Advisor Dr

Title of Dissertation: Congestion Management and Medium Access Control in Satellite Data Networks (2009)

Xiaoming Zhou, Advisor Dr, John S. Baras, Cshcn Phd, Isr Phd

Satellites are now being used to carry Internet traffic which brings new opportunities as well as new challenges to the satellite industry. Our goal in this dissertation is to design efficient and...

MULTICAST IN SATELLITE ATM NETWORKS (2009)

Ayan Roy-chowdhury, Advisor Dr, John S. Baras, Ayan Roy-chowdhury

Communication satellites offer an efficient way to extend IP multicast services for groups in wide-area networks. This poses interesting challenges for routing and security. Satellite networks can...

UNKNOWN NETWORK ATTACKS USING HMM MODELS (2009)

Irena Bojanic, Advisor Dr, John S. Baras, John S. Baras, Irena Bojanic

ISR develops, applies and teaches advanced methodologies of design and analysis to solve complex, hierarchical,

JORDI CABOT SAGRERA INCREMENTAL INTEGRITY CHECKING IN UML/OCL CONCEPTUAL SCHEMAS (2009)

Departament De Llenguatges, I Sistemes Informàtics, Phd Dissertation, Advisor Dr, Ernest Teniente López

First and foremost, I would like to thank Ernest Teniente. With him I have learnt how to research and, most important, how to enjoy researching. Thanks Ernest for your scientific rigor, guidance,...

FEC in Distributed Streaming By (2009)

Liu Zhicheng, Advisor Dr, Ooi Wei Tsang, Liu Zhicheng

This paper evaluates the use of Forward Error Correction (FEC) schemes in distributed media streaming. We propose three different FEC schemes applicable to distributed streaming, and we build...

• Thesis: “Metamodel Based Language and Computation Platform for Algorithmic (2009)

Abhishek Dubey, Advisor Dr, Takkuen John, Koo Gpa

Mode Switches” Research Interests • Autonomic computing. • Reflex and healing frameworks. • Model-based embedded system design. • Model Integrated Computing. • Fault-tolerance in...

Thesis Title: A Survey of the Quadratic Assignment Problem, with Applications (2009)

Advisor Dr, Panos M. Pardalos, Advisor Dr, Panos M. Pardalos, ...

Active member of basic research team in the Navigation and Controls branch. Researching and developing highlevel algorithms for optimization problems in telecommunications. Principal investigator and...

“TCP Over OBS: To Split or Not To Split?” (2008)

Deepak Padmanabhan, Advisor Dr, Vinod M. Vokkarane

Internet technology has advanced significantly over last decade. Now Internet is used not only to check emails or access information. Today’s Internet demands services such as video on demand, grid...

PUBLICATIONS (2008)

Ian C. Gilby, Ph. D, Biological Anthropology Wing, Advisor Dr, Anne E. Pusey, Cum Laude, ...

Journal articles Gilby, I.C., Eberly, L.E., & Wrangham, R.W. 2008. Economic profitability of social predation among wild chimpanzees: individual variation promotes cooperation. Animal Behaviour...

Augmenting Focused Crawling using Search Engine Queries Project No: U079120 (2008)

Wang Xuan, Advisor Dr, Kan Min Yen, Wang Xuan

The pervasiveness of the Internet makes it an ideal medium for sharing scholarly information. Nowadays, many authors post their publications online so that others may easily access to them,...

Programming Framework for Sensor-data Driven Context-Aware Applications (2008)

Devdatta Kulkarni, Advisor Dr

Context-awareness is one of the central characteristics of pervasive computing applications. We have built a programming framework for constructing context-aware applications from their high-level...

“Screwdriver: ” An HDL implementation of an advanced cache coherence protocol (2008)

Peter Hornyack, Advisor Dr

As the performance limitations of single-core processors are reached, multiprocessing, or linking together multiple processor cores to compute in parallel, is becoming the favored method of...

Source Code: 1 DVD By (2008)

Tan Ah Kow, Advisor Dr, Lee Ah Hua, Tan Ah Kow

In this report, we study a problem and design an efficient algorithm to solve the problem. We implemented the algorithm and evaluated its performance against previous proposed algorithms that solves...

Effective Interaction Techniques in Information-Rich Virtual Environments (2008)

Jian Chen, Advisor Dr, Doug A. Bowman

The goal of the proposed research is to examine an effective way of integrating symbolic data, such as text, data, into a virtual environment and to investigate the different interaction techniques....

Multivariate Dependence Measures with Applications to Neural Ensembles (2008)

Ilan N. Goodman, Advisor Dr, Don H. Johnson

In this paper I develop two new multivariate dependence measures to aid in the analysis of neural population coding. The first, which is based on the Kullback-Leibler distance, results in a single...

