Faculty Activities

(in reverse chronological order)
  • Prof. L. Felipe Perrone received an award for his ENGR 100 seminar project, which he submitted to the IEEE Real World Engineering Program. The project Public Service Announcement Movies Made with the Alice Programming Language, after three stages of peer reviewed analysis, is now available to instructors around the world for direct classroom adoption.
  • Prof. L. Felipe Perrone worked with Profs. Margot Vigeant and Timothy Raymond (Chemical Engineering) on the interdisciplinary course ENGR 290 Engineering in a Global/Societal Context, which took 25 students around Brazil in the summer of 2010. The course took students to Brazil's National Computing Lab (LNCC), to the automated control centers of ethanol and sugar refineries, and to various additional technical and cultural sites.
  • Prof. L. Felipe Perrone was general co-chair of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2010), in Torremolinos, Spain. He is also organizing an invited session in European Wireless 2010, in Lucca, Italy, on the topic of "Tools for Assessing the Performance of Wireless Networks."
  • Prof. Joshua Steinhurst developed on a new course offering for the department: CSCI 202 teaches computing and programming for natural scientists and mathematics students. 
  • Prof. L. Felipe Perrone was program co-chair for the 2nd International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2009), in Rome, Italy. He presented an invited talk entitled "Network Simulation Credibility: From Analyses to Deeds" at the co-located Workshop on Scenarios for Network Evaluation Studies (SCENES 2009).
  • Prof. Gary Haggard was invited by the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University in England to be a Fellow for the special Institute for Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics. He was resident at the Institute during June 2008. An ongoing collaboration with David Pearce of Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and Gordon Royle of the Unviverstiy of Western Australia in Perth, Australia studying Tutte polynomials was one of the projects aided by the presence of researchers from around the world.
  • Prof. Richard Zaccone has written a book on Seaside, a web application development framework for the Smalltalk language. The book is entitled "Dynamic Web Development with Seaside" and was co-written with Michael Davies, Stéphane Ducasse, Lukas Renggli and C. David Shaffer. It is available online at http://book.seaside.st/

Recent Publications

  • "Graph Works--Pilot Graph Theory Visualization Tool", D. Medani, G. Haggard, C. Bassett, P. Koch, N. Limpert, T. Madlock, S. Pierce, R. Smith, A. Yehl. ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SOFTVIS'10), October 25-26, 2010, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
  • "Internet Growth Measurement for Implementation of IP-based Networks", Song Xing and Xiannong Meng. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication, pp. 27-32.  Orlando, Florida, USA. September 15-17, 2010. Winner of the conference's "Best Paper Award".
  • "Computing Tutte Polynomials", Gary Haggard, D.J. Pearce, and G. Royle. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software. Vol. 37, No. 3. September, 2010.
  • "An Experiment Automation Framework for ns-3", Andrew Hallagan, (BCSE '11), Bryan Ward (BCSE '11), and L. Felipe Perrone. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2010). Torremolinos, Spain. March 15-19, 2010. [extended abstract]
  • "Edge-Selection Heuristics for Computing Tutte Polynomials", D.J. Pearce, Gary Haggard, and G. Royle. Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science [to appear]. This is an extended version of "Edge-Selection Heuristics for Computing Tutte Polynomials", D.J. Pearce, Gary Haggard, and G. Royle. In Proceedings of the Australasian Theory Symposium, pp. 153-162, 2009.
  • "A Study of Color Histogram Based Image Retrieval", Rishav Chakravarti (BS CS '10) and Xiannong Meng. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, CD-ROM, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. April 27-29, 2009.
  • "On the Automation of Computer Network Simulators, L. Felipe Perrone, Claudio Cicconetti, Giovanni Stea, and Bryan C. Ward (BCSE '11). In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2009). Rome, Italy. March 2-6, 2009.
  • "Reducing Photon-Mapping Bandwidth by Query Reordering", Joshua Steinhurst, Greg Coombe, and Anselmo Lastra. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 14(1)  pp. 13-24,  Jan/Feb, 2008.
  • "Search Engine Performance Comparisons", Xiannong Meng, and Song Xing. In Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Agent Technology, and Collaborative Applications, Vijayan Sugumaran (ed.),  pp. 148--164. Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA, 2008, ISBN 978-1-60566-144-5 (hbk), 978-1-60566-145-2 (ebook).
  • "Web Search Engine Architectures and their Performance Analysis", Xiannong Meng. In Handbook of Research on Web Information Systems Quality, Coral Calero Munoz, M. Angeles Moraga, and Mario Piattini (eds.), pp. 491--509. Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA, 2008, ISBN 978-1-59904-847-5 (hbk), 978-1-59904-848-2 (ebook).
  • "Sampling Approaches on Collecting Internet Statistics in the Digital Economy", Song Xing, Bernd-Peter Paris, and Xiannong Meng. In Handbook of Research on Global Information Technology Management in the Digital Economy, Mahesh S. Raisinghani (ed.), pp. 452--475, Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA, 2008, ISBN 978-1-59904-875-8 (hbk), 978-1-59904-876-5 (ebook).
  • "Enhancing the Credibility of Wireless Network Simulations with Experiment Automation", L. Felipe Perrone, Christopher J. Kenna (BS CS '08), and Bryan C. Ward (BCSE '11). IEEE International Workshop on Selected Topics in Mobile and Wireless Computing (STWiMob 2008). Avignon, France. October 12-14, 2008.
  • "An Empirical Performance Measurement of Microsoft's Search Engine and its Comparison with other Major Search Engines'", Xiannong Meng, Song Xing, and Ty Clark. International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies, 3(2), pp. 65-8, 2007, Ideas Group Publishing, Hershey, PA.
  • "Approaches on Internet Growth Measurement: Hostname-Based vs. Address-Based'', Song Xing, Xiannong Meng, and Yonggao Yang. In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Internet Computing, Las  Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. June 25-28, 2007.
  • "Optimal Embeddings and Eigenvalues in Support Theory", Erik Boman, Stephen Guattery, and Bruce Hendrickson. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, volume 29, issue 2, 2007.
  • "Could a Caveman Do It? The Surprising Potential of Simple Attacks", L. Felipe Perrone, IEEE Security & Privacy, 5(6) pp. 74-77, (November/December), 2007.
  • "Generating a Statically-Checkable Device Driver I/O Interface", Lea Wittie, Chris Hawblitzel and Derrin Pierret (BS CS '07). In Proceedings of Automatic Program Generation for Embedded Systems (APGES) 2007, Salzburg, Austria, October 4th, 2007

 

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