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Ceg 4350/6350-01: Os Internals And Design, Soon M. Chung

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

Introduction to basic concepts of operating systems, including process and thread management, CPU scheduling, process synchronization, memory management, file systems.

Ceg 7370-01: Distributed Computing, Yong Pei

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Ceg 3320-01: Digital System Design, Travis E. Doom

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

Basics of Digital Computer Hardware and Design. Topics include switching algebra and switching functions, logic design of combinational and sequential circuits, storage elements, register-level design, and instrumentation. 3 hours lecture, 1 credit hour lab.

Ceg 7470-01: Advanced Wireless Networks, Bin Wang

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

This course covers advanced topics in wireless networking and mobile computing, including supporting wireless technologies, various types of wireless networks, mesh networks, mobile protocols, mobile security, emerging wireless and mobile technologies, and so on.

Ceg 3110/5110-01: Introduction To Software Testing, John A. Reisner

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

This course covers software testing strategies, along with established best practices, to teach students how to test software in a complete and systematic (vice ad-hoc) manner. Particular attention is paid to planning, writing, and executing software tests, along with associated documentation, (i.e., a software test plan), which includes documented results. Various projects are assigned, designed to illustrate various challenges associated with software testing, and to reinforce the strategies and techniques used to overcome these challenges.

Ceg 2350: Os Concepts And Usage, Prabhaker Mateti

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

Provides introduction to Linux and Windows operating systems and system administration. Covers files and directories, ownership and sharing, programs and processes, system calls, libraries, dynamic linking, command line shells, scripting, regular expressions and secure network protocols.

Graduate Council Report To The Faculty Senate - September 2013, Graduate Council

All Faculty Senate 2007-2014 Committee Minutes and Reports

Report from the September 26th, 2013 Graduate Council meeting about the status of its standing committees and a report from the interim dean.

Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda And Minutes, September 9, 2013

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda and minutes from the Wright State University Faculty Senate Meeting held on, September 9, 2013.

Right Flier: Newsletter Of The Aaup-Wsu Volume 14, Number 1, 2013-2014, American Association Of University Professors-Wright State University

The Right Flier Newsletter

A twenty-two page newsletter created by the Wright State University chapter of the American Association of University Professors. This issue of the newsletter discusses topics related to the faculty and features a number of articles related to Labor Day.

A Statistical And Schema Independent Approach To Identify Equivalent Properties On Linked Data, Kalpa Gunaratna, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Prateek Jain, Amit P. Sheth, Sanjaya Wijeratne

Kno.e.sis Publications

Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud has gained significant attention in the Semantic Web community recently. Currently it consists of approximately 295 interlinked datasets with over 50 billion triples including 500 million links, and continues to expand in size. This vast source of structured information has the potential to have a significant impact on knowledge-based applications. However, a key impediment to the use of LOD cloud is limited support for data integration tasks over concepts, instances, and properties. Efforts to address this limitation over properties have focused on matching data-type properties across datasets; however, matching of object-type properties has not received …

A Geo-Ontology Design Pattern For Semantic Trajectories, Yingjie Hu, Krzysztof Janowicz, David Carral, Simon Scheider, Werner Kuhn, Gary Berg-Cross, Pascal Hitzler, Mike Dean, Dave Kolas

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Trajectory data have been used in a variety of studies, including human behavior analysis, transportation management, and wildlife tracking. While each study area introduces a different perspective, they share the need to integrate positioning data with domain-specific information. Semantic annotations are necessary to improve discovery, reuse, and integration of trajectory data from different sources. Consequently, it would be beneficial if the common structure encountered in trajectory data could be annotated based on a shared vocabulary, abstracting from domain-specific aspects. Ontology design patterns are an increasingly popular approach to define such flexible and self-contained building blocks of annotations. They appear more …

Mining Effective Multi-Segment Sliding Window For Pathogen Incidence Rate Prediction, Lei Duan, Changjie Tang, Xiasong Li, Guozhu Dong, Xianming Wang, Jie Zuo, Min Jiang, Zhongqi Li, Yongqing Zhang

