CS 7123 Research Seminar

Fall 2007

 

Course Web Page

http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~korkmaz/teaching/cs7123

Time and Location

MW 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm   (Aug 22, 2007 - Dec 15, 2007)
SB 3.02.02

Instructor

Dr. Turgay Korkmaz
Office: SB 4.01.13
Email: korkmaz@cs.utsa.edu
Phone: (210) 458-7346
Fax: (210) 458-4437 

Office Hours

MW 2:30pm-4:00pm  (or by appointment)

Prerequisite

Being a PhD student

Textbook

There is no required textbook.

Course Description

3 hours. 6 hours are required for Ph.D. in Computer Science. Presentation and analysis of literature in a selected area of research. May be repeated, but only 6 hours will count toward the Ph.D. requirements.

Objectives

Review, present and critique recent research publication in areas of interest to the Computer Science Department. Learning research methods, presentation and communication skills.

Implementation

In the first class, we will discuss different options for implementation. But, in general, the main activity will be student presentations and paper discussion with other students. Faculty and outside speakers will be invited, too.

As we discussed in the first class,

  • We will start discussing papers giving advices to graduate students, and describing some issues regarding how to do research, write up, etc. For this, I already assigned the papers to several students. Please see the schedule below.
  • Time to time we will have faculty presentations.
  • We divide student presentations into two parts.
    • In the first part, each student will present a technical research paper (first year students can select survey papers) See online libraries: ACM and IEEE xplore. We need to finish selecting papers and making schedule by the end of August.
    • In the second part, each student will present a general research technique/topic/tool (e.g., linear programming, optimization techniques, heuristics, approximation algorithms or any others that might be useful as a research tool)

Grading

There are three components of the final letter grade:

  • Class attendance (30%),  (if you miss a class without excuse, you will loose 1 point)
  • Presentation (slides) (40%), (look at the links below regarding how to give talks. Based on these guidelines and the ones we discuss in the second week, we will judge your presentations. 10% of this will come from peers.) 
  • Participation (30%). (You are expected to participate by asking questions, making comments etc during the class. But for the grading purpose, I plan to use the discussion facility under WebCT. It will work as follows, I will create a discussion topic for each class like “08-22-2007 intro planning.” After that class,  you need to send a message to discussion topic regarding a very brief summary of the presentations made and how did you participate (e.g., asked this question, made that comment etc) Even if you did not make a comment or ask question in class, you can ask a question through this discussion facility. Also you need to other comments and if needed respond. There is no deadline to make contributions to previous discussion topics. At the and of the semester, I’ll check the statistical info regarding how many read/write you have and accordingly determine your participation grade.

 

Papers Presentations

·        Until we make the schedule for the regular presentations, we will discuss some papers giving advices to graduate students. Such as

o       How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors by Marie desJardins PDF  web

o       So Long, and thanks for the Ph.D. should be required reading for every new graduate student. 

o       A few chapters from Writing for Computer Science by Justin Zobel

·        For regular presentations, see the schedule below

 

Other online materials

General

·        Graduate Student Resource Page

·        Advice on Research and Writing

Talks

·        Hints for Giving Technical Talks

·        Suggestions for Speakers (infocom 2000)

·        How to give a good research talk

·        Presentation Tips for Computer Science Grad Students

·        PowerPoint Presentation techniques

Writing

·        How to write a great research paper

·        Writing Technical Articles

·        Writing Tips for Computer Science Grad Students

·        Math writing

PhD Defense

·        Hints for PhD Proposal Defenses

·        Hints for PhD Defenses

Humor

·        www.phdcomics.com

·        Dictionary of Useful Research Phrases

·        How to be a Terrible Graduate Student

·        How to be a terrible thesis advisor

Research areas/topics

In this part I’ll try to provide links for those who are looking for a research topic. Please send me if you know or find similar links for different areas.

·        In the area of computer networks, the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NCO/NITRD) has recently published an “interim report” to outline the key accomplishments and challenges  in Advanced Networking Research and Development. See the report at http://www.nitrd.gov/advancednetworkingplan/ 

If you are interested in computer networks and some of the topics discussed in this report, you can talk more about them.

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Fall 2007- Schedule (If time or location is not specified then they are 4-5:15pm and SB 3.02.02, respectively)

Date/time

4-5:30pm

Location

SB 3.02.38

Title

Speaker

08/22 W

 

Introduction & Planning

Dr. Turgay Korkmaz

08/27 M

 

Discussion on  some papers giving advices to graduate students.

