Monday, October 24
- 8:30am Registration
- 9:00am-4:30pm Tutorial, An Introduction to R and Data Visualization, Room 7/8
Tuesday, October 25
- 8:30am Registration
- 9:00am-4:30pm Tutorial, An Introduction to R and Data Visualization, Room 7/8
Wednesday, October 26
- 8:30am Registration
- 8:45am Welcome and Announcements, Room 7/8
- 9:00am – 10:00am Kirk Borne, Principal Data Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton. Statistical and Data Literacy in the Era of Big Data. Room 7/8
- 10:00am – 10:15am Break
- 10:15am – 11:55am
- Tutorial: Software Testing, Rick Kuhn, NIST. Room 7/8
- Contributed Session 1. Room 9/10
- A. Glen, S. Butler, N. Mankovich. Many Transformations, 400 New Distributions. Colorado College.
- K. Ferguson, S. Hunter. Test Design Adequacy for Logistic Regression. Dugway Proving Grounds.
- V. Raghavan. Group-wise and Regional Terrorism Trends via Clustering in the Model Space. Qualcomm Flarion Technologies.
- C. Lennon, M. Childers, M. Harper, C. Ordonez, N. Gupta, J. Pace, R. Kopinsky, A. Sharma, E. Collins, J. Clark. An Assessment of Energy Efficient Planning. U.S. Army Research Laboratory and Florida A&M University-Florida State University.
- 11:45am – 1:15pm Lunch (on your own)
- 1:15pm – 2:15pm Abel Rodriguez, University of California, Santa Cruz. Bayesian Spatial Model Selection for Detection and Identification in Chemical Plumes Based on Hyperspectral Imagery Data. Room 7/8
- 2:15pm – 2:30pm Break
- 2:30pm – 4:00pm
- Tutorial: Heather Wojton, Introduction to Survey Research, Institute for Defense Analyses. Room 7/8
- Special Session on Quantitative Methods in Intelligence. Room 9/10
- Pat Biltgen, Vencore. Activity-Based Intelligence and Pattern-of-Life Analysis.
- I. Kloo, Center for Army Analysis. Data Science for Threat Finance Intelligence.
- 6:30pm Conference Banquet, Clyde’s at Gallery Place
Thursday, October 27
- 8:30am Registration
- 8:45am Welcome and Announcements. Room 7/8
- 9:00am – 10:00am Susan Sanchez, Naval Postgraduate School. Data Farming: Reaping Insights from Large-Scale Simulation Experiments. Room 7/8
- 10:00am – 10:15am Break
- 10:15am – 11:45am
- Tutorial: Adversarial Risk Analysis, David Banks, Duke University. Room 7/8
- Contributed Session 2. Room 9/10
- D. Ray, M. Jablonski. Uncertainty Quantification of Armament Engineering Models and Simulations. U.S. Army ARDEC.
- S. Brady, P. Ellner, M. Wayne. Leveraging Data Across Operational Test Unit Variants to Assess Reliability. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA).
- V. Nagaraju, T. Wandji, L. Fiondella. Software Failure and Reliability Assessment Tool (SFRAT): An Open Source Application for the Practitioner and Research Community. University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth and Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River.
- 11:45am – 1:15pm Lunch (on your own)
- 1:15pm – 2:15pm Joseph A. Marr, Bartley D. Richardson, David B. Krisiloff, Benjamin J. Radford, Christopher M. Morris, Cyberlanguage: Enhancing Cybersecurity through Statistical and Natural Language Processing Techniques. DZYNE Technologies (Marr), Sotera Defense Solutions. Room 7/8
- 2:15pm – 2:30pm Break
- 2:30pm – 4:00pm
- Tutorial: Resampling Methods (zip file linked), Dave Ruth, US Naval Academy. Room 7/8
- Special Session on Computer Experiments. Room 9/10
- T. Hurst, I. Goodrich, C. Leigh, C. Pouchet, M. Tolman, M. Wynn, J. Zink. The DASE Axioms: Designing Simulation Experiments for Verifying Performance of Software-Intensive Systems. Raytheon Missile Systems.
- Peter Qian. Design for Large-scale Statistical Computation and Distributed Computer Experiments. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 4:00pm – 5:15pm
- Contributed Session 3: Sensitivity Testing and DOE for Binary Response. Room 7/8
- D. Ray, C. Drake, P. Roediger. DoD Applications of Sensitivity Testing and DOE for Binary Response. U.S. Army ARDEC, UTRS, Inc.
- C. F. Jeff. Wu. A new sensitivity testing procedure when there are two stress variables. Georgia Tech.
- Contributed Session 4. Room 9/10
- Y. Gel, V. Lyubchich, L. Ramirez Ramirez. Fast Patchwork Bootstrap for Quantifying Estimation Uncertainties in Sparse Random Network. University of Texas at Dallas, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences.
- K. Hernandez and J. Spall. Cyclic Stochastic Approximation for Multiagent Stochastic Optimization. Johns Hopkins University and JHU Applied Physics Laboratory.
- Contributed Session 3: Sensitivity Testing and DOE for Binary Response. Room 7/8
Friday, October 28
- 8:45am Welcome and Announcements. Room 7/8
- 9:00am – 10:00am Eric Kolaczyk, Boston University. Estimating Network Degree Distributions from Sampled Networks: An Inverse Problem. Room 7/8
- 10:00am – 10:15am Break
- 10:15am – 11:45am Tutorial: Bayesian Analysis, Kassie Fronczyk, Institute for Defense Analyses. Room 7/8
- 11:45am Conference Closing Remarks. Room 7/8