The goal of the Quantitative Methods in Defense and National Security (QMDNS) 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: