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Query Rewriting For Extracting Data Behind Html Forms, Xueqi Chen Apr 2004

Query Rewriting For Extracting Data Behind Html Forms, Xueqi Chen

Theses and Dissertations

Much of the information on the Web is stored in specialized searchable databases and can only be accessed by interacting with a form or a series of forms. As a result, enabling automated agents and Web crawlers to interact with form-based interfaces designed primarily for humans is of great value. This thesis describes a system that can fill out Web forms automatically according to a given user query against a global schema for an application domain and, to the extent possible, extract just the relevant data behind these Web forms. Experimental results on two application domains show that the approach …


Quality Of Service For Workflows And Web Service Processes, Jorge Cardoso, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller, Jonathan Arnold, Krzysztof J. Kochut Apr 2004

Quality Of Service For Workflows And Web Service Processes, Jorge Cardoso, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller, Jonathan Arnold, Krzysztof J. Kochut

Kno.e.sis Publications

Workflow management systems (WfMSs) have been used to support various types of business processes for more than a decade now. In workflows or Web processes for e-commerce and Web service applications, suppliers and customers define a binding agreement or contract between the two parties, specifying quality of service (QoS) items such as products or services to be delivered, deadlines, quality of products, and cost of services. The management of QoS metrics directly impacts the success of organizations participating in e-commerce. Therefore, when services or products are created or managed using workflows or Web processes, the underlying workflow engine must accept …


Cognitive Robot Mapping With Polylines And An Absolute Space Representation, Kennard R. Laviers, Gilbert L. Peterson Apr 2004

Cognitive Robot Mapping With Polylines And An Absolute Space Representation, Kennard R. Laviers, Gilbert L. Peterson

Faculty Publications

Robot mapping even today is one of the most challenging problems in robot programming. Most successful methods use some form of occupancy grid to represent a mapped region. This approach becomes problematic if the robot is mapping a large environment, the map quickly becomes too large for processing and storage. Rather than storing the map as an occupancy grid, our robot (equipped with sonars) sees the world as a series of connected spaces. These spaces are initially mapped as an occupancy grid in a room by room fashion. As the robot leaves a space, denoted by passing through a doorway, …


The United States Marine Corps Data Collaboration Requirements: Retrieving And Integrating Data From Multiple Databases, Pamela J. Cole Mar 2004

The United States Marine Corps Data Collaboration Requirements: Retrieving And Integrating Data From Multiple Databases, Pamela J. Cole

Theses and Dissertations

The goal of this research is to develop an information sharing and database integration model and suggest a framework to fully satisfy the United States Marine Corps collaboration requirements as well as its information sharing and database integration needs. This research is exploratory; it focuses on only one initiative: the IT-21 initiative. The IT-21 initiative dictates The Technology for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, 2000-2035: Becoming a 21st Century Force. The IT-21 initiative states that Navy and Marine Corps information infrastructure will be based largely on commercial systems and services, and the Department of the Navy must ensure …


Fast Registration Of Tabular Document Images Using The Fourier-Mellin Transform, Luke Alexander Daysh Hutchison Mar 2004

Fast Registration Of Tabular Document Images Using The Fourier-Mellin Transform, Luke Alexander Daysh Hutchison

Theses and Dissertations

Image registration, the process of finding the transformation that best maps one image to another, is an important tool in document image processing. Having properly-aligned microfilm images can help in manual and automated content extraction, zoning, and batch compression of images. An image registration algorithm is presented that quickly identifies the global affine transformation (rotation, scale, translation and/or shear) that maps one tabular document image to another, using the Fourier-Mellin Transform. Each component of the affine transform is recovered independantly from the others, dramatically reducing the parameter space of the problem, and improving upon standard Fourier-Mellin Image Registration (FMIR), which …


Dynamic Autonomous Transport Selection In Heterogeneous Wireless Environments, Jeffrey M. Brown, Heidi R. Duffin, Charles D. Knutson, Shannon B. Barnes, Ryan W. Woodings Mar 2004

Dynamic Autonomous Transport Selection In Heterogeneous Wireless Environments, Jeffrey M. Brown, Heidi R. Duffin, Charles D. Knutson, Shannon B. Barnes, Ryan W. Woodings

Faculty Publications

In this paper, we introduce Quality of Transport (QoT), an architecture for synergistically and autonomously managing session-layer protocol access to multiple transports in heterogeneous wireless environments. We present an overview of the QoT architecture including: 1) transport discovery, 2) service discovery, 3) object exchange, 4) transport switching, and 5) intelligent transport selection. Preliminary successes with our design and implementation of QoT suggest that dynamic intelligent autonomous transport switching can help to optimize user experience and session layer performance in multi-transport environments.


