Time (Rome) Room #01 Room #02

Monday, November 20
09:30-10:45 S1.1: General Session S1.2: Special Session #01 - Analytical methods and tools for aerospace operational flight Safety - PART I
10:45-11:00  
11:00-11:20 Coffee Break
11:20-11:50 Opening Ceremony
11:50-12:10 PLENARY SESSION - INVITED SPEAKER #1
Erich Staudacher, AFCEA Europe
Bringing them together: AFCEA's support to the cooperation between Academia, Industry, and Armed Forces
12:10-12:50 AFCEA Panel Session - Part I
12:50-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 ROUND TABLE - Funding for Innovation in Defense and Security
15:00-15:40 AFCEA Panel Session - Part II
15:40-16:40 S2.1: Special Session #05 - Non-invasive monitoring of psychophysiological states of military personnel during operation and training S2.2: Special Session #09 - Battlefield Operational Technology and Secure Internet of Battlefield Things
16:40-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 S3.1: Special Session #13 - Non-contact measurement systems for defense and security S3.2: Special Session #01 - Analytical methods and tools for aerospace operational flight Safety - PART II
19:00-21:00 Welcome Party

Tuesday, November 21
09:00-10:15 S4.1: Special Session #08 - Young Researchers Activities in Technologies for Defense and Security - PART I S4.2: Special Session #07 - Remote sensing technologies and advanced methods for safe and security applications - PART I
10:15-10:30  
10:30-10:50 Coffee Break
10:50-11:50 PLENARY SESSION - INVITED SPEAKER #2
Antonio De Maio, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Waveform Design for Coexistence between Radar and Communication Systems: From Theory to Experimental Validation
11:50-12:50 ROUND TABLE - Future Radar Technology
12:50-14:15 Lunch / Poster Session
14:15-15:30 S5.1: Special Session #08 - Young Researchers Activities in Technologies for Defense and Security - PART II S5.2: Special Session #07 - Remote sensing technologies and advanced methods for safe and security applications - PART II
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 S6.1: Special Session #15 - IEEE Women in Engineering Focused on Cybersecurity S6.2: Special Session #14 - ISaCAGE: integration and coexistence of sensing and communication systems that share the same spatial and spectrum resources
20:00-23:00 Gala Dinner

Wednesday, November 22
09:30-10:30 S7.1: Special Session #06 - Innovation in Energy Harvesting Technologies for Military and Civil Use S7.2: Special Session #02 - Performance Evaluation in the Era of Heterogeneous Continuum Cloud Computing
10:30-10:45  
10:45-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-12:10 PLENARY SESSION - INVITED SPEAKER #3
Nicholas G. Paulter, NIST, USA
Metrology for the Technologies Used in Security and Safety
12:10-13:10 ROUND TABLE - Artificial Intelligence for Intelligence Analysis
13:10-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 S8.1: Special Session #12 - Instrumentation and Measurement Technology for Defense and Security S8.2: Special Session #04 - Artificial Intelligence for Intelligence Analysis
16:00-16:20 Closing and Award Ceremony

