ACM-SE Program/Contents

Friday, March 16, 2001

8:45-8:50	Introduction: Jeffrey W. Smith, General Chair
8:50-8:55	Welcome: Gordhan L. Patel, Vice President for Research
8:55-9:00	Program Overview: John A. Miller, Program Chair
9:00-9:05	Introduction of Speaker: David Gries
9:05-10:00	Keynote Address: The Case for Language-Based Security
	Fred B. Schneider (Cornell University)

• Compact Thompson's NFA (R - 25)
  Guangming Xing (University of Georgia)

• Decomposition Characterizations of Classes of 2-Connected Graphs (R - 25)
  Sridar K. Pootheri (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

• An Edit Distance Based Algorithm for String/Sequence Classification (R - 25)
  Frank Hadlock (Tennessee Technological University)

• Co-Evolving the Bierwirth-Mattfeld 'delta' in Job Shop Scheduling Problems (E - 15)
  Rupa Bhaghavan, David J. John and Umha Mahesh Srinivasan (Wake Forest University)

• Tuning Genetic Algorithm Parameters for Research in Finite Semigroups (R - 25)
  Ronald C. Linton (Columbus State University)

• A New Technique for Lithofacies Prediction: Back-Propagation Neural Networks (R - 25)
  Punnee Siripitayananon, Hui-Chuan Chen, Bruce S. Hart (University of Alabama)

• DMSS: A Knowledge Discovery System for Epidemiologic Surveillance (R - 25)
  Stephen E. Brossette, Stephen A. Moser, Alan Sprague, J. Mike Hardin and Warren T. Jones (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

• VLSI Standard Cell Design using Genetic Algorithms (E - 15)
  Benjamin Bishop, Khaled Rasheed and Anil Bahuman (University of Georgia)

• Modernization and Enhancement of NASA Scientific Legacy Applications via a Distributed Application Architecture (S - 22)
  Michael D. Elder (Furman University)

• Implementation of Sporadic Server Scheduling in RTLinux (S - 22)
  Weijuan Shi (Florida State University)

• Porting PVM to Cluster Systems with Virtual Interface Architecture (S - 22)
  Yibing Wang (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

• AID: An Interactive Debugger for High Level Synthesis that Uses Dependence Flow Graphs as the Intermediate Representation (S - 22)
  Demethria Johnson (Auburn University)

• NP-Completeness for Equal Unions in Families of Sets (R - 22)
  David P. Jacobs and Robert E. Jamison (Clemson University)

• Completeness of Propositional Logic as a Program (R - 22)
  Ryan Stansifer (Florida Institute of Technology)

• A Collection of Functional Libraries for Theory of Computation (R - 22)
  Guo-Qiang Zhang and Leon Smith (Case Western Reserve University)

• Decomposition Approach and Approximate Polynomial Algorithms (E - 13)
  Boris Peltsverger and Svetlana Peltsverger (Georgia Southwestern University)

• A Parallel Implementation of the Split-Step Fourier Method for Solving Higher KdV Equations (E - 13)
  Jinhua Guo and Thiab R. Taha (University of Georgia)

• A Fundamental Algorithm for Dependency Parsing (R - 22)
  Michael A. Covington (University of Georgia)

• A Data Transformation Technique for Car Injury Prediction (R - 22)
  Chakarida Nukoolkit, Hui-Chuan Chen and David Brown (University of Alabama)

• Dairy Producer's Assistant: A Web-Based Expert System for Dairy Producers (R - 22)
  C. Ramakrishnan, S. Chellapilla, W.D. Potter et al. (University of Georgia)

• Ontology Development for Military Applications (R - 22)
  Michael Bowman, Antonio M. Lopez, Jr. (US Army War College) and Gheorghe Tecuci (George Mason University)

• Measuring Distraction and Awareness Caused by Graphical and Textual Displays in the Periphery (S - 22)
  Jacob Somervell, Ragavan Srinivasan, Kim Woods and Omar Vasnaik (Virginia Tech)

• Force Based Image Registration (S - 22)
  Karl Rasche (Clemson University)

• Segmenting Fluorescent Microscopy Images under Non-Uniform Lighting Conditions (S - 22)
  Ruslan Hristov (Armstrong Atlantic State University)

• The Role of Opponent Skill Level in Automated Game Learning (S - 22)
  Ying Ge and Michael Hash (Armstrong Atlantic State University)

• Performance Evaluation: Java vs. C++ (R - 22)
  Sean Wentworth and David D. Langan (University of South Alabama)

• A Visual Language Based on the Object Relationship Model (R - 22)
  Kenneth Messa, Bogdan Czejdo and Steven Claverie (Loyola University)

• A Performance Prediction Methodology for Superscalar and Superpipelined Processors (R - 22)
  Pamela Stitt and Usha Chandra (Florida A&M University)

• Open Source Network Computing (E - 13)
  Tai-Chi Lee and Chad Knepp (Saginaw Valley State University)

