Program in Brief

The program is quickly taking form but is still preliminary at this time. Check the site weekly for updates. Below is a brief overview of the most important items: short course, invited speakers, special sessions, contributed session speakers, and events. A more detailed PRELIMINARY AGENDA and ABSTRACTS are under construction.

• Short Course: Data, Knowledge, and Information Integration to Support Decision Making, taught by the Statistics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory will precede the conference on 16 October and 17 October. The tutorial will start at 0830.
  
• Invited Speakers:
  • Nozer Singpurwalla, George Washington University (Keynote Address)
    Warranty Contracts and Equilibrium Probabilities
  • Alan Agresti (Florida)
    Challenges for Categorical Data Analysis in the 21st Century
  • Donald Berry (Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center)
    Title unavailable
  • Noel A. C. Cressie (Ohio State)
    A Spatial-Temporal Statistical Approach to Problems in Command and Control
  • Stuart A. Geman (Brown)
    Variance and Invariance in Machine Vision
  • Emanuel Parzen (Texas A&M)
    Quantile/Quartile Plots, Conditional Quantiles, Comparison Distributions
  • Naomi Oreskes (UC San Diego)
    Conceptual Issues in Model Assessment: What Can We Learn From Past Mistakes
  • Matthew Caffrey (Air Command and Staff College)
    Lessons From the History of Wargaming
    
• Special Sessions:
  • Biological Warfare, organized by Marek Kimmel of Rice University
    • Marek Kimmel, Rice University
      Dispersal of Bacterial Pathogenes: Scenarios, Models and Accidents
    • George Weinstock, Department of Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine
      Use of Genomic Technologies to Decode Bacterial Biological Warfare Agents
  • Digital Government, organized by Edward Wegman of George Mason University
    • Cathy Dippo (BLS)
      Statistics and a Digital Government for the 21st Century
    • Alan Karr, National Institute of Statistical Sciences and Sallie Keller-McNulty, Los Alamos National Laboratory
      Web Dissemination of Disclosure-Limited Analyses of Confidential Data
    • Jeffrey Solka (NSWC)
      Statistics in Intrusion Detection
  • Highlights of the June 2000 "National Research Council Workshop on Reliability Issues for DoD Systems," organized by Arthur Fries of the Institute for Defense Analysis.
    • Francisco Samaniego (UC, Davis)
      NRC Workshop on Reliability for DoD Systems--An Overview of the Statistical Content
    • Ernest Seglie (OSD/DOT&E)
      NRC Workshop on Reliability for DoD Systems--A DoD Perspective
      
• Contributed Papers To Date
  • George Hanna (AMSAA)
    Reliability Described by Belief Functions, A Second Look
  • Yontha Ath (Cal State U, Dominguez Hills) and Milton Sobel (UC, Santa Barbara)
    Stochastic Properties for Uniformly Optimally Reliable Networks
  • Douglas Frank (Indiana University, PA)
    Estimating Parameters in a Bimodal Distribution
  • Eugene Dutoit (DBBL, Fort Benning)
    The Use of Cluster Analysis in the MOUT ACTD
  • MAJ Tom Cioppa and Tom Lucas (NPS)
    Efficient Search Strategies in High-Dimensional Complex Models
  • Carl Russell (JNTF)
    Graphical Analysis of Communications Latency in a Large Distributed Simulation
  • Ann Brodeen and Frederick Brundick (ARL), and Malcolm Taylor (OAO Corp)
    Statistical Augmentation of a Database for Use in Optical Character Recognition Software Evaluation
  • Barbara Broome, Ann Brodeen, and Frederick Brundick (ARL), and Malcolm Taylor (OAO Corp)
    Exploring the Use of Reading Comprehension Tests in Evaluating Machine Translation Systems
  • Arthur Fries (IDA)
    Another "New" Approach for "Validating" Simulation Models
  • Barry Bodt, Joan Forester, Charles Hansen, Eric Heilman, Richard Kaste, and Janet O'May (ARL)
    A Statistical Analysis of Course of Action Generation ?
  • Jock Grynovicki, Kragg Kysor, and Madeline Swann(ARL)
    A Human Factors Analysis of Two Proposed Tactical Operations Center (TOC) Shelter Designs
  • David Webb (ARL) and Bruce Held (RAND)
    Modeling of Tank Gun Accuracy Under Two Different Zeroing Methods
  • Mike Danesh (Redstone)
    System Reliability for Precision Missilery
  • Iris Rivero and Kwang-Jae Kim (Penn State)
    Analysis of Fuzzy Regression for Modeling Shelf-Life of Gun Propellants
  • Robert Nowak (Rice)
    Computer Network Tomography for End-to-End Traffic Measurements
  • Rong Chen (Illinois, Chicago), Jun Liu (Stanford) and Xiaodong Wang (Texas A&M)
    Monte Carlo Filters and Their Applications in Target Tracking and Wireless Communications
  • David Scott (Rice)
    Clustering and Partial Mixture Estimation
  • Jayaram Sethuraman (Florida State)
    Modeling Transmission Loss in a Network with a Large Number of Nodes
  • Bernie Harris (Wisconsin-Madison) and Shun-Yi Chen (Tamkang University)
    Accurate One Sided Tolerance Limits for the Balanced Normal Random Effects Model
  • James Thompson (Rice)
    Some Thoughts on the Statistical Legacy of John W .Tukey
  • CPT Scott Nestler, United States Military Academy
    Atmospheric Properties for Estimation of Infrared Radiance of Ballistic Missiles
  • Yuling Cui and Nozer D. Singpurwalla, George Washington University
    Damage Assessment Using Test Data and Expert Testimonies
    
    
• Events
  • Social: Tuesday, October 17, Duncan Hall
  • Wilks Award Banquet: Wednesday, October 18, Duncan Hall
    

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