2015 Informs Annual Meeting

T E C H N I C A L S E S S I O N S

Sunday, 8:00am - 9:30am

How to Navigate the Technical Sessions

SA01 01-Room 301, Marriott Modeling and Combating Terrorism Sponsor: Military Applications Sponsored Session Chair: Gary Kramlich, Orsa Team Leader, US Army INSCOM, 5837 New England Woods Dr, Burke, VA, 22015, United States of America, gary.r.kramlich.mil@mail.mil 1 - Combating Terrorism: How to Degrade a Terrorist Network by Strengthening a US Support Network Chané Jackson, Instructor, United States Military Academy, To combat terrorism abroad, the US Forces seek to degrade a terrorist support network and strengthen a US support network. We describe a general framework for the problem of influence maximization in a social network. Solutions identify key individuals to serve as a focus for US efforts to expand support. Our framework both captures previous work in the area and yields many novel problem formulations. We demonstrate the framework’s applicability through insights gained on several examples. 2 - Countering Improvised Explosive Devices with Adaptive Sensor Networks Jorge Buenfil, PhD Student, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1 Castle Point Rd, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, United States of America, jbuenfil@stevens.edu, Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-marquez A combination of statistical analysis, artificial intelligence and human-machine interface with an adaptive system is presented as a way to infer the presence of IEDs in a dynamic environment. Specific algorithms, pattern recognition, and statistical data processing are applied to this problem to accurately indicate the presence of explosives with low probability of false alarms, high probability of detection, and the ability to automatically improve the sensor network’s accuracy over time. SA02 02-Room 302, Marriott Interdiction and Fortfication Models: Applications Cluster: Homeland Security Invited Session Chair: Taofeek Biobaku, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America, tobiobaku@uh.edu 1 - A Network Interdiction Approach to the Rural Postman Problem Gokhan Karakose, University of Missouri, Lafferre Hall, We consider a network where some required arcs need to traversed by a manager who wishes to minimize his total distance traveled. Opposing this manager an interdictor seeks to disrupt arcs in order to impede the manager‘s travel. Given that the manager can invest limited resources to protect a subset of arcs from disruption, what investment strategy minimizes the maximum distance that the manager might need to travel? 2 - Allocating Resources to Enhance Resilience, with Application to Superstorm Sandy Cameron MacKenzie, Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, 3004 Black Engineering, Ames, IA, 50011, United States of America, camacken@iastate.edu, Chris Zobel We construct a framework to allocate resources to increase an organization’s resilience to a system disruption. We first look at characterizing the optimal resource allocations associated with several standard allocation functions. Next, we apply the resource allocation model for resilience to uncertain disruptions. The optimization model is applied to an example of increasing the resilience of an electric power network to Superstorm Sandy. Columbia, MO, United States of America, gkz7c@mail.missouri.edu, Ronald McGarvey Department of Mathematics, West Point, NY, 10996, United States of America, chane.jackson@usma.edu Nedialko Dimitrov, Anthony Johnson

There are four primary resources to help you understand and navigate the Technical Sessions: • This Technical Session listing, which provides the most detailed information. The listing is presented chronologically by day/time, showing each session and the papers/abstracts/authors within each session. • The Author and Session indices provide cross-reference assistance (pages 510-553). Quickest Way to Find Your Own Session Use the Author Index (page 510) — the session code for your presentation will be shown along with the room location. You can also refer to the full session listing for the room location of your session.

The Session Codes

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Room number. Room locations are also indicated in the listing for each session.

Time Block. Matches the time blocks shown in the Program Schedule.

The day of the week

Time Blocks Sunday - Tuesday A — 8:00am - 9:30am B — 11:00am - 12:30pm C — 1:30pm - 3:00pm D — 4:30pm - 6:00pm Wednesday A — 8:00am - 9:30am B — 11:00am - 12:30pm C — 12:45pm - 2:15pm D — 2:45pm - 4:15pm E — 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Room Locations /Tracks All tracks and technical sessions will be held in the Convention Center and Marriott. Room numbers are shown on the Track Schedule and in the technical session listing.

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