2007 Faculty Publications
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Joyce Chai
M. Sun and J. Chai, "Discourse Processing for Context Question Answering based on Linguistic Knowledge," Knowledge-based Systems, Special Issues on Intelligent User Interfaces, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 511-526, August 2007.
J. Chai, C. Zhang, and R. Jin, "An Empirical Investigation of User Term Feedback in Targeted Image Search via Text-based Retrieval," ACM Transactions on Information Systems, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 1-25, ACM Press, February 2007.
Y. Liu, R. Jin, and J. Chai. "A Statistical Framework for Query Translation Disambiguation," ACM Transactions on Asian Language Processing, special issue on Reasoning in NLP, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 360-387, ACM Press, December 2006.
Y. Liu, J. Chai, and R. Jin, "Automated Vocabulary Acquisition and Interpretation in Multimodal Conversational Systems," In Proc. of The 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, Czech Republic, June 23-30, 2007, pp. 368-375. (Acceptance rate: 22%)
S. Qu and J. Chai. "An Exploration of Eye Gaze in Spoken Language Proc.essing for Multimodal Conversational Interfaces," In Proc. of the Conference of the North America Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2007, Rochester NY, April, 2007, pp. 284-291. (Acceptance rate: 24%)
Z. Prasov, J. Chai, and H. Jeong, "Eye Gaze in Attention Prediction in Multimodal Human Machine Conversation," In Proc. of the AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium on Interaction Challenges for Artificial Assistants. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, March 2007.
Betty H. C. Cheng
J. Zhang, Z. Zhou, B. H. C. Cheng, and P. K. McKinley, "Specifying Real-time Properties in Autonomic Systems," Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, Springer, vol. 3, no. 1, March 2007.
Ali Ebnenasir and Betty H.C. Cheng, "Pattern-based Modeling and Analysis of Failsafe Fault-Tolerance in UML" Proc. of IEEE Conference on High Assurance Software Engineering (HASE07), Dallas, TX, November 2007, pp. 275-282. (Acceptance rate = 30%)
Heather Goldsby, Sascha Konrad, and Betty H. C. Cheng, "Goal-Oriented Patterns for UML-Based Modeling of Embedded Systems Requirements" Proc. of IEEE Conference on High Assurance Software Engineering (HASE07), Dallas, TX, November 2007, pp. 7-14. (Acceptance rate = 30%)
Sascha Konrad, Heather Goldsby, and Betty H. C. Cheng, "i2MAP: An Incremental and Iterative Modeling and Analysis Proc.ess" Proc. of ACM/IEEE Int. Conference Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS/UML 2007), Nashville, TN, October 2007, pp. 451-466. (Acceptance rate = 26%)
Ji Zhang, Betty H. C. Cheng, and Heather Goldsby, "AMOEBA-RT: Run-time Verification of Adaptive Software," in Proc. for Workshop on Models at Run-time , selected as a Best Paper , Nashville, TN, October 2007 (full paper).
Pete Sawyer, Nelly Bencomo, Danny Hughes, Paul Grace, Heather J. Goldsby, and Betty H. C. Cheng, "Visualizing the Analysis of Dynamically Adaptive Systems Using i* and DSLs*, "Proc. of Second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization (REV07), New Delhi, India, October 2007 (full paper).
Betty H. C. Cheng and Joanne M. Atlee, "Future Research Directions in Requirements Engineering" Proc. of IEEE ICSE Future of Software Engineering , eds. L. Briand and A. Wolf, Minneapolis, MN, May 2007, pp. 285-303.
Philip K. McKinley, Betty H.C. Cheng, and Charles A. Ofria, "Applying Digital Evolution to the Development of Self-Adaptive ULS Systems" IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) Workshop on Ultra-Large Scale Systems (ULS), May 2007, Minneapolis, MN (6 pp.).
Heather J. Goldsby, David B. Knoester, Betty H.C. Cheng, Philip K. McKinley, and Charles A. Ofria, "Digitally Evolving Models for Dynamically Adaptive Systems" in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering Workshop Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), May 2007, Minneapolis, MN. (Full paper, acceptance rate = 25%)
Ji Zhang and Betty H.C. Cheng, "Re-engineering Legacy Systems for Assured Dynamic Adaptation" in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering Workshop on on Models in Software Engineering (MiSE) May 2007, Minneapolis, MN. (Full paper, acceptance rate = 41%)
Laura K. Dillon
B. Sarna-Starosta, R. E. K. Stirewalt, and L. K. Dillon, A Model-Based Design for Verification Approach to Checking for Deadlock in Multi-Threaded Applications," in International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering , vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 207-230, 2007.
