FUSION 2006 Technical Program

Convitto della Calza, Florence, Italy

10-14 July 2006

The following events will be held in conjunction with FUSION 2006. Please note that attendance at these meetings is by invitation only.

Monday - Tuesday 10 - 11 July: AFOSR Information Fusion Program Workshop at the Convitto della Calza

Monday 10 July: IEEE AESS Target Tracking Systems Panel at the Convitto della Calza

Thursday 13 July: ISIF Board of Directors Meeting at Ristorante Boccanegra

Friday 14 July: Multistatic Tracking Working Group Meeting at the Convitto della Calza

The following social events are planned as part of FUSION 2006. Please remember to bring your tickets.

Tuesday 11 July at 18:30: Welcome Reception at Palazzo Vecchio

Wednesday 12 July at 20:00: Banquet dinner at Villa dell’Ombrellino (bus service provided from the Convitto della Calza starting at 19:30)

Additional social events are described at the conference website.

MONDAY 10 JULY 2006
	PITTI	BARGELLO	FRANCIABIGIO	MISTRANGELO	SANTACROCE
08:00	Welcome Coffee
08:30	AFOSR Information Fusion Program Workshop I	MO1: Multitarget Tracking and Multisensor Fusion, PART I	MO2: Fusion of quantitative and qualitative information using DSmT	MO3: Knowledge-Based Radar Signal and Data Processing
11:30	Lunch Break
13:00	AFOSR Information Fusion Program Workshop II	AF1: Multitarget Tracking and Multisensor Fusion, PART II	AF2: An Integrated Approach to Data Fusion and Decision Support	AF3: Ontology Based Situation Awareness and High Level Fusion: Methods and Tools	IEEE AESS Target Tracking Systems Panel
16:00	Coffee Break
16:30	AFOSR Information Fusion Program Workshop III		EV2: Image processing methods in image fusion	EV3: On SONAR systems and SONAR signal analysis	EV4: Decentralized Coordination of Autonomous Sensor Systems
19:30	End of Day

TUESDAY 11 JULY 2006
	PONTEVECCHIO	PITTI	BARGELLO	FRANCIABIGIO	MISTRANGELO	SANTACROCE
08:45	Plenary I
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Invited Panel Discussion	AFOSR Information Fusion Program Workshop IV	Nonlinear Filtering I	Sonar	Belief Theory I	Applications I
12:40	Lunch Break
13:40	Ground Target Tracking and Classification I	AFOSR Information Fusion Program Workshop V	Nonlinear Filtering II	Higher Level Fusion I	Situation Management I	Biological Applications
15:20	Coffee Break
15:50	Ground Target Tracking and Classification II	AFOSR Information Fusion Program Workshop VI	Radar	Higher Level Fusion II	Situation Management II	Tracing Pedigree in a Distributed Environment
17:30	End of Day
18:30	Welcome Reception

WEDNESDAY 12 JULY 2006
	PONTEVECCHIO	PITTI	BARGELLO	FRANCIABIGIO	MISTRANGELO	SANTACROCE
08:45	Plenary II
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Feature Aided Tracking	Image Fusion Assessment I	Sensor Networks I	Belief Functions: in Memory of Philippe Smets I	Operations Research I	Network-Centric Warfare, Complexity and Fusion
12:40	Lunch Break
13:40	Data Association I	Image Fusion Assessment II	Sensor Networks II	Belief Functions: in Memory of Philippe Smets II	Operations Research II	Category Theory and Information Fusion I
15:20	Coffee Break – POSTER SESSION
15:50	Data Association II	Image Fusion I	Sensor Networks III	Belief Theory II	Applications II	Category Theory and Information Fusion II
17:30	End of Day
19:30	Start of Bus Service from Convitto della Calza to Villa Ombrellino
20:00	Banquet Dinner

THURSDAY 13 JULY 2006
	PONTEVECCHIO	PITTI	BARGELLO	FRANCIABIGIO	MISTRANGELO	SANTACROCE
08:45	Plenary III
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Image Fusion II	Tracking I	Multistatic Sonar and Radar Tracking I	Fusion Theory I	Distributed Inference and Decision-Making I	Autonomous Agents for Data and Information Fusion
12:40	Lunch Break
13:40	Image Fusion III	Tracking II	Multistatic Sonar and Radar Tracking II	Fusion Theory II	Distributed Inference and Decision-Making II	Making Histories
15:20	Coffee Break
15:50	Sensor Management	Video Tracking	Multistatic Sonar and Radar Tracking III	Artificial Intelligence	Nonlinear Filtering III	Intelligent Systems in Data Fusion Engineering
17:30	End of Day
18:00	ISIF Board of Directors Meeting

FRIDAY 14 JULY 2006
	PITTI
09:00	Multistatic Tracking Working Group Meeting I
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Multistatic Tracking Working Group Meeting II
12:30	Lunch Break
13:30	Multistatic Tracking Working Group Meeting III
15:00	Coffee break
15:30	Multistatic Tracking Working Group IV
17:00	End of day