The Changing Usage Of A Mature Campus-Wide Wireless Network, Tristan Henderson, David Kotz, Ilya Abyzov Mar 2004

The Changing Usage Of A Mature Campus-Wide Wireless Network, Tristan Henderson, David Kotz, Ilya Abyzov

Computer Science Technical Reports

Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) are now common on academic and corporate campuses. As ``Wi-Fi'' technology becomes ubiquitous, it is increasingly important to understand trends in the usage of these networks. This paper analyzes an extensive network trace from a mature 802.11 WLAN, including more than 550 access points and 7000 users over seventeen weeks. We employ several measurement techniques, including syslogs, telephone records, SNMP polling and tcpdump packet sniffing. This is the largest WLAN study to date, and the first to look at a large, mature WLAN and consider geographic mobility. We compare this trace to a trace taken …


The Evolution Of Research On Information Systems: A Fiftieth Year Survey Of The Literature In Management Science, Rajiv D. Banker, Robert J. Kauffman Mar 2004

The Evolution Of Research On Information Systems: A Fiftieth Year Survey Of The Literature In Management Science, Rajiv D. Banker, Robert J. Kauffman

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The development of the information systems (IS) literature in Management Science during the past 50 years reflects the inception, growth, and maturation of several different research streams. The five research streams we identify incorporate different definitions of the managerial problems that relate to IS, the alternate theoretical perspectives and different methodological paradigms to study them, and the levels of the organization at which their primary results impact managerial practice. The decision support and design science research stream studies the application of computers in decision support, control, and managerial decision making. The value of information research stream reflects relationships established based …


Swarm Based Implementation Of A Virtual Distributed Database System In A Sensor Network, Wen C. Lee Mar 2004

Swarm Based Implementation Of A Virtual Distributed Database System In A Sensor Network, Wen C. Lee

Theses and Dissertations

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in recent military operations has had success in carrying out surveillance and combat missions in sensitive areas. An area of intense research on UAVs has been on controlling a group of small-sized UAVs to carry out reconnaissance missions normally undertaken by large UAVs such as Predator or Global Hawk. A control strategy for coordinating the UAV movements of such a group of UAVs adopts the bio-inspired swarm model to produce autonomous group behavior. This research proposes establishing a distributed database system on a group of swarming UAVs, providing for data storage during a …


Simulation Study Of A Cellular Aided Mobile Ad-Hoc Network, Gang Ding, Xiaoxin Wu, Bharat Bhargava, Shan Lei Mar 2004

Simulation Study Of A Cellular Aided Mobile Ad-Hoc Network, Gang Ding, Xiaoxin Wu, Bharat Bhargava, Shan Lei

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Phoneme-Based Transliteration Of Foreign Names For Oov Problem, Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong, Wai Lam Mar 2004

Phoneme-Based Transliteration Of Foreign Names For Oov Problem, Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong, Wai Lam

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A proper noun dictionary is never complete rendering name translation from English to Chinese ineffective. One way to solve this problem is not to rely on a dictionary alone but to adopt automatic translation according to pronunciation similarities, i.e. to map phonemes comprising an English name to the phonetic representations of the corresponding Chinese name. This process is called transliteration. We present a statistical transliteration method. An efficient algorithm for aligning phoneme chunks is described. Unlike rule-based approaches, our method is data-driven. Compared to source-channel based statistical approaches, we adopt a direct transliteration model, i.e. the direction of probabilistic estimation …


A Modeling Framework For Computing Lifetime And Information Capacity In Wireless Sensor Networks, Enrique Duarte-Melo, Mingyan Liu, Archan Misra Mar 2004

