Title page -- Editorial -- List of Participants -- Contents -- Planning for Security -- A Multi-Methodological Framework for Analysing Crisis Management and Low Intensity Conflicts -- Intelligent Scenario Development for Computer Assisted eXercises -- A Contribution to Model Theory -- Technology Trends and Developments - Approaches and Use in Defense Planning -- Integration of C2 and M&S Elements in CAX for Crisis Management -- Scenario Simulation for the Military Safety Maintenance of the State -- Planning of Security Sector Capabilities for Protection of Maritime Sovereignty -- On the Role of Scenarios for 'Defense' Planning -- Mathematical, Computer and Information Sciences Methods for Security -- Methods for Data and Information Fusion -- A Fast Pattern Matching Algorithm Based on Prime Numbers and Hashing Approximation -- Discrete Transforms on Symbolic Sequences for String Matching, Pattern Recognition and Grammar Detection -- Database Structure for Radiation Incidents and for Treatment of Affected People -- On a New Method for Geometric Modelling and for Control of Exponential Processes -- Forecasting for Global Systems Dynamics Security -- How Multi-Modality Image Displays Affect Decision Making -- Efficient Utilization of Communication Resources for Crisis Management via Introducing Quality of Services (QoS) of Network Traffic -- Efficient 3D Data Representation for Biometric Applications -- Environmental Security -- Model Studies of Sulfate and Sulfur Dioxide in the Atmosphere and Some Comparisons with Measurements -- Natural and Anthropogenic Disasters in the Scope of Present Day Science: Lessons from the Past and Solutions for the Future -- On the Calculation of Maximal Outlets of Small Mountainous Rivers (in Armenian Conditions) -- Real-Time Air Quality Operational Forecasting System for Industrial and Urban Areas.

Will the Present-Day Scientific Approaches Enable to Forecast Natural Disasters? -- Environmental Modelling, Security Measures and Decision Making -- Dynamic Optimization for Security -- Constructive Methods of Optimal Real-Time Control and Applications to Classical Regulation Problems -- Optimization of Nonlinear Singularly Perturbed Systems with Hypersphere Control Restriction -- Computational Approach for Assessment of Critical Infrastructure in Network Systems -- Dynamic Evacuation Models -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Today's security environment is characterized by deep uncertainty. Threats are being posed not only by adversary (political) forces but may also come from natural challenges (be it energy, water, ecology or whatever). The types of operations that our civil security and military forces find themselves in today comprise a wide variety of tasks. The success criteria for these operations are a safe/secure environment for local population and stable conditions for state building rather than hit-kill ratio's against adversaries - the criteria are soft and the many actors involved may have divergent if not opposing objectives. And where actors intentionally share common objectives, they come from different cultural and organizational backgrounds, and their systems and modus operandi (doctrine) have loose or no connectivity. Under these complex and uncertain conditions decision making is a challenging process. This publication reflect the initial state of a dialogue between specialists in security and specialists in mathematics, computer and information sciences on security topics. Papers included in this volume are naturally subdivided into four parts showing the wide future perspective for synthesis between science and security: Planning for Security; Mathematical, Computer and Information Sciences Methods for Security; Environmental Security; and Dynamic Optimization for Security.

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