Call for Papers Sensor Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications VI (or36); SPIE's 16th Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, 1-5 April 2002, Orlando, FL. http://spie.org/conferences/Calls/02/or/confs/OR36.html Abstracts for this conference are due by 20 August 2001. Manuscripts are due by 7 January 2002. This conference is one of two conferences being offered under the new track Information Fusion and Knowledge Discovery Technologies that reflect the growing emphasis around the globe on the Information Technology area. This conference is designed to highlight the progress in the exponentially growing field of multisensor, multisource information fusion and will cover all the different facets of information fusion systems starting from the conceptual design through development, testing, and fielding. The main objective of the conference will be to promote synergistic exploitation of the ideas from the different areas of endeavor that together constitutes the field of information fusion. In particular, the emphasis will be on the triplet: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications. Papers dealing with intelligent techniques that are relevant to fusion processing are actively sought. Applications from both defense and civilian domains (such as robotics, medicine, and space, as well as those dealing with non-traditional information sources) are welcome to further a fruitful exchange of issues and ideas. Studies dealing with real-world issues, such as computational demands, real-time constraints, and the like are particularly encouraged. Papers that address one or more of the questions of what, where, why, when, and how in the context of multisource information fusion, fall within the scope of the conference. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: multisensor, multisource fusion system architectures data, feature, decision, and multilevel fusion multiclassifier fusion elucidative fusion systems multilook temporal fusion active, passive, and mixed sensor suites adaptive and self-improving fusion system architectures multisensor and distributed sensor system design fusion learning in imperfect, imprecise, and incomplete environments intelligent techniques for fusion processing computational resources optimization special purpose hardware dedicated to fusion applications system design and algorithmic issues linguistic information fusion including semantic webs neurophysiologically motivated architectures and applications biomedical applications including ICU patient monitoring, health care, and diagnostics other real-world applications including military and civilian fields such as robotics, mine detection, remote sensing, transportation systems, document analysis, character recognition, identity verification, and the like. Proposals for special sessions devoted to specific topics are also welcome. Please contact the chairman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your ideas. This conference with its emphasis on rapid dissemination of information is intended to complement archival peer-reviewed journals such as Information Fusion. Papers presented at this conference, with significant additions, modifications, and enhancements, may be considered, if the authors so choose, for possible publication in the Information Fusion Journal through its normal review process.