Monday, 10 July 2006

Time: 8:30-11:30

Invited Session: AFOSR Information Fusion Program Workshop I

Location: Pitti

Chair: John Tangney

Session: Tutorial MO1

Location: Bargello

Multitarget Tracking and Multisensor Fusion, PART I

Yaakov Bar-Shalom, T. Kirubarajan

Session: Tutorial MO2

Location: Franciabigio

Fusion of quantitative and qualitative information using DSmT

Jean Dezert, Florentin Smarandache

Session: Tutorial MO3

Location: Mistrangelo

Knowledge-Based Radar Signal and Data Processing

Alfonso Farina, Luigi Chisci, Antonio De Maio, Alessio Benavoli

Time: 13:00-16:00

Invited Session: AFOSR Information Fusion Program Workshop II

Location: Pitti

Chair: John Tangney

Session: Tutorial AF1

Location: Bargello

Multitarget Tracking and Multisensor Fusion, PART II

Yaakov Bar-Shalom, T. Kirubarajan

Session: Tutorial AF2

Location: Franciabigio

An Integrated Approach to Data Fusion and Decision Support

Subrata Das

Session: Tutorial AF3

Location: Mistrangelo

Ontology Based Situation Awareness and High Level Fusion: Methods and Tools

Mieczyslaw M. Kokar

Session: IEEE AESS Target Tracking Systems Panel

Location: Santacroce

Chair: Dale Blair

Time: 16:30-19:30

Invited Session: AFOSR Information Fusion Program Workshop III

Location: Pitti

Chair: John Tangney

Session: Tutorial EV1

Location: Bargello

Gene Regulatory Networks: Artificial Neural Network-based Methodologies

Rajat K. De

Session: Tutorial EV2

Location: Franciabigio

Image processing methods in image fusion

Marco Diani

Session: Tutorial EV3

Location: Mistrangelo

On SONAR systems and SONAR signal analysis

Georgios Haralabus

Session: Tutorial EV4

Location: Santacroce

Decentralized Coordination of Autonomous Sensor Systems

Katia Sycara, Bin Yu

Session: Plenary I

8:45 Opening Remarks: Stefano Coraluppi and Peter Willett (General Chairs)

8:55 Welcome Remarks: Fusion in the Information Age, Steven Ramberg (NURC Director)

9:00 Welcome Address: Alfonso Farina (Executive Chair)

9:30-10:30 Plenary Lecture: Performance Measures for Sensor Management: Computationally Efficient Formulations and Associated Applications, Dr. Marcel Hernandez (QinetiQ)

Invited Panel Discussion: Issues and Challenges in Resource Management and its Interaction with Level 2/3 Fusion with Applications to Real-World Problems

Moderators: Ivan Kadar and John J. Salerno

Issues in Adaptive and Automatic Information Fusion Resource Management

Ivan Kadar, Interlink Systems Sciences, Inc., NY, U.S.A.

Fusion & Information Acquisition

Kenneth J. Hintz, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, VA, U.S.A.

Decision-Theoretic Sensor Resource Management

Chee-Yee Chong, BAE Systems, CA, U.S.A.

Resource Management: A Necessary and Integral Component to Any Level 2/3 Fusion Capability

John J. Salerno, Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome Research Site, NY, U.S.A.

Sensor, User, Mission (SUM) Resource Management and Their Interaction with Level 2/3 Fusion

Erik Blasch, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, OH, U.S.A.

Remarks on Resource Management in Intelligence

Joachim Biermann, FGAN-FKIE, Wachtberg, Germany

Resource Management for Netcentric Environments

Subrata Das, Charles River Analytics, Inc., MA, U.S.A.

Invited Session: AFOSR Information Fusion Program Workshop IV

Session: Nonlinear Filtering I

Tracking of Groups of Targets Using Generalized Janossy Measure Density Function

A Performance Comparison of the PMD and IMM filters for a Mix of two Distinctively Different Classes of Target Trajectories

Combined Unscented Kalman and Particle Filtering for Tracking Closely Spaced Objects

Closed-form Posterior Cram'er-Rao Bound for a Manoeuvring Target in the Bearings-Only Tracking Context Using Best-Fitting Gaussian Distribution

Session: Sonar

An Evolutionary Approach for Fusion of Active and Passive Sonar Contact Information

Estimation of Acoustic Propagation Uncertainty Through Polynomial Chaos Expansions

Underwater target tracking by means of acoustic and electromagnetic data fusion

Session: Belief Theory I

Target Type Tracking with PCR5 and Dempster's rules - A Comparative Analysis

Blotch Detection for Digital Archives Restoration based on the Fusion of Spatial and Temporal Detectors

Understanding the large family of Dempster-Shafer theory's fusion operators - a decision-based measure

Robust face tracking using colour Dempster-Shafer fusion and particle filter

Session: Applications I

Estimation of Attitude and Position from Range only Measurements using Geometric Descent Optimization on the Special Euclidean Group

Annarita Di Lallo, Alfonso Farina, Renato Ferrante, Antonio Graziano, Mario Ravanelli, Giorgio Timmoneri, Luca Timmoneri, Tiziano Volpi

Information Fusion Application On Security Printing With Parametrical Fuzzy Classification

Special Session: Ground Target Tracking and Classification I

Real-Time Tracking Of Hundreds Of Targets With Efficient Exact JPDAF Implementation

Random Set Tracker Experiment on a Road Constrained Network with Resource Management

Invited Session: AFOSR Information Fusion Program Workshop V

Session: Nonlinear Filtering II

Generalized Multiple-Model Adaptive Estimation Using an Autocorrelation Approach

Bandwidth-Efficient Target Tracking In Distributed Sensor Networks Using Particle Filters

Session: Higher Level Fusion I

An Approach for Level 2/3 Fusion Technology Development in Urban/Asymmetric Scenarios

