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Date	Time	Track A Networking		Track B Security & Collaboration
Day 1 Tue. Sept 25, 2007	07:30-08:30	Registration & Breakfast
	08:30-10:30	Plenary Session I Room: Auditorium
	10:30-11:00	Coffee Break (VIP tour of demos/exhibits)
	11:00-12:30	Panel Session I Room: Auditorium
	12:30-14:00	Lunch Room: Grand Ball Room
	14:00-15:30	Technical session A1 Network Coding Room: 2100/2102/2104		Technical Session B1 Analysis, Validation and Integration of MANETS Room: 2101/2103/2105
	15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
	16:00-17:30	Technical session A2 Cooperative Network and Routing Room: 2100/2102/2104		Technical session B2 Models and Semantics for Decision Making Room: 2101/2103/2105
	18:00-20:00	Room: Grand Ball Room Reception & Posters/Demos/Exhibits
End of Day 1
Day 2 Wed. Sept. 26, 2007	08:00-09:00	Registration & Breakfast
	09:00-10:30	Technical session A3 Data Delivery in Wireless Networks Room: 2100/2102/2104		Technical session B3 Threat Modeling and Security Policy Room: 2101/2103/2105
	10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
	11:00-12:30	Technical session A4 Sensor Mission Analysis Room: 2100/2102/2104		Technical session B4 Key Management and Information Leakage Room: 2101/2103/2105
	12:30-14:30	Lunch & Poster/Demo/Exhibits Room: TBD
	14:30-16:00	Technical session A5 Optimization in Sensor Networks Room: 2100/2102/2104		Technical session B5 Collaborations in Coalition Environments Room: 2101/2103/2105
	16:00-16:30	Coffee Break
	16:30-18:00	Technology Transition Process Room: Auditorium
End of Day 2
Day 3 Thu. Sept 27, 2007	07:00-08:00	Breakfast
	08:00-10:30	Plenary Session II Room: Auditorium
	10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
	11:00-12:30	Panel Session II Room: Auditorium
	12:30-13:30	Lunch
	13:30-15:30	TA 1 Meeting Room: 2103	TA 2 Meeting Room: 2105	TA 3 Meeting Room: 2110	TA 4 Meeting Room: 2117
	15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
	16:00-17:00	Brief out of TA breakout sessions by TALs in joint session. Room: Auditorium
	17:00-17:30	Wrap up: TA leads and PCs + CAMs Room: Auditorium
End of The 2007 Annual Conference of ITA

Day 1- Tuesday September 25, 2007

Plenary Session I

Room: Auditorium
Time: 8:30-10:30

Speakers include:

• Opening (Conference Chair, Dr. Parviz Kermani, IBM US)
• Dr. John (Jay) Gowens
  Director, Computational and Information Sciences Directorate,
  U.S. Army Research Laboratory
• Mr. John Miller
  Director, U.S. Army Research Lab
• MG Fred D. Robinson, Jr.
  Commanding General
  United States Army Research, Development and Engineering Command
• Dr. Thomas H. Killion
  Deputy Assistant Secretary
  for Research and Technology/Chief Scientist
• Professor Phil Sutton
  Director General (Research & Technology) MoD
• Mr. Dennis A. Muilenburg
  Vice President & General Manager, Combat Systems
  Future Combat Systems - Program Manager
  Boeing Integrated Defense Systems
• Conference Report: (TPC Co-chairs, Professors Kin Leung, Imperial, and Boleslaw Szymanski, RPI)

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Panel Session I

Moderator: Dr. Jitu Patel (M0D)
Topic: Network is up; does any one care?
Panelists:
- Dr. Garry Kline (Klein)
- Lt Colonel (LTC) Jim Merlo
- Prof. Mark Nixon (Southampton)
- Prof. Katia Sycara (CMU)

Room: Auditorium
Time: 11:00-12:30

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Technical session A1: Network Coding

Session Chair: Prof. Tom McCutcheon (Dstl)

1. Achievable Rates of Physical Layer Network Coding Schemes on the Exchange Channel
   Yonggang Hao (UMASS), Dennis Goeckel (UMASS), Zhiguo Ding (Imperial), Don Towsley (UMASS), and Kin K. Leung (Imperial)
2. On the Capacity of Network Coding with Diversity
   Zhiguo Ding (Imperial), Kin K. Leung (Imperial), Dennis L. Goeckel (UMASS) and Don Towsley (UMASS)
3. Reliability Gain of Network Coding
   Majid Ghaderi (UMASS), Don Towsley (UMASS) and Jim Kurose (UMASS)