Thesis: The Analysis of Different AAA Methods in Access Layer of Univ. of Tehran Enterprise Network. (2008)

Advisor Dr, Alex X. Liu

For designing and building “Braille Scanning System ” (BSS)- Braille line scanner and translator into text

Ground-Based Prototype of CMOS Navigational Star Camera for Small Satellite Applications (2008)

Brian Shucker, Advisor Dr, Ernest D. Fasse

Abstract. Small satellites are now capable of performing missions that require accurate attitude determination and control. However, low size, power, and cost requirements limit the types of attitude...

Thesis Title: Optimization Techniques for Block Based Motion Estimation inVideo Coding (2008)

Tourapis Alexandros, Advisor Dr, Oscar C. Au

� Redesigned and significantly improved in terms of encoding quality (more than 3dB for medium to high bitrates and>12dB for low bitrates), efficiency, and speed (realtime encoding of CIF video...

Cementation Effects on Geotechnical Properties of Sandy Coarse Aggregate Soils (2008)

Amir H. Behzadan, Advisor Dr, Vineet R. Kamat, Major Construction Engineering

CAREER OBJECTIVE Conducting research in a competitive environment, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, and supervising graduate students as a faculty member in a top

RESEARCH INTERESTS (2008)

Dae-kyoo Kim, Advisor Dr, Robert B. France, Advisor Dr, Thomas F. Piatkowski, Dae-kyoo Kim

Bachelor's Thesis: Efficient Development of Small-Sized LAN using CSMA/CD Protocol

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (2008)

Shwetak N. Patel, Advisor Dr, Gregory D. Abowd, Advisor Dr, Gregory D. Abowd, Advisor Dr. Gregory Abowd

Research in cost-effective and easy-to-deploy sensing technologies in the home for supporting studies in natural settings. Research in context aware mobile computing and exploring compelling...

I. Introduction SIDE-CHANNEL ATTACK OF RSA (2008)

Csilla Endrődi, Advisor Dr, Endre Selényi, Zoltán Hornák

The security of a system is difficult to judge. It is a serious misconception that applying cryptography

Thesis: “A Statistical Analysis of University Resource Allocation Policies.” (2008)

Douglas Craig Schmidt, Co-advisors Dr, Tatsuya Suda, W. Selby, Advisor Dr, ...

7/98 – present: Associate Professor Currently conducting research on design patterns, implementation, and experimental analysis of objectoriented techniques that facilitate the development of...

Micro programmed Control Units on PLA (Programmable Logic Array) and ROM (Read Only Memory) chips: Development of a Modula 2 program for the synthesis of microcontrolling and explicit direction”. (2008)

Indira R. Guzman, Ph. D, Advisor Dr, Jeffrey M. Stanton, Committee Members, Dr. Michelle Kaarst-brown, ...

As information and communication technologies have become more and more essential to produce goods and services in organizations, the role of IT workers has become correspondingly more critical in...

Cross-Cultural Effects and Affects in Asynchronous Learning Networks (2008)

Name Ravi Vatrapu, Advisor Dr, Daniel D. Suthers, Ravi Vatrapu

Abstract. Cross-cultural issues in asynchronous learning networks (ALNs) have largely been unexplored. The lack of proper understanding of culture’s role in ALNs can be counter-productive to...

RICE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARS PROGRAM COVER SHEET FOR PROPOSAL PROJECT TITLE (2008)

Name Mathias Ricken, Advisor Dr, Joe Warren

ABSTRACT OF PROPOSED STUDY The creation of meaningful geometry for architecture or simulations currently takes a considerable amount of time. Traditional geometry generation usually entails the...

Major Area (Electrical Engineering) GPA: 3.85/4.00 (2008)

Advisor Dr, Hillol Kargupta

award • 5+ years of research experience in privacy preserving and distributed data mining • Industry experience at IBM (both research lab and software development) • 1 patent (filed) • 10+...

Interests include Pervasive Mobile Computing, Wireless Mobile Application, Wireless Multimedia Communications and Services, Adaptive Middleware, Autonomic Computing, and System Integration. SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATION (2008)

Zhinan Zhou, Advisor Dr, Philip K. Mckinley, Minor Jurisprudence

• In-depth knowledge of power management and Quality of Service in wireless communications, wireless multimedia streaming, error correction in wireless transmission, adaptive mobile computing...

