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CS 7001: Introduction to Graduate Studies
Fall 2002
Mini Projects 
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General Information regarding Fall 2002 Projects

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Mini Projects by Professor 

Note that projects shown in purple have notbeen confirmed or updated for 2002, while those shown in blue have been.

Many professors that do not have specific mini-project listed below would be very happy do design a project for an interested student. If you see an area or professor that interests you, feel free to contact the professor about possible projects, even if none are listed on this page.

Prof. Abowd, Gregory (HCI, Software Engineering, Future Computing Environments)

Preferrably during the 2nd and 3rd phases
  1. Readings and Research Questions in Ubiquitous Computing
  2. The Aware Home Research Initiative
  3. Context-Aware Computing
  4. AutomatedCapture Environments
Look for more projects later in September.
Interested in other topics? Just ask!

Prof. Ahamad, Mustaque (Systems)

  1. Building Interactive Distributed Applications
  2. Efficient Data Access Mechanisms for Wide-area Distributed Systems
  3. Security Architectures for Pervasive Computing Environments 
  4. DependableDistributed Services
  5. Decentralized Trust Architectures 

Prof. Ammar, Mostafa (Networking)

  1. With Meng Guo and Qi He Object Location Schemes in P2P Networks
  2. With Meng Guo and Qi He Abstracting Overlay Networks

Prof. Arkin, Ron  (Intelligent Systems)

Prof. Badre, Albert (HCI)

Prof. Balch , Tucker (Intelligent Systems and Robotics) 

  1. The Association Problem for Multiagent Tracking
  2. Robot Socccer
  3. Drunken Sailor

Prof. Bobick, Aaron (Computational Perception & GVU)

Prof. Bruckman, Amy (Learning Sciences and Technology)

  1. With Jason Elliott: Online Community Design for 3D Math Learning

Prof. Burridge, Robert (Intelligent Systems)

  1. A Study in Dynamical Robots
  2. Representation and Reasoning in Contract Bridge
  3. Simulation and Animation of a Juggling Robot

Camp, Paul (Learning Sciences and Technology)

  1. Specification of Modeling Software for Middle School Geology

Prof. Contry, Ruth (Architecture)

Prof. Dellaert, Frank (Intelligent Systems)

  1. Extended Area Tracking
    ( This is actually three successive projects. Different students may complete each part; however, somebody must complete part 1 before anybody can attempt part 2.)
  2. Diffusion Mapping Simulations

Prof. Ding, Yan (Theory/Security)

Prof. Dos Santos, Andre (Security)

  1. Using Smart Cards for Authentication
  2. Integrate PKI using smart card into PGP
  3. Secure Telnet and Ftp using smart card
  4. Document Signing

Prof. Dovrolis, Constantions (Networking)

  1. Experiments with Pathrate
  2. Experiments with Pathload

Prof. Eastman, Chuck (GVU)

Prof. Essa, Irfan (Computational Perception, Computer Graphics and Animation, Intelligent Systems)

  1. Experiments with Motion Capture Data
  2. Title: Video Synthesis, Video-based Rendering and Video Textures
  3. Facial Animation: Using Speech Recognition for Lip Synch
  4. Facial Modeling/Animation: Predicting visual information from acoustic for LipSynch
  5. Robust Speech Recognition using Audio and Visual Information
  6. Aware Home: Perception and Ubiquitous Sensing
  7. Aware Home: Recognizing what people are doing?
  8. With Antonio Haro: Non-photorealistic rendering in hand drawn styles
  9. With Antonio Haro: Perceptual User Interfaces

Prof. Ezquerra, Norberto (GVU)

Prof. Ferguson, Ron (Intelligent Systems)

  1. Bayesian Interpretation of Visual Symbols
  2. Recreate the PHINEAS system
  3. Incremental Spatial Reasoning
  4. Use of repetition-based contrast in educational diagrams
  5. Perception of repetition vs. symmetry
  6. Analogical retrieval of symbols from a symbol database
  7. Hook up a multi-modal sketching system to a portable electronic whiteboard
  8. Generate qualitative spatial descriptions of drawn floor plans
  9. Analyze the metaphor character of arrows

