2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on AI Technologies for Homeland Security

March 21 – 23, 2005, Stanford University, CA

 

 

 

Program

 

 

 

March 21, 2005

 

9:00 am

Keynote-- Combining Social Science and Information Technology: Understanding the Enemy and Finding the Fastest Ways to Win the Peace

Speaker-- Robert Popp, Deputy Director of Information Exploitation Office, DARPA

 

10:30 am

Coffee Break

 

11:00 am

Session A: Team Coordination

 

11:00 – 11:30 am

COORDINATORs: TAEMS Modeling and Interfacing for First Response

John Phelps

Honeywell Laboratories

 

11:30 – 12:00 pm

The Future of Disaster Response: Humans Working with Multiagent Teams (Without Being Overwhelmed)

 

Nathan Schurr and Janusz Marecki, Milind Tambe, Paul Scerri

 

University of Southern California

 

 

 

12:00 – 12:30 pm

On Shared Situation Awareness for Supporting Human Decision-Making Teams

Xiaocong Fan, Shuang Sun, John Yen

Pennsylvania State University

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

2:00 pm

Session B: Intelligence Analysis Tools

 

2:00 – 2:25 am

Recommender Systems for Intelligence Analysts

Anna L. Buczak, Benjamin Grooters, Paul Kogut, Lee Giles

Lockheed Martin

 

2:25 – 2:50 am

Analogy, Intelligent IR, and Knowledge Integration for Intelligence Analysis

Kenneth D. Forbus, Larry Birnbaum, Earl Wagner, James Baker

Northwestern University

 

2:50 – 3:15 pm

Multi-Agent Middleware for Recruiting and Proactively Managing Virtual Panels of Intelligence Experts

Hyong-sop Shim, Clifford Behrens, and Devasis Bassu

Applied Research Telcordia Technologies

 

3:15 – 3:40 pm

Automated Vulnerability Analysis Using AI Planning

Steven Harp, Johnathan Gohde, Thomas Haigh, Mark Boddy

Adventium Labs

 

3:40 pm

Coffee Break

 

4:00 pm

Poster I

 

 

Situation Tracking

 

 

Automated Detection of Terrorist Activities Through Link Discovery within Massive Databases

Chris Boner

Metron

 

Determining possible Criminal Behavior of Mobile Phone Users by Means of Analyzing the Location Tracking Data

Boris Galitsky

Birkbeck College, University of London

 

Threat Network Analysis

 

 

Small Steps and Giant Leaps toward Homeland Security

Leona F. Fass

Carmel

 

Homeland Security, organizations, and perturbations

W.F. Lawless

Apple Computer, Inc.

 

System Security

 

 

Collaborative Filtering for Community Threats

Mark Bodd, Robert Goldman, Tom Haigh, Steven Harp

Adventium Labs

 

Technologies to Defeat Fraudulent Schemes Related to Email Requests

Edoardo Airoldi, Bradley Malin, Latanya Sweeney

Carnegie Mellon University

 

Applications

 

 

On Homeland Security and the Semantic Web: A Provenance and Trust Aware Inference Framework

Li Ding , Pranam Kolari , Tim Finin,  Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Yelena Yesha

University of Maryland Baltimore County

 

Mining Images in Publicly-Available Cameras for Homeland Security

Latanya Sweeney Ralph Gross

Carnegie Mellon University

5:30 pm

End of Sessions

 

Evening:

Opening Reception

 

 

 

March 22, 2005

 

9:00 am

Session C: Threat Network analysis

 

9:00 – 9:30 am

Link Analysis Technologies for Differing Data Sources

Connie Fournelle,  Jorge. Tierno

ALPHATECH Inc

 

9:30 – 10:00 am

Transforming Open-Source Documents to Terror Networks: The Arizona TerrorNet

Daniel M. McDonald, Hsinchun Chen, and Robert P. Schumaker

University of Arizona

 

