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Java Performance Of The Rijndael Encryption Algorithm Across Compilers And Virtual Machines, Gregory Leavitt Orgill Jan 2005

Java Performance Of The Rijndael Encryption Algorithm Across Compilers And Virtual Machines, Gregory Leavitt Orgill

Theses and Dissertations

The Rijndael encryption algorithm has recently been published as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), a Federal Information Processing Standard, and is being accepted by developers and designers as the algorithm of choice where encryption is required. Java is becoming the language of choice for E-Business applications, many of which require cryptography. The performance of any Java application is dependent on the compiler and virtual machine used to compile and interpret. Prior research has provided performance information for the Rijndael algorithm in Java for specific virtual machines. This research includes the development of a Rijndael implementation in Java. Using Java system …

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Computer-Simulation-Assisted Lean Manufacturing Training, Luoding Wang Jan 2005

Computer-Simulation-Assisted Lean Manufacturing Training, Luoding Wang

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis assesses the potential of using computer simulation to aid existing lean manufacturing training methods such as lecture and live simulation. An investigation of this possibility was carried out in conjunction with UMEP's Lean 101 class. In the study, two experimental computer simulation models demonstrating the push and pull production scenarios were constructed using ProModel software. Simulation models were equipped with a Visual Basic interface to aid trainees to manipulate the model via ActiveX. Constructed computer simulation was compared with live simulation to answer these research questions: 1. Was computer simulation able to teach additional lean concepts not covered …

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High-Throughput Inference Of Protein-Protein Interaction Sites From Unassigned Nmr Data By Analyzing Arrangements Induced By Quadratic Forms On 3-Manifolds, Ramgopal R. Mettu, Ryan H. Lilien, Bruce Randall Donald Jan 2005

High-Throughput Inference Of Protein-Protein Interaction Sites From Unassigned Nmr Data By Analyzing Arrangements Induced By Quadratic Forms On 3-Manifolds, Ramgopal R. Mettu, Ryan H. Lilien, Bruce Randall Donald

Computer Science Technical Reports

We cast the problem of identifying protein-protein interfaces, using only unassigned NMR spectra, into a geometric clustering problem. Identifying protein-protein interfaces is critical to understanding inter- and intra-cellular communication, and NMR allows the study of protein interaction in solution. However it is often the case that NMR studies of a protein complex are very time-consuming, mainly due to the bottleneck in assigning the chemical shifts, even if the apo structures of the constituent proteins are known. We study whether it is possible, in a high-throughput manner, to identify the interface region of a protein complex using only unassigned chemical shift …

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Grid Service Architecture For Videoconferencing, Wenjun Wu, Ahmet Uyar, Hasan Bulut, Sangyoon Oh, Geoffrey C. Fox Jan 2005

Grid Service Architecture For Videoconferencing, Wenjun Wu, Ahmet Uyar, Hasan Bulut, Sangyoon Oh, Geoffrey C. Fox

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

In this paper we present a scalable, integrated and service-oriented collaboration system, namely Global Multimedia Collaboration System, based on the XGSP collaboration framework and NaradaBrokering messaging middleware. This system can provide videoconferencing services to heterogeneous endpoints such as H.323, SIP, Access Grid, RealPlayer as well as cellular phone. This paper discusses the design principle, system architecture and implementation in detail. The extensive performance measurement has been made to evaluate the scalability of the system.

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Prototype Of Fault Adaptive Embedded Software For Large-Scale Real-Time Systems, Derek Messie, Mina Jung, Jae C. Oh, Shweta Shetty, Steven Nordstrom, Michael Haney Jan 2005

Prototype Of Fault Adaptive Embedded Software For Large-Scale Real-Time Systems, Derek Messie, Mina Jung, Jae C. Oh, Shweta Shetty, Steven Nordstrom, Michael Haney

