NISAC Conference Presentations and Posters

2007 Conference Presentations and Posters

• Semantic Techology 2007 Conference, San Jose, CA, 23 May 2007
  • The Critical First Year:  Introducing Semantic Technologies into an Organization, John M. Linebarger, Bettina Schimanski
  • SKOS, XSLT, and Transforming RDF Resources for use in a Production Semantic Technologies Application, Bettina K. Schimanski, John M. Linebarger

2006 Conference Presentations and Posters

• Institute of Medicine of the National Academies: Modeling Community Containment, Washington DC, October 2006
  • Design of Community Containment for Pandemic Influenza (2006-6728 C), RJ Glass, HJ Min, WE Beyeler, LM Glass
• The National Academy of Sciences of the National Academies/ The Federal Reserve Bank of New York: New Directions for Understanding Systemic Risk, New York City, May 2006
  • Contagion, Cascades and Disruptions to the Interbank Payment System (2005-4915 C), ML Bech, WE Beyeler, RJ Glass, K Soramaki
• Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Conference, Orlando, FL
• Modeling the US Natural Gas Network (2006-3152 C), Ellison, J.
  
• Modeling and Simulation of Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies (2006-3145 C); J Min, WE Beyeler, and TJ Brown
  
• Bank of Finland Payment and Settlement Simulation Seminar and Workshop, Helsinki, Finland, August 2006
  • Network Topology and Payment System Resilience - first results, K Soramaki, WE Beyeler, ML Bech, RJ Glass
  • Congestion and Cascades in Payment Systems, WE Beyeler, K Soramaki, ML Bech, RJ Glass
• 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Science
• Physical Security and Vulnerability Modeling for Infrastructure Facilities, DA Jones, LK Nozick, MA Turnquist
• Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) Workshop: The Epidemiology and Evolution of Influenza, Rutgers University
  • Planning for Pandemic Influenza: Impact of Intervention Strategies, Del Valle, S.
• 85th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.
  • A Preliminary Assessment of Activity and Modeling for Homeland Security Applications, Henson, K. M. and K. G. Goulias. 
  • On Altruists and Egoists in Activity Participation and Travel: Who are they and do they live together?  Goulias, K. G. and K. M. Henson
• IEEE Communications
  • Low-Complexity Interactive Detection Based on Limited Bi-Directional Trellis Search, Bokolamulla, D., A. Hansson, and T. Aulin
• IEEE FAWN
  • Strong Edge Coloring for Channel Assignment in Wireless Radio Networks, Barrett, C.L., G. Istrate, M. Marathe, S. Thite, V.S. Anil Kumar, and S. Thulasidasan
• IFIP Networking Conference, Coimbra, Portugal
  • Semantic Compression of TCP Traces, Istrate, G., A. Hansson, S. Thulasidasan, C. Barrett, and M.V. Marathe
• Submitted to: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS) Conference
  • Approximate Shortest Path Queries on Weighted Polyhedral Surfaces, Aleksandrov, L., H. N. Djidjev, H. Guo, A. Maheshwari, D. Nussbaum, J. Sack
• Submitted to: ACM SIGCOMM
  • Net and the City, Thulasidasan,S., V.S. Anil Kumar, Madhav Marathe, Ravi Sundaram, Mayar Thakur

2005 Conference Presentations and Posters

• International System Dynamics Conference, Boston, MA
  • Modeling the Impact of Loss in U.S. Soybean Production Resulting from Soy Rust Disease (2005-4827 C), A Zagonel, SH Conrad, PG Kaplan
• Bank of Finland Simulation Conference, Helsinki, Finland, August 2005
  • Network relationships and network models in payment systems, K Soramaki, ML Bech, J Arnold, WE Beyeler, RJ Glass
  • Modeling Banks' Payment Submittal Decisions, WE Beyeler, K Soramaki, ML Bech, RJ Glass
  • Simulation and Analysis of Cascading Failure in Critical Infrastructure, RJ Glass, WE Beyeler, K Soramaki, ML Bech, J Arnold  
    