Special Session: Situation Management I

Plan-Driven Fusion: Shaping the Situation Awareness Process using Empirical Plan Data

Session: Biological Applications

Towards Information Fusion in Pathway Evaluation: Encoding Relations in Biomedical Texts

Biological Source Term Estimation Using Particle Counters and Immunoassay Sensors

Fusion Considerations in Monitoring and Handling Agitation Behaviour for Persons with Dementia

Special Session: Ground Target Tracking and Classification II

IMM Estimator for Ground Target Tracking with Variable Measurement Sampling Intervals

Algorithms for the selection of the active sensors in distributed tracking: comparison between Frisbee and GNS methods

Agostino Capponi, Concetta Pilotto, Giovanni Golino, Alfonso Farina, Lance Kaplan

Generalization Ability of a Support Vector Classifier Applied to Vehicle Data in a Microphone Network

Probabilistic Classification of Hyperspectral Images by Learning Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Mapping

Rosalind Wang, Suresh Kumar, Fabio Ramos, Tobias Kaupp, Ben Upcroft, Hugh Durrant-Whyte

Invited Session: AFOSR Information Fusion Program Workshop VI

Session: Radar

Assessment of Soil Parameter Estimation Errors for Fusion of Multichannel Radar Measurements

A New DCT-based Multiresolution Method for Simultaneous Denoising and Fusion of SAR Images

Session: Higher Level Fusion II

Modeling and Integration of Severe Weather Advisories for Situational Awareness

Revisiting JDL model for automotive safety applications: the PF2 functional model

Special Session: Situation Management II

Associative Learning of Vessel Motion Patterns for Maritime Situation Awareness

Special Session: Tracing Pedigree in a Distributed Environment

Marion Ceruti, Adam Ashenfelter, Richard Brooks, Genshe Chen, Subrata Das, Gary Raven, Moises Sudit, Edward Wright

Tuve Loefstroem, Rikard Koenig, Ulf Johansson, Lars Niklasson, Mattias Strand, Tom Ziemke

Session: Welcome Reception

18:30 Welcome Remarks: Alberto Baldacci (Local Arrangements and Finance Chair)

18:35 Welcome Remarks: Eugenio Giani (Assessore al Comune di Firenze)

18:40 Piano Concert: Richard Klemm (FGAN)

19:10-20:30 Cocktail

Session: Plenary II

8:45 Update on the Skövde Information Fusion Research Program: Sten F. Andler (University of Skövde, Sweden)

8:50 Best Paper Presentation: Road Map Extraction using GMTI Tracking, Martin Ulmke, Wolfgang Koch (FGAN)

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9:10 Best Paper Presentation: A Track Before Detect Approach for Extended Objects, Yvo Boers, Hans Driessen (THALES)

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9:30-10:30 Plenary Lecture: The PMHT and Related Applications of Mixture Densities, Roy Streit (Metron)

Session: Feature Aided Tracking

Comparison of methods for using target amplitude to improve measurement-to-track association in multi-target tracking

Enhanced Tracking Performance with Signal Amplitude Information of Sensor Networks

Tracking Multiple Features including Cross-Feature Correlations, with Observation Parameter Uncertainties

Special Session: Image Fusion Assessment I

Scanpath Analysis of Fused Multi-Sensor Images with Luminance Change: A Pilot Study

Timothy Dixon, Stavri Nikolov, John Lewis, Jian Li, Eduardo Canga, Jan Noyes, Tom Troscianko, David Bull, Nishan Canagarajah

Session: Sensor Networks I

Agostino Capponi, Concetta Pilotto, Alfonso Farina, Giovanni Golino, Lance Kaplan

Special Session: Belief Functions: In Memory of Philippe Smets I

Session: Operations Research I

Geo-spatial Tactical Decision Aid systems: fuzzy logic for supporting decision making

A Bayesian approach to predicting an unknown number of targets based on sensor performance

Spatiotemporal Clustering for Aggregating Hostile Units in Cluttered Environments

Special Session: Network-Centric Warfare, Complexity, and Fusion

A Model for a Human Decision-Maker in a Command and Control Radar System: Surveillance Tracking of Multiple Targets

Sofia Giompapa, Alfonso Farina, Fulvio Gini, Antonio Graziano, Riccardo Di Stefano

Alexander Smirnov, Michael Pashkin, Nikolay Shilov, Tatiana Levashova, Andrew Krizhanovsky

Session: Data Association I

A new class of heuristic polynomial time algorithms to solve the multidimensional assignment problem

Special Session: Image Fusion Assessment II

A MTF-Based Distance for the Assessment of Geometrical Quality of Fused Products

Sensor Fused Night Vision: Assessing Image Quality in the Lab and in the Field

Information-Theoretic Assessment of Fusion of Multispectral and Panchromatic Images

Bruno Aiazzi, Stefano Baronti, Luciano Alparone, Andrea Garzelli, Filippo Nencini

Assessment of Multi-Sensor Neural Image Fusion and Fused Data Mining for Land Cover Classification

Session: Sensor Networks II

Pierluigi Salvo Rossi, Gianmarco Romano, Davide Mattera, Francesco Palmieri, Stefano Marano

A Data Fusion Formulation for Decentralized Estimation Predictions under Communications Uncertainty

Efficient Control of Information Flow for Distributed Multisensor Fusion Using Markov Decision Processes

Scalable Decentralised Control for Multi-Platform Reconnaissance and Information Gathering Tasks

Special Session: Belief Functions: In Memory of Philippe Smets II

Output coding of spatially dependent subclassifiers in evidential framework. Application to the diagnosis of railway track/vehicle transmission system.

