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.