NATO PROGRAMME SECURITY THROUGH SCIENCE
Advanced Research Workshop:
Scientific Support for the Decision Making in the Security Sector
October 21-25, 2006
Velingrad, Bulgaria
The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences (IMI-BAS) organizes the Workshop within the activities
related to the NATO co-sponsored project SfP 981149 "Operations
Research Support to Force and Operations Planning in the New Security
Environment" and in collaboration with the other Institutions involved
in this project.
The objectives of the Workshop are:
- to bring together scientists working at the cutting edge of
operations research, modelling and simulation applications in the
security sector;
- to assist the building of a Knowledge Database (cf. General
Comments
below) relating the security or defence related objectives to the
systems science methodologies developed for achieving them;
The Workshop will be focused on the following Application Areas:
- Modelling and Simulation for Crises Management Analysis;
- C4 Analysis;
- Security Sector Capabilities (Determining the Requirements and
Building the
Capabilities);
- Acquisition Management;
It would be desirable that the application of the following
OR/Math. Support techniques in the above mentioned 4 areas be
illustrated:
- Mathematical Analysis and Consructive Approximation;
- Group Decision Making;
- Multicriteria DM/Optimization;
- Cost-Benefit Analysis;
- Architecture Design;
- Risk Management;
- Analysis of Complex Adaptive Systems;
- Analysis of Dynamical Systems;
- Data Mining/Knowledge Extraction;
- Dynamic Programming/Optimization;
- Linear Programming/Integer Programming/Discrete Optimization;
- Game Theory;
- Fuzzy Optimization;
Tentative Programme
- Oct 21, 2006 - Arrival and registration
- Oct 22-24, 2006 - Working days
- Oct 25, 2006 - Departure
Publication
The talks presented at the Workshop are planned to be published in NATO
Security Through Science Series. The participants are kindly asked to
provide an abstract of their talks at registration and the full
manuscript
by December 20, 2006. Instructions for the preparation of the
manuscripts
can be found here.
General Comments:
- The above mentioned Knowledge Database will have the Application
Areas (divided into Sub-Areas) as one of its dimensions and the
Methodologies (OR/Math. Support techniques) for these Areas as its
second dimension.
- The four Work Groups will be formed so that there is one Work
Group focused on each one of the four Application Areas.