HONORS AND AWARDS (2008)

Advisor Dr, Daniel M. Kroll

Bit-string Model for the Selection of Sex”.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (2008)

Matthew R. Boutell, Advisor Dr, Christopher M. Brown

Geometry, Pre-Algebra, Basic Math) and computer programming courses (Advanced Placement C++, BASIC), with 4300+ hours of classroom time. Developed curriculum for school’s first AP C++ course and...

Linear Algebra of Magic Squares (2008)

Michael Lee, Elizabeth Love, Elizabeth Wascher, Advisor Dr, Sivaram K. Narayan

A magic square M is an n-by-n array of numbers whose rows, columns, and the two diagonals sum to µ called the magic sum. If all the diagonals including broken diagonals sum to µ then the magic...

Industry Experience (2008)

Georgios Christou, Advisor Dr

Reality-Based Interaction and Interfaces Knowledge-based task modeling Cognitive Architectures for task modeling and interface evaluation

EDUCATION (2008)

Tara M. Madhyastha, Advisor Dr, Daniel A. Reed

Examined new application and system-level interfaces for optimizing I/O intensive access patterns. Investigated the use of data mining techniques for I/O workload characterization. Postdoctoral...

Guitar Effects Generator Using DSP Functional Description and Complete System Block Diagram (2008)

Alex Czubak, Gorav Raheja, Advisor Dr, Thomas L. Stewart

Recording artists and musicians have implemented audio effects into their live and recorded repertoire. Analog methods have all but disappeared, allowing digital signal processors to take their...

Dissertation: Content Based Image Retrieval from Image Databases. (2008)

Amit Kumar Saha, Advisor Dr, David B. Johnson

My research interests lie in the general area of wireless mesh networks and mobile ad hoc net-Interests works. In addition to working on the design, analysis, and implementation of protocols for such...

Publications (2008)

Georgios Christou, Advisor Dr

Project: Using an Inference Mechanism to Implement Access Rules in a Relational

Relevant Publications • “A High Performance Hidden Markov Model Classifier for SAR Automatic Target Recognition,” (2007)

Chanin Nilubol, Advisor Dr, Russell M. Mersereau, Co-advisor Dr

Objective A position as a research engineer in the areas of applied industrial digital signal processing and communications.

Postdoctoral Employment (2007)

David R. Kohel, Advisor Dr, Hendrik W. Lenstra

Thesis: Endomorphism rings of elliptic curves over nite elds.

Resume (2007)

Advisor Dr, Naveen Ashish, Craig A. Knoblock, Craig A. Knoblock, Cyrus Shahabi, Sheila Tejada

es International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems #IJCIS# Special Issue, September 2000 #To appear, expanded journal version of paper #3# # 1 #2# Craig Knoblock, Steve Minton, Jose Luis...

Graphical Scanning of Diagrams - A Spatial Relations Analyzer (2007)

Vincent J. Bierman, Advisor Dr, J. Rekers

Contents 1 Introduction 3 2 Related Work 9 3 Detailed Design 13 3.1 Identifying Objects : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 13 3.2 Defining Relations : : : : : : : : : : : : : :...

Resume (2007)

Raghavan Anand, Advisor Dr, Kannan Ramch

OJECT EXPERIENCE ffl Using Continuous Error Detection for Joint Equalization and Coding for ISI Channels (11/97 -) Proposed a scheme that effectively reduces the complexity of DFE based Reduced State...

Cv (2007)

Tara M. Madhyastha, Advisor Dr, Daniel A. Reed

ent Postdoctoral Research Fellow Carnegie-Mellon University. I am examining new application and system-level interfaces for optimizing I/O intensive access patterns. I am also investigating the use...

Efficient Parallelization of an Unstructured Grid Code - An Object-Oriented Approach (2007)

Dinesh K. Kaushik, Advisor Dr, David E. Keyes

With teraflops-scale computational modeling expected to be routine by 2003-04, under the terms of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) of the US Department of Energy, there is a...

Cv (2007)

Advisor Dr, Naveen Ashish, Naveen Ashish, Craig A. Knoblock, Craig A. Knoblock, Cyrus Shahabi

onference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland (colocated with VLDB 1999) [2] Naveen Ashish, Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi Intelligent Caching for Information...

Short Title: Continuous Compilation Plezbert, M.Sc. 1996 (2007)

Prepared Dr, Michael P. Plezbert, Michael P. Plezbert, Advisor Dr, Ron K. Cytron, ...

CONTINUOUS COMPILATION FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND MOBILE COMPUTING by Michael P. Plezbert ADVISOR: Dr. Ron K. Cytron May, 1996 Saint Louis, Missouri Software developers typically must choose...

Cv (2007)

Doina Precup, Advisor Dr, Richard S. Sutton, Doina Precup Page

Actions". In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11 (Proceedings of NIPS'98), pp.1066-1072. MIT Press. Sutton, R. S., Precup, D., Singh, S. (1998). "Intra-Option Learning...

