The 7th Annual Symposium on Human Interaction with Complex Systems will be held November 17-18, 2005 at the Greenbelt Marriott at Greenbelt, MD. The organization committee invites the participation of researchers from academia, industry and government laboratories. The HICS theme reflects current interests on complex systems and asymmetric command and control (C2) decision-making: people, organization, information technology, and automation. 

The Symposium will provide an international forum for exchanging ideas and discussions of research related to design and analysis of complex systems of organization, people and technology. The symposium's theme reflects the current concerns of collaborative sensemaking, human trust in technology and information management in complex systems.

Some of the areas of discussions for HICS are:

Collaborative sensemaking: decision-making in asymmetric environments, intelligent management of distributive organizational information, collaborative sensemaking and knowledge sharing, congruent understanding and prediction of effect-based operations, and autopoitic command & control (C2) decision-making.

Human trust in automation: electronic commerce, telemanagement, global business networks and digital organizations such as web-based and internet-based work systems and tools, and the applications of living systems theory to interface design.

Information management in complex systems: collaborative planning, team situation awareness, knowledge management and distribution, and emergency response teams.

Application areas: include, but are not limited to, military operations, national security, teleoperation,  robotics, training systems, knowledge management of business enterprise, educational systems, military systems, transportation systems, energy generation systems such as  nuclear facility management, manufacturing, virtual organizations and global business networks. Applications of information technology to special populations such as children, older adults, and handicapped individuals are strongly encouraged.