23rd ICCRTS: 23rd International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium Pensacola, FL, United States, November 6-9, 2018 |
Conference website | http://www.internationalC2institute.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=23rdiccrts |
Conference program | https://easychair.org/smart-program/23rdICCRTS/ |
Abstract registration deadline | March 15, 2018 |
Submission deadline | May 15, 2018 |
All Technical Paper submissions require the submission of an abstract.
Step 1: Identify the main topic of your paper. If it does not neatly fit into one of the topics in the Call for Papers, pick the topic that you feel is the best fit. Step 2: Provide information about all authors (affiliations and complete addresses) and identify those that the submission correspondence will be sent to (corresponding author(s)). Step 3: The title and abstract of your paper should be entered as plain text and three keywords for the abstract must be provided. Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words. Step 4: If you want to submit the full paper at this time, you can upload it in the “Uploads” section of the EasyChair website. Step 5: If, after a review of your abstract (see acceptance criteria below), it is determined that your paper is appropriate for ICCRTS, you will be invited to submit a draft of the paper for peer review. Some of these invitations will include suggestions that are designed to improve your paper and increase the probability that it will be accepted. Step 6: Submit a draft paper for peer review. Please provide a cover sheet with your paper. This sheet should contain the name of the symposium, the topic of your paper, the title of your submission and author(s) information (affiliations and complete addresses). Please refrain from using ALL CAPS. If your paper contains multiple authors, the agency that each person is affiliated with must appear with theirname. Open the paper beginning with an abstract paragraph. Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words. If this abstract is not the same as the one provided during the abstract submission step, please update the plain text abstract window on the EasyChair website accordingly. Only PDF format will be accepted. Paper page limit is 20 pages (not including appendices, endnotes, or references). There is no fixed template for the paper; however you must ensure that all text is legible. When reporting any set of statistical results, make sure that any data used are fully reported (central tendency, distribution, number of cases in the analysis, confidence intervals, etc.). These may be presented in the body of the paper, or in an appendix. When reporting experimental results, you must provide sufficient information to permit the experiment to be repeated, as per accepted scientific method. This means providing an overview of the experimental design (within-subject, between-subject, Latin square, etc.), describing statistical processing methods used (ANOVA, Regression Analysis, etc.), the measure of statistical validity for any conclusions you draw (in the body of the paper), and the implications of your conclusions. Any statement on statistical validity must be contained in the body of the paper. References can be acknowledged as footnotes throughout the text, or as a list at the end of your document. Step 7: You will receive peer review feedback on your paper (see Technical Paper Acceptance Criteria below). At this time, your paper will be Accepted with or without suggestions for improvement (go to Step 10; Conditionally Accepted provided you revised in accordance with reviewer feedback (go to Step 8); Accepted as a Concept Paper (go to Step 10) ; or Rejected. Step 8: For Conditionally Accepted Papers, submit a revised paper that incorporates reviewers’ feedback. Step 9: You will receive peer review feedback on your revised paper. At this time your paper will be Accepted as a Technical Paper or Accepted as a Concept Paper. Step 10: Provide your presentation slides. Technical Paper Acceptance Criteria The following criteria will be used by track chairs, peer reviewers, and symposium staff in their review process: • The paper is appropriate for the theme and topics of Symposium. • The paper is intellectually stimulating. • The literature review is adequate/appropriate. • The research design is adequate/appropriate. • The data analysis is adequate/appropriate. • The conclusions are reasonable. • The paper advances the state of knowledge. • The paper is logical and consistent. • The paper’s argument is persuasive. • The writing is clear and readable. Technical Papers will not be accepted if: • Topics stray from the conceptual focus of the Symposium.
• Attempts are made to promote or sell specific goods and/or services.
• Claims are unsubstantiated or facts are inaccurate.
• Scientific merit is lacking.
•planations are poor. sion Guidelines
List of Topics
The 23rd ICCRTS will be comprised of tracks on various topics that explore C2 from a number of different perspectives. Authors are asked to think about this year’s theme as they prepare their technical and concept papers and discuss the theme in the context of their research and analyses. However, any submissions that contribute to a critical examination of C2-related subjects are always welcome.
Topic 1: Operational Issues: Multi-domain and Coalition Command and Control
This topic explores the varied C2 challenges associated with working with many different mission partners from a number of different perspectives (e.g. human, social, cultural, technology, activities). How can these environments be better understood? What are their unique C2-related needs, gaps in capability? What are the lessons learned and best practices for working with a mix of different mission partners including: Ministries, Departments, Bureaus, Agencies, Governments, Special Operations, and Conventional Forces?
Topic 2: C2 Concepts, Theory, Policy, and Approaches
This topic is concerned with exploring the evolution of C2 concepts, theory, policy and approaches driven by the need to integrate C2 of Cyber and C2 of Autonomy and enhance C2 Agility to meet the challenges of a complex, connected, and contested environment.
