Kurt Maly

Navigating and Browsing 3D Models in 3DLIB (2009)

Hesham Anan, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair

Traditional digital libraries have proved to work well with one-dimensional data such as reports and two-dimensional data such as images. However, handling three-dimensional (3D) data in digital...

Editor An Efficient Data Structure for the Simulation Event Set (2009)

D. F. Shanno, W. R. Franta, Kurt Maly

Recently algorithms have been presented for the realization of event scheduling routines suitable for general purpose discrete event simulation systems. Sev-eral exhibited a performance superior to...

Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University (2008)

C Alex Pothen, Mohammad Zubair, Kurt Maly, Chris Osgood, Oliver John Semmes, Emad Ramadan, ...

Documenting the interaction of HTLV virus proteins with those of the host cell is crucial to understanding the process of the virus replication and pathogenesis, and provides an essential foundation...

Short Communications Management Science/Operations Research A Comparison of Heaps and the TL Structure for the Simulation Event Set (2008)

W. R. Franta, Kurt Maly

Following publication of our paper [2], questions arose with respect to the superiority of the TL structure over heaps, ~ particularly in the face of the remarks of Gonnet [3], concerning the use of...

Interactive Distance Learning (2008)

Over Intranets, Kurt Maly, Hussein Abdel-wahab, C. Michael Overstreet, Christian Wild, Ajay Gupta, ...

Many distance learning systems claim to be interactive, but few can offer two-way video, on-the-fly interaction, and application sharing. The authors describe the Interactive Remote Instruction...

Automated Building of OAI Compliant Repository from Legacy Collection Abstract (2008)

Jianfeng Tang, Kurt Maly, Steven Zeil, Mohammad Zubair

In this paper, we report on our experience with the creation of an automated, human-assisted process to extract metadata from documents in a large (>100,000), dynamically growing collection. Such...

Missing end-system QoS components: A case-study (2008)

Kurt Maly, Sudheer Dharanikota, Ravi Mukkamala Cmoverstreet

In this paper,wepropose a Quality of Service (QoS) architecture for an end-system protocol-suite. We use TCP/IP using ATM as the networking paradigm, as a testbed topropose our QoS architecture. With...

MULTIPLE-MODE COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENTS WITH IRI-H (2008)

Kurt Maly, C. Michael Overstreet, Hussein Abdel-wahab, Ayman Abdel-hamid, Ye Wang, Ankit Kothari

Recent years have seen the development and use of many distance learning and interactive collaboration systems. Some emphasize interactive use among participants in which the dominant mode of...

Metadata and Buckets in the Smart Object, Dumb Archive (SODA) Model (2008)

Michael L. Nelson, Kurt Maly, Delwin R. Croom, Steven W. Robbins

We present the Smart Object, Dumb Archive (SODA) model for digital libraries (DLs), and discuss the role of metadata in SODA. The premise of the SODA model is to "push down " many...

Metadata and Buckets in the Smart Object, Dumb Archive (SODA) Model (2007)

Michael L. Nelson, Kurt Maly, Delwin R. Croom, Steven W. Robbins

We present the Smart Object, Dumb Archive (SODA) model for digital libraries (DLs), and discuss the role of metadata in SODA. The premise of the SODA model is to "push down " many...

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Michael L. Nelson, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair

Abstract. We present the Smart Object, Dumb Archive (SODA) model for digital libraries (DLs). The SODA model transfers functionality traditionally associated with archives to the archived objects...

BTU: A Host Communication Benchmark (2007)

Kurt Maly, Ajay Gupta, Satish Mynam

In this paper we propose a communication benchmark suite: BTU(Bits To the User). In the BTU benchmarking process, the vendor supplies a workstation running a UNIX 2 operating system, we install our...

A Workstation's Communication Performance Benchmark (2007)

Kurt Maly, Ajay Gupta, Satish Mynam

In this paper we propose a communication benchmark suite: BTU(Bits To the User). In the BTU benchmarking process, the vendor supplies a workstation running a UNIX 2 operating system, we install our...

A Proposal for Benchmarking the Hardware and OS Plarforms for ModSAF (2007)

By Overstreet And, C. M. Overstreet, Kurt Maly, E. Harvey

et) and the underlying operating systems(e.g., Solaris 2.4, IRIX 5.2) as to their suitability to support ModSAF. A number of benchmarks measuring the speed of a host machine exist [5, 6, 2] but only...

