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Non-Verbal Communication With Autistic Children Using Digital Libraries, Gondy A. Leroy, John Huang '05, Serena Chuang '05, Marjorie H. Charlop Jan 2005

Non-Verbal Communication With Autistic Children Using Digital Libraries, Gondy A. Leroy, John Huang '05, Serena Chuang '05, Marjorie H. Charlop

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has become one of the most prevalent mental disorders over the last few years and its prevalence is still growing. The disorder is characterized by a wide variety of symptoms such as lack of social behavior, extreme withdrawal, and problems communicating. Because of the diversity in symptoms and the wide variety in severity for those, each autistic child has different needs and requires individualized therapy. This leads to long waiting lists for therapy.


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.


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.


Athena: An Online Proposal Development System, Humaira Rahim Jan 2005

Athena: An Online Proposal Development System, Humaira Rahim

Theses Digitization Project

Athena - Online Proposal Development System was the first version of a vision of Dr. Richard Botting, Professor, Department of Computer Science at California State University, San Bernardino. The program, a JSP based system incorporating a MySql database, moves the writing, review, and annotation of project proposals into the digital environment. It allows Computer Science Master's students to provide their project proposals online for review and annotation by the committee members.


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. …


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.


An Empirical Study: Usage Of The Unified Modeling Language In The Bachelor Of Science And Master Of Science Degree Programs At California State University, San Bernardino, Cynthia Patrice Farquhar Jan 2005

An Empirical Study: Usage Of The Unified Modeling Language In The Bachelor Of Science And Master Of Science Degree Programs At California State University, San Bernardino, Cynthia Patrice Farquhar

Theses Digitization Project

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) became part of the curriculum in the Department of Computer Science at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) in September 1997. The intent was to integrate the object-oriented paradigm in the undergraduate courses. Subsequently, this use has shifted to the graduate level. The purpose of this thesis is: 1) to determine what the students know about UML, 2) to reveal if the students were using UML, 3) to clarify how students use the UML.


Online Solicitation Management System For The Office Of Technology Transfer And Commercialization, Chia-Chi Wang Jan 2005

Online Solicitation Management System For The Office Of Technology Transfer And Commercialization, Chia-Chi Wang

Theses Digitization Project

The Online Solicitation Management System (OSMS) is a web-based system designed for California State University, San Bernardino's Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization (OTTC) to run grant proposal solicitations more efficiently. The system accepts grant proposals, finds the best matched evaluators, calculates evaluation scores, and generated reports. Users in the system are divided into five (5) different roles: system administrator, program officer, staff, evaluator and applicant.


On The Optimization Of Visualizations Of Complex Phenomena, Donald H. House, Althea D. Bair, Colin Ware Jan 2005

On The Optimization Of Visualizations Of Complex Phenomena, Donald H. House, Althea D. Bair, Colin Ware

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

The problem of perceptually optimizing complex visualizations is a difficult one, involving perceptual as well as aesthetic issues. In our experience, controlled experiments are quite limited in their ability to uncover interrelationships among visualization parameters, and thus may not be the most useful way to develop rules-of-thumb or theory to guide the production of high-quality visualizations. In this paper, we propose a new experimental approach to optimizing visualization quality that integrates some of the strong points of controlled experiments with methods more suited to investigating complex highly-coupled phenomena. We use human-in-the-loop experiments to search through visualization parameter space, generating large …


Privacy-Preserving Top-N Recommendation On Horizontally Partitioned Data, Huseyin Polat, Wenliang Du Jan 2005

Privacy-Preserving Top-N Recommendation On Horizontally Partitioned Data, Huseyin Polat, Wenliang Du

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

Collaborative filtering techniques are widely used by many E-commerce sites for recommendation purposes. Such techniques help customers by suggesting products to purchase using other users’ preferences. Today’s top-recommendation schemes are based on market basket data, which shows whether a customer bought an item or not. Data collected for recommendation purposes might be split between different parties. To provide better referrals and increase mutual advantages, such parties might want to share data. Due to privacy concerns, however, they do not want to disclose data. This paper presents a scheme for binary ratings-based top-N recommendation on horizontally partitioned data, in which two …


Decision Fusion Rules In Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks, Ying Lin, Biao Chen, Pramod K. Varshney Jan 2005

