AFCEA and George Mason University's Center of Excellence in C4I have agreed to hold jointly a new conference with the goal of involving more academics in C4I technology and systems R&D. We believe it is in the best interests of the defense community to bring together leading academics with participants from industry and government. Together we will pursue leading-edge ideas that can have practical application in dealing with today's hot issues in C4I systems, services, and technologies. The conference will focus on a selected set of such topics.

We seek a strong, provocative collection of papers. The papers could have been presented elsewhere but they must address current, cutting-edge issues in a compelling manner. Our program committee members have been recruited based on their involvement at that cutting edge.

Previously unpublished papers will be published on our website; all others will be linked (if already published online) or republished there.

The deadline for paper submission is 1 March 2008.

Program Committee
  Dr. Mark Pullen, GMU, Chair
  Dr. Chris Barrett, Virginia Tech
  Ms. Deborah Dunie, CACI
  Mr. Jim Griggs, AFCEA
  Dr. Joe Guerci, Consultant
  Mr. Chris Gunderson, Joint Interoperability Test Command
  Dr. Greg Hanson, CIO, US Senate
  Dr. Michael Hieb, GMU
  Dr. Kathryn Blackmond Laskey, GMU
  Mr. Bob Latiff. SAIC
  Dr. Alexander H. Levis, GMu
  Mr. George Lukes, Institute for Defense Analyses
  Mr. Dennis McLain, Sun Microsystems Federal
  Dr. Susan K. Numrich, Institute for Defense Analyses
  Dr. Jens Pohl, California Polytechnic State University
  MG (Ret) Conrad Ponder, Booz Allen Hamilton
  Mr. Michael Powers, Army Topographic Engineering Center
  Lt Col Carl Oros, USMC, Naval Postgraduate School
  Ms. Susan Riley, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
  Dr. Harry Van Trees, GMU
  Dr. Lee Wagenhals, GMU
  Dr. Dan Wiener, BAE
  Dr. Jim Withington, Sage Management

Planned Session Topics

  Service Oriented Architectures
    Architecture/performance
    Engineering/methodologies
    Push systems for timely information
    Information requirements definition

  Information Exploitation
    Decision Informatics
    Sensor signal processing, tracking & fusion

  Geospatial Information in C4I
    Combining government and commercial software
    Geospatial information system integration in C4I systems
    Human Terrain

  Interoperability
    Interoperating collaborative applications
    C4I-M&S interoperability

Paper Submission

While this is not an IEEE conference, we will use the IEEE standard paper format which is available at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html . Use the 8.5x11 two-column format and ignore the IEEE copyright guidance (we'll contact selected authors about copyright later).

Papers should be no more than 12 pages in length. Please upload to http://c4i.gmu.edu/symposium_papers

Potential authors also may submit an abstract or double-spaced draft for Program Committee comment, via the upload site. We'll respond as promptly as we are able.

Key Dates
  Full paper draft submission: 1 Mar 2008
  Notification of acceptance: 15 Mar 2008
  Ready for posting paper due date: 1 May 2008

Questions may be sent to c4i-conf@c4i.gmu.edu.