Monday, November 20

Monday, November 20 9:30 - 10:45

S1.1: General Session

Room #01
9:30 Detecting Targeted Phishing Websites for Brand Protection and Cyber Defence Using Computer Vision
Carlos Pires and José Borges (Centro de Investigação, Desenvolvimento e Inovação Da Academia Militar, Portugal)
9:45 Analysis of Adaptive Beamforming Techniques for Photonics-Based Coherent MIMO Radars
Salvatore Maresca (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy); Antonio Malacarne (Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Italy); Malik Muhammad Haris Amir (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy); Gaurav Pandey (SSSUP, Italy); Antonella Bogoni and Mirco Scaffardi (CNIT, Italy)
10:00 Machine Learning for Ship Detection With Radar
Tomás Duque Morgado Santos Pedro (Faculdade Ciências Universidade Lisboa & GMVIS SKYSOFT, Portugal); João Cintra (GMVIS SKYSOFT, Portugal); Alan Oliveira (University of Lisbon, Portugal); Nuno Cruz Garcia (Faculdade de Ciências Da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
10:15 A Tile-Based Approach to SatCom User Terminals
Sherif R. Zahran (University of Calabria, Italy & CNIT, Italy); Alessandro Fonte, Alberto Colzani and Matteo Fumagalli (SIAE Microelettronica, Italy); Emilio Arnieri (University of Calabria, Italy); Giandomenico Amendola (Università della Calabria, Italy); Luigi Boccia (University of Calabria, Italy)
10:30 A Review of Measurement Methods for Traceable Calibration of Waveform Recorders Used in ElectroShock Weapons (ESWs) Testing
Ioan Tudosa, Pasquale Daponte, Luca De Vito, Francesco Picariello and Sergio Rapuano (University of Sannio, Italy)

Monday, November 20 9:30 - 11:00

S1.2: Special Session #01 - Analytical methods and tools for aerospace operational flight Safety - PART I

Room #02
9:30 Fault Detection and Reconfiguration Strategies for Quadcopter Drones Deployed in Disaster Scenarios
Alessia Ferraro (University of Reggio Calabria, Italy)
9:45 Proactive and Predictive Risk Management in Aviation Safety: A Corporate Strategic Approach
Massimo Paradisi (Higher Institute for Flight Safety, Italy)
10:00 Fatigue Model in Military Aviation
Spela Jurgele (Cranfield University, Italy); Graham Braithwaite and Jim Nixon (Cranfield University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
10:15 New CRM Model in Italian Air Force
Giuseppe Fauci (Italian Air Force Department, Italy)
10:30 A Consensus-Based Kalman Filter for Target Localization in Emergency Scenarios
Salvatore Rosario Bassolillo (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy); Immacolata Notaro (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy); Egidio D'Amato (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy); Massimiliano Mattei (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
10:45 ILS of Medium Complexity AUV: A Challenge for the ASD S3000
Ettore De Francesco and Ruggero De Francesco (SeTeL, Italy); Fabio Leccese ("Roma Tre" University, Italy)

Monday, November 20 11:00 - 11:20

Coffee Break

Monday, November 20 11:20 - 11:50

Opening Ceremony

Monday, November 20 11:50 - 12:10

PLENARY SESSION - INVITED SPEAKER #1
Erich Staudacher, AFCEA Europe
Bringing them together: AFCEA's support to the cooperation between Academia, Industry, and Armed Forces

Monday, November 20 12:10 - 12:50

AFCEA Panel Session - Part I

12:10 AKRON CYBER SHIELD - An Innovative Dual Use Cryptographic Platform with Personal Mobile Hardware Encryption Devices - Michele Cortese, Walter Miele (AKRON C4SEC SRL)
12:30 Innovations to Supply Chain and Logistics (Iot, Machine Learning, Analytics) - Gianluca Pinelli (SMS Engineering)

Monday, November 20 12:50 - 14:00

Lunch

Monday, November 20 14:00 - 15:00

ROUND TABLE - Funding for Innovation in Defense and Security

Monday, November 20 15:00 - 15:40

AFCEA Panel Session - Part II

15:00 Eurolab
15:20 Data Fusion Applications in Future Combat Aircraft - Domenico Accardo (University of Naples Federico II)

Monday, November 20 15:40 - 16:40

S2.1: Special Session #05 - Non-invasive monitoring of psychophysiological states of military personnel during operation and training

