Program in Brief
The preliminary program appears below. We welcome technical papers
discussing methods or applications with a potential tie to defense and
security issues. More details on the conference will be available. Check
http://www.armyconference.org for official updates.
·
Welcome:
o
Kathy
Ensor, Chair, Statistics Department
o
Sallie
Keller-McNulty, Dean of Engineering
·
Short Course:
A short course on "An
Introduction to Network Analysis," offered by Stan Wasserman and Ann McCranie of Indiana
University will precede
the conference on 15-16 October.
·
Invited Speakers:
o
Ron Fricker (Naval Postgraduate School)
§
Title: Statistical Methods for Electronic Biosurveillance
o
Karen Kafadar (Indiana University
Bloomington) & Cliff Spiegelman
(Texas
A&M)
§
Title: A Deeper Look
into the Use of CBLA in Criminal Cases
o
Bruce West (Army Research Office)
§
Title: The Complexity Matching Effect
o
Mike Trosset (Indiana University)
§
Title: What is Manifold Learning?
o
Thomas Mathew (University of Maryland)
§
Title: Generalized Confidence Intervals for Some
Bivariate Normal
Problems
o
Amarjit Budhiraja (University
of North Carolina)
§
Title: Heavy Traffic Analysis of Controlled
Queuing Networks
·
Thursday Luncheon Speaker:
o
Kathy Ensor (Rice University)
§
Title: Statistics, Rice & the DoD
·
Wednesday Banquet Speaker:
o
David (Chris) Arney, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
§
Title: People of Army Statistics: Stories and
Surprises
·
Special Sessions:
o
Event Pattern Recognition for Counter-Terrorism
Organizer: Mouhsiung
(Harry) Chang (Army Research Office)
§
Paul Cohen and Aram Galstyan
(USC Information Sciences Institute and CRUE)
§
Title: Probabilistic Framework for Detecting and
Tracking Hostile Intentions in the Hats World
§
B. Rozovskii (Brown)
§
Title: Nonlinear Filters: New Approaches
§
Alexander Tartakovsky
(University of Southern California)
§
Title: Decentralized Quickest Change Detection
in Distributed Sensor Systems with Applications to Information Assurance and
Counter Terrorism
o
Methods for the Analysis of Streaming Data
Organizer: Bill Szewcyzk (National Security Agency)
§
Arnaldo Horta and Joseph McCloskey (National Security Agency)
§
Title: Histogramming
in the Streamming Environment
§
Olivier Verscheure and
Deepak Turaga (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)
§
Title: Unavailable
§
David Scott (Rice University)
§
Title: Smoothed Histograms on Irregular Meshes
with Streaming Data
o
Statistics in Biodefense
Organizer: Marek Kimmel (Rice University)
§
James R. Thompson (Rice University)
§
Title: Primum Non Nocere
§
James Briggs (University of Houston)
§
Title: Computational Modeling of a Botulinum Neurotoxin: Biowarfare
Defense
§
Viacheslav Fofanov (Rice
University)
§
Title: Statistical Models for Protein Structural
Alignment: Applications in Drug Design and Biodefense
- Contributed Speakers:
- JFIT: A
Fitting Tool for Johnson Probability Density Function Fitting to Data
Allan T. Mense & Jerry Alderman, Raytheon
Missile Systems
- Neonatal Mortality as Function
of Secular Events: Flaws and Dangers of Present Methods of Statistical
Analysis
Barbara P. Billauer, University of Maryland
- Simple Robust
Strategies for Portfolio Design
L. Scott Baggett & James R. Thompson, Rice University
- Optimal Delayed
Control of Stochastic Systems
Mou-Hsiung (Harry) Chang, Army Research Office
- Anti-American
Attitudes in the Islamic World: An Analysis Using CART Models
Giacomo Chiozza, University of California,
Berkeley
- A Large Sample
Confidence Interval for Variance
Douglas H. Frank, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Lloyd Failure
Discounting and “Magical” Reliability Growth Models
Arthur Fries, Institute for Defense Analyses
- A Multinomial-Dirichlet Model for Analysis of Competing Hypotheses
Kristin A. Duncan & Jonathan Wilson, San Diego State University
- Determining Failure
Probabilities by Density Estimation of a One Parameter Exponential Model
LCDR Kyle A Caudle, United
States Naval Academy
- The Search for Spatial
and Spatio-Temporal Anomalies
Michael D. Porter, North
Carolina State
University
- On the Optimal
Allocation of Components within Coherent Systems
Francisco J. Samaniego, University
of California, Davis
- Reliability
Projections for a Stockpile with Potential to Degrade
Scott Vander Wiel, Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Todd Graves, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Shane Reese, Brigham young University
Alyson Wilson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Semiparametric
Sequential Optimal Designs for Generalized Linear Models
Joseph D. Warfield, University of Maryland Baltimore County & Johns
Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Anindya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore
County
- Performance Prediction
Combining Environmental and Cultural Factors: Grid-Group Cmα
Katie Grantham Lough, 21st Century
Systems and University of Missouri-Rolla
Warren Noll, 21st Century Systems
Robert Woodley, 21st Century Systems
Dan Krus, University of Missouri-Rolla
- Shoulder Disclocation in Active Duty U.S. Military Personnel
LTC Robert E. Burks, MAJ
Krista Watts & LTC Rodney X. Sturdivant,
United States Military Academy
- Studies in Military
Medicine from the Center for Data Analysis and Statistics (CDAS) at West
Point
LTC Rodney X. Sturdivant & MAJ Krista
Watts, United States Military Academy
- Use of a Lumbar
Support in Relieving and Preventing Lower Back Pain in Helicopter Crews
MAJ Krista Watts, LTC Rodney X. Sturdivant,
United States Military Academy
LTC Nicholas Piantanida, M.D., Army Medical
Department, West Point
CDT Geoffrey Phillips, United States Corps of Cadets, United States
Military Academy
- Regression and
Variable Selection in Large p, Small n Problems
Wei-Yin Loh, University
of Wisconsin, Madison
- Variability Analysis
for Design of Complex Systems
William Thomas, Raytheon Missile Systems
- Assessment of Risk
Associated with Safe Operations of Unmanned Ground Systems
Barry A. Bodt, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
- A Useful Combinatorial
Identity
Bernard Harris, University
of Wisconsin
- Events:
- Social: Tuesday,
October 16, 6:30 PM. Open Bar [hosted by the Statistics Department, Rice University], Duncan Hall (Martel
Hall/Lobby)
- Wilks
Award Banquet: Wednesday, October 17 6:30 PM, Duncan Hall (Martel
Hall/Lobby)
- Luncheon: Thursday, October
18, Herzstein Hall
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