IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE 

                            Special Issue on 

         Knowledge Based Systems for Adaptive Radar Detection,
                      Tracking and Classification

                             Guest-Editors:
                     Fulvio Gini (f.gini@ieee.org),
               J. Scott Goldstein (goldsteinja@saic.com),
              Michael D. Zoltowski (mikedz@ecn.purdue.edu)


                            Call for Papers

Knowledge-based systems (KBS) use prior knowledge to improve the performance of
deterministic and adaptive systems.  While the exact form of this prior
knowledge is problem-dependent, the KBS consists of a knowledge base containing
information specific to a problem domain and an inference engine that employs
reasoning to yield decisions. KBS have been built: some are very complex with
thousands rules while others, relatively simple, are designed to tackle very
specialised tasks. The aim of this special issue is to showcase recent research
in both knowledge-based systems and radar signal processing together in the
same forum, in order to present a range of perspectives and innovative results
with potential to enable practical adaptive radar systems. Tutorial papers
should review the current developments in the area and present examples of
improved radar performance for augmented and upgraded systems, and project the
impact of KB technology on future systems. Papers are solicited from the
following list of topics, covering current broad research thrusts: fundamentals
of relevant knowledge-based techniques; knowledge-based solutions as they apply
to the general radar problem; KBS application to constant false alarm rate
processor; knowledge-based control for space time adaptive processing;
knowledge-based techniques applied to existing radar systems, e.g. kb tracking;
integrated end-to-end radar signal and data processing with over-arching
knowledge-based control. The list is not exhaustive, as quality works
addressing other related issues are also welcome.

Submission Procedure:

  Prospective authors should submit white papers via the website
  http://www.cspl.umd.edu/spm/

Important Deadlines:

  White paper due:          December 15, 2004
  Invitation notification:  January 15, 2005
  Manuscript due:           May 15, 2005
  Acceptance notification:  August 15, 2005
  Final manuscript due:     September 15, 2005
  Publication date:         January 2006