Fusion 2006 will feature a number of special sessions. The session titles, session chairs, and contact information are listed below.

1. Invited Panel Discussion: Issues and Challenges in Resource Management (and its Interaction with Level 2/3 Fusion) with Applications to Real-World Problems; Ivan Kadar;

2. Multistatic Sonar and Radar Tracking; Doug Grimmett;

3. Category Theory and Information Fusion; Mitch Kokar, Mark Oxley and Steven Thorsen;

4. Multistatic Sonar Operations Research; Doug Grimmett;

5. Distributed Inference and Decision-Making in Multisensor Systems; Alexander Tartakovsky, Paul Singer;

6. Image Fusion Assessment; Stavri Nikolov and Lex Toet;

7. Intelligent Systems in Data Fusion Engineering; Jesús García Herrero and José M. Molina;

8. Ground Target Tracking and Classification; Mahendra Mallick;

9. Tracing Pedigree in a Distributed, Network-Centric Environment; Marion Ceruti;

10. Network-Centric Warfare, Complexity, and Data Fusion; Jim Llinas;

11. Making Histories; Paul Cohen;

12. Autonomous Agents for Data and Information Fusion; Robert Johnston and Nick Jennings;

13. Belief Functions: In Memory of Philippe Smets; Patrick Vannoorenberghe and Thierry Denoeux;

14. Situation Management: The Issues Solutions and Challenges; Gabriel Jakobson, Lundy Lewis and John Salerno.

All Fusion 2006 prospective authors are encouraged to consider submitting to a special session whose theme seems appropriate to their work. For more information on these sessions, prospective authors are encouraged to contact the special session chairs.

All special session papers will follow the same review process and deadlines as regular paper submissions. This includes the submission deadline of 14 February 2006 and, for accepted papers, the final submission deadline of 15 May 2006.