2003 Defense Notices
MS Project Defense
RAJESH VANTIPALLI
MS/CS
Computer Application in Vocal Tract Physiology
December 19, 2003
2:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
John Gauch, Chair
David Andrews
Susan Gauch
MS Project Defense
EVAN BRYSON
MS/EE
DSP Analysis of Digital Vector Slope Gauge Produced by Ocean Wave Simulation
December 19, 2003
3:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Glenn Prescott, Chair
David W. Petr
John Gauch
MS Project Defense
JASON E. HICKS
MS/CoE
Securing a Network Through Distributed Firewall Management
December 18, 2003
9:00 a.m.
2001 Eaton
COMMITTEE:
Gary Minden, Chair
Perry Alexander
David Andrews
MS Project Defense
DANIYAL M. ALGHAZZAWI
MS/CS
How to Increase the Security and the Performance Through Operating System Services
December 16, 2003
1:00 p.m.
246 Nichols
COMMITTEE:
Gary Minden, Chair
Joseph Evans
John Gauch
MS Project Defense
JASON HENSLEE
MS/EE
Antenna Design for Polar Ice Radars
December 16, 2003
10:00 a.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Prasad Gogineni, Chair
Christopher Allen
Glenn Prescott
MS Project Defense
PAVAN KUMAR GANJAM
MS/CoE
Web Based Concept Hierarchy
December 16, 2003
4:00 p.m.
315 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Perry Alexander
Jerry James
MS Project Defense
ASHWIN K. PULIJALA
MS/CS
Hierarchical Text Classification
December 15, 2003
10:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
David Andrews
John Gauch
MS Project Defense
MARK WURTZLER
MS/EE
Analysis and Simulation of Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED) Queues
December 15, 2003
1:30 p.m.
246 Nichols
COMMITTEE:
David Petr, Chair
Victor Frost
Gary Minden
MS Project Defense
JAYASAIKUMAR PADIMITI
MS/CS
Database System Design for Video Processing Applications
December 10, 2003
2:00 p.m.
Mercury Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
John Gauch, Chair
David Andrews
Perry Alexander
MS Project Defense
EVAN BRYSON
MS/EE
DSP Analysis of Digital Vector Slope Gauge Data Produced by Ocean Wave Simulation
December 9, 2003
4:00 p.m.
246 Nichols
COMMITTEE:
Glenn Prescott, Chair
David W. Petr
John Gauch
MS Project Defense
PRADEEPKUMAR MANI
MS/EE
Development and Performance Characterization of Enhanced AODV
Routing for CBR and TCP traffic
December 8, 2003
8:00 a.m.
246 Nichols
COMMITTEE:
David Petr, Chair
Joseph Evans
Victor Frost
MS Thesis Defense
NICHOLAS EVANGELOPOULOS
MS/CS
Ãntelligent Exam Grading: Text-Mining Free-Text Answers
December 8, 2003
9:30 a.m.
250 Nichols
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Perry Alexander
Arvin Agah
MS Project Defense
HONG CHEN
MS/CS
MLEM2 Algorithm for Rule Induction from Data with Missing Attribute Values
December 8, 2003
4:30 p.m.
2001B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Chair
Jerry James
John Gauch
MS Project Defense
MAHESH VULPALA
MS/CS
Automatically Identifying Related Online Learning Objects
December 5, 2003
4:00 p.m.
250 Nichols
COMMITTEE:
John Gauch, Chair
Perry Alexander
Susan Gauch
MS Project Defense
WU MENG
MS/CoE
Optimizing GUI Design Using Genetic Algorithm
December 5, 2003
1:30p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah
John Gauch
Nancy Kinnersley
MS Project Defense
MUHAMMAD ANAN
MS/CS
Assessing Maintainability for Recovered Architectures
December 1, 2003
1:00 p.m.
