---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [Fwd: IEEE IRI-2004 Notification of Acceptance] From: "Na Zhao" Date: Thu, August 26, 2004 5:18 pm To: rsu@nada.kth.se robert.suzic@foi.se Cc: iri04@cs.fiu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper #: 203 Title: Realisation of a Bridge between High-Level Information Need and Sensor Management Using a Common DBN Authors: Robert Suzic, Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI); L. Ronnie M. Johansson, The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) E-mail: robert.suzic@foi.se;rsu@nada.kth.se Dear Robert Suzic: Congratulations! On behalf of the Program Committee, we are happy to inform you that your submission to the IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2004) has been accepted as a regular paper for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the conference proceedings. This year, we had a large number of submissions, the Program Committee and external reviewers worked diligently on the submission reviews. Each paper was sent to three reviewers and all papers received at least two separate reviews. To maintain the high quality of the conference, please carefully follow the reviewers' comments and suggestions, which are attached below, as closely as possible in revising your paper. Your camera-ready manuscript is due back to http://www.cs.fiu.edu/IRI04/review/pass2.php, on or before September 14, 2004 Your ID: 203 Password: wfsdu3 Your final camera-ready copy is limited to 6 pages in the two-column IEEE CS Press proceedings manuscript style. You can purchase no more than two extra pages at a cost of "$100 per page". The author kits and the procedures for the final manuscript submission can be found at "http://www.cs.fiu.edu/IRI04/html/camera01.html". IEEE IRI-2004 will be held during November 8-10 at Las Vegas, Nevada USA. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register and present the paper at the conference. The registration fee must be received by the Registration Chair Dr. W. Chang (see Registration form for details) on or before Sept. 14 2004 in order for your paper to be included in the conference proceedings. Thank you for your contribution to IEEE IRI 2004. We look forward to meeting you at IEEE IRI 2004. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Best Regards, Doug DeGroot Eric Gregoire Du Zhang PC Co-Chair IEEE IRI 2004 The following are the reviews for your paper: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper 203: Realisation of a Bridge between High-Level Information Need and Sensor Management Using a Common DBN 1. Relevant to IEEE IRI-2004 2. Paper Technically INCORRECT 3. This paper SHOULD NOT be considered for journal publication 4. Paper Summary : The paper shows a battlefield scenario and results of simulations represented as probability of attack by a unit and level of threat. 5. Comments to the authors : The paper does not show how the two results were obtained, i.e., how the two variable were computed. Consequently, I am not able to say anything reasonable about this paper. You are selling a cat in a sack. You tell me that you are doing this but you are not telling me how. This is not quite how science works. I should be able to reconstruct your results based upon your paper. Unfortunately, this paper does not give me any hint on how you came to these results. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Relevant to IEEE IRI-2004 2. Paper Technically CORRECT 3. This paper SHOULD NOT be considered for journal publication 4. Paper Summary : This paper proposes a dynamic Bayesian Network (DBN) method to connect the information needs of plan recognition to management of sensors. 5. Comments to the authors : For presentation, the structure of this paper is clear. However, several issues need to be addressed to improve the paper quality. First, in the introduction, the authors should not only mention their previous work, but also need to emphasize what are the new concepts in this paper. Second, dynamic Bayesian Network (DBN), one of the major concepts in this paper, should be mentioned explicitly in the introduction. Third, related work need to be provided. As for technical part, it would be more convincing if the performance evaluation using real-life data sets can be provided. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Relevant to IEEE IRI-2004 2. Paper Technically CORRECT 3. This paper SHOULD be considered for journal publication 4. Paper Summary : The paper addresses the issue of connecting the high level information needs of plan recognition to sensor management, which is responsible of information acquisition, from information fusion perspective .A concept of information agent used for threat analysis has been introduced. A fuzzy model for plan recognition has also been introduced, and evaluated using simple simulation scenario. 5. Comments to the authors : This is a well written paper from both organizational and technical viewpoint. Nevertheless some minor recommendations to improve the quality of the paper are summarized to: i) The fusion process can better be enhanced and explained from redundant / complementary aspect of information. Also issue of fusion architecture could be, at least briefly mentioned in the paper ii) The issue of information agent introduced by the author subsumes some agent (or multi- agent) structure. However, the authors have not mentioned any reference to this issue in their paper. iii) The issue of fuzzy sets summing up to one mentioned by the authors need further clarifications by the authors as this builds bridge to probabilistic interpretation. iv) The authors have investigated the issue of sensor numbers, but it might be also useful to mention at least briefly the related problem of sensor location. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------