S. D. Fleming, R. E. K. Stirewalt, and L. K. Dillon, "Using Program Families for Maintenance Experiments," in Proc. of the First Workshop on Assessment of Contemporary Modularization Techniques (ACoM.07) , Minneapolis, MN, May 2007.
B. Sarna-Starosta, R. E. K. Stirewalt, and L. K. Dillon, "Contracts and Middleware for Safe SOA Applications," in Proc. of the International Workshop on Systems Development in SOA Environments (SDSOA'07) , Minneapolis, MN, May 2007.
Richard Enbody
J. Demott, R. Enbody, and W. Punch, "Revolutionizing the Field of Grey-box Attack Surface Testing with Evolutionary Fuzzing," Black Hat USA 2007 & DefCon 15, 2007.
R. Enbody and Y. Zhang, "A Mathematic Model for Securing Private Data in an Outsourcing Environment," 6th Security Conference, 2007.
R. Enbody and K. Piromsopa, "Architecting Security: A Secure Implementation of Hardware Buffer-Overflow Protection," Third International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology (ACST) 2007.
Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian
Abhishek Patil, Yunhao Liu, Li Xiao, A-H. Esfahanian, and Lionel M. Ni, "SOLONet: Sub-optimal location-aided overlay network for MANETs," Journal of Wireless Networks, pp. 1572-8196, January 2007.
Jerry Scripps, Pang-Ning Tan, and A-H. Esfahanian, "Node Roles and Community Structure in Networks," KDD 2007 Workshop on Web Mining and Social Network Analysis, August 2007, pp. 26 - 36.
Jerry Scripps, Pang-Ning Tan, and A-H. Esfahanian, "Exploration of Link Structure and Community-based Node Roles in Network Data," Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM-07), Omaha, NE, October 2007, pp. 649 - 654.
Anil K. Jain
K. Nandakumar, A. K. Jain, and S. Pankanti, "Fingerprint-based Fuzzy Vault: Implementation and Performance, "IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security , vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 744-757, December 2007.
S. C. Dass, Y. Zhu, and A. K. Jain, "Statistical Models for Assessing the Individuality of Fingerprints, "IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 391-401, Sept. 2007.
A. Ross, J. Shah, and A. K. Jain, "From Templates to Images: Regenerating Fingerprints From Minutiae Points, "IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 544-560, April 2007.
M. Farmer and A. K. Jain, "Smart Automotive Airbags: Occupant Classification and Tracking, "IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology , vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 60-80, January 2007.
A. K. Jain, Y. Chen, and M. Demirkus, "Pores and Ridges: Fingerprint Matching Using Level 3 Features, "IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 15-27, January 2007.
A. K. Jain, "Biometric Recognition: Q & A," Nature, vol. 449, pp. 38-40, Sept. 2007.
A. K. Jain, J.-E. Lee, and R. Jin, "Tattoo-ID: Automatic Tattoo Image Retrieval for Suspect & Victim Identification, "Proc. of Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM), December 2007. Received the Best Paper Award
R. K. Rowe, U. Uludag, M. Demirkus, S. Parthasaradhi, and A. K. Jain, "A Multispectral Whole-hand Biometric Authentication System," Proc. of Biometric Symposium, BCC , Baltimore, MD, September 2007.
Y. Chen and A. K. Jain, "Dots and Incipients: Extended Features for Partial Fingerprint Matching," Proc. of Biometric Symposium, BCC , Baltimore, MD, September, 2007. Received the Best Paper Award
H. Gamboa, A. L. N. Fred, and A. K. Jain, "Webbiometrics: User Verification Via Web Interaction," Proc. of Biometric Symposium, BCC , Baltimore, MD, September 2007.
Y. Liu, R. Jin, and A. K. Jain, "BoostCluster: Boosting Clustering by Pairwise Constraints," in 13th Intl' Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), San Jose, CA, August 2007, pp. 450-459.
