IARPA Supported Event

International Symposium on Collaborative Analysis and Reasoning Systems

(CARS 2014)

As part of

The 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems

(CTS 2014)

The Commons Hotel

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

In Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP

Supported by

The Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity (IARPA)

May 22nd , 2014

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The Symposium on Collaborative Analysis and Reasoning Systems (CARS) will be held as part of the 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2014), at the Commons Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

We invite you to join us for this important event.

Schedule

Thursday, May 22,

10:20 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. CARS 2014 Keynote Speech

Title: Collaborative Analysis in the Intelligence Community: Research Opportunities

Speaker: Dr. Rita M. Bush

Incisive Analysis Office, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA),

Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Washington, D.C., USA

Thursday, May 22,

11:10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CARS 2014 Presentations - I

1. Stories from the Trenches

David T. Moore

National Defense Intelligence College, Washington, D.C., USA

2. Collaborative Architecture for Analysis: Models of Hypothesis Structure and Coordination Mechanism

Stanley J. Rosenschein

BranchTime Technologies, Palo Alto, California USA

Thursday, May 22,

12:00 p.m. - 13:45 p.m. Luncheon

Thursday, May 22,

13:45 p.m. - 15:20 p.m. CARS 2014 Presentations – II

3. Wikis, Semantics, and Collaboration

Mark Greaves

National Security Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, USA

4. Thinking from the System Architecture: A Better Methodology for Capture of Collaborative Knowledge

Thomas McDermott, Jack Zentner, Nicholas Bollweg

Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia, USA

5. Ganging Up on Big Data: Computer-Intermediated Collaborative Analysis

Mark Stefik, Hoda Eldardiry

Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), California, USA

6. User-Centered Design Guidelines for Collaborative Software for Intelligence Analysis

Jean Scholtz, Alex Endert

Visual Analytics, National Security Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, USA

Thursday, May 22,

15:20 p.m. - 15:50 p.m. ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

o Moderator: Dr. Rita M. Bush

o Members:

Alex Endert (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, USA)

Mark Greaves (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, USA)

David T. Moore (National Defense Intelligence College, Washington, D.C., USA)

Stan Rosenschein (BranchTime Technologies, Palo Alto, California USA)

Mark Stefik (Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), California, USA)

Jack Zentner (Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia, USA)

If you have any questions please contact:

SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS

Brian Drabble

Chief Technology Officer, DMM Ventures, Inc.

Eugene, OR, USA

Phone: +1 (541) 543-4216

Email: bdrabble1(at)gmail(dot)com

Peter Jarvis

Samsung Research Center

San Francisco, CA, USA

Phone: +1 (650) 812-4073

Email: peter.jarvis(at)gmail(dot)com