Instructor: Office: Hours: (2009)
Bob Weems, Associate Professor
Outcomes: Deeper study of algorithms, data structures, and complexity classes. 1. Exposure to more sophisticated analysis techniques, e.g. amortized complexity. 2. Exposure to specialized data...
settings. MODELS OF TRANSPORTATION AND LAND USE CHANGE: A GUIDE (2009)
Michael Iacono, David Levinson, Associate Professor, Ahmed El-geneidy
Modern urban regions are highly complex entities. Despite the difficulty of modeling every relevant aspect of an urban region, researchers have produced a rich variety models dealing with...
and the Gridbus Project Annual Report- 2007 By (2009)
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya, Associate Professor
I am pleased to report on the key activities and outcomes of Grid Computing and
Sampling Errors Critical Shaped out of band (2009)
Hassan Aboushady, Associate Professor, Lc B, Power Consumption
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Yanming Feng, Associate Professor
He is leading a research group for wireless communication and navigation (WiCAN), responsible for major funded research including regional precise GNSS positioning and wireless communication standard...
Smallholder Farming in Less-Favored Areas: Options for Pro-Poor and (2009)
Sustainable Livelihoods, Ruerd Ruben, Associate Professor, Development Economics Group, Wageningen Agricultural
program on development strategies for less-favored areas
Associate Professor, Rune Wigblad, Dr Denise, R. Mccluskey
Contacts with companies that had relocated service activities from the Stockholm city area to rural areas during the seventies, eighteens and the nineties, pointed to a phenomenon of increased...
Patrick Beeson, Peter Stone, Associate Professor, Benjamin Kuipers Professor, Gregory Dudek Professor, Paul Newman, ...
Syllabus for EGGN 482 (“Microcomputer Architecture and Interfacing”) Instructor: (2009)
Associate Professor, William A. Hoff
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Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan, Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan, Marianne Bertrand, Associate Professor, ...
The results in this paper were previously circulated as part of a larger working paper entitled “Do CEOs Set Their Own Pay? The Ones without Principals Do.” For their very helpful comments, we...
Associate Professor, W. D. Joyner, Ernest Hemingway
“By and large it is uniformly true that in mathematics that there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment it becomes useful; and that this lapse can be anything from 30 to...
Carsten Griwodz, Steffen Fiksdal, Carsten Griwodz, Associate Professor, Steffen Fiksdal Is
Translating scalable video streams from wide-area to access networks
Editorial Board, Deborah D. Blecic, Associate Professor, Health Sciences, Thomas William Conkling, ...
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Trends in LIS Education in Singapore (2009)
Christopher Khoo, Soo Guan, Associate Professor
The history of library and information science (LIS) professional education in Singapore is a relatively recent one. The only LIS professional education program in Singapore is the MSc in Information...
Robert J. Ribando, ASME Member Associate Professor (2009)
Larry G. Richards, Associate Professor, Gerald W. O’leary
In the last quarter century or so, modeling, simulation and visualization have evolved from a curiosity practiced mostly by Ph.D.s in certain “high-tech ” pockets of research and industry to a...
Kazunori Miyata, Associate Professor
and 1997. His research mainly focuses on fractals, rendering & modeling natural objects, texture generation, and multimedia applications. He is a member of ACM and IPSJ (Information Processing...
Indigenous Innovators: The Role of Web Marketing for Cultural Micro-enterprises. (2009)
Megan Cardamone, Associate Professor, Ruth Rentschler
The Indigenous cultural sector is dynamic and highly valuable to the Australian economy, returning an estimated $100 million dollars annually. The majority of Indigenous cultural producers are...
Concurrent Education for Manufacturing Engineering (2009)
Joel W. Troxler, Associate Professor, Joseph Stanislao, Adjunct Professor
Abstract- Concurrent engineering is the blending of different separation has resulted in students who are well schooled in the disciplines via design/build teams in order to design a product basics...
Critical Care Medicine Post Doctorate Scholar (2009)
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology Director, Jacqueline Gaines Administrator, Peter M. Winter, Thomas Dongilli, ...
MONUMENT PRESENTATION USING DIGITAL ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY (2009)
Klaus Hanke, Associate Professor
Digital photogrammetric methods have made their way also into architectural applications which is traditionally a rather conservative branch. Beside the programs and techniques that have been adopted...
Hansel Burley, Associate Professor, Educational Psychology, Kathleen Harris, Air Burley
According to NCES (1996), remediation is offered in all community colleges and in 81 % of 4-year postsecondary institutions. Nationally, 41 % of students in community colleges take at least one...
Professor Richard, F. Riesenfeld, Professor Elaine Cohen, Associate Professor, Peter Shirley, Assistant Professor, ...
Helicopter Gearboxes, Vinay B. Jammu, Kourosh Danai, David G. Lewicki, U. S. Ar_iy, Vinay B. Jammu, ...
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FRAMEWORK FOR LIFECYCLE STATUS TRACKING AND VISUALIZATION OF CONSTRUCTED FACILITY COMPONENTS (2008)
Amin Hammad, Associate Professor, Ali Motamedi
ABSTRACT: Four-dimensional (4D) models link 3D construction models with schedule data. The visual representation of the schedule is capable of facilitating decision making during the planning and...
K. J. Stalder, Assistant Professor, T. J. Baas, Associate Professor, R. N. Goodwin, ...
used to compare the sow longevity of six different genetic lines, and to estimate the associations of gilt backfat thickness, age at first farrowing, litter size at first farrowing, litter weight at...
