The Tenth International Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelli- gence, Defense, and Security (STIDS 2015) will be held in November 2015 in Dewberry Hall at the Johnson Center on the George Mason University Fairfax campus.

STIDS provides a forum for academia, government, and industry to share the latest research on semantic technology for defense, intelligence, and security applications. Semantic technology is a fundamental enabler to achieve greater flexibility, precision, timeliness, and automation of anal- ysis and response to rapidly evolving threats.

STIDS is a premier opportunity for collaboration and cross-fertilization between researchers and practitioners of semantic-based technology with particular experience in the problems facing the Intelligence, Defense, and Security communities. It will feature invited talks from prominent seman- tic researchers and recognized leaders from the target application domains.

To facilitate interchange among communities with a clear commonality of interest, STIDS encourages submissions that showcase original, significant research as well as papers that present implementations and lessons learned or discuss, compare, and evaluate the use of semantic techniques. In the tradition of an academic conference, submissions are expected to make a tangible contribution to the field of semantics, and so marketing white papers and the like will not be accepted.

Submissions of technical papers or extended abstracts are welcomed. Each submission will be evaluated for acceptability by at least three members of the Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance will be based on rele- vance to the above topic list, originality, potential significance, and clarity. Because all accepted papers are to be presented at the conference, we re- quire that at least one of the submitting authors must be a registered par- ticipant committed to attending STIDS 2015. All accepted authors will be invited to participate in a poster and demo session to provide an opportu- nity for extended informal discussion.

Submissions for the general session must be unclassified and releasable in a public forum. They should be sent via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stids2015