Room: 2100/2102/2104
Time: 14:00-15:30

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Technical Session B1: Analysis, Validation and Integration of MANETS

Session Chair: Prof. Mani Srivastava (UCLA)

1. A Distributed Test Framework for the Validation of Experimental Algorithms Using Real and Simulated Sensors
   Flavio Bergamaschi (IBM UK), Dave Conway-Jones (IBM UK), Christopher Gibson (IBM UK), and Andy Stanford-Clark (IBM UK)
2. The Case for an Agile SOA
   John Ibbotson (IBM UK), Syd Chapman (IBM UK) and Boleslaw K. Szymanski (RPI)
3. On the Analysis of Finite MANETS
   Dinesh Verma, Bong Jun Ko, Mark West, and Ananthram Swami

Room: 2101/2103/2105
Time: 14:00-15:30

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Technical session A2: Cooperative Network and Routing

Session Chair: Dr. Prithwish Basu (BBN)

1. Connectivity with Noncoherent Cooperation in Extended Wireless Networks
   Liaoruo Wang (UMASS-Amherst), Benyuan Liu (UMASS-Lowell), Dennis Goeckel (UMASS-Amherst), Don Towsley (UMASS-Amherst) and Cedric Westphal (Nokia)
2. MAIN Mobile Ad-hoc Intern-domain Network Routing
   Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge)
3. On the Study of Cross-layer Optimization for Wireless Cooperative Networks
   Zhiguo Ding and Kin K. Leung (Imperial)

Room: 2100/2102/2104
Time: 16:00-17:30

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Technical Session B2: Models and Semantics for Decision Making

Session Chair: Dr. Graham Bent (IBM UK)

1. A Coordination-Theoretic Model of the Military Decision-Making Process
   Steven Poltrock (Boeing) and Mark Klein (MIT)
2. Towards a Model of Agent-Assisted Team Search
   Gita Sukthankar (CMU), Katia P. Sycara (CMU) (Aberdeen), Joseph A. Giampapa (CMU), Chris Burnett (Aberdeen) and Alun Preece (Aberdeen)
3. Semantic Technologies and Enhanced Situation Awareness
   Paul R. Smart (Southampton), Ali Bahrami (Boeing), Dave Braines (IBM UK), Duncan McRae-Spencer (Southampton), Jun Yuan (IBM UK) and Nigel R. Shadbolt (Southampton)

Room: 2101/2103/2105
Time: 16:00-17:30

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Day 2- Wednesday September 26, 2007

Technical session A3: Data Delivery in Wireless Networks

Session Chair: Dr. Dakshi Agrawal (IBM US)

1. NCR: A Unifying Parameter to Characterize and Evaluate Data Dissemination Scenarios, and Its Analytic Study
   Biao Zhou and Mario Gerla (UCLA)
2. Performance of Network-Coding in Multi-Rate Wireless Environments for Multicast Applications
   Luiz Filipe M. Vieira (UCLA), Archan Misra (IBM), Mario Gerla
3. Cognitive and Self-Healing Algorithms for Fault Tolerant Routing
   Erol Gelenbe, Peixiang Liu (Imperial); Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Mark Lisee, Kamil Wasilewski (RPI)

Room: 2100/2102/2104
Time: 09:00-10:30

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Technical session B3: Threat Modeling and Security Policy

Session Chair: Prof. Virgil Gligor (UMD)

1. Threat Modeling for Ad Hoc Networks
   John A. Clark, John Murdoch, John A. McDermid, Sevil Sen, Howard R. Chivers, Olwen Worthington
2. Toward a Formal Characterization of Policy Specification & Analysis
   Arosha Bandara (Open); Seraphin Calo and Jorge Lobo (IBM US); Emil Lupu , Alessandra Russo, and Morris Sloman (Imperial)
3. Policy Algebras for Hybrid Firewalls
   Hang Zhao and Steven M. Bellovin (Columbia)

Room: 2101/2103/2105
Time: 09:00-10:30

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Technical session A4: Sensor Mission Analysis