• Automated Conversion of Natural Language Requirements to a Formal Specification Language (E - 13)
  Beum-Seuk Lee and Barrett R. Bryant (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

• A Simple, Configurable, and Adaptive Network Firewall for Linux (R - 22)
  James M. Westall (Clemson University)

• A Statistically-Based Switching Algorithm for ATM Networks (R - 22)
  Eltayeb S. Abuelyaman and Eddy Z. Zhang (Arizona State University)

• Scheduling and Load Sharing in Mobile Computing using Tickets (R - 22)
  Sanjeev Baskiyar and Natarajan Meghanathan (Auburn University)

• All-to-All Communication in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (E - 13)
  Seong-Moo Yoo and Zhong-Hua Zhou (Columbus State University)

• A Granularity-Based Dynamic Broadcast Scheme (E - 13)
  Weigang Ni and Susan Vrbsky (University of Alabama)

• An NP-Complete Music Problem (S - 22)
  Nigel Gwee (Louisiana State University)

• Knowledge Representation for Algebra Word Problems (S - 22)
  Azzari C. Caillier (Xavier University of Louisiana)

• Mediation in Mimesis Liquid Narratives (S - 22)
  C.J. Saretto (North Carolina State University)

• An Internet Based Group Study Database Management System (S - 22)
  Brendon Schwartz, Jerry Pattenaude, Chris Wolff and Chris Armbrester (University of Georgia)

Saturday, March 17, 2001

• Survivability Architecture for Workflow Management Systems (R - 22)
  Jorge Cardoso, Zongwei Luo, John Miller, Amit Sheth and Krys Kochut (University of Georgia)

• Battle Planning in a Distributed Environment (R - 22)
  Janth English and Roy George (Clark Atlanta University)

• A Fault-Tolerant Distributed Web-Based Clinical Information System on Commodity PC Platform (R - 22)
  Praveen K. Chelli and Sushil K. Prasad (Georgia State University)

• Automated Web Form Construction (E - 13)
  Rhonda S. Earl and Thomas J. Cheatham (Middle Tennessee State University)

• Finding It on the Web: Effective Retrieval with Internet Search Engines (E - 13)
  Caroline M. Eastman (University of South Carolina)

• The Unified Parallel Speedup Model and Simulator (R - 25)
  Kenneth E. Hoganson (Kennesaw State University)

• KublAI: An Intelligent Agent for Microsoft's Age of Kings (E - 13)
  J.N. Rushton, W.D. Potter, A.L. Bahuman, J. Li and C. Ramakrishnan (University of Georgia)

• Debugging [in] CS1 (E - 13)
  James H. Cross, T. Dean Hendrix and Larry A. Barowski (Auburn University)

• Case Study of using Object Oriented Techniques in High Performance Computing (E - 13)
  Dick Gayler (Kennesaw State University)

• Reminiscences of Forty Years in Computing (E - 13)
  T.F. Higginbotham (Southeastern Louisiana University)

• The Evolution of Information Security (E - 13)
  Novadean Watson (University of Sarasota) and Jeff Zadeh (Francis Marion University)

• Storage Management Issues for High Performance Database Visualization (S - 22)
  Hui Tian (University of Georgia)

• Storage Manager in MMODB's Main-Memory Object-Oriented Database System (S - 22)
  Shuchi Patel, Madhan R. Arumugam and Ritu Dhawan (University of Georgia)

• Transaction Management for a Main-Memory Database (S - 22)
  Piyush Burte, Boanerges Aleman-Meza, D. Brent Weatherly and Rong Wu (University of Georgia)

• Presentation of Student Paper Awards

• Application-Level Caching for Web-Based Database Access (R - 25)
  Yanqing Lu and Rajshekhar Sunderraman (Georgia State University)

• Progress towards Standards for XML Databases (R - 25)
  Maria Chinwala, Rakesh Malhotra and John A. Miller (University of Georgia)

• Object-Oriented Database System Design Method Characteristics (R - 25)
  Noble Wade Gibbs and Sheryl Duggins (Southern Polytechnic State University)

• An Efficient Data Extraction and Storage Utility for XML Documents (E - 15)
  Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, John A. Miller and Amit P. Sheth (University of Georgia)

• Smooth Visibility from a Point (R - 24)
  J.K. Johnstone (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

• Equiseparations (R - 24)
  Matthew Belcher, Stephen Hicks and Meera Sitharam (University of Florida)

• Application of Virtual Reality in Learning Scenarios (E - 14)
  Max M. North, James R. Mathis, Adam Madajewski et al. (Kennesaw State University)

• Virtual Reality Technology as a Medium for Learning (E - 14)
  Sarah M. North (Clark Atlanta University)

• Surface Estimation from a Point Cloud (E - 14)
  Chakrit Watcharopas (Clemson University)

Panel Discussion: Skills vs. Concepts, Does Industry Know What Is Best?
Moderator: Jeff Zadeh (Francis Marion University)
Panelists: Jim Harris (Georgia Southern University), Hamid Arabnia (University of Georgia), Steve Stevenson (Clemson University)