All of you need to read the paper “How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors by Marie desJardins PDF”

 Presentation Slides part1 and part2

Baris Tas

Dr. Korkmaz

08/29 W

  Guest

Recent Advances in Branch  Prediction

Daniel A. Jimenez Ph.D.

CS, UTSA

09/03 M

 

Labor Day Holiday – no class

 

09/05 W

 

Ch 14, 10 from Writing for Computer Science by Justin Zobel :

 

 

  • Mark Doderer
  • Keith Harrison

 

09/10 M

 

Ch 11, 9, 7  from Writing for Computer Science by Justin Zobel

 

 

  • Mark G. Reith
  • Atlas Cook
  • Anthony Castaldo

 

09/12 W

 
  • CS-TR-2007-004, Geodesic Frechet and Hausdorff distance inside a simple polygon , by Atlas F. Cook IV and Carola Wenk, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, Aug. 2007  ppt slides

 
  • Xuan Qi

 

  • Atlas Cook

 

09/17 M

 
  • "Apply Model Checking to Security Analysis in Trust Management" by Reith, Niu, and Winsborough; ppt slides
  • Mark Reith

 

09/19 W

 

·        "Producer-Side Platform-Independent Optimizations and Their Effects on Mobile-Code Performance" bz P. Adler, W. Amme, J. von Ronne and M. Franz        pdf slides

·        Modeling the Communication Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks as a Vertex Cover Safar, Maytham; Taha, Mohammad; Habib, Sami; Computer Systems and Applications, 2007. AICCSA '07. IEEE/ACS International Conference on 13-16 May 2007 Page(s):592 – 598           ppt slides   

·        Andreas Gampe

 

·        Omer Chowdhury

09/24 M

 

·        Interpreting Programs in Static Single Assignment Form, Jeffery von Ronne, Ning Wang, Michael Franz    ppt slides

·        Scheduling with Dynamic Voltage/Speed Adjustment Using Slack Reclamation in Multi-Processor Real-Time Systems" by Dakai Zhu, Rami Melhem, and Bruce Childers.         ppt slides

·        Adam Cramer

 

·        Xuan Qi

09/26 W

 

·        IATAC: A Smart Predictor to Turn-off L2 Cache Lines, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) Volume 2 ,  Issue 1 (March2005) ppt slides

·        Cyc: toward programs with common sense, Communications of the ACM, Volume 33 ,  Issue 8  (August 1990), Pages: 30 - 49   pdf formatPdf (3.98 MB) ppt slides

 

·        Tony Castaldo

 

·        Steve O'Hara

 

10/01 M

  Guest

Computational Challenges in Biophysics: Two Applications in Hydrodynamics.    

Abstract

http://www.demeler.uthscsa.edu/presentation-2007/

 

Borries Demeler, Ph.D.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

10/03 W

 
  • A Novel SIP-Based Route Optimization for Network Mobility

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/49/35611/01688014.pdf?tp=&isnumber=&arnumber=1688014

ppt slides

·        A Data-Oriented(and Beyond)Network Architecture

http://www.sigcomm.org/ccr/drupal/?q=node/257 

ppt slides

 

·        Xia Li

 

·        Yifeng Guo

10/08 M

 

·        Species Independent Protein Localization Prediction for Multicompartmentalized Proteins, The 2007 International Conference on Machine Learning: Models, Technologies & Applications and for publications in the conference proceedings (MLMTA'07).        ppt slides

·        A video game for cyber security training and awareness, Benjamin D. Cone, Cynthia E. Irvine, Michael F. Thompson, Thuy D. Nguyen http://cisr.nps.navy.mil/cyberciege/papers.html    ppt slides

·        Mark Doderer

 

 

 

 

·        Keith Harrison

10/10 W

 

 

·        "Detecting Botnets with Tight Command and Control" by "W. Timothy Strayer, Robert Walsh, Carl Livadas, and David Lapsley"    ppt slides

·        Like Zhang

 

 

·        Areej Bataineh

10/15 M

 Guest

The use of Hidden Markov Models in the Analysis of Biological Sequences     

Abstract

ppt slides

Steve Hardies. Ph.D.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

10/17