Room #01
15:40 Temporal Stability of Resting Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia: Choosing the Quantification Method
Marko Šarlija (University of Zadar, Croatia); Siniša Popović (University of Zagreb, Croatia); Tanja Jovanovic (Wayne State University, USA); Krešimir Ćosić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
15:55 Assessment of Cognitive Workload During Flight Training by Means of Hybrid NIR/LWIR Imaging
Davide Tomasino, Manish Chinthakindi, Alessandro Tiberio and Chandrika Patibandla (Next2U srl, Italy); Michele Tritto and Sergio Nocco (Next2U, Italy)
16:10 A Review of Methods and Measurement Instrumentation for Sweat Testing
Martina Imbriglia and Luca De Vito (University of Sannio, Italy); Giuseppe Caporaso, Vincenzo Provitera and Maria Nolano (ICS Maugeri, Italy)
16:25 Cooperation and Mental States Neurophysiological Assessment for Pilots' Training and Expertise Evaluation
Gianluca Borghini, Andrea Giorgi and Vincenzo Ronca (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Lorenzo Mezzadri (Urbe Aero ATO, Italy); Rossella Capotorto and Gianluca Di Flumeri (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Fabio Babiloni (University of Rome Sapienza, Italy); Pietro Aricò (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

Monday, November 20 15:40 - 16:40

S2.2: Special Session #09 - Battlefield Operational Technology and Secure Internet of Battlefield Things

Room #02
15:40 A Military IdAM System Based on SSI and ORCON
Stefano Bistarelli (University of Perugia, Italy); Chiara Luchini (University of Perugia & University of Firenze, Italy); Francesco Santini (University of Perugia, Italy)
15:55 IoT, ML for Combat Identification: Technologies to Reduce Blue on Blue Events in Military Battlefield
Antonio Caruso (University of Salento, Italy)
16:10 Integrating Blockchain for Enhanced Coordination and Security in Semi-Centralized Robotic Swarms
Remo Pareschi (University of Molise, Italy); Francesco Salzano (University of Cagliari, Italy); Antonio Carovilla (University of Molise, Italy)
16:25 Lombardini

Monday, November 20 16:40 - 17:00

Coffee Break

Monday, November 20 17:00 - 18:30

S3.1: Special Session #13 - Non-contact measurement systems for defense and security

Room #01
17:00 Measurement Technique Based on Hyperspectral Imaging for Occulted Blood Stain Detection
Nicola Giulietti (Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy); Silvia Discepolo (UNIVPM, Italy); Paolo Castellini and Milena Martarelli (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
17:15 Active Thermography for Gunshot Residue (GSR) Pattern Estimation on Textiles
Vittoria Medici (Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy); Nicola Paone, Milena Martarelli, Giuseppe Pandarese and Paolo Castellini (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy); Vito Alessandro Spinelli, Gaetano Rizza, Giuseppe Riccio and Massimiliano Olivieri (Gabinetto Interregionale Polizia Scientifica per le Marche e L'Abruzzo, Italy)
17:30 Determination of UAV Propellers Speed With FMCW Radar: Comparison With Accelerometer Data
Gianluca Ciattaglia (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy); Ennio Gambi (Universita' Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy); Grazia Iadarola (Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy); Susanna Spinsante (Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy)
17:45 A Novel, Multimodal, High Throughput Screening Microscope Platform for Automating the Analysis a of Vast Populations of Forensics Traces
Costas Balas (Technical University of Crete, Greece & Spectricon, Greece); Charalampos Boras and Christos Chousos (Technical University of Crete & Spectricon, Greece); Nikolaos Kaminakis (Spectricon, Greece); Nathanail Kortsalioudakis (Technical University of Crete & Spectricon, Greece); Christos Rossos and Athanasios Tsapras (Spectricon, Greece); Christos Tsiaousis (Technical University of Crete & Spectricon, Greece)
18:00 Speed Measurement of Projectile Using Vision System and Least Square Regression With Different Amplitude Sliding Window
Enrico Ferlinghetti (University of Brescia, Italy & University of Gronigen, The Netherlands); Simone Pasinetti and Matteo Lancini (University of Brescia, Italy)
18:15 A Jury Test Methodology for the Assessment of User Rifle Trigger Tactile Preference
Valentina Pasquinelli (UNIVPM, Italy); Milena Martarelli (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy); Barbara Lonzi, Antonio DAntuono and Matteo Bizzaro (Benelli Armi spa, Italy); Lorenzo Scalise (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)

