Preface

摘要

This volume contains the full papers presented at the MESAS 2017 Conference: Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems, held during October 24-26, 2017, in Rome. The initial idea to launch the MESAS project was introduced by the Concept Development and Experimentation Branch at the NATO Modelling and Simulation Centre of Excellence in 2013, namely, by LTCDR Alessandro Cignoni, who wanted to bring together the modelling and simulation and the autonomous systems communities and to collect new ideas for concept development and experimentation in this domain. From that time, the event gathers together - in keynote, regular, poster, and way-ahead sessions - fully recognized experts from different technical communities in the military, in academia, and in industry. The main topical parts of the 2017 edition of MESAS were "M&S of Intelligent Systems - AI, R&D, and Applications," "Autonomous Systems in Context of Future Warfare and Security - Concepts, Applications, Standards, and Legislation," and "Future Challenges and Opportunities of Advanced M&S Technology." The community of interest submitted 38 papers for consideration. Each submission was reviewed by two Program Committee members or selected independent reviewers. The committee decided to accept 33 papers to be presented (in seven sessions) and these papers were also accepted to be included in the conference proceedings. The plenary session and way-ahead included an extra three invited presentations from distinguished experts.