10:00 – 10:30 am

Network Awareness and the Philadelphia Area Urban Wireless Network Testbed

Joseph B. Kopena

Drexel University

 

10:30 am

Coffee Break

 

11:00 am

Session D: Knowledge Representations and Semantic Web

 

11:00 – 11:25 am

Improved Document Representation for Classification Tasks for the Intelligence Community

Ozgur Yilmazel, Svetlana Symonenko, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Elizabeth D. Liddy

Syracuse University

 

11:25 – 11:50 am

Counter Intelligence and the Semantic Web

James Hendler

University of Maryland

 

11:50 – 12:150 pm

Knowledge-Based Syndromic Surveillance for Bioterrorism

Mark A. Musen, Monica Crubιzy , Martin O’Connor, David Buckeridge

Stanford University, VA Palo Alto Health Care System

 

12:15 – 12:40 pm

Knowledge Representation Issues in Semantic Graphs for Relationship Detection

Marc Barthelemy. Edmond T. Chow, and Tina Eliassi-Rad

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

 

12:40 pm

Lunch

 

2:00 pm

Poster II

 

 

Privacy-Preserving

 

 

AI Technologies to Defeat Identity Theft Vulnerabilities

Latanya Sweeney

Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

Towards a Privacy-Preserving Watchlist Solution

Latanya Sweeney

Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

Privacy-Preserving Bio-terrorism Surveillance

Latanya Sweeney

Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

Information Processing

 

 

Cognitive Information Processing Challenges for Homeland Security

Paul Kogut

Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions, King of Prussia, PA

 

 

A Bayesian Framework for Robust Reasoning from Sensor Networks

Valery A. Petrushin, Rayid Ghani, Anatole V. Gershman

Accenture Technology Labs

 

 

Relational Recognition for Information Extraction in Free Text Intelligence Documents

Erik J. Larson, Todd C. Hughes

University of Texas at Austin, Lockheed Martin

 

 

Applications

 

 

A High-Level Language for Homeland Security Response Plans

Richard Scherl,  Michael Barnathan

Monmouth University

 

 

Answer set programming as the basis for a Homeland Security QAS

Chitta Baral, Michael Gelfond, Richard Scherl

Arizona State University, Texas Tech University, Monmouth University

 

 

Empirical determination of lower bounds on RP embeddings

Lili He, Ian R. Greenshields

University of Connecticut

 

 

Towards Semantic Integration of Legacy Databases for Homeland Security

Terry Janssen

Lockheed Martin

 

3:30 pm

Coffee Break

 

4:00 pm

Panel I

Grand Challenges Regarding Using AI for Homeland Security

Moderator: John Yen (Pennsylvania State University)

Panelists: Milind Tambe (University of  Southern California), Jim Hendler (University of Maryland), Larry Birnbaum (Northwestern University), Mark Musen (Stanford University) Bob Popp (DARPA)

 

 

5:30 pm

End of Sessions

 

Evening:

Plenary Session

 

 

 

March 23, 2005

 

9:00 am

Session E: Homeland Security Applications

 

9:00 – 9:30 am

Fostering Collaboration with a Semantic Index Over Textual Contributions

Kenneth Murray, John Lowrance, Douglas Appelt, and Andres Rodriguez

SRI International

 

9:30 – 10:00 am

Performance Analysis and Prediction for Data Mining Systems

Jorge E. Tierno

ALPHATECH Inc

 

10:00 – 10:30 am

Using Mobile Robots as a Shared Visual Presence in USAR Environments

Jennifer L. Burke, Professor Robin R. Murphy

University of South Florida

 

10:30 am

Coffee Break

 

11:00 am

Panel II

Privacy Issues Regarding AI Technologies for Homeland Security

Moderator: Robert Popp (DARPA)

Panelists: Teresa Lunt (PARC), Latanya Sweeney (Carnegie Mellon University), Jeff Jonas (IBM), George Cybenko (Dartmouth College)

 

12:30 pm

End of Symposium Series

 

       

 

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