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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