Special Event: Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA)-Research Retreat 2013

April 18 - 20, 2013
Texas Southern University, Houston, TX

Organizers:
Lilia Ghemri, CCICADA/TSU, Ghemri_LX at tsu.edu
Eduard Hovy, CCICADA/CMU, hovy at andrew.cmu.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).
  • Program in pdf form

    
Thursday, April 18, 2013

 1:30 -  2:00  Arrival TSU

 2:00 -  2:30  Welcome, Introductions - Opening Remarks  Location: Sterling Student Center - Room 238
               Fred Roberts, Director, CCICADA, Rutgers, the State University of NJ
               Lila Ghemri, Texas Southern University
               Eduard Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University

               Self-introductions: Retreat Participants
	
 2:30 -  3:30  Invited Talk  Location: Sterling Student Center - Room 238
               David Ebert, Director, VACCINE, Purdue University
               Visual Analytics: Effective Solutions to Real World Problem
	 
 3:30 -  3:50  Break and Poster Setup	 

 3:50 -  4:40  Presentations - Session I: NLP and Risk Analysis  Location: Sterling Student Center - Room 238
               Stephen Mayhew, UIUC - Robust Information Extraction from Multiple Source (20 min)
               Ping Chen, U Houston - Study of Two Critical Problems in Lexical Semantics (10 min)
               Hyun Duk Kim, UIUC - General Unsupervised Explanatory Opinion Mining from Text Data (10 min)
               Alper Almaz, Rutgers - Risk Analysis of the Vessel Traffic in Delaware River and Bay (10 min)

 4:40 -  6:00  Visit TSU Museum and Hannah Hall - view John Biggers Murals   Location: TSU campus
               
 6:00 -  6:30  Posters and Demos - Session I  Location: Sterling Student Center - Room 238
               Cindy Hui, Rutgers - (Demo) Modeling and Simulation Environment for Tradeoffs in Commerce and Security
               Candice Jean-Louis, Morgan State - Analyzing Entropy in Biosurveillance
               Ongard Sirisaengtaksin, U Houston - (Demo) Social Crime Real-Time Mapping for Mobile Devices  Geo Visual Sense Making of Social Media Datasets
               Eduard Hovy, CMU - (Demo) WAT: A Web Archival Tool to Support Interdiction of Human Trafficking
               Bradford Greening, Rutgers - Cascading Failures in Interoperability Among Responding Agencies in Crisis Situations
               Priyam Mitra, Rutgers - Real Time Nuclear Detection Using A Network of Mobile Sensors
               Moussa Doumbia, Howard U - Non Severe, Severe, and Asymptomatic Malaria Cases Among Pregnant Women in Nigeria
               Duber Gomez-Fonseca, U Houston - Spatio-Temporal Data:  Consumer Price Index 2001 to 2011
               Alisa Matlin, Rutgers - Factors Affecting Processing Times in Stadium Security Patron Inspection Procedures
               Deepika Dhadral, U Houston - Navigation System for 3D Models 

 6:30 -  7:00  Posters and Demos - Session II  Location: Sterling Student Center - Room 238
               Erin Hodgess, U. Houston - Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Texas Cities
               Brian Thompson, Rutgers - Association Mining via Co-Clustering of Sparse Matrices
               Xiang Ren, UIUC - Automatic Document Summarization: An Information Network Approach
               Alper Almaz, Rutgers - Risk Analysis of the Vessel Traffic in Delaware River and Bay
               Hyun Duk Kim, UIUC - General Unsupervised Explanatory Opinion Mining from Text Data
               Haruna Kibirige, Texas - Hot Event Analysis And Tracking on Twitter (HEAT)
               Jude Ugiomoh, Texas - Game Theory and Cyberbullying
               Fan Wu, Tuskegee University - High Performance Solutions of Heat and Mass Transfer Simulation in 
               Capillary Porous Media Using Programmable General Purpose Graphics Processing Units
		
