The NATO M&S COE requests all interested researchers and technicians from academic, industrial or military research centers to prepare for this year’s MESAS. The paper collection phase will soon come. 

If you are interested, you can still send your abstract.

The process of submitting final papers is ongoing.

Planned timeline:

Abstracts and their registration

The traditional topics of the MESAS’24 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)