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 I S I - 2 0 0 5      P R O G R A M    S C H E D U L E   (tentative)

 

Thursday, May 19th

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07:00am to 08:00am
Continental Breakfast
08:10am to 09:00am
Plenary Keynote Address: Richard Russell, Director, Information Sharing and Collaboration, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, D.C.
Session 1: 09:10am to 10:10am

Vandana P. Janeja, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Jaideep Vaidya, and Nabil R. Adam: Collusion Set Detection through Outlier Discovery (30 min.)

John Galloway and Simeon Simoff: Digging in the Details: A Case Study in Network Data Mining (30 min.)

Rui Chen, Raj Sharman, H. Raghav Rao, and Shambhu J. Upadhyaya: Design Principles of Coordinated Multi-Incident Emergency Response Systems (30 min.)

Taekyoung Kwon and Hyeonjoon Moon: Multi-Modal Biometrics with PKI Technologies for Border Control Applications (30 min.)

Joshua Sinai: A New Conceptual Framework to Resolve Terrorism's Root Causes (30 min.)

Robert J. Latino: The Application of PROACT® RCA to Terrorism/Counter Terrorism Related Events (30 min.)

 


Session 2: 10:40am to 12:00pm

Jeffrey Baumes, Mark Goldberg, and Malik Magdon-Ismail: Efficient Identification of Overlapping Communities (30 min.)
Zhen Sun, Ee-Peng Lim, Kuiyu Chang, Teng-Kwee Ong, and Rohan K. Gunaratna: Event-Driven Document Selection for Terrorism Information Extraction (30 min.)
Hilmi G. Kayacik and Nur Zincir-Heywood: Analysis of Three Intrusion Detection System Benchmark Datasets Using Machine Learning Algorithms (20 min.)

Ram Dantu and Prakash Kolan: Risk Management Using Behaviour Based Bayesin Networks (30 min.)
Ram Dantu, Joao Cangussu, and Janos Turi: Sensitivity Analysis of an Attack Containment Model (30 min.)
Zhengtao Xiang, Yufeng Chen, Wei Jian, and Fei Yan: A Jackson Network-Based Model for Quantitative Analysis of Network Security (20 min.)



Invited Panel: "Legal and Social Issues in ISI Research"

Panelists:
• Lee Strickland, University of Maryland
• Demetri Vacalis, Office of Security and Emergency Preparedness, CDC
• David Zimmermann, FBI

 

 



12:00pm to 01:30pm
Lunch
Session 3: 01:30pm to 02:40pm

Invited Panel: "Technical ISI Research: Professional Societies and Publications"

Moderators: Hsinchun Chen and Feiyue Wang

Panelists:
• Donald Brown
• Charles Herget
• Feiyue Wang
• Xindong Wu


Dave Davis, Allison Frendak -Blume, Jennifer Wheeler, Alexander E.R. Woodcock, and Clarence Worrell III: A Conceptual Model of Counterterrorist Operations (30 min.)
David R.B. Stockwell and Jason T.L. Wang: Biomonitoring, Phylogenetics and Anomaly Aggregation Systems (20 min.)
Kelvin H.L. Wong and Mingchun Luo: Computational Tool in Infrastructure Emergency Total Evacuation Analysis (20 min.)
Yael Shahar: Toward a Target-Specific Method of Threat Assessment (30 min.)
Sundri K. Khalsa: Forecasting Terrorism: Indicators and Proven Analytic Techniques (20 min.)
Joshua Sinai: Forecasting Terrorist Groups’ Warfare: ‘Conventional’ to CBRN (20 min.)
Session 4: 03:00pm to 04:10pm

Antonio Badia and Mehmed Kantardzic: Link Analysis Tools for Intelligence and Counterterrorism (30 min.)
Roger Bradford: Efficient Discovery of New Information in Large Text Databases (20 min.)
Guoray Cai, Alan M. MacEachren, Isaac Brewer, Mike McNeese, Rajeev Sharma, and Sven Fuhrmann: Map-Mediated GeoCollaborative Crisis Management (20 min.)


