Event Information

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2nd Annual Workshop on Meta-Information Portrayal
21–23 August, 2007
Hotel Palomar, Washington, DC

Sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory

Co-sponsored by Aptima, Inc. and Charles River Analytics, Inc.

  • Meta-information is a characteristic or qualifier of information that affects:
    • Information processing  (e.g., reports flagged as “important” by an aide get read first)
    • Situational awareness (e.g., because information about adversary surface-to-air missile locations is recent and certain, the commander knows certain friendly aerial assets are under threat)
    • Decision-making (e.g., because information about the adversary’s location is 30 hours old, the commander decides to send a scout to confirm the location before maneuvering).

The 2nd Annual Workshop on Meta-Information Portrayal will bring together parties from government, industry, and academia to discuss the challenges and opportunities related to portraying meta-information. The overarching goals of this series of workshops are to understand the relevance of meta-information across a variety of military contexts, to encourage communication and collaboration between business, government and academia about the most appropriate methods of portraying meta-information, to understand what work has been invested and where gaps exist in the research and understanding of meta-information portrayal, and to develop a research agenda to fill those gaps.

Sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory, this second Workshop on Meta-Information Portrayal will take place on 21-23 August 2007, at the Hotel Palomar in Washington, DC.

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