A Modeling Framework For Computing Lifetime And Information Capacity In Wireless Sensor Networks, Enrique Duarte-Melo, Mingyan Liu, Archan Misra

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper we investigate the expected lifetime and information capacity, defined as the maximum amount of data (bits) transferred before the first sensor node death due to energy depletion, of a data-gathering wireless sensor network. We develop a fluidflow based computational framework that extends the existing approach, which requires precise knowledge of the layout/deployment of the network, i.e., exact sensor positions. Our method, on the other hand, views a specific network deployment as a particular instance (sample path) from an underlying distribution of sensor node layouts and sensor data rates.


Wireless Spatio-Semantic Transactions On Multimedia Datasets, James Carswell, Keith Gardiner, Marco Neumann Mar 2004

Wireless Spatio-Semantic Transactions On Multimedia Datasets, James Carswell, Keith Gardiner, Marco Neumann

Conference papers

Advances in spatially enabled semantic computing can provide situation aware assistance for mobile users. This intelligent and context-aware technology presents the right information at the right time, place and situation by exploiting semantically referenced data for knowledge discovery. The system takes advantage of new metadata standards to enable semantic, user, and device adapted transactions on multimedia datasets. Information accessed in the past and the activities planned by the user, the situation dependencies (e.g. location) of these activities are used to infer future information requirements. The focus of this paper describes an application of the above functionalities for performing mobile context-aware …


Netwars Based Study Of A Joint Stars Link-16 Network, Charlie I. Cruz Mar 2004

Netwars Based Study Of A Joint Stars Link-16 Network, Charlie I. Cruz

Theses and Dissertations

Both secure and anti-jam resistant, the Link-16 is the primary communications channel used by the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) for the exchange of real-time tactical data among various ground, air, and sea platforms of the United States of America and North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces. This research explored the effect of increasing network traffic for imagery transfer to the mean delay when operating under different network topologies. Using Network Warfare Simulation (NETWARS), three different missions were simulated to run on five network topologies having a different number of participants, different assigned time slots, and stacked nets. …


Comparative Analysis Of Active And Passive Mapping Techniques In An Internet-Based Local Area Network, James B. Kuntzelman Mar 2004

Comparative Analysis Of Active And Passive Mapping Techniques In An Internet-Based Local Area Network, James B. Kuntzelman

Theses and Dissertations

Network mapping technologies allow quick and easy discovery of computer systems throughout a network. Active mapping methods, such as using nmap, capitalize on the standard stimulus-response of network systems to probe target systems. In doing so, they create extra traffic on the network, both for the initial probe and for the target system's response. Passive mapping methods work opportunistically, listening for network traffic as it transits the system. As such, passive methods generate minimal network traffic overhead. Active methods are still standard methods for network information gathering; passive techniques are not normally used due to the possibility of missing important …


Agent Based Simulation Seas Evaluation Of Dodaf Architecture, Gregory V. Destefano Mar 2004

Agent Based Simulation Seas Evaluation Of Dodaf Architecture, Gregory V. Destefano

Theses and Dissertations

With Department of Defense (DoD) weapon systems being deeply rooted in the command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) structure, it is necessary for combat models to capture C4ISR effects in order to properly assess military worth. Unlike many DoD legacy combat models, the agent based model System Effectiveness and Analysis Simulation (SEAS) is identified as having C4ISR analysis capabilities. In lieu of requirements for all new DoD C4ISR weapon systems to be placed within a DoD Architectural Framework (DoDAF), investigation of means to export data from the Framework to the combat model SEAS began. Through operational, system, …


A Case Study Of Four Location Traces, Guanling Chen, David Kotz Feb 2004

A Case Study Of Four Location Traces, Guanling Chen, David Kotz

Computer Science Technical Reports

Location is one of the most important context information that an ubiquitous-computing application may leverage. Thus understanding the location systems and how location-aware applications interact with them is critical for design and deployment of both the location systems and location-aware applications. In this paper, we analyze a set of traces collected from two small-scale one-building location system and two large-scale campus-wide location systems. Our goal is to study characteristics of these location systems ant how these factors should be taken into account by a potentially large number of location-aware applications with different needs. We make empirical measurements of several important …


