2012 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications (IEEE CISDA 2012) [Conference Report

Abstract

The 2012 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications (IEEE CISDA 2012) was held from 11 to 13 July 2012 in the Delta Ottawa City Centre Hotel in Ottawa, Canada. This article overviews the happenings at the conference. IEEE CISDA 2012 was the fifth forum (the first was held in 2007) on CI for security and defence applications. Since that inaugural year, new problems have emerged within the broad areas of security and defence that are increasingly more difficult to tackle with conventional methods, thus requiring new techniques for detecting and adapting to emerging threats. The purpose of the symposium is to present current efforts in CI (e.g., neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, and other emerging learning or optimization techniques) as applied to security, defence and military problems. The following topics are typically discussed at the symposium: complex adaptive systems, intelligence gathering and exploitation, modeling and simulation of military operations, network security, automatic target recognition and tracking, biometrics, as well as employment and control of autonomous vehicles.