Reliability, Scalability and Robustness Issues in IRI (2007)

Ehab Al-shaer, Alaa Youssef, Hussein Abdel-wahab, Kurt Maly, C. Michael Overstreet

Over the past two years, we have used the IRI (Interactive Remote Instruction) system to teach several live interactive classes with students in different cities. While this system is a prototype -...

Synchronized OAI Caches (2007)

Xiaoming Liu, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, Rong Tang, Imran Padshah, George Roncaglia, ...

Laboratory and Old Dominion University to allow for the integration of technical reports. This is accomplished using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and having...

Arc−An OAI Service Provider for Cross−Archive Searching (2007)

Xiaoming Liu, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, Michael L. Nelson

The usefulness of the many on−line journals and scientific digital libraries that exist today is limited by the lack of a service that can federate them through a unified interface. The Open...

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Zhikai Chen, Kurt Maly, Piyush Mehrotra, Praveen K. Vangala, Mohammad Zubair

Distributed heterogeneous computing is being increasingly applied to a variety of large size computational problems. Such computations generally consist of multiple heterogeneous modules interacting...

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Zhikai Chen, Kurt Maly, Piyush Mehrotra, Praveen K. Vangala, Mohammad Zubair

Parallel and distributed computing on a cluster of workstations is being increasingly applied to a variety of large size computational problems. Several software systems have been developed that make...

A Scalable Architecture for Harvest-Based Digital Libraries - The ODU/Southampton Experiments (2002)

Liu, Xiaoming, Brody, Tim, Harnad, Stevan, Carr, Les, Maly, Kurt, Zubair, Mohammad, ...

This paper discusses the requirements of current and emerging applications based on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and emphasizes the need for a common infrastructure to support them. Inspired by...

A Scalable Architecture for Harvest-Based Digital Libraries - The ODU/Southampton Experiments (2002)

Liu, Xiaoming, Brody, Tim, Harnad, Stevan, Carr, Les, Maly, Kurt, Zubair, Mohammad, ...

This paper discusses the requirements of current and emerging applications based on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and emphasizes the need for a common infrastructure to support them. Inspired by...

A Scalable Architecture for Harvest-Based Digital Libraries - The ODU/Southampton Experiments (2002)

Liu, Xiaoming, Brody, Tim, Harnad, Stevan, Carr, Les, Maly, Kurt, Zubair, Mohammad, ...

This paper discusses the requirements of current and emerging applications based on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and emphasizes the need for a common infrastructure to support them. Inspired by...

A Scalable Architecture for Harvest-Based Digital Libraries - The ODU/Southampton Experiments (2002)

Liu, Xiaoming, Brody, Tim, Harnad, Stevan, Carr, Les, Maly, Kurt, Zubair, Mohammad, ...

This paper discusses the requirements of current and emerging applications based on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and emphasizes the need for a common infrastructure to support them. Inspired by...

DP9 - an OAI gateway service for Web crawlers (2002)

Xiaoming Liu, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair

Many libraries and databases are closed to general-purpose Web crawlers, and they expose their content only through their own search engines. At the same time many researchers attempt to locate...

The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) (2002)

Xiaoming Liu, Tim Brody, Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, ...

This paper discusses the requirements of current and emerging applications based on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and emphasizes the need for a common infrastructure to support them. Inspired by...

Arc: an OAI service provider for cross-archive searching (2001)

Xiaoming Liu, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, Michael L. Nelson

The usefulness of the many on-line journals and scientific digital libraries that exist today is limited by the lack of a service that can federate them through a unified interface. The Open Archive...

The UPS Prototype. An Experimental End-User Service across E-Print Archives (2000)

Sompel, Herbert Van De, Krichel, Thomas, Nelson, Michael L., Hochstenbach, Patrick, Lyapunov, Victor M., Maly, Kurt, ...

A meeting was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 21-22, 1999, to generate discussion and consensus about interoperability of publicly available scholarly information archives. The invitees...