K. Nandakumar, A. Nagar, and A. K. Jain, "Hardening Fingerprint-based Fuzzy Vault Using Password," in Proc. of 2 nd International Conference on Biometrics (ICB), Seoul, South Korea, August 2007, pp. 927-937.
U. Park and A. K. Jain, "3D Model-Based Face Recognition in Video," in Proc. of 2nd International Conference on Biometrics (ICB), Seoul, South Korea, August, 2007, pp. 1085-1094.
U. Park, A. K. Jain, and A. Ross, "Face Recognition in Video: Adaptive Fusion of Multiple Matchers," IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Biometrics, CVPR, Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 2007.
Rong Jin
R. Jin and J. Zhang, "Multi-Class Learning by Smoothed Boosting," Journal of Machine Learning, vol. 67 no. 3, pp. 207-227 (21), 2007.
R. Jin , L. Si, and C. Chan , "A Bayesian Framework for Knowledge Driven Regression Model in Micro-array Data Analysis," to appear in International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, 2008.
J. Chai , C. Zhang, and R. Jin, "An Empirical Investigation of User Term Feedback in Targeted Image Search via Text-based Retrieval," ACM Transactions on Information Systems, vol. 25 no. 1, February, 2007.
F. Chen, S. El-Dawlatly, R. Jin, and K. Oweiss, "Identifying and Tracking the Number of Independent Clusters of Functionally Interdependent Neurons from Biophysical Models of Population Activity," Proc. of the 3rd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, 2007, pp. 542-545.
Y. Liu, R. Jin, and A. Jain, "BoostCluster: Boosting Clustering by Pairwise Constraints, Proc. of the 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2007), 2007, pp. 450-459. (acceptance rate 20%)
C. Ding, R. Jin, T. Li, and H. Simon, "A Learning Framework using Green's Function and Kernel Regularization with Application to Recommender System, Proc. of the 13 th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2007), 2007, pp. 260-269. (acceptance rate 8%)
M. Wu, R. Jin, and R. Sukthankar, "Semi-supervised Collaborative Text Classification, 18th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2007), pp. 600-607. (acceptance rate 24%)
L. Yang, R. Jin , and R. Sukthankar, "Bayesian Active Distance Metric Learning, Proc. of the 23 rd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2007), 2007. (acceptance rate 10%)
L. Yang, R. Jin , and R. Sukthankar, "Discriminative Cluster Refinement: Improving Object Category Recognition Given Limited Training Data, Proc. of the 2007 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2007), 2007 (8 pp., acceptance rate 28%)
S. Hoi, R. Jin , and M. Lyu, "Learning Nonparametric Kernel Matrices from Pairwise Constraints, Proc. of the 2007 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2007), pp. 361-368. (acceptance rate 29%)
H. Cheng, P. N. Tan, and R. Jin, "Localized Support Vector Machine and Its Efficient Algorithm, in Proc. of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2007), 2007.
W. Tong and R. Jin, "Semi-supervised Learning by Mixed Label Propagation, Proc. of the 22 nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 07), 2007, pp. 651-656. (acceptance rate 27%)
F. Chen and R. Jin, "Active Algorithm Selection, Proc. of the 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 07), 2007, pp. 543-549. (acceptance rate 27%)
Y. Liu, J. Chai, and R. Jin, "Automated Vocabulary Acquisition and Interpretation in Multimodal Conversational Systems, Proc. of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007) (acceptance rate 22%)
Sandeep Kulkarni
M. Arumugam and S. S. Kulkarni, "Self-stabilizing Deterministic TDMA for Sensor Networks," AIAA Journal of Aerospace computing, information and communication (JACIC), 2007.
S. S. Kulkarni and M. Arumugam, "A TDMA based Data Dissemination Protocol for Sensor Networks," International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Borzoo Bonakdarpour and Sandeep S. Kulkarni, "Exploiting Symbolic Techniques in Automated Synthesis of Distributed Programs with Large State Space," ICDCS 2007, 2007. (acceptance rate 15%, nominated for best paper award)
Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Sandeep S. Kulkarni and Fuad Abujarad: "Distributed Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant Programs in the High Atomicity Model," Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, 2007, pp. 21-36. (acceptance rate: 30%)
Limin Wang and Sandeep S. Kulkarni, "Authentication in Reprogramming of Sensor Networks for Mote Class Adversaries," Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems, 2007, pp. 1-8.