John M. Dillingham, Associate Professor
Nontraditional vocational and applied technology programs in Texas are defmed as programs dominated by over 75 percent enrollment of either sex (Bazen, 1988). Based on 1990-1991 enrollment data, all...
Associate Professor, Peter Shirley, Professor Elaine Cohen, Professor Charles Hansen, Bruce Gooch, ...
High-level VLSI Digital Systems Design and Analysis: Methods, Notation, Architecture (2008)
2. Architecture of Digital Systems
Windows Vista, Macintosh Os X, Associate Professor, Fred Cubillos, ...
• Proficiency with autoclaving, electrophoresis, heat shock, and other laboratory techniques
(2002-2005) for the Virtual Exhibits – Theory, Methods and Tools for Development of Virtual (2008)
Joan C. Nordbotten, Associate Professor
The following reports on the activities and results achieved during the NFR support period
This report was made possible by the generous support of The Creswick Foundation (2008)
Associate Professor, Laurie Makin, Dr Tony Bertram, Thomas Centre, Cynthia Knight, ...
I thank the following people for contributing to a professionally enriching and stimulating study tour: ��The Alice Creswick Foundation under the chairmanship of James Kimpton AO, for generously...
Arne Rettedal, Associate Professor
in 1975. The thesis was in the field of biotelemetry, and while
Collaborative Learning Using Technology: Issues and Approaches. (2008)
Thomas Fowler, Assistant Professor, Dr. Jean Gasen, Associate Professor, Dr. Lowell Roberts, Interim Director, ...
This paper will discusses four approaches/models for using technology to support collaborative learning. The first section discusses group dynamics, pedagogic issues and administrative issues with...
Carl Salvaggio, Associate Professor
Tie points are pixels that describe the geographic position of the same information in two or more images. They are used in a variety of applications such as geometric image transformations, image...
Extension, Education and Communication Service (2008)
William M. Rivera, Associate Professor
The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of...
Associate Professor, David Carr, First Lady, Laura Bush, Katie Vick, Barbara Wildemuth, ...
and addressed an audience of library and museum professionals at a recent White House awards ceremony
A Multispecialty Evaluation (2008)
A Multispecialty Evaluation, His Colleague, George T. Blike, Associate Professor, George T. Blike, Joseph P. Cravero
from the Dartmouth Summit on Pediatric Sedation held at the
Krste Asanović, Associate Professor
The Assam Test Chip 1 (ATC1) was fabricated using TSMC 180 nm process through a generous support from MOSIS Educational Program (MEP). This paper reports the measurement methodology used for testing...
Informatics and Biology: What Do They Have in Common (2008)
Viera K. Proulx, Associate Professor
By comparing informatics with biology we make an argument for including the study of informatics in a standard secondary school curriculum. Both sciences examine the world we live in, from the...
Bob Martens, Associate Professor, Wassim Jabi, Associate Professor
Information technology is rapidly evolving unmistakable characteristics. It is becoming more advanced, more popular, more standardized, simpler to develop and to deploy, and more empowering. The...
DEVELOPMENT OF THE RAPID FLIGHT TEST PROTOTYPING SYSTEM FOR UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES (2008)
Associate Professor, Isaac I. Kaminer
The past two decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the utilization of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) by the armed forces, both in the U.S. and abroad. More recently, many researchers in the...
Journal, and Organization Science. (2008)
John Hulland, Michael R. Wade, D. Antia, Michael R. Wade, Associate Professor, ...
the relationship between marketing resources and firm performance, (2) improving the effectiveness of marketing and sales group interactions within firms, and (3) applying causal modeling techniques...
N. Mahmoudian*, Ph.D. Student, (2008)
G. Nakhaie Jazar, Assistant Professor, M. Rastgaar Aagaah, Ph. D. Student, M. Mahinfalah, Associate Professor
Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) are microscopic mechanical systems coupled with electric or electronic circuits. MEMS have been extensively used as micro-scale high-quality oscillators,...
Robert B. Reese, Mitchell A. Thornton, Cherrice Traver, Robert B. Reese, Associate Professor
Phased Logic (PL) is a self-timed design methodology that provides an automated translation of a clocked system in the form of D-flip-flops and combinational gates to a self-timed netlist of PL...
Dennis L. Clason, Associate Professor, Thomas J. Dormody, Assistant Professor
articles in Volumes 27 through 32. Responses to individual Likert-type items on measurement instruments were analyzed in 95, or more than half, of these articles. After reviewing the articles...
Jeff Caird, Associate Professor, Matthew Rizzo Professor
This panel focuses on key issues that confront investigators who use driving simulators and must (a) design experiments, (b) interpret data and (c) write reports in human factors and medical...
Advances in Pedagogy: Finding the Instructor in Post-Secondary Online Learning (2008)
Curtis J. Bonk, Jamie Kirkley, Noriko Hara, Vanessa Dennen, Curtis J. Bonk, Associate Professor, ...
We would like to thank the people who helped in the development of the various courses
Advancing Technology New interface approaches for telemedicine (2008)
Associate Professor, Mark Billinghurst Phd, Holger Regenbrecht, Michael Haller Phd, Joerg Hauber Msc, ...
over 100 academic papers and journal articles on a variety of research topics in human computer interaction. His current research is focused on Augmented Reality, mobile phones, interactuve...
