Program
Thursday, September 20 (SAU, Clark A)
9:00am-9:30am Reception
9:30am-9:40am Welcoming Remarks
Don Boyd, Vice President for Research, RIT
9:40am-10:15am The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend: The Dynamics of Friendship and Hatred
Tibor Antal, Harvard University
10:15am-10:30am Break
10:30am-11:05am Modeling Strategic Interactions in Counterterrorist Operations
Jonathan Caulkins, Carnegie Mellon University
11:05am-11:20am Break
11:20am-11:55am How to Organize Crime
Mariagiovanna Baccara, New York University
12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm-1:35pm Counter-Terrorism Reasoning About Rare Events
Tod Levitt, Information Extraction & Transport, Inc.
1:35pm-1:50pm Break
1:50pm-2:25pm Predictability of Extreme Events with Applications to Surges of
Mass Violence and Terrorism
Vladimir Keilis-Borok, University of California, Los Angeles
2:25pm-2:40pm Break
2:40pm-3:15pm Terror Networks & Business Networks
Valdis Krebs, orgnet.com
3:15pm-3:30pm Break
3:30pm-4:30pm Keynote Talk in Fireside Lounge
Intelligence Constraints on Terrorist Conspiracies
Gordon Woo, Risk Management Solutions, London
4:30pm-5:30pm Reception in Fireside Lounge
Friday, September 21 (SAU, Clark A)
8:30am-9:00am Reception and Welcoming Remarks
9:00am-9:35am Introduction to the NIAID Centers for Radiation Bioterror and Their Ongoing Research
Paul Okunieff, University of Rochester
9:35am-9:45am Break
9:45am-10:20am The Influence of Secrecy and Coordination & Control on the Structure
of Covert Networks
Roy Lindelauf, Royal Dutch Defense Academy
10:20am-10:30am Break
10:30am-11:05am Optimal Placement of Suicide Bomber Detectors
Rajan Batta, SUNY Buffalo
11:05am-11:15am Break
11:15am-11:50am Analysis of Electric Scalp Potential and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Data Relevant to the Detection of Deception
Michael Schillaci, University of South Carolina
11:50am-1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm-1:35pm The CARA Cultural Reasoning Architecture
V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, College Park
1:35pm-1:45pm Break
1:45pm-2:20pm Characterization of Cyber Attacks through Variable Length Markov Models
Shanchieh Yang, Rochester Institute of Technology
2:20pm-2:30pm Break
2:30pm-3:05pm Toward Impact Assessment Automation for Multi-Stage Cyber Attacks
Moises Sudit, State University of New York at Buffalo
3:05pm-3:40pm Snack Break
3:40pm-4:15pm Eating the Elephant! Critical Infrastructure Protection: Context & Process
Colonel Bruce Beebe, University of Washington
4:15pm-4:25pm Break
4:25pm-5:00pm Unintentional Introductions of Alien Species and their Impacts on
Homeland Security: A Trade-Theoretic Analysis
Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
Saturday, September 22 (SAU, Clark A)
9:00am-9:30am Reception and Welcoming Remarks
9:30am-10:05am (Hyper)Spectral Remote Sensing for Detection of Point Targets and Man-Made
Activity in Large Area Search Applications
David Messinger, Rochester Institute of Technology
10:05am-10:20am Break
10:20am-10:55am Topological Anomaly Detection in Large Data Sets
William Basener, Rochester Institute of Technology
10:55am-11:10am Break
11:10am-11:45am Towards a Detection Theory for Intelligence Applications
Aaron Phillips, Metron, Inc.
11:45am-1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm-1:35pm Finding Terrorist Cells in Large Social Networks
David Longo, Rochester Institute of Technology
1:35pm-1:45pm Break
1:45pm-2:20pm The Structure and Application of Generalized Social Networks:
Rings, Ribbons, and Families
Deana Olles, Rochester Institute of Technology
2:20pm-2:30pm Break
2:30pm-3:05pm Network Theory and Ordered Set Theory Used for Addressing Crime in Jamaica and Haiti
Kevin Blake, Ministry of National Security, Jamaica
3:05pm-3:20pm Snack Break
3:20pm-3:55pm Optimal Discovery of Factors in Relational Data via a Novel Method
for Matrix Decomposition
Radim Belohlavek and Vilem Vychodil, SUNY Binghamton
3:55pm-4:05pm Break
4:05pm-4:40pm Combinatorial Analysis of Binary Relations, Posets and Lattices
George Markowsky, University of Maine
