Analysis, assessment, and data management are core tools required for operation research analysts. The April 2011 conference held at the Helenic Military Academy addressed these issues with efforts to collect valuable recommendations for improving analysts' capabilities to assess and communicate the necessary qualitative data to military leaders. This unique volume is an outgrowth of the April conference and comprises of contributions from the fields of science, mathematics, and the military, bringing Greek research findings to the world. Topics cover a wide variety of mathematical methods used with application to defense and security. Each contribution considers directions and pursuits of scientists that pertain to the military as well as the theoretical background required for methods, algorithms, and techniques used in military applications. The direction of theoretical results in these applications is conveyed and open problems and future areas of focus are highlighted. A foreword will be composed by a member of N.A.T.O. or a ranking member of the armed forces. Topics covered include: applied OR and military applications, signal processing, scattering, scientific computing and applications, combat simulation and statistical modeling, satellite remote sensing, and applied informatics cryptography and coding. The contents of this volume will be of interest to a diverse audience including military operations research analysts, the military community at large, and practitioners working with mathematical methods and applications to informatics and military science.

Develops courses of action or methodologies to reconcile issues identified in informatics and military science Covers a range of interdisciplinary topics with a wide breadth of military applications Open problems and future areas of focus are highlighted?

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Foreword.- Preface.- Table of Contents.- 1. The Significance of Research and Development for the National Defence and its Relation with the Military University Institutions (N. Uzunoglu).- 2. Selected Topics in Critical Element Detection (J.L. Walteros, P.M. Pardalos).- 3. Study of Engagement with Mobile Targets (S. Tassopoulos).- 4. Solving an Electromagnetic Scattering Problem in Chiral Media (C. Athanasiadis, S. Dimitroula, K. Skourogiannis).- 5. Orthonormality in Interpolation Schemes for Reconstructing Signals (N.J. Daras).- 6. Computer Graphics Techniques in Military Applications (D. Christou, A. Danelakis, M. Mitrouli, D. Triantafyllou).- 7. Numerical Optimization for the Length Problem (C. Kravvaritis, M. Mitrouli).- 8. Adaptive Policies for Sequential Sampling under Incomplete Information and a Cost Constraint (A. Burnetas, O. Kanavetas).- 9. On a Lanchester Combat Model (G. Kaimakamis, N. B. Zographopoulos.- 10. Land Warfare and Complexity (S. Dionysios).- 11. Wavelet Transform in remote sensing with Implementation in edge detection and noise reduction (P. N. Michalis).- 12. Optimal Orbital Coverage of Theater Operations and Targets (V. Oikonomou).- 13. A Birds-Eye View of Modern Symmetric Cryptography from Combinatorial Designs (C. Koukouvinos, D.E. Simos).- 14. On the Weak Convergence of an Empirical Estimator of the Discrete-Time Semi-Markov Kernel (S. Georgiadis, N. Limnios).- 15. Analysis methods for unreplicated factorial experiments (P. Angelopoulos, C. Koukouvinos, A. Skountzou).