2001B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Hossein Saiedian
Arvin Agah
Susan Gauch
MS Project Defense
PETER R. SICKLE
MS/EE
Bluetooth Profile Interoperability Issues
December 1, 2003
5:00 p.m.
2027 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Victor Frost, Chair
Hossein Saiedian
John Gauch
MS Project Defense
Siddhartha Gavirneni
MS/CoE
Directory Enabled Packet Filtration System: A Scalable and High
Performance Security Architecture
November 24th, 2003
9:00a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Joseph Evans
Gary Minden
Victor Frost
MS Project Defense
ASIF IQBAL
MS/CS
A Mechanism for Intellectual Property Rights Discovery in a Digital
Content Distribution System
November 21, 2003
9:30 a.m.
2001 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Jerry James
John Gauch
Robert Buddemier
MS Thesis Defense
OLAF LANDSIEDEL
MS/CS
MPEG-4 for interactive low-delay real-time communication
November 18, 2003
11:15 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Gary Minden, Chair
John Gauch
Jerry James
ITTC Seminar
Two Decades of Gravity Variations at a Site on the South-central Greenland Ice Sheet
Francois Baumgartner, Technical University of Denmark
November 7, 2003
2:00 p.m.
Apollo Room, Nichols Hall
MS Thesis Defense
DINESH SELVARAJAN
MS/CoE
Implementation of Real-Time Java Using Kurt
October 21, 2003
2:00 p.m.
217 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Jerry James, Chair
John Gauch
Doug Niehaus
MS Thesis Defense
ERIC AKERS
MS/CS
Modeling and Simulation of a Mobile Robot for Polar Environments
October 20, 2003
2:00 p.m.
315 Nichols
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Jerry James
Gary Minden
MS Thesis Defense
LI CHENG
MS/CS
Development of Web Services and a Web Portal for Grid Computing
October 20, 2003
3:00 p.m.
246 Nichols hall
COMMITTEE:
Jerry James, Chair
John Gauch
Susan Gauch
MS Project Defense
NAGARAJAN RAGHAVENDRAN
MS/CoE
Implementation of Host and Network Association(HNA) Messages for Optimized
Link State Routing(OLSR) Protocol for Mobile Adhov Networks
October 7, 2003
1:00 a.m.
217 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Joseph Evans, Chair
John Gauch
Rongqing Hui
MS Thesis Defense
HEATHER AMTHAUER
MS/CS
The Systematic Analysis of Integrating Case-Based Reasoning With Information Retrieval for the Similarly Based Retrieval of Incident Reports
October 3, 2003
1:30 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Costas Tstatsoulis, Chair
Susan Gauch
Perry Alexander
MS Thesis Defense
BRANDON MOREL
MS/CoE
SPARTACAS: Automating Component Adaptation for Reuse
September 12, 2003
9:30 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Perry Alexander, Chair
Susan Gauch
Costas Tsatsoulis
MS Thesis Defense
FAISAL VALI
MS/CS
Protocol Trainer and Simulator Application Framework Using XML and Java
June 17, 2003
3:00 p.m.
105 Snow Hall
COMMITTEE:
J. Miller, Chair
J. James
N. Kinnersley
MS Thesis Defense
SANDEEP SUBRAMANIAN
MS/CoE
Building a Reliable Multicast Service Based on Composite Protocols
June 13, 2003
2:00 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
G. Minden, Chair
J. Evans
P. Alexander
MS Thesis Defense
PATRICK L. STERNER
MS/CS
Using XML to Distribute User Interfaces
June 12, 2003
11:00 a.m.
