[Iefac.list] Reminder: Call for Participation and Poster Submission: First Conference on Validating Models of Adversary Behavior

[Jun Zhuang]

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Reminder: Call for Participation and Poster Submission: First Conference on Validating Models of Adversary Behavior

Date: June 23-26, 2013
Location: Buffalo/Niagara Falls, NY, USA
Web site and registration: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~jzhuang/Conference13/
Hotel Cutoff Deadline: May 23, 2013, or when the room block is sold out. Only a few rooms are available as of May 19. 
Early-bird Registration Deadline: May 23, 2013

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent on homeland security since September 11, 2001, and numerous models have been developed to study the strategic interactions be tween defenders and adversaries (e.g., attackers or terrorists), in areas including airline/border/transportation/cyber security, at both tactical and strategical levels. Unfortunately, few if any models have yet been validated using empirical data, limiting the application of those models in practice.

Supported by the U. S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) and the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), Drs. Jun Zhuang and Vicki Bier are organizing a conference on validating models of adversary behavior in Buffalo/Niagara Falls, NY, in June 23-26, 2013. This conference is intended to bridge theoretical and empirical research on adversarial modeling, and facilitate transitioning of the best existing models of adversary behavior into practice by assessing and demonstrating their validity and applicability to real-world problems. A secondary goal of the conference is to encourage synergy and communication between risk analysts, statisticians, economists, and other social scientists engaged in terrorism modeling and research.

Our confirmed speakers include:

*Morral Andrew (RAND Corporation)
*Daniel Arce (University of Texas-Dallas)
*David Banks (Duke University)
*Rajan Batta (University at Buffalo)
*Vicki Bier (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
*Seth Guikema (John Hopkins University)
*Kjell Hausken (University of Stavanger, Norway)
*Richard John (University of Southern California/CREATE)
*Victor Jose (Georgetown University)
*Jason Merrick (Virginia Commonwealth University)
*Hamid Mohtadi (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
*Elisabeth Pate-Cornell (Stanford University)
*Nageswara Rao (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
*Laura Razzolini (Virginia Commonwealth University)
*Bob Ross (Department of Homeland Security, retired)
*Robert Sargent (Syracuse University)
*John Sawyer (University of Maryland/START).
*Steve Streetman (Data Architecture Solutions, Inc)
*Milind Tambe (University of Southern California/CREATE)
*Chen Wang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
*Jun Zhuang (University at Buffalo)

The poster presentation and competition will be held on June 24 during dinner buffet reception. Student poster presentation winner will be awarded a certificate, as well as a $500 gift card from a brand at his/her choice. The conference will start with a Welcome BBQ reception at Picnic Area at Niagara Falls, sponsored by the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo. 

Let us know if you have any questions. 

Sincerely,

Conference chairs:

Jun Zhuang
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Vicki Bier
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 


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Jun Zhuang
Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
317 Bell Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260-2050, USA
Email: jzhuang at buffalo.edu
Phone: (716) 645 4707; Fax: (716) 645 3302
Web: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~jzhuang/

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