Arshad Jhumk and Sandeep S. Kulkarni, "On the Design of Mobility-Tolerant TDMA-Based Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol for Mobile Sensor Networks," ICDCIT 2007, 2007, pp. 42-53. (acceptance rate 10%)
Limin Wang, Mahesh Arumugam, and Sandeep S. Kulkarni, "Authentication for Bulk Data Dissemination in Sensor Networks Using Symmetric Keys," Workshop on Reliability, Availability, and Security, 2007. (acceptance rate: 50%)
Alex Liu
Mohamed G. Gouda, Alex X. Liu, Lok M. Leung, and Mohamed A. Alam, "SPP: An Anti-phishing Single Password Protocol, Journal of Computer Networks (Elsevier), vol. 51, no. 13, pp. 1389-1286, September, 2007.
Mohamed G. Gouda and Alex X. Liu, "Structured Firewall Design," Journal of Computer Networks (Elsevier), vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 1106-1120, March 2007.
Chad R. Meiners, Alex X. Liu, and Eric Torng, "TCAM Razor: A Systematic Approach Towards Minimizing Packet Classifiers in TCAMs," in Proc. of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Beijing, China, October 2007. (Acceptance rate: 32/220=14.5%).
Alex X. Liu, "Change-Impact Analysis of Firewall Policies," in Proc. of the 12th European Symposium Research Computer Security (ESORICS), Dresden, Germany, September 2007. (Acceptance rate: 39/164=23.7%).
Philip McKinley
F. A. Samimi, P. K. McKinley, S. M. Sadjadi, C. Tang, J. K. Shapiro, and Z. Zhou, "Service Clouds: Distributed Infrastructure for Adaptive Communication Services," IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 4, pp. 84-95, 2007.
C. Tang and P. K. McKinley, "Topology-aware Overlay Path Probing," Computer Communications, vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 1994-2009, 2007.
J. Zhang, Z. Zhou, B. H. C. Cheng, and P. K. McKinley, "Specifying Real-time Properties in Autonomic Systems," Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, vol. 3, pp. 3-16, March 2007.
E. P. Kasten and P. K. McKinley, "Meso: Supporting Online Decision Making in Autonomic Computing Systems," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 19, pp. 485-499, April 2007.
D. B. Knoester, P. K. McKinley, B. Beckmann, and C. A. Ofria, "Directed Evolution of Communication and Cooperation in Digital Organisms," in Proc. of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, (Lisbon, Portugal), September 2007.
B. Beckmann, P. K. McKinley, and C. A. Ofria, "Evolution of Adaptive Sleep Response in Digital Organisms," in Proc. of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, (Lisbon, Portugal), September 2007.
D. B. Knoester, P. K. McKinley, and C. Ofria, "Using Group Selection to Evolve Leadership in Populations of Self-replicating Digital Organisms," in Proc. of the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2007), (London, UK), July 2007.
B. Beckmann, P. K. McKinley, D. B. Knoester, and C. Ofria, "Evolution of Cooperative Information Gathering in Self-replicating Digital Organisms," in Proc. of the First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), (Boston, Massachusetts), July 2007.
E. P. Kasten, P. K. McKinley, and S. H. Gage, "Automated Ensemble Extraction and Analysis of Acoustic Data Streams," in Proc. of the First International Workshop on Distributed Event Proc.essing, Systems and Applications (DEPSA), in conjunction with ICDCS 2007, (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), June 2007.
H. J. Goldsby, D. B. Knoester, B. Cheng, P. K. McKinley, and C. A. Ofria, "Digitally Evolving Models for Dynamically Adaptive Systems," in Proc. of the ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), (Minneapolis, Minnesota), May 2007.
P. K. McKinley, B. H. C. Cheng, and C. A. Ofria, "Applying Digital Evolution to the Design of Self-adaptive ULS Systems (position paper)," in Proc. of the ICSE Workshop on Software Technologies for Ultra-Large-Scale (ULS) Systems, (Minneapolis, Minnesota), May 2007.
Matt Mutka
F. Zhu, W. Zhu, M. W. Mutka, and L. Ni, "Private and Secure Service Discovery via Progressive and Probabilistic Exposure," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 1565-1577, November 2007.
