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https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1788/STIDS2016_Preface.pdf
STIDS 2016
The Eleventh International Conference on
Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense, and Security
Semantics in the Internet of Things
November 14-17, 2016
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia Campus
Conference Proceedings
Kathryn B. Laskey, Ian D. Emmons, Paulo C. G. Costa, Alessandro Oltramari, Eds.
Preface
The Eleventh International Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense, and Security (STIDS
2016) provides a forum for academia, government, and industry to share the latest research on semantic technology
for defense, intelligence, and security applications. Semantic technology is a fundamental enabler to achieve great-
er flexibility, precision, timeliness, and automation of analysis and response to rapidly evolving threats. The
STIDS 2016 theme is Semantics in the Internet of Things. In addition, topics of general interest for STIDS in-
clude:
• Best practices in the engineering of ontologies
• Collaboration
• Command and Control (C2) and Situation Awareness (SA)
• Cyberspace: defense, exploitation, and counter-attack
• Decision making
• Economics and financial analysis
• Emergency response
• Human factors and usability issues related to semantic technologies
• Information sharing
• Infrastructure protection
• Intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination
• Law and law enforcement
• Planning: representation of and reasoning over plans and processes
• Predictive analysis
• Provenance, source credibility, and evidential pedigree
• Resiliency, risk analysis, and vulnerability assessment
• Science and technology (biology, health, chemistry, engineering, etc.)
• Sensor systems
• Sociology (social networks, ethnicity, religion, culture, politics, etc.)
• Spatial and temporal phenomena and reasoning
• Uncertainty as it relates to ontologies and reasoning
Fairfax, VA
November 2016
Ian Emmons and Kathryn Laskey
STIDS 2016 Technical Chairs
Paulo Costa and Alessandro Oltramari
STIDS 2016 General Chairs
STIDS 2016 Proceedings Page i
STIDS 2015 Committees
Program Committee
Carl Andersen Raytheon BBN Technologies
Rommel Novaes Carvalho Brazil’s Office of the Comptroller General
Erik Blasch AFRL
Paulo Costa George Mason University
Timothy Darr Knowledge Based Systems Inc.
Ian Emmons Raytheon BBN Technologies
Matthew Fisher Progeny Systems
Mark Greaves Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richard Haberlin EMSolutions, Inc.
Peter Haddawy Mahidol University
Brian Haugh IDA
Edward Huang George Mason University
Gregory Joiner Raytheon BBN Technologies
Anne-Laure Jousselme NATO Centre for Maritime Research and
Experimentation (CMRE)
Mieczyslaw Kokar Northeastern University
Dave Kolas Raytheon BBN Technologies
Kathryn Laskey George Mason University
Louise Leenen CSIR
Richard Markeloff Raytheon BBN Technologies
David Mireles Raytheon BBN Technologies
Ranjeev Mittu US Naval Research Laboratory
Leo Obrst MITRE Corporation
Alessandro Oltramari Bosch Research and Technology Center
Patrice Seyed Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Barry Smith University at Buffalo
Andrew Perez-Lopez BBN Technologies
Tony Stein Raytheon BBN Technologies
Kathleen Stewart University of Maryland
Gheorghe Tecuci George Mason University
Brian Ulicny Thomson Reuters
Amanda Vizedom Criticollab, LLC
Andrea Westerinen Nine Points Solutions, LLC
Duminda Wijesekera George Mason University
Abbas Zaidi George Mason University
STIDS 2016 Proceedings Page ii
STIDS Steering Committee
Paulo Costa George Mason University
Ian Emmons Raytheon BBN Technologies
Katherine Goodier Xcelerate Solutions
Kathryn Laskey George Mason University
Leo Obrst MITRE Corporation
Barry Smith NCOR, University at Buffalo
STIDS 2016 Proceedings Page iii
STIDS 2015 Organizing Committee
General Chairs
Paulo Costa
Alessandro Oltramari
Technical Chairs
Ian Emmons
Kathryn Laskey
Publicity Chair
Richard Markeloff
Local Arrangements Chair
André Negrão Costa
Classified Session Chair
Brian Haugh
Local Team (GMU)
Debra Schenaker (Administrative Chair)
Priscilla McAndrews
Nicholas Clark
Shou Matsumoto
Jeronymo Carvalho
STIDS 2016 Proceedings Page iv
Michael Dean Best Paper Award
August 7, 1961 - November 19, 2014
The Michael Dean Best Paper Award was established in 2014 in recognition of Michael Dean’s many and diverse
contributions to the STIDS community. In selecting the winner, the committee sought to highlight the qualities
that made Mike such an asset to this community. The criteria for selection exemplify the very best contributions to
the conference and the community. To this end, the Michael Dean Best paper is the one that, in the judgment of the
award committee, best satisfies the following criteria:
1. Conveys a clear, careful understanding of the problem or issue being addressed, and clearly states why it
matters.
2. Conveys a thorough understanding of technical issues, and a well-grounded, pragmatic view of prior and
related work.
3. Clearly identifies the specific semantic technologies being discussed, and their relationship to the problem.
4. Identifies specific experience or expertise on which the paper and its conclusions draw.
5. If a semantic system or application is being presented as part of a solution, clearly identifies and com-
municates the components of this system, including any ontologies, and how they interact, as well as their
degree of actuality, availability, maturity and source.
6. Identifies whether and how such system/application/components have been evaluated and with what re-
sults.
7. Identifies outcomes, experiences, and lessons learned.
8. Demonstrates prioritization of greater technical and domain understanding and problem-solving over self-
promotion, organizational promotion, partisan or programmatic scorekeeping, or other, narrower concerns.
9. Demonstrates knowledge of prior and current art, strengthens such knowledge in the community, and
promotes better understanding by sharing the rationale for choices, especially when they diverge from
common practice.
10. Demonstrates and strengthens the state of the art of semantic technology via the quality of the work de-
scribed. Provides promising ways forward while negotiating known trade-offs and avoiding known pit-
falls. Helps more junior technologists avoid repetition of old errors, and provides more senior technolo-
gists with new insights.
The winning paper was announced on the last day of the conference:
• 2016 Michael Dean Best Paper: Michael Reep, Bo Yu, Duminda Wijesekera, Paulo Costa. Sharing Data
under Genetic Privacy Laws.
• Runner-up: Frank Greitzer, Muhammad Imran, Justin Purl, Elise Axelrad, Yung Mei, Leong, D. E., Sun-
ny Becker, Kathryn Laskey, Paul Sticha. Developing an Ontology for Individual and Organizational So-
ciotechnical Indicators of Insider Threat Risk.
STIDS 2016 Proceedings Page v
2015 Michael Dean Award Committee
Leo Obrst (chair) MITRE Corporation
Mark Underwood Krypton Brothers LLC
Ian Emmons Raytheon BBN Technologies
Richard Markeloff Raytheon BBN Technologies
STIDS 2016 Proceedings Page vi