Computationally Efficient Multiple Hypothesis Association of Intelligence Reports

Joint Tracking and Classification of Airbourne Objects using Particle Filters and the Continuous Transferable Belief Model

Session: Operations Research II

A System Theoretical Approach to Situation Awareness, A Holistic View of Purposeful Elements

Paulo Dias, Jose Pinto, Gil Goncalves, Rui Goncalves, Joao Sousa, Fernando Pereira

Towards Global Maritime Domain Awareness -- Recent Developments and Challenges

Special Session: Category Theory and Information Fusion I

Category Theory Based Synthesis of a Higher-Level Fusion Algorithm: An Example

Session: Poster

Knowledge discovery-based multiple classifier fusion: a generalized rough set method

Optimization of Distributed Detection Systems under Neyman-Pearson Criterion

Estimation Method of False Alarm Probability and Observation Noise Variance in Wireless Sensor Networks

A Novel Fuzzy Pattern Recognition Data Association Method for Biased Sensor Data

A Feature Level Fusion in Similarity Matching to Content-Based Image Retrieval

Asynchronous Multisensor Data Fusion Based on Minimum Trace of Error Covariance

Distributed Binary Quantizers for Communication Constrained Large-scale Sensor Networks

Session: Data Association II

Joint Integrated PDA Avoiding Track Coalescence under non-homogeneous clutter density

Probability Evaluation in MHT with a Product Set Representation of Hypotheses

Session: Image Fusion I

Image Acquisition and Data Fusion for Planning and Feedback during Image Guided Surgery

Markov Regularization of Mixture of Latent variable Models for Multi-component Image Unsupervised Joint Reduction/Segmentation

Session: Sensor Networks III

Session: Belief Theory II

Selection of sources as a prerequesite for information fusion with application to SLAM

Comparison of Fusion Methods for Successive Declarations of Radar Range Profiles

Session: Applications II

Special Session: Category Theory and Information Fusion II

Understanding the Role of Context in the Interpretation of Complex Battlespace Intelligence

Session: Banquet Dinner

Mandolin Concert: Marion Ceruti (SPAWAR)

Session: Plenary III

8:45 FUSION 2007 Announcement: Pierre Valin (ISIF President)

8:50 Presentation: On Data Fusion, Command, and Control, Marina Grossi (Selex-Sistemi Integrati)

9:10 Best Student Paper: Closed Form PHD Filtering for Linear Jump Markov Models, Ahmed Pasha, Ba-Ngu Vo, H.D. Tuan, Wing-Kin Ma

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9:30-10:30 Plenary Lecture: Fusion Technology and Applications: A Retrospective and Some Thoughts about the Future, Nils Sandell (BAE Systems)

Session: Image Fusion II

Small bottom object density analysis from side scan sonar data by a mathematical morphology detector

Supporting Interoperable Geospatial Data Fusion by adopting OGC and ISO TC 211 standards

Session: Tracking I

Throwing Down the Gauntlet: A Discussion of Techniques for Bounding Advanced Tracking Algorithm Performance

Special Session: Multistatic Sonar and Radar Tracking I

Contact-Level Multistatic Sonar Data Simulator for Tracker Performance Assessment

Session: Fusion Theory I

Generalized Information Representation and Compression Using Covariance Union

An Empirical Study into the Use of Chernoff Information for Robust, Distributed Fusion of Gaussian Mixture Models

Inference Meta Models: Towards Robust Information Fusion with Bayesian Networks

Special Session: Distributed Inference and Decision-Making I

Joint IMM/MHT Tracking and Identification for Multi-Sensor Ground Target Tracking

A Distributed Recursive Maximum Likelihood Implementation for Sensor Registration

Special Session: Autonomous Agents for Data and Information Fusion

Geographic Routing in Distributed Sensor Systems without Location Information

Computational Mechanism Design for Information Fusion within Sensor Networks

Session: Image Fusion III

Comparison of several fusion paradigms applied to pixel-based image classification

Interpretation of high-resolution optical imagery with evidential fusion of spectral information and object attributes

Session: Tracking II

Selecting and Evaluating Combinatorial Fusion Criteria to Improve Multitarget Tracking

Implementation and integration of a Bayesian Network for prediction of tactical intention into a ground target simulator

Special Session: Multistatic Sonar and Radar Tracking II

Application of the M6T tracker to simulated and experimental multistatic sonar data

Bayesian Multistatic Tracking: Results on Simulated Data from the Multistatic Tracking Working Group

Session: Fusion Theory II

Efficient Representation and Fusion of Hybrid Joint Densities for Clusters in Nonlinear Hybrid Bayesian Networks

Integrity-Directed Sensor Fusion by Robust Risk Assessment of Fault-Tolerant Interval Functions

Special Session: Distributed Inference and Decision-Making II

Performance of Certain Decentralized Distributed Change Detection Procedures

Identification of Simple Product-Form Plumes Using Networks of Sensors With Random Errors

Special Session: Making Histories

Generating Patterns for Knowledge Discovery using First Principles Modeling of Activity

Visualization Support for Fusing Relational, Spatio-Temporal Data: Building Career Histories

Session: Sensor Management

Analysis of radar allocation requirements for an IRST aided tracking of anti-ship missiles

