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Scholarly publications published or accepted for publication 2008-2009

 


G. Allen, P. Bogden, G. Creager, C. Dekate, C. Jesch, H. Kaiser, J. MacLaren, W. Perrie, G. Stone, and X. Zhang. Gis and integrated coastal ocean forecasting. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 20:1637–1651, 2008.

M. Balman and T. Kosar. Dynamic adaptation of parallelism level in data transfer
scheduling. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Adaptive Systems in Heterogeneous Environments, Tsukuba, Japan, 2009.

M. Balman and T. Kosar. Early error detection and classification in data transfer
scheduling. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on P2P, Parallel, Grid
and Internet Computing, Tsukuba, Japan, 2009.

M. Balasubramanian, S. Zabic, L. Zangwill, H. Thompson, P. Wolenski, S.S. Iyengar and B.B. Karki. A framework for detecting glaucomatous progression in the optic nerve head of an eye using proper orthogonal decomposition. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine .

H. Cao, B. Khoobehi, and S.S. Iyengar. Automated optic nerve head image fusion of nonhuman primate eyes using heuristic optimization algorithm. In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bio-Informatics and Computational Biology, 2008.

J. Feigenbaum, S. Kannan, A. McGregor, S. Suri, and J. Zhang. Graph distances in the streaming model. SIAM Journal on Computing, 38:1709–1727, 2008.

J.G. Fleming, C.W. Fulcher, R.A. Luettich, B.D. Estrade, G.D. Allen, and H.S. Winer. A real time storm surge forecasting system using ADCIRC, estuarine and coastal modeling. X.M. Spaulding, 2008.

A. Gehani, M. Kim, and J. Zhang. Steps toward managing lineage metadata in grid
clusters. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Theory and Practice of Provenance in the 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2009.

9. T. Goodwin, R. Carr, A.K. Mitra, and R.R. Selmic. Coupled sensor/platform control design for low-level chemical detection with position-adaptive micro-uavs. In
Proceedings of the SPIE Defense and Security, Orlando, Florida, 2009.

J.G. Buchart III, J. Kanno, R.R. Selmic, and V. Phoha. Detecting coverage holes in
wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of the 17th Mediterranean Conference on
Control and Automation, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2009.

V. Iyer, S.S. Iyengar, N. Balakrishnan, V. Phoha, and G.R. Murthy. Distributed source coding for sensor data model and estimation of cluster head errors using bayesian and knear neighborhood classifiers in deployment of dense wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of the SENSORCOMM conference, Athens/Vouliagmeni, Greece, 2009.

V. Iyer, S.S. Iyengar, N. Balakrishnan, V. Phoha, and M.B. Srinivas. Farms: Fusionable ambient renewable macs. In Proceedings of the IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, pages 169–174, 2009.

D. Jethwa, R.R. Selmic, and F. Figueroa. Real-time implementation of intelligent actuator control with a transducer health monitoring capability. Intl J of Factory Automation, Robotics, and Soft Computing, 1:5–10, 2009.

L. Jiang, G. Allen, and Q. Chen. Towards an integrated problem-solving environment for hydrid numerical models with statistical learning components. In Proceedings of Teragrid, 2009.

D. Jung and R.R. Selmic. Power leader fault detection in nonlinear leader-follower
networks. In Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
Cancun, Mexico, 2008.

J. Kackley, M. Gambrell, and J. Gourd. I3p: A protocol for increasing reliability and
responsiveness in massively multiplayer games. J of Adv Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, 12:142–149, 2008.

M.E. Karim, V. Phoha, and M.A. Sultan. An immunological model for detecting bot
activities. In Proceedings of the SPIE Cybersensing Conference, 2009.

P.T.K. Kumar, V.V. Phoha, S.S. Iyengar, and P. Iyengar. Reduction of noise due to
systematic uncertainties in 113min spect imaging using information theory. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 39:482–488, 2009.

Z. Lei, Z. Yun, G. Allen, T. Kosar, N.F. Tzeng and C. White. Collaborating mechanical design phases across a grid. In Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering Workshops, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2008.