Automated Reverse Engineering Tool (2008)
Ramakrishnan Ravindran, Richard R. Brooks, Associate Professor
Abstract –: Network security plays an increasingly important role in technology. As the world gets more and more interconnected, the need for security increases. While there are several tools that...
List of Supported Students and Staff (optional) (2008)
Principal Investigator, Eric N. Hanson, Eric N. Hanson, Eric N. Hanson, Associate Professor, Himanshu Raj, ...
triggers rules events active database selective dissemination of information SDI
Towards Commanding Unmanned Ground Vehicle Movement In Unlearned Environments (2008)
Frederick I. Moxley, Maj Benjamin Ring, Andrew Haas, Associate Professor
Sensemaking in the 21 st century C2 environment will be critical not only for soldiers but also for autonomous equipment. Sensemaking by humans entails understanding the meaning and import of...
Associate Professor, Krishnan V. Pagalthivarthi
Effective teaching goes beyond such ubiquitously emphasised attributes as mastery of subject, enthusiasm in preparing and presenting the material, effective voice control, friendly mannerisms,...
EMERGING TECHOLOGIES IN A TELE-COLLABORATIVE DESIGN (2008)
Michael Jemtrud, Associate Professor, Sonali Kumar, Bimal Balakrishnan, Danielle Wiley
ABSTRACT: The research project investigates the use of a network-enabled platform (NEP) involving a combination of technologies that include: high bandwidth network infrastructure; high-performance...
Thomas A. Horan, Ph. D, Associate Professor
Researchers have cogently presented the technical case for converged telecommunications systems. However, it is not clear how market-based telecommunications providers are embracing this technical...
Voxel-based Representation, Display and Thickness Analysis of Intricate Shapes Abstract (2008)
Eep Patil, M. Tech Student, B. Ravi, Associate Professor
This paper presents a novel voxel-based representation scheme coupled with voxelisation, display and geometric algorithms for the purpose of thickness analysis of very complex free form shapes. The...
Abstract 3G Multimedia Content Production as Social Communication (2008)
Christine Satchell, Associate Professor, John Zic
Young people are taking advantage of the ever-increasing accessibility and technical capabilities of 3G phones and the Internet to represent their experiences through multimedia content. However,...
Empowered Learning: Fostering Thinking Across the Curriculum (2008)
Violet H. Harada, Associate Professor
Most people will finish their formal education between the ages of 18 and 22. Today’s young adults are expected to have the longest average life span in the history of the world, with most living...
Today’s landscape From Instruction to Construction: Learning in the Information Age (2008)
Violet H. Harada, Associate Professor
Technology permeates all aspects of our lives and evolves at a pace that is at once terrifying and exciting. Internet attracts one million new net users a month. The number of components on a silicon...
Machine Readable Data Center (2008)
From Milo Schield, Ph. D, Associate Professor, Glenn King
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Associate Professor, Peng Ning
In dynamic network environments, users may come from different domains, and the number of users and the network topology may change unpredictably over time. How to protect the users ’ communication...
Illumina Goldengate Platform, Contributed Dr, Peter W. Laird, Associate Professor
Interest in epigenetic analysis has grown dramatically in recent years. As a consequence, a large number of DNA methylation and chromatin analysis technologies have been developed to address the...
Benoit A. Aubert, Michel Patry, Suzanne Rivard, Benoit A. Aubert, Associate Professor
Information Technology (IT) outsourcing is a controversial topic. Some people see it as a way for firms to lower their costs, benefit from their supplier’s economies of
LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION STUDENTS Carol Filcher, Graduate Assistant (2008)
Greg Miller, Associate Professor
The purpose of this article was to identify a potentially useful theoretical framework to classify learning strategies and to determine specific learning tactics that may be useful in a distance...
3.1.1 Speech Acts................................... 8 (2008)
Olivia Catherine March, Associate Professor, Steven Bird, Dr. Adrian Pearce
Intelligent agents should be able to communicate with each other using an extensible, expressive language. Agents should have the ability work together in a heterogeneous environment to solve complex...
Abstract SOLVING COMPLEX SYSTEMS USING SPREADSHEETS: A MATRIX DECOMPOSITION APPROACH (2008)
Kenneth E. Dudeck, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Many problems in engineering design and analysis, such as sinusoidal driven electrical circuits, produce a set of complex linear simultaneous equations. This set of equations form a complex system....
Iris D. Tommelein, Associate Professor
www.ce.berkeley.edu/~tommelein INTRODUCTION 1 Today’s construction industry is facing tremendous challenges. Up until 50 or so years ago typical projects were relatively simple; most of today’s...
The Role of Mutation and Recombination in Evolutionary Algorithms (2008)
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Alexander Fairfax Marks, Kara M. Kockelman, Associate Professor
This paper investigates a solution to an existing federal policy which prohibits the District of Columbia (DC) from imposing commuter taxes on non-residents, a tool which other cities in the US use...
Performance of Parallel Conjugate Gradient Solvers in Meshfree Analysis (2008)
Youngjoon Kim, Colby C. Swan, Associate Professor
ABSTRACT: Meshfree analysis methods, on a per degree of freedom basis, are typically more computationally expensive and yet more accurate than finite element methods. For very large models, whether...
-- Leonard Shustek, Analysis and Performance of Computer Instruction Sets (1978) (2008)
Professor Edward, S. Davidson, Co-chairmanpradip Bose, Co-chairman Professor, Trevor N. Mudgeprofessor, Yale N. Patt, ...