Resume (2007)

Amit Bagga, Advisor Dr, Alan W. Biermann

ersity of Pennsylvania's within document coreferencing system to handle coreferences across documents. I am currently developing and implementing algorithms for cross-document coreferencing. In...

Configuration design optimization method (2007)

Pierre M. Grignon, Advisor Dr, Georges M. Fadel

During the product design process, the optimization of the parameters (dimensions, shapes, materials) has been, until recently, the exclusive domain of the part design stage. This optimization is now...

Contents (2007)

Student Tuan, Huu Bui, Advisor Dr, Thomas P. Weldon

Abstract ……………………………………………………………………………… … i...

Postdoctoral Employment (2007)

David R. Kohel, Advisor Dr, Hendrik W. Lenstra

Thesis: Endomorphism rings of elliptic curves over nite elds.

DATA MANAGEMENT IN AN OBJECT-ORIENTED DISTRIBUTED AIRCRAFT CONCEPTUAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENT Approved by: (2007)

Zhijie Lu, Dr. Dimitri Mavris, Advisor Dr, Neil Weston, Schrage Dr, ...

Dare to dream. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I sincerely thank my advisor, Dr. Dimitri Mavris, for his tremendous guidance and support, for having me in the ASDL family, and most of all,...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (2007)

Advisor Dr, Linda Milor, Yalamanchili Dr, Adit D. Singh

I would like to thank my advisor, Prof. Abhijit Chatterjee, for accepting me in his research group and for his support and guidance during the course of my research. I could not have imagined a...

COMMUNICATIONS AND MILLIMETER-WAVE APPLICATIONS Approved by: (2007)

Gerald Reuben, Dejean Ii, M. Tentzeris, Advisor Dr, Waymond R. Scott, ...

This is always the hardest and most enjoyable part of writing. Hard because you want to ensure that you have fully and accurately expressed your gratitude to all the many people who have been there...

Thesis: Multi Contra Objectives to Enhance Associative Classifiers (2007)

Luiza Antonie, Advisors Dr, Osmar R Zaiane, Dr. Robert Holte, Advisor Dr, Osmar R Zaiane, ...

University of Alberta, Canada, based on merit, awarded to help with the cost of conference related travel expenses 2004 Professional Development Grant ($175 CAD), Graduate Student Association,...

1 (2007)

Jean Pierre Charalambos, Advisor Dr, Eduardo Romero, Co-advisor Dr, Michael Wimmer

Universidad Politécnica de CataluñaA quien se vea solo, para que se recoja, insista en lo que cree y aguarde la maravillosa ocasión de dar con quien lo complemente. 3 4Resumen Con objeto de...

J-3. “HVS-Aware Dynamic Backlight Scaling in TFT LCD’s”, (2006)

Advisor Dr, Massoud Pedram

Concentrated on low power embedded systems emphasis on LCD displays and WLAN

Thermal Imaging to Recover a Defect in Twoand Three-Dimensional Objects (2006)

Breeanne Baker, Advisor Dr, Kurt Bryan

This paper focuses on the inverse problem of identifying an internal void in a bounded two or three-dimensional region. Information, in the form of heat flux and temperature, is assumed to be...

Synchronization and Signal Enhancement in Nonlinear and Approved by: Stochastic Systems (2006)

R. Bennett, Dr. Kurt Wiesenfeld, Advisor Dr, Ron Fox, Uzer Dr, ...

I would like to dedicate this dissertation to my family and friends who stuck with me all these years and especially to my wife – without whom my life would be so much more lonely. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS...

EXPERIENCE (2006)

Meltem Demirkus, Advisor Dr, Anil K. Jain

To obtain a research position in the area of statistical pattern recognition and its applications in biometrics, computer vision and image processing.

ACCELERATION OF PROFILE-HMM SEARCH FOR PROTEIN SEQUENCES IN RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE by (2006)

Rahul Pratap Maddimsetty, Jeremy D. Buhler, Saint Louis Missouri, Rahul Pratap Maddimsetty, Advisor Dr, Jeremy D. Buhler

Profile Hidden Markov models are highly expressive representations of functional units, or motifs, conserved across protein sequences. Profile-HMM search is a powerful computational technique that is...

Model-driven Development and Analysis of High Assurance Systems (2006)

Sascha J. Konrad, Advisor Dr, Sascha J. Konrad, Sascha J. Konrad, Sascha J. Konrad

Capturing, refining, and analyzing requirements are some of the most challenging tasks in building a software system. How well these tasks are performed significantly impacts the quality of the...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (2006)

Dr. Magnus Egerstedt, Advisor Dr, Anthony Yezzi, Dr. Yorai Wardi, Advisor Dr, Spyros Reveliotis, ...