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

This paper describes a comprehensive prototype of large-scale fault adaptive embedded software developed for the proposed Fermilab BTeV high energy physics experiment. Lightweight self-optimizing agents embedded within Level 1 of the prototype are responsible for proactive and reactive monitoring and mitigation based on specified layers of competence. The agents are self-protecting, detecting cascading failures using a distributed approach. Adaptive, reconfigurable, and mobile objects for reliability are designed to be self-configuring to adapt automatically to dynamically changing environments. These objects provide a self-healing layer with the ability to discover, diagnose, and react to discontinuities in real-time processing. A generic modeling environment …

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Adapting H.323 Terminals In A Service-Oriented Collaboration System, Wenjun Wu, Hasan Bulut, Ahmet Uyar, Geoffrey C. Fox Jan 2005

Adapting H.323 Terminals In A Service-Oriented Collaboration System, Wenjun Wu, Hasan Bulut, Ahmet Uyar, Geoffrey C. Fox

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

Global Multimedia Collaboration System (Global-MMCS), a scalable, robust and service-oriented collaboration system, can bridge H.323, SIP, Access Grid clients and 2.5G/3G cellular phones in audiovisual collaborations. The H.323 gateway in Global-MMCS enables H.323 terminals to interact with other clients, and provides them the complete H.323 conference control services.

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A Random Rotation Perturbation Approach To Privacy Preserving Data Classification, Keke Chen, Ling Liu Jan 2005

A Random Rotation Perturbation Approach To Privacy Preserving Data Classification, Keke Chen, Ling Liu

Kno.e.sis Publications

This paper presents a random rotation perturbation approach for privacy preserving data classification. Concretely, we identify the importance of classification-specific information with respect to the loss of information factor, and present a random rotation perturbation framework for privacy preserving data classification. Our approach has two unique characteristics. First, we identify that many classification models utilize the geometric properties of datasets, which can be preserved by geometric rotation. We prove that the three types of classifiers will deliver the same performance over the rotation perturbed dataset as over the original dataset. Second, we propose a multi-column privacy model to address the …

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Meteor-S Wsdi: A Scalable P2p Infrastructure Of Registries For Semantic Publication And Discovery Of Web Services, Kunal Verma, Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Amit P. Sheth, Abhijit Patil, Swapna Oundhakar, John Miller Jan 2005

Meteor-S Wsdi: A Scalable P2p Infrastructure Of Registries For Semantic Publication And Discovery Of Web Services, Kunal Verma, Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Amit P. Sheth, Abhijit Patil, Swapna Oundhakar, John Miller

Kno.e.sis Publications

Web services are the new paradigm for distributed computing. They have much to offer towards interoperability of applications and integration of large scale distributed systems. To make Web services accessible to users, service providers use Web service registries to publish them. Current infrastructure of registries requires replication of all Web service publications in all Universal Business Registries. Large growth in number of Web services as well as the growth in the number of registries would make this replication impractical. In addition, the current Web service discovery mechanism is inefficient, as it does not support discovery based on the capabilities of …

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Wsdl-S: Adding Semantics To Wsdl, John Miller, Kunal Verma, Preeda Rajasekaran, Amit P. Sheth, Rohit Aggarwal, Kaarthik Sivashanmugam Jan 2005

Wsdl-S: Adding Semantics To Wsdl, John Miller, Kunal Verma, Preeda Rajasekaran, Amit P. Sheth, Rohit Aggarwal, Kaarthik Sivashanmugam

Kno.e.sis Publications

Web services have primarily been designed for providing inter-operability between business applications. Current technologies assume a large amount of human interaction, for integrating two applications. This is primarily due to the fact that business process integration requires understanding of data and functions of the involved entities. Semantic Web technologies, powered by description logic based languages like OWL[1], aim to add greater meaning to Web content, by annotating the data with ontologies. Ontologies provide a mechanism of providing shared conceptualizations of domains. This allows agents to get an understanding of users’ Web content and greatly reduces human interaction for meaningful Web …

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Level Mapping Characterizations Of Selector-Generated Models For Logic Programs, Sibylle Schwarz, Pascal Hitzler Jan 2005

Level Mapping Characterizations Of Selector-Generated Models For Logic Programs, Sibylle Schwarz, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Assigning semantics to logic programs via selector generated models (Schwarz 2002/2003) extends several semantics, like the stable, the inflationary, and the stable generated semantics, to programs with arbitrary formulae in rule heads and bodies. We study this approach by means of a unifying framework for characterizing different logic programming semantics using level mappings (Hitzler and Wendt 200x, Hitzler 2003), thereby supporting the claim that this framework is very flexible and applicable to very diversely defined semantics.