Y. Shen, N. Methil-Sudhakaran, C. Pomeroy, N. Xi, R. Mukherjee, D. Zhu, Z. Cen, M. Mutka, Y. Tan, J. Yang, C. Slomski, and K. Apelgren, "Supermedia Interface for Internet Based Tele-diagnostics of Breast Pathology," International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 26, no. 11-12, pp. 1235-1250, November/December 2007.
G. Zeng, B. Wang, Y. Dong, L. Xiao, and M. Mutka, "Multicast Algorithms for Multi-channel Wireless Mesh Networks," Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2007), October 2007.
R.-S. Ko and M. W. Mutka, "An Ad Hoc Approach to Achieve Collaborative Computing with Pervasive Devices," Proc. of the International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC 2007), May 2007.
Y. Shen, N. Xi, N. Methil-Sudhakaran, R. Mukherjee, D. Zhu, Z. Cen, M. Mutka, C. Slomski, and K. Apelgren, "Internet Based Tele-diagnostic Interface for Breast Pathology," Proc. of the 3rd Int. Conf. on Telehealth 2007, May 2007.
A. Goradia, Z. Cen, C. Haffner, N. Xi, and M. W. Mutka, "Sensor Deployment and Targets Tracking in a Surveillance Network," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2007), April 2007.
A. Goradia, C. Haffner, N. Xi and M. W. Mutka, "Optimality Framework for Hausdorff Tracking using Mutational Dynamics and Physical Programming," Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2007), April 2007.
Charles Ofria
D. Hang, E. Torng, C. Ofria, and T.M Schmidt, "The Effect of Natural Selection on the Performance of Maximum Parsimony. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 7:94
S. F Elena, C. O. Wilke, C. Ofria, and R. E. Lenski, "Effects of Population Size and Mutation Rate on the Evolution of Mutational Robustness. Evolution 61(3):666-674.
E. Ostrowski, C. Ofria, and Lenski RE, "Specialization in digital organisms, The American Naturalist 169:E1-E20
J. Clune, C. Ofria, and R. T. Pennock, "Evolving Phenotypic Plasticity in Digital Organisms, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Proc. of the 2007 European Conference on Artificial Life, 4648:74-83.
B. Beckmann P. K. McKinley, and C. Ofria, "Evolution of an Adaptive Sleep Response in Digital Organisms, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Proc. of the 2007 European Conference on Artificial Life, 4648:233-242.
D. B. Knoester, P. K. McKinley, B. Beckmann, and C. Ofria, "Evolution of Environmental Dependence in Populations of Cooperating Digital Organisms, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Proc. of the 2007 European Conference on Artificial Life, 4648:384-394.
B. Beckmann, P. K. McKinley, D. B. Knoester, and C. Ofria, "Evolution of Cooperative Information Gathering in Self-Replicating Digital Organisms. Proc. of the First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Boston, Massachusetts, July 2007. pp. 65-76.
D. B. Knoester, P. K. McKinley, and C. Ofria, "Using Group Selection to Evolve Leadership in Populations of Self-Replicating Digital Organisms, Proc. of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, London, England, July 2007. pp. 293-300.
P. K. McKinley, B. H. C. Cheng, and C. Ofria, "Applying Digital Evolution to the Design of Self-Adaptive ULS Systems (position paper), in Proc. of the Workshop Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, with ICSE 2007, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2007.
H. J. Goldsby, D. B. Knoester, B. H. C. Cheng, P. K. McKinley, and C. Ofria, "Digitally Evolving Models for Dynamically Adaptive Systems, in Proc. of the Workshop Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, with ICSE 2007, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2007.
Charles Owen
J. Zhang and C. B. Owen, "Octree-based Animated Geometry Compression," Computers and Graphics, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 463-479, June 2007.
F. Biocca, C. B. Owen, A. Tang, and C. Bohil, "Attention Issues in Spatial Information Systems: Directing Mobile User’s Visual Attention Using Augmented Reality," Journal of Management Information Systems, vol. 23, no. 4., pp. 163-184, Spring, 2007.
M. Zhao, G. Zhou, W. Mou, W. Hayward, and C. B. Owen, "Spatial Updating During Locomotion Does Not Eliminate Viewpoint-dependent Visual Object Proc.essing," Visual Cognition, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 402-419, 2007.
