Program in Brief

The program content listed below is nearly final as of September 12, 2003. The detailed agenda will be posted within a couple of weeks. Check the web site http://www.arl.army.mil/main/acas/default.htm for updates.

• Short Course:
  "An Introduction to Generalized Linear Mixed Models," taught by Charles McCulloch, University of California, San Francisco will precede the conference on 27-28 October. The tutorial will start at 8:30 AM.
  
• Invited Speakers:
  
  • Brad Carlin, University of Minnosota (Keynote Address)
    Hierarchical Models for Spatio-Temporally Correlated Public Health Data
    
  • Mike Hamada, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Bayesian Methods for Assessing System Reliability
    
  • Hari Iyer, Colorado State University
    Generalized Inference in Mixed Linear Models
    
  • S. Rao Jammalamadaka, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Directional Distributions in Shape Analysis
    
  • Adrian Raftery, University of Washington
    Calibrated Probabilistic Weather Forecasting via Bayesian Model Averaging
    
  • Jerome Friedman, Stanford University
    Predictive Data Mining with Multiple Additive Regression Trees
    
    
• Banquet Speaker:
  
  • Hildegarde Heymann, Professor of Sensory Science, Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California-Davis
    Quantitative Sensory Evaluation of Food and Wine
    
• Special Sessions:
  
  • Beyond Software Reliability
    [Organizers: Alyson Wilson, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Tom Zeberlein, Army Test and Evaluation Command]
    
    • William Farr, Naval Surface Warfare Center
      Current and Future Challenges for Software Reliability Assessment
      
    • Daniel R. Jeske, University of California at Riverside
      Useful Software Reliability Modeling Practices in Industry Environments
      
  • MicroArrays
    [Organizer: Ed Wegman, George Mason University]
    
    • J. Patrick Vandersluis, HealthRx Corporation
      DNA Microarrays in Medicine: Expressing Yourself One Pixel At A Time
      
    • Karan Kafadar, University of Colorado, Denver
      Transformations and Background Estimation in the Statistical Analysis of Microarrays
      
    • David R. Bickel, Medical College of Georgia
      Statistical Methods of Detecting Differential Gene Expression
      
  • Homeland Security
    [Organizer: Art Fries, Institute for Defense Analyses]
    
    • Parney Albright, Department of Homeland Security
      Research Within the Department of Homeland Security: Key Issues and Priorities
      
    • Alan Karr, National Institute of Statistical Science
      Data Confidentiality, Data Integration, Data Mining, Data Quality: Statistical Challenges for Counterterrorism
      
    • Bernard Harris, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
      Probabilistic Risk Assessment Methods in Evaluating the Efficacy of Security Procedures
      
  • Robust and Resilient Critical Infrastruture System
    [Organizers: Jagdish Chandra, George Washington University and Robert Launer, U.S. Army Research Office]
    
    • Jagdish Chandra, George Washington University
      Overview, Problem Description, Challenges
      
    • Vicki Bier, University of Wisconsin
      Risk Assessment: A Game Theoretic Approach
      
    • Nozer Singpurwalla, George Washington University
      Distributed Detection with Adversarial and Cooperative Sensors
      
    • Thomas Kurtz, University of Wisconsin
      Optimal Filtering Techniques for Intrusion Detection
      
    • Steve Robinson, University of Wisconsin
      Optimizing Performance in Networked Systems
      
• Contributed Papers
  
  • Application of Fisher's Combined Probability Test to the Validation of the AIM-9X Missile Model
    Art Fries, Institute for Defense Analyses
    
  • Cost Estimating Relationship Regression Variance Study
    Donald MacKenzie, Wyle Laboratories, Inc.
    