Virtual Teams Combining Mobile Devices With Web-Based Communication On Group Decision Making, Hyo-Joo Han Jan 2004

Virtual Teams Combining Mobile Devices With Web-Based Communication On Group Decision Making, Hyo-Joo Han

Dissertations

Organizations have moved from a face-to-face team environment to a virtual team environment using communication technology during the last decade. More and more workers use asynchronous tools (including email, discussion groups, information sharing tools, and group calendaring systems), and synchronous tools, such as instant messaging and web-based chatting features, to coordinate and share information with people within and outside of organizations. This empirical study on how virtual teams work, integrating mobile devices with web-based group communication for decision-making tasks, examines which technologies and communication modes are the best for distributed group teamwork, and, mainly, what are the predictive characteristics making …


The Impacts Of Delphi Communication Structure On Small And Medium Sized Asynchronous Virtual Teams, Hee-Kyung Cho Jan 2004

The Impacts Of Delphi Communication Structure On Small And Medium Sized Asynchronous Virtual Teams, Hee-Kyung Cho

Dissertations

The improvement of Internet technology has motivated distributed work groups to collaborate without meeting face to face. Although asynchronous meetings through Web-based group communications systems enable groups dispersed temporarily and geographically to collaborate more flexibly, parallel and non-linear communication among dispersed members also challenge effective and efficient group coordination. Moreover, the Web-based asynchronous meeting is distinguished not only from the face-to-face meeting but also from the synchronous computer-supported meeting in terms of coordination process. However, previous asynchronous group communications or virtual team research focused more on the comparison of this new type of meeting with the face-to-face meeting. Not many …


An Analysis Of The Periodicity Of The Cell Cycle And Apoptotic Regulatory Proteins In Prostate Xenografts Using Anova And Cosinor Methods, Aleen Hosdaghian Jan 2004

An Analysis Of The Periodicity Of The Cell Cycle And Apoptotic Regulatory Proteins In Prostate Xenografts Using Anova And Cosinor Methods, Aleen Hosdaghian

Theses

Circadian rhythms have been found in both plants and animals, in normal tissues as well as in most tumors and human cancers. By following these rhythms in healthy and cancerous tissue, it has been possible to find optimal times to deliver a dose of drug, such that efficacy is maximized and toxicity to normal tissues is minimized. In this study, the periodicity of several cell cycle and apoptotic regulatory proteins were studied in two prostate cancer models against a dietary therapeutic agent, Selenium. The ALVA-3 1 (androgen-independent) and PC-3 (androgen-independent) prostate cancer cell lines were grown in vivo, as a …


Handling Catastrophic Failures In Scalable Internet Applications, Michael Haungs, Raju Pandey, Earl Barr Jan 2004

Handling Catastrophic Failures In Scalable Internet Applications, Michael Haungs, Raju Pandey, Earl Barr

Computer Science and Software Engineering

User perceived quality is the most important aspect of Internet applications. After a single negative experience, users tend to switch to one of the other myriad of alternatives available to them on the Internet. Two key components of Internet application quality are scalability and reliability. In this paper, we present the first general-purpose mechanism capable of maintaining reliability in the face of process, machine, and catastrophic failures. We define catastrophic failures as events that cause entire clusters of servers to become unavailable such as network partitioning, router failures, natural disasters, or even terrorist attacks. Our mechanism utilizes client-side tunneling, clientside …


Self-Motivated, Task-Independent Reinforcement Learning For Robots, Lisa Meeden, James Marshall, Doug Blank Jan 2004

Self-Motivated, Task-Independent Reinforcement Learning For Robots, Lisa Meeden, James Marshall, Doug Blank

Computer Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

This paper describes a method for designing robots to learn self-motivated behaviors rather than externally specified be- haviors. Self-motivation is viewed as an emergent property arising from two competing pressures: the need to accu- rately predict the environment while simultaneously wanting to seek out novelty in the environment. The robot’s inter- nal prediction error is used to generate a reinforcement signal that pushes the robot to focus on areas of high error or nov- elty. A set of experiments are performed on a simulated robot to demonstrate the feasibility of this approach. The simulated robot is based directly on an …


