +33 (0)1 55 61 22 67
FAX
+33 (0)1 55 61 96 28
[email protected]