T1-A: Data Anlysis and Knowledge Discovery

Interactive Refinement of Filtering Queries on Streaming Intelligence Data
by Yiming Ma, Dawit Yimam Seid (25) SemanticSpy: Suspect Tracking Using Semantic Data in a Multimedia Environment
by Amit Mathew, Amit Sheth, Leonidas Deligiannidis (20)An Embedded Bayesian Network Hidden Markov Model for Digital Forensics
by Olivier De Vel, Nianjun Liu, Terry Caelli, Tiberio S. Caetano (20)

T1-B: Surveillance and Emergency Response

Motion-Alert: Automatic Anomaly Detection in Massive Moving Objects
by Xiaolei Li, Jiawei Han, Sangkyum Kim (25) Venn Diagram Construction of Internet Chatroom Conversations
by James F. McCarthy, Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy (20)Measures to Detect Word Substitution in Intercepted Communication
by S.W. Fong, David B. Skillicorn, D. Roussinov (25)

T1-C: Terrorism Informatics and Countermeasures

Chair: Joshua Sinai

Practical Algorithms for Destabilizing Terrorist Networks
by Nasrullah Memon, Henrik Legind Larsen (25)Rational choice deterrence and Israeli counter-terrorism
by Don Radlauer (20)Apptitudes for destruction: Organization Learning and Terrorism
by Brian Jackson (invited) (20)

T2-A: Intelligence Analysis and Knowledge Discovery

Iterative Relational Classification Through Three-State Epidemic Dynamics
by Aram Galstyan, Paul R. Cohen (25) A Dictionary-Based Approach to Fast and Accurate Name Matching in Large Law Enforcement Databases
by Olcay Kursun, Anna Koufakou, Bing Chen, Michael Georgiopoulos, Kenneth M. Reynolds, Ron Eaglin (25)Analyzing Entities and Topics in News Articles Using Statistical Topic Models
by David Newman, Chaitanya Chemudugunta, Padhraic Smyth, Mark Steyvers (25)

T2-B: Access Control, Privacy, and Cyber Trust

Cost-Sensitive Access Control for Illegitimate Confidential Access by Insiders
by Young-Woo Seo, Katia Sycara (25)Privacy Preserving DBSCAN for Vertically Partitioned Data
by Artak Amirbekyan, V. Estivill-Castro (25)Inferring Privacy Information from Social Networks
by Jianming He, Wesley W. Chu, Zhenyu (Victor) Liu (25)

T2-C: Terrorism Informatics and Sources of Data

Chair: Brian Jackson

Memorial Institute for Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) Databases and Visualization Tools
by James Ellis (15)ICT Incident Database
by Yael Shahar (15) Global Incident Database, University of Maryland
by Laura Dugan (15)Dark Web databases of extremist groups artifacts (websites, forums, multimedia)
by Edna Reid (15)

T3-A: Intelligence Analysis, Knowledge Discovery, and Information Dissemination

Using Importance Flooding to Identify Interesting Networks of Criminal Activity
by Byron Marshall, Hsinchun Chen (25)Detecting Deception in Person-of-Interest Statements
by Christie Fuller, David P. Biros, Mark Adkins, Judee K. Burgoon, Jay F. Nunamaker Jr., Steven Coulon (20)A Framework for Exploring Gray Web Forums: Analysis of Forum-Based Communities in Taiwan
by Jau-Hwang Wang, Tianjun Fu, Hong-Ming Lin, Hsinchun Chen (20)Personal Information Management (PIM) for Intelligence Analysis
by Antonio Badia (20)Synergy: A Policy-Driven, Trust-Aware Information Dissemination Framework
by Ragib Hasan and Marianne Winslett (20)

T3-B: “Biosecurity and Public/Animal Health” (Invited Speakers)

Greg Cooper, University of Pittsburgh: RODS and Bayesian Biosurveilliance

Marty Vanier, Kansas State Univ.: Animal Health and Biosecurity

Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Arizona State Univ.: Biosecurity Modeling

Daniel Ford, IBM Almaden Research Center: Spatial-Temporal Modeling for Infectious Diseases

Bill Lober, Univ. of Washington: Architectures for Public Health Surveillance

T3-C: Combating Terrorism

The Role of Information Superiority in the Global War on Terrorism
by General Annette Sobel, United States Air Force (invited) (25)Measuring Effectiveness of Anti-terrorism Programs Using Performance Logic Models
by Robert G. Ross (invited) (25)Combating Terrorism Insurgency Resolution Software: A Research Note
by Joshua Sinai (invited) (25)A First Look at Domestic and International Global Terrorism Events, 1970-1997
by Laura Dugan, Gary LaFree, Heather Fogg (invited) (25)