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Why Are Those Computers Sitting Over There Gathering Dust, Bradford Ralph Austin Jan 2005

Why Are Those Computers Sitting Over There Gathering Dust, Bradford Ralph Austin

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to create electronic books (E-books) for kindergartens to read during their center time. The E-books are intended for kindergarten teachers to use to help their students learn to read while utilizing the technology resources in their classroom. These E-books are teacher created so the cost is minimal and they can be copied and distributed to each student without worrying about copyright laws. Teachers can customize them to fit the current thematic unit they are teaching and once created, they can be used repeadedly without being damaged like paper books.

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An Improved Software Process Management Tool: Remote (Recursively Estimating Multi-Threaded Observation Tool Enterprise), Shujiang Xia Jan 2005

An Improved Software Process Management Tool: Remote (Recursively Estimating Multi-Threaded Observation Tool Enterprise), Shujiang Xia

Theses Digitization Project

The principal purpose of the project is to enable ReMoTe support for multi-databases. ReMoTe stands for the Recursively Estimating Multi-Threaded Observation Technology Enterprise, which is a web-based computer aided software engineering tool for monitoring software development process. Development of ReMoTe is based on the RMT (Recursive Multi-Threaded) software life cycle developed by Scott Simon, a CSUSB alum, in his master's thesis in 1997. ReMoTe enables the monitoring of projects that use different databases in various locations. Central management can view the progress information of each project using a web browser no matter where the database or project team is located. …

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Online Project Management System, Amit Dhir Jan 2005

Online Project Management System, Amit Dhir

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to design and create a system that can be used by a wide variety of groups who do projects. The system created has been specifically tailored for a medium-level company that has employees in different locations and levels, and also has customers for whom they do projects.

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Instantiations Of Shared Event Model In Grid-Based Collaboration, Minjun Wang, Geoffrey C. Fox, Marlon Pierce Jan 2005

Instantiations Of Shared Event Model In Grid-Based Collaboration, Minjun Wang, Geoffrey C. Fox, Marlon Pierce

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

The Internet is a global infrastructure that brings resources and people together. Diverse fields are prospering on it, such as Grid computing and collaboration. We demonstrate the Grid-based Collaboration idea by making three interface applications collaborative between computers over networks, using a common message broker as the underlying communication system. To achieve the global collaboration, we have brought together in the research a Grid-based Collaboration paradigm, a Shared Event model, different implementing structures, methodologies and technologies. We describe the applications’ event structures in messages coordinating the Grid-base collaboration. We further abstract the collaboration of the applications to be collaboration between …

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Ikum: An Integrated Web Personalization Platform Based On Content Structures And User Behavior, Magdalini Eirinaki, Joannis Vlachakis, Sarabjot Anand Jan 2005

Ikum: An Integrated Web Personalization Platform Based On Content Structures And User Behavior, Magdalini Eirinaki, Joannis Vlachakis, Sarabjot Anand

Faculty Publications

Web personalization is the process of customizing a web site to the needs of each specific user or set of users, taking advantage of the knowledge acquired through the analysis of the user’s navigational behavior. The objective of the I-KnowUMine project (IKUM) is to develop an integrated platform (referred to in the paper as the “IKUM system”) that uses state of the art technology and research results from different application domains in order to provide the basis for the development of online services in a wide range of application areas, presenting personalized content, services and applications to users in a …

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Student Usability Project Recommendations Define Information Architecture For Library Technology, Erika Rogers Jan 2005

Student Usability Project Recommendations Define Information Architecture For Library Technology, Erika Rogers

Computer Science and Software Engineering

This paper demonstrates how interaction and usability evaluation techniques (e.g., Preece 2002) support the restructuring of information in a number of functional library areas. Senior level computer science students studying human-computer interaction principles worked with library leaders on three different projects: i) a prototype of an interactive data visualization application for more effective collections management; ii) usability recommendations for improving access to the electronic database systems; and iii) design and development of a technology-mediated, Web accessible digital research portal. All three cases started out as quarter-long (8-week) class projects with teams of three to four computer science students whose goals …