During those years, I have met many people who influenced me, both in a professional and a personal way, whom I would like to thank. First and foremost, I would like to thank my advisers, professors...

FORWARD-BACKWARD CORRELATION FOR TEMPLATE-BASED TRACKING (2006)

Advisor Dr, Stanley T. Birchfield

A significant limitation of traditional template-based trackers is their inability to han-dle out-of-plane rotation, which can cause total self-occlusion of the target. We present a simple extension...

Title: On Methodology and Analysis of Broadband Access Network Traffic (2006)

Amit K. Sinha, Kansas City Ks, Advisor Dr, Deep Medhi, Co-advisor Dr, Kenneth Mitchell

The analysis of slow-action online-game traffic on ADSL access service provided by France Telecom. Analysis of variation of

FIDGET DETECTION FOR AUDIO VIDEO MEETING ANALYSIS (2006)

Advisor Dr, Stanley T. Birchfield

This work presents the initial design and implementation of a meeting analysis system built using simple off-the-shelf microphones and webcameras. The main contribution is the development of a novel...

Dissertation Topic: “A Policy-Based Governance Architecture for Service Contracts and Organizations” (2006)

Yathiraj Bhat Udupi, Advisor Dr, Munindar P. Singh

To apply my engineering and analytical skills in a challenging research oriented environment in a full-time/post-doc position. Areas of Interest

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (2006)

Dugald Ralph Hutchings, Dr. John Stasko, Advisor Dr, Blair Macintyre, Abowd Dr, ...

I thank my family for all of their support and guidance over the years. I am especially indebted to my wife Heather Hutchings, to whom I now owe about 7,000 hours of vari-ous household chores, a...

EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS Approved by: (2006)

Jun Xiao, Dr. John Stasko, Advisor Dr, Lewis Johnson, Catrambone Dr, ...

Thanks, first and foremost, to a wonderfully supportive and helpful committee. I would like to thank my advisor, John Stasko. I am so grateful that John decided to take the advisor role for me back...

Optimal Pricing for a Service Facility with Congestion Penalties Approved by: (2006)

Dr. Hayriye Ayhan, Advisor Dr, Yang Wang, D. Foley, Advisor Dr, ...

I would like to thank all of my committee members. Thank you to Drs. Amy Ward, Richard Serfozo and Yang Wang for their teachings and their letters of recommendation as well as their comments and...

Thesis advisor Author (2006)

Eva Rodríguez Luna, Advisor Dr, Jaime Delgado Mercé

Standardisation of the protection and governance of multimedia content by

LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH CENTERS (2006)

Advisor Dr, Helen R. Tibbo, Laurence Gavin, Helen R. Tibbo

This study details a web based survey of special collections research centers within academic research libraries. The survey was conducted to determine whether or not copyright law has had an impact...

Special thanks: (2005)

Msc Thesis, Mian Qin, Advisor Dr, Rene Leuken, Prof Dr, Patrick Dewilde

i As fingerprint verification system (FVS) grows more and more mature, it becomes the most popular and reliable biometric identification technique. Fingerprint image enhancement is a quite important...

Acknowledgments (2005)

Roberto García González, Advisor Dr, Jaime Delgado Mercé, A Rosa

Gracias Rosa, sin ti esta tesis no hubiese visto la luz. Gracias a mis padres, hermana, abuelos, tíos... siempre me habéis motivado a seguir. Recién acabada la presentación del proyecto final de...

Hardware/Software Codesign of MP3 Decoder with 36/32-point (I)DCT Accelerators (2005)

Msc Thesis, Jianwei Wang, Advisor Dr, Rene Leuken, Jianwei Wang

An MP3 audio decoder is designed as System-on-a-Chip using hardware/software codesign techniques. The hardware architecture is built on the LEON SoC platform, which contained an open source SPARC-V8...

SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR SEPARATING DISTRIBUTION CONCERNS Approved by: (2005)

Dr. Yannis Smaragdakis, Advisor Dr, Mary Jean Harrold, Lea Dr, Santosh Pande

To my family, for their love and support. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (2005)

Dr. A. Bruno Frazier, Advisor Dr, Kathrin L. Engisch, Brand Dr, William D. Hunt

First and foremost, I need to thank my parents and my sister for always encouraging me throughout my long study. I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. Bruno Frazier, for providing me the opportunity...

