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Sponsored by: Office of Naval Research
Army Research Office
Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense Systems
| Organizers |
| Name |
Present
Institution |
| Avner
Friedman |
IMA
Director |
| John
Goutsias |
Johns
Hopkins University |
| Ronald
Mahler |
Lockheed-Martin
Tactical Systems |
| Hung
T. Nguyen |
New
Mexico State University |
The
purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
other interested parties from academia, industry, and government
who are interested in the application of random set theory to
practical problems of both industrial and government interest.
These applications include: image analysis and modeling, information
and data fusion, and expert/knowledge-based systems.
The workshop will bring together, and encourage creative interdisciplinary
cross-fertilization between, three communities of random-set researchers
which have been largely unaware of each other: (1) theoretical
statisticians, (2) those involved in imaging applications, and
(3) those involved in data fusion and expert system applications.
Rather than "rounding up the usual suspects" the organizers will
mix experienced researchers and practitioners with complementary
interests who do not normally have the opportunity for scientific
interchange. The long-term result of the effort is expected to
be enchancement of imaging, information fusion, and expert system
technologies and the more efficient dissemination of these technologies
to industry, the government, and academia.
Current
plans are that each session will consist of three one-hour talks
and three shorter twenty-minute talks. In each session, the
first one-hour talk will be a plenary presentation given by
a researcher of world standing, whose participation will result
in an infusion of technical expertise not currently available
in the United States. Currently these plenary speakers are:
General random set theory: Ilya Molchanov, CWI, Amsterdam,
the Netherlands
Image analysis: Dominique Jeulin, Ecole de Mines de Paris,
Paris,France
General uncertainty in expert systems: Ulrich Höhle,
Bergische Universitat, Wuppertal,Germany
Cross-disciplinary
discussion: During each session a block of time will be
set aside to facilitate cross-disciplinary interaction between
industrial, government, and academic participants. In particular,
time will be available for short informal talks by the attendees.
Banquet:
On Saturday, August 24, the workshop will conclude with an evening
banquet.
Proceedings:
The workshop papers will appear in conference proceedings to
be published as a volume in the IMA
Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications series (Springer-Verlag). Plenary and invited speakers
are expected to have a final camera-ready copy of their paper
ready at the beginning of the conference. The camera-ready copy
must conform to the Springer-Verlag publication
format.
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