Workshop Agenda

9:00-9:15am	Elisa Bertino	Welcome and Introduction to the Purdue DBSpokes Capacity Building Project
9:15-9:30am	Sorin Matei	Introduction to the Workshop
9:30-10am	Sylvie Brouder	Keynote Talk: Common, Persistent and Annoying Challenges: The WQFS Pilot Sensor Project and Other Data Quality Lessons from Agriculture
10-10:30am	Eduard Dragut	Keynote Talk: Entity Matching in User Generated Data
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-11:45am	Session 1	Fundamental Methods
		Hany Abdel-Khalik (Purdue, Nuclear Eng.) Techniques for Dimensionality Reduction
		Aldo Scutari (Purdue, Industrial Eng.) Parallel and Distributed Methods for Big-Data Optimization
		Arjun Durresi (IUPUI) Trust-based Approaches
12:00-1pm	Lunch and Discussion
1-2:45pm	Session 2	Applications
		Mohammad Reza Jahanshahi (Purdue, Civil Eng.) Data Crowdsourcing Approaches for the Management of Civil Infrastructures
		Natalie Lambert (Purdue, School of Communication) Patterns of Behaviors and Organizational Structures
		Torsten Reimer (Purdue, School of Communication) Modeling Recycling Behavior through the Audit of Disposed Items: Benefits and Methodological Challenges of Field Studies on Environmental Behavior
		Magaret Gitau (Purdue, Agricultural and Biological Eng.) Big Data Applications and Potentials in Water Quality Decision Making and Management
		Dharmendra Saraswat (Purdue, Agricultural and Biological Eng.) Purdue Agricultural Data Engine (PADE)- A Platform for Managing Agricultural Data
		Munirul Haque (Purdue, RCHE)
2:45-3pm	Discussion and next steps