Kno.e.sis Publications

Pathogen incidence rate prediction, which can be considered as time series modeling, is an important task for infectious disease incidence rate prediction and for public health. This paper investigates the application of a genetic computation technique, namely GEP, for pathogen incidence rate prediction. To overcome the shortcomings of traditional sliding windows in GEP-based time series modeling, the paper introduces the problem of mining effective sliding window, for discovering optimal sliding windows for building accurate prediction models. To utilize the periodical characteristic of pathogen incidence rates, a multi-segment sliding window consisting of several segments from different periodical intervals is proposed and …

Types Of Property Pairs And Alignment On Linked Datasets - A Preliminary Analysis, Kalpa Gunaratna, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

Dataset publication on the Web has been greatly influenced by the Linked Open Data (LOD) project. Many interlinked datasets have become freely available on the Web creating a structured and distributed knowledge representation. Analysis and aligning of concepts and instances in these interconnected datasets have received a lot of attention in the recent past compared to properties. We identify three different categories of property pairs found in the alignment process and study their relative distribution among well known LOD datasets. We also provide comparative analysis of state-of-the-art techniques with regard to different categories, highlighting their capabilities. This could lead to …

Paul Wolfe Interview, Professor Emeritus Department Of Physics And Department Of Geological Science, Wright State University, Lewis Shupe, Paul J. Wolfe

Wright State University Retirees Association Oral History Project

Lewis Shupe interviewed Dr. Paul Wolfe, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Physics and the Department of Geological Science at Wright State University, on August 22, 2013. In the interview Dr. Wolfe discusses his career, how he came to Wright State, and his memories of the University.

Scale Reasoning With Fuzzy-El+ Ontologies Based On Mapreduce, Zhangquan Zhou, Guilin Qi, Chang Lui, Pascal Hitzler, Raghava Mutharaju

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Fuzzy extension of Description Logics (DLs) allows the formal representation and handling of fuzzy or vague knowledge. In this paper, we consider the problem of reasoning with fuzzy-EL+, which is a fuzzy extension of EL+. We first identify the challenges and present revised completion classification rules for fuzzy-EL+ that can be handled by MapReduce programs. We then propose an algorithm for scale reasoning with fuzzy-EL+ ontologies using MapReduce. Some preliminary experimental results are provided to show the scalability of our algorithm.

College Of Science And Mathematics Newsletter, Summer 2013, College Of Science And Mathematics, Wright State University

College of Science and Mathematics Newsletters

This 8 page newsletter discusses various happenings within the College of Science and Mathematics. It begins with a letter from the dean, and continues on with news, events, alumni news, and other community news.

Wsu Research News, Spring/Summer 2013, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs, Wright State University

WSU Research News

A twenty page newsletter of the WSU Research News. The WSU Research News was published monthly beginning in June of 1968 and issued by the Office of Research Development. This newsletter was created to provide information to the WSU faculty about the availability of outside funds for research and educational programs, new developments that may affect availability of funds, and general information on research and educational activities at Wright State University.

Sroiq Syntax Approximation By Using Nominal Schemas, Cong Wang, David Carral, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Nominal schemas is a recently introduced extension of description logics which makes it possible to express rules which generalize DL-safe ones. A tractable description logic, ELROV_n, has been identified. This leads us to the question: can we improve approximate reasoning results by employing nominal schemas? In this paper, we investigate how to approximately cast SROIQ into ELROV_n. Using a datalog-based tractable algorithm, a preliminary evaluation shows that our approach can indeed do approximate SROIQ-reasoning with a high recall.

Towards An Efficient Algorithm To Reason Over Description Logics Extended With Nominal Schemas, David Carral, Cong Wang, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Extending description logics with so-called nominal schemas has been shown to be a major step towards integrating description logics with rules paradigms. However, establishing efficient algorithms for reasoning with nominal schemas has so far been a challenge. In this paper, we present an algorithm to reason with the description logic fragment ELROV_n, a fragment that extends EL⁺⁺ with nominal schemas. We also report on an implementation and experimental evaluation of the algorithm, which shows that our approach is indeed rather efficient.

