Research


Our faculty members have wide-ranging interests and research projects, with concentrations in artificial intelligence, computer graphics and scientific visualization, database and knowledge base systems, operating systems and computer networks, parallel computing and compiler design, and theoretical computer science. Many of our graduate students are mentored by a faculty member, which often leads to publication and participation in grant-funded projects. A large percentage of our graduate students receive financial aid, often in the form of teaching assistantships, research assistantships and scholarships.

RECENT THESIS & DISSERTATION TOPICS

September 2008
Hyojin Kim
Master's Thesis
Satellite-Based Auroral Tomography and Time-Varying Volume Reconstruction
Thesis Director: R. Daniel Bergeron, Professor of Computer Science

June 2008
Lina Faller
Bachelor of Science Honors Thesis
An Investigationi of Palindromic sequences in the Pseudomonas flourescens SBW25 Genome

May 2008
Ethan Burns
Master's Thesis
Implementation and Comparison of ISCSI Over RDMA
Thesis Director: Robert Russell, Associate Professor of Computer Science

December 2007
Peter W. Mitchell
Master's Thesis
The Perceptual Optimization of 2D Flow Visualizations Using Human-in-the-Loop Local Hill Climbing
Thesis Director: Colin Ware, Professor of Computer Science

Stephen Schaeffer
Master's Thesis
An Augmented Haptic Interface as Applied to Flow Visualization
Thesis Director: Colin Ware, Professor of Computer Science

September 2007
Morel Henley
Master's Thesis
Software Tools for Comparing Genomic Sequence
Thesis Directors: R. Daniel Bergeron, Professor of Computer Science, Director; Vaughn S. Cooper, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Co-Thesis Director

Anthony Lapadula
Ph.D. Dissertation
Glyspy: A Software Suite for Assigning Glycan Topologies From
Sequential Mass Spectral Data

Dissertation Director: Philip J. Hatcher, Professor of Computer Science

May 2007
Myung-Sun Kim
Master's Thesis
Simple Authentication And Security Layer Incorporating Extensible Authentication Protocol
Thesis Director: Radim Bartos, Associate Professor of Computer Science

December 2006
Sadaf Shams
Master's Thesis
Volume Visualization of Time-Varying Data using Parallel, Multiresolution and Adaptive-Resolution Techniques
Thesis Directors: R. Daniel Bergeron, Professsor of Computer Science; Ted M. Sparr, Professor of Computer Science

Stephen J. Todd
Master's Thesis
Comparing The Xam API with File System Programming
Thesis Director: Philip J. Hatcher, Professor of Computer Science

September 2006
Sachin Goel
Master's Thesis
Performance Evaluation of TCP Over IEEE 802.11 WLANs
Thesis Director: Radim Bartos, Associate Professor of Computer Science

May 2006
Christopher R. Sayles
Master's Thesis
Accelerated Mesh Building Using GPU-Based Depth Peeling
Thesis Director: Alejo Hausner, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

December 2005
Md. Ehteshamul Haque
Master's Thesis
Modified IPACT Scheme for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks
Thesis Director: Radim Bartos, Associate Professor of Computer Science




STUDENT PUBLICATIONS

Jordan T. Thayer and Wheeler Ruml, "Using Distance Estimates in Heuristic Search," Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-09), 2009.

Ethan Burns, Seth Lemons, Wheeler Ruml, and Rong Zhou, "Suboptimal and Anytime Heuristic Search on Multi-Core Machines," Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-09) , 2009.

Ethan Burns, Seth Lemons, Rong Zhou, and Wheeler Ruml, "Best-First Heuristic Search for Multi-Core Machines," Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), 2009.

Jordan T. Thayer, Wheeler Ruml, and Jeff Kreis, "Using Distance Estimates in Heuristic Search: A Re-evaluation," Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS-09), 2009.

Silvia Richter, Jordan T. Thayer, and Wheeler Ruml, "The Joy of Forgetting: Faster Anytime Search via Restarting," Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS-09), 2009.

Ethan Burns, Seth Lemons, Wheeler Ruml, and Rong Zhou, "Parallel Best-First Search: Optimal and Suboptimal Solutions," Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS-09), 2009.

Kevin J. Ma; Radim Bartos, Swapnil Bhatia; “Scalability of HTTP pacing with intelligent bursting,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2009), June 28-July 3 2009, pp. 798 - 801.  

S. Bhatia and R. Bartos, "Self-similar functions and population protocols: a characterization and a comparison," 10th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2009), Hyderabad, India, January 2009.

M. Charpentier, R. Bartos, and S. Bhatia, "A mechanism to structure mission-aware interaction in mobile sensor networks," 10th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2009), Hyderabad, India, January 2009.

Ronald Veldema, Bradford Larsen, and Michael Philippsen. "A DSM Protocol Aware of Both Thread Migration and Memory Constraints". In Proceedings of the 20th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, pp 291--296. Orlando, Florida, USA. November 16--18 2008.

Jordan Thayer and Wheeler Ruml, "Faster Than Weighted A*:An Optimistic Approach to Bounded Suboptimal Search", Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-08), 2008.

Allen Hubbe, Wheeler Ruml, Sungwook Yoon, J. Benton, and Minh B. Do, "On-line Anticipatory Planning", Proceedings of the ICAPS-08 Workshop on A Reality Check for Planning and Scheduling Under Uncertainty, 2008.

