Honor Graduates

• Honor Graduates in Computer Science, 2002
  • Shawn Becker
  • Vanessa Dunn
  • Bea Koempel-Thomas
  • Arlo Randall
  • Karmen Smails
  • Chris Watson
• Honor Graduates in Computer Science, 2001
  • Wendy Cacka
  • Nicholas Cramer
  • Lucas Hanson
  • Ping Jiang
  • Paul Martinez
  • James Price
• Honor Graduates in Computer Science, 2000
  • Erik Bjorge
  • Tom Gigstead
  • David Jeffries
  • Michael Kovalerchuk
  • George Wambaugh
• Honor Graduates in Computer Science, 1999
  • Jay Summett
  • Timothy Barnhart
  • Chad Burdyshaw
  • David McGourin
  • Kelly Morris
  • Eiji Tanikawa

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Student Research

• Student Papers in the Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression, 2002
  • Bea Koempel-Thomas, Jon Brown, Jayme Stahl, Chris Watson
    Database Visualization and Data Correlations: The Dynico Project
    Advisor: Dr. Kovalerchuk
  • Kelly Crooke, DJ Kingsolver, Lindsay Appel, Tammie Correll
    An Audit of the Accessability of Higher Education Websites
    Advisor: Dr. Gellenbeck
  • Richard Chase
    Sorting Data Using Parallel Processing: Efficiencies and Optimizations
    Advisor: Dr. Schwing
  • Bea Koempel-Thomas
    Because We Can: Ethics-Law-Technology
    Advisor: Dr. Eastman
  • Richard Chase
    Investigating the "Nine Tile Puzzle" Program
    Advisor: Dr. Schwing
• Student Papers in the Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression, 2001
  • Jon Brown, Paul Reed, Michael Linsley
    MIDI Language (MDL), A Study in Language Development
    Advisor: Dr. Schwing
  • Bea Koempel-Thomas, Jon Brown
    Characterization of Medical Features: Using Artificial Intelligence Methods to Analyze and Diagnose Anomalies from Mammograms
    Advisor: Dr. Kovalerchuk
  • Jon Brown
    Iconographic Visualization for Complex Object Correlation
    Advisor: Dr. Kovalerchuk
• Student Papers in the Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression, 2000
  • David Wells
    Medical Image Processing and Feature Key Extraction
    Advisor: Dr. Kovalerchuk
  • Dale Rolf
    Hansel Chain Generation
    Advisor: Dr. Kovalerchuk
  • Clayton Todd and Dan Henderson
    Testing Neural Networks Using the Complete Round Robin Method
    Advisor: Dr. Kovalerchuk
• Student Papers in the Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression, 1999
  • Kelly Morris and Timothy Barnhart
    Prototype Internet Consultation System
    Advisor: Drs. Kovalerchuk and Gellenbeck
  • Clayton Todd and Dan Henderson
    Complete Round Robin Data Mining
    Advisor: Dr. Kovalerchuk
  • Jay Summett
    Coarse Grain Parallelism in Fractal Rendering on Non-Deterministic Networks with Heterogenious Processing Nodes
    Received the Fischer Award as the outstanding poster presentation.
    Advisors: Drs. Eastman and Schwing
• Student Publications and Presentations, 2002
  • Jon Brown
    Dynamic Icon Generation for Visual Correlation, Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology, CISST'02, v.1, 139 - 145, June, 2002.
• Student Publications and Presentations, 2000
  • Clayton Todd and Dan Henderson (with B. Kovalerchuk)
    Testing Neural Networks Using the Complete Round Robin Method, Proceedings of the 5th Joint Conference on Information Sciences, v. 1, 823 - 827, Feb. 2000.
• Student Publications and Presentations, 1998 - 99
  • Steven Fisher (with B. Kovalerchuk, E. Vityaev, and J. Ruiz)
    Prototype Internet consultation system for radiologists, Journal of Digital Imaging, v. 11, n. 3, Suppl., 22 - 26, 1998. The paper was also presented at the 15th Symposium for Computer applications in Radiology, June 1998.
  • Nathan Conner (with B. Kovalerchuk, J. Ruiz, and J. Clayton)
    Fuzzy logic for formalization of breast imaging lexicon and feature extraction, 4th Workshop on Digital Mammography, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 1998. http://www.azn.nl/rrng/xray/digmam/iwdm98/Abstracts/node51.html.