Monday, November 20 17:00 - 18:30

S3.2: Special Session #01 - Analytical methods and tools for aerospace operational flight Safety - PART II

Room #02
17:00 Innovations for High Operational Resilience in Air Navigation and Landing Both for Civil and Military Missions Either in Peace, Crisis or War / Conflict Time - Massimiliano Ferla (Thales Italia SpA)
17:15 Coordinated Trajectory Planning for Ground-Based Multi-Robot Systems Used in Exploration and Surveillance Missions
Alessia Ferraro and Valerio Scordamaglia (University of Reggio Calabria, Italy)
17:30 Development of an Innovative Approach Based on Liveware Performances in the Integrated Aeronautical Systems
Giuseppe Fauci (Italian Air Force Department, Italy); Marco Gajetti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy & Sirio Airlines, Italy); Davide De Iuliis (Politecnico di Torino & Leonardo, Italy)
17:45 Path Planning and Risk Assessment in Unmanned Specific Operations
Egidio D'Amato and Angelo Antonio Nastasi (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy); Immacolata Notaro (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy)
18:00 A Risk Analysis Model for the "Sustainable Management of a Space Project
Jr James (CROWN GROUP, USA); Francesco Ventura (CROWN RESEARCH SCARL, Italy)
18:15 Reliable Data Delivery Over LEO Satellite Networks
Giuseppe Araniti, Antonella Molinaro, Sara Pizzi, Federica Rinaldi and Chiara Suraci (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy)

Monday, November 20 19:00 - 21:00

Welcome Party

Tuesday, November 21

Tuesday, November 21 9:00 - 10:15

S4.1: Special Session #08 - Young Researchers Activities in Technologies for Defense and Security - PART I

Room #01
9:00 Wideband Antennas for Cubesat Platforms: Design and Multiphysics Analysis
Matteo Bruno Lodi and Giacomo Muntoni (University of Cagliari, Italy); Marco Simone (University of Catania, Italy); Alessandro Fanti and Giuseppe Mazzarella (University of Cagliari, Italy)
9:15 Multi-Drone Systems for Search and Rescue Operations: Problems, Technical Solutions and Open Issues
Alessia Ferraro (University of Reggio Calabria, Italy); Vito Antonio Nardi (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy); Egidio D'Amato (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy); Immacolata Notaro (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy); Valerio Scordamaglia (University of Reggio Calabria, Italy)
9:30 Technologies for IMINT and SIGINT
Giulia Venturi (Zanasi & Partners, Italy); Domenico Frascà and Maria Ustenko (Zanasi and Partners, Italy); Alessandro Zanasi (Zanasi & Partners, Italy)
9:45 Maritime Drones: Role in the Military Doctrines of NATO and EU Member States, Market Study and Procurement Needs
Paola Fratantoni (Zanasi & Partners, Italy); Domenico Frascà (Zanasi and Partners, Italy); Alessandro Zanasi (Zanasi & Partners, Italy)
10:00 Meta-Covers for Antennas
Stefano Vellucci (Niccolò Cusano University, Italy); Alessio Monti and Mirko Barbuto (Roma Tre University, Italy); Michela Longhi (Niccolò Cusano University, Italy); Zahra Hamzavi-Zarghani and Davide Ramaccia (RomaTre University, Italy); Luca Stefanini, Alessandro Toscano and Filiberto Bilotti (Roma Tre University, Italy)

Tuesday, November 21 9:00 - 10:30

S4.2: Special Session #07 - Remote sensing technologies and advanced methods for safe and security applications - PART I