Design And Implementation Of Audio/Video Collaboration System Based On Publish/Subscribe Event Middleware, Geoffrey C. Fox, Wenjun Wu, Ahmet Uyar, Hasan Bulut Jan 2004

Design And Implementation Of Audio/Video Collaboration System Based On Publish/Subscribe Event Middleware, Geoffrey C. Fox, Wenjun Wu, Ahmet Uyar, Hasan Bulut

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

In this paper we present our A/V collaboration system based on our XGSP collaboration framework and NaradaBrokering messaging middleware. Using publish/subscribe event model, this system can provide videoconferencing services to heterogeneous endpoints such as H.323, SIP and Access Grid. This paper discusses the common a/v collaboration model shared by all kinds of A/V conferencing clients and introduces the details about how to implement such a model based on publish/subscribe event middleware.


Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 20, Number 3, January 2004, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University Jan 2004

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 20, Number 3, January 2004, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

A ten page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.


Graduate School Of Computer And Information Sciences--Master Of Science Degree Programs 2004-2005, Nova Southeastern University Jan 2004

Graduate School Of Computer And Information Sciences--Master Of Science Degree Programs 2004-2005, Nova Southeastern University

College of Engineering and Computing Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.


What Effect Does Spyware Have On Consumer Trust, And Will Its Use Ever Be Acceptable?, James Anthony Hatton Jan 2004

What Effect Does Spyware Have On Consumer Trust, And Will Its Use Ever Be Acceptable?, James Anthony Hatton

The Corinthian

Trust literature has been thoroughly developed in the field of Information Systems. However, recent innovations in broadband networks and the growing popularity of the Internet has brought rise to software called spyware - a program that employs a user's Internet connection in the background without the user's knowledge or explicit permission. This study attempts to analyze spyware and explore the nature of its effect on consumer trust. Additionally, the research examines what controls, if any may make the use of spyware acceptable to the consumer.


The Threat Of Cyberterrorism: Contemporary Consequences And Prescriptions, Galen Asher Thomas Stocking Jan 2004

The Threat Of Cyberterrorism: Contemporary Consequences And Prescriptions, Galen Asher Thomas Stocking

Theses Digitization Project

This study researches the varying threats that emanate from terrorists who carry their activity into the online arena. It examines several elements of this threat, including virtual to virtual attacks and threats to critical infrastructure that can be traced to online sources. It then reports on the methods that terrorists employ in using information technology such as the internet for propaganda and other communication purposes. It discusses how the United States government has responded to these problems, and concludes with recommendations for best practices.


Helpdesk Support Alert System, Vorapong Chinpanich Jan 2004

Helpdesk Support Alert System, Vorapong Chinpanich

Theses Digitization Project

The goal of this project was to implement the Helpdesk Support Alert System in the Data Center Services (DCS) of California State University, San Bernardino's (CSUSB's) Information Resource and Technology Division (IRT). DCS is responsible for ensuring uninterrupted operation of all CSUSB administrative computing systems. These responsibilities include user support, system maintenance, and system security. The DCS helpdesk cannot be staffed 24 hours a day; this application is designed to alert DCS technicians of emergencies when they are away from the helpdesk. The Helpdesk Support Alert System sends out an automated emergency alert in the form of a short text …


Pdf Receipts: A Micro-Based-Payment Web Service, Yu-Feng Ho Jan 2004

Pdf Receipts: A Micro-Based-Payment Web Service, Yu-Feng Ho

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to design, build and implement an instance of a specified online payment system, which is based on micro-payments. The three components for this system are a bookstore, a receipt service and a currency issuer.


Movie Theater Ticket Order System: (Mttos), Chun-Kai Chiu Jan 2004

Movie Theater Ticket Order System: (Mttos), Chun-Kai Chiu

Theses Digitization Project

This project is a movie theater order system. This system allows people to get movie information and purchase tickets on the Internet. This project is based on a Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture, which introduces a controller servlet to provide a single point of entry to the web system and encourages more reuse and extensibility of the code.