A.I. Moustapha and R.R. Selmic. Wireless sensor network modeling using modified
recurrent neural networks: application to failure detection. IEEE Transactions on
Instrumentation and Measurement, 57:981–988, 2008.

V.V. Phoha, S. Phoha, A. Ray, S.S. Joshi, and S.K. Vuyyuru. Hidden Markov Model
(”HMM”)-Based User Authentication Using Keystroke Dynamics. UPTO, Ed. USA and International, 2008.

R. Selmic, M. Polycarpou, and T. Parisini. Actuator fault detection in nonlinear uncertain systems using neural on-line approximation models. European Journal of Control, 15:29–44, 2009.

S. Shrestha, M. Balachandran, M. Agarwal, V.V. Phoha, and K. Varahramyan. A chipless rfid sensor system for cyber centric monitoring applications. IEEE Transactions-on Microwave Theory and Techniques’ Special Issue on RFID Hardware and Integration Technologies, 57:1303–1309, 2009.

I. Suslu, F. Turkment, M. Balman, and T. Kosar. Choosing between remote i/o versus staging in large scale distributed applications. In Proceedings of ISCA 21st Int. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Applications, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2008.

N. Trivedi, S.S. Iyengar, and N. Balakrishnan. Ripples: Message efficient, coverageaware clustering in wireless sensor and actor networks. International Journal of Communication and Distributed Systems, 2:112–134, 2009.

G. Vert, J. Gourd, and S.S. Iyengar. Integration of the visual authentication of spatial data with spatial-temporal class taxonomies for advanced spatial authentication modeling to create pretty good security. In Proceedings of the 2nd Cyberspace Research Workshop, Center for Secure Cyberspace and USAF, Shreveport, LA, 2009.

G. Vert, S.S. Iyengar, and V. Phoha. Defining a new type of global information
architecture for contextual information processing. In Proceedings of IKE’09 the 2009 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, Las Vegas, NV, 2009.

G. Vert, S.S. Iyengar, and V. Phoha. Security models for contextual based global
processing an architecture and overview. In Proceedings of the Cyber Security and
Information Intelligence Research Conference, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 2009.

G. Vert and E. Triantaphyllou. Security level determination using branes for contextual based global processing: An architecture. In Proceedings of SAM’09 - The 2009 International Conference on Security and Management, Las Vegas, NV, 2009.

S. Wei, R. Kannan, S.S. Iyengar, and N. Rao. Energy efficient estimation of gaussian sources over in homogenous gaussain mac channels. In Proceedings of the IEEE Globecom Conference, 2008.

G. Yao, J. Zhang, J. Kanno, and R.R. Selmic. Decentralized detection and patching of coverage holes in wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of the SPIE Defense and Security, Orlando, Florida, 2009.

E. Yildirim, I. Suslu, and T. Kosar. Which network measurement tool is right for you? a multidimensional comparison study. In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM Int. Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2008), Tsukuba, Japan, 2008.

Z. Yun, M.Xie, F. Zhou, G. Allen, T. Kosar. And Z. Lei. Collaborating mechanical
design phases across a grid. In Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering Workshops, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 163-170, 2008.

L. Zhou, Y. Zhifeng, and G. Allen. Grid resource allocation in grid computing:
Infrastructure service and applications. CRC Press, 2008.

A. Hutanu, T. Kosar, and G. Allen. A flexible asynchronous rpc system architecture for high-performance remote data access. In Proceedings of the High Performance and Distributed Computing Conference (HPDC’09), Munich, Germany, 2009. Accepted.

J. Kackley and J. Gourd. A flow direction algorithm for geometry-based networks
utilizing a prioritized bfs method. The J of Mgmt and Eng Integration, 2008. Accepted.

M.E. Karim, V. Phoha, and R. Mathur. Detecting transformation of codes in
metamorphic malwares. J in Computer Virology, 2009. Accepted.

M. Balasubramanian, S. Zabic, L. Zangwill, H. Thompson, P. Wolenski, S.S. Iyengar, and BB. Karki. A framework for detecting glaucomatous progression in the optic nerve head of an eye using proper orthogonal decomposition. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 2009. Accepted.