• Working Together: R&D Partnerships in Homeland Security Conference
  • Evaluating the Economic Impact of Port Security Initiatives on Container Operations
  • Simulation and Analysis of Cascading Failure in Critical Infrastructure
  • Economic and Infrastructure Interdependencies (2005-0932 P)
  • Simulated Nation-Wide Consequences of Disruptions to the Petroleum Industry in the Western U.S. Gulf Coast
  • Human Health Impacts of Infrastructure Disruption: Stability Analysis of Codeco Cholera
  • Fast Turnaround Analyses of Critical Infrastructure and Tool Development to Support Analytic Efforts
• ACM SIGMETRICS
  • Algorithmic Aspects of Capacity in Wireless Networks, Anil Kumar, V.S., M. V. Marathe, S. Parthasarathy and A. Srinivasan
• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
  
  • Scenario-Dependent Routing in Mobile Wireless Networks, Barrett, C.L., S. Eidenbenz, L. Kroc, M. Marathe, J.P. Smith
• European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB), Dresden, Germany
  • Mixing Patterns between Age Groups used by Social Networks, Del Valle, S.
• IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob)
  • Understanding Protocol Performance and Robustness of Ad Hoc Networks through Structural Analysis, Barrett, C., M. Drozda, D. Engelhart, V. S. Anil Kumar, M. Marathe, M. Morin, S. S. Ravi, J. Smith
• IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, Napa, CA
  • Metropolitan road traffic simulation on FPGAs, Tripp, J., A. Hansson, H. Mortveit, and M. Gokhale.
• IEEE WMAN
  • COMMIT: A Sender-centric truthful and energy-efficient routing protocol for ad hoc networks, Eidenbenz, S., G. Resta, P. Santi.
• Industrial Simulation Conference, Berlin, Germany
  • Urban traffic simulation modeling for reconfigurable hardware, Hansson, A., H. Mortveit, J. Tripp, and M. Gokhale
• International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)
• Provable Algorithms for Parallel Sweep Scheduling on Unstructured Meshes, Anil Kumar, V.S., M. Marathe, S. Parthasarathy, A. Srinivasan and S. Zust
• International Symposium on Systems & Human Science (SSR), San Francisco, CA
  • Systems Analysis Programs for Increasing Robustness of Critical National Infrastructure, Toole, L.
• PerCom Workshops
  • Maneuverable Relays to Improve Energy Efficiency in Sensor Networks, Eidenbenz, S., L. Kroc, and J. P. Smit
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Annual Conference, New Orleans LA
  • Mixing Patterns for Infectious Disease Transmission, Del Valle, S.
• Supercomputing Conference, Seattle, WA
  • Partitioning Hardware and Software for Reconfigurable Supercomputing Applications: A Case Study, Tripp, J., A. Hansson, M. Gokhale, and H. Mortveit
• World Water Congress 2005, Anchorage, Alaska
  • The Water Infrastructure Simulation Environment (WISE) Project, McPherson, T. N. and S.J. Burian.
  • Modeling Urban Water Demand within a GIS using a Population Mobility Model, McPherson, T. N., M. Witkwoski and S Watson
  • Development of a JAVA Based Water Distribution Simulation Capability for Infrastructure Interdependency Analyses, Visarraga, D., B. Bush, T. N. McPherson and Y Ye.
• 47th Cray User Group Conference
  • Road traffic simulation on the Cray XD1, Tripp, J., A. Hansson, H. Mortveit, and M. Gokhale
• 8th International Workshop on Randomization & Computation
  • A Continuous-Discontinuous Second Order Transition in the Satisfiability of a Class of Random Horn Formulas, Moore, C., G. Istrate, D. Demopoulos and M. Vardi

2004 Conference Presentations and Posters

• International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, Oxford, England
  • Assessing Economic Impacts of Infrastructure Disruptions: Comparison of Input/Output and System Dynamics, Beyeler, W. E., and T.J. Brown
• Annual Meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Denver, CO
  • Physical Security and Vulnerability at Airports, LK Nozick, MA Turnquist, DA Jones, CR Lawton, CE Davis
• 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Island of Hawaii
  • Assessing the Performance of Interdependent Infrastructures and Optimizing Investments, L Nozick, MA Turnquist, DA Jones, JR Davis, CR Lawton
• ACM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)
  • End-to-end packet scheduling in ad hoc networks, Anil Kumar, V.S., M. Marathe, S. Parthasarathy and A. Srinivasan
  • Structural and Algorithmic aspects of massive social networks, Eubank, S., V.S. Anil Kumar, M. Marathe, A. Srinivasan and N. Wang.
• Latin American Theoretical Informatics
  • Measurement Errors Make the Partial Digest Problem NP-hard, Cieliebak, M., S. Eidenbenz
• 38th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ
  
