MESAS’21
„ M&S in Support of Autonomous systems in the future warfare operational environment.“

NATO M&S COE requests all interested researchers and technicians of academic, industrial or military research centers to send an abstract, to be evaluated by members of MESAS’21 Technical Program Committee.

Full Papers sending phase is running.

Preliminary conference timeline was set as follows:

Abstract Submission: JUNE 20, 2021

Abstracts have been approved soon later submission, so, the work on a full paper will begin once papers are delivered.

Final Papers Upload: SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Assignment of Reviewers: AUGUST 22, 2021
Review: until SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Decision: until SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Authors of approved abstracts will be asked to prepare a full paper following the Springer template, then to present the paper during the MESAS’21 Conference.

Full papers selected by the Scientific Committee will be included in the post conference proceedings. Previous MESAS proceedings are indexed in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Indes – Science (CPCI-S) and EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases).

MESAS’21 topics are as follows:

AxS/AI in Context of Future Warfare and Security Environment (Concepts, Applications, Standards, etc.)

Autonomous Systems Strategy and Concept Development and Implementation in all Domains of Operation
Advances in AI and its Impact on Future Operations
The Role of the Robots and Foot Soldier in the Future Operations
Security, Use of AxS as Lethal Instruments, Safety of Aviation
Ethical, Psychological, Legal and Operational Aspects, CIMIC
Cyber Security (in Context of AxS an their Applications)

M&S of Intelligent Systems – R&D and Application

Autonomous Tactical Behavior
Math Modelling and Simulation of AI Tasks
RT Issue and Reality Gaps in Context of New AI Concepts, M&S of Future Operational Tasks
Multi-robot Systems/Swarms, Benefits, Threats, and Challenges
AI/machine-learning of the systems through M&S
Distributed Control for Multi-robot Systems
Robust Decision Making via Cooperative Estimation
Relevant Concepts and Experiments
Concepts and Visions of Future Warfare and Application
M&S in Capability Evaluation of Robotic Swarms
Co-simulation Tools for Multi-domain Analysis
Effectiveness, Reliability, and Cyber-Security Issues

Future Challenges of Advanced M&S Technology

Key Challenges of the Research and Development
Capability Dev. in Context of Future Ops and Social Environment
Man versus Computer, Advanced M&S Projects
Future Technology and Impact on Society
Validation and verification process for Autonomous functions (V&V via M&S)

ABSTRACTS AND THEIR REGISTRATION

Authors are requested to send abstracts (brief description about 200 words is sufficient, but not limited to).

Please, also add the PDF format of your abstract (optionally enriched by additional information, comprehensive description, drawings, architecture, algorithms and so on.) only via the MESAS21 LINK TO THE SPRINGER CONFERENCE SERVICE SYSTEM.

FULL PAPER TEMPLATE AND COPYRIGHT

When submitting the full papers (based on Abstract approval) via Springer OCS system, please use the following instruction and templates requested by LNCS Series Producer and author’s guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word for the preparation of their papers.

Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.