J. Gourd. A web services based approach to mobile agent migration and security. The J of Mgmt and Eng Integration, 2009. Accepted.

D. Katz, G. Allen, R. Cortez, C. Cruz-Neira, R. Gottumukkala, Z. Greenwood, L. Guice, S. Jha, R. Kolluru, T. Kosar, L. Leger, H. Liu, C. McMahon, J. Nabryski, B. Rodriguez- Milla, E. Sediel, G. Speyrer, M. Stubblefield, B. Voss, and S. Whittenburg. Louisiana: A Louisiana Tech University model for advancing louisiana: A model for advancing regional e-research through cyberinfrastructure. Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, 2009. Accepted.

T. Kosar and M. Balman. A new paradigm: data-aware scheduling in grid computing. Intl J of Grid Computing (FGCS), 2009. Accepted.

J. Tao, G. Allen, P. Diener, F. Loeffler, R. Haas, I. Hinder, E. Schnetter, and Y.
Zlochower. Towards a highly efficient and scalable infrastructure for numerical relativity codes. In Proceedings of TeraGrid, 2009. Accepted.

N. Trivedi, S.S. Iyengar, and N. Balakrishnan. Ripples’: Message efficient, coverageaware clustering in wireless sensor and actor networks. International Journal of Communication and Distributed Systems 2:112-134, 2009.

X. Wang, D. Huang, I. Akturk, M. Balman, G. Allen, and T. Kosar. Semantic enabled
metadata management in petashare. Intl J of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC), 2009. Accepted.

X. Wang and T. Kosar. Metadata in petashare: Irods vs. protg. In Proceedings of 21st International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM’ 09), New Orleans, LA, 2009. Accepted.

S. Wei, R. Kannan, S.S. Iyengar, and N. Rao. Energy efficient estimation of Gaussian sources over inhomogenousgaussain MAC channels. IEEE Globecom Conference, 2008.

M. Zhu, S. Ding, R.R. Brooks, Q. Wu, N.S.V. Rao, and S.S. Iyengar. Fusion of threshold rules for target detection in wireless networks. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.

Reports of Invention Filed

V.V. Phoha and K.S. Balagani. A dependence tree based method for network anomaly classification. U.S. Patent Office, 2009. ROI pending to Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization.

V.V. Phoha and S.S. Joshi. Methods of identifying users based on text entered on
Keyboard. U.S. Patent Office, 2008. ROI to AFRL.

Research Papers under Review for Publication

G. Allen, C. McMahon, E. Seidel, and T. Tierney. The 2003 louisiana optical network initiative (loni) concept paper. Technical Report CCT-TR-2009-3, 2009.

G. Allen and E. Schnetter. The cactus framework: Software sustainability position paper. Technical Report CCT-TR-2009-5, 2009.

K.S. Balagani and V.V. Phoha. Network anomaly detection using dependence trees.
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. Manuscript in preparation for possible submission.

K.S. Balagani and V.V. Phoha. Relationship between bayes error rate and mutual
information based feature selection criteria. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Paper under second round of review for possible publication.

K.S. Balagani, V.V. Phoha, S.S. Iyengar, and N. Balakrishnan. On the feature selection criterion proposed in gait feature subset selection by mutual information. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cyberkinetics - Part A. Paper under second round review for possible publication.

K.S. Balagani, V.V. Phoha, and S.S. Joshi. A comment on application of majority voting to pattern recognition: An analysis of its behavior and performance. IEEE Transactions on Systems on Man, Cybernetics - Part A. Submitted.

K.S. Balagani, V.V. Phoha, S. Ray, and S. Phoha. On the discriminabilty of keystroke feature vectors for user recognition using fixed text. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B. Submitted.

Q.J. Chen, C. Eksilsson, M. Tyagi, and G. Allen. Coastal and ocean modeling
infrastructure (comi): development of an integrated modeling framework for simulations of coastal processes in deltaic environments using high-performance computing. Technical Report CCT-TR-2008-8, 2008.