  • On-line wavelet compression with dynamic resolution, Hansson, A. and M. Nassr. 
• SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics
  
  • Reduction of Discrete Dynamical Systems over Graphs, Mortveit, H.S. and C.M. Reidys. <
• Conference of Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems
  • Sequential Dynamical Systems: A mathematical Framework for Computer Simulations, Mortveit, H.S. and C.M. Reidys. 

2003 Conference Presentations and Posters

• NISAC Demonstration of Capabilities, Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington
  • National Infrastructure Simulation & Analysis Center, Program Overview
  • Complexity Science: Implications for Critical Infrastructures, RJ Glass, WE Beyeler, SH Conrad, PG Kaplan, TJ Brown
  • Dynamic Infrastructure Interdependency Simulation and Analysis, TJ Brown, WE Beyeler, SH Conrad, R Thomas, TF Corbet
  • Indications and Warnings System and Information Sharing Tool, K. Stamber
  • NISAC Agent-Based Laboratory for Economics, M. Ehlen, A. Scholand
  • Interdependent Energy Infrastructure Simulation System (IEISS), B. Bush
  • Urban Infrastructure Suite: EpiSims - Public Health Sector Management Tool, S. Eubank
  • Urban Infrstructure Suite: Transportation/Infrastructure User Sector, D Beckman
  • Urban Infrastructure Suite: End-to-End Analysis of Next Generation Telecommunication Networks, M Marathe
  • Urban Infrastructure Suite: Analysis Tool for Large Commodity Markets, A. Marathe
  • Wide Area Distributed Modeling and Simulation, E Baldonado, M Gastian, J Daniels, R Detry, S Kleban, P Moore, L Olson, A Scholand
• NISAC Demonstration COLLABORATORS, Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington
  • Cooperative NISAC/MIDAS Infrastructure Database Exchange, M. Sward, M. Vandersluis, DTRA and SAIC
  • Telecom Infrastructure Modeling, Bell Labs Advanced Technologies
  • Reliability & Security Constrained Hydrothermal Scheduling, Z Yu, FT Sparrow, BH Bowen, D Nderitu, T Aouam, F Smardo, Purdue University
  • Characterizing High-tech Supply Chains in the Pacific Northwest, T. Schmitt, GTTL, University of Washington
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Critical Infrastructure , M. Tierney and T. Peplaw, National Imagery and Mapping Agency
  • Electricity Markets Complex Adaptive Systems (EMCAS) Integration, M. North, J. Peerenboom, R. Fisher, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Investigation of Agent-Based Simulation Architectures for Simulating US Critical Infrastructures: A Distributed Hardware and Software Test-bed for Agent-Bsed Simulation, MIT Center for Grid Computing
  • Learning Adaptive Software Agents for the Electric Power Business, Power Systems Engineering Research Center

2002 Conference Presentations and Posters

• International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, Palermo, Italy
  • A Modular Model of Infrastructure Interdependencies: Preliminary Analysis of California Electricity Shortages, Beyeler, W.E., Brown, T.J., and Conrad, S.H.
  • A Dynamic Simulation Model of the Effects of Interdependent Infrastructures on Emergency Service Response, Conrad, S.H., Brown, T.J., and Beyeler, W.E.

2001Conference Presentations and Posters

• 2001: CRIS-DRM Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection, Alexandria VA,
  
  • Assessing Infrastructure Interdependencies: The challenge of risk analysis for complex adaptive systems, TJ Brown and J Nelson
• 2001: OSTP Workshop on Critical Infrastructure, Washington D.C
  • Infrastructure Interdependency Assessments: Interdisciplinary Research and Risk Analysis at Sandia National Laboratories, TJ Brown