Quantitative Methods in Defense and National Security (QMDNS) Conference Series
	The goal of the Quantitative Methods in Defense and National Security conference is to promote collaboration between users who have defense and national security problems and statisticians, mathematicians, operations researchers, engineers, and computer scientists. Therefore, the conference focuses on both the description of defense and national security data analysis problems and the quantitative methods that can be used to solve such problems. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Quantitative methods involving: Data mining, Network analysis, Data fusion, Bioterrorism, Automated discovery, Forensic analysis, Operations research, Modeling & simulation, Information integration, Social network analysis, Syndromic surveillance, Privacy and data integrity  Description of defense and national security data analysis problems  The QMDNS conference series includes: QMDNS 2012 (April 30 - May 1, George Mason University) QMDNS 2010 (May 25-26, George Mason University) QMDNS 2008 (May 21, Durham, NC) QMDNS 2007 (Feb 7-8, George Mason University) QMDNS 2006 (Feb 15-16, RAND Santa Monica, CA) Please direct website questions to webmaster. Last updated Dec 20, 2011