Faculty Activities

Activities

  • 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. 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. Perrone was invited to serve as general co-chair for the next edition of the conference, which will take place in Torremolinos, Spain, in March of 2010.
  • Prof. L. Felipe Perrone is working with Profs. Margot Vigeant and Timothy Raymond (Chemical Engineering) on the interdisciplinary course ENGR 290 Engineering in a Global/Societal Context, which will take place in Brazil in the summer of 2010.
  • 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

  • "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.
  • "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.
  • "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).
  • "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.
  • "On the Automation of Computer Network Simulators, L. Felipe Perrone, Claudio Cicconetti, Giovanni Stea, and Bryan C. Ward (BS CSE '11). In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2009). Rome, Italy.
  • "Enhancing the Credibility of Wireless Network Simulations with Experiment Automation", L. Felipe Perrone, Christopher J. Kenna (BS CS '08), and Bryan C. Ward (BS CSE '11). IEEE International Workshop on Selected Topics in Mobile and Wireless Computing (STWiMob 2008). Avignon, France. 
  • "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.
  • "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.
  • "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