Call for Papers

The International Technology Alliance (ITA) program, jointly funded by the U.S. Army and U.K. Ministry of Defence, is conducting the second annual conference. A key objective of the ITA program is to foster trans-national collaborations between universities, industries and government organizations. The main purpose of this annual conference is to provide a forum for ITA-funded researchers to present the results of the scientific research being undertaken in the program, as a way to further enhance and establish collaborations among alliance members. The papers presented under this objective should be high quality, leading research work.

The conference features a full program of keynote speeches, technical sessions, panel discussions and poster and demo sessions. To cover the entire scope of the ITA program, the conference addresses technical issues in four areas: Network Theory, Security Across a System of Systems, Sensor Information Processing and Delivery, and Distributed Coalition Planning and Decision Making.

This conference is open to Alliance members only; papers submitted by members of institutions not associated with the ITA program will be rejected without review. Alliance members are cordially invited to submit original contributions in any of the technical areas to the conference. Papers highlighting results of collaboration across nations or several project areas are particularly encouraged. Authors may submit full papers (between 6 and 8 pages) or short papers (2 pages) to the conference. Abstracts should be submitted for all papers. Each paper should be prepared with the IEEE single-space, two-column format using at least 10 point size type (see the authors kit for details).

• Authors of accepted full papers will be asked to present their research during one of the technical sessions at the conference and to prepare a poster for the conference.
• Short papers will be presented as posters only.

Poster sessions will include posters for both full and short papers. Formats for posters will be issued in due course. Papers should be submitted electronically to the EDAS Conference Management System http://edas.info/ and will go through a peer-review process in accordance with the following schedule.

Abstract submissions

April 25, 2008 at 17:00 EDT

Paper submissions (full and short papers)

May 9, 2008 at 17:00 EDT (updated)

Acceptance notifications

June 20, 2008 (updated)

Camera-ready manuscripts

June 27, 2008

This is an internal ITA conference, and so transfer of copyright to the conference for accepted papers is not required. Authors retain their copyrights and are free to submit their work for presentation and publication elsewhere. Papers reporting on significant ITA-funded research that have been published prior to the conference are welcome, but it is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that they have permission from the copyright holder to submit this research to the ACITA2008 conference. Authors must disclose this prior publication in an acknowledgement in the paper submitted to ACITA. Papers presented at this conference will be published on the public ITA Web pages, and so authors should ensure that any necessary IP protection is in place before submission.

All submissions should contain the normal acknowledgement of support and disclaimer:

Or, for work performed under another sponsor that is continuing under ITA:

Please contact the conference co-chairs: Tim Norman or Seraphin Calo for questions and comments.