Session Chair: Dr. Tien Pham (ARL)

1. A Circulatory System Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks
   Vasileios Pappas (IBM US), Dinesh Verma (IBM US) and Ananthram Swami (ARL)
2. An Ontology-Based Approach to Sensor-Mission Assignment
   Alun Preece, Mario Gomez, Geeth de Mel, Wamberto Vasconcelos and Derek Sleeman (Aberdeen); Stuart Colley (DSTL) and Tom La Porta (Penn)
3. Sensor-Mission Matching: Centralized and Distributed Approaches
   Hosam Rowaihy (Penn), Matthew Johnson (CUNY), Theodore Brown (CUNY), Amotz Bar-Noy (CUNY) and Thomas La Porta (Penn)

Room: 2100/2102/2104
Time: 11:00-12:30

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Technical session B4: Key Management and Information Leakage

Session Chair: Prof. Kenny Paterson (Royal Halloway)

1. Non-Interactive Hierarchical Key-Distribution for MANETs
   Rosario Gennaro, Shai Halevi, Hugo Krawczyk and Tal Rabin (IBM US)
2. Identity Crisis: On the Design of Namespaces for ID-PKC and MANETs
   Shane Balfe (Holloway), Andrew D. McDonald (Roke), Kenneth G. Paterson (Holloway) and Helen Phillips (DSTL)
3. Aggregation of Information Leaked by a MANET
   John Murdoch, John A. Clark, John A. McDermid, Howard R. Chivers and Olwen Worthington

Room: 2101/2103/2105
Time: 11:00-12:30

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Technical session A5: Optimization in Sensor Networks

Session Chair: Prof. Morris Sloman (Imperial College)

1. Quality of Information in Sensor Networks
   Chatschik Bisdikian (IBM US), Raju Damarla (ARL), Tien Pham (ARL), Vicraj Thomas (Honeywell)
2. Full Coverage of a Region Allowing Inexact Placement of Sensors
   Ted Brown, Deniz Sarıöz and Amotz Bar-Noy (CUNY); Tom La Porta (Penn), Dinesh Verma (IBM US)
3. Distributed Utility Optimization in Mission-oriented Wireless Sensor Networks
   Sharanya Eswaran (Penn), Archan Misray (IBM US) and Thomas La Porta (Penn)

Room: 2100/2102/2104
Time: 14:30-16:00

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Technical session B5: Collaborations in Coalition Environments

Session Chair: Dr. Winston Sieck (Klein Associates)

1. Cultural Network Analysis
   Winston R. Sieck, and Louise J. Rasmussen
2. Conversation Analysis of Coalition Communication in Computational Pragmatics
   Anne Kao, Stephen Poteet and Ping Xue (Boeing)
3. Progress on the Collaborative Planning Model
   David H Mott and James Hendler

Room: 2101/2103/2105
Time: 14:30-16:00

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Technology Transition Process

Session Chair: Mr. Simon Bray

1. ITA Technology Transition Strategy (Simon Bray)
2. ITA Technology Transition Workshop (LTC Fredrick Ludden)
3. Exploiting ITA Themes to Enable Transition (Dr. David Sloggett)

Room: Auditorium
Time: 16:30-18:00

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Day 3- Thursday September 27, 2007

Plenary Session II

Speakers include:

• Mr. Jack Lemon
  UK MOD (RAO)
• Dr. Leonard Kleinrock
  Professor Emeritus, UCLA
• MG Barbara Fast
  Deputy Director/Chief of Staff, Army Capabilities Integration Center
  United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
• Dr. David Sloggett
  Defence Strategy Director, Space and Defence,
  Logica CMG
• Mark Milden
  Director, Program Management
  Networked Systems
  Surface Systems
  Honeywell International Inc.

  Room: Auditorium
  Time: 8:00-10:30

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Panel Session II

Moderator: Dr. Ananthram Swami (ARL)
Topic: What is the role of biological metaphor in non-biological systems
Panelists:
- Prof. Stephen Eubank (Virginia Tech)
- Prof. Joao P. Hespanha (ICB / UCSB)
- Dr. Aaron Kershenbaum (IBM US)
- Dr. Christof Teuscher (Los Alamos National Lab)

Room: Auditorium
Time: 11:00-12:30

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