Sakti Pramanik
Dashiell Kolbe, Qiang Zhu, and Sakti Pramanik, "On K-Nearest Neighbor Searching in Non-Ordered Discrete Data Spaces," 2007 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 07), Istanbul, Turky, 2007 (Acceptance rate: 20%).
William F. Punch
Haibin Cheng, Pang-Ning Tan, Jon Sticklen, and William F. Punch, "Recommendation via Query Centered Random Walk on K-partite Graph", Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM-07), Omaha, Nebraska, Oct 28-31, 2007. (Acceptance rate = 19%)
J. Demott, R. Enbody, and W. Punch, "Revolutionizing the Field of Grey-box Attack Surface Testing with Evolutionary Fuzzing," Black Hat USA 2007 & DefCon 15, Las Vegas NV, August 2007.
L. Macklem and W. Punch, "Fitness Moderated Complexification for Prevention of GP Bloat," Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECC0 2007), London 2007.
Jon Sticklen
Jon Sticklen, D. Briedis, Mark Urban-Lurain, and Timothy Hinds, "Vertical Integration of MATLAB Across Engineering Curricula: Systemic Curricular Change by Small Steps," 2007 ASEE Conference and Exposition, paper AC 2007-1949, Honolulu, HI; USA.
D. Briedis, D. Miller, R. Ofoli, D. Miller, and Jon Sticklen, "Enabling Curricular Integration Through Multi-Course Assessment," 2007 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, paper AC 2007-2107, Honolulu, HI; USA.
Haibin Cheng, Pang-Ning Tan, Jon Sticklen, and William F. Punch, "Recommendation via Query Centered Random Walk on K-partite Graph", Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM-07), Omaha, Nebraska, Oct 28-31, 2007. (Acceptance rate = 19%)
R. E. Kurt Stirewalt
B. Sarna-Starosta, R. E. K. Stirewalt, and L. K. Dillon, "A Model-Based Design for Verification Approach to Checking for Deadlock in Multi-Threaded Applications," International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 207-230, 2007.
S. Xie, E. T. Kraemer, and R. E. K. Stirewalt, "Design and Evaluation of a Diagrammatic Notation to Aid in the Understanding of Concurrency Concepts," in Proc. of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE ‘07), Minneapolis, MN, 2007.
S. D. Fleming and R. E. K. Stirewalt, "Program Families and the Economics of the Design, Execution, and Interpretation of Maintenance Experiments," in Proc. of the First Workshop on Assessment of Contemporary Modularization Techniques (ACoM.07), Minneapolis, MN, May 2007.
B. Sarna-Starosta, R. E. K. Stirewalt, and L. K. Dillon, "Contracts and Middleware for Safe SOA Applications,"in Proc. of the International Workshop on Systems Development in SOA Environments (SDAOA ‘07), Minneapolis, MN, May 2007.
S. Xie, E. T. Kraemer, and R. E. K. Stirewalt, "Empirical Evaluation of a UML Sequence Diagram with Adornments to Support Understanding of Thread Interactions," in Proc. of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, Banff, Alberta, Canada, June 2007.
M. Di Penta, R. E. K. Stirewalt, and E. T. Kraemer, "Designing your next Empirical Study in Program Comprehension," in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, June 2007.
S. D. Fleming, R. E. K. Stirewalt, and E. T. Kraemer, "Toward a Task Model of Concurrent Software Maintenance," in Proc. of the ASE Workshop on Empirical Assessment of Software Engineering Languages and Technologies (WEASELTech ‘07), Atlanta, GA, November 2007.
George Stockman
Naveed Khatak and George Stockman, "Shape and Structure for Image Matching and Retrieval," in Proc. Int. Conf. on Machine Vision, Islamabad, Pakistan, 28,29 Dec. 2007.
Dirk Colbry and George Stockman, "Canonical Face Depth Map: A Robust 3D Representation for Face Verification," 20th International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Minneapolis, MN, 21-24 June 2007.
Dirk Colbry and George Stockman, "Identity Verification via the 3DID Face Alignment System," in Proc. of WACV 2007, Austin, TX, 21 Feb. 2007.
