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Tr-2008016: An Analysis Of Entries In The First Tac Market Design Competition, Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Peter Mcburney Jan 2008

Tr-2008016: An Analysis Of Entries In The First Tac Market Design Competition, Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Peter Mcburney

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Re-Writing The Test, Ron Ryne Jan 2008

Re-Writing The Test, Ron Ryne

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Just as all students have done over the course of their collegiate experience, I have taken an untold number of tests in my classes. 'One of the issues that I have with current testing methods is the lack of interaction between the test taker and the test itself. This lack of interaction became the driving force of my Honor's experience, and it was my intention to develop a more interactive approach to testing that is both easy to use by the test taker as well as the professors that will develop the program for their specific testing requirements.


Topological And Categorical Properties Of Binary Trees, Homeira Pajoohesh Jan 2008

Topological And Categorical Properties Of Binary Trees, Homeira Pajoohesh

Publications and Research

Binary trees are very useful tools in computer science for estimating the running time of so-called comparison based algorithms, algorithms in which every action is ultimately based on a prior comparison between two elements. For two given algorithms A and B where the decision tree of A is more balanced than that of B, it is known that the average and worst case times of A will be better than those of B, i.e., ₸A(n) ≤₸B(n) and TWA (n)≤TWB (n). Thus the most balanced and the most imbalanced binary trees play a main role. Here we consider them as semilattices …


Tr-2008006: Additive Preconditioning, Eigenspaces, And The Inverse Iteration, Victor Y. Pan, Xiaodong Yan Jan 2008

Tr-2008006: Additive Preconditioning, Eigenspaces, And The Inverse Iteration, Victor Y. Pan, Xiaodong Yan

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2008009: Solving Homogeneous Linear Systems With Weakly Randomized Additive Preprocessing, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian Jan 2008

Tr-2008009: Solving Homogeneous Linear Systems With Weakly Randomized Additive Preprocessing, Victor Y. Pan, Guoliang Qian

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2008010: The Logic Of Justification, Sergei Artemov Jan 2008

Tr-2008010: The Logic Of Justification, Sergei Artemov

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Tr-2008014: Why Do We Need Justification Logic?, Sergei Artemov Jan 2008

Tr-2008014: Why Do We Need Justification Logic?, Sergei Artemov

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Anatomy Of An Arabetic Type Design, Saad D. Abulhab Jan 2008

Anatomy Of An Arabetic Type Design, Saad D. Abulhab

Publications and Research

Arabetic type design, like type design in general, should not be limited by rigid rules, other than those advocating open choice and user options. But as with all design fields, highlighting certain principles and guidelines is crucial to realizing a successful project. In an Arabetic font design environment, such guidelines and principles should reveal deeper understanding of various scripts visual and behavioral defining characteristics rather than mere traditional calligraphic and handwriting norms. A main goal of this study is to emphasize that designing Arabetic fonts is much easier than it is portrayed, and designers of all backgrounds should be more …


Services Mashups: The New Generation Of Web Applications, Djamal Benslimane, Schahram Dustdar, Amit P. Sheth Jan 2008

Services Mashups: The New Generation Of Web Applications, Djamal Benslimane, Schahram Dustdar, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

Web services are becoming a major technology for deploying automated interactions between distributed and heterogeneous applications, and for connecting business processes. Service mashups indicate a way to create new Web applications by combining existing Web resources utilizing data and Web APIs. They facilitate the design and development of novel and modern Web applications based on easy-to-accomplish end-user service compositions.


User Driven Two-Dimensional Computer-Generated Ornamentation, Dustin Anderson, Zoë J. Wood Jan 2008

User Driven Two-Dimensional Computer-Generated Ornamentation, Dustin Anderson, Zoë J. Wood

Computer Science and Software Engineering

Hand drawn ornamentation, such as floral or geometric patterns, is a tedious and time consuming task that requires skill and training in ornamental design principles and aesthetics. Ornamental drawings both historically and presently play critical roles in all things from art to architecture, and when computers handle the repetition and overall structure of ornament, considerable savings in time and money can result. Due to the importance of keeping an artist in the loop, we present an application, designed and implemented utilizing a user-driven global planning strategy, to help guide the generation of two-dimensional ornament. The system allows for the creation …