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Micro-Payment Exchange System, Yiyao Hao Jan 2005

Micro-Payment Exchange System, Yiyao Hao

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to investigate the infrastructure requirements for a currency exchange market for holders of currencies issued through the Lightweight Currency Protocol. The Lightweight Currency Protocol was designed as a means for entities to issue currencies for the purpose of cultivating low value business transactions between collaborating nodes in a peer-to-peer market.

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Wiki Message Linking, Hongping Yang Jan 2005

Wiki Message Linking, Hongping Yang

Theses Digitization Project

Wiki Message Linking (WML) is a group communication tool that will be used between group members and the group leader. By using WML, group web pages are created and modified easily. From the WML, new pages are created and owned by their creators. The group leader and the page owner can modify the page, and the owner may give permission for other people to modify the web page; member can edit their works online and the leader can review the works and correct the works directly from the WML.

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Azip, Audio Compression System: Research On Audio Compression, Comparison Of Psychoacoustic Principles And Genetic Algorithms, Howard Chen Jan 2005

Azip, Audio Compression System: Research On Audio Compression, Comparison Of Psychoacoustic Principles And Genetic Algorithms, Howard Chen

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to investigate the differences between psychoacoustic principles and genetic algorithms (GA0). These will be discussed separately. The review will also compare the compression ratio and the quality of the decompressed files decoded by these two methods.

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The Semantic Web In One Day, York Sure, Pascal Hitzler, Andreas Eberhart, Rudi Studer Jan 2005

The Semantic Web In One Day, York Sure, Pascal Hitzler, Andreas Eberhart, Rudi Studer

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

To gain momentum, technologies for building private semantic Webs or parts of the World Wide semantic Web must become a commodity and easy to integrate. To determine just how far semantic Web technologies have come, we wanted to create a snapshot of what you could do by applying and assembling existing semantic Web technologies - in one day.

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Pdf Shopping System With The Lightweight Currency Protocol, Yingzhuo Wang Jan 2005

Pdf Shopping System With The Lightweight Currency Protocol, Yingzhuo Wang

Theses Digitization Project

This project is a web application for two types of bookstores an E-Bookstore and a PDF-Bookstore. Both are document sellers, however, The E-Bookstore is not a currency user. The PDF-Bookstore sells PDF documents and issues a lightweight currency called Scart. Customers can sell their PDF documents to earn Scart currency and buy PDF documents by paying with Scart.

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Disintermediation In The United States Air Travel Industry Who Hold The Power Of Booking Strength, Preenida Gajaseni Jan 2005

Disintermediation In The United States Air Travel Industry Who Hold The Power Of Booking Strength, Preenida Gajaseni

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study is to investigate the correlation of U.S. domestic air travelers and patterns of air travel purchase within the U.S. air travel industry. Influences on the patterns of air travel purchase involved 1) demographic characteristics of travelers 2) benefits to the customer 3) customer attitude toward service providers' (defined as airlines, web-based travel agents, and traditional travel agents and 4) information sources used to select and book a flight for business and leisure trips.

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Tr-2005006: Integration Of Laser Vibrometry With Infrared Video For Multimedia Surveillance Display, Zhigang Zhu, Weihong Li Jan 2005

Tr-2005006: Integration Of Laser Vibrometry With Infrared Video For Multimedia Surveillance Display, Zhigang Zhu, Weihong Li

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

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Taxaminer: An Experimentation Framework For Automated Taxonomy Bootstrapping, Vipul Kashyap, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Christopher Thomas, Amit P. Sheth Jan 2005

Taxaminer: An Experimentation Framework For Automated Taxonomy Bootstrapping, Vipul Kashyap, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Christopher Thomas, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

Construction of domain ontologies on the semantic web is a human and resource intensive process, efforts to reduce which are crucial for the Semantic Web to scale. We present a framework for automated taxonomy construction, that involves: (a) generation of a cluster hierarchy from a document corpus using statistical clustering and NLP techniques; (b) extraction of a topic hierarchy from this cluster hierarchy; and (c) assignment of labels to nodes in the topic hierarchy. Metrics for estimating topic hierarchy quality and parameters of an experimentation framework are identified. MEDLINE was the document corpus and MeSH thesaurus was the gold standard.

