It is our pleasure to announce the Fourth Annual Integrated Sensing & Decision Support (ISDS) Workshop to be hosted by MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, on 10–11 April 2007.

The objective of this workshop series is to share project and technology advancements with the ISDS community. To foster this goal and highlight ISR system needs, the theme of this year’s workshop is “Building Shared Awareness.” The workshop Technical Committee has solicited presentations and demonstrations from military operational commands, the National Intelligence Community, industry, and academia. Last year’s ISDS Workshop generated much interest and information exchange within the Integrated Sensing & Decision Support community. The 2007 ISDS Workshop promises to be just as engaging. We invite you to submit an abstract and look forward to your participation.

Submission Details

Presentations on innovative ISDS technology and architecture advances, as well as live system demonstrations, are solicited by this Call for Presentations. The Workshop will consist of both unclassified and classified presentations covering, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Sensor constellations & swarm architectures
• New multimode sensor technologies
• Multisensor tasking & resource management
• Multi-INT exploitation
• Behavior patterns & anomaly detection algorithms
• Automated or assisted data correlation & fusion
• ISR information & knowledge management
• Situational awareness, indications, and warnings
• Novel approaches to data mining of ISR products
• Persistent surveillance architectures
• National, joint & service ISDS concepts of operations
• ISR operational “Lessons Learned”
• Field & simulated experimentation activities
• Conceptual systems, algorithms, or approaches

Authors are invited to submit a short, unclassified abstract (300 words or less) for a 25-minute oral presentation or a live system demonstration. All submissions will be competitively reviewed and judged on their technical merit, novelty, and relevance to ISDS.

The workshop will be conducted at the SECRET level and will include both classified and unclassified presentations. Since the presentations will be published in the workshop proceedings, speakers are asked to prepare charts of the highest quality in electronic format.

Abstract Submission Guidelines

Please submit your short, unclassified abstract (300 words or less) via email to isds@ll.mit.edu. Your abstract will be evaluated by the ISDS Technical Committee, which is comprised of U.S. citizens. By submitting an abstract, you are certifying that you have followed your organization’s release review requirements for submitting to a classified workshop.

Abstracts with graphical and/or quantitative information are encouraged so please feel free to attach your abstract, in Microsoft Word format only, to your email message.

In addition to the text of your abstract, please be sure to submit the following information:

1. Title of presentation
2. Author list including, for each author:
• Prefix (Dr., Prof., Mr., Ms., etc.)
• Full name
• Organization
• Mailing address
• Phone number
• Email address
  
3. Indicate first author, presenting author, and corresponding author
4. Indicate if abstract is being submitted for consideration as a 25-minute oral presentation or a system demonstration
5. Indicate any special audiovisual or technical requirements for your presentation or demonstration

Please submit your abstract submissions via email to isds@ll.mit.edu, preferably in pdf format or ascii text, by 19 January 2007 (extended deadline).

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