Prof. Fujimoto, Richard (Systems)

  1. Distributed Simulation
  2. Network Emulation

Prof.Goda, John ()

Prof.Goel, Ashok (Intelligent Systems)

  1. Using Functional Models to Support Self-Adaptation
  2. Model-Based Dynamic Design of Data-Mining Agents
  3. Model-Based Dynamic (Re-)Design of Reactive Control Agents
  4. Using Qualitative Models to Localize Reinforcement Learning

Prof.Guzdial, Mark (Learning Sciences and Technology)

  1. Analyzing Collaborative Websites
  2. Designing Collaborative Spaces
  3. Creating Multimedia

Prof. Harrold, Mary Jean (Software Engineering and Programming Languages)

  1. DejaVOO: Regression Testing for Java Software
  2. Development of a Monitoring Module for Deployed Software
  3. Open Issues and Research Questions in Mobile Code Security
  4. Visualization of Exception Propagation Paths in Java
  5. Other Topic Areas in Software Engineering/Programming Languages

Prof. Isbell, Charles (IS)

  1. Extracting Human-readable rules for email filtering
  2. Statistical Models of Spam

Prof. Jain, Ramesh (ECE)

  1. Personal Information Management
  2. Indexing of Multimedia Data
  3. Audio-Visual Mail System

Prof. Koenig, Sven (Intelligent Systems)

  1. Rapid Random Restarts for Real-Time Heuristic Search
  2. Artificial Intelligence and Network Routing
  3. Learning to Play Pinball (in Simulation)
  4. Multi-Agent Exploration
  5. Literature Search on Incremental Search Methods
  6. Comparing Fast Replanning Algorithms for Robot Navigation

Prof. Kolodner, Janet (Cognitive Science, AI, and Learning Sciences andTechnology)

  1. Contact Prof. Kolodner about available projects.

Kurmas, Zachary (Systems)

  1. Generating Representative Synthetic Workloads

Prof. Lee, Wenke (Security)

  1. Reading and Research Questions in Intrusion Detection
  2. Installation, Extension, and Experimentation of a Network Intrusion Detection System

Prof. Liu, Ling (Systems and Databases)

  1. Research Issues in Trusted Peer-to-Peer Computing
  2. Result caching in the Gnutella network
  3. In Network Aggregation with Grouped Queries in multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks
  4. Object Mining On the Web
  5. Connecting An Information Change Monitoring Service with PDAs
  6. Internet Data Mining
  7. Evaluating Proxy Cache Algorithms and Implementations
  8. Building A Domain Specific Application Using Wrappers
  9. Analyzing Network Monitoring Tools
  10. Notification Service Extension For WebCQ
  11. Efficient Search Techniques in Peer-to-Peer Data Sharing Systems

Prof. Lipton, Richard (Theory)

Prof. MacIntyre, Blair (GVU)

  1. HCI Issues in Augmented Reality

Prof. Mackenzie, Ken (Systems & Architecture)

Prof. Manolios, Peter (Formal Methods)

  1. ACL2 Type Reasoning as Abstract Interpretation
  2. (An Initial Segment of) The Ordinals
  3. An Exercise in Program Correctness Using ACL2
  4. Formally modeling security protocols (With Wenke Lee)
  5. Formal Modeling of Software Caches (With Ken Mackenzie)
  6. Formal Methods Projects

Prof. Mark, Leo (Databases)

  1. Vocal Programmer
  2. XML Schema Schema

Prof. Mihail, Milena (Theory)

Prof. Mynatt, Elizabeth (HCI)

Prof. Navathe, Sham (Databases)

Prof. Nersessian, Nancy (Cognitive Science)

Prof. Omiecinski, Ed (Databases)

  1. Data Mining Algorithms

Prof. Palem, Krishna (Systems, joint with ECE)

Prof. Pande, Santosh (Systems)

  1. Evaluation of Briggs/Chaitin style register allocators
  2. Security and Safety Aspects of Mobile Codes

Prof. Pierce, Jeff (HCI)

