GWU Plans 2004 ITS Safety and Security Conference
IVsource.net
18 August 2003

The Center for Intelligent Systems Research (CISR) of The George Washington University (GWU) will host the 2004 ITS Safety and Security Conference March 24-25 in Miami, Florida.   Information regarding the call for papers and the overall conference is provided here.

The Center for Intelligent Systems Research (CISR) of the George Washington University (GWU), in collaboration with several agencies of the US Department of Transportation and industrial partners, will host the 2004 ITS Safety and Security Conference during March 24-25 in Miami, Florida.  Authors are invited to abstracts of papers for consideration by the September 31, 2003 deadline.

The objective of this conference is to provide researchers, students, developers, engineers, managers, and decision makers from government, academia, and industry a dedicated forum for information exchange.  Subjects will range among the latest information, findings, and advances of intelligent systems and other automation, controls, and communications technologies for Transportation Safety and Security.

The conference will cover innovative methods, technologies, tools, demonstration projects, case studies, and applications that address various safety and security aspects of transportation systems, the infrastructure, and its components.  Authors with original contributions are invited to submit an abstract for review.  Upon acceptance, a complete paper for review and publication in the conference proceedings (CD) will be required.

Topic areas include:

• Traffic Monitoring, Control, and Management

• Network Safety and Security

• Emergency/Incident Management

• Remote Sensing, Sensor Fusion and Applications

• Telematics, ITS Applications and Case Studies

• Simulation, Modeling, and Virtual Reality

• Collision Avoidance, ACC

• Intelligent Vehicles, Driver Assistance

• Automatic Crash Notification (ACN) and Crash Countermeasures

• Aviation Safety and Security

• Other related safety & security topics

The Center for Intelligent Systems Research (CISR) was chartered to advance the science of intelligent systems and foster its engineering applications.  Fundamental and applied research is conducted in intelligent systems such as neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, hybrid methods, and intelligent agents.  Application areas include pattern recognition, controls, model development, complex interactive networks, and networks optimization, among others.

A major focus of research is on safety in Intelligent Transportation Systems.  CISR uses the fundamental intelligent systems methods to solve a variety of highway safety, vehicle control, rail transportation, and networks problems.  The Center integrates leading-edge research from different disciplines; intelligent systems are combined with analytical and information processing methods to solve real transportation problems.  The research draws from the GWU departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Electrical and Computing Engineering.

Research activities of CISR are supported primarily by externally sponsored grants and contracts.

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For More Information ...

... or to submit papers and registration forms, go online at www.cisr.gwu.edu.  Interested presenters may also contact Dr. R. A. Sayed at rasayed@gwu.edu.

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