FLAIRS-2003

The 16th International FLAIRS Conference

In cooperation with the
Intelligent Systems Technical Committee
of the
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Presents

Special Track: Artificial Intelligence in Aerospace

Casa Monica Hotel
St Augustine, FL

May 12-14, 2003

Description

The focus of this special track is on the application of artificial intelligence technologies within the aerospace industry. Of special interest are deployed or near-deployed software and hardware components with the potential to decrease system risk, increase capability, and minimize life cycle costs to this multi-billion dollar field. Because of its historically conservative nature and high inherent design and development costs, we feel this forum is the best way to incorporate new technologies at a time when we can no longer fiscally afford to stay the course of business as usual.

This will be a multi-session track with each session addressing different technologies and/or domains in which AI has applicability within the aerospace industry. Each session will consist of paper presentations from selected authors. Areas of interest within the track include:

• Spacecraft constellation maintenance and control
• Autonomous mission management for satellite constellations
• Autonomy for spacecraft
• Intelligent autonomy for unmanned air vehicles
• Autonomous orbit control
• Fault detection, isolation, and resolution
• Intelligent planning and scheduling
• Intelligent data acquisition and processing
• Algorithms for missile defense
• Architectures and approaches to intelligent system design
• Messaging systems for aerospace command and control
• Autonomous ground operations
• AI for learning in aerospace operations
• Revolutionary computing
• Performance Analyses of Flight Vehicles or Components
• Adaptive modeling
• Reasoning under uncertainty

Paper submissions which address the above areas are sought in all areas of AI including intelligent multi-agent systems, autonomous planning and scheduling, neural networks, expert systems, model-based reasoning, and knowledge representation.

For more information visit FLAIRS 2003.

Program Committee

• Paul Zetocha, Air Force Research Laboratory
• James Ross, Raytheon
• Henry Hexmoor, Univ of Arkansas
• Michael Ricard, C.S. Draper Laboratory
• Stephan Kolitz, C.S. Draper Laboratory
• Mark Hanson, Charles River Analytics
• Jim Steck, Wichita State Univ
• Ella Atkins, University of Maryland
• Derek Surka, AI Solutions
• K. KrishnaKumar, NASA Ames Research Center
• Jim Neidhoefer, Accurate Automation Corp
• Bob Savely, NASA/JSC
• Walt Truszkowski, NASA/GSFC

Deadlines

• Submission deadline
  October 25, 2002
• Notification date
  January 7, 2003
• Camera-ready copies due
  February 17, 2003

Submission Details

Interested authors must submit complete manuscripts of no more than 5 double spaced pages by the above deadline. Send your submissions electronically to the track chair Paul Zetocha (Paul.Zetocha@Kirtland.af.mil). The recommended format is Microsoft Word. Additional details on formatting for paper submissions can be found at: FLAIRS 2003. For questions related specifically to this track contact:

Paul Zetocha
Air Force Research Laboratory
AFRL/VSSW
3550 Aberdeen Ave SE
Kirtland AFB NM, 87117
Email: Paul.Zetocha@Kirtland.af.mil
V: (505) 853-4114
F: (505) 846-6053