Topic 3: Battlefields of the Future and the Internet of Intelligent Things
This topic is concerned with the challenges associated with operating in a variety of contested and inter-related battlefield domains (physical, cyber, cognitive) with and in the presence of robustly networked augmented humans, robots and systems. These developments are likely to have a profound impact on many military C2, processes, and procedures. This topic will explore both operational and technical issues.
This topic is concerned with the challenge of organizing, orchestrating, and leveraging a variety of humans, teams, organizations, intelligent entities and systems to improve understanding, shared understanding, decision-making, and collaboration to create a variety of synergistic effects in multiple domains. This topic also includes ways of enhancing the agility of these entities.
Topic 5: Highly Connected, Automated, and Autonomous Forces
This topic is concerned with understanding the impact of rapid developments and deployments of networking and information-related technologies on the state of the art and practice of C2. These technologies include the continued evolution of networked ubiquitous sensors and collectors, embedded automation, and autonomous systems.
Topic 6: Interoperability, Integration and Security
This topic is concerned with the challenges of working with a wide range of partners (Joint, Interagency, Multinational, and Public organizations) that are inter-related and inter-dependent in a multitude of different ways in a connected battlespace. Secure interoperability, enabling effective integration between and among partners is essential and must be achieved at different levels (human, technology, processes) between and among different set of entities.
Topic 7: Human Information Interaction
This topic is focused on the relatively new research area focused on operators and the numerous ways in which they interact with information to improve C2. Interaction encompasses mechanisms for querying / searching, visualization, comprehension, sharing, and exploitation of information across multiple modalities (visual, auditory, somatosensory) in real, virtual, and augmented/mixed reality environments. This topic also welcomes papers on components (e.g., intelligent agents) that help to improve the information interaction process.
Topic 8: Methodology, Experimentation, Analysis, Assessment and Metrics
This topic is concerned with approaches for designing and undertaking experiments, developing scenarios, defining metrics and conducting analyses that are related to any aspect of command and control. These include networking, management or governance, information sharing, trust, shared awareness, shared understanding, decision-making, planning, execution, and assessment of ongoing operations.
Topic 9: Knowledge Systems
This topic explores the requirements for, the design of, the employment of, and the assessment of the effectiveness knowledge systems in a variety of mission contexts. This topic includes theory and practice focusing both on theoretical, experimental, and methodological papers as well as case studies, prototype evaluations and applications.
Operating in a contested Cyberspace presents a unique set of C2-related challenges. These include developing appropriate cyberspace situation awareness, understanding the implications of loss, interruption, or compromise of the cyber-related capabilities that support C2, and C2 of cyberspace operations.
Should you find that your proposed submission does not easily fit into any of these areas or cuts across areas, please contact us at iccrts@internationalc2institute.org or further guidance regarding your submission.
Venue
The 23rd International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (ICCRTS 2018) will be hosted by the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) in Pensacola, FL. IHMC is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida State University System and is affiliated with several Florida universities. IHMC is headquartered in Pensacola, FL with a second location in Ocala FL. More information about IHMC can be found at www.ihmc.us.
Pensacola is located in the western panhandle of Florida and is America’s first European settlement, when the Spanish reached Pensacola in 1559. Often referred to as the City of Five Flags, Pensacola has accumulated a strong historical track record under the Spanish, French, British, Confederate, and the US flags. Pensacola is also famous for its beautiful white sand beaches and is home to the US Naval Air Station Pensacola, the National Naval Aviation Museum, and the Blue Angels, the US Navy’s flight demonstration team. More information about Pensacola can be found at https://www.visitpensacola.com/.
IHMC is located in downtown Pensacola, very close to the historic downtown area and within walking distance of many restaurants, bars, and shops. The beautiful Pensacola beaches on the Gulf Coast are just a short drive away. Suggested hotels to stay within the downtown area include the Holiday Inn Express Downtown Pensacola (101 East Main Street, Pensacola, FL 32502), Residence Inn by Marriott Pensacola Downtown (601 E. Chase Street, Pensacola, FL 32502), and Courtyard by Marriott Pensacola Downtown (700 East Chase Street, Pensacola, FL 32502). Within a 15-20 minute drive, there are also a number of hotels on Pensacola Beach that would also be good options. Suggested hotels on Pensacola Beach include the Hilton Pensacola Beach (12 Via De Luna Drive, Pensacola Beach, FL 32561), Holiday Inn Resort Pensacola Beach (14 Via De Luna Drive, Pensacola Beach, FL 32561), Hampton Inn Pensacola Beach (2 Via De Luna Drive, Pensacola Beach, FL 32561), SpringHill Suites by Marriott Pensacola Beach (24 Via De Luna, Pensacola Beach, FL 32561), and Margaritaville Beach Hotel (165 Fort Pickens Rd, Pensacola Beach, FL 32561).
Contact
iccrts@internationalc2institute.org