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Ranking Complex Relationships On The Semantic Web, Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Christian Halaschek-Wiener, I. Budak Arpinar, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Amit P. Sheth Jan 2005

Ranking Complex Relationships On The Semantic Web, Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Christian Halaschek-Wiener, I. Budak Arpinar, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

Industry and academia are both focusing their attention on information retrieval over semantic metadata extracted from the Web, and it is increasingly possible to analyze such metadata to discover interesting relationships. However, just as document ranking is a critical component in today's search engines, the ranking of complex relationships would be an important component in tomorrow's semantic Web engines. This article presents a flexible ranking approach to identify interesting and relevant relationships in the semantic Web. The authors demonstrate the scheme's effectiveness through an empirical evaluation over a real-world data set.

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Variational Bayesian Image Modelling, Li Chen, Feng Jiao, Dale Schuurmans, Shaojun Wang Jan 2005

Variational Bayesian Image Modelling, Li Chen, Feng Jiao, Dale Schuurmans, Shaojun Wang

Kno.e.sis Publications

We present a variational Bayesian framework for performing inference, density estimation and model selection in a special class of graphical models—Hidden Markov Random Fields (HMRFs). HMRFs are particularly well suited to image modelling and in this paper, we apply them to the problem of image segmentation. Unfortunately, HMRFs are notoriously hard to train and use because the exact inference problems they create are intractable. Our main contribution is to introduce an efficient variational approach for performing approximate inference of the Bayesian formulation of HMRFs, which we can then apply to the density estimation and model selection problems that arise when …

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How To Overcome The Knowledge Paradox: Activate Knowledge Identity, Not Just Organize Information, Sajda Qureshi, Peter Keen Jan 2005

How To Overcome The Knowledge Paradox: Activate Knowledge Identity, Not Just Organize Information, Sajda Qureshi, Peter Keen

Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

A paradox appears to thwart traditional knowledge sharing efforts in organizations: the greater the benefit of a piece of knowledge to an organization the less likely that it will be shared. This paper suggests that in order to mobilize knowledge where there is demand for it, it has to be activated. This paper considers the knowledge identity of the person whose knowledge is to be activated and uses these identities to analyze a case study in which highly distributed knowledge is activated. The analysis reveals activation effects needed to mobilize each of the knowledge identities.

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Framework For Semantic Web Process Composition, Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, John A. Miller, Amit P. Sheth, Kunal Verma Jan 2005

Framework For Semantic Web Process Composition, Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, John A. Miller, Amit P. Sheth, Kunal Verma

Kno.e.sis Publications

Web services have the potential to revolutionize e-commerce by enabling businesses to interact with each other on the fly. To date, however, Web processes using Web services have been created mostly at the syntactic level. Current composition standards focus on building processes based on the interface description of the participating services. This rigid approach, with its strong coupling between the process and the interface of the participating services, does not allow businesses to dynamically change partners and services. As shown in this article, Web process composition techniques can be enhanced by using semantic process templates to capture the semantic requirements …

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Tontogen: A Synthetic Data Set Generator For Semantic Web Applications, Matthew Perry Jan 2005

Tontogen: A Synthetic Data Set Generator For Semantic Web Applications, Matthew Perry

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.

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A Web Application For Medasolution Healthcare Company Customer Service System, Hao Jia Jan 2005

A Web Application For Medasolution Healthcare Company Customer Service System, Hao Jia

Theses Digitization Project

Medasolution is a virtual company designed by the author to handle Medicare insurance business. The web application (which uses ASP.net and SQL Server 2000) facilitates communication between Medasolution and all its clients: members, employers, brokers, and medicare providers through separate web pages based on their category levels. The program incorporates security so that it follows government privacy rules regarding client information.

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