Saturday, October 16, 2010
8:30 - 9:00 Opening:
Joe Kielman, Department of Homeland Security
Fred Roberts, CCICADA/DIMACS
9:00 - 9:30 Invited talk 1:
Milind Tambe
CREATE Center, University of Southern California
9:30 - 10:15 Session 1 - Graphs
An Algorithm for Partitioning the Nodes of a Graph
Earl Barnes, Morgan State University
Detecting Novel Discrepancies in
Highly Dynamic Information Networks
Nishchal Devanur, Rutgers University
Fully Dynamic Connectivity in a Streaming Model
Matthew Oster, Rutgers University
10:15 - 10:35 Break
10:35 - 11:05 Invited talk 2:
Al Wallace, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
11:05 - 12:00 Session 2 - Viz, Detection
A penalized regression approach in detection of
nuclear materials in the shipments to the U.S.
Xueying Chen, Rutgers University
Virtual Worlds and Human Behavior: A case study in health risks
Ashley Denegre, Rutgers University
Weave (WEb based Analysis and Visualization Environment)
Curran Kelleher, U Mass, Lowell
Linking Textual Content to Location to Provide Geospatial Intelligence
Craig Knoblock, Geosemble Technologies
Anomaly Detection in IP networks using Optimal Monitoring Interval Length
Andrew Rodriguez, Rutgers University
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 Invited talk 3: Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1:30 - 2:45 Session 3 - NLP
Continuous monitoring of events from twitter and news articles
Congxing Cai, USC/ISI
Exploiting Thread Structures to Improve Smoothing of
Language Models for Forum Post Retrieval
Huizhong Duan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Identifying Relevant Literature on Chemical Terrorism using Machine Learning
Lila Ghemri, TSU
Higher Order Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Nir Grinberg, Rutgers
Can you believe what you read?: Trustworthiness of Online Content
V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:45 - 3:05 Break
3:05 - 3:35 Invited talk 4:
Nina Fefferman, Rutgers University
3:35 - 3:45 Poster Highlights
Machine learning methods for cybersecurity
Eugene Fink, CMU
Optimal Evacuation and Resource Routing for Crisis Situations in Urban Centers
Brad Greening, Rutgers University
Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)
Shawn Konecni, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Using what we know about biomechanics to explore the nonlinear dynamics of iris deformation
Scott Kulp, Rutgers University
Applications of Confluent Graph Visualization Engine to Data Analysis and Information Extraction
Sam Tannouri and Ahlam Tannouri, Morgan State University
Discovering Connections between and within DHS Centers of Excellence
Hao Wang, USC Information Sciences Institute
Shape-free detection of hazard materials and its application to counter-terrorism
Guoping Zhang, Morgan State University
3:45 - 4:30 Poster/demo session
4:30 - 5:00 General discussion
5:30 Dinner at ISI
7:00 Closing
Sunday, October 17, 2010
8:30 - 8:45 Opening Remarks
8:45 - 9:00 A Renewal Theory Approach to Anomaly
Detection in Communication Networks
Brian Thompson, Rutgers University
9:00 - 10:00 Breakout (Discussion Groups)
1. Simulating and measuring a crisis event on a campus
2. Detecting and handling a computer security break-in on a campus
3. Automatically identifying the most appropriate topics that characterize a person's research
10:00 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 10:50 Regroup and report findings
10:50 - 11:20 Discussion
11:20 - 11:30 Wrap-up
11:30 Go home
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