C. A. Duncan, J. Kanno, and R. Selmic. Detecting (approximate) hole coverage areas in wireless sensor networks,” 2nd Cyberspace Research Workshop. Submitted.

C. A. Duncan. On graph thickness, geometric thickness, and separator theorems,” 21st Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, 2009. Submitted.

C. A. Duncan, M. T. Goodrich, and S. G. Kobourov. Planar drawings of higher-genus graphs, 17th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, 2009. Submitted.

J. Gourd and D. Ali. A weighted relative contribution algorithm for grid-based analysis of heterogeneous geospatial data. Intl J of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies, 2008. Submitted.

A. Hutanu, J. Ge, C. Toole, R. Paruchuri, A. Yates, and G. Allen. The loni internet2 dcn, and cesnet teams, distributed visualization using optical networks. Technical Report CCT-TY-2008-10, 2008. Demonstration at Supercomputing 2008.

M.E. Karim, A. Lakhotia, and V. Phoha. Minmax preserved information: Minmax
interval tree vs. PQ tree. Information Processing Letters, 2009. Submitted.

M.E. Karim and V. Phoha. Calculus for processing contextual information. Book
Chapter. 2009.

V.V. Phoha, K.S. Balagani and S.S. Joshi. Bayes error bounds on independent and
derived feature for computer user identification using keystroke dynamics. Machine
Learning Journal. Currently undergoing major revision for possible publication.

M.A. Sultan, M.S. Hossain, M.E. Karim, and V.V. Phoha. A framework to understand
botnet traffic gesture. In Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test, 2009. Submitted.

H. Tims, G. Turner, C. Duncan, B. Etheridge. Cyber Discovery Camp – Integrated
Approach to Cyber Studies, 39th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, 2009.
Submitted.

J. Tao, G. Allen, I. Hinder, E. Schnetter, and Y. Zlochower. Xirel: Standard benchmarks for numerical relativity codes. Technical Report CCT-TR-2008-5, 2008.

H.C. Wu, K. Yan, and S.S. Iyengar. Robustness analysis of source localization using gaussianity measure. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2008. Submitted.

Scholarly publications published or accepted for publication 2007-2008

 

G. Allen, P. Bogden, T. Kosar, A. Kulshrestha, G. Namala, S. Tummala, and E. Seidel, "Cyberinfrastructure for Coastal Hazard Prediction," CTWatch Quarterly, vol.4 pp. 17-26, 2008.

 

Yi-Jen Su, Hewijin Jiau, and S.-R. Tsai, Using Active Modeling in Counterterrorism vol. 4512: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2008. Active Conceptual Modeling of Learning, edited by P.P. Chen and L.Y. Wong, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, January 2008, pp. 122 – 131.

 

T. Ting, Peter Chen, and L. Wong, Architecture for Active Conceptual Modeling of Learning vol. 4512: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2008.

 

Qishi Wu, Jinzhu Gao, Mengxia Zhu, Nageswara Rao, Jian Huang, and S. S. Iyengar, "Self-Adaptive Configuration of Visualization Pipeline Over Wide-Area Networks," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 57, pp. 55 - 68, January 2008.

 

V. V. Phoha, "Stop Monitoring Legal Internet Traffic," Communications Of The ACM, vol. 51, p. 1, February 2008.

 

Peter Chen, Leah Wong, Rois Delcambre, Jacky Akoka, Arne Sølvberg, and R. Liuzzi, Research Issues in Active Conceptual Modeling of Learning: Summary of Panel Discussions in Two Workshops (May 2006) and (November 2006) vol. 4512: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2008.

 

Nageswara Rao, Mallikarjun Shankar, Jren-Chit Chin, David Yau, Srinivasan Srivathsan, S. Sitharama Iyengar, Yong Yang, and J. Hou, "Identification of Low -Level Point Radiation Sources Using a Sensor Network," in International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, St. louis, Missouri, 2008, pp. 493 - 504.

 

Mengxia Zhu, Song Ding, Richard Brooks, Qishi Wu, Nageswara Rao, and S. S. Iyengar, "Fusion of Threshold Rules for Target Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks," ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (in Press), 2008.

