Special Event: The Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA), a Department of Homeland Security University Center of Excellence - Research Retreat 2012

March 30 - 31, 2012
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Organizing Committee:
Eduard Hovy, CCICADA/USC, hovy at isi.edu
Bill Pottenger, CCICADA/Rutgers, billp 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).
Google map with the event locations, parking and recommended driving routes http://g.co/maps/asep.
Thursday, March 29, 2012

 7:00 -  8:30  Dinner	Chair: Dan Roth, CCICADA/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
               Invited speaker: Rudolf Zupanc, Commander, Ohio Strategic Analysis and Information Center 
               Chair: Bill Pottenger, CCICADA/Rutgers University			
               Thanks and closing, Fred Roberts, CCICADA/Rutgers University			

               Location: Kofusion Restaurant (cash bar)
               1 E. Main St., Champaign

Friday, March 30, 2012

 8:00 -  8:45  Continental breakfast for people staying at Hampton Inn
               1200 W. University Ave., Urbana

 9:00 -  9:30  Opening Remarks and Introductions
               Eduard Hovy, CCICADA/USC
               Bill Pottenger, CCICADA/Rutgers
               Dan Roth, CCICADA/UIUC 
               Fred Roberts, CCICADA/Rutgers
               Joe Kielman, Dept. of Homeland Security

               Location: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
               201 N. Goodwin Ave, Urbana

 9:30 - 10:40  Session A: Social Media  Chair: Bill Pottenger, CCICADA/Rutgers

               Location: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
               201 N. Goodwin Ave, Urbana

 9:30 -  9:50  TrafficBot: Integrating from Open Internet Sources to
               Combat Human Trafficking
               Hao Wang, University of Southern California

 9:50 - 10:10  TEDAS: a Twitter Based Event Detection and Analysis System
               Rui Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10:10 - 10:20  The Early Bird Gets the Buzz: Detecting Anomalies and Emerging Trends
               in Information Networks
               Brian Thompson, Rutgers University

10:20 - 10:30  Alerts and Warnings in Social Media
               Paul Kantor, Rutgers School of Communication and Information

10:30 - 11:00  Break - Atrium outside 2405 SC

11:00 - 12:30  Session B: Networks, graphs and data  Chair: Eduard Hovy, CCICADA/USC

               Location: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
               201 N. Goodwin Ave, Urbana

11:00 - 11:20  Online Learning of Semantic Relations
               Nir Grinberg, Rutgers University

11:20 - 11:30  Active learning for information networks
               A Variance Minimization Criterion to Active Learning on Graphs
               Ming Ji, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

11:30 - 11:40  Relation Strength-Aware Clustering of Heterogeneous
               Information Networks with Incomplete Attributes 
               Yizhou Sun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

11:40 - 11:50  3D graphs with augmented perception
               Sam Tannouri and Ahlam Tannouri, Morgan State University

11:50 - 12:00  Optimal Layered Security For Site Protection
               Tsvetan Asamov, Rutgers University

12:10 - 12:20  Web Sites as Schemas  a Tree Matching Approach
               Tim Weninger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

12:20 - 12:30  A Split-and-Conquer Approach for Analysis of Extraordinarily Large Data
               Xueying Chen, Rutgers University

12:30 -  1:30  Lunch - Atrium outside 2405 SC

 1:30 -  1:45  Travel to Illinois Fire Service Institute	

               IFSI
               11 Gerty Dr., Champaign
	
 1:45 -  2:45  Overview of CCICADA Activities Plus Discussion of How to Get Involved
               Fred Roberts, CCICADA/Rutgers
 
               Location: IFSI Auditorium

 2:45 -  4:10  Session C: NLP  Chair: Eduard Hovy, CCICADA/USC
 
               Location: IFSI Auditorium

 2:45 -  3:05  BiasTrust: Understanding how human biases affect credibility judgment
               V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 3:05 -  3:25  Minimally Supervised Event Causality Identification
               Quang Xuan Do, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 3:25 -  3:35  Extending Semantic Role Labeling
               Vivek Srikumar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 3:35 -  3:45  Latent Aspect Rating for Opinion Analysis
               Hongning Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 3:45 -  3:55  Automatic Query Reformulation with Syntactic Operators to Alleviate Search Difficulty
               Huizhong Duan, UIUC
	
 3:55 -  4:05  Domain Adaptation without Retraining
               Gourab Kundu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
              
 4:05 -  4:30  Break - IFSI Atrium

 4:30 -  6:00  Tour of IFSI facility and research - Richard Jaehne, Director, Illinois Fire Service Institute

 6:00 -  7:00  Invited speaker: Richard Jaehne, Director, Illinois Fire Service Institute  Chair: Dan Roth, CCICADA/UIUC

 7:00 -  8:30  Dinner - IFSI Conference Room  (cash bar)

Saturday, March 31, 2012

 8:00 -  8:45  Continental breakfast for people staying at Hampton Inn
               1200 W. University Ave., Urbana

 9:00 -  9:10  Opening Remarks 

 9:10 -  9:40  Session D: Privacy and security  Chair: Dan Roth, CCICADA/UIUC

               Location: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
               201 N. Goodwin Ave, Urbana

 9:10 -  9:20  Privacy Methods for Medical Text
               Raji Kannah, Texas Southern University

 9:20 -  9:30  Analyzing Entropy in Biosurveillance
               Oluwadare Ibiyemi, Morgan State University

 9:30 -  9:40  Detecting Text in Natural Scene Images
               Chucai Yi, The City College of New York

 9:40 - 11:00  Session E: Posters  Chair: Bill Pottenger, CCICADA/Rutgers
 
               Location: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science
               201 N. Goodwin Ave, Urbana 

11:00 - 12:00  Lunch and Closing - Atrium outside 2405


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