NOTE: Paper submission date: July 15, 2007
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Call for Papers: OIC 2007: ONTOLOGY FOR THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
Towards Effective Exploitation and Integration of Intelligence Resources
Hilton Hotel, Columbia, MD
November 28-30, 2007
(November 30th is CLASSIFIED: those with TS/SCI clearances only and will
be in Hanover, MD, near Columbia, MD).
The increasing volume, variety and velocity of intelligence analysis
requires new approaches that will enable greater flexibility, precision,
timeliness and automation of analysis to maximize valuable human
resources in responding to fast-evolving threats.
Ontology-based technology as applied in areas such as bioinformatics has
demonstrated the possibility of gains along all of these dimensions. The
time is ripe to extend these gains also to other spheres.
This conference will bring together experts on ontology-based technology
with particular experience in the problems facing the intelligence
community. It will feature invited talks from prominent ontologists and
intelligence community leaders, as well as submitted papers focusing
especially on the creation of public-domain ontology resources to
support the work of intelligence analysts.
Conference Director: Barry Smith (National Center for Ontological
Research, Buffalo)
Scientific Committee
Kathleen Stewart Hornsby (Maine) (Chair); Bill Andersen (Ontology Works);
Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer); Werner Ceusters (Buffalo); Randall Dipert
(Buffalo); Terry Janssen (Lockheed); Kathryn Laskey (George Mason
University); Kevin Lynch (CIA); Leo Obrst (MITRE); Chris Welty (IBM
Research)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Submissions are invited of short papers in pdf format (up to 1500 words)
designed to serve as the basis for 20-minute oral presentations at the
conference. Accepted papers will be published (at speaker discretion) in
the proceedings, in both an online version and prospectively a printed
version. The authors of selected papers will be invited to submit longer
versions for publication in volume 1 of a new series on Ontology for the
Intelligence Community.
Papers may address a wide variety of issues addressing the ontology
needs of the intelligence community. We are especially interested in
papers devoted to the task of creating an interoperable suite of
public-domain ontologies relevant to intelligence analysis, covering
areas such as:
emergency response
urban settings
geospatial / cartographic
ethnicity
social networks
images and imaging
transportation
moving object tracking
religion and politics
biology and health
The ontologies should be combinable at will in such a way as to support
the integration of data describing different domains. We encourage
submissions that describe scenarios where multiple ontologies are linked
to support higher-order analysis and reasoning over complex data.
Questions to be addressed might include: which domains should be
included in such a suite of ontologies? how can we ensure that
ontologies interoperate in useful ways? how can we address the specific
problems arising in virtue of the partiality and uncertainty of
intelligence data? how can we use domain ontologies to organize, display
and share intelligence analysis hypotheses while also maintaining a
clean distinction between types and instances in knowledge
representation artifacts?
CLASSIFIED SESSION
A CLASSIFIED paper and presentation/demo day will be held on the 30th
only for those holding TS/SCI Clearances. Related Intelligence
Community project participants are encouraged to submit unclassified and
classified presentations. Because we are still in the process of
determining the submission procedure for this, UNCLASSIFIED inquiries
about CLASSIFIED submissions or procedures can be addressed to Leo Obrst
(lobrst@xxxxxxxxx) or Terry Janssen (terry.janssen@xxxxxxxx).
Unclassified paper submissions with CLASSIFIED Demonstrations are also
encouraged. We will have more general guidelines for CLASSIFIED
submissions shortly.
Details on how to pass clearances, and to whom, will be provided to
those who sign up for the CLASSIFIED day on the 30th.
Deadlines
Receipt of papers: July 15, 2007
Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2007
Further information regarding submission will be provided in due course
at
http://ncor.us/oic2007
For inquiries please write to ncor@xxxxxxxxxxxx
This meeting is sponsored by the NATIONAL CENTER FOR ONTOLOGICAL
RESEARCH - BUFFALO.
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Dr. Leo Obrst The MITRE Corporation, Information Semantics
lobrst@xxxxxxxxx Information Discovery & Understanding, Command and
Control Center
Voice: 703-983-6770 7515 Colshire Drive, M/S H305
Fax: 703-983-1379 McLean, VA 22102-7508, USA