What Librarians Need To Know About Epub3, Sue Polanka

University Libraries' Staff Publications

Librarians and library users face challenges with multiple ebook formats. The most common are confusion on the part of users as to what file type they need and what the file type means, as well as how to download it properly to their devices. The sheer number of vendor interfaces also cause technical difficulties due to format variety and instructions for use. In fact, in October 2012, Library Journal Patron Profiles reported that 23% of library patrons were unsuccessful in borrowing ebooks due to technical difficulties. Library users, faced with a variety of ebook formats on a regular basis, are …

Epistemic Games Analysis Of Common Exam Questions Across Course Formats, Jonathan V. Mahadeo, Adrienne L. Traxler, Eric Brewe

Physics Faculty Publications

This study investigates differences in problem-solving performance between three different introductory physics course formats at Florida International University. The course formats--lecture+laboratory (LL), inquiry-based (IQB), and lecture+laboratory+recitation (LLR)--all incorporated two Advanced Placement (AP) questions into their final exams. Students' written responses were evaluated via an AP scoring rubric, and during this scoring, we observed marked differences in solution behavior between the three course formats. To further investigate these differences, we used the framework of epistemic games to analyze student responses. To apply this framework to written work, an epistemic game rubric was created. Application of this rubric yielded game profiles for …

From Questions To Effective Answers: On The Utility Of Knowledge-Driven Querying Systems For Life Sciences Data, Amir H. Asiaee, Prashant Doshi, Todd Minning, Satya S. Sahoo, Priti Parikh, Amit P. Sheth, Rick L. Tarleton

Kno.e.sis Publications

We compare two distinct approaches for querying data in the context of the life sciences. The first approach utilizes conventional databases to store the data and provides intuitive form-based interfaces to facilitate querying of the data, commonly used by the life science researchers that we study. The second approach utilizes a large OWL ontology and the same datasets associated as RDF instances of the ontology. Both approaches are being used in parallel by a team of cell biologists in their daily research activities, with the objective of gradually replacing the conventional approach with the knowledge-driven one. We describe several benefits …

Cs 3100: Data Structures And Algorithms, Erik Marlow Buck

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

Student learning outcomes include:

• Analyze basic algorithms for space and time complexity
• Design abstract data types appropriate for a given problem
• Implement data structures in an efficient manner
• Design and Implement non-graphical user-interfaces
• Select and implement appropriate data structures for a given problem
• Design algorithms to solve specific problems

Cs 1161: Introduction To Computer Programming Ii, Vanessa Starkey

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

Introduction to advanced programming concepts and techniques. Emphasis is on object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces. Integrated lecture/lab.

Cs 3180/5180: Comparative Languages, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

This course will introduce fundamental concepts and paradigms underlying the design of modern programming languages. For concreteness, we study the details of an object-oriented language (e.g. Java, C#, C++), a functional language (e.g. Scheme), and get introduced to multiparadigm languages (e.g. Python, Scala). The overall goal is to enable comparison and evaluation of existing languages. The programming assignments will largely be coded in Java and in Racket (formerly, Scheme) and optionally in Python or Scala.

Cs 4000: Social Implications Of Computing, Leo Finkelstein

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

CS 4000 is a communication skills course using as its subject matter current salient issues associated with the social implications of computing. IN addition to the course text, you will need to use certain reading materials in the library and elsewhere, and you will be responsible for using concepts and theories provided in class lectures and discussions.

Cs 7840: Soft Computing, John C. Gallagher

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

This course explores soft computation from historical, theoretical, and application viewpoints. Soft computing methods to be considered include evolutionary computation, neural computation, fuzzy set theory, and approximate reasoning. Applications to problems in optimization, control, and classification will be presented.

Cs 1181: Computer Science Ii, Dan C. Wlodarski

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

This is the second course in a two-semester sequence introducing fundamental concepts and techniques for computer science and engineering. The course focuses on problem analysis, advanced programming concepts using JAVA and fundamental data structures. Students learn to analyze problems and evaluate potential solutions with respect to choice of data structures and computational efficiency. Student are exposed to the underlying implementation of basic data structures available in JAVA libraries and develop the skilled needs to extend existing data structures and design new data structures to solve increasingly complex problems. This is an integrated writing course.

Ceg 4422/6422-01: Secure Computing Practices, Bin Wang

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Cs 7700: Advanced Database Systems, Soon M. Chung

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

Introduction of DB design concepts and operating principles of database systems.