Pang-Ning Tan
Jerry Scripps, Pang-Ning Tan, and Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian, "Exploring the Link Structure and Community-based Node Roles in Networked Data," Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM-07), Omaha, Nebraska, Oct 28-31, 2007. (Acceptance rate = 19%)
Haibin Cheng, Pang-Ning Tan, Jon Sticklen, and William F. Punch, "Recommendation via Query Centered Random Walk on K-partite Graph," Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM-07), Omaha, Nebraska, Oct 28-31, 2007. (Acceptance rate = 19%)
Hamed Valizadegan and Pang-Ning Tan, "Kernel-based Detection of Mislabeled Examples, Proc. of SDM'07: SIAM Int'l Conf. on Data Mining," Minneapolis, MN, April 26-28, 2007. (Acceptance rate = 12%)
Haibin Cheng, Pang-Ning Tan, and Rong Jin, "Localized Support Vector Machine and Its Efficient Algorithm," Proc. of SDM'07: SIAM Int'l Conf. on Data Mining, Minneapolis, MN, April 26-28, 2007. (Acceptance rate = 25%)
Samah Fodeh and Pang-Ning Tan, "Incorporating Background Knowledge for Subjective Rule Evaluation," Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-07), Patras, Greece, October 29-31, 2007. (Acceptance rate = 30%)
Kapila Moonesinghe, Hamed Valizadegan, Samah Fodeh, and Pang-Ning Tan, "A Probabilistic Substructure-Based Approach for Graph Classification," Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-07), Patras, Greece, October 29-31, 2007. (Acceptance rate = 30%)
Samah Fodeh and Pang-Ning Tan, "Incorporating Background Knowledge from the World Wide Web for Rule Evaluation Using the Minimum Discriminative Information Principle," KDD 2007 Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources, San Jose, CA, August 12-15, 2007. (Acceptance rate = 36%)
Jerry Scripps, Pang-Ning Tan, and Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian, "Node Roles and Community Structure in Networks," KDD 2007 Workshop on Web Mining and Social Network Analysis, August 12-15, 2007.
Hamed Valizadegan and Pang-Ning Tan, "A Prototype-driven Framework for Change Detection in Data Stream Classification," Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM 2007), Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007.
Yiying Tong
Xiaohan Shi, Kun Zhou, Yiying Tong, Mathieu Desbrun, Hujun Bao, and Baining Guo, "Mesh Puppetry: Cascading Optimization of Mesh Deformation with Inverse Kinematics," ACM Trans. on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), July 2007.
Patrick Mullen, Alexander McKenzie, Yiying Tong, and Mathieu Desbrun, "A Variational Approach to Eulerian Geometry Processing," ACM Trans. on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), July 2007.
Eva Kanso, Marino Arroyo, Yiying Tong, Arash Yavari, Jerrold E. Marsden, and Mathieu Desbrun "On the Geometric Character of Stress in Continuum Mechanics," Z. angew. Math. Phys., vol. 58, pp. 1-14, 2007.
Sharif Elcott, Yiying Tong, Eva Kanso, Peter Schröder, and Mathieu Desbrun, "Stable, Circulation-Preserving, Simplicial Fluids," ACM Trans. on Graphics, vol. 26, no. 1 pp. 4, January 2007.
Pierre Alliez, David Cohen-Steiner, Yiying Tong, and Mathieu Desbrun, "Voronoi-based Variational Reconstruction of Unoriented Point Sets," In Symposium on Geometry Processing, July 2007.
Ilya Eckstein, Jean-Philippe Pons, Yiying Tong, C.C. Jay Kuo, and Mathieu Desbrun, "Generalized Surface Flows for Mesh Processing," In Symposium on Geometry Processing, July 2007.
Kai Ye, Kun Zhou, Zhigeng Pan, Yiying Tong, and Baining Guo, "Low distortion shell map generation," In IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, July 2007.
I. Eckstein, Y. Tong, C.-C. J. Kuo, and M. Desbrun, "Volume-controlled surface fairing," ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Sketches, San Diego, CA, August 5-9, 2007.
Eric Torng
Dehua Hang, Eric Torng, Charles Ofria and Thomas M. Schmidt, "The Effect of Natural Selection on the Performance of Maximum Parsimony," Biomed Central Evolutionary Biology, vol. 7, article no. 94, 2007.
