Special Event: Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA)-wide Research Retreat

March 7-8, 2010
Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD

Organizers:
Ed Hovy, CCICADA/USC, hovy at isi.edu
Jack Jarmon, CCICADA/DIMACS, jjarmon at dimacs.rutgers.edu
Asamoah Nkwanta, Morgan State University, asamoah.nkwanta at morgan.edu
Bill Pottenger, CCICADA/Rutgers, billp at dimacs.rutgers.edu
Fred Roberts, CCICADA/DIMACS, froberts at dimacs.rutgers.edu
Dan Roth, CCICADA/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, danr at uiuc.edu
Guoping Zhang, Morgan State University, guoping.zhang at morgan.edu
Presented under the auspices of the The Homeland Security Center for Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA).
Sunday, March 7, 2010

  11:15           Shuttle to Morgan State

  12:00 -  1:00	  Lunch courtesy of our hosts at Morgan State

                  S0: Opening

   1:00 -  1:02	  Welcome
                  Fred Roberts, Rutgers

   1:02 -  1:05	  Welcome
                  Earl R. Barnes, Morgan State

   1:05 -  1:20	  Overview of CCICADA Applications
                  Fred Roberts, Rutgers

   1:20 -  1:50   Overview of CCICADA research
                  Eduard Hovy, CCICADA/USC and Bill Pottenger, Rutgers

                  S1: Math models
                  Session Chair: Fred Roberts

   1:50 -  2:10   A Graph Partitioning Problem for Disease Control
                  Earl R. Barnes, Morgan State

   2:10 -  2:30   Radon transform and its applications
                  Guoping Zhang, Morgan State

   2:30 -  2:50   Discrete-Time Epidemic Models
                  Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard

   2:50 -  3:10   Discussion

   3:10 -  3:30   Break

                  S2: Learning
                  Session Chair: Dan Roth

   3:30 -  3:50   Optimal Learning for Homeland Security
                  Warren B. Powell, Princeton

   3:50 -  4:10   Machine learning methods for cybersecurity
                  Eugene Fink, CMU

   4:10 -  4:30   Aspect Guided Text Categorization with Unobserved Labels
                  Yuancheng Tu, UIUC

   4:30 -  4:50   Higher Order Learning
                  Bill Pottenger, Rutgers

   4:50 -  5:05   Discussion

   5:05 -  5:15   Poster intros (1 minute for each poster presenter)

   5:15 -  5:45	  Posters
                  Session Chair: Jack Jarmon

                  Higher order feature associations for classification
                  Cibin George, Rutgers

                  View Discovery in OLAP Databases Through Statistical Combinatorial Optimization
                  Emilie Hogan, Rutgers

                  Inferring Multi-Relationships
                  Darja Krusevskaja, Rutgers

                  A Perl Implementation of a Contact-waiting Time Metric for HIV-RNA Folding
                  Prediction: Are There National Security Implications?
                  Helene Nguewou, Morgan State

                  A Data Mining Approach to Predicting Optimal Regimens in Cancer Treatments
                  Gilna Samuel, Morgan State

                  An Optimal Learning Approach to Finding an Outbreak of a Disease
                  Warren Scott, Princeton

   5:45           Shuttle to hotel

   7:00           Dinner at hotel

Monday, March 8, 2010

   8:00           Shuttle to Morgan State

   8:30 -  9:00   Breakfast courtesy of our hosts at Morgan State

   9:00 -  9:15   Welcome to Morgan State
                  Dean Joseph Whittaker, Morgan State

   9:15 -  9:30   The PIE Research Vision
                  Joe Kielman, DHS

                  S3: Data
                  Session Chair: S. Muthukrishnan

   9:30 -  9:50   Hone: Automatically Watching Across Information Networks
                  Smriti Bhagat, Rutgers

   9:50 - 10:10   A Practical Application of Oracle Apex Software
                  Carlos T. Murray, Morgan State

  10:10 - 10:30   Data-oriented Content Query System: Searching for Data into Text on the Web
                  Mianwei Zhou, UIUC

  10:30 - 10:45   Discussion

  10:45 - 11:15   Break

                  S4: NLP
                  Session Chair: Eduard Hovy

  11:15 - 11:45   Making Sense of Unstructured Data
                  Dan Roth, UIUC

  11:45 - 12:00   Noun-Noun Compounds for Text Analysis
                  Stephen Tratz, USC/ISI

  12:00 - 12:20   Integration and summarization of multiple media
                  Congxing Cai, USC/ISI

  12:20 - 12:30   Discussion

  12:30 -  1:30   Lunch courtesy of our hosts at Morgan State

   1:30 -  2:00   Campus Tour

                  S5: Topic models
                  Session Chair: Bill Pottenger

   2:00 -  2:20   A demonstration of who we are: The new Wall project
                  Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI (with VACCINE)

   2:20 -  2:40   Statistical Topic Models for Large-Scale Opinion Integration
                  Yue Lu, UIUC

   2:40 -  3:00   iTopicModel: Information Network-Integrated Topic Modeling
                  Yizhou Sun, UIUC

   3:00 -  3:20   Convoluted graph visualization using splines to render edges
                  Sam Tannouri and Ahlam Tannouri, Morgan State

   3:20 -  3:40   Discussion

   3:40 -  4:00   Break

                  S6: Networks
                  Session Chair: Fred Roberts

   4:00 -  4:20   Graph evolution over time
                  Andrew Rodriguez, Rutgers

   4:20 -  4:40   The CCICADA Data Repository
                  Muthu Muthukrishnan, Rutgers

   4:40 -  5:00   Simulating the Diffusion of Warnings in Large Dynamic Networks
                  Cindy Hui, RPI

   5:00 -  5:20   Mining Hidden Communities in Heterogeneous Information Networks
                  Ming Ji, UIUC

   5:20 -  5:45   Discussion

                  S7: Closing

   5:40 -  5:45   Closing
                  Fred Roberts, Rutgers

   5:45           Dinner at Morgan State, courtesy of our hosts at Morgan State

                  Shuttle to hotel after dinner		

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