The NASA STI Program Office provides (2000)

Zhikai Chen, Kurt Maly, Piyush Mehrotra, Mohammad Zubair

Since its founding, NASA has been dedicated to the advancement of aeronautics and space

Arcade: A Web-Java Based Framework for Distributed Computing (2000)

Kurt Maly, Piyush Mehrotra, Mohammad Zubair, Zhikai Chen, Zhikai Chen

Distributed heterogeneous environments are being increasingly used to execute a varietyof large size simulations and computational problems. We are developing Arcade, a web-based environment to...

The UPS Prototype project: exploring the obstacles in creating a cross-print archive end-user service", D-Lib Magazine (2000)

Michael L. Nelson, Victor M. Lyapunov, Mohammad Zubair, Xiaoming Liu, Thomas Krichel, ...

The Universal Preprint Service (UPS) Prototype was developed in preparation of the first meeting of the UPS initiative - later renamed the Open Archives initiative - held in Santa Fe, New Mexico...

Arcade: A Web-Java Based Framework for Distributed Computing. See web site at: http://www.icase.edu:8080 (1999)

Zhikai Chen, Kurt Maly, Piyush Mehrotra, Mohammad Zubair, Zhikai Chen Y, Kurt Maly Y, ...

Abstract. Distributed heterogeneous environments are being increasingly used to execute a variety of large size simulations and computational problems. We are developing Arcade, a web-based...

Preserving the Pyramid of STI Using Buckets (1999)

Michael Nelson, Kurt Maly

The product of research projects is information. Through the life cycle of a project, information comes from many sources and takes many forms. Traditionally, this body of information is summarized...

ABSTRACT Preserving the Pyramid of STI Using Buckets (1999)

Michael L. Nelson, Kurt Maly

The product of research projects is information. Through the life cycle of a project, information comes from many sources and takes many forms. Traditionally, this body of information is summarized...

Smart Objects, Dumb Archives - A User-Centric, Layered Digital Library Framework (1999)

Kurt Maly, Michael Nelson, Mohammad Zubair

Currently, there exist a large number of superb digital libraries, all of which are, unfortunately, vertically integrated and all presenting a monolithic interface to their users. Ideally, a user...

Smart Objects, Dumb Archives (1999)

Kurt Maly, Michael L. Nelson, Mohammad Zubair

Currently, there exist a large number of superb digital libraries, all of which are, unfortunately, vertically integrated and all presenting a monolithic interface to their users. Ideally, a user...

HiFi: A New Monitoring Architecture for Distributed Systems Management (1999)

Hussein Abdel-wahab, Kurt Maly

With the increasing complexity of large-scale distributed (LSD) systems, an efficient monitoring mechanism has become an essential service for improving the performance and reliability of such...

HiFi: A New Monitoring Architecture for Distributed Systems Management (1999)

Ehab Al-shaer, Hussein Abdel-wahab, Kurt Maly

With the increasing complexity of large-scale distributed (LSD) systems, an efficient monitoring mechanism has become an essential service for improving the performance and reliability of such...

Structured Course Objects in a Digital Library (1999)

Kurt Maly, K. Maly, Xiaoming Liu, Mohammad Zubair, X. Liu, Michael Nelson, ...

We are developing an Undergraduate Digital Library Framework (UDLF) that will support creation/archiving of courses and reuse of existing course material to evolve courses. UDLF supports the...

SODA: Smart Objects, Dumb Archives (1999)

Michael L. Nelson, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair

this paper we present implementations of our smart objects, buckets, and our dumb archive (DA). We discuss the status of buckets and DA and how they are used in a variety of DL projects

Arcade: A Web-Java Based Framework for Distributed Computing (1998)

Chen, Zhikai, Maly, Kurt, Mehrotra, Piyush, Zubair, Mohammad

Distributed heterogeneous environments are being increasingly used to execute a variety of large size simulations and computational problems. We are developing Arcade, a web-based environment to...

NCSTRL+: Adding Multi-Discipline and Multi-Genre Support to the Dienst Protocol Using Clusters and Buckets (1998)

Michael L. Nelson, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair

We describe NCSTRL+, a unified, canonical digital library for scientific and technical information (STI). NCSTRL+ is based on the

Buckets: Aggregative, Intelligent Agents for Publishing (1998)

Michael L. Nelson, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair

Buckets are an aggregative, intelligent construct for publishing in digital libraries. The goal of research projects is to produce information. This information is often instantiated in several...