Room #02
9:00 The Remote Sensing Applied in the Italian Navy Hydrographic Office Operations - Matteo Guideri (Italian Navy Hydrographic Institute, Genoa, Italy)
9:15 Digital Security by Design: A Review of Combined Hardware-Software-Based CyberSecurity With Compartmentalization
Rabia Khan (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kinan Ghanem (Strathclyde University, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & PNDC, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Federico Coffele (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
9:30 An Integrated Monitoring System for Aerial Drones and Underwater ROVs
Niccolò Cecchinato, Andrea Toma, Ivan Scagnetto, Carlo Drioli and GianLuca Foresti (University of Udine, Italy)
9:45 Autonomous Intelligent Remote Sensing System for Military Threat Object Detection
Lorenzo Epifani (Università del Salento, Italy); Antonio Caruso (University of Salento, Italy)
10:00 Game-Theoretic Mission Planning of Drone Teams in Autonomous Detection and Recognition
Vittorio U. Castrillo and Ivan Iudice (CIRA - Italian Aerospace Research Centre, Italy); Domenico Pascarella (CIRA scpa, Italy); Gianpaolo Pigliasco and Angela Vozella (CIRA - Italian Aerospace Research Centre, Italy)
10:15 OHB ITALIA - Solutions for Space Responsiveness - Franco Boldrini (OHB Italia - Director Business Development)

Tuesday, November 21 10:30 - 10:50

Coffee Break

Tuesday, November 21 10:50 - 11:50

PLENARY SESSION - INVITED SPEAKER #2
Antonio De Maio, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Waveform Design for Coexistence between Radar and Communication Systems: From Theory to Experimental Validation

Tuesday, November 21 11:50 - 12:50

ROUND TABLE - Future Radar Technology

Tuesday, November 21 12:50 - 14:15

Lunch / Poster Session

Optimal Reconfiguration Planning for Large UAV Groups
Valerii Uspenskyi (National Technical University Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine); Natalia Shyriaieva (Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Germany & National Technical University Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine)
Protecting NextG Military Networks With Convolutional Neural Networks
Emilio Paolini (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy); Gianluca Perotto (Sma-RTy Italia SRL, Italy); Luca Valcarenghi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy); Federico Civerchia and Luca Maggiani (SmaRTy Italia SRL, Italy); Nicola Andriolli (University of Pisa, Italy)
Boosting the Automated Information Processing for Reconnaissance
Refiz Duro and Medina Andresel (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria); Christoph Singewald (Syncpoint GmbH, Austria); Veronika Siska, Axel Weißenfeld and Dražen Ignjatović (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Gmbh, Austria)
Sub 6 GHz Smartphone Antenna With Dual-Band Monopole Resonators for 5G Communications
Haleh Jahanbakhsh Basherlou and Naser Ojaroudi Parchin (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mohammad Alibakhshikenari (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Chan Hwang See (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Tri-Band Endfire Antenna Array With Wide Angles of Beam-Scanning Capability for 5G mmWave Mobile Communication
Ali Zidour (University of M'hamed Bougara, Algeria); Mouloud Ayad (University of Bouira, Algeria); Mohammad Alibakhshikenari (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Haleh Jahanbakhsh Basherlou, Naser Ojaroudi Parchin and Chan Hwang See (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Performance Parameters Consideration for 5G Backhaul Network
Inas Assim Sawad (Brunel University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
A Perception Engine in Automotive FMCW Radar
Venkata Rangarao Kaluri (University of Hyderabad, India & Hyderabad, India); Atul Negi (University of Hyderabad, India)
AI-Driven Method for UAV Pilot Training Process Optimization in a Virtual Environment
Przemyslaw Wojciechowski and Konrad Wojtowicz (Military University of Technology, Poland); Jan Błaszczyk (Calisia University, Poland)
Sensitivity Assessment of a Phase Measurement Method Used in a Waveform Recorder Traceable Testing for ElectroShock Weapons (ESW)
Ioan Tudosa, Pasquale Daponte, Luca De Vito, Francesco Picariello and Sergio Rapuano (University of Sannio, Italy)
Measurement Uncertainty Model for Relative Visual Localization of UAV by a Monocular Camera
Pasquale Daponte, Luca De Vito, Arman Neyestani, Francesco Picariello and Ioan Tudosa (University of Sannio, Italy)

