Milind Tambe (http://teamcore.usc.edu/tambe/) is Helen N. and Emmett H. Jones Professor in Engineering at the University of Southern California (http://www.usc.edu/) (USC). He is a fellow of AAAI (http://www.aaai.org/) (Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) and ACM (http://www.acm.org/) (Association for Computing Machinery), as well as recipient of the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Ag...

Wide-area persistent surveillance promises to revolutionize domestic situational awareness by providing real-time visual imagery of events, individual actors, and groups of interest to the national homeland security mission. However, fully realizing the potential of this technology requires computational tools capable of extracting actionable information from many highly dense data streams. At ...

Homeland security researchers and analysts more than ever must process large volumes of textual information. Information extraction techniques have been proposed to help alleviate the burden of information overload. Information extraction techniques, however, require retraining and/or knowledge re-engineering when document types vary as in the homeland security domain. Also, while effectively r...

As homeland security policy makers seek to funnel scarce resources to the most vulnerable areas, geographic impact studies have become ever more crucial since the events of September 11, 2001. In the sense that the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports are among the largest in the world, service interruptions there would have nation-wide economic impacts. Because foreign and domestic imports are in ...

this country's critical infrastructure, the ability to share information and to do it securely is the key to an effective homeland security regime. This is a staggering undertaking. In the new Department of Homeland Security alone, a complete information-sharing system will have to encompass some 22 current agencies, many of which are not accustomed to working with one another. These agencies m...

In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the US government has initiated a wide array of measures to forestall replay of such attacks. One such measure is to encourage development and adoption of information technology to detect and apprehend suspects and security risks, and to manage emergencies should such an attack elude prevention. One element of information technology that is ind...

Gunshot detection, sniper localization, and bullet trajectory prediction are of significant importance in military and homeland security applications. While the majority of existing work is based on acoustic and electro-optical sensors, this paper develops a framework of networked radar systems that uses distributed radar sensor networks to achieve the abovementioned objectives. The use of radi...

This case study discusses the role of education, curriculum development, research, and service in supporting information systems for crisis response management. The study describes the Council for Emergency Management and Homeland Security (CEMHS) organization that designs and develops academic programs and courses in these specialized areas. CEMHS combines all levels of education in California...

Nurses have disappeared from the protest arena. Not so long ago, in the wake of Mandela’s return to the visible terrain of activism, they launched a series of strategies to resolve the arduous conditions they had long been actively resisting. Of these strategies, two stand out as being most distinct. The first was an initiative to unify the many nursing associations formed in response to Nation...

We study portfolio diversification in an experimental decision task, where asset returns depend on a draw from an ambiguous urn. Holding other information identical and controlling for the level of ambiguity, we find that labeling assets as being familiar or from the homeland of subjects increases portfolio weights by around 25%, respectively; although the return-generating process remains unaf...