Descartes Conference on Mathematical Models in Counterterrorism

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Center for Advanced Defense Studies is soliciting paper contributions for the Descartes Conference on Mathematical Models in Counterterrorism, to be held September 28 through 29 in Washington, DC. Hosted by the Center, this year's Conference honors distinguished scientist Dr. Vladimir Lefebvre.

Conference papers should address topics relevant to the Conference's interests: the application of mathematics in the development of counterterrorism, defense and security methods; and the relevance of mathematics in enhancing local, national and global security.

The main themes of the conference include:

• Cognitive psychology, models and reflexive control
• Order structures, graph theory, lattice theory and formal concept analysis
• Cognitive linguistics
• Information retrieval and knowledge discovery
• Imaging science and surveillance
• Modeling and agent-based simulation

All papers must meet the following criteria:

• Be a product of original academic research
• Present a topic of current or potential future local, national and international relevance
• Present concepts and suggestions to mathematics and adjacent fields of research

Contributions must be original, previously unpublished academic research articles not exceeding 15 pages, including footnotes but excluding references and appendices. All papers must follow Harvard Style/APA formatting if not containing mathematical formulas and must follow LaTeX formatting if containing mathematical formulas. If submitting a paper that uses LaTeX formatting, please refer to the guidelines and template provided by Springer Verlag.

Once accepted for publication, all papers are copyright protected. The conference proceedings will be published as a book.

Abstracts of papers or articles to be considered for publication in the conference proceedings must first be sent digitally to dcmmc2006 [at] c4ads [dot] org no later than 20:00 EST on August 1, 2006. The program committee will review all submissions. Submitters can expect to receive a response within 3-5 business days. If selected for publication in the conference proceedings, submitters must then send the full papers digitally to dcmmc2006 [at] c4ads [dot] org no later than 20:00 EST on August 30, 2006. Papers will be made available during the conference.

The conference proceedings will be published as a book no later than December 15, 2006. Revised versions of accepted papers must be submitted no later than 20:00 EST on October 30, 2006 to be considered for publication in the final conference proceedings.

Abstracts and papers received after the dates and times specified will be considered on a rolling basis for future conferences.

For enquiries about DCMMC 2006 or the procedures for submitting a paper, please contact:

Organizing Committee, DCMMC 2006
Point of contact: Ammar Qusaibaty
Center for Advanced Defense Studies 
10 G Street, NE Suite 610
Washington, DC 20002
Tel: 202 289 5895
Fax: 202 789 2786