Accommodating Obstacle Avoidance in the Weapons Allocation Problem for Tactical Air Defence

Session: Video Tracking

Comparison of Image Processing Resource Allocation for Multi-Target Tracking of Dismounted Targets

Fusion of Motion Information with Static Classifications of Occupant Images for Smart Airbag Applications

Special Session: Multistatic Sonar and Radar Tracking III

Multi-sensor placement to exploit complementary properties of diverse sonar waveforms

A Bayesian Method for Managing Uncertainties Relating to Distributed Multistatic Sensor Search

Session: Artifical Intelligence

Delivering NEC Through the Application of Information Fusion and Multi-Agent Systems

Richard Vaughan, James Wise, Paul Huey, Michael Alcock, Jonathan Vaughan, Graham Atkins

Continuous Learning Method for a Continuous Dynamical Control in a Partially Observable Universe

Session: Nonlinear Filtering III

Effects of motion models and sensor data on the accuracy of the LPM positioning system

Klaus Pourvoyeur, Andreas Stelzer, Thomas Gahleitner, Stefan Schuster, Gerald Gassenbauer

Approximate Nonlinear Bayesian Estimation Based on Lower and Upper Densities

Special Session: Intelligent Systems in Data Fusion Engineering

On reliability and trustworthiness of high-level fusion-based decision support systems: basic concepts and possible formal methodologies

Trajectory classification based on machine-learning techniques over tracking data

A case based reasoning data fusion scheme: application to offshore wind energy resource mapping