Approved by: Signal Detection Strategies and Algorithms (2005)

W. Waters, R. Barry, Advisor Dr, Doug B. Williams, ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my advisor John Barry. His feedback has always been excellent, and my work was best when trying to answer his questions and correct the flaws he pointed out. I...

Minimizing Multi-zone Orders in the Correlated Storage Approved by: Assignment Problem (2005)

P. Sharp, Advisor Dr, Earl R. Barnes, B. Navathe

To my parents for all their support iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I would like to thank my parents for all their support during my time in graduate school. Without everything they have...

by (2005)

Trupti Devdas Nayak, Advisor Dr, Stuart C. Shapiro

This paper discusses the design issues and implementation details for building an interactive, intelligent agent using the GLAIR architecture. The agent (also known as actor-agent) is designed for an...

Towards Efficient Delivery of Dynamic Web Content Approved by: (2005)

Dr. Ling Liu, Advisor Dr, Mustaque Ahamad, Pu Dr, H. Venkateswaran

Dedicated to my parents, my wife and my sister for their constant love and support iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is a matter of great joy, besides being my duty, to thank various people without whose help...

DEDICATION (2005)

Wanxia Xie, B. Navathe, Advisor Dr, Leo Mark, ...

To my father, Xiao-Zhang Xie, for his guidance, support and sacrifice. To my mother, brother and sisters, for their support, patience, and encouragement. To my wife, Wenzhuo Guo, for her love,...

Contents (2004)

Natalya Yarlikina, Holly Walrath, Advisor Dr, Kurt Bryan

In this paper we examine the inverse problem of determining the length of a one-dimensional bar from thermal measurements (temperature and heat flux) at one end of the bar (the “accessible ”...

Land Surface Modeling with Enhanced Considerations of Soil Hydraulic Properties and Terrestrial Ecosystems Approved by: (2004)

Qing Liu, E. Dickinson, Advisor Dr, Robert B. Jackson, ...

It is very difficult to say enough to express how thankful I am to Dr. Robert Dickinson, my thesis advisor, who has supervised me since January, 2000. He inspired and influenced me in many ways. His...

CONTENTS (2004)

Ethan Tira-thompson, Advisor Dr, David S. Touretzky

Robotics software encompasses several difficult realms of computer science, requiring vision, manipulation, and intelligent planning, all in real time. Unfortunately, all must be in place for any...

ABSTRACT MODELS, ALGORITHMS, AND ARCHITECTURES FOR SCALABLE PACKET CLASSIFICATION (2004)

David Edward Taylor, Jonathan S. Turner, Saint Louis Missouri, David Edward Taylor, ...

The growth and diversification of the Internet imposes increasing demands on the perfor-mance and functionality of network infrastructure. Routers, the devices responsible for the switch-ing and...

Education (2004)

Arijit Ganguly, Advisor Dr, Renato J. Figueiredo

Looking for a full-time position offering an opportunity to work on and develop technologies that impact people and business, a competitive work environment, an active role in decision-making as well...

DESIGN OF HIGH-SPEED CMOS LASER DRIVER USING A STANDARD CMOS TECHNOLOGY FOR OPTICAL DATA TRANSMISSION Approved by: (2004)

Seok Hun Hyun, Dr. Martin Brooke, Advisor Dr

To my parents who are always believing in me. To my lovely wife, Soojung, who kept encouraging me and my precious Youjin. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like to thank my thesis advisor, Dr....

Topic: A Tool for Calculating the Result of Quantum Circuits (2004)

Advisor Dr, Tim Finin, Advisor Dr, Samuel Lomonaco

Technology. My primary research focus is in behavior and knowledge management through policy application in open distributed environments such as those enabled by semantic web and pervasive computing...

FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS By (2003)

Sascha J. Konrad, Advisor Dr, Sascha J. Konrad, Sascha J. Konrad, Sascha J. Konrad

It is well-known that requirements modeling and analysis is one of the most dif-ficult tasks in the software development process, but this problem is greatly exac-erbated for embedded systems given...

Approved by: (2003)

Daniel R. Sommers, D. Hunt, Advisor Dr, Allen M. Orville, ...

DESIGN AND VERIFICATION OF A SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE

Integrated Micromechanical-Structural Framework for the Nonlinear Viscoelastic Behavior of Laminated and Pultruded Composite Materials and Structures Approved by: (2003)

Hanifah Muliana, Advisor Dr, Donald White

I wish to gratefully acknowledge Dr. Rami Haj-Ali who first introduced me to the micro-mechanics of composite materials. Furthermore, I want to thank Dr. Haj-Ali for his academ-ic guidance, fruitful...

