Conference Program
Plenary Speaker
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Future Directions for Network Science Research
Illya V. Hicks, Ph.D. (INFORMS Fellow) Professor and Chair of Computational Applied Mathematics & Operations Research Rice University, US |
Tutorial
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Tutorial: Polar Duality: A little explored frontier of integer programming
Yogesh Agarwal, Ph.D. (Distinguished Professor) Distinguished Professor, Jaipuria Institute of Management, India Rice University, US |
All sessions will be online through Zoom. Registration is required for all presenters and attendances Please register for the conference using the following link:
https://psu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArdOqhpzMoHNFsXtFHWGP1Zq7BwWnmRV2H
The same Zoom session will be used for all sessions. The session times are in Easter Time (US and Canada).
Program
May 15, Wednesday
| Time (Eastern Time (US and Canada)) | Title | Presenters |
| 08:00 AM -09:00 AM | Tutorial: Polar Duality: A little explored frontier of integer programming. | Yogesh Agarwal |
| 09:00 AM – 09:15 AM | Welcome | |
| 09:15 AM – 10:15 AM | Keynote: Future Directions for Network Science Research | Illya V. Hicks |
| 11:00 AM- 12:00 PM | Section Business Meeting |
May 16, Thursday
Session T1, 09 AM to 10 AM: Network Optimization
| Time (Eastern Time (US and Canada)) | Title | Presenters |
| 09:00 AM – 09:20 AM | New Formulations and Valid Inequalities for the Least Cost Influence Problem on Social Networks | Yunlong Wang; Taotao He; S. Raghavan; Ying Rong; Rui Zhang |
| 09:20 AM – 09:40 AM | Polyhedral Approaches for Stable Steiner Tree Problems | Alessandro Hill; Roberto Baldacci; Stefan Voss |
| 09:40 AM – 10:00 AM | Extreme-Point Search Heuristics for Solving Interval-Flow Transshipment Networks | Richard Barr; Robert Jones |
Session T2, 10:30 AM-11:30 AM: Graph Theory
| Time (Eastern Time (US and Canada)) | Title | Presenters |
| 10:30 AM – 10:50 AM | Solving the Minimum Biclique Cover Problem | Hamidreza Validi; Bruno Burin; Bochuan Lyu; Illya Hicks |
| 10:50 AM – 11:10 AM | Implicit Enumeration Approach for the Maximum Ratio Clique Relaxations | Yehor Blokhin |
| 11:10 AM – 11:30 AM | Modulus for bases of matroids | Ngoc Huy Truong |
Session T3, 12:00 PM-01:00 PM: Transportation
| Time (Eastern Time (US and Canada)) | Title | Presenters |
| 12:00 PM – 12:20 PM | Practical and Effective Heuristics for the Backhaul Profit Maximization Problem | Daniel Ryan; Tran Lam; Yuanyuan Dong; Eli Olinick |
| 12:20 PM – 12:40 PM | Optimal flows in transportation networks, affine-nonlinear network deformations, and replicator dynamical systems | Armen Bagdasaryan |
| 12:40 PM – 01:00 PM | Multiple Vehicle Backhaul Profit Maximization Problem | Yuanyuan Dong |
May 17, Friday
Session F1, 09:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Wireless Networks
| Time (Eastern Time (US and Canada)) | Title | Presenters |
| 09:00 AM – 09:20 AM | Dynamic Capacity Management in 5G Networks | Demet Batur; Jennifer Ryan; Mehmet C Vuran |
| 09:20 AM – 09:40 AM | Overlap approximations in time-varying wireless sensor networks | Young Myoung Ko |
| 09:40 AM – 10:00 AM | Game Theory-based Probabilistic Cooperative Jamming Against A Strategic Eavesdropper Over Parallel Channels | Zhifan Xu; Melike Baykal-Gursoy |
Session F2, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Political and Policy Applications
| Time (Eastern Time (US and Canada)) | Title | Presenters |
| 10:30 AM – 10:50 AM | Political districting to minimize county splits | Maral Shahmizad; Austin Buchanan |
| 10:50 AM – 11:10 AM | Political districting to optimize the Polsby-Popper compactness score | Soraya Ezazipour; Pietro Belotti; Austin Buchanan |
| 11:10 AM – 11:30 AM | Heterogeneous effects of Open Sky Agreements on network structure: Evidence of information flows as a conditioning variable | Youngran Choi; Tyler Spence |
Session F3, 12:00 PM- 01:00 PM: Network Analytics
| Time (Eastern Time (US and Canada)) | Title | Presenters |
| 12:00 PM – 12:20 PM | Digital Strategies in Wildfire Management: The Advantage of Applying Social Media Analytics and Web 3.0 Integration | Garros Gong |
| 12:20 PM – 12:40 PM | The Power of Offline Friends in Tweet Diffusion: Reciprocity versus Triadic Closure | Alireza Zadeh; Youngsoo Kim |
| 12:40 PM – 01:00 PM | Improving the network threat detection by imbalanced learning and graph analytics | Lili Zhang |