 

P. T. K. Kumar, V. V. Phoha, and S. S. Iyengar, "Classification of radio elements using mutual information: A tool for geological mapping, doi:10.1016/j.jag.2007.12.001," Int. J. Appl. Earth Observ. Geoinform, 2008.

 

P. T. K. Kumar, V. V. Phoha, and S. S. Iyengar, "Simulation of robust resonance parameters using information theory, doi:10.1016/j.anucene.2008.01.003," Ann. Nucl. Energ, 2008.

 

Guoli Ding, Robert Lax, Jianhua Chen, Peter Chen, and B. D. Marx, "Local Soft Belief Updating for Relational Classification," in The 17th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, York University, Toronto, Canada, 2008, pp. 525 - 534.

 

Esma Yildirim, Mehmet Balman, and T. Kosar, "Dynamically Tuning Level of Parallelism in Wide Area Data Transfers," in ACM/IEEE HPDC Workshop on Data Aware Distributed Computing, Boston, MA, 2008.

 

Emrah Ceyhan, Gabrielle Allen, Christopher White, and T. Kosar, "A Grid-enabled Workflow System for Reservoir Uncertainty Analysis," in ACM/IEEE HPDC Workshop on Challenges of Large Scale Distributed Applications, Boston, MA, 2008.

 

Dayong Huang, Xinqi Wang, Gabrielle Allen, and T. Kosar, "Semantic Enabled Metadata Framework for Data Grids," in International Workshop on P2P, Parallel, Grid and Internet Computing, Barcelona, Spain, 2008.

 

Arthur Shr, Alan Liu, and P. Chen, "Load Balancing among Photolithography Machines in the Semiconductor Manufacturing System," Journal of Information Science and Engineering, vol. 24, pp. 379 - 391, 2008.

 

Arthur Shr, Alan Liu, and P. Chen, "A Heuristic Load Balancing Scheduling Approach to the Dedicated Machine Constraint," International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, vol. 17, pp. 339 - 353, 2008.

 

D. Stark and G. Allen, "Annotating High Performance Computing Simulations with Semantic Metadata," in Joint Sessions of the Cyberspace Research Symposium and the 3rd International Innovations and Real-time Applications of Distributed Sensor Networks (DSN) Symposium, Shreveport, Louisiana, 2007.

 

S. Shresta, M. D. Balachandran, M. Agarwal, V. V. Phoha, and K. Varahramyan, "Chipless RFID Sensor System for Cyber Centric Monitoring Applications," in Joint Sessions of the Cyberspace Research Symposium and the 3rd International Innovations and Real-time Applications of Distributed Sensor Networks (DSN) Symposium, Shreveport, Louisiana, 2007.

 

R. R. Selmic, J. Kanno, J. Buchart, and N. Richardson, "Quadratic Optimal Control Of Wireless Sensor Network Deployment," in Joint Sessions of the Cyberspace Research Symposium and the 3rd International Innovations and Real-time Applications of Distributed Sensor Networks (DSN) Symposium, Shreveport, Louisiana, 2007.

 

Ranjit Abraham, Jay Simha, and S. S. Iyengar, "Medical Datamining with a New Algorithm for Feature Selection and Naive Bayesian Classifier," in 10th International Conference on Information Technology Rourkela, India, 2007, pp. 44 - 49.

 

E. Ceyhan and T. Kosar, "Large Scale Data Management in Sensor Networking Applications," in Joint Sessions of the Cyberspace Research Symposium and the 3rd International Innovations and Real-time Applications of Distributed Sensor Networks (DSN) Symposium, Shreveport, Louisiana, 2007.

 

I. Akturk and T. Kosar, "Merge of Two Emerging Technologies - Sensor Networks and Grids," in Joint Sessions of the Cyberspace Research Symposium and the 3rd International Innovations and Real-time Applications of Distributed Sensor Networks (DSN) Symposium, Shreveport, Louisiana, 2007.

 



 
 
 
 
   
 
   

 

 

 

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