Contents (2003)

Jeremy T. Bradley, Advisor Dr, Roger T. Alex

1 Introduction.................................................................................................................3

THE EMERGENCE OF HIERARCHY IN TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS (2003)

Bhanu Murali, Krishna Yerra, Advisor Dr, David Levinson

I would like to sincerely thank my adviser Dr. David Levinson for his excellent guidance and support though out my graduate study. I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to my parents for their...

Designing an XML Database Engine: API and Performance (2002)

Sudhanshu Sipani, Kunal Verma, Xiao-qing Zeng, Dongsheng Che, Kai Wong, Advisor Dr, ...

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is fast becoming the common electronic data interchange language between applications. In this paper we describe a query processing engine called ‘Db4XML’....

ABSTRACT BUILDING CUSTOMIZABLE MIDDLEWARE USING ASPECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING (2002)

Frank Hunleth, Prepared Dr, Ron K. Cytron, Saint Louis Missouri, Frank Hunleth, Advisor Dr, ...

In order to support a wide range of applications, Distributed Object Comput-ing (DOC) middleware frameworks such as ACE and TAO have grown to include a vast number of features. For any one...

Year: 2002 (2002)

Jeffrey A. Young, A. Young, Advisor Dr, Marcia L. Zeng

OCLC’s WorldCat database contains 849 million holdings listings for the purpose of associating WorldCat’s 48 million bibliographic records with the 41,000 participating libraries in 82 countries...

ABSTRACT FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING IN MIDDLEWARE FOR DISTRIBUTED RATE-BASED REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS (2002)

Christopher D. Gill, Prepared Dr, Ron K. Cytron, C. Schmidt, Saint Louis Missouri, ...

Distributed rate-based real-time systems, such as process control and avionics mission computing systems, have traditionally been scheduled statically. Static schedul-ing provides assurance of...

ABSTRACT FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING IN MIDDLEWARE FOR DISTRIBUTED RATE-BASED REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS (2002)

Christopher D. Gill, Prepared Dr, Ron K. Cytron, C. Schmidt, Saint Louis Missouri, ...

Distributed rate-based real-time systems, such as process control and avionics mission computing systems, have traditionally been scheduled statically. Static schedul-ing provides assurance of...

This dissertation entitled “New Object-Oriented and PC-Based Approaches to (2001)

Robot Control Software, Y. S. Luh, Advisor Dr, Darren M. Dawson

This doctoral dissertation presents three different robot control platforms: The QRobot system, the QMotor Robotic Toolkit, and the Robotic Platform. All three platforms introduce novel software...

Research Interests Education (2001)

Rogerio Schmidt Feris, Advisor Dr. Matthew Turk, Advisor Dr, Roberto Marcondes

Thesis title: Detection and analysis of depth discontinuities with lighting and viewpoint variation

Current Position Education (2001)

Rogerio Schmidt Feris, Advisor Dr. Matthew Turk, Yuan-fang Wang, Matthew Turk, Advisor Dr, Roberto Marcondes

Thesis title: Detection and analysis of depth discontinuities with lighting and viewpoint variation

Measurement of the Electroweak Correction to A? (2000)

Patrick D. Ryan, Advisor Dr, Keith Gri, Dr. Morton Eckhause, Dr. George Rublein

Experiment E155x at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center measured deep inelastic scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons from transversely polarized proton and deuteron targets to...

Research on motion perception and prediction. (2000)

W. Brauer, Advisor Dr, Kerstin Schill, Prof W. Brauer, Supervisor Dr, ...

Affiliated to the Spatial Cognition priority program, supported by the

● Resource Management and Task/Job Scheduling PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (1999)

Jiahua He, Advisor Dr, Yongchang Ji, Prof Guoliang Chen, Advisor Prof, Allan Snavely, ...

● Performance modeling and prediction (especially for parallel and distributed applications) ● Performance measurement and benchmarks (especially for Grid platforms)

Multi-Bit Error Vulnerabilities in the Controller Area Network Protocol (1999)

Eushiuan Tran, Advisor Dr

Embedded networks will increasingly be used in safety-critical applications such as drive-by-wire automobiles. Because of potentially high network noise in such systems, reliably detecting bit errors...

Phonological Concepts of the Syllable (1999)

Pieter W. Nel, Advisor Dr

Contents 1 Introduction, Motivation and Context 4 1.1 Phonological concepts related to the syllable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.1.1 What is a syllable? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Utilizing HTML structure and linked pages to improve learning for text categorization (1999)

Michael Cline, Advisor Dr, Raymond Mooney, Ph. D

Since the Birth of the World Wide Web, the amount of information available on the Web has been increasing at an exponential rate. This growth has created the need for indexes which separate documents...