Olga Gelbart, Paul Ott, Bhagirath Narahari, Rahul Simha, Alok Choudhary, and Joseph Zambreno: CODESSEAL: Compiler/FPGA Appro ach to Secure Applications (20 min.)
Kripashankar Mohan, Bhagi Narahari, Rahul Simha, Alok Choudhary, Joe Zam breno, and Paul Ott: Performance Study of a Compiler/Hardware Approach to Embedded Systems Security (20 min.)
Xinjian Chen, Jie Tian, Qi Su, Xin Yang, and Fei-Yue Wang: A Secured Mobile Phone Based on Embedded Fingerprint Recognition Systems (20 min.)
Peter S. Probst: Measuring Success in Countering Terrorism: Problems and Pitfalls (30 min.)
Scott Tousley: The Qualitative Challenge of Insurgency Informatics (20 min.)
Jialun Qin, Jennifer J. Xu, Daning Hu, Marc Sageman and Hsinchun Chen: Analyzing Terrorist Networks: A Case Study of the Global Salafi
Jihad Network (20 min.)




Session 5: 04:30pm to 05:50pm

Xingdong Wu: ICHECK-- Identifying Deception Data by Impact-Sensitive Instance Ranking (invited talk; 30 min.)
Justin Zhan, Stan Matwin, and Liwu Chang: Private Mining of Association Rules (30 min.)
Ozgur Yilmazel, Svetlana Symonenko, Niranjan Balasubramanian, and Elizabeth D. Liddy: Leveraging One-Class SVM and Semantic Analysis to Detect Anomalous Content (20 min.)

TBD: Bioterrorism and Bioinformatics (invited talk; 30 min.)
Xiaohua Hu, Illhoi Yoo, Peter Rumm, and Michael Atwood: Mining Candidate Viruses as Potential Bio-Terrorism Weapons from Biomedical Literature (30 min.)
Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Daniel Zeng, Hsinchun Chen, Cathy Larson, Wei Chang, and Chunju Lu: Evaluating an Infectious Disease Information Sharing and Analysis System (20 min.)
Edna Reid and Hsinchen Chen: Mapping the Contemporary Terrorism Research Domain: Researchers, Publications, and Institutions Analysis (30 min.)
Laura Dugan, Gary LaFree, and Alex Piquero: Testing a Rational Choice Model of Airline Hijackings (30 min.)
Don Radlauer: Incident and Casualty Databases as a Tool for Understanding Low Intensity Conflicts (20 min.)
06:30pm to 08:30pm
Poster/Demo session and Conference Reception.
Ample food will be served, along with a no-host bar. Conference awards will also be presented!

 


Friday, May 20th

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07:00am to 08:00am
Continental Breakfast
08:10am to 09:00am
Plenary Keynote Address: Peter Freeman, Assistant Director of NSF for CISE; “The Role of Fundamental Computer Science Research in Intelligence and Security
09:00am to 10:00am
Plenary Panel Session: "ISI Research and Funding", Art Becker (ITIC/CIA), Joshua Sinai (DHS), Larry Brandt (NSF)
Session 1: 10:30am to 12:00pm
Ke Wang, Benjamin C. M. Fung, and Guozhu Dong: Integrating Private Databases for Data Analysis (30 min.)
Janusz Wnek: LSI-Based Taxonomy Generation: The Taxonomist System (20 min.)
Qing Tao, Gao-Wei Wu, Fei-Yue Wang, and Jue Wang: Some Marginal Learning Algorithms for Unsupervised Problems (20 min.)
Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Phillip Burns, Matthew Eavenson, Devanand Palaniswami, and Amit Sheth: An Ontological Approach to the Document Access Problem of Insider Threat (20 min.)
Thomas Meservy, Matthew L. Jensen, John Kruse, Judee K. Burgoon, and Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr.: Automatic Extraction of Deceptive Behavioral Cues from Video (30 min.)
Lina Zhou, and Simon Lutterbie: Deception across Cultures: Bottom -up and Top-down Approaches (20 min.)
Douglas P. Twitchell, Nicole Forsgren, Karl Wiers, Judee K. Burgoon, and Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr.: Detecting Deception in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication Using Speech Act Profiling (20 min.)
Dmitri Roussinov and Jose Robles-Flores: How Question Answering Technology Helps to Locate Malevolent Online Content (20 min.)
Invited Panel: "Terrorism Informatics"

