2020 IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA)

August 22-28, 2020
Virtual Conference
hosted by the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Photo Credit: Welcome to Victoria BC by LASZLO ILYES / CC-BY-2.0

Organizing Committee


General Chair
Scott Fouse
Independent Consultant,
USA

Honorary Chair
Gabe Jakobson
CyberGem Consulting,
USA

Vice Chair
Kellyn Rein
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft,
Germany
 

Treasurer
Ken Baclawski
Northeastern University,
USA

Local Chair
Adel Guitouni
University of Victoria,
Canada
 

TPC Co-Chair
Galina Rogova
The State University of New
York at Buffalo, USA

TPC Co-Chair
Nicolette McGeorge
Charles River Analytics, Inc., USA

TPC Co-Chair
Alicia Ruvinsky
ERDC US Army,
USA
 

Workshop Chair
Kirstie Bellman
Topcy House Consulting,
USA

Tutorial Chair
Phyllis Nelson
California State Polytechnic
University Pomona, USA

Publicity Chair
Andrea Salfinger
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
 

Publications Chair
Mary Freiman
Aptima, Inc.,
USA

Community Outreach Chair
Giuseppe D'Aniello
University of Salerno,
Italy

Industry Liason Chair
Michael Kozak
Lockheed Martin Advanced
Technology Laboratories, USA


Technical Program Committee

Thomas L Arnold (United States, USA)
Joachim Biermann (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany)
Eloi Bosse (University McMaster, Canada)
Dave Braines (IBM UK Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Sage Broderick (United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), USA)
Jin-Hee Cho (Virginia Tech, USA)
Michael Clement (United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), USA)
Nancy Cooke (Arizona State University, USA)
Natalia Derbentseva (Defence R&D Canada, Canada)
Patricia Dockhorn Costa (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil)
Valentina Dragos (ONERA, France)
Robert F Erbacher (Army Research Laboratory, USA)
Göran Falkman (University of Skövde, Sweden)
Timothy W Garton (US Army Corps of Engineers & Engineer Research Development Center, USA)
Olivier Grisvard (Thales Defence Mission Systems France, France)
Odd Erik Gundersen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Melita Hadzagic (OODA Technologies Inc., Canada)
Mieczyslaw Kokar (Northeastern University, USA)
Robert Kozma (U of Memphis, USA)
Achim Kuwertz-Wolf (Fraunhofer IOSB & Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB), Germany)
Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Matthew Little (US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, USA)
Gaëlle Lortal (Thales R&T, France)
Dalila B. Megherbi (Unversity of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA)
Leo Motus (Estonian Academy of Science, Estonia)
Patrick Philipp (University of Applied Sciences Koblenz, Germany)
Albert Pritzkau (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany)
Brandon Randle (United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), USA)
Kalev Rannat (TALTECH, Estonia)
Andri Riid (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)
Maria Riveiro (Jönköping University, Sweden)
Jean Roy (DRDC - Valcartier Research Centre, Canada)
Arezoo Sarkheyli-Hägele (Malmö universitet, Sweden)
Dylan Schmorrow (Soar Technology, Inc., USA)
David Schuster (San Jose State University, USA)
Maria Seale (United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) & Information Technology Laboratory, USA)
Alexander Smirnov (SPIIRAS, Russia)
Lauro Snidaro (University of Udine, Italy)
Dirk Soeffker (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Joonwoo Son (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Sci & Tech, Korea (South))
Alan N. Steinberg (Alan Steinberg, Independent Consultant, USA)
Pontus Svenson (RISE, Sweden)
Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan (Wright State University, USA)
Robert Thomson (United States Military Academy & Army Cyber Institute, USA)
Risto Vaarandi (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)
Aaron Webber (US Army ERDC, USA)
Chen Zhong (University of Tampa, USA)
Tom Ziemke (Linkoping University, Sweden)

News

Apr 10: Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, CogSIMA 2020 will be held as a completely Virtual Conference.

Aug. 28: A big thank you to our highly engaged participants for making this virtual conference such an enjoyable and interactive experience! We hope to see you next year at CogSIMA 2021!
Aug. 27: Save the dates: CogSIMA 2021 is planned to take place May 17-21, 2021, in beautiful Tallinn, Estonia!
Aug. 27: We will present our plans for CogSIMA 2021 in the Closing session, so please stay with us!
Aug. 26: Congratulations to our Best Student Paper and Best Paper Award winners!
Aug. 25: On LinkedIn? Follow/post using #cogsima for CogSIMA community updates!
Aug. 20: Participation information for the virtual conference updated.
Aug. 19: Program updated.
Aug. 9: We are pleased to announce that Prof. Ben Shneiderman (Univ. of Maryland) will present an Invited Talk.
July 27: We are pleased to announce a workshop on Interoperability for Situation Management and Decision Making.

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