105 Snow Hall
COMMITTEE:
J. Miller, Chair
J. James
S. Gauch
PhD Dissertation Defense
MOHAMMED HAWA
PhD/EE
Quality-of-Service Architecture for Packet Switched Broadband Wireless Networks
June 12, 2003
10:00 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
D.W.Petr, Chair
V. Frost
J. Evans
R. Hui
T. Duncan
MS Thesis Defense
DRUE HULL
MS/CS
The WiOX Pulse Oximeter: A portable Wireless Implementation
June 10, 2003
10:30 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
J. Evans, Chair
V. Frost
A. Agah
PhD Dissertation Defense
MICHELE MILEY VAN DYNE
PhD/EE
Negotiated Decommitment in a Collaborative Agent
May 23
2:30 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
C. Tsatsoulis, Chair
P. Alexander
J. Gauch
S. Gauch
P. Shenoy
MS Thesis Defense
LARRY M. SANDERS
MS/CoE
A Configuration Protocol for Embedded Devices on Secure Wireless Networks
May 16, 2003
1:30 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
J. Evans, Chair
V. Frost
P. Alexander
MS Thesis Defense
BALAJI RAJAGOPALAN
MS/CoE
Statistical Analysis of Human Factor Studies of
Graphical User Interface Components
May 9, 2003
9:00 a.m.
Mercury Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
A. Agah, Chair
S. Gauch
J. James
MS Thesis Defense
AMIT KUCHERIA
MS/CS
Scalable Emulation of 1P Networks Using Virtualization
May 9, 2003
3:00 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
D. Niehaus, Chair
V. Frost
J. James
MS Thesis Defense
RAJAN VIJAYARAGHAVAN
MS/CoE
An Architecture for Logging, Indexing and Retrieving Information from MSN
Messenger Service
April 28, 2003
1:00 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
S. Gauch, Chair
A. Agah
J. Evans
MS Thesis Defense
JACK C. CHAMBERS, JR.
MS/CS
The Development and Application of a Standardized Architectural Description
Language for Modeling Data Network Architecture
April 25, 2003
10:00 a.m.
Edwards Campus
COMMITTEE:
H. Saiedian, Chair
A. Agah
P. Alexander
MS Thesis Defense
FEILIN JIN
MS/CoE
Video Processing System (VPS)
April 25, 2003
1:00 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
J. Gauch, Chair
S. Gauch
R. Hui
MS Thesis Defense
TODD BLACKMAN
MS/CS
Genetic Algorithms for a Multiagent Approach to the Game of Go
April 24, 2003
2:30 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
A. Agah, Chair
V. Frost
C. Tsatsoulis
MS Thesis Defense
KENNETH CONKLIN
MS/CS
The Sticky Push: An Interactive Pointing Guide Used to Maximize
Utilization of Screen Space on Handheld Devices
April 18, 2003
8:30 a.m.
105 Snow Hall
COMMITTEE:
J. Miller
N. Kinnersley
J. James
MS Thesis Defense
JOHN D. PADEN
MS/EE
Bistatic/Monostatic Synthetic Aperture Radar for Ice Sheet Measurements
April 18, 2003
3:30 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
C. Allen
P. Gogineni
G. Prescott
MS Thesis Defense
KUOKWAI WILSON WONG
MS/EE
Development of a Prototype of a 2-8 GHz FMCW Radar for Snow Thickness
Measurement on Sea Ice
April 16, 2003
4:00 p.m.
Mercury Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
P. Gogineni
G. Prescott
D. Braaten
MS Thesis Defense
JOHN M. FINES
MS/EE
Machine Tool Positioning Error Compensation Using Artificial Neural
Networks
April 14, 2003
3:00 p.m.
217 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
A. Agah
F. Brown
S. Chakrabarti
MS Thesis Defense
KARTHIKEYAN NATHILLVAR
MS/CoE
Implementation and Performance Evaluation of
Tunneled Aggregate RSVP Architecture
February 14, 2003
9:00 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE;
D. Niehaus, Chair
V. Frost
J. James
MS Thesis Defense
RAMA KRISHNA KALICUT
MS/CS
Implementation of a Single Threaded User Level Asynchronous
I/O Library Using the Reactor Pattern
January 20, 2003
10:30 a.m.
Gemini Room
J. James, Chair
G. Minden
A.Agah