The challenge is to design computers that make the best use of available technology; in doing so we may be assured that every increase in processing speed can be used to advantage in current problems...
Kara M. Kockelman, Associate Professor, William J. Murray, Civil Engineering
Numerous efforts have been devoted to investigating crash occurrence as related to roadway design features, environmental and traffic conditions. However, most of the research has relied on...
Emw/mö/fx/hx M. Gustavsson, Mikael Gustavsson, Kenneth Nygren, Ledare Morgan Andersson, Senior Specialist, ...
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Mitchell A. Thornton, Associate Professor
ABSTRACT: Formal methods for the verification of Integrated Circuits (ICs) are a collection of techniques used to ensure the correctness of a design before fabrication. Formal methods have been...
Xiaokun Wang, Kara M. Kockelman, Associate Professor
In transportation studies, variables of interest are often influenced by similar factors and have correlated latent terms (errors). In such cases, a seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) model is...
CREDIT-BASED CONGESTION PRICING: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR REDUCTIONS IN GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS? (2008)
M. Kockelman, Associate Professor
U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions rose 16 percent between 1990 and 2004, while those from light-duty vehicles rose 23%. (EPA 2006) During the same period, GDP increased 51 % (BEA 2005) and VMT rose...
Studying Teamwork in Global IT Support (2008)
Elizabeth J. Davidson, Associate Professor, Ph. D. C
As modern organizations increasingly operate in a global economy, they need IT support around the globe; favorable economic conditions also encourage the use of offshore IT teams. However, when IT...
Mitchell A. Potter, Associate Professor, To Amy
iii iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Throughout my doctoral studies at George Mason University, I have interacted with many excellent faculty, staff, and students. I especially wish to acknowledge the support of...
An Analysis of Decentralized and Spatially Distributed Genetic Algorithms (2008)
iii DEDICATION To my parents- Seetha and Ramaswamy To my children- Ganesh and Ranjani
Libratory Law: The (Un)Making of Knowledge, 1976-2006 (2008)
Associate Professor, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life
would go on to become the seminal book on the making of science. Of course, the Laboratory had long before that symbolized the ultimate creative milieu—even when it in effect meant the decidedly...
Niels Nørgaard Nielsen, Stud Ph. D, Jens Dalsgaard Nielsen, Associate Professor
with predictable behaviour has been designed. The selected solution is a network based on redundant ARCnet segments extended with an EN50170 compliant fieldbus based layer on top of an ARCnet SAP...
Denis Gray Denis, Denis Gray, Associate Professor
The new generation of "partnershipbased " technology initiatives, including the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, invariably involve a variety of stakeholder groups, including:...
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Adaptive Voice/data Networks (2007)
Joseph Evans, Associate Professor, Sona Kapadia
This research project involved exploiting the capabilities of the Sinusoidal Transform Coder (STC), a low bit rate digital speech coder, to address congestion control and bandwidth management in...
A Method for Bounding Transmissions Errors For the Stewart Platform based Manipulator (2007)
Hooman Tajbakhsh, Placid M. Ferreira, Associate Professor
Parallel link mechanisms are increasingly being studied for possible use in multi-axis machine tools. An important consideration in the design of such mechanisms is their accuracy. In this paper, a...
Characterization and Estimation of Quasistatic Errors For Stewart Platform Manipulator (2007)
Hooman Tajbakhsh, Placid M. Ferreira, Associate Professor
Parallel link mechanisms are increasingly being studied for possible use in multi-axis machine tools. An important consideration in the design of such mechanisms is their accuracy. This paper will...
How Flawless Software Never Got Implemented (2007)
Associate Professor, Hec Montréal, Hec Montréal, Vital Roy, Benoit A. Aubert, ...
Copyright © 2002. HEC Montréal. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays. Toute traduction et toute reproduction sous quelque forme que ce soit est interdite. HEC Montréal, 3000, chemin de la...
Qos-enabled Middleware, Douglas C. Schmidt, Associate Professor, Computer Science
Our proposed effort is aimed at the design, prototype implementation, and demonstration of an integrated high-speed networking and middleware infrastructure. This infrastructure will provide QoS...
EDITOR: Bo-Christer Björk (2007)
Lim Yoke Mui, Abdul Rashid, Abdul Aziz, Associate Professor, Ang Cheng Ni, Wong Chee Yee, ...
SUMMARY: In recent years, the construction industry in Malaysia seems to be using the Internet as much as other industries. However, what is the actual level of Internet usage in the construction...
Investigator US Army Corps of Engineers Construction (2007)
A Trial Implementation, Thomas Froese, Associate Professor, Francois Grobler, John Ritzenthaler, Kevin Yu, ...
effort is underway to develop Industry Foundation Classes--industry-standard data structures for exchanging information about construction projects. In addition to physical information about...
Intervention Programs for a Freshman Integrated Curriculum (2007)
Cesar O. Malave, Associate Professor, Pk Imbrie, Karan L. Watson, Associate Dean
learning environments and curriculum models based on four primary thrusts: integration of subject matter, teaming and collaborative learning, technology-enabled education, and continuous assessment...
Welfare Policy and Endogenous Selective Norms (2007)
W. Allen, Edward J. Bird, Edward J. Bird, Associate Professor
Universal norms, such as the requirement to work for self-support, are applied equally to rich and poor. Selective norms, such as the stigma attached to lone parenthood, seem to be imposed more...
