[agents] FUSION'14 Special Session on Trust in Fused Information

[Sensoy, Murat]

(Advanced apologies for cross posting)

17th International Conference on Information Fusion, July 7-10, 2014 Salamanca/SPAIN

Special Session on Trust in Fused Information


Dear colleagues


We cordially invite you to submit contributions for the Trust in Fused Information special session at the International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2014), which will take place in Salamanca, Spain, from 7th July to 10th July, 2014; the Fusion conference is the premier venue to discuss the advancement in information fusion research.

On the back of an exciting and successful sessions at Fusion 2012 and 2013, this year, we propose a session to review the advancements made in trustworthiness, reliability, and fusion of multimodal information where uncertainty associated with data/information plays a key role in making informed decisions, especially in data-to-decision (D2D) domain.

The selected contributions will be presented orally at the conference and be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE.  Furthermore, selected papers will be invited to submit extensions to a journal (SCI indexed) special issue.

The topics of interest include but not limited to the following:
 - Trust estimation and modeling
 - Trust-based fusion
 - Trust and evidential reasoning
 - Reliability of fused information
 - Trust metrics for reliable fusion
 - Conflict detection and resolution
 - Data-to-Decision frameworks
 - Stream reasoning and trust
 - Integrating trust to information fusion
 - Trustworthy crowdsourcing

If you want to submit a paper to this special session, please contact
Murat Sensoy (murat.sensoy at ozyegin.edu.tr) and Geeth de Mel (grdemel at us.ibm.com).


Important Deadlines
- Paper submission date March 5, 2014
- Notification date May 10, 2014
- Paper ready deadline May 26, 2014
- Conference dates July 7-10, 2014

Paper Submission
Detailed instructions for paper submissions can be found at http://www.fusion2014.org/contributions

The papers should be submitted through the conference paper submission system at the conference web site http://www.fusion2014.org before March 5, 2014. While submitting your paper, please indicate that the paper is for this session. A menu listing all special sessions may appear on the paper submission site.


Organising Committee

Murat Sensoy
Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey
murat.sensoy at ozyegin.edu.tr

Geeth de Mel
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, NY, USA
grdemel at us.ibm.com

Lance Kaplan
US Army Research Lab, Adelphi, MD, USA
lkaplan at ieee.org

Tien Pham
US Army Research Lab, Adelphi, MD, USA
tien.pham1.civ at mail.mil


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