News and Announcements
Welcome to ISATC SSD TF 2015! The task force belongs to the IEEE CIS Intelligent System Applications Technical Committee.
Best regards,
Rami Abielmona
Task Force Committee
Task Force Members |
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| Rami Abielmona, Larus Technologies, Canada (Chair) |
| James Keller, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA (Vice-Chair) |
| Rafael Falcon, Larus Technologies, Canada (Vice-Chair) |
| Hussein Abbass, University of South Wales, Australia |
| Erik Blasch, AFRL/RI, USA |
| Slawo Wesolkowski, DRDC-CORA, Canada |
| Moufid Harb, Larus Technologies, Canada |
| Emil Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada |
| Sundaram Suresh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Sreeraman Rajan, Carleton University, Canada |
| Chirag Warty, Ahliya Technologies, USA |
| Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada |
| Marco Cococcioni, University of Pisa, Italy |
Purpose
Given the current global security environment, there has been increased interest within the security, surveillance and defense communities in novel techniques for solving challenging problems. The genesis of this interest lies in the fact that repeated attempts of using traditional techniques have left many important problems unsolved, and in some cases, not addressed. New problems have emerged within the broad areas of security and defense that are difficult to tackle with conventional methods, thus requiring new techniques for detecting and adapting to emerging threats. As the problems of surveillance and security have become more prominent within the public and private sectors, it would be a great investment into the future for our Society to have a Task Force that deals with these challenging problems. This Task Force would serve to fulfill that purpose.
This task force will explore the recent advancements and applications of computational intelligence for security, surveillance and defense applications. The purpose of the task force is to present current and ongoing efforts in computational intelligence (e.g. neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence and other emerging learning or optimization techniques) as applied to security, surveillance and defense problems. For example, the task force will present and discuss the theoretical developments and practical applications of multimodal (e.g. video, audio, positional, chemical/biological/radiation, intrusion, radar, moving target indicator sources, environmental, field databases, operator reports) intelligent multi-sensor technologies for data and information fusion, situational assessment, decision-support, collaborative/distributed environment systems deployed in real-world security, surveillance and defense applications.
Technical Community
The technical community includes defense and military organizations, private security firms, video surveillance organizations, first responder units, emergency preparedness units, hazardous materials units, public safety and monitoring organizations. The community also includes outbreak management centres, public health assessment units, transportation planning offices, traffic management centres, police research centres, military establishments and departments, intelligence departments and defense research organizations.
List of Technical Activities
The following is a list of past and future technical activities of this task force:
- 2017 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (IEEE CISDA 2017) November 27 - December 1, 2017 in Hawaii, USA [as part of IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2017)].
- 2016 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (IEEE CISDA 2016) December 6-9, 2016 in Athens, Greece [as part of IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2016)].
- 2016 Canadian Tracking and Fusion Group Workshop (CTFG Workshop 2016) October 24-25, 2016 in Ottawa, Canada
- 2015 Springer volume "Recent Advances in Computational Intelligence in Defense and Security" (CIDS Book), expected Nov-Dec 2015
- 2015 Canadian Tracking and Fusion Group Workshop (CTFG Workshop 2015) November 16-18, 2015 in Ottawa, Canada
- 2015 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (IEEE CISDA 2015) May 26-28, 2015 in Verona, USA
- 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (IEEE CISDA 2014) December 14-17, 2014 in Hanoi, Vietnam
- 2014 Canadian Tracking and Fusion Group Workshop (CTFG Workshop 2014) September 9-10, 2014 in Ottawa, Canada
- 2013 Canadian Tracking and Fusion Group Workshop (CTFG Workshop 2013) September 10-12, 2013 in Ottawa, Canada
- 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (IEEE CISDA 2013) for SSCI 2013 April 15-19, 2013 in Singapore
- 2012 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (IEEE CISDA 2012) July 11-13, 2012 in Ottawa, Canada
- 2012 Computational Intelligence for Security, Surveillance and Defense Special Session at WCCI 2012 (Hybrid) June 12-13, 2012 in Brisbane, Australia
- 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (IEEE CISDA 2011) for SSCI 2011 April 11-15, 2011 in Paris, France
- 2010 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (IEEE CISDA 2010) July 18-23, 2010 at WCCI 2010 in Barcelona, Spain
- 2010 Evolutionary Algorithms for Defense Applications Special Session at WCCI 2010 (CEC) July 18-23, 2010 in Barcelona, Spain
- 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (IEEE CISDA 2009) July 8-10, 2009 in Ottawa, Canada