T4-A: Intelligence Analysis and Knowledge Discovery

The Hats Simulator and Colab: An Integrated Information Fusion Challenge Problem and Collaborative Analysis Environment
by Clayton T. Morrison, Paul R. Cohen (25)Semantic Analytics Visualization
by Leonidas Deligiannidis, Amit P. Sheth, Boanerges Aleman-Meza (25)Database Security Protection Via Inference Detection
by Yu Chen, Wesley W. Chu (20)Entity Workspace: An Evidence File That Aids Memory, Inference, and Reading
by Eric A. Bier, Edward W. Ishak, Ed Chi (20)

T4-B: Surveillance and Emergency Response

Finding Hidden Group Structure in a Stream of Communications
by J. Baumes, M. Goldberg, Mykola Hayvanovych, M. Magdon-Ismail, William Wallace, Mohammed Zaki (25)Collective Sampling and Analysis of High Order Tensors for Chatroom Communications
by Evrim Acar, Seyit A. C¸ amtepe, Bulent Yener (25)Experimental Analysis of Sequential Decision Making Algorithms for Port of Entry Inspection Procedures
by Saket Anand, David Madigan, Richard Mammone, Saumitr Pathak, Fred Roberts (25)DrillSim: A Simulation Framework for Emergency Response Drills
by Vidhya Balasubramanian, Daniel Massaguer, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian (25)

T4-C: Terrorism informatics and Threat Analysis

Chair: Edna Reid

Indicators of Threat: Reflecting New Trends
by Yael Shahar (25)Analyzing the Terrorist Social Networks with Visualization Tools
by Christopher C. Yang, Nan Liu, Marc Sageman (25) Exploring the Dark Side of the Web: Collection and Analysis of U.S. Extremist Online Forums
by Yilu Zhou, Jialun Qin, Guanpi Lai, Edna Reid, Hsinchun Chen (20)Content Analysis of Jihadi Extremist Groups Videos
by Arab Salem, Edna Reid, Hsinchun Chen (20)

POSTER AND DEMONSTRATION SESSION with CONFERENCE RECEPTION

Poster Session I ................................................ 6:00 – 7:30 pm
ISI 2006 Awards Ceremony.............................. 7:00 – 7:20 pm
Poster Session II ............................................... 8:00 – 9:30 pm

Notes:
Set-up begins at about 5:30 pm.
This year's ISI Poster Session will be held in conjunction with the Poster Session of the Digital Government conference and the Conference Reception. Ample food and beverages will be served.
ISI Long and Short Papers are presented at regular paper sessions, and then presented again at the Poster Session so as to allow additional time for interaction with participants. This is in addition to the regular posters that are presented at this time.
For specific poster session assignments and details about set-up, please click here to see the poster assignments document. Assignments are subject to change.

PLENARY PANEL: "ISI Research Challenges: Perspectives from Funding Agencies"

Panelists:
Art Becker, Intelligence Technology Innovation Center
Larry Brandt, National Science Foundation
Robert Ross, Department of Homeland Security
Bruce Baicar , Department of Homeland Security

W1-A: Data Mining for Homeland Security (Invited Panelists)

Jaiwei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Paul Kantor, Rutgers University

Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas

Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona

W1-B: Emerging Applications

Computational Modeling and Experimental Validation of Aviation Security Procedures
by Uwe Gl¨asser, Sarah Rastkar, Mona Vajihollahi (25)Multi-perspective Video Analysis of Persons and Vehicles for Enhanced Situational Awareness
by Sangho Park, Mohan M. Trivedi (25)Fast Pedestrian Detection Using Color Information
by Yan Wu Xu, X.B. Cao, Hong Qiao, Fei-Yue Wang (20)Distributing the Cost of Securing a Transportation Infrastructure
by Sudarshan S. Chawathe (20)

W1-C: Terrorism informatics

Chair: Yael Shahar

Tracing the Event Evolution of Terror Attacks from On-Line News
by Christopher C. Yang, Xiaodong Shi, Chih-Ping Wei (25)On the Topology of the Dark Web of Terrorist Groups
by Jennifer Xu, Hsinchun Chen, Yilu Zhou, Jialun Qin (25) Visualizing Authorship for Identification
by Ahmed Abbasi, Hsinchun Chen (20)Multi-document Summarization for Terrorism Information Extraction
by Fu Lee Wang, Christopher C. Yang, Xiaodong Shi (20)