Tuesday, November 21 14:15 - 15:30

S5.1: Special Session #08 - Young Researchers Activities in Technologies for Defense and Security - PART II

Room #01
14:15 Plasma Effects on Electromagnetic Wave Scattering in Suborbital Hypersonic Flight
Salvatore Esposito, Domenic D Ambrosio and Giuseppe Vecchi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Andrea Scarabosio (LINKS Foundation, Italy)
14:30 Design of Passive and Wideband Radar Absorbing Materials Comprising Resistive Frequency Selective Surfaces
Vincenzo Violi (university of Pisa & universitmediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy); Danilo Brizi (University of Pisa, Italy)
14:45 Polarimetric Sparse Iterative Procedures for DOA Estimation
Massimo Rosamilia and Marco Boddi (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Augusto Aubry (Universita degli studi di Napoli, Italy); Antonio De Maio (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy)
15:00 Innovative Application Contexts for Focusing Devices Based on Leaky Waves
Edoardo Negri (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Walter Fuscaldo (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy); Paolo Burghignoli and Alessandro Galli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
15:15 Effect of Partial Fine-Tuning of SqueezeNet on MSTAR for Automatic Military Target Recognition
Michela Raimondi and Antonio Nocera (Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy); Linda Senigagliesi (ETIS UMR 8051, CYU, ENSEA, CNRS, France); Gianluca Ciattaglia (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy); Ennio Gambi (Universita' Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy)

Tuesday, November 21 14:15 - 15:30

S5.2: Special Session #07 - Remote sensing technologies and advanced methods for safe and security applications - PART II

Room #02
14:15 Coprime Synthetic Aperture Radar: State of the Art and Application to Ship Detection
Antonio Iodice and Gerardo Di Martino (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
14:30 Artificial Intelligence Based Algorithm for On-Board Multispectral Image Compression
Gianmarco Bencivenni (University of Rome Tor Vergata & GEO-K, Italy); Giorgia Guerrisi and Giovanni Schiavon (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Fabio Del Frate (Università degli Studi di Roma, Italy)
14:45 Protecting Infrastructures From Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards: The EISAC.it Initiative
Salvatore Stramondo (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy); Vittorio Rosato (University Campus Biomedico di Roma, Italy); Christian Bignami (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia & Researcher, Italy); Marco Polcari (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy)
15:00 Spatio-Temporal Variability Coastline Analysis Using C-Band Dual-Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Measurements
Farah Rasheed Abbasi (Parthenope University of Naples, Italy); Andrea Buono (Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy); Ferdinando Nunziata (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy); Christian Bignami (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia & Researcher, Italy); Maurizio Migliaccio (Universita' Napoli Parthenope, Italy)
15:15 Hyperspectral Imaging and Super Resolution Techniques in Defence Scenarios - C.C. Gianluca Cellamare

Tuesday, November 21 15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

Tuesday, November 21 16:00 - 17:30

S6.1: Special Session #15 - IEEE Women in Engineering Focused on Cybersecurity

Room #01
16:00 Women in Electrical Engineering - Serbian Story: Mission Ongoing!
Biljana Stosic (University of Nis, Serbia); Zlatica D. Marinkovic (University of Niš, Serbia)
16:15 Assessment of Sagittal Alignment of Cervical Spine in Seated Individuals on Stable and Unstable Base
Valentina Markova (Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria)
16:30 Exploring Essential Wireless Technologies for Autonomous Vehicles
Valentina Markova (Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria)
16:45 Effect of the Hardware Logical Encryption Type and Location on the Circuit Security
Eriselda Malaj (Aleksander Moisiu University - Durres, Albania); Galia Marinova (Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria & Technical University-Sofia, Bulgaria)
17:00 Study of the Secrecy in Hardware Logical Encryption With Multiple Bit Keys
Eriselda Malaj (Aleksander Moisiu University - Durres, Albania); Galia Marinova (Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria & Technical University-Sofia, Bulgaria)
17:15 A Machine Learning Approach Improving University Campus Security
Vassil Guliashki (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies - BAS, Bulgaria); Emiliano M. Mankolli and Senada Bushati (Aleksander Moisiu University of Durres, Albania)