Utilizing HTML structure and linked pages to improve learning for text categorization (1999)

Michael Cline, Advisor Dr, Raymond Mooney, Ph. D

Since the Birth of the World Wide Web, the amount of information available on the Web has been increasing at an exponential rate. This growth has created the need for indexes which separate documents...

Thesis title: Offline and Online Variants of the Traveling Salesman Problem (1998)

John Augustine, Advisors Drs, Jaganathan Ramanujam, Steven Seiden, Advisor Dr, Aiichiro Nakano, ...

Research: Designed algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems. The primary source of problems have been from the domain of systems design, specifically motivated by recent trends in designing...

Protocols, Clustering Algorithms, QoS support (1998)

Advisor Dr

To apply for the post-doctoral fellowship at the National University of Singapore in the fields of sensor and ad hoc networks

Topic: Towards Automatic and Adaptvie Optimizations of MPI Collective Operations (1997)

Advisor Dr, Jack J. Dongarra, Committee Dr, George Bosilca, Dr. Itamar Elhanany, Dr. James Plank

– Developed Optimized Collective Communication library- Framework for functional and performance testing of MPI collective communication. More information available at

Active Surfaces for Brain Cortex Reconstruction from MR Images (1997)

Chenyang Xu, Advisor Dr, Jerry L. Prince

Introduction During the last decade, there has been an increasing effort in the medical image analysis community on the subject of reconstructing the human brain cortex from Magnetic Resonance (MR)...

Optical Flow Estimation From Tagged Cardiac MR Images (1996)

Sandeep N. Gupta, N. Gupta, Advisor Dr, Jerry L. Prince

INTRODUCTION Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the United States. Analysis of cardiac motion is an important area of research since it aids in screening and monitoring damage...

Design and Implementation of a New Connection Admission Control Algorithm Using a Multistate Traffic Source Model (1996)

Robert Engel, Robert Engel, Advisor Dr, Jonathan S. Turner

This report develops a practical method for connection admission control in ATM networks. The method is based on a virtual cell loss probability criterion, is designed to handle heterogeneous traffic...

Continuous Compilation For Software Development And Mobile Computing (1996)

Prepared Dr, Michael P. Plezbert, Michael P. Plezbert, Advisor Dr, Ron K. Cytron, ...

CONTINUOUS COMPILATION FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND MOBILE COMPUTING by Michael P. Plezbert ADVISOR: Dr. Ron K. Cytron May, 1996 Saint Louis, Missouri Software developers typically must choose...

HONORS (1996)

Himanshu Raj, Advisor Prof, Karsten Schwan, Advisor Dr, Eric N. Hanson

2000 Ranked 2 nd in the class of 2000, Indian Institute of Guwahati, among 75 students

Distributed Constraint Model for (1996)

B. S. Biotechnology, Advisor Dr, Stephen F. Smith

“Multi-agent learning of Nash equilibria in large repeated games” Developed polynomial-time non-stationary multi-agent learning algorithm that learns approximate Nash equilibria of repeated game...

Deformable Shape Models For Anatomy (1994)

Prepared Dr, Saint Louis Missouri, Gary Edward Christensen, Gary Edward Christensen, Advisor Dr, Michael I. Miller, ...

DEFORMABLE SHAPE MODELS FOR ANATOMY by Gary Edward Christensen ADVISOR : Dr. Michael I. Miller August, 1994 Saint Louis, Missouri Medical imaging modalities, such as magnetic resonance (MR),...

EDUCATION (1994)

Mikhail Mikhailov, Advisor Dr, Craig E. Wills

Seeking a position in research or advanced development in distributed systems, networking, protocols, Web technologies, large-scale Internet services, and performance evaluation.

Texas A&M University Dissertation: Multi-model Adaptive Spatial Hypertext (1992)

Advisor Dr, Frank M. Shipman, Advisor Dr, Frank M. Shipman

My interests focus on human-centered computing. They include, but are not limited to, the areas of digital libraries, information systems, hypermedia, intelligent user interfaces, CSCW, and software...

A DEMOGPXAPHIC SURVEY AND COFIPARISON OF PERSONS SEEKING (1983)

Dennis Richard Dixon, Dr. R. Dean Wright, Dennis Richard Dixon, Advisor Dr, Donald V. Adams

The problem. The purpose of this study was to examine any changes in the characteristics of persons seeking new employment opportunities in the state of Iowa. The study included all persons who...

Planning of experiments (1958)

Aniruddha Suresh Gokhale, Advisor Dr, Douglas C. Schmidt

Research Interests URL:www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~gokhale I am interested in the model-driven engineering (MDE) of quality of service (QoS) enablers e.g., real-time, fault tolerance and security, in...