W2-A: Data Anlysis, Knowledge Discovery, and Information Dissemination

Strategic Intelligence Analysis: From Information Processing to Meaning-Making
by Yair Neuman, Liran Elihay, Meni Adler, Yoav Goldberg, Amir Viner (20)Access Control Requirements for Preventing Insider Threats
by Joon S. Park, Joseph Giordano (20)Towards Optimal Police Patrol Routes with Genetic Algorithms
by Danilo Reis, Adriano Melo, Andr´e L.V. Coelho, Vasco Furtado (20)

W2-B: Surveillance, Bioterrorism, and Emergency Response

Fighting Fear of a Bioterrorism Event with Information Technology: Real-World Examples and Opportunities
by David A. Bray, Benn R. Konsynski (20) Covering Based Granular Computing for Conflict Analysis
by William Zhu, Fei-Yue Wang (20)Sanitization of Databases for Refined Privacy Trade-Offs
by Ahmed HajYasien, Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Rodney Topor (20)

W2-C: Infrastructure Protection and Cyber Security

A Novel Mechanism to Defend Against Low-Rate Denial-of-Service Attacks
by Wei Wei, Yabo Dong, Dongming Lu, Guang Jin, Honglan Lao (25)Integrating IDS Alert Correlation and OS-Level Dependency Tracking
by Yan Zhai, Peng Ning, Jun Xu (20)Suspect Vehicle Identification for Border Safety with Modified Mutual Information
by Siddharth Kaza, Yuan Wang, Hsinchun Chen (20)

W3-A: Knowledge Discovery and Data Management

Computer-Mediated Collaborative Reasoning and Intelligence Analysis
by Douglas Yeung, John Lowrance (25)Towards Automatic Event Tracking
by Clive Best, Bruno Pouliquen, Ralf Steinberger, Erik Van der Goot, Ken Blackler, Flavio Fuart, Tamara Oellinger, Camelia Ignat (25)Design and Implementation of a Policy-Based Privacy Authorization System
by HyangChang Choi, SeungYong Lee, HyungHyo Lee (25)A Review of Public Health Syndromic Surveillance Systems
by Ping Yan, Daniel Zeng, Hsinchun Chen (25)

W3-B: Infrastructure Protection and Cyber Security

Hybrid Modeling for Large-Scale Worm Propagation Simulations
by Eul Gyu Im, Jung Taek Seo, Dong-Soo Kim, Yong Ho Song, Yongsu Park (20) Worm Traffic Modeling for Network Performance Analysis
by Yufeng Chen, Yabo Dong, Dongming Lu, Yunhe Pan, Honglan Lao (20) Analysis of Abnormalities of Worm Traffic for Obtaining Worm Detection Vectors
by Zhengtao Xiang, Yufeng Chen, Yabo Dong, Honglan Lao (20)A Two-Tier Intrusion Detection System for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks – A Friend Approach
by Shukor Abd Razak, Steven Furnell, Nathan Clarke, Phillip Brooke (20)SG-Robot: CDMA Network-Operated Mobile Robot for Security Guard at Home
by Je-Goon Ryu, Se-Kee Kil, Hyeon-Min Shim, Sang-Moo Lee, Eung-Hyuk Lee, Seung-Hong Hong (20)

W3-C: Surveillance and Emergency Response

Technology Integration through Demonstration Scenarios
by Mike Lind, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory [invited] (25)Adaptive Method for Monitoring Network and Early Detection of Internet Worms
by Chen Bo, Bin Xing Fang, Xiao Chun Yun (25)Naturally Occurring Incidents as Facsimiles for Biochemical Terrorist Attacks
by Jamie L. Griffiths, Donald J. Berndt, Alan R. Hevner (25)Integration of Instance-Based Learning and Text Mining for Identification of Potential Virus/Bacterium as Bio-terrorism Weapons
by Xiaohua Hu, Xiaodan Zhang, Daniel Wu, Xiaohua Zhou, Peter Rumm (20)

W4-A: Knowledge Discovery and Emerging Applications

Intelligent Face Recognition Using Feature Averaging
by Adnan Khashman, Akram Abu Garad (25)A Multi-layer Naive Bayes Model for Approximate Identity Matching
by G. Alan Wang, Hsinchun Chen, Homa Atabakhsh (20)Spatial-Temporal Cross-Correlation Analysis: A New Measure and a Case Study in Infectious Disease Informatics
by Jian Ma, Daniel Zeng, Hsinchun Chen (20)

W4-B: Infrastructure Protection and Surveillance

Attacking Confidentiality: An Agent Based Approach
by Kapil Kumar Gupta, Baikunth Nath, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Ashraf U. Kazi (25)Viability of Critical Mission of Grid Computing
by Fangfang Liu, Yan Chi, Yuliang Shi (25)