  1. Desktop + PDA Interfaces
  2. Email in a Personal Computing Environment
  3. Multiple Monitor Interfaces
  4. Augmenting PDAs with Displays in the Environment
  5. Studying Personal Computing Environments
  6. Toward a Virtual Personal Network
  7. With Charles Isbell: Building a PDA Email Interface

Prof. Potts, Colin (HCI & Software Engineering)

  1. Things that go wrong with systems
  2. Design Rationale
  3. Feature Evolution and Variance

Prof. Pu, Calton (Systems)

  1. Enhancing the Multi-UAV Demo
  2. Adding Mozilla plug-in to Infopipe demos
  3. Readings on Infosphere Project
  4. Enhancing the Multi-UAV Demo with Applications

Prof. Ram, Ashwin (Intelligent Systems)

I would like to advise 7001 mini-projects; however, I do not have any pre-defined projects. I prefer to discuss individual students' interestes and develop a suitable project tailored ot that student.

Prof. Ramachandran, Kishore (Systems/Architecture/Software Methodolgy)

  1. Evaluating the programmability of Stampede
  2. Porting multithreaded programs for Beehive , a Software Distributed Shared Memory(SDSM)
  3. High availability software DSM: Beehive
  4. A media-oriented processor design
  5. Whither goes time?

Prof. Randall, Dana ()

Prof. Rehg, Jim (Computer Vision, Graphics and Machine Learning)

  1. Experiments with Bayesian Networks Using BNT
  2. Visual Intelligence
  3. Learning Models of Human Motion
  4. Object Recognition
  5. 3-D Reconstruction and Animation of Figure Motion
  6. Comparison of Figure Tracking Methods
  7. Exploration of AdaBoost for Feature Selection

Prof. Ribarsky, Bill (Data Visualization) 

  1. With Peter Wonka: Making Cities Visible
  2. With Chris Shaw: Real-time 3D Decision Support Tools
  3. Multimodal Interfaces for Virtual Environments

Prof. Rossignac, Jarek (GVU)

  1. Hexagonal Filling
  2. Hypervolume compression

Prof. Rugaber, Spencer (Software Engineering and Programming Languages)

  1. Ectropic Design
  2. Reverse Reverse Engineering

Prof. Schwan, Karsten (Systems)

  1. With Greg Eisenhauer: Remotely Filtered Event Streams for Distributed Applications
  2. With Ada Gavrilovska: Optimistic Virtual Synchrony
  3. With Christian Poellabauer: Extending the /proc Interface in Linux

Prof. Shaw, Chris (GVU)

  1. Virtual Environments
  2. Virtual Fire Fighters
  3. Bioinformatics Text Visualizations Using SFA
  4. Genome Exploration And Visualization
  5. Volumetric Medical Visualization

Prof. Shivers, Olin (Software Engineering & Programming Languages)

Prof. Smaragdakis, Yannis (Programming Languages)

  1. Security by Obscurity
  2. Java Bytecode Rewriting

Prof. Starner, Thad (Wearable Computing & GVU)

Prof. Stasko, John (HCI)

  1. Anthropomorphic Interface Agents
  2. New Operations for Display Space Management

Prof. Szymczak, Andrzej (GVU)

  1. Tetrahedral Models of Animations
  2. Cellular Automata and Morphing

Prof. Turk, Greg (GVU)

I would like to advise 7001 mini-projects; however, I do not have any pre-defined projects. I prefer to discuss individual students' interestes and develop a suitable project tailored ot that student.

Prof. Vazirani, Vijay (Theory)

Prof. Venkateswaran, H. (Theory)

  1. With Prof. Mustaque Ahamad: Access Control Mechanisms for Securing Distributed Applications
  2. With Prof. Mustaque Ahamad: Trust Management in Decentralized Systems

Prof Walker, Bruce ()

Prof. Xu, Jun (Jim) (Networking)

Prof. Zegura, Ellen (Networking)

  1. Performance of Mirror Servers
  2. With Richard Liston: Determining Characteristics of the Gnutella Network
  3. Quality of Peer-to-peer Overlay Networks
  4. Investigating the Timeliness of Real-Time Data on the Internet by Measuring Stock QuoteVariance

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