  • Water Supply Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessment Methodologies
    Major John B. Willis, TRADOC Analysis Center (TRAC)
    LTC Thomas M. Cioppa, TRADOC Analysis Center (TRAC)
    
  • Clustering by Local Skewering
    David W. Scott, Rice University
    
  • A Taxonomy of Terrorisms
    Cheryl A. Loeb, Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University
    James R. Thompson, Rice University
    
  • Adaptive Estimation for Inverse Problems with Noisy Operators
    Nick Hengartner, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Laurent Cavalier, U. Aix-Marseille II
    
  • Estimating Proportions with Small Samples
    Douglas H. Frank, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    
  • Hereditary Portfolio Optimization With Transaction Costs and Taxes: An Infinite-Dimensional
    HJB Variational Inequality
    Mou-Hsiung Chang, U.S. Army Research Office
    
  • Are Super Efficient Estimators Super Powerful?
    Jayaram Sethuraman, Florida State University
    
  • Risk Factors for Dental Caries in the Army Population
    Robyn B. Lee, M.S. and MAJ Georgia dela Cruz, DMD, MPH
    U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
    
  • Information Integration for Stockpile Surveillance
    Alyson G. Wilson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    
  • Evaluation of the Technology Readiness Level for the Autonomous Mobility of the EXperimental Unmanned Vehicle (XUV)
    Barry A. Bodt, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
    
  • Parsimonious Survival Analysis Models: Studying Early Attrition in the Armed Services by Frailty and Time-Dependent Survival Analysis
    Yuanzhang Li, Timothy Powers, and Margot Krauss, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
    
  • Test Extremes Using the Random Effect with Variance Adjusting Model: Detecting Non-normal Changes in Military Attrition
    Yuanzhang Li, Timothy Powers, and Margot Krauss, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
    
  • Signature-Related Results on System Reliability
    Francisco J. Samaniego, University of California, Davis
    
  • The Effect of Dosage Errors on the Performance of the Up and Down Method
    Douglas R. Sommerville, U.S. Army Chemical and Biological Center
    
  • DoD's Role in Homeland Security: Experimental Opportunity and Experimental Results
    Paul Deason, TRADOC Analysis Center-White Sands Missile Range
    
  • System Test Time Based on Lindstrom/Madden Approach for Continuous Data with Weighted Subsystems
    Thomas R. Walker, U.S. Army Evaluation Center
    
  • Objective Force Urban Operations Agent Based Simulation Experiment
    MAJ Lloyd P. Brown, USMC, and LTC Tom Cioppa, USA, U.S. Army TRADOC Analysis Center-Monterey
    
  • Test and Evaluation Challenges Posed by the New DoD 5000.1 Defense Acquisition Directive
    Ernest Seglie, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Operational Test & Evaluation
    Donald Gaver, Naval Postgraduate School
    Patricia Jacobs, Naval Postgraduate School
    
  • Significance of Clusters Based on Correlation Distance
    Harry L. Hurd, Harry L. Hurd Associates and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    
  • Estimation of Direct-Fire Munition Accuracy Parameters Using the EM Algorithm
    David W. Webb, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
    
  • Knowledge Discovery in the Military
    Deborah Leishman, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    
  • Building a Robust Explanatory Model from a Large Data Set
    David Kim, United States Military Academy, West Point
    
  • Goodness-of-Fit in Logistical Hierarchical Models
    LTC Rod Sturdivant, United States Military Academy, West Point
    
  • Camouflaging Data: An Information Theoretic Perspective
    Sallie Keller-McNulty, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Nozer D. Singpurwalla, George Washington University
    
  • Multivariate Equivalent Tests with Lognormal Distributions
    Karan Kafadar, University of Colorado, Denver
    
  • Stochastic Measures of Fatigue Crack Damage
    Bruce J. West, U.S. Army Research Office
    
• Events:
  • Social: Tuesday, October 28, 5:00PM - 6:30PM, Napa Valley Marriott Lobby
  • Wilks Award Banquet: Wednesday, October 29, 6:30PM Social, 7:30PM Dinner, Napa Valley Marriott
    

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