 7:00 -  8:00  Dinner  Location: Sterling Student Center - Tiger Room	
      
 8:00 -  9:00  Invited Talk  Location: Sterling Student Center- Tiger Room
               John Dyess, Chief Admin Officer for Sheriff of Harris County

 9:00          Return to Hotel (shuttle)	


Friday, April 19, 2013

 7:30 -  8:00  Arrival (shuttle from hotel)
	
 8:00 -  8:50  Breakfast  Location: Sterling Student Center - Room 207B

 8:50 -  9:00  Day 2 Welcome  Location: Sterling Student Center - Room 238	

 9:00 - 10:40  Presentations - Session II: Social Media  Location: Sterling Student Center -  Room 238 
               Lila Ghemri, TSU - Accountability in Online Social Networks (20 min)
               Ongard Sirisaengtaksin, U. Houston - Social Crime Real-Time Mapping for Mobile Devices  Geo Visual Sense Making of Social Media Datasets (20 min)
               Rui Li, UIUC - Towards Social User Profiling: A Probabilistic Approach for Inferring Users' Locations (20 min)
               Haruna Kibirige, TSU - Hot Event Analysis And Tracking On Twitter (HEAT) (10 min)
               Brian Thompson, Rutgers - Association Mining via Co-Clustering of Sparse Matrices (10 min)
               Yulia Tyshchuk, RPI - Social Media in Extreme Events (10 min)
               Jude Ugiomoh, TSU - Game Theory and Cyberbullying (10 min)
	
10:40 - 11:00  Break	  

11:00 - 12:30  Presentations - Session III: Decision Making  Location: Sterling Student Center - Room 238 
               Hans Chalupsky, ISI - RIPTIDE  Learning Violation Prediction Models from Boarding Activity Data (20 min)
               Jacob Baron, Rutgers - Combinatorial Results on a Resource Allocation Problem with Simultaneity Constraints (20 min)
               Eduard Hovy, CMU - WAT: A Web Archival Tool to Support Interdiction of Human Trafficking (20 min)
               Bradford Greening, Rutgers - Cascading Failures in Interoperability among Responding Agencies in Crisis Situations (10 min)
               Cindy Hui, Rutgers - Modeling and Simulation Environment for Tradeoffs in Commerce and Security (10 min)
               Priyam Mitra, Rutgers - Real Time Nuclear Detection Using A Network of Mobile Sensors (10 min)
	
12:30 -  1:30  Lunch  Location: Sterling Student Center - Room 207B
	 
12:30 - 5:00+/-Field Trip: Houston Office of Emergency Management
	  
 5:00 -  6:00  Return to Hotel
	 
 6:00 -  7:00  Dinner  Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel
	 
 7:00 -  9:00  Activity - to be determined   Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel
	 
             
Saturday, April 20, 2013

 8:00 -  9:00  Breakfast  Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel

 9:00 -  9:30  Invited Talk Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel
	
 9:30 - 10:40  Presentations - Session IV: Models/ Algorithms  Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel
               Mohsen Beheshti, University of Houston - Downtown/California State University, Dominguez Hills  Intelligent Network Security Using Genetic Algorithms (20 min)
               Moussa Doumbia, Howard U. - Non Severe, Severe, and Asymptomatic Malaria Cases Among Pregnant Women in Nigeria (10 min)
               Candice Jean-Louis, Morgan State - Analyzing Entropy in Biosurveillance (10 min)
               Alisa Matlin, Rutgers - Factors Affecting Processing Times in Stadium Security Patron Inspection Procedures (10 min)
               Erin Hodgess, U. Houston  - Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Texas Cities (10 min)
               Fan Wu, Tuskegee University - High Performance Solutions of Heat and Mass Transfer Simulation in Capillary Potous Media Using Programmable General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (10 min)
	 
              
10:40 - 11:00  Closing Remarks  Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel
	 
11:00          2013 Retreat Concludes
               Lunch (carry-out)
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