2012 Graduate Symposium

April 19, 2012 in Arts 134

8:30 Coffee

8:50 Welcome

9:00 Medley (session chair Gord McCalla)

  • Stephanie Frost, Path Analysis using a Simulation Model: Toward Coherence Planning using the Ecological Approach.
  • Shaikhah AlOtaibi, Applying Decentralized Online Networks in e-learning.
  • Oluwabunmi Adewoyin, Trust and Reputation Management in Online Mentorship Systems. 

9:50 Networking (session chair Chris Dutchyn)

  • Kazi Ahmed, Service-centric Mobile Cloud Computing: on the Road to Improving Performance of Latency-Sensitive Applications.
  • Michael C. Bullock, an Experimental Model of the Netflix HTTP Rate-Adaptation Algorithm.
  • Md Nazmul Hasan, Peer-assisted On-demand Video Streaming for Multiple Versions of Files in Peer-to-peer Networks.
  • Shaiful Alam Chowdhury, Time-varying Popularity Characteristics of YouTube Videos Revisited.

11:00 Systems (session chair Mark Eramian)

  • Jagmohan Chauhan, the Impact of Task Scheduler Configuration Settings on MapReduce Applications.
  • Khadija Rasul, Network System-call Tracing in Distributed Applications.
  • Kazi Shahzabeen Rahnuma, Communication with Mobile Clouds: Implementing m-DCG in the Cloud.
  • Zahrah Alawami, Incremental, Interactive Typechecking for Lua.
  • Krzystof Voss, Comparison of PSO and other Optimization Strategies in the Context of various Problems.

12:00 Best Graduate Student award

Lunch

1:00 Interaction (session chair Regan Mandryk)

  • Kathrin Gerlin, Exergames for Older Adults.
  • Faham Negini, Physiological Signals for Real-time Modeling of Emotion during Interaction with Play Technologies.
  • Steve Sutcliffe, Gesture Recognition for Digital Hand-off on Tabletop devices.

1:45 Clones (session chair Chanchal Roy)

  • Farouq Al-omari, Inter-language Clone Detection.
  • Jeffrey Svajlenko, a Clone Detector Benchmarking Experiment using the Mutation/Injection evaluation Framework.
  • Manishankar Mondal, An Effort Calculation and Prediction Model: the Software Clones Case Study.
  • Avigit Kumar Saha, Late Propagation in Software Clones: An Empirical Study.

3:00 Biology (session chair Mark Keil)

  • Arnie Berg, CpG Island Prediction.
  • Md Sowgat Ibne Mahmud, Analysis of Gene Assembly in Ciliates.
  • Amir M. Zadeh, Comparing de-novo Assemblers for Ion Torrent Metatranscriptomics Data.
  • Wenyi An, Software Combining System Dynamics and Decision Trees for Dynamic Decision Making.
  • Eddy Essien, a Parallel Implementation and Evaluation of a Second-Order Accurate Immersed Boundary Method.

4:15 Imaging (session chair Chris Dutchyn)

  • K. B. M. Abdullah Chisti, Texture Feature Extraction and Analysis of Human Femur Bones using Texture Feature Coding and Statistical Methods.
  • S. M. Rafizul Haque, Minimal Interaction-based Ultrasound Medical Image Segmentation for Diagnosis.
  • Jianning Chi, Texture Differences Enhancement in Ultrasound Images based on Stationary Wavelet Transforms.

 

All presentations are 12 minutes in length, including questions.

All presenters should check in with their session chair during the break immediately preceding their session.

Session starting times are firm, going overtime reduces breaks.