Human Behavior-Computational Intelligence Modeling Conference 2009

Program Schedule


Tuesday, June 23, 2009 pdf

7:00 am	Buses depart to ORNL from The Double Tree, Oak Ridge and Spring Hill Suites, Knoxville
7:00 – 8:00 am	Arrival / Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:10 am	Welcome and Administrative Comments Bob Schlicher, Co-Director, Computational Human Behavior Center
8:10 – 8:30 am	Introduction Brian Worley, Division Director, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division
8:30 – 9:00 am	Keynote Speaker – CDR Dylan Schmorrow, MSC, USN, Ph.D. Program Director, OSD Human, Social, Culture and Behavior (HSCB) Modeling
9:00 – 9:25 am	Situational Awareness Using the ISSM Dean Hartley (presenter)
9:25 – 9:50 am	MASON RebeLand: An Agent-Based Model of Politics, Environment, and Insurgency Claudio Cioffi (presenter) and Mark Rouleau
9:50 – 10:15 am	Conflict in Complex Social-Natural Systems: Using Agent-Based Models to Understand the behavioral Roots of Social Unrest within the Mandera Triangle Mark Rouleau (presenter), Mark Coletti and Atesmachew Hailegiorgis
10:15 – 10:30 am	Break
10:30 – 11:00 am	Keynote Speaker – Montgomery McFate, J.D., Ph.D. Senior Social Scientist, Human Terrain System, U.S. Army
11:00 – 12:00 pm	Panel Session – Chaired by Adam Silverman, Ph.D., The U.S. Army Human Terrain System: Concepts and Operations, U.S. Army
12:00 – 1:3pm 12:30 pm 12:45 pm 1:00 pm	Lunch / Executive Lunch Poster Session ORNL Tour Participants meet in front of the Visitor Center ORNL Tour departs
1:30 – 1:55 pm	Nexus: An Intelligent Agent Simulation of Interpretive Social Science for the Analysis of Irregular Warfare Deborah Duong (presenter)
1:55 – 2:20pm	MASON AfriLand: A Regional Multi-Country Agent-Based Model with Cultural and Environmental Dynamics Claudio Cioffi (presenter) and Mark Rouleau
2:20 – 2:45 pm	Information-Theoretic Approaches for Evaluating Complex Adaptive Social Simulation Systems Olufemi Omitaomu and Auroop Ganguly (presenter)
2:45 – 3:00 pm	Break
3:00 – 4:30 pm	Panel Session – Chaired by Kevin Gluck, Air Force Research Laboratory High Performance Computing for Computational Cognitive Modeling: Recent Developments, Lessons Learned, and New Directions
4:30 – 4:55 pm	Narrative Paradigm in Cultural Geography Modeling Leroy “Jack” Jackson (presenter) and Pattie “Maria” Vedder
4:55 – 5:20 pm	LandScan Data Sets for Automating Simulation Set-up while Accommodating Multiple Modeling Approaches within a Flexible Simulation Platform Steven Fernandez (presenter), Amy Rose and Edward Bright
5:20 pm	Day One Ends
5:35 pm	Buses depart for hotels
6:30 pm	Dinner, Calhoun’s at Turkey Creek Keynote Speaker – Alenka Brown, Senior Research Fellow National Defense University Behavioral Science in the 21^st Century


Wednesday, June 24, 2009 pdf

7:00 am	Buses depart to ORNL from The Double Tree, Oak Ridge and Spring Hill Suites, Knoxville
7:00 – 8:00 am	Arrival / Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:30 am	Keynote Speaker – Kathleen M. Carley, Ph.D. Director Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS), Carnegie Mellon University Dynamic Network Analysis: New Capabilities and a Look to the Future
8:30 - 8:55 am	Simulating Emergent Multi-tiered Social Ties Brian R. Hirshman (presenter), Jesse St. Charles and Kathleen M. Carley
8:55 – 9:20 am	A Stigmergy Collaboration Approach in Open Source Software Developer Community Xiaohui Cui (presenter), Laura Pullum, Jim Treadwell and Thomas Potok
9:20 – 9:45 am	Applying Adaptive Anomaly Detection to Human Networks Jeff Patti (presenter), Nadya Belov and Patrick Craven
9:45 – 10:10 am	Multi-Modal Social Networks Edward Wegman (presenter) Yasmin Said and Walid Sharabati
10:10 – 10:25 am	Break
10:25 - 10:50 am	A Connectionist Modeling Approach to Rapid Analysis of Emergent Properties in Social Cognition Kalyan Perumalla (presenter) and Jack Schryver
10:50 – 11:15 am	Panel Session – Chaired by Michael L. Bernard, Ph.D., Cognitive and Military Systems, Sandia National Laboratory Cellular to social: Modeling decision-making within high consequence environments
11:15 – 12:00 pm	Episodic Memory Modeled by an Integrated Cortical-Hippocampal Neural Architecture Craig M. Vineyard (presenter), Shawn Taylor, Michael Bernard, Steve Verzi and Dan Morrow
12:00 - 1:00 pm 12:45 pm 1:00 pm	Lunch ORNL Tour Participants meet in front of the Visitor Center ORNL Tour Departs
1:00 – 1:30 pm	Keynote Speaker – Layne Kalbfleisch, Ph.D., Director, MRI Safety and Operations, George Mason University Gaps and Junctions In and Between: New Perspectives on Brain, Behavior, and Context
1:30 – 1:55pm	Electroencephalograph I the Default Mode of Brain Function Rex Cannon (presenter), Debora Baldwin, Joel Lubar and Robert Thatcher
1:55 – 2:20 pm	An Anticipatory and Deceptive AI Utilizing Bayesian Belief Networks Joe Lake (presenter), Glenn Allgood, Mohammed Olama and Jay Saffold
2:20 – 2:30 pm	Break
2:30 – 2:55 pm	Enabling Operator/Analyst Trust in Complex Human Socio-Cultural Behavior Models Jonathan Pfautz, Eric Carlson (presenter) and Mike Farry
2:55 – 3:20 pm	Advanced Architecture for Modeling and Simulation (ADAMS) Janet Wedgwood (presenter), John Welsh, Zach Horiatis and Tim Siedlecki
3:20 – 3:45 pm	Closing Remarks Jeff Nichols or Thomas Zacharia (tentative)
3:45 pm	Conference Adjourns
4:00 pm	Buses depart for hotels