Tuesday, November 21 16:00 - 17:30

S6.2: Special Session #14 - ISaCAGE: integration and coexistence of sensing and communication systems that share the same spatial and spectrum resources

Room #02
16:00 Energy Threshold Setting With Bounded Performance for Sensing and Communications Under the \(\eta\)-\(\mu\) Model
Angelo Coluccia and Alessio Fascista (University of Salento, Italy)
16:15 Power-Aperture Product Resource Allocation for Radar ISAC
Augusto Aubry (Universita degli studi di Napoli, Italy); Antonio De Maio (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy); Luca Pallotta (University of Basilicata, Italy)
16:30 A New Detection Approach for Radio Frequency Interferences Corrupting Airborne L-Band SAR Data
Alessandro Di Vincenzo (Università Degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope & Istituto per Il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente IREA-CNR, Italy); Antonio Natale (Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente IREA-CNR, Italy); Antonio De Maio (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy); Paolo Berardino and Carmen Esposito (Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell Ambiente IREA-CNR, Italy); Riccardo Lanari (IREA-CNR, Italy); Stefano Perna (Università degi Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy)
16:45 Advanced Radiating Systems Based on Array-Fed 2-D Leaky-Wave Antennas for Sensing and Communication Applications
Mikhail Madji and Edoardo Negri (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Walter Fuscaldo (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy); Davide Comite, Paolo Burghignoli and Alessandro Galli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
17:00 Joint Data and Channel Estimation in Radar-Enabled Backscatter Communications
Luca Venturino (Universita' degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Merdionale & Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Italy); Emanuele Grossi (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio & Consorzio Nazionale Inter-universitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Italy); Jeremy Johnston (Columbia University, USA); Marco Lops (University of Naples Federico II & CNIT - Consorzio Universitario Nazionale per le Telecomunicazioni, Italy); Xiaodong Wang (Columbia University, USA)
17:15 Electronically Steerable Parasitic Array Radiators (ESPAR) for Efficient Phased Array Design
Raffaele De Marco and Emilio Arnieri (University of Calabria, Italy); Giandomenico Amendola (Università della Calabria, Italy); Luigi Boccia (University of Calabria, Italy)

Tuesday, November 21 20:00 - 23:00

Gala Dinner

Wednesday, November 22

Wednesday, November 22 9:30 - 10:30

S7.1: Special Session #06 - Innovation in Energy Harvesting Technologies for Military and Civil Use

Room #01
9:30 Energy Harvesting From Bearings Rotation in a Seeding Agriculture Machine
Mourizio Repetto (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Claudia Barattini and Luca Dimauro (Politecnico of Torino, Italy)
9:45 From Heat to Power: Assessing Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting for Self-Sustainable Sensors
Chiara Lenz, Sergei Vostrikov, Philipp Mayer and Michele Magno (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
10:00 Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting for Autonomous Sensors in Structural Health Monitoring of Bearings and Ballscrews
Giacomo Clementi, Luca Gammaitoni and Francesco Cottone (University of Perugia, Italy); Luca Castellini (Wisepower srl, Italy)
10:15 Experimental Characterization of a Water Droplet Energy Harvester
Luigi Costanzo, Alessandro Lo Schiavo and Massimo Vitelli (Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy)

Wednesday, November 22 9:30 - 10:45

S7.2: Special Session #02 - Performance Evaluation in the Era of Heterogeneous Continuum Cloud Computing