Decision Fusion Rules In Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks, Ying Lin, Biao Chen, Pramod K. Varshney

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

We consider in this paper the decision fusion problem for a wireless sensor network (WSN) operating in a fading environment. In particular, we develop channel-aware decision fusion rules for a resource constrained WSN where decisions from local sensors may go through multi-hop transmission to reach a fusion center. Each relay node employs a binary relay scheme whereby the relay output is inferred from the channel impaired observation received from its source node. This estimated binary decision is subsequently transmitted to the next node until it reaches the fusion center. Under a flat fading channel model, we derive the optimum fusion …


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 …


An Efficient Scheme For Authenticating Public Keys In Sensor Networks, Wenliang Du, Ronghua Wang, Peng Ning Jan 2005

An Efficient Scheme For Authenticating Public Keys In Sensor Networks, Wenliang Du, Ronghua Wang, Peng Ning

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

With the advance of technology, Public Key Cryptography (PKC) will sooner or later be widely used in wireless sensor networks. Recently, it has been shown that the performance of some public key algorithms, such as Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), is already close to being practical on sensor nodes. However, the energy consumption of PKC is still expensive, especially compared to symmetric-key algorithms. To maximize the lifetime of batteries, we should minimize the use of PKC whenever possible in sensor networks. This paper investigates how to replace one of the important PKC operations–the public key authentication–with symmetric key operations that are …


Polymorphic Self-* Agents For Stigmergic Fault Mitigation In Large-Scale Real-Time Embedded Systems, Derek Messie, Jae C. Oh Jan 2005

Polymorphic Self-* Agents For Stigmergic Fault Mitigation In Large-Scale Real-Time Embedded Systems, Derek Messie, Jae C. Oh

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

Organization and coordination of agents within large-scale, complex, distributed environments is one of the primary challenges in the field of multi-agent systems. A lot of interest has surfaced recently around self-* (self-organizing, self-managing, self-optimizing, self-protecting) agents. This paper presents polymorphic self-* agents that evolve a core set of roles and behavior based on environmental cues. The agents adapt these roles based on the changing demands of the environment, and are directly implementable in computer systems applications. The design combines strategies from game theory, stigmergy, and other biologically inspired models to address fault mitigation in large-scale, real-time, distributed systems. The agents …


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 …


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 …


A User-Centered Content Architecture For An Academic Digital Research Portal, Erika Rogers, Mary M. Somerville, Alissa Randles Jan 2005

A User-Centered Content Architecture For An Academic Digital Research Portal, Erika Rogers, Mary M. Somerville, Alissa Randles

Computer Science and Software Engineering

As part of the digital evolution of libraries, librarians are now expected to serve in new roles as knowledge mediators, and to provide much more technologically based support and assistance for students’ progress towards information literacy. This paper describes an ongoing collaborative project between students and library personnel to incorporate usability evaluation, interaction design techniques, and instructional design theories in the design and development of a flexible web-based Research Portal.


Chinese Restaurant Online System, Yaming Chen Jan 2005

Chinese Restaurant Online System, Yaming Chen

Theses Digitization Project

Chinese Restaurant Online System was designed to allow customers to view information about the restaurant over the Web and order some dishes online. It allows employees to login to do their work, depending on their sponsored rights.


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.


Cares - Computer Aided Rehabilitation Software, Kirti Katiyar Jan 2005

Cares - Computer Aided Rehabilitation Software, Kirti Katiyar

Theses Digitization Project

This project was done with the vision that it would simplify and improve outpatient treatment of substance abusers through a rehabilitation software program with 24-7 access availability. By developing an easy-to-use interface for out-patient substance abuse patients, they along with their counselors, administrators and insurance agencies, will be able to facilitate continuous communication during the course of a patient's treatment.


Food Wholesale Ordering System, Dennis Meng Yann Hsieh Jan 2005

Food Wholesale Ordering System, Dennis Meng Yann Hsieh

Theses Digitization Project

FWOS (Food Wholesaler Ordering System) demonstrates the application of web services to provide an ecommerce solution for general food wholesaler and their customers. The main goal of this project is to provide graphical user interfaces for the four user types including visitor, member, sales person and sales manager. The system provides a contact base ordering system, an account management sub-system, and a powerful accounting subsystem.