On The Tradeoff Between Speedup And Energy Consumption In High Performance Computing – A Bioinformatics Case Study, Sachin Pawaskar, Hesham Ali Jan 2008

On The Tradeoff Between Speedup And Energy Consumption In High Performance Computing – A Bioinformatics Case Study, Sachin Pawaskar, Hesham Ali

Computer Science Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

High Performance Computing has been very useful to researchers in the Bioinformatics, Medical and related fields. The bioinformatics domain is rich in applications that require extracting useful information from very large and continuously growing sequence of databases. Automated techniques such as DNA sequencers, DNA microarrays & others are continually growing the dataset that is stored in large public databases such as GenBank and Protein DataBank. Most methods used for analyzing genetic/protein data have been found to be extremely computationally intensive, providing motivation for the use of powerful computers or systems with high throughput characteristics. In this paper, we provide a …


Ua1f Wku Archives Vertical File - Wku Information Technology, Wku Archives Jan 2008

Ua1f Wku Archives Vertical File - Wku Information Technology, Wku Archives

WKU Administration Documents

Digitized vertical file materials regarding WKU Information Technology.


Adding Simple Simulations To Video Games To Improve Realism, Leonard Kinnaird-Heether Jan 2008

Adding Simple Simulations To Video Games To Improve Realism, Leonard Kinnaird-Heether

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

In this paper a method of enhancing the realism of certain computer game types, particularly First Person Shooter games, is explored by attempting to include intelligent neutral background characters to the game environment. This method also requires that the inclusion of these background characters will not adversely affect the performance of a game by drastically increasing the computational complexity of the game. A simulation was created to show how this can be done using a group of intelligent agents based in a simulated world, and a simplified system of norms designed to influence the agents’ behavior. The agents are designed …


Developing A Proactive Framework For E-Discovery Compliance, Gerald L. Wallner Jan 2008

Developing A Proactive Framework For E-Discovery Compliance, Gerald L. Wallner

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

The purpose of this document is to provide Information Systems Management an awareness of a compliance risk associated with the management of electronic data. The changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 2006 make electronic data discoverable as evidence for civil court cases introducing the need for proactive management of end user data beyond the data that a particular form of legislation may require. Leveraging existing forensic data collection processes and raising the awareness of the problem and risk to the organization will provide a level of assurance for compliance should the data be requested in a civil …


Information Sharing Solutions For Nato Headquarters, Wade Alarie Jan 2008

Information Sharing Solutions For Nato Headquarters, Wade Alarie

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

NATO is an Alliance of 26 nations that operates on a consensus basis, not a majority basis. Thorough and timely information exchange between nations is fundamental to the Business Process. Current technology and practices at NATO HQ are inadequate to meet modern-day requirements despite the availability of demonstrated and accredited Cross-Domain technology solutions. This lack of integration between networks is getting more complicated with time, as nations continue to invest in IT and ignore the requirements for inter-networked gateways. This contributes to inefficiencies, fostering an atmosphere where shortcuts are taken in order to get the job done. The author recommends …


Designing And Implementing A Backup And Recovery System For Kentucky's Cooperative Extension Service, Wesley G. Justice Jan 2008

Designing And Implementing A Backup And Recovery System For Kentucky's Cooperative Extension Service, Wesley G. Justice

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

This project proposes the development and proof of concept implementation of a comprehensive backup and recovery plan for Kentucky's Cooperative Extension Service. Currently, no standardized backup system is in place. Each CES office location contains between five and forty Windows based workstations and at least one server, and backup methods vary from office to office. Current backup processes are inadequate in several key areas. To ensure the availability and integrity of mission critical data, the goal of this project is the analysis, design, and implementation of a standardized backup and recovery plan. The project will consider multiple hardware and software …