Penalty Factors K Loss Function Coefficient (2007)
Wei Chen, Assistant Professor, Margaret M. Wiecek, Associate Professor, Jinhuan Zhang, Graduate Assistant, ...
In robust design, associated with each quality characteristic, the design objective often involves multiple aspects such as “bringing the mean of performance on target ” and “minimizing the...
Local Approximation of the Efficient Frontier in Robust Design Jinhuan Zhang, Design Engineer (2007)
Caleb Technology Corporation, Margaret M. Wiecek, Associate Professor
ABSTRACT: The problem of robust design is treated as a bi-objective optimization problem in which the performance mean and variation are optimized and minimized, respectively. A method for deriving a...
Scheduling and Admission Control for Integrated-Services Networks: The Priority Token Bank (2007)
Jon M. Peha, Associate Professor
This paper proposes a new mechanism called the Priority Token Bank for admission control, scheduling, and policing in integrated-services networks. In such networks, both arrival processes and...
Development of a Machine Vision System for Weed Control Using Precision Chemical Application (2007)
Won Suk Lee, David C. Slaughter, D. Ken Giles, Associate Professor
Farmers need alternatives for weed control due to the desire to reduce chemicals used in farming. However, conventional mechanical cultivation cannot selectively remove weeds located in the seedline...
Thomas A. Horan, Ph. D, Associate Professor
Researchers have cogently presented the technical case for converged telecommunications systems. However, it is not clear how market-based telecommunications providers are embracing this technical...
Transaction Cost Model, Par Benoit, A. Aubert, Associate Professor, Hec Montréal, Benoit A. Aubert, ...
This research tests an explanatory model of IT outsourcing behaviour. It relies on transactions cost theory. A survey was conducted to test the hypotheses. As anticipated, the results suggest that...
Marie L. Radford, Associate Professor
Our increasingly tech savvy virtual reference users have radically different communication and learning preferences. Some are most comfortable with e-mail, others prefer chat. Some crave the...
Perspective on Domestic Violence ” in Battered Women and (2007)
Associate Professor, Steven J. Gunn, Clinic Administrator, Kathryn O. Herr, Anna Quindlen, Clare Dalton, ...
2. Martha Mahoney, “Victimization or Oppression? Women ’ s
Distributed Multi-Scale Data Processing for Sensor Networks (2007)
Raymond S. Wagner, David B. Johnson, Associate Professor, Raymond S. Wagner
In Association, Campus Facilities, Godfried Augenbroe, Associate Professor
building research
Robert Amor, Associate Professor
SUMMARY: Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is an advanced simulation tool used by fire engineers. The work described in this paper enables geometrical information to be transferred to the simulation tool...
Kara M. Kockelman, Associate Professor, Melissa R. Thompson, Charlotte A. Whitehead
This paper relates the Kyoto Protocol objectives to American households and individuals. The sources of the average household carbon footprint are analyzed, and behavioral changes resulting in...
Michael J. Needham, Donald M. (advisor, Associate Professor, Donald M. Needham
Izbicki 1 High energy lasers have the potential to revolutionize naval warfighting by providing a weapons platform that has greater precision and speed than anything currently available. These lasers...
Under the supervision of (2006)
Jason F. Cantin, Jason F. Cantin, Associate Professor, Mikko H. Lipasti, Professor James, E. Smith
To maintain coherence in conventional shared-memory multiprocessor systems, processors first check other processors ’ caches before obtaining data from main memory. This coherence checking consumes...
A. Serpell, S. V. Barai, Onuegbu O Ugwu, Mohan M Kumaraswamy, Associate Professor
in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector has evolved over several years. Organisations continue to invest in ICT in their bid to harness technology and streamline business...
Khaled Nassar, Associate Professor
SUMMARY: Data mining is a relatively new data analysis technique that has the ability to discover patterns stored within historical data and is now considered a catalyst for enhancing business...
THE EFFECT OF VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENTS ON SENTENCING DECISIONS (2006)
Associate Professor, Sam Garkawe
The effect of victim impact statements on sentencing decisions Since the 1970s Victim Impact Statements (‘VIS’) have been used increasingly in many common law jurisdictions. A VIS is generally a...
Future Solutions Local Area (2006)
Ray Hunt, Associate Professor, Wireless Lans St, Unlicensed Bands
� IP roaming � Wireless security and authentication � QoS (Quality of Service) � Integration of 3G and WLANs
Jason D. Lemp, Kara M. Kockelman, Associate Professor
Vehicle externality costs include emissions of greenhouse and other gases (affecting global warming and human health), crash costs (imposed on crash partners), roadway congestion, and space...
Ganesh C Bora, M Reza Ehsani, Assistant Professor, Renee Goodrich, Associate Professor
Abstract. Citrus groves encompass 0.75 million acres of Florida’s land and produced 292 million
I. Functional Representation in Primary Somatosensory Cortex (SI) (2005)
Anna W. Roe, Robert M. Friedman, Li Min Chen, Anna W. Roe, Associate Professor
Optical imaging of cortical topography in New World monkeys Modality domains in SI Relationship of vibrotactile domains to topography Are there pinwheels? III. Summary model of SI organization
Marius Hartmann, My John, Paulin Hansen, Associate Professor
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Mahmoud E. Dokla, Associate Professor, Team Leader, A Abu-khamsin, Mr. Abdullah, ...
