[ecrea] CfP: Beyond Time and Space, Orlando, USA 14-16 October 2013

Please distribute where appropriate the Preliminary Announcement and 
Call for Papers for the HFM-231 Symposium on “BEYOND TIME AND SPACE” 
which will be held in Orlando, USA, 14-16 October 2013.

The Call for Papers is also available via the CSO website at: 
www.cso.nato.int : Home page, scroll down to Upcoming STO Events and 
click on Call for Papers.

This Research Symposium is designed to evaluate new and emerging 
technologies, working environments and methods that could break down the 
tyranny of time and space. The specific goal of this activity is to 
facilitate a broader understanding of the promise and pitfalls of these 
technologies and working environments in NATO military settings, with 
special regard to the human in the system and to the integration of 
humans and technical subsystems.  While research on existing systems and 
new human-machine systems which could be operational 5 years down the 
road is welcomed, we especially encourage groundbreaking, discovery 
oriented research, invention and innovation.  Over the horizon scanning 
and transversal ideas that have a 10 or 20 years horizon are being 
solicited.

The symposium should lead to identification of areas in which 
coordinated research efforts are required to expand an understanding of 
these technologies, their effectiveness, the potential risks, and the 
potential benefits of new ways to work and collaborate. It should also 
inform the NATO Military Committee, its COMEDS and the CNAD about 
current options for NATO operations.

The contributions for the symposium could address the following topics:

Telemedicine. The ability to use advanced information and medical 
technologies to deliver preventive and operational medical care 
worldwide is still in its infancy. Information technology in the 
commercial sector is leaping ahead of military medical concepts of 
operations. The questions are how we will use these systems in the 
future. Topics in this area include: (1) Distance learning to support 
both clinical training, just in time training in the field, and novel 
techniques for training; (2) Patient tracking to support the continuity 
of care from the battlefield to the top civilian hospitals and veterans 
care facilities; (3) Remote treatment of patients to include self-care, 
combat medic, field surgical teams, and robotics.

Remote Cooperation and Warfare. The effectiveness of being able to 
cooperate even over distances and strike our enemies to protect our 
interests in denied areas has been demonstrated repeatedly over the last 
few decades. This capability has both benefits and costs. Some of the 
benefits include a decreased risk to our military personnel and a 
decreased decision to target timeframe. The costs include financial 
costs for new systems and capabilities, the psychological costs of 
dissociating warfighters from the battlefield, and unintended collateral 
damage. Topics in this area include: (1) Autonomy and Autonomous 
Systems: (2) Unmanned Systems: (3) Robotics for both military and 
medical operations; (4) Cooperative Automation (5) Decision making in 
real time (i.e., knowledge extraction, naturalistic interfaces, etc.); 
(6) Novel training systems and methods, and;  (7) Implications for 
work-rest life balance.

From Data to Meaning in Large Data Spaces. The ability to collect, 
analyse, organize and then extract meaning from large amounts of data is 
a challenge for the military as well as the private and commercial 
sector. The amount of data available to the individual today is 
remarkable. How do we harness this information and make it actionable 
and relevant for the warfighter? Topics in this area include: (1) 
Methods and techniques for capturing and storing data; (2) Extracting 
data to support human performance and medical advances; (3) Application 
of Systems Biological approaches to medicine, human performance and 
systems design; (4) Identification and application of networks (social, 
technical, political, etc..) in a military construct; (5) Naturalistic 
Interfaces and macroscopes to large data spaces.

Virtual Life. We all are living today in both the real and virtual 
worlds. We are all immersed in cyberspace through the use of social 
media, internet search engines, training simulators, online courses, or 
immersive new worlds like Real Life. This co-mingling of the real and 
virtual worlds has appeared in the last decade. How will the rapid 
advances in these technologies shape our world 10 years from now? Topics 
in this area include: (1) Cyber networks and their role in warfare, 
social engineering, and geo political events (i.e., disaster relief, 
revolution and protests, etc.); (2) Telework and its influence on social 
systems, productivity, infrastructure, and policy; (3) Cultural Impacts 
of technology both inside the military and around the world; (4) 
Vulnerabilities related to the use and misuse of information technology, 
and: (5) Use of virtual worlds for simulation, mission rehearsal, and 
live virtual constructive (LVC) training and supporting technologies 
(i.e. intelligent tutors, automated performance assessment, etc.).

Planning and Forecasting for future times and spaces. Our ability to 
plan and forecast events at the micro and macro level are improving 
through the advancement of science, lessons learned, and technological 
improvements. In the future our ability to predict both military as well 
as humanitarian events across the globe will be essential to the 
security of our nations. Topics in this area include: (1) Modelling and 
simulation in support of planning and forecasting events; (2) Medical 
planning and forecasting for humanitarian and military operations that 
considers both NATO and non-NATO assets and personnel; (3) Logistical 
planning on the micro and macro level; and (4) Human Systems Integration 
related challenges, methods and techniques in this area.


DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: 6 March 2013

US Authors have to submit their abstract two weeks ahead to the NATO STO 
U.S. National Coordinator


Thank you for your co-operation,

Mrs. Danielle PELAT

HFM Panel Assistant

Science & Technology Organization

Collaboration Support Office

BP 25

92201 Neuilly sur Seine - France
Tel:  +33  1 55 61 22 62
Fax: +33  1 55 61 96 31
Email: (danielle.pelat /at/ cso.nato.int)
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