Gjxdm Documents And Small Law Enforcement Agencies, Darin Dillard Jan 2008

Gjxdm Documents And Small Law Enforcement Agencies, Darin Dillard

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that while the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) is a complete and effective solution for criminal justice agencies it is complex to implement and difficult for smaller law enforcement agencies to put into practice. The paper presents the current implementation steps for a new GJXDM document and describes the process of implementing an existing GJXDM document. The paper also presents a tool for agencies to start using and processing GJXDM documents. Also offered within the paper is a design for a central repository for increasing GJXDM information sharing and dissemination of …


A Business Continuity Solution For Telecommunications Billing Systems, Andrew Mccormack Jan 2008

A Business Continuity Solution For Telecommunications Billing Systems, Andrew Mccormack

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

The billing system is a critical component in a Telecommunications service provider's suite of business support systems - without the billing system the provider cannot invoice their customers for services provided and therefore cannot generate revenue. Typically billing systems are hosted on a single large Unix/Oracle system located in the company's data centre. Modern Unix servers with their redundant components and hot swap parts are highly resilient and can provide levels of availability when correctly installed in properly managed data centre with uninterruptible power supplies, cooling etc. High Availability clustering through the use of HP MC/ServiceGuard, Sun Cluster, IBM HACMP …


Crime Information Extraction From Police And Witness Narrative Reports, Chih Hao Ku '12, Alicia Iriberri '06, Gondy A. Leroy Jan 2008

Crime Information Extraction From Police And Witness Narrative Reports, Chih Hao Ku '12, Alicia Iriberri '06, Gondy A. Leroy

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

To solve crimes, investigators often rely on interviews with witnesses, victims, or criminals themselves. The interviews are transcribed and the pertinent data is contained in narrative form. To solve one crime, investigators may need to interview multiple people and then analyze the narrative reports. There are several difficulties with this process: interviewing people is time consuming, the interviews - sometimes conducted by multiple officers - need to be combined, and the resulting information may still be incomplete. For example, victims or witnesses are often too scared or embarrassed to report or prefer to remain anonymous. We are developing an online …


Semantic Sensor Web, Amit P. Sheth Jan 2008

Semantic Sensor Web, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.


Unsupervised Discovery Of Compound Entities For Relationship Extraction, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Pablo N. Mendes, Shaojun Wang, Amit P. Sheth Jan 2008

Unsupervised Discovery Of Compound Entities For Relationship Extraction, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Pablo N. Mendes, Shaojun Wang, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

In this paper we investigate unsupervised population of a biomedical ontology via information extraction from biomedical literature. Relationships in text seldom connect simple entities. We therefore focus on identifying compound entities rather than mentions of simple entities. We present a method based on rules over grammatical dependency structures for unsupervised segmentation of sentences into compound entities and relationships. We complement the rule-based approach with a statistical component that prunes structures with low information content, thereby reducing false positives in the prediction of compound entities, their constituents and relationships. The extraction is manually evaluated with respect to the UMLS Semantic Network …


Monetizing User Activity On Social Networks, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Kamal Baid, Amit P. Sheth, Shaojun Wang Jan 2008

Monetizing User Activity On Social Networks, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Kamal Baid, Amit P. Sheth, Shaojun Wang

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.


Building Web Applications Using Web Services, Keerthi Nannapaneni Jan 2008

Building Web Applications Using Web Services, Keerthi Nannapaneni

Theses Digitization Project

This project was performed to get hands on experience on the implementation of web services. During this project execution, significant time was spent researching about existing web services and various programming environments that can be used for building the application. The following application - AJAX, JavaScript, Java, Java server pages, HTML, and CSS. Existing data content from the following web service resources were used in this application - Google API, ArcWebServices, Weather XML feed. The purpose of this application is to show the map location along with the weather of the place selected by the user. This application can be …


Reasoning In Circumscriptive Alco, Stephan Grimm, Pascal Hitzler Jan 2008

Reasoning In Circumscriptive Alco, Stephan Grimm, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Non-monotonic extensions of description logics (DLs) allow for default and local closed-world reasoning and are an acknowledged desired feature for applications, e.g. in the Semantic Web. A recent approach to such an extension is based on McCarthy's circumscription, which rests on the principle of minimising the extension of selected predicates to locally close off dedicated parts of a domain model. While decidability and complexity results have been established in the literature, no practical algorithmisation for circumscriptive DLs has been proposed so far. In this paper, we present a tableaux calculus that can be used as a sound and complete decision …


