Special Event: Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA)-Research Retreat 2011

April 1 - 2, 2011
Morgan State University, Baltimore

Organizers:
Eduard Hovy, CCICADA/USC, hovy at isi.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
Presented under the auspices of the The Homeland Security Center for Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA).
Friday, April 1, 2011

 7:00pm         Dinner at the Radisson Hotel at Cross Keys in Baltimore 

 8:00pm         Speech: Mike Roosa, CIO of MD State Police
		
Saturday, April 2, 2011		

 8:10          Bus leaves hotel for Morgan State University

 9:00 -  9:15  Welcome	
	       Fred Roberts, CCICADA	
	       Eduard Hovy, CCICADA/USC, Bill Pottenger, CCICADA/Rutgers, Dan Roth, CCICADA/UIUC

 9:15 - 10:15  Invited Talks	 	
	       Linda Ness, Telcordia	Fast Multi-Scale Data Analysis Algorithms

10:15 - 10:40  The Evolution Towards Decentralized C2
               Marius S. Vassiliou, The Institute for Defense Analyses

10:40 - 11:00  Break	

11:00 - 12:00  Research talks - Selected New Projects	
	        The AWSoMe Project: Alerts and Warning with Social Media
                Charles File, Paul Kantor, Mor Naaman, Fred Roberts, Rutgers, SC&I and DIMACS
	
                Continuous Geospatial Monitoring of Catastrophic Natural Disasters using Twitter
                Congxing Cai and Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California (CCICADA)

                Entity Resolution of Terrorist Incidents
                Nir Grinberg and William M. Pottenger, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University

                Affect Segmentation and Recognition by Fusion of Facial Features and Body Gesture
                Shizhi Chen and YingLi Tian, The City College of New York

12:00 - 12:20  Discussion	

12:20 -  1:45  Lunch	

 1:45 -  2:45  Research talks -  Working with Information Networks
                Discrepancy Experiments on IP Traffic Datasets
                James Abello, DIMACS-Rutgers, Nishchal R Devanur, Rutgers University

	        When Will It Happen-Relationship Prediction in Heterogeneous Information Networks
                Yizhou Sun and Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

                Evidence-based Trust Propagation Framework
                V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
                and Dan Roth, Command Control and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA)
	
        	Discovering Connections between and within DHS Centers of Excellence
                Hao Wang and Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute

 2:45 -  3:00  Discussion	

 3:00 -  3:20  Break	

 3:20 -  4:35  Research talks - Disasters and Risk Management
	        The Stadium Evacuation Project 
                Nina Fefferman	
	
                A Dynamic Capacitated Arc Routing Problem for Optimal Evacuation Strategies in Disasters
                Manoj K. Jha, Francis Udenta,and Min Wook Kang, Morgan State University

	        A new methodology for outbreak detection
         	Adam Marszalek, Rutgers University

	        JIT-Transportation Model Applied to Homeland Security Problems
                Xiao-Xiong Gan, Department of Mathematics, Morgan State University

                Strategies to Deploy Temporary Ambulatory Medical Services in Response of a Catastrophic Event
                Ahlam Tannouri and Sam Tannouri, Morgan State University and 
                Belinda Kauffman, University of Maryland School of Medicine
 
 4:35 -  4:50  Discussion	

 4:50 -  5:15  Break	

 5:15 -  6:00  Posters and demos	
	        Summarizing Textual Information In a Geo-Spatial Information Display System
                Congxing Cai, Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California (CCICADA)
	
                Modeling the BP Oil Spill 
                Gilna Samuel, Morgan State University

	        Infectious Disease and Families: The evolution
	        of social complexity in the face of epidemics
                Brad Greening, Rutgers University

                A Dynamic Capacitated Arc Routing Problem for Optimal Evacuation Strategies in Disasters
                Francis Udenta, Morgan State University

                An Exact Algorithm for Scheduling Multi-track Conferences
	        Matthew Oster, Rutgers Center for Operations Research (RUTCOR), Rutgers University

	        Innovation Patterns in Some Successful C2 Technologies
                Marius S. Vassiliou, The Institute for Defense Analyses

	        COE Explorer Demo 
	        Wang + Hovy

	        Shape-free detection of hazard materials and its application to counter-terrorism
                Guoping Zhang, Morgan State University

 6:00 -  6:30  Wrapup discussion

 6:30	       Close and buses to hotel, Penn Station, and BWI airport


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