Session: ISIF Board of Directors Meeting

Friday, 14 July 2006

Time: 9:00-10:30

Invited Session: Multistatic Tracking Working Group Meeting I

Room: Pitti

Chair: Stefano Coraluppi

Time: 11:00-12:30

Invited Session: Multistatic Tracking Working Group Meeting II

Room: Pitti

Chair: Stefano Coraluppi

Time: 13:30-15:00

Invited Session: Multistatic Tracking Working Group Meeting III

Room: Pitti

Chair: Stefano Coraluppi

Time: 15:30-17:00

Invited Session: Multistatic Tracking Working Group Meeting IV

Room: Pitti

Chair: Stefano Coraluppi

Author Index

Aarabi, Parham 124

Accardo, Domenico 311

Ai, J. 78

Aiazzi, Bruno 378

Ainsleigh, Phillip 365

Aknin, Patrice 165

Akselrod, Dimitry 309

Alcocer, Alex 181

Alcock, Michael 219

Ali, Usman 330

Allard, Yannick 225

Alparone, Luciano 378

Amditis, Angelos 259, 346

Anderson, Gregory 294

Angelova, Donka 113

Antone, Matthew 74

Arambel, Pablo 74

Ashenfelter, Adam 43

Atkins, Graham 219

Baclawski, Kenneth 308

Bai, Li 55

Bailey, Tim 149

Balci, Metin 283

Bar-Shalom, Yaakov 6

Baronti, Stefano 378

Baud, Olivier 81

Belov, Nadya 243

Ben Ticha, Mohamed Bassam 206

Beng, Lee 48

Benton, Christopher 67

Bereson, Andrew 332

Bergmans, Jeroen 46, 174

Bernardos, Ana 207

Besada, Juan 227

Bezet, Olivier 115

Bharathan, Vivek 282

Bhattacharya, Prabir 238

Biehl, R. 368

Bieker, Tanja 184

Biermann, Joachim 395

Bilenne, Olivier 265

Biswas, Jit 138

Biswas, Saroj 55

Blackman, Samuel 44

Blair, Dale 382

Blanding, Wayne 66

Blasch, Erik 8, 130, 394

Bloch, Isabelle 205

Bloem, Edwin 214

Blom, Henk 214

Blythe, Jim 372

Bochardt, Ottmar 373

Boers, Yvo 36

Bomberger, Neil 234

Bosse, Eloi 172

Bouchon-Meunier, Bernadette 32

Bovio, Edoardo 386

Brehard, Thomas 191

Brooks, Richard 43

Brown, Shaun 252

Brunn, Dietrich 261, 264

Bryan, Karna 376

Buford, John 383

Bugallo, Monica 293

Bull, David 106, 112, 113, 116, 151

Calhoun, Ryan 373

Canagarajah, Nishan 106, 112, 113, 116, 151

Canga, Eduardo 112

Cantoni, Antonio 158

Cantwell, John 276

Capelle-Laize, Anne-Sophie 73

Cappellini, Vito 179

Capponi, Agostino 141, 144

Caron, Francois 9, 126

Carthel, Craig 28, 376

Casar, Jose 207

Ce, Xu 25

Celeste, Francis 303

Ceruti, Marion 43, 58

Chakravorty, Rajib 11

Challa, Subhash 11

Champion, Jon 284

Chang, KC 291

Chapuis, Roland 99

Chauhan, Sunita 313

Chausse, Frederic 99

Chemello, Gaetano 7

Chen, Biao 343

Chen, Genshe 43, 245

Chen, Hao 275

Chen, Huimin 6, 292, 341

Cheng, Yang 170, 223

Cherfaoui, Veronique 115

Chong, Chee-Yee 281, 286, 392

Chuen, Chin 48

Clark, Daniel 60

Cohen, Paul 210, 268, 314

Collet, Christophe 241

Collins, Christopher 256

Colot, Olivier 73

Concha, Oscar 154, 195

Cooke, Eddie 178

Cootes, Tim 193, 262

Coraluppi, Stefano 27, 28, 29, 337, 344

Cramer, Heiko 250

Crassidis, John 223

Cruz, Jose 245

Cutler, Philip 143

Cvejic, Nedeljko 151

Dalberg, Eva 169

Dalessandro, Don 55

Dambreville, Frederic 77, 189, 303

Das, Subrata 43, 249, 396

Dash, Rajdeep 367

Dasinger, Steven 377

Davy, Manuel 126

De Miguel, Gonzalo 227

De Theije, Pascal 27, 41, 46

De Waard, Huub 21

Debain, Christophe 99

Debiolles, Alexandra 165

Del Mastio, Andrea 179

Demers, Hugues 34

Denoeux, Thierry 114, 146, 165

DesJardins, Marie 372

Desai, Bipin 238

Desruisseaux, Martin 350

Dezert, Jean 40, 82

Di Lallo, A. 164

Di Lallo, Annarita 111

Di Stefano, Riccardo 192

DiBona, Phil 243

Dias, Paulo 209

Diaz, Javier 32

Dietmayer, Klaus 218

Dixon, Timothy 112

Djuric, Petar 293

Doucet, Arnaud 126, 247

Driessen, Hans 36

Du, Wei 298

Duflos, Emmanuel 9, 126

Dulman, Stefan 329

Dura, Elzbieta 240

Durrant-Whyte, Hugh 59, 135, 149

Dyck, Walter 379

Efe, Murat 296

Ehrman, Lisa 382

El-Sharkawi, Mohamed 237

Erdinc, Ozgur 344

Erlendsson, Björn 240

Ersoy, Yetkin 296

Evans, Robin 215

Falkman, Goran 157

Fan, Xianfeng 15

Farina, A. 164

Farina, Alfonso 14, 111, 141, 144, 192, 329

Farmer, Michael 117

Fasano, Giancarmine 311

Faux, Francis 299

Fay, D. 368, 384

Fernandez-Maloigne, Christine 73

Ferrante, Renato 111

Ferry, James 224, 226

Flitti, Farid 241

Floudas, Nikolaos 346

Fook, Victor 138

Foresti, Gian 231

Fournelle, Connie 229

Fox, Warren 237

Fujita, Takahiro 71

Fulcoli, R. 164

Gahleitner, Thomas 150

Gajda, Janusz 45

Galstyan, Aram 268

Gammon, Mark 233

Ganse, Andrew 294

Gao, Hongge 308

Garcia, Jesus 195, 227

Garzelli, Andrea 378

Gassenbauer, Gerald 150

Gawronska, Barbara 240

Gelenbe, Erol 345