Jordan Thayer, Wheeler Ruml, and Ephrat Bitton, "Fast and Loose in Bounded Suboptimal Heuristic Search", Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Search Techniques in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (STAIR-08), 2008.

Ethan Burns and Robert Russell , "Implementation and Evaluation of iSCSI over RDMA", Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os (SNAPI'08), Baltimore, Maryland, September 2008.

A. Goel, A. G. Kannan, I. Katz, and R. Bartoš, "Improving Efficiency of a Flooding-based Routing Protocol for Underwater Networks,'' The Third ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet), San Francisco, CA, pp. 91-94, Sept. 2008. *Won Best Short Paper Award at the workshop.

R. Bartoš, S. G. Chappell, R. J. Komerska, M. Haag, S. Mupparapu, E. Agu, and I. Katz, "Development of routing protocols for the Solar-powered Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (SAUV) platform,'' Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Vol.8, No.8, pp. 1075-1088, Aug. 2008.

S. Bhatia, "Look Up and Scream: Analytical Difficulties Resolved!", Journal of Recreational Mathematics, vol. 34, no. 1, 2005-2006, pp. 12 - 23.

M. Li, E. Varki, S. Bhatia, and A. Merchant, "TaP: Table-based Prefetching for Storage Caches," in Proc. of USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2008), San Jose, CA, Feb. 2008.

S. Bhatia, R. Bartoš, and K. J. Ma, "Throughput-Delay Tradeoff in Small and Sparse Mobile Ad hoc Networks,'' ACM/SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 41-43. Apr. 2008. (Poster in Proc. of ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiHoc 2007, Montreal, Canada, Sept. 2007.)

S. Bhatia and R. Bartos, "IPACT with Smallest Available Report First: A New DBA Algorithm for EPON,'' in Proc. of IEEE ICC 2007, Glasgow, Scotland, June 24-28, 2007.

K. J. Ma and R. Bartos, "Analysis of Transport Optimization Techniques,'' Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'06), Chicago, IL, September 2006.

R, Bartos, V. Gorla, L. Cyril, R. Komerska, S. G. Chappell, and R. Sharma, "Experimental Evaluation and Modeling of RF Modems for Use in Fleets of Multiple Cooperating Autonomous Undersea Vehicles,'' Proc. of Oceans'06 MTS/IEEE-Boston, Boston, MA, September 2006.

S. Bhatia, and R. Bartos, "Closed-form expression for the collision probability in the IEEE Ethernet Passive Optical Network registration scheme," Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-14, Jan. 2006.

S. Bhatia, D. Garbuzov and R. Bartos "Analysis of the Gated IPACT Scheme for EPONs", accepted for presentation at IEEE ICC 2006, Istanbul, Turkey, 2006.

S. Bhatia, and R. Bartos. Closed-Form Expression for the Collision Probability in the IEEE EPON Registration Scheme. To apper in Proc. of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM'05), St. Louis, MO, Nov.-Dec. 2005.

Anthony J. Lapadula, Philip J. Hatcher, Andy J. Hanneman, David J. Ashline, Hailong Zhang and Vernon N. Reinhold. OSCAR: An Algorithm for Assigning Oligosaccharide Topology from MSn Data. In Analytical Chemistry, Volume 77, Number 19, October 1, 2005.

Ramakrishnan, S. and Rhodes, Philip J. Iteration Aware Prefetching for Remote Data Access. Submitted to GRID 2005.

Bergeron, R.D., Rhodes, Philip J., Sparr, T.M., Tang, X. Iteration Aware Prefetching for Large Multidimensional Scientific Datasets. To appear in the Proc. SSDBM '05.

Bartos, R., Godsay, C.K., and Bhatia, S. Empirical Evaluation of Upstream Throughput in a DOCSIS Access Network. To appear in Proc. of the First IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Services Access Networks (MSAN '05), Orlando, FL, June 2005.

Bartos, R. and Ma, K.J. Performance Impact of Web Service Migration in Embedded Environments. To appear in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS '05), Orlando, FL, June, 2005.

Antoniu, G., Hatcher, P., Jan, M., and Noblet, D. Performance Evaluation of JXTA Communication Layers. The Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing, May 2005.

Antoniu, G., Bouge, L., Hatcher, P., and Reno, M. Cluster Computing with Java. IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, Volume 7, Number 2, March/April 2005.

Bergeron, R. D., Rhodes, P.J., Sparr, T.M., and Tang, X. Out of core visualization using Iterator Aware Multidimensional Prefetching. Proc. SPIE Vol. 5669, Visualization and Data Analysis 2005: 295-306.

Bergeron, R.D., Foulks, A., and McHugh, J.P. STARview: A Multiresolution Time Series Data Visualizer. Proc. SPIE VDA '05.

Klotz, S., Russell, R.D., and Shastry, Y. Evaluating the effect of iSCI Protocol Parameters on Performance. IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCS 2005), Innsbruck, Austria, 15-17 February 2005.

Merchant, A., Qiu, X., Varki, E., Xu, J. Issues and challenges in the performance analysis of real disk arrays. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 5(6): 559-574, June 2004.

 

 


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