Expressive Tractable Description Logics Based On Sroiq Rules, Markus Krotzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, Pascal Hitzler Jan 2008

Expressive Tractable Description Logics Based On Sroiq Rules, Markus Krotzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

We introduce description logic (DL) rules as a new rule-based formalism for knowledge representation in DLs. As a fragment of the Semantic Web Rule Language SWRL, DL rules allow for a tight integration with DL knowledge bases. In contrast to SWRL, however, the combination of DL rules with expressive description logics remains decidable, and we show that the DL SROIQ - the basis for the ongoing standardisation of OWL 2 - can completely internalise DL rules. On the other hand, DL rules capture many expressive features of SROIQ that are not available in simpler DLs yet. While reasoning in SROIQ …


Thermal Roots Of Correlation-Based Complexity, Philip Fraundorf Jan 2008

Thermal Roots Of Correlation-Based Complexity, Philip Fraundorf

Physics Faculty Works

Bayesian maxent lets one integrate thermal physics and information theory points of view in the quantitative study of complex systems. Since net surprisal (a free energy analog for measuring “departures from expected”) allows one to place second law constraints on mutual information (a multimoment measure of correlations), it makes a quantitative case for the role of reversible thermalization in the natural history of invention, and suggests multiscale strategies to monitor standing crop as well. It prompts one to track evolved complexity starting from live astrophysically observed processes, rather than only from evidence of past events. Various gradients and boundaries that …


The Automation Of Software Development Metrics, Anthony J. Traino Jan 2008

The Automation Of Software Development Metrics, Anthony J. Traino

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

With the push to streamline medical records and the use of electronic medical records system technology on the rise, successful implementation is important. The push is due in part for the need to reduce unnecessary paperwork, increase reimbursement, increase quality of medical records and increase overall quality of care. Factors to consider are the effects of implementation on quality of care, quality of medical records, physician and staff perceptions, working conditions, patient satisfaction, cost and barriers. Implementation may have a positive, negative or neutral effect on these factors making the need to review literature and report outcomes significant.


Wireless Handheld Solution For The Gaming Industry, Mo T. Hyder Jan 2008

Wireless Handheld Solution For The Gaming Industry, Mo T. Hyder

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

of the essential elements of success in the gaming industry is the requirement of providing exceptional customer service. Technology plays a significant role in bringing state of the art solutions that enhance the overall customer experience. Currently a guest must go through multiple steps and a variety of departments to simply resolve issues with their player accounts (loyalty programs), update customer profiles, book hotel and restaurant reservations, sign up for promotions, etc. In order to effectively take care of these customers in both a timely and efficient manner, a wireless handheld device is needed that employees can carry with them …


Investment Technology For Trading Business: Delineating Requirements, Processes, And Design Decisions For Order-Management Systems, Daniel L. Mark Jan 2008

Investment Technology For Trading Business: Delineating Requirements, Processes, And Design Decisions For Order-Management Systems, Daniel L. Mark

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

The requirements and processes for building a robust order management system (OMS) for trading of investments within financial services firms are investigated and enumerated. Requirements and process documentation are not readily available to members of the general public because they are considered a source of competitive advantage in a highly profitable industry. This paper provides single source documentation of those requirements and processes in the context of the Vested OMS application, which was constructed specifically to meet industry needs in this area. This paper describes in detail the core functionality investment businesses currently demand and the software development techniques used …


The Value Proposition Of Service-Oriented Architecture, David Norman Jan 2008

The Value Proposition Of Service-Oriented Architecture, David Norman

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

The author of this thesis evaluates Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) design and implementation strategies. The purpose is to provide the reader with the definition of Service-Oriented Architecture. This report discusses: (1) The definition of Service-Oriented Architecture, (2) The problems solved by Service-Oriented Architecture, (3) Application of design principles to achieve Service-Oriented Architecture. As a result of this investigation, Service-Oriented Architecture is a design style that is fundamentally about sharing and reuse of functionality across diverse applications, so that organizations can quickly adapt to changing business requirements while increasing IT asset reuse and minimizing integration and development costs.