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Colloquia

• Departmental and ACM Colloquia, 2001 - 2002
  • Mark Polishook
  • Seth Russell
  • Morgan Vermef
• Departmental and ACM Colloquia, 2000 - 2001
  • Steven Travis Pope
  • Jay Summett
  • Jay Westerdal
  • Mark Taylor
  • Robert Kachinski
  • Boris Kovalerchuk
  • Chris North
• Departmental and ACM Colloquia, 1999 - 2000
  • Eltayeb Aboulyaman
  • Isabelle Bichindaritz
  • Grant Eastman
  • Ilia Guerguiev
  • Ray Hashemi
  • Kirby McMaster
  • Barbara Nostrand
  • Christopher Prince
  • Ivan Radev
• Departmental and ACM Colloquia, 1998 - 99
  • Mark Polishook
  • David Fogel
  • Paul Keller

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Faculty Research

2001 - 2002

• Grants
  • Kovalerchuk, B., PI, J.L. Schwing, R.J. Hickey, S. Kundu, and W. Sumner, Co-PI's, Mathematical Frameworks Supporting Conflation Problems, NIMA, June 2002 - May. 2005, $430,500.
  • Kovalerchuk, B., PI, I. Bichindaritz and G. He, Co-PI's, Methodology and Tools for Creating Virtual Experts, NIMA, June 2002 - May. 2005, $516,600.
• Faculty Publications, Journals, and Conferences
  • Bichindaritz, I. and B. Kovalerchuk, An Image Analysis Memory for Imagery Decision Reporting, Procedings of CISST 2001, H.R. Arabnia, v. 1, 473 - 477, CSREA Press, June 2001.
  • B. Kovalerchuk, Visualization and Decision-Making using Structural Information, Procedings of CISST 2001, H.R. Arabnia, v. 1, 478 - 484, CSREA Press, June 2001.
  • Kovalerchuk, B. and J. Schwing, Mathematical Support for combining geospatial data, Procedings of CISST 2001, H.R. Arabnia, v. 1, 485 - 491, CSREA Press, June 2001.
  • Schwing, J. (with V. Bokka, K. Nakano, S. Olariu, and L. Wilson) Optimal Algorithms for the Multiple Query Problem on Reconfigurable Meshes, with Applications, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, v. 12, n. 9, 875 - 887, September 2001.
• Faculty Presentations
  • Bichindaritz, I., An Image Analysis Memory for Imagery Decision Reporting, CISST 2001, June 2001.
  • Kovalerchuk, B., Visualization and Decision-Making using Structural Information, CISST 2001, June 2001.
  • Schwing, J., Mathematical Support for combining geospatial data, CISST 2001, June 2001.

2000 - 2001

• Grants
  • Kovalerchuk, B., PI, Conceptual framework for visual correlation and it application, NIMA / ARDA, Sept 2000 - Sept. 2002, $255,000.
  • Schwing, J., PI, and E. Gellenbeck, Co-PI, NSF - Computer Science scholarship program, NSF, Sept. 2001 - Aug. 2003, $135,000.
• Faculty Publications and Books
  • Kovalerchuk, B. (with E. Vityaev) Data Mining in Finance: Advances in Relational and Hybrid methods, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, London, Dordrecht, 2000.
• Journals and Conferences
  • Kovalerchuk, B. (with E. Vityaev, J. Ruiz) Consistent Knowledge Discovery in Medical Diagnosis, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, (Special issue on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery), vol. 19, N, 4, July/August 2000, pp. 26-37.
  • Kovalerchuk, B. (with E. Triantaphyllou, J. Ruiz, V. Torvik, E. Vityaev) The Reliability Issue of Computer-Aided Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Computers and Biomedical Research, 2000 Aug; 33(4):296-313.
  • Schwing, J. (with R. Lin, K. Naknao, S. Olariu, C. Pinotti, and A. Zomaya) Scalable Hardware Algorithms for Binary Prefix Sums, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, v. 11, n. 8, 838 - 850, Aug. 2000.
  • Schwing, J. (with K. Jones, S. Olariu, L. Rowell, and A. Wilhite) A Database Integrity Monitor with Applications to Vehicular Technology, International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering, v.15, n. 6, 405 - 410, Nov. 2000.
• Faculty Presentations
  • Schwing, J., Geospatial Data: Conflation Issues, invited presentation, Old Dominion University, 2000.

