Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism

Abstracts

• Responding to Terrorism: Risk Perceptions, Risk Communication and Societal Impacts
  William Burns
  Decision Research
  Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)
  
  
• Bayesian Modeling of Group Structure in Dynamic Networks
  Jim Ferry
  Senior Analyst
  Metron, Inc.
  
  
• Understanding Terrorist Organizations with a Dynamic Model
  Alexander Gutfraind
  Center for Applied Mathematics
  Cornell University
  
  
• Identification of a Common Group Dynamics underlying Recent Wars and Terrorism
  Neil Johnson
  Physics Department
  University of Miami
  
  
• The Mathematical Challenges to Knowledge Systems Technologies for the Intelligence Community
  Cliff Joslyn
  Chief Scientist for Knowledge Sciences
  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  
  
• Covert Affiliation Networks
  Roy Lindelauf
  Tilburg University, Netherlands
  
  
• What Order Theory Can Tell You About Comparing Apples and Oranges: The Problem of Selecting the Most Probable Target
  George Markowsky
  Department of Computer Science
  University of Maine
  
  
• Regional Capabilities Performance Assessment for Homeland Security
  William McGill
  College of Information Sciences & Technology
  Penn State
  
  
• CrimeFighter: A Toolbox for Counterterrorism
  Uffe Kock Wiil
  Counterterrorism Research Lab
  The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute
  University of Southern Denmark
  
  
• Quantifying Terrorism Risk Under the Obama Administration
  Gordon Woo
  Risk Management Solutions
  United Kingdom
  
  
• Bioterrorism Risk Probabilistic Risk Analysis
  Barry Charles Ezell
  Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC)
  Old Dominion University
  
  
• Collective Violence and Repression: Making Use of the Opposing Forces Diffusion Model
  Daniel Myers
  University of Notre Dame
  
  
• Network Science at West Point
  Steve Horton
  Department of Mathematical Sciences
  United States Military Academy
  
  
• Algorithmic Prediction of Terrorism Surges: Non-linear dynamics approach
  Vladimir Keilis-Borok
  Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Department of Earth and Space Science
  University of California, Los Angeles
  
  
• Inference and Interdiction in a Terror Queue Model
  Edward H. Kaplan
  William N and Marie A Beach Professor of Management Sciences
  Yale School of Management
  
  
• Measuring Confidence Intervals in Link Discovery: A Bootstrap Approach
  Jafar Adibi
  PricewaterhhouseCoopers, LLP
  
  
• Knowledge to Action: DHS's Challenge for the Mathematical Community
  Jennifer O'Connor
  Human Factors/Behavioral Sciences Division
  Science and Technology Directorate
  Department of Homeland Security
  
  
• The VAST Contests – Mathematical Challenges
  Georges Grinstein
  Professor - Computer Science Department
  Director - Institute for Visualization and Perception Research
  Director - Center for Biomolecular and Medical Informatics
  University of Massachusetts Lowell
  
  
• Communications and security in terrorist networks: a graph-theoretic model
  Georg Gunther
  Sir Wilfred Grenfell College
  Memorial University of Newfoundland