Acknowledgment The self-assessment team would like to acknowledge all senior graduating students, alumni and employers for their patience and time filling out program surveys. Special thanks to all...
TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR LARGE CLIENTS (2005)
J. Vanier, Mohan M. Kumaraswamy, Associate Professor, Ekambaram Palaneeswaran, Associate Professor, ...
SUMMARY: Infrastructure mega projects involve several complex clusters of interacting activities. Establishing suitably integrated management support systems for construction clients should be useful...
Konstantinos Xinidis, Operating Systems, Wireless Networks, Intrusion Detection, Network Processors, Network Measurement, ...
Thesis: Discovery of the topology of Gnutella network and study of its performance
Boyd C. Paulson, Environmental Engineering, Joong-min Kwak, Ph. D, Chang-hak Kim, ...
SUMMARY: The process for construction management (CM) includes much specialized information for the management of time, cost, and quality throughout the project life cycle. Accordingly, a...
Nathalie Charbonneau, David W. Booth, Associate Professor
Département d’Histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques, Université de Montréal, (Québec) Canada
Kathleen Ann Mckibbon, Kathleen Ann Mckibbbon, Ellen G. Detlefsen, Associate Professor, Kathleen Ann Mckibbon
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John I. Messner, Assistant Professor, Architectural Engineering, David R. Riley, Associate Professor, Architectural Engineering
SUMMARY: The delivery of facilities which incorporate a high degree of sustainable characteristics requires extensive collaboration and coordination between many professionals early in the design...
The multifaceted nature of virtual teams (2004)
Par Line Dubé, Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Hec Montréal, Hec Montréal, ...
financial support for this research.
Royal North, Shore Hospital, Royal North, Shore Hospital, Associate Professor, Judy Kay, ...
SIMPRAC: A web-based virtual patient to support learning through reflection
The effects of ARCS-strategies on self-regulated learning with instructional texts (2004)
Hermann Astleitner, Ph. D, Associate Professor
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a motivationally designed instructional text on motivation and learning. The foundation for motivational design was provided by the combination...
Co-Chairs of Supervisory Committee: (2004)
Neil Timothy Spring, Neil Timothy Spring, Associate Professor, David J. Wetherall, Professor Thomas, E. Anderson
Efficient discovery of network topology and routing policy in the Internet
Charles R. Mcclure, J. Snead, Kim M. Thompson, John Carlo Bertot, Associate Director, Associate Professor
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White Paper: Obtaining Long-Term Soundscape (2004)
Robert C. Maher, Associate Professor
This paper outlines a research project for long-term soundscape inventories in the U.S. National Park System. The natural sonic environment of parks and wilderness areas is not well understood in a...
Co-Chairs of Supervisory Committee: (2004)
Neil Timothy Spring, Neil Timothy Spring, Associate Professor, David J. Wetherall, Professor Thomas, E. Anderson
Efficient discovery of network topology and routing policy in the Internet
2003a. Automated Generation of Dynamic, Operations Level Virtual Construction Scenarios (2003)
Kalle Kahkonen, Vineet R. Kamat, Assistant Professor, Julio C. Martinez, Associate Professor
SUMMARY: The use of visualization and virtual reality (VR) technologies to solve operations level problems in construction has been limited to the creation of specific scenarios of very short...
FACILITATING INTER-ENTERPRISE INFORMATION EXCHANGE IN ONE-OF-A-KIND SETTINGS (2003)
Robert Amor, Abdul S. Kazi, Chotchai Charoenngam, Associate Professor
SUMMARY: The construction industry’s norm of operation is that of one-of-a-kind production and delivery of products (e.g. a building). The results (products and/or services) are typically delivered...
EDITOR: P. Christiansson (2003)
Ellen Christiansen, Associate Professor
SUMMARY: What is the right mix of workshop-learning and lectures, e-learning and face-to-face dialogue in teaching Human Computer Interaction at university level, where academic reflection is...
Mapping Schemas as Meaningful Representations (2003)
Jay Jones, Associate Professor, Andrew Turk, Senior Lecturer, J. Saab
Hugues Rivard Professor, Thomas Froese, Associate Professor, Lloyd M. Waugh, Rodrigo Mora, Heli Torres, ...
SUMMARY: A series of eleven case studies were gathered from across Canada in the summer of 2002. These case studies define an initial compendium of Best Practice in the use of information technology...
Eric J. Heikkila, Associate Professor
A conceptual framework and implementation methodology for measuring urbanization Paper prepared for the 2 nd
Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, (2003)
Hector O. Zapata, Wayne M. Gauthier, Hector O. Zapata, Associate Professor
copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. 1 Threshold Models in Theory and Practice Threshold models have...
Abstract Wireless, Web-Controlled, Ball-Collecting Robot (2003)
Sara C. Wieland, Adam J. Dunn, Danial J. Neebel, Associate Professor, Blake M. Dirksen, Thomas J. Gotto, ...
A wireless, web-controlled, ball-collecting robot was developed using engineering design principles in order to navigate a specified terrain containing walls and obstacles. The robot utilizes an...
EDITOR: Bo-Christer Björk (2003)
Mohammad A. Hassanain, Assistant Professor, Thomas M. Froese, Associate Professor
SUMMARY: This paper presents the development of a generic framework for asset maintenance management, and an object model for the maintenance management of roofing systems as a case study to...
FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR IFC-BASED INTEROPERABILITY (2002)
Väino Tarandi, Thomas Froese, Associate Professor
for the architecture, engineering, construction, and facilities management industries. A model-based approach to interoperability requires information structures that are standardized throughout the...
DEVELOPMENT OF A TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL SPACE EXTENSION FOR IAI/IFC2.X2 ND MODEL (2002)
Väino Tarandi, Inhan Kim, Associate Professor, Thomas Liebich President, Seong-sig Kim
SUMMARY: IFC is getting popular as a standard product data model. However, IFC is currently a 3D focused building model with detailed semantics. The current IFC2x model does not include 2D...
Eric J. Heikkila, Associate Professor, Kai-zhong Yang
This paper outlines a method for using the mathematics of fuzzy sets that is well suited to measure and characterize peri-urbanizing (“desakota”) systems typical of China, Southeast Asia, and...
Characteristics Of It Outsourcing Contracts (2002)
Par Benoit, Associate Professor, Hec Montréal, Hec Montréal, Jean-françois Houde, ...
Once the decision to outsource an activity has been made, managers are faced with issues related to the management of the relationship with their service providers. A critical element of relationship...
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Rudolph E. Seviora, Associate Professor
This report aims at predicting a release date for the software developed and being tested for the product X. At the time of release of the product, the target failure intensity of the software has to...
Internet-Based Reverse Engineering (2002)
Applications of reverse engineering to speeding up a product realization process have gained momentum in recent years. The Internet has found increasingly more applications in manufacturing....
Kåre Synnes, Associate Professor, Dick Schefström
The aerial photograph on the cover of the thesis depicts the summer residence of the author’s family in Saltsjön, which is located in the heart of the High Coast in Ångermanland, Sweden....
SEEK: ACCOMPLISHING ENTERPRISE INFORMATION INTEGRATION ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES (2002)
Samad Kazi, William J. O’brien, Assistant Professor, Joachim Hammer, Assistant Professor, ...
(SEEK) project. The SEEK toolkit is a collection of modular components. The components enable rapid instantiation of connections to firms ’ legacy information sources, (semi)-automatically...
EDITOR: Bo-Christer Bjork (2002)
J. L. Andresen, K. Christensen, Associate Professor
SUMMARY: Using a project web in building now occurs in an increasing number of projects. There is an emphasis, especially in large building projects and by large companies, on using a project web...
Hyung Joo Kim, Colby C. Swan, Associate Professor
Unit cell homogenization techniques are frequently used together with the finite element method to compute effective mechanical properties for a wide range of different composites and heterogeneous...
Fuzzy data mining and genetic algorithms applied to intrusion detection (2000)
Susan M. Bridges, Rayford B. Vaughn, Associate Professor, Associate Professor
We are developing a prototype intelligent intrusion detection system (IIDS) to demonstrate the effectiveness of data mining techniques that utilize fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms. This system...
Fuzzy Data Mining And Genetic (2000)
Algorithms Applied To, Susan M. Bridges, Rayford B. Vaughn, Associate Professor, Associate Professor
We are developing a prototype intelligent intrusion detection system (IIDS) to demonstrate the effectiveness of data mining techniques that utilize fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms. This system...
Energy Formulations of Medical Image Segmentations (2000)
John P. Kaufhold, Dr. W. Clement Karl, Associate Professor
The first phase of a radiological revolution is already well underway. A host of new minimally invasive biomedical imaging modalities have lead to novel applications and new minimally invasive...
Intrusion Detection via fuzzy data mining (2000)
Susan M. Bridges, Rayford B. Vaughn, Associate Professor, Associate Professor
This paper describes a prototype intelligent intrusion detection system (IIDS) that is being developed to demonstrate the effectiveness of data mining techniques that utilize fuzzy logic. This system...
The Effects of Internet-Based Instruction on Student Learning (1999)
B. Wegner, Associate Professor, C. Holloway, Assistant Professor, ...
The practice of using technology to deliver coursework in higher education has seen a veritable explosion. The use of technology has not only created new opportunities within the traditional...
MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASER FOR SAMPLING WIDEBAND ANTENNA SIGNALS (1999)
Lt James, M. Butler, Associate Professor, Phillip E. Pace, John P. Powers
We are studying digital antennas. As illustrated in Figure 1, these devices digitize the antenna signal with an electro-optic analog-to-digital convertor (ADC) and produces an output consisting of...
Dr. Mari Ostendorf, Associate Professor
First and foremost, I would like to thank my advisor, Mari Ostendorf. Even after spending several years working in the lab with her, her commitment to quality of writing and research as well as her...
Analyzing Electronic Question/Answer Services: Framework and Evaluations of Selected Services (1999)
Marilyn Domas White (ed.), Marilyn Domas White, Associate Professor
This report develops an analytical framework based on systems analysis for evaluating electronic question/answer or AskA services operated by a wide range of types of organizations, including...
James M. Bieman, Associate Professor
yC- / /'.I"¢7 /i v- D f- cl,,C.-_..17"-"-7., " One way to increase the quality of software products and the productivity of software development is to reuse...
Reconfigurable Routers: A New Paradigm for Switching Device Architecture (1998)
Scott F. Midkiff, Peter M. Athanas, Ph. D, Ph. D, Associate Professor, Associate Professor
The trend in product development is that user needs continuously drive hardware performance requirements to higher levels, in addition to creating requirements for new and possibly unknown...