Chad Meiners and Eric Torng, "Mixed Criteria Packet Scheduling," Proc. of Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management (AAIM), pp. 120-133, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4508, 2007.
Chad R. Meiners, Alex Liu, and Eric Torng, "TCAM Razor: A Systematic Approach Towards Minimizing Packet Classifiers in TCAM’s," IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), pp. 266-275, 2007.
John Weng
Y. Zhang and J. Weng, "Task Transfer by a Developmental Robot," IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 226-248, 2007.
J. Weng, T. Luwang, H. Lu, X. Xue, "A Multilayer In-Place Learning Network for Development of General Invariances," International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 281-320, 2007.
J. Weng and W. Hwang, "Incremental Hierarchical Discriminant Regression," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 397-415, 2007.
J. Weng, "On Developmental Mental Architectures," Neurocomputing, vol. 70, no. 13-15, pp. 2303-2323, 2007.
X. Huang and J. Weng, "Inherent Value Systems for Autonomous Mental Development," International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 407-433, 2007.
L. Grabowski, M. Luciw and J. Weng, "A System for Epigenetic Concept Development through Autonomous Associative Learning," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, London, July 11-13, 2007.
J. Weng, T. Luwang, W. Shi, L. Hong, M. Chi, and X. Xue, "Multilayer In-Place Learning Networks: Multitask Invariance and Adaptive Lateral Connections," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, London, July 11-13, 2007.
H. Zhao, Z. Ji, and J. Weng, "Developmental Learning for Avoiding Dynamic Obstacles Using Attention," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, London, July 11-13, 2007.
J. Weng, T. Luwang, H. Lu and X. Xue, "The Multilayer In-Place Learning Network for the Development of General Invariances and Multi-Task Learning," in Proc. IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Orlando, Florida, August 12-17, 2007.
J. Lu and J. Weng, "Autonomous Learning in Gesture Recognition by Using Lobe Component Analysis," in Proc. IS\&T/SPIE 19th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging, Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems V, San Jose, California, Jan. 28-Feb. 1, 2007.
Li Xiao
Y. Liu, L. Xiao, and L. Ni, "Building a Scalable Bipartite P2P Overlay Network," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, pp. 1296-1306, vol. 18, no. 9, 2007.
C. Wang and L. Xiao, "Sensor Localization under Limited Measurement Capabilities," IEEE Network, pp. 16-23, vol. 21 no. 3, May/June 2007.
X. Liu and L. Xiao, "A Survey of Multihoming Technology in Stub Networks: Current Research and Open Issues," IEEE Network, pp. 32-40, vol. 21 no. 3, May/June 2007.
C. Wang and L. Xiao, "An Effective P2P Search Scheme to Exploit File Sharing Heterogeneity," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, pp. 145-157, vol. 18, no. 2, 2007.
G. Zeng, B. Wang, Y. Ding, L. Xiao, and M. Mutka, "Multicast Algorithms for Multichannel Wireless Mesh Networks," Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2007), Beijing, China, October 2007, pp. 1-10. (Acceptance rate: 32/220=14.5%)
Y. Liu, X. Liu, C. Wang, and L. Xiao, "Defending P2Ps from Overlay Flooding-based DDoS," Proc. of the 2007 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-07), Xi’an, China, September 2007, 8 pages. (Acceptance rate: 79/284=27.8%)
C. Wang and L. Xiao, "Improving Routing Quality of Greedy Forwarding in Wireless Networks," Proc. of the Fifteenth IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2007), Chicago, Illinois, June 2007, pp. 65-73. (Acceptance rate: 17/64=26.6%)
Y. Ding, C. Wang, and L. Xiao, "A Connectivity Based Partition Approach for Node Scheduling in Sensor Networks," Proc. of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2007), Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2007, pp. 354-367.
C. Wang, G. Zeng, and L. Xiao, "Optimizing End to End Routing Performance in Wireless Sensor Networks," Proc. of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2007), Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2007, pp. 36-49.
C. Wang and L. Xiao, "Improving Event-to-Sink Throughput in Wireless Sensor Networks," Proc. of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2007), Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2007, pp. 50-63.
G. Zeng, C. Wang, and L. Xiao, "Grid Multicast: An Energy-efficient Multicast Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks," Proc. of the Fourth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2007), Braunschweig, Germany, June 2007, pp. 267-274.