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.


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.


Advising Module: Graduate Application System For The Computer Science Graduate Program, Yen-Hsi Chiang Jan 2005

Advising Module: Graduate Application System For The Computer Science Graduate Program, Yen-Hsi Chiang

Theses Digitization Project

The Advising Module: Graduate Application System is a Web-based application system that provides quality advice on coursework for prospective as well as continuing graduate students. It also serves as an improved tracking system for the graduate coordinator. Authorized parties may obtain access to status evaluations, master's options, and permitted course waivers, course listings, personal data, various advisement forms, application usage statistics, and automatic data updating process reports.


Get The Right Price Every Day, Gerardo Javier Garcia Sotelo Jan 2005

Get The Right Price Every Day, Gerardo Javier Garcia Sotelo

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to manage restaurants using a software system called GRIPED (Get the Right Price Every day). The system is designed to cover quality control, food cost control and portion control for better management of a restaurant.


Virtual Sports Stock Exchange, Chi-Chih Chen Jan 2005

Virtual Sports Stock Exchange, Chi-Chih Chen

Theses Digitization Project

The goal of this project is to create a web application to help people learn about the stock market. The Virtual Sports Stock Exchange (VSSX) simulates market trading based on the world of sports. It allows users to experiment with different economic models. Virtual Sports Stock Exchange (VSSX) uses HTML and Java Server Page to generate the output and calculations and it uses Java Servlet to interact with the Oracle 9i database.


Intelligent Software Systems In Historical Context, Jens G. Pohl Jan 2005

Intelligent Software Systems In Historical Context, Jens G. Pohl

Collaborative Agent Design (CAD) Research Center

The purpose of this chapter is to trace the evolution of intelligent software from data-centric applications that essentially encapsulate their data environment to ontology-based applications with automated reasoning capabilities. It is argued that a distinction may be drawn between human intelligence and component capabilities within a more general definition of intelligence, and that such component capabilities can be embedded in computer software. The primary vehicle in the quest for intelligent software has been the gradual recognition of the central role played by data and information, rather than the logic and functionality of the application. The three milestones in this evolution …


Too Quick? Log Analysis Of Quick Links From An Academic Library Website, Jimmy Ghaphery Jan 2005

Too Quick? Log Analysis Of Quick Links From An Academic Library Website, Jimmy Ghaphery

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

Since the summer of 2001, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries has offered a “Quick Links” menu in the top right-hand side of many of its pages. Transaction log files have been run in order to analyze the use of the Quick Links, and several changes have been made based on those logs. This article will discuss those findings and offer contextual ideas for the use of Quick Links in comparison to the rest of the library website.


Pigtail: A Pig Addendum, Todd W. Neller, Clifton G.M. Presser Jan 2005

Pigtail: A Pig Addendum, Todd W. Neller, Clifton G.M. Presser

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The object of the jeopardy dice game Pig is to be the first player to reach 100 points. Each turn, a player repeatedly rolls a die until either a 1 is rolled or the player holds and scores the sum of the rolls (i.e., the turn total). At any time during a player’s turn, the player is faced with two choices: roll or hold. If the player rolls a 1, the player scores nothing and it becomes the opponent’s turn. If the player rolls a number other than 1, the number is added to the player’s turn total …


Unifying An Introduction To Artificial Intelligence Course Through Machine Learning Laboratory Experiences, Ingrid Russell, Zdravko Markov, Todd W. Neller, Michael Georgiopoulos, Susan Coleman Jan 2005

Unifying An Introduction To Artificial Intelligence Course Through Machine Learning Laboratory Experiences, Ingrid Russell, Zdravko Markov, Todd W. Neller, Michael Georgiopoulos, Susan Coleman

Computer Science Faculty Publications

This paper presents work on a collaborative project funded by the National Science Foundation that incorporates machine learning as a unifying theme to teach fundamental concepts typically covered in the introductory Artificial Intelligence courses. The project involves the development of an adaptable framework for the presentation of core AI topics. This is accomplished through the development, implementation, and testing of a suite of adaptable, hands-on laboratory projects that can be closely integrated into the AI course. Through the design and implementation of learning systems that enhance commonly-deployed applications, our model acknowledges that intelligent systems are best taught through their application …