The USMA/ARO Network Science Workshop

A Network Science Center publication generated from the April workshop is available and contains a few papers which expand upon the April 2007 workshop presentations.

A similar publication is available from the October 2007 workshop.

Program

Many thanks to the Organizing Committee for their hard and thorough work in ensuring the high quality of the workshop!

All locations are at the Hotel Thayer (see Facilities Map) unless otherwise specified. Sign in and on-site registration will be in the Main Lobby throughout the workshop.

Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Main Entrance	1000-1700	Sign-In All workshop participants must sign-in during this time in the lobby of Hotel Thayer
Main Entrance	1100-1215	West Point Tour A bus tour to see the West Point grounds and learn some of its storied history! Seating is limited to the first 45 people who reserve a place during sign-in at the Hotel Thayer. Participation is free to registered attendees and their guests.
Crest Terrace	1215-1300	Social Gathering
Crest Room	1300-1330	Welcoming Remarks Dr. John James, Director, USMA Network Science Center, Presentation Mr. Jeffrey Singleton, Deputy Director for Research and Laboratory Management
Crest Room	1330-1430	Keynote Address: Dr. David Alberts, Director of Research, OASD(NII) Title: TBD
Crest Terrace Foyer	1430-1445	Break
Presentation Session Modeling and Simulation Block I - Chair: Dr. John James
Crest Room	1445-1515	Dr. Kristinka Ivanova, Baojun Qiu, C. Lee Giles, Dr. Henry C. Foley, Dr. John Yen	Title - Growth dynamics and structure of social networks
Crest Room	1515-1545	Dr. Chris P. Diehl	Title - SocialRank: An Ego- and Time-centric Workflow for Social Relationship Identification
Crest Room	1545-1615	Dr. D. L. Alderson	Title - Making Sense of “Network Science”: Insight and Opportunity for the Military Analyst
Crest Room	1615-1645	Open discussion on presentations
Presentation Session Modeling and Simulation Block II - Chair: MAJ Ian McCulloh
Crest Terrace	1445-1515	Major Ian McCulloh	Title - Change Detection Performance in Networks
Crest Terrace	1515-1545	Dr. Lelyn D. Saner et al	Title - Measuring and Predicting Shared Situation Awareness in Teams
Crest Terrace	1545-1615	Dr. Terrill Frantz et al	Title - Estimating the Robustness of Network Centrality Measures
Crest Terrace	1615-1645	Open discussion on presentations
Crest Terrace Foyer	1645-1700	Break
Crest Room	1700-1800	Introduction: Dr. Frederick Moxley, Director of Research and Deputy Director, USMA Network Science Center Keynote Address: Dr. Albert-László Barabási, Northeastern University Title: Interdisciplinary Topics in Network Science
Hotel Thayer	1800-1830	Open Time
Lawn Terrace	1830-2000	Dinner Keynote Address: LTC John Graham Title: Social Network Analysis: The Soft Side of Network Science

Thursday, 16 October 2008

Main Dining Room	0700-0830	Breakfast Buffet
Presentation Session THEME: Social networks and leadership - Chair: Dr. Frank Mabry
Crest Room	0830-0900	Dr. Charles M. Macal and Danielle B. Carder	Title - AQNet: Social Network Analysis of the A.Q. Khan Network
Crest Room	0900-0930	LTC (Ret) William R. Hanson	Title - Complexity Leadership Dynamics: Leader Network Awareness
Crest Room	0930-1000	Dr. Reka Albert	Title - Improving decentralized search in complex networks
Crest Room	1000-1030	LTC Pete Kilner	Title - "MilSpace" A leader learning and social-networking platform
Presentation Session THEME: Semantics and cognitive networks - Chair: Dr. Helen Armstrong
Crest Terrace	0830-0900	Dr. Lashon Booker	Title - Finding Semantic “Fingerprints” in Documents
Crest Terrace	0900-0930	Dr. Frank E. Ritter	Title - High-level behavior representation languages and Moderators of behavior
Crest Terrace	0930-1000	Dr. Walter Warwick	Title - Simulating Cognitive Networks: Extending Task Network Modeling Tools
Crest Terrace	1000-1030	Open discussion on presentations
Crest Terrace Foyer	1030-1045	Break
Crest Room	1045-1145	Keynote Address: Dr. Kathleen Carley, CMU Title: Geo-Temporal Network Analysis
Lawn Terrace	1145-1245	Lunch
Main Entrance	1245-1300	Bus (two trips) to South Dock
South Dock	1300-1315	Boarding
Hudson River	1315-1445	Hudson River Cruise A boat tour to see West Point from the Hudson River. Participation is limited to the first 75 people who reserve a place during sign-in at the Hotel Thayer.
South Dock	1445-1500	Bus (two trips) to Hotel Thayer
Presentation Session THEME: Understanding and managing complex networks - Chair: Mr. Colin Armstrong
Crest Room	1500-1530	Dr. Jose Fortes	Title - Cooperative Autonomic Management in Dynamic Distributed IT Systems
Crest Room	1530-1600	Dr. Tom Markham	Title - Safety Manager – An Out of Band Model for Security in Distributed Systems
Crest Room	1600-1630	Mr. John L. Cole	Title - An Important Cross-Cutting Research Issue in Network Science for Computer Network Defense
Crest Room	1630-1700	Dr. Alejandro Ribeiro	Title - Wireless Networks Science: An Optimization View
Presentation Session THEME: Building and analyzing social networks - Chair: Mrs. Robin Burk
Crest Terrace	1500-1530	Ms. Rosario "Chary" Izquierdo	(Use of social media)
Crest Terrace	1530-1600	Dr. Elisha Peterson	Title - Altruism and Selfish Cooperation in Social Networks
Crest Terrace	1600-1630	Dr. Robert Behrman	Title - Using Organization Theory Methods to Analyze Army Brigade Combat Teams
Crest Terrace	1630-1700	Dr. Boleslaw Szymanski	Title - The Naming Game on Social Networks: Community Formation and Consensus Engineering
Crest Room	1700-1800	Cadet poster session
Hotel Thayer	1800-1830	Open Time
Lawn Terrace	1830-2000	Dinner Cadet presentations: Chair: Dr. Frederick Moxley, Director of Research and Deputy Director, USMA Network Science Center Presentation: Cadet Arthur Middlebrooks, Title - Fourier Analysis of Network Metrics Presentation: Cadet Roy Ragsdale, Title - Social Network Automated Text to Code Helper (SNATCH) Presentation: Cadet Joshua Lospinoso, Title - Utility Maximizing Networks Presentation: Cadet Ty Volkman, Title - IkeNet 3: Communication Impacts on Command and Control