Room #02
9:30 FLWB: A Workbench Platform for Performance Evaluation of Federated Learning Algorithms
Emiliano Casalicchio and Simone Esposito (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Ahmed Abbas Mohsin Al-Saedi (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
9:45 Evaluating Defense Services Performance on Military Cloud Continuum Systems
Marco Gribaudo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Mauro Iacono (Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy); Alexander Levis (College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University, USA)
10:00 Target Detection of Darkweb Hidden Services Network Through MoniTOR and Social Network Analysis
Federico Borgonovo (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy); Alastair R. Cerri Fisher (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Giulia Porrino and Silvano R. Lucini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy); Luca Martignon (InTheCyber, Italy)
10:15 Digital Chain of Custody Operational Framework
Gabriel Pestana (Polytechnic Institute of Setubal - School of Technology, Portugal & INOV - INESC Inovação, Portugal); Wilson Antunes and Júlio Carvalho (Instituto Universitário Militar, Centro de Investigação da Academia Militar, Portugal)
10:30 Towards Optimized Design and Deployment of a Military Supply Chain on Federated Cloud Continuum Supported by Simulation-Based Performance Evaluation
Gennaro Junior Pezzullo (Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy); Beniamino Di Martino (Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy); Claudio Beggiato (Italian Army, Italy)

Wednesday, November 22 10:45 - 11:10

Coffee Break

Wednesday, November 22 11:10 - 12:10

PLENARY SESSION - INVITED SPEAKER #3
Nicholas G. Paulter, NIST, USA
Metrology for the Technologies Used in Security and Safety

Wednesday, November 22 12:10 - 13:10

ROUND TABLE - Artificial Intelligence for Intelligence Analysis

Wednesday, November 22 13:10 - 14:30

Lunch

Wednesday, November 22 14:30 - 16:00

S8.1: Special Session #12 - Instrumentation and Measurement Technology for Defense and Security

Room #01
14:30 AI Predictive Algorithm for Anti-Rollover Prevention of Military Vehicles
14:45 PSD Profiles for Dynamic and Durability Tests of Military Off-Road Vehicle Racks
15:00 Adaptive Mission Management Systems - Claudia Conte (University of Naples Federico II)
15:15 Development of a Pulsed HIRF Facility for MIL-STD 464 D Testing - From Design to Characterization - Magg. ing. Daniele FERRANTE (Italian Army Multifuncional Experimentation Center)
15:30 Cooling System Based on Minichannels for Thermal Management of CBRN Equipment
Miguel Fernandes (CINAMIL Academia Militar, Portugal); Miguel Mendes (LAETA, IDMEC - Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal); Ana Moita (IN + - Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
15:45 Tommaso Occhipinti - QTI

Wednesday, November 22 14:30 - 16:00

S8.2: Special Session #04 - Artificial Intelligence for Intelligence Analysis

Room #02
14:30 A Formal Account for Reasoning About Uncertain Probabilities in Intelligence Analysis
Pietro Baroni, Federico Cerutti and Massimiliano Giacomin (University of Brescia, Italy); Lance Kaplan (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Murat Sensoy (Alexa AI, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
14:45 Assessing the Robustness of Intelligence-Driven Reinforcement Learning
Lorenzo Nodari and Federico Cerutti (University of Brescia, Italy)
15:00 PRIVAtE: Passive Radar Interpretability Using Variational Auto Encoders
Marco Cominelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Paolo Braca (CMRE, Italy); Leonardo Maria Millefiori (NATO STO CMRE, Italy); Lance Kaplan (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Mani B. Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles & Amazon, USA); Francesco Gringoli (CNIT/University of Brescia, Italy); Federico Cerutti (University of Brescia, Italy)
15:15 ChatGPT Act as an Intelligence Officer
Lauro Snidaro (University of Udine, Italy)
15:30 Organizing Structures and Information for Developing AI-Enabled Military Decision-Making Systems
Salvatore Alessandro Alessandro Sarcia' (ITA Army - EU Military Staff, Belgium & OnESE. ORG Forum, Belgium); Giordano Colo' (Leonardo SpA, Italy)
15:45 Cognitive Models to Inform the Design of AI Tools for Intelligence Analysts
Shaun C Lamb, Sarvapali Ramchurn and Tim Norman (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Maire Byrne (Defence Scientific Technology Laboratory, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Wednesday, November 22 16:00 - 16:20

Closing and Award Ceremony