Gerard, Odile 28

Gershfield, Charlie 120

Giampapa, Joseph 375

Giannecchini, Simone 350, 354

Giannopoulos, Evangelos 365

Gini, Fulvio 192

Giompapa, Sofia 192

Glinton, Robin 375

Goldman, Claudia 309

Golino, Giovanni 141, 144

Goncalves, Gil 209

Goncalves, Rui 209

Grasso, Raffaele 353, 354

Grau, D. 368

Gray, John 358

Graziano, Antonio 111, 192

Grimmett, Doug 27, 28, 29, 348

Groen, Frans 174

Groen, Hans 41

Guitouni, Adel 172

Gupta, Sumana 155

Gustafsson, Fredrik 156

Gustavsson, Per 101

Hadjitodorov, Stefan 17

Haenni, Rolf 251

Hamad, Denis 334

Han, Chongzhao 97, 315, 319, 320

Hanebeck, Uwe 261, 264, 349

Hanif, Mohammad 330

Hanselmann, Anne 349

Hanselmann, Thomas 153

Hazen, Megan 237

Hempel, Christian 360

Hernandez, Marcel 14

Herrero, Jesus 154

Hintz, Kenneth 391

Hogervorst, Maarten 35

Hol, Jeroen 156

Honore, Nicolas 81

Horridge, Paul 100

Hsu, D. 78

Huang, Xinhan 40

Huet, Benoit 110

Huey, Paul 219

Hui, Xingjie 322

Hui-dong, Guo 25

Iannella, Renato 22

Ilardi, P. 368

Incze, Bruce 377

Jakobson, Gabriel 383

Jennings, Nicholas 367

Jilkov, Vesselin 341

Jin, Ningde 322

Johansson, Fredrik 157

Johansson, Ulf 212

Jones, Kennie 374

Josephson, John 282

Jouan, Alexandre 225, 277

Julier, Simon 355, 359, 373

Kaci, Souhila 335

Kadar, Ivan 389

Kaneko, Toshinobu 71

Kang, Xin 315, 319

Kanjilal, Partha 249

Kantas, Nikolas 247

Kaplan, Lance 141, 144

Kaupp, Tobias 135

Kay, Steven 275

Keong, Chan 48

Kessel, Ronald 366

Kester, Leon 46, 174

Kim, Da Sol 52

Kim, Hongjoong 64

Kiran, Raveesh 301

Kirubarajan, T. 309

Klumpp, Vesa 261

Koch, Wolfgang 66, 104

Koenig, Rikard 212

Kokar, Mieczyslaw 306, 308

Konstantinova, Pavlina 82

Kotenko, Igor 287

Kraeussling, Andreas 194

Krishnamurthy, Vikram 132

Krizhanovsky, Andrew 190

Kronhamn, Thomas 180

Krout, David 237, 294

Kruger, Martin 245

Kuklinski, Walter 232

Kulemin, Gennadiy 122

Kulkarni, Sanjeev 131

Kumar, Suresh 135

Kuncheva, Ludmila 17

Kurekin, Andriy 122, 162

Kwan, Chiman 245

La Cour, Brian 256, 258

La Scala, Barbara 30, 253, 363

Labbe, Vincent 277

Laborelli, Louis 205

Lagervik, Charlie 101

Lambert, Dale 47, 79

Lancaster, Justin 44

Landry, Jamie 256

Lanir, Joel 39

Laskey, Kathryn 274

Lauberts, Andris 169, 204

Laudy, Claire 200

Lawless, Dave 249

Le Cadre, Jean-Pierre 191, 303, 352

LePage, Kevin 357

Leduc, Francois 103

Lei, Ming 97

Lennartsson, Ron 169

Levashova, Tatiana 190

Lever, Kenneth 122, 162

Levonen, Mika 169

Lewis, John 106, 112, 151

Lewis, Lundy 383

Li, Chen 320

Li, Jian 67, 112

Li, X. Rong 338, 340, 341, 370

Li, Xinde 40

Lin, Ying 343

Lin-zhou, Xu 25

Lindgren, David 204

Lindner, Philipp 250

Little, Eric 302

Liu, Hui 322

Llinas, James 236

Lo, Darren 226

Lobbia, Robert 332

Lodding, Kenneth 374

Loefstroem, Tuve 212

Lohweg, Volker 379

Lollett, Carlos 211

Lorenz, David 306

Loza, Artur 116

Luginbuhl, Tod 365

Luthon, Franck 299

Lynch, Robert 361

Lyons, D. 78

Maehlisch, Mirko 218

Magnus, Amy 369

Mallick, Mahendra 363

Maltz, Masha 39

Marano, Stefano 371

Marshall, Dave 122, 162, 305

Martin, Arnaud 109, 197

Martin, Todd 291

Maskell, Simon 100, 305

Masson, Marie-Helene 146

Matheus, Christopher 306

Mathews, George 59

Mattera, Davide 371

Mattioli, Juliette 200

McGirr, Scott 58

Mehrotra, Kishan 273

Mellema, Garfield 307

Mercier, David 146

Michaud, Guy 34

Michels, James 275

Miguel, Gonzalo 195

Mihaylova, Lyudmila 113, 116

Mikhalev, Alex 266

Mirmoeini, Farnoush 132

Moccia, Antonio 311

Mohan, Chilukuri 273

Molina, Jose 154, 195

Moran, Bill 69, 253

Morelande, Mark 279, 280, 329

Morgado, Marco 159

Mori, Shozo 281, 286

Morrison, Clayton 210, 314

Moustakides, George 123

Mudiyanur, Rashmi 211

Museux, Nicolas 200

Musicki, Darko 11, 134, 153, 214, 215, 362

Nagi, Rakesh 133, 236

Nasr, Chaiban 334

Nasser, Alissar 334

Nencini, Filippo 378

Ng, Gee Wah 63

Ng, Thiam 63

Nguyen, Trang 341

Nickel, Ulrich 66

Niklasson, Lars 212

Nikolov, Stavri 67, 106, 112

Nilsson, Maria 98

Nordgren, Bryce 350

Norstedt-Larsson, Madeleine 101

Noyes, Jan 112

Nunnink, Jan 70

O Conaire, Ciarán 178

O'Connor, Noel 178

Oates, Tim 372

Ohtsuki, Tomoaki 71

Okello, Nickens 137

Olariu, Stephan 374

Oliveira, Paulo 159, 181

Olsson, Björn 240

Ong, Hwa-Tung 14

Ormondroyd, Richard 266

Ortiz, Albert 55

Osherson, Daniel 131

Osswald, Christophe 197

Otero, Michael 232

Oukhellou, Latifa 165

Oxenham, Martin 143

Oxley, Mark 255, 369

