Wednesday, July 22 and Thursday, July 23, 2009
Alion Science & Technology Corporation
1100 New Jersey Avenue SE, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20003

Agenda –ADA Culmination Meeting
Wednesday 22 July 2009

0800 - 0830

Registration

0830 - 0845

Meeting Opening
Laurel Allender, Advanced Decision Architectures Collaborative Technology Alliance Consortium Alliance Manager

Presentation

0845 - 0915

Welcome
Mr. John Miller, Director, Army Research Laboratory

Presentation

0915 - 1030

Collecting, processing, and distributing battlefield information: Part I

Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon University
Dynamic Network Analysis Applied to Experiments from the Decision Architectures Research Environment

Presentation

Chapter 1

Rama Chellapa, The University of Maryland
Terrain Analysis Terrain analysis using spectral decomposition of range maps

Presentation

Niranjan Suri, The Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Agile Computing and its Applications to Tactical Military Environments

Presentation

Chapter 3

1030 - 1100

Break

1100 - 1215

Collecting, processing, and distributing battlefield information: Part II

 

Joshua Eckroth, The Ohio State University
From Background Subtraction to Threat Detection in Automated Video Surveillance

Presentation

Chapter 2

Larry Bunch, University of West Florida
Regulating the Exchange of Tactical Military Information Using the KAOS Policy Services Framework

Presentation

Chapter 4

Marco Carvalho, The Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
XLAYER: A Cross-Layer Communications Substrate for Tactical Environments

Presentation

Chapter 5

1215 - 1330

Lunch, on-site

1330 - 1510

Presenting Battlefield Information to Warfighters

Alex Morison, The Ohio State University
Integrating Diverse Feeds to Extend Human Perception into Distant Scenes

Chapter 10

Shaun Hutchins, Alion Science and Technology
An Interactive Decision Support Architecture for Visualizing Robust Solutions in High Risk Military Environments

Presentation

Chapter 11

Lynette Jones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Communication via the Skin: The Challenge of Tactile Displays

Presentation

Chapter 8

Nadine Sarter, University of Michigan
Multi-modal Information Exchange and Dynamic Adaptation

Presentation

Chapter 9

1510 - 1700

Demonstrations and Refreshments

Kevin Bennett, Wright State University
Advancing the State-of-the-Art in Military Command & Control Interfaces: Ecological Interface Design

Chapter 7

Mike Matessa, Alion Science and Technology
GRBIL: A Tool for Dynamic Operator and Environment Modeling

Presentation

Chapter 13

Phillip Smith, The Ohio State University
Asynchronous Communication of Army Operations Orders

Chapter 23

Mica Endsley, SA Technologie
Future Combat Systems Warfighter Machine Interface Presentation

Jeffrey Bradshaw, The Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Policy-Guided Data Dissemination and Reputation Service

1800

Social, aboard Odyssey Cruises


Thursday 23 July 2009

0800 - 0830

Registration

0830 - 0835

Welcome, Dr. Laurel Allender

0835 - 0935

Technical Transition Panel

Intro
Grippo
Barnes

0935 - 1025

Acting on Battlefield Information: Part I

Robert Hoffman, Institute for Human Machine Cognition
How Good is that New Software Tool? The Mathematical Modeling of Performance Metrics

Chapter 6

Walter Warwick, Alion Science and Technology
A Computational Model of Naturalistic Decision Making and the Science of Simulation

Presentation

Chapter 15

1025 - 1050

Break

1050 - 1230

Acting on Battlefield Information: Part II

Cleotilde Gonzalez, Carnegie Mellon University
Modeling and Measuring Situation Awareness in Individuals and Teams

Presentation

Chapter 14

Stoney Trent, The Ohio State University
Reading Intent and Other Cognitive Challenges in Intelligence Analysis

Chapter 17

Patricia McDermott, Alion Science and Technology
Five Lessons Learned in Human-Robot Interaction

Presentation

Chapter 16

John Yen, Pennsylvania State University
Cognitively-Inspired Agents as Teammates and Decision Aids

Presentation

Chapter 12

1230 - 1330

Lunch, on-site

1330 - 1535

Communicating Information Across the Team

Laura Strater, SA Technologies
Tools to Support Ad Hoc Teams

Chapter 20

Peter Foltz, New Mexico State University
Models, Methods, and Tools for the Adaptability of Teams

Chapter 22

Gary Klein, Applied Research Associates, Klein Associates Division
Advancing Our Understanding of Battlefield Decision Making

Presentation

Chapter 18

William Ogden, New Mexico State University
A Task-Based Evaluation Method for Embedded machine Translation in Instant Messaging Systems

Presentation

Chapter 19

B. Chandrasekaran, The Ohio State University
Diagrammatic Reasoning in Army Situation Understanding and Planning: Architecture for Decision Support and Cognitive Modeling

Presentation

Chapter 21

1535 – 1545

Closing Remarks
Susan Archer, Collaboration Manager of the Advanced Decision Architectures Collaborative Technology Alliance

Chapter 24 - Conclusion