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ONTOLOGY FOR THE
INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY
OIC 2008
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 2 of the series on Semantic
Technology, Information Sharing and Intelligence Analysis.
Papers may address a wide variety of issues addressing the ontology needs of the intelligence community.
We are especially interested in papers on
the following topics:
- Ontologies and reasoning under conditions of uncertainty
- Ontological issues related to source credibility and evidential pedigree
- Ontological issues related to the use of images and other kinds of sensing devices
- Creating an interoperable suite of public-domain ontologies relevant to intelligence
analysis covering areas such as:
- Social networks
- Ethnicity, religion and politics;
- Spatial and temporal phenomena
- Conditions that foster or inhibit outbreak of violence
- Infrastructure
- Biology and health
- Emergency response
- Usability issues relating to semantic technology
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submissions due:
August 10, 2008
- Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2008
- Camera-ready papers due: October 31, 2008
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Short papers (up to 1500 words) can be submitted as pdf files through the conference
submission site.
Submissions will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee.
Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the above
topic list, originality, significance, topicality, and clarity. Since
all accepted papers will be presented at the conference, we require
that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered
participant at the OIC 2008 Conference. Submissions are accepted only
in electronic format. Submissions exceeding the 1500 word limit will
not be reviewed.
Send to:
Kathryn Blackmond Laskey
Associate Director, C4I Center
4400 University Drive, MS 4B5
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
klaskey@gmu.edu
Accepted papers should be submitted using the IEEE format with a maximum
total page limit of 5 (including references and appendices, if applicable).
Use this IEEE link for more detailed typesetting instructions:
http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html
IEEE format example
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