Palaniswami, Marimuthu 153, 301

Palmieri, Francesco 371

Panta, Kusha 60

Paparone, Luigi 311

Pascoal, Antonio 181

Pashkin, Michael 190

Patricio, Miguel 154

Patwardhan, Mithila 372

Pavlin, Gregor 70

Pawlak, Robert 5

Pawlowski, Angela 243

Pegg, Russell 283

Pellerin, Denis 217

Perea, Federico 21

Pereira, Fernando 209

Persson, Leif 169

Petrovic, Vladimir 193, 262

Piater, Justus 298

Piciarelli, Claudio 231

Pilotto, Concetta 141, 144

Pinto, Jose 209

Pitton, James 294

Polychronopoulos, Aris 259, 346

Poor, H. 131

Porter, Maynard 228

Pourvoyeur, Klaus 150

Powell, Gavin 305

Powell, Gerald 306

Powers, Brenda 58

Predd, Joel 131

Pugh, M. 384

Pulford, Graham 20

Qiu, Qiang 138

Rabi, Seyed Alireza 124

Radford, Darren 122, 162

Rago, Constantino 120

Rahman, Md. 238

Ramasso, Emmanuel 217

Ramos, Fabio 135

Ranchin, Thierry 206

Rao, Nageswara 37

Rapley, Veronica 310

Ravanelli, Mario 111

Raven, Gary 43

Reddy, Umamaheswara 170

Reece, Steve 367

Rheingans, Penny 372

Rhodes, Bradley 234

Rickard, John 16

Rieman, Jason 117

Rifqi, Maria 32

Ristic, Branko 9, 14, 280, 305, 329

Ritter, Werner 218

Roberts, Stephen 367

Robins, Peter 310

Rogers, Alex 367

Rogova, Galina 211, 302

Romano, Gianmarco 371

Rombaut, Michele 217

Rotman, Stanley 39

Rubiera, Javier 154

Salerno, John 393

Salvo Rossi, Pierluigi 371

Sambhoos, Kedar 133

Savage, Craig 253

Savoye, D. 368

Sawo, Felix 264

Schaede, Johannes 379

Scheunert, Ullrich 250, 259

Schrempf, Oliver 349

Schubert, Johan 276

Schulz, Dirk 194

Schuster, Stefan 150

Schweiger, Roland 218

Schön, Thomas 156

Scott, Peter 170, 211

Scott-Samuel, Nicholas 67

Seibert, Michael 234

Shahid, Mohd. 155

Shan, Xiuming 318

Shao-bo, Tang 25

Shen, Dan 245

Shi, Yue 318

Shilov, Nikolay 190

Silver, Jeffrey 74

Silvestre, Carlos 159

Singh, Sumeetpal 247

Singh, Tarunraj 170

Sinha, Abhijit 309

Siow, Shun 63

Slycke, Per 156

Smarandache, Florentin 82

Smeaton, Alan 178

Smets, Philippe 305

Smirnov, Alexander 190

Smith-Carroll, A. 358

Snidaro, Lauro 231

Sodhi, Manbir 386

Song, Taek Lyul 52

Sossai, Claudio 7

Soto, Andres 227

Soubaras, Helene 200

Sousa, Joao 209

Souvannavong, Fabrice 110

Spina, Francesco 350, 353

Sroka, Ryszard 45

Steinberg, Alan 24

Stelzer, Andreas 150

Stencel, Marek 45

Stephenson, Thomas 229

Stile, A. 164

Stotz, Adam 133

Strand, Mattias 212

Strat, Thomas 74

Streit, Roy 397

Sudano, John 385

Sudit, Moises 43, 133, 236

Sukkarieh, Salah 148, 252

Sun, Liang 97

Suter, Bruce 343

Suzic, Robert 242

Svenson, Pontus 80, 242

Svensson, Per 51

Swaszek, Peter 386

Sycara, Katia 198, 199, 375

Szupiluk, Ryszard 168

Tan, Chung 63

Tarrio, Paula 207

Tartakovsky, Alexander 64

Tatschke, Thomas 259

Taupin, Olivier 81

Tchamova, Albena 82

Tessier, Cedric 99

Theophanis, Stephen 232

Thomas, Claire 147, 267

Thomas, Paul 310

Thompson, Paul 148

Thorsen, Steven 255, 369

Tierno, Jorge 229

Tilie, Sorin 205

Timmoneri, Giorgio 111

Timmoneri, L. 164

Timmoneri, Luca 111

Todorova, Ludmila 17

Toet, Alexander 35, 106

Tomasik, Jerzy 196

Troscianko, Tom 112

Tsogas, Manolis 346

Tuerke, Thomas 379

Turgeon, Daniel 34

Uhlmann, Jeffrey 373

Ulanov, Alexander 287

Ulmke, Martin 104

Upcroft, Ben 135, 149

Valin, Pierre 172

Van Der Hoeven, Marieke 35

Van Der Torre, Leendert 335

Van Kleef, Jelle 174

Vanheeghe, Philippe 9, 126

Vanpeperstraete, Jean-Michel 352

Varshney, Pramod 273, 275

Vasconcelos, Jose 159

Vasquez, Juan 228, 284

Vaughan, Jonathan 219

Vaughan, Richard 219

Vemula, Mahesh 293

Venayagamoorthy, Ganesh 301

Vigilante, D. 164

Vo, Ba-Ngu 60, 158

Vo, Ba-Tuong 158

Volfson, Leo 387

Volpi, Tiziano 111

Wah, Ng 48

Wai, Aung 138

Wald, Lucien 147, 267

Walters, Joshua 359

Wang, Liqi 272

Wang, Rosalind 135

Wang, Xuezhi 69, 134

Wang, Yu 345

Wang, Yue 318

Waxman, A. 234, 368, 384

Wei, Shouzhi 322

Weyman, Jerzy 196

Willett, Peter 337, 343, 344, 361

Wilson, Larry 374

Wintenby, Johannes 328

Wise, James 219

Witkoskie, James 232

Wojewnik, Piotr 168

Wong, Y. 61

Wright, Edward 43, 274

Wright, Tedd 58

Wu, Jiankang 61

Xavier, Joao 181

Xiang, Ming 270, 272

Xiao, Mei 315

Xin, Chunsheng 374

Xin-hua, Zhang 25

Xinghu, Zhang 48

Yang, Chun 8

Yang, Yi 319

Yatskaer, Irena 39

Yin, How 48

Yu, Bin 198, 199

Yuan, Song 25

Zabkowski, Tomasz 168

Zeglen, Tadeusz 45

Zhang, Weihong 292

Zhang, Xiaodan 322

Zhao, Zhanlue 338, 340, 370

Zhu, Hongyan 320

Ziemke, Tom 98, 212

Zuo, Long 273

Zuo, Ming 15