AIMS AND SCOPE

The purpose of this session is to bring together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines, working in the areas of Defence and Defence applications. It aims to provide an integrated platform to present original methods, tools, techniques and innovative applications on IS&T for Defence and Intelligence. Therefore, the session serves as a forum enabling experience exchange between academia and industry, as well as between researchers working in different research branches.
 

TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• Information Security

• Privacy and Security

• Cryptography

• Cryptanalysis

• Hacking and Cracking

• Risk Analysis

• Threat Assessment/Modeling

• IW and Information Infrastructure Protection

• Biometric in the military applications

• Artificial Intelligence in the military applications

• Database Management

• Data Mining and Data Warehousing

• Knowledge Management

• Military Decision Making

• Military Systems Interoperability

• Digitized Battlefield and C4ISR

• Terrorism and Bioterrorism

• Advanced signal processing for military applications

• Early Warning Systems

• GIS Systems

• Crisis Management Systems

• Pattern Recognition Systems

• Applied information technology for military training

PAPER SUBMISSION
Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of MAMECTIS’08 Conference. These proceedings are covered by several indices (see http://www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/corfu/mamectis/call.htm ).

Additionally the authors of the Best Papers will be invited to send extended versions of their papers after the conference to the Editors-in-Chief of WSEAS Journals. These extended versions might be published in the WSEAS Journals after the conference with additional review. This very limited number of high-quality papers will be announced in the Post-Conference report of the Conference.

 

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: October 16th, 2008
Decision Notification: October 20th, 2008
Camera-Ready Submission: October 22st, 2008
 

SESSION ORGANIZERS
Dr. Nikolaos G. Bardis, Adjunct Professor, Hellenic Army Academy, Hellenic Naval Academy, Hellenic Air force Academy; GREECE
Email: bardis@ieee.org
URL: http://www.sse.gr; http://www.haf.gr; http://www.hna.gr; http://www.rgcds.org

Dr. Nikolaos V. Karadimas, Adjunct Professor, Hellenic Army Academy, Hellenic Air force Academy; GREECE
Email: nkaradimas@medialab.ntua.gr
 

Brief Biographies of the Organizers:

NIKOLAOS G. BARDIS received the diploma of Computer Engineering and the PhD degree from National Technical University of Ukraine (Polytechnic Institute of Kiev) in 1995 and 1999 respectively. In 2000 the degrees was recognized as similar of the Hellenic Patra’s Polytechnic Institute on Department of Computer Science. He is an Adjunct Professor High Military Educational Institution, Hellenic Army Academy, Hellenic Naval Academy, Hellenic Air force Academy and research scientist at High Military Educational Institution (Hellenic Army Academy, Hellenic Naval Academy, Hellenic Air force Academy), at the National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos"- Greece on Applied Technologies Department & Net Media Lab and adjunct an Assistant Professor in the Automation Department at the Technological Education Institute (T.E.I) of Chalkida (Greece). His research interests include cryptography and data security, information theory, artificial intelligence, databases, software engineering and applications in Defence and in the Military Applications. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, TPC COMSOC - IEEE, WSEAS, and RGCDS.

NIKOLAOS V. KARADIMAS was born in Athens, Greece and he received a Bachelor’s degree with Honours in Electronic Engineering and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland in 1997 and 1998, respectively. He also holds a Masters degree in Distributed and Multimedia Information Systems (1999) from Heriot-Watt University, Scotland. In 2007 he received a PhD degree from the National Technical University of Athens. Since 2007, he is a post-doctoral researcher at the Multimedia Technology Laboratory within National Technical University of Athens and a lecturer (407/80) at the High Military Educational Institution, Hellenic Army Academy. He is teaching in Technical NCO Academy and in Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus, as well. He is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Greek Technical Chamber, of the IEEE, of WSEAS and of IET. His research interests are in the fields of Databases, Optimization Techniques, Geographical Information Systems, and Decision Support Systems with emphasis in the Military Applications.