A Multi-Discipline, Multi-Genre Digital Library for Research and Education (1998)

Michael Nelson, Kurt Maly, Stewart Shen

: We describe NCSTRL+, a unified, canonical digital library for educational and scientific and technical information (STI). NCSTRL+ is based on the Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library...

Performance Evaluation of an Inter-Stream Adaptation Algorithm for Multimedia Communications (1998)

Alaa Youssef, Hussein Abdel-wahab, Kurt Maly

Controlling the quality of a collaborative multimedia session, which employs multiple streams, is a challenging problem. In this paper, we present and analyze the performance of an inter-stream...

NCSTRL+: Adding Multi-Discipline and Multi-Genre Support to the Dienst Protocol Using Clusters and Buckets (1998)

Michael Nelson, Kurt Maly, Stewart Shen, Mohammad Zubair

We describe NCSTRL+, a unified, canonical digital library for scientific and technical information (STI). NCSTRL+ is based on the Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library (NCSTRL), a World...

Interoperable Heterogeneous Digital Libraries (1998)

Michael Nelson, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair

We consider interoperability to be one of the most challenging problems currently facing digital libraries. There are two impediments to the goal of interoperable digital libraries: technical issues...

Nasa/tm-1998-208419 (1998)

Buckets Aggregative Intelligent, Michael L. Nelson, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair

Buckets are an aggregative, intelligent construct for publishing in digital libraries. The goal of research projects is to produce information. This information is often instantiated in several...

A Multi-Discipline, Multi-Genre Digital Library for (1998)

Research And Education, Michael L. Nelson, Kurt Maly

We describe NCSTRL+, a unified, canonical digital library for educational and scientific and technical information (STI). NCSTRL+ is based on the Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library...

NCSTRL+: Adding Multi-Discipline and Multi-Genre Support to the Dienst Protocol Using Clusters and Buckets (1998)

Michael L. Nelson, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair

We describe NCSTRL+, a unified, canonical digital library for scientific and technical information (STI). NCSTRL+ is based on the

High-performance Monitoring Architecture for Large-scale Distributed Systems Using Event Filtering (1997)

Dr. Kurt Maly, Principal Investigator, Wayne H. Bryant, Technical Monitor, Ehab Ai-shacr, Husscm Abdei-wahab, ...

(chab,_vahab,rnal))<_ ¢ cs.odu,e,du Monitoring is an essential process to obscr_'e and improve the reliability and the perfonnance of large-scale distributed (LSD) systems, in an LSD...

Building Multi-Discipline, MultiFormat Digital Libraries Using Clusters and (1997)

Michael L. Nelson, Michael L. Nelson, Michaell Nelson, Co-chairsof Advisorycommittee, Dr. Kurt Maly, ...

Our objectivewas to study the feasibility of extending the Dienst protocol to enable a multi-discipline, multi-format digital library. technologies: cluster functionality and publishing buckets. We...

JAVADC: A Web-Java Based Environment to Run and Monitor Parallel Distributed Applications (1997)

Kurt Maly, Praveen K. Vangala, Mohammad Zubair

Abstract. Parallel and distributed computing on a cluster of workstations is being increasingly applied to a variety of large size computational problems. Several software systems have been developed...

Interactive distance learning over Intranets (1997)

Kurt Maly, Hussein Abdel-wahab, C. Michael Overstreet, Christian Wild, Ajay Gupta, Alaa Youssef, ...

Many distance learning systems claim to be interactive, but few can offer two-way video, on-the-fly interaction, and application sharing. The authors describe the Interactive Remote Instruction...

A Scalable Monitoring Architecture for Managing Distributed Multimedia Systems (1997)

Ehab Al-shaer, Hussein Abdel-wahab, Kurt Maly

Monitoring is an essential process to observe and improve the reliability and the performance of large-scale distributed multimedia (LDM) systems. Monitoring events generated by LDM systems is...

Reliability, Scalability and Robustness Issues in IRI (1997)

Ehab Al-shaer, Alaa Youssef, Hussein Abdel-wahab, Kurt Maly, C. Michael Overstreet

Over the past two years, we have used the IRI (Interactive Remote Instruction) system to teach several live interactive classes with students in different cities. While this system is a prototype -...