The Condition of Urban School Finance: Efficient Resource Allocation in Urban Schools (1998)
Associate Professor, Dale Ballou, Dale Ballou, Dale Ballou
this paper relies on a comparative methodology, contrasting urban public schools with public schools in suburban and rural communities. In places the comparison is extended to private schools. A...
Improving And Predicting Performance Of Statistical Language Models In Sparse Domains (1998)
Rukmini M. Iyer, Rukmini M. Iyer, Dr. Mari Ostendorf, Associate Professor
Standard statistical language models, or n-gram models, which represent the probability of word sequences, suffer from sparse-data problems in tasks where large amounts of domain-specific text are...
DNA chips - Integrated Chemical Circuits for DNA Diagnosis and DNA computers (1998)
Akira Suyama, Associate Professor
h the progress of the genome sequenc i ng projec ts. The whole genome sequencing of many organisms is now going on in the world [1]. Last year, for example, the whole genome of bread yeast was...
EVALUATING SYSTEM ATMIS TECHNOLOGIES VIA RAPID ESTIMATION OF NETWORK FLOWS: FINAL REPORT (1997)
Earthquakes damage freeway bridges and structures, resulting in significant impacts on transportation system performance and regional economy. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)...
Design and Analysis of a Computational Model of Cooperative Coevolution (1997)
Mitchell A. Potter, Associate Professor, To Amy
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Greg Miller, Assistant Professor, Joe A. Gliem, Associate Professor
The ability to apply academic skills to agriculture is increasingly important. Even so, studies have shown that students and teachers of agricultural education lack competence in solving...
Rebecca Anne Bates, Dr. Mari Ostendorf, Associate Professor, Dr. J. Robin Rohlicek, Vice President, ...
It takes a village to raise a child, it took a village to get this thesis done and written. Apologies for the length of the acknowledgments. Primary acknowledgments must go to Mari Ostendorf, my...
Mani V. Venkatasubramanian, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
In the summer of 1996, the western electric grid experienced two major blackouts on
Abstract Algorithms for Complementarity Problems and Generalized Equations (1995)
Stephen C. Billups, Stephen C. Billups, Under Supervision, Associate Professor, Michael C. Ferris
Recent improvements in the capabilities of complementarity solvers have led to an increased interest in using the complementarity problem framework to address practical problems arising in...
The Ontic Inference Language (1995)
David A. Mcallester, Associate Professor, Carl Roger Witty, Carl Roger Witty
OIL, the Ontic Inference Language, is a simple bottom-up logic programming language with equality reasoning. Although intended for use in writing proof verification systems, OIL is an interesting...
Lattice-Based Search Strategies For Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition (1995)
Frederick Richardson, Frederick Richardson, Dr. Mari Ostendorf, Associate Professor, Rich Schwartz, Senior Scientist, ...
The design of search algorithms is an important issue in recognition, particularly for very large vocabulary, continuous speech. It is an especially crucial problem when computationally expensive...
Estimating Errors in Concept Selection (1995)
Kevin N. Otto, Assistant Professor, Kristin L. Wood, Associate Professor
Numerical concept selection methods are used throughout industry to determine which among several design alternatives should be further developed. The results, however, are rarely believed at face...
Owen Ashley Kimball, Owenashley Kimball, Dr. Mari Ostendorf, Dr. David Castanon, Associate Professor, Associate Professor
I am indebted to a number of people who helped me in various ways during this work. I would first like to thank my adviser, Mari Ostendorf, for her guidance and support throughout my time at Boston...
Abstract Robust Solution of Mixed Complementarity Problems (1994)
Steven P. Dirkse, Steven P. Dirkse, Under Supervision, Associate Professor, Michael C. Ferris
This thesis is concerned with algorithms and software for the solution of the Mixed Complementarity Problem, or MCP. The MCP formulation is useful for expressing systems of nonlinear inequalities and...
Abstract Robust Solution of Mixed Complementarity Problems (1994)
Steven P. Dirkse, Steven P. Dirkse, Under Supervision, Associate Professor, Michael C. Ferris
This thesis is concerned with algorithms and software for the solution of the Mixed Complementarity Problem, or MCP. The MCP formulation is useful for expressing systems of nonlinear inequalities and...
Formal rules for selecting prior distributions: a review and annotated bibliography (1993)
Robert E. Kass, Larry Wasserman, Larry Wasserman, Associate Professor
Subjectivism has become the dominant philosophical foundation for Bayesian inference. Yet, in practice, most Bayesian analyses are performed with so-called "noninformative " priors,...
Ruknet Cezzar, Associate Professor, Technical Officer, Wayne H. Bryant
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August Proceedings Southern, James E. Hairston, Associate Professor, Sherry Williams, Stephanie Pitts, Keith H Remy, ...
Patterson, M., and D. Monks. 1987. Report of the 1986 Cotton Weed Loss Committee. Proc. 1987 Beltwide Cotton Production Conf. pp. 361-363. Wiese, A. F., and P. W. Unger. 1983. Irrigation, dryland...
A linear view of the world: Strip maps as a unique form of cartographic representation (1986)
Alan M. Maceachren, Alan M. Maceachren, Associate Professor
ABSTRACT. Strip format maps constitute a unique, but often overlooked form of cartographic representation. The purpose of this paper is to combine a historical overview of cartographic applications...