Moderators:
Joshua Sinai & Edna Reid

Panelist:
• Laura Dugan, Univ. of Maryland
• James Ellis, National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
• Rita Katz, The Search for International Terrorist Entities
• Yael Shahar, International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Israel
• Peter S. Probst, Institute for the Study of Terrorism & Political Violence

12:00pm to 01:30pm
Lunch
12:00pm to 01:30pm
Organizing Committee & VIP Lunch
Session 2: 01:30pm to 02:50pm
Seok-Won Lee, Robin Gandhi, Gail-Joon Ahn, and Deepak Yavagal: Active Automation of the DITSCAP (20 min.)
Shuang Sun and John Yen: Information Supply Chain: A Unified Framework for Information-Sharing (20 min.)
Gregory Conti, Mustaque Ahamad, and Robert Norback: Filtering, Fusion and Dynamic Information Presentation: Towards a General Information Firew all (20 min.)
Pradeep Kumar, M. Venkateswara Rao, P. Radha Krishna, Raju S. Bapi, and Arijit Laha: Intrusion Detection System Using Sequence and Set Preserving Metric (20 min.)
Moshe Koppel, Jonathan Schler, and Kfir Zigdon: Automatically Determining an Anonymous Authors Native Language (30 min.)Ambareen Siraj and Rayford B. Vaughn: A Cognitive Model for Alert Correlation in a Distributed Environment (30 min.)
Ahmed Abbasi and Hsinchun Chen: Applying Authorship Analysis to Arabic Web Content (20 min.)
Rita Katz: Advanced Methodologies for Analyzing Terrorists’ Use of Internet (invited talk, 30 min.)
Yuval Elovici, Bracha Shapira, Mark Last, mer Zaafrany Menahem Friedman, Moti Schneider, and Abhraham Kandell: Content-Based Detection of Terrorists Browsing the Web Using an Advanced Terror Detection System (ATDS) (30 min.)
Yael Shahar: Connections in the World of International Terrorism (20 min.)
Session 3: 03:10pm to 04:40pm

Shuting Xu, Jun Zhang, Dianwei Han, and Jie Wang: Data Distortion for Privacy Protection in a Terrorist Analysis System (20 min.)
Dae-Ki Kang, Doug Fuller, and Vasant Honavar: Learning Classifiers for Misuse Detection Using a Bag of System Calls Representation (20 min.)
Haifeng Li, Shuxun Wang, Weiwei Song, and Quan Wen: A Novel Watermarking Algorithm Based on Block SVD and Zernike Moments (20 min.)
William Zhu, Clark Thomborson, and Fei-Yue Wang: A Survey of Software Watermarking (20 min.)

 

Evrim Acar, Seyit Camtepe, Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy, and Bulent Yener: Modeling and Multiway Analysis of Chatroom Tensors (30 min.)
Yosef A. Solewicz and Moshe Koppel: Selective Fusion for Speaker Verification in Surveillance (30 min.)
David B. Skillicorn: Beyond Keyword Filtering for Message and Conversation Detection (30 min.)

Edna Reid, Jialun Qin, Yilu Zhou, Guanpi Lai, Marc Sageman, Gabriel Weimann, and Hsinchun Chen: Collecting and Analyzing the Presence of Terrorists on the Web: A Case Study of Jihad Websites (20 min.)
Clive Best, Erik van der Goot, and Monica de Paola: Thematic Indicators Derived from World News Reports (20 min.)
Alan G. Wang, Homa Atabakhsh, Tim Petersen, and Hsinchun Chen: Discovering Identity Problems: A Case Study (20 min.)
Yufeng Chen, Yabo Dong, Dongming Lu, and Yunhe Pan: The Multi-Fractal Nature of Worm and Normal Traffic at Individual Source Level (20 min.)

 

05:00pm to 06:00pm
Terrorism informatics debriefing
(light food & beverages will be served)

 

 
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