Application-Layer Group Communication Server for Extending Reliable Multicast Protocols Services (1997)

Ehab Al-shaer, Hussein Abdel-wahab, Kurt Maly

Reliable multicast protocols are becoming an essential element in distributed applications such as interactive distance learning applications. However, the existing implementations of reliable...

Hierarchical Filtering-based Monitoring System for Large-scale Distributed Applications (1997)

Ehab Al-shaer, Hussein Abdel-wahab, Kurt Maly

On-line monitoring of large-scale distributed (LSD) applications is an effective means to observe the applications ' behavior at run-time and provide status information required by debugging and...

Application-Layer Group Communication Server for Extending Reliable Multicast Protocols Services (1997)

Ehab Al-shaer, Kurt Maly

Reliable multicast protocols are becoming an essential element in distributed applications such as interactive distance learning applications. However, the existing implementations of reliable...

Buckets, Clusters and Dienst (1997)

Michael Nelson, Michael L. Nelson, Kurt Maly, Kurt Maly, Stewart Shen

In this paper we describe NCSTRL+, a unified, canonical digital library for scientific and technical information (STI). NCSTRL+ is based on the Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library...

A Scalable Monitoring Architecture for Managing Distributed Multimedia Systems (1997)

Ehab Al-shaer, Hussein Abdel-wahab, Kurt Maly

Monitoring is an essential process to observe and improve the reliability and the performance of large-scale distributed multimedia (LDM) systems. Monitoring events generated by LDM systems is...

A Scalable and Robust Feedback Mechanism for Adaptive Multimedia Multicast Systems (1997)

Alaa Youssef, Hussien Abdel-wahab, Kurt Maly

We present a mechanism for providing feedback information to multicast sources of multimedia streams in a scalable and robust manner. The presented feedback mechanism is suitable for best-effort...

A Scalable Monitoring Architecture for Managing Large-scale Distributed Multimedia Systems (1997)

Hussein Abdel-wahab, Kurt Maly

Monitoring is an essential process to observe and improve the reliability and the performance of large-scale distributed multimedia (LDM) systems. In an LDM environment, a large number of events is...

Inter-Stream Adaptation over Group Reservations (1997)

Alaa Youssef, Hussein Abdel-wahab, Kurt Maly

In this paper, we address the issue of dynamically allocating resources to a group of streams belonging to a distributed multimedia application that reserves a collective amount of resources to be...

Building a Multi-Discipline Digital Library Through Extending the Dienst Protocol (1997)

Michael Nelson, Kurt Maly, Stewart Shen

cations of both its holdings and the holdings of other same protocol servers. The resulting digital library toolkit could then be propagated to multiple disciplines and the various instantiations...

Synchronization of Multimedia Streams in Distributed Environments (1997)

Emilia Stoica, Hussein Abdel-wahab, Kurt Maly

One of the major features that distinguishes multimedia applications from other traditional applications is the integration of various media streams that have to be presented in a synchronized...

Building a Multi-Discipline Digital Library Through Extending the Dienst Protocol (1997)

Michael Nelson, Kurt Maly

from multiple domains can register their existence with a meta-server. 3.0 Overview of Dienst The Dienst protocol is the foundation for the National Computer Science Technical Report Library (NCSTRL)...

Abstract Buckets, Clusters and Dienst (1997)

Michael L. Nelson, Kurt Maly, Michael L. Nelson, Kurt Maly

In this paper we describe NCSTRL+, a unified, canonical digital library for scientific and technical information

High-performance Monitoring Architecture for Large-scale Distributed Systems Using Event Filtering (1996)

Ehab Al-Shaer, Hussein Abdel-wahab, Kurt Maly

Monitoring is an essential process to observe and improve the reliability and the performance of large-scale distributed (LSD) systems. In an LSD environment, a large number of events is generated by...

QUANTA: Quality of Service Architecture for Native TCP/IP over ATM networks (1996)

Sudheer Dharanikota, Kurt Maly

In this paper, we propose a Quality of Service (QoS) architecture, QUANTA, for an end system protocol suite. We use TCP(UDP)/IP over ATM as a testbed to develop the architecture. We measure the...