All sessions are held in room D107 in the University D-building.
The D-building
Tuesday, November 4th
Afternoon session: Future directions and applications
| 13:00 | Welcome address |
| 13:15 | Keynote: "Research Issues in 'soft and hard' data and information fusion", Dr. James Llinas (University of Buffalo and Center for multisource information fusion, USA) |
| 14:15 | Short break |
| 14:30 | "Social network analysis of uncertain networks", Pontus Svenson (Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI) |
| 15:00 | "Reflections on fusion systems requirements analysis for maintenance planning", Joeri van Laere, Maria Nilsson, Sandor Ujvari and Per Hilletofth (University of Skövde) |
| 15:30 | Break |
| 16:00 | "Object oriented environment model for autonomous systems", Ioana Gheta, Michael Heizmann and Jürgen Beyerer (Universität Karlsruhe and Fraunhofer-Institut, Germany) |
| 16:30 | "Using semantic technology in intelligence analysis", Christian Mårtenson and Andreas Horndahl (Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI) |
| 17:00 - 17.30 | "Information retrieval combined with extraction to assist decision making", Elżbieta Dura and Björn Olsson (Lexware Labs and University of Skövde) |
19:00 - Welcome reception at Scandic Hotel Billingen
Wednesday, November 5th
Morning session: Performance evaluation, situation awareness and human decision-making
| 09:00 | Keynote: ">"Trends in fusion performance evaluation by the interactive user", Dr. Erik Blasch (US Air Force Research Laboratory and Wright State University, USA) |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:30 | "A survivability-based testbed for comparing threat evaluation algorithms", Fredrik Johansson and Göran Falkman (University of Skövde) |
11:00
| "Task-based analysis of an online map service with different display types", Timothy D. Dixon, Stavri G. Nikolov, Martin Groen and Jan Noyes (University of Bristol and Attentive Displays Ltd.) |
11:30
| "Formalising distributed cognition into a tool to capture information fusion processes", Maria Nilsson, Tarja Susi, Joeri van Laere and Tom Ziemke (University of Skövde) |
12:00 - Workshop lunch
Afternoon session: Decision and classifier fusion
| 13:15 | Keynote: "Classifier ensembles for handling concept change in streaming data", Dr. Ludmila Kuncheva (University of Wales, UK) |
| 14:15 | Short break |
| 14:30 | "Information fusion based moving person detection", Jiagen Jin and Wenfeng Li (Wuhan University of Technology, China) |
| 15:00 | "Using optimized optimization criteria in ensemble member selection", Tuve Löfström, Ulf Johansson and Henrik Boström (University of Borås and University of Skövde, Sweden) |
| 15:30 | Break |
| 16:00 | "Analyzing strategies for predicting probabilities with fused classifiers by decomposing the mean squared error of constituent classifiers", Henrik Boström (University of Skövde) |
| 16:30 | "Extension of Inagaki general weighted operators and a new fusion rule class of proportional redistribution of intersection masses", Florentin Smarandache (University of New Mexico, USA) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | "Practical application of ranking based fusion methods on a soccer pool", Joeri van Laere, Henrik Boström, Ronnie Johansson and Alexander Karlsson (University of Skövde) |
19:00 - Workshop dinner
Thursday, November 6th
Morning session: Infrastructure and tools
| 08:30 | Keynote: "Fusion challenges in scalable sensor networks",
Dr. David Lindgren (Swedish Defense Research Agency) |
| 09:30 | Break |
| 10:00 | "Exploring a multi-tiered whiteboard infrastructure for information fusion in wireless sensor networks", Gunnar Mathiason, Sten F. Andler and Woochul Kang (University of Skövde and University of Virginia, USA) |
| 10:30 | "Adaptive application and resource management", Jonas Mellin and Ronnie Johansson (University of Skövde) |
| 11:00 | "Information fusion for WSID", Li Wenfeng, Li Bin and Chen Weike (Wuhan University of Technology, China) |
| 11:30 | Short break |
| 11:45 | "An overview of the Impactorium tools 2008", Robert Forsgren, Lisa Kaati, Christian Mårtenson, Pontus Svenson and Edward Tjörnhammar (Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI) |
| 12:15 | "A vision of a toolbox for intelligence production", Joel Brynielsson, Andreas Horndahl, Lisa Kaati, Christian Mårtenson and Pontus Svenson (Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI) |
| 12:45 -13:00 | Closing |