IEEE SMC: Systems, Man, & Cybernetics Society

Computational Collective Intelligence

Mission

The Technical Committee on Cognitive Situation Management sees its mission in the following:

  • Creating a rich, diverse and comprehensive scientific research environment for advancing the science, applications, and education in the field of cognitive situation management by fusing inter-disciplinary approaches from computer science, cognitive science, human factors research and other related fields;
  • Organize scientific forums like conferences, workshops and technical sessions to provide researchers, practitioners and government personnel effective forums for exchanging ideas and results to promote advancements in the field of cognitive situation management;
  • Promoting and supporting publications of research and application papers, dedicated special issues and reports in journals, magazines and in electronic media.
  • Encourage, provide advice and educate young researchers in the field of cognitive situation management;
  • Promote and facilitate inter-disciplinary scientific cooperation with other professional societies and events within IEEE and outside, including international organizations.

Background

Many domains, such as communications management, interaction with autonomous platforms, modern battlefield operations management, disaster response and crisis management, and physical infrastructure and cyber security monitoring are characterized by heightened mobility, large number of distributed heterogeneous information sources, and existence of complex, often incomplete and unpredictable dynamic situations. As a result, there is a need for effective methods for supporting situation awareness, prediction, reasoning and control — operations collectively identifiable as Situation Management. Often situations involve a large number of inter-dependent dynamic entities that change their states in time and space, and engage each other into fairly complex relations. From a management viewpoint it is important to understand the situations in which these entities participate, to recognize emerging trends and potential threats, and to undertake required actions. Understanding of dynamic situations requires complex cognitive modeling of situations, building situation ontologies, and continuous sensing, perception, and comprehension of signal and human intelligence events and reports, and integrating these data into suitable presentations for supporting human and/or computational understanding of the situations. Entities participating in Situation Management need to have efficient ways of exchanging descriptions of situations.

Cognitive Situation Management is an interdisciplinary research which covers analysis, modeling, and control of cyber-physical-social systems within the context of tactical and strategic goals of stakeholders, and it is based on theories and technologies of computer science, autonomous control, cognitive science and human factors research, among others. The research interests of cognitive situation management in human centric systems as well as artificial systems built from autonomous smart software-intensive components include studies in situation awareness, situation modeling, ontologies and semantics; situation sensing, fusion, perception, comprehension, and projection; situation reasoning, learning and discovery, situation monitoring and control, situation management architectures and applications, distributing, sharing, and merging knowledge about situations; assessing truthfulness and accuracy of situation awareness, the design of systems to support human situation awareness, the development of effective approaches for integrating humans and autonomous systems.

TC Leadership

Gabriel Jakobson
Gabriel Jakobson

TC Chair

CyberGem Consulting, USA

Leo Motus
Leo Motus

TC Co-Chair

Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Christian Lebiere
Christian Lebiere

TC Co-Chair

Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Andrea Salfinger
Andrea Salfinger

TC Co-Chair

Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Advisory Board

Mica Endsley
Mica Endsley

SA Technologies, USA

Peter Erdi
Peter Erdi

Kalamazoo College, USA

Mitch Kokar
Mitch Kokar

Northeastern University, USA

Scott Fouse
Scott Fouse

Independent Consultant, USA

Galina Rogova
Galina Rogova

SUNY at Buffalo, USA

Robert Kozma
Robert Kozma

University of Memphis, USA

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About This TC

  • Kenneth Baclawski North Eastern University, USA
  • Peter Berggren Linköping University, Sweden
  • Jessie Chen US Army Research Laboratory, USA
  • Jin-Hee Cho US Army Research Laboratory, USA
  • Chris Dancy II Bucknell University, USA
  • Michael Byrne Rice University, USA
  • Giuseppe D’Aniello University of Salerno, Italy
  • Keith Devlin Stanford University, USA
  • Mica Endsley SA Technologies, USA
  • Peter Erdi Kalamazoo College, Hungary/USA
  • Albert Esterline North Carolina A&T State University, USA
  • Göran Falkman University of Skövde, Sweden
  • Ivonne Fischer Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany
  • Scott Fouse Lockheed Martin, USA
  • Cleotilde Gonzalez Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Olivier Grisvard Thales Systèmes Aéroportés, France
  • Odd Eric Gundersen Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway
  • Glenn Gunzelmann AFRL, USA
  • Gabriel Jakobson CyberGem Consulting, USA
  • Michael Jenkins Charles River Analytics, USA
  • Jaanus Kaugerand Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
  • Mitch Kokar Northeastern University, USA
  • Robert Kozma University of Memphis, USA
  • Dale Lambert Defense Science & Technology Group, Australia
  • Christian Lebiere, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Joseph Lyons Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
  • Dalila Megherbi Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
  • James Llinas State University New York Buffalo, USA
  • Leo Motus Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
  • John Pecarina Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
  • David Peebles University of Hunddersfield, Germany
  • Vasiliy Popovich SPIIRAS, Russia
  • Erik Prytz Linköping University, Sweden
  • Kellyn Rein Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany
  • Richard Riecken AFOSR, USA
  • Maria Riverio University of Skövde, Sweden
  • Galina Rogova University of Buffalo, USA
  • Andrea Salfinger Johannes Kepler University, Austria
  • Dario Salvucci Drexel University, USA
  • Dylan Schmorrow Soar Technology, Inc., USA
  • David Schuster San Jose State University, USA
  • Alexander Smirnov SPIIRAS, Russia
  • Pontus Svensson Defense Science & Technology Group, Sweden
  • Serge Thill University of Skövde, Sweden
  • Robert Thomson United States Military Academy, USA
  • Greg Trafton Naval Research Laboratory, USA
  • Wayne Zachary CHI Systems, USA
  • Wlodek Zadrozny University of South Carolina, USA
  • Tom Ziemke University of Skövde, Sweden