| Fall 2006 UMASS
Amherst Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series |
Date: Friday, November 17, 2006 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Isenberg School of Management, Room 112 |
| Speaker: Dr. Les Servi Lincoln Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Biography: Les Servi received a Ph.D.
from Harvard University in 1981 and has worked at Bell Labs,
Verizon Labs, MIT and Harvard University (on a 9 month sabbatical
leave), and is currently in the Sensor Systems Division of MIT Lincoln
Laboratory. He is a former associate editor of Operations
Research and INFORMS Journal
on Computing, a former Chair of INFORMS
Applied Probability Society and INFORMS Telecommunication Society, a
former INFORMS Board subdivision representative, a former INFORMS
member of the Executive Committee to the Board (and its Treasurer), and
an elected INFORMS Fellow, the Chair of the INFORMS Boston Chapter, and
a recently appointed editor of
Management Science.
He has published 40 papers in
professional journals, 1 letter in the Wall Street Journal, has 2
original formulae in the CRC
Standard Mathematical Tables and 11 US
patents. |
| TITLE: Tracking with Maritime Application: An Overview |
| Abstract: This talk motivates a renewed
interest in multi-sensor multi-target maritime tracking drawn from a
national consensus for improved maritime domain awareness. This
talk then introduces models of trackers (e.g., optimal Bayesian
estimators, linear and non-linear filters, particle filters, and
interactive multiple mode models), methods of data association (e.g,
gating, greedy nearest neighbor models, joint probabilistic data
association (JPDA), multiple hypothesis tracking (MHT), and
multi-dimensional assignement), and methods of fusing multiple sources
of data. The talk will end with a simulated example of maritime tracking and a brief discussion of the author’s attempts to track and detect actual pirate attacks off the coast of Africa. This work was sponsored by the U.S. Government under Air Force Contract FA8721-05-C-0002. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government. |
| This series is organized by the
UMASS Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter. Support for this series is
provided by the Isenberg School of Management, the Department of
Finance and Operations Management, INFORMS, and the John F. Smith
Memorial Fund. For questions, please contact the INFORMS Student Chapter Speaker Series Coordinator, Ms. Trisha Woolley, twoolley@som.umass.edu |