WORKSHOP ON FOUNDATIONS OF INFORMATION/DECISION FUSION AND APPLICATIONS TO ENGINEERING PROBLEMS AUG 7-9, 1996, Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Washington DC The developments and results in the area of information/decision fusion have been scattered in articles in rather diverse areas such as political economy, reliability, decision fusion, sensor fusion, forecasting, pattern recognition, etc. Often the basic issues are the same across the disciplines, and the solutions similar if one looks beyond the facade of contextual details. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers in various disciplines to foster an exchange of foundational ideas and methods that cut across the disciplines but at the same time are tied together by the underlying theme of information/decision fusion. Topics of interest include the following: * Mathematics of Information/Decision Fusion * Information/Decision Fusion Problems in Engineering * Distributed Decision Fusion * Fusion Methods in Forecasting and Time Series * Pattern Recognition and Sensor Processing * Computer Vision and Motion Analysis The workshop proceedings will be published and will be available at the workshop. Invited Presentations A number of invited talks are planned by experts in various areas, such as forecasting, robotics, DNA analysis, pattern recognition, and distributed decision fusion. CALL FOR PAPERS: Papers are solicited in all areas of information/decision fusion - both theoretical and application-oriented papers with a foundational focus are welcome. Six copies of the paper must be submitted or a postscript file of the manuscript must be emailed to the following address. Papers must be camera-ready on 8 1/2 by 11 white paper, two-column format in Times or similar font style. Address for Regular Mail: Nageswara S. V. Rao, P. O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6364 Address for Overnight/Express Delivery: Nageswara S. V. Rao, Bldg. 6010, Rm. 220 , Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831. Email for Postscript Files: raons@ornl.gov IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission of Paper: May 20, 1996 * Notification: June 10, 1996 * Final Manuscript Due: July 8, 1996 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jacob Barhen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Reinhold C. Mann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Vladimir Protopopescu,Oak Ridge National Laboratory Nageswara S. V. Rao of Oak Ridge National Laboratory Guna Seetharaman, University of Southwest Louisiana ADVISORY COMMITTEE Oscar Manley, U. S. Department of Energy Rabinder N. Madan, Office of Naval Research Robert L. Launer, Army Research Office FOR MORE DETAILS consult http://avalon.epm.ornl.gov/~nrao/workshop96.html http://www.usl.edu/~guna/workshop96.html email: raons@ornl.gov, or guna@cacs.usl.edu phone: (423) 574-7517; fax: (423) 574-7860 LOCATION Crystal Gateway Marriott, 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA. Ph: (703) 920-3230. This hotel has an easy access to metro and airports. A block of rooms have been reserved at the hotel under the title "Foundations of Information and Decision Fusion". The room charge is $104+tax per night. The cutoff date for making reservations is July 16, 1996. Delta Airlines Delta Airlines is offering the following special discounted fares for the Workshop on Foundations of Information and Decision Fusion. 10% discount off regular coach fares 5% discount off any published domestic fare (except group, inclusive tour, military, government, senior citizen, zone and Visit USA fares) Some restrictions will apply and seats are limited. To obtain these special fares: Call, or have your travel agent call 1-800-241-6760 any day between 8:00am and 11:00pm Eastern Time Refer to File Number I-5355C. Reference to the meeting title is not necessary.