1999 - 2000

• Grants
  • Gellenbeck, E., PI, Web Development Technology, Microsoft, 2000, $48,100.
• Faculty Publications, Journals, and Conferences
  • Gellenbeck, E. (with J. McDevitt (first author)), Using Discount Engineering to Teach User Interface Design, Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, v. 15, n. 2, January 2000.
  • Kovalerchuk, B., Comments on the Microsoft draft standard (specification) for Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery News (KDnuggets News), May 2000.
  • Kovalerchuk, B. (with Clayton Todd and Dan Henderson) Testing Neural Networks Using the Complete Round Robin Method, Procedings of the 5th Joint Conference on Information Sciences, Feb, 2000.
  • Kovalerchuk, B. (with E. Vityaev) Comparison of relational methods, attribute-based methods and hybrid methods , Proc. 14th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control / Intelligent Systems and Semiotics ISIC/ISAS'99, September 15-17, 1999, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, pp.162-166, 1999.
  • Schwing, J. (with R. Lin, S. Olariu, and B.-F. Wang) The Mesh with Hybrid Buses: An Efficient VLSI Architecture for Digital Geometry, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, v. 10, no. 3, 266 - 280, March 1999.
  • Schwing, J. (with K. Nakano and S. Olariu) Broadcast Efficient Protocols for Mobile Networks, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, v. 10, n. 12, 1276 - 1290, 1999.
  • Schwing, J. (with R. Lin) A Non-Binary Parallel Arithmetic Architecture, Proceedings of the Reconfigurable Architecture Workshop at IPDPS '00, April 2000.
• Faculty Presentations
  • Gellenbeck, E. (with J. McDevitt (first author)), Using Discount Engineering to Teach User Interface Design, First Annual Consortium for Computing Small Colleges Northwest (Regional), October 9, 1999.
  • Schwing, J. (work with R. Lin) A Non-Binary Parallel Arithmetic Architecture, Proceedings of the Reconfigurable Architecture Workshop at IPDPS '00, April 2000.

1998 - 1999

• Faculty Publications, Journals, and Conferences
  • Gellenbeck, E. (with M. Kidwell) Using the Senior Capstone Project for End-of-Program Integrated Assessment, Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, v. 14, n. 3, March 1999.
  • Kovalerchuk, B. (with E. Vityaev) Discovering Lawlike Regularities in Financial Time Series, Journal of Computational Intelligence in Finance, v. 6, n. 3, 12 - 26, 1998.
  • Kovalerchuk, B. (with N. Conner, J. Ruiz, and J. Clayton) Fuzzy Logic for Formalization of Breast Imaging Lexicon and Feature Extraction, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Digital Mamography, 1998.
  • Kovalerchuk, B. (with J. Ruiz, E. Vityaev, and S. Fisher) Prototype Internet consultation system for radiologists, Journal of Digital Imaging, v. 11, n. 3, Suppl., 22 - 26, 1998.
  • Kovalerchuk, B. (with N. Kovalerchuk) Object-Oriented Design and Multiresolution in Intelligent Control, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control '98, 1998.
  • Schwing, J. (with D. Bhagavathi, H. Gurla, S. Olariu, L. Wilson, and J. Zhang) Time- and VLSI-Optimal Sorting on Enhanced Meshes, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, v. 9, n. 10, 929 - 937, 1998.
  • Schwing, J. (with V. Bokka, H. Gurla, and S. Olariu) Time-Optimal Algorithms for Constrained Triangulations on Reconfigurable Meshes, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, v. 9, n. 11, 1057 - 1072, 1998.
  • Schwing, J. (with R. Lin, S. Olariu, and B.-F. Wang) The Mesh with Hybrid Buses: An Efficient VLSI Architecture for Digital Geometry, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, accepted for publication.
  • Schwing, J. (with R. Lin, K. Naknao, S. Olariu, C. Pinotti, and A. Zomaya) A Scalable VLSI Architecture for Binary Prefix Sums Proceedings of IPPS/SDPS '98, 333 - 337, 1998.
  • Schwing, J. (with K. Naknao and S. Olariu) Broadcast Efficient Algorithms on the Coarse-Grain Broadcast Communications Model with Few Channels, Proceedings of IPPS/SDPS '98, 1998.
  • Schwing, J. (with R. Lin, K. Naknao, S. Olariu, C. Pinotti, and A. Zomaya) Scalable Hardware Architecture for Binary Prefix Sums, Proceedings of the Reconfigurable Architecture Workshop at IPPS/SDPS '99, 1999.
• Faculty Presentations
  • Kovalerchuk, B. (with E. Vityaev) Discovering Lawlike Regularities in Financial Time Series, Workshop on Data Mining in Finance, KDD '98, New York, 1998.
  • Kovalerchuk, B. (with N. Conner, J. Ruiz, and J. Clayton) Fuzzy Logic for Formalization of Breast Imaging Lexicon and Feature Extraction, IWDM '98, The 4th Workshop on Digital Mamography, The Netherlands, 1998.
  • Kovalerchuk, B. (with J. Ruiz, E. Vityaev, and S. Fisher) Prototype Internet consultation system for radiologists, 1998 SCAR Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 1998.
  • Kovalerchuk, B. (with N. Kovalerchuk) Object-Oriented Design and Multiresolution in Intelligent Control, INFORMS '98, Seattle, 1998.
  • Schwing, J. (with K. Naknao and S. Olariu) Broadcast Efficient Algorithms on the Coarse-Grain Broadcast Communications Model with Few Channels, IPPS/SDPS '98, Orlando, 1998.
  • Schwing, J. (with R. Lin, K. Naknao, S. Olariu, C. Pinotti, and A. Zomaya) Scalable Hardware Architecture for Binary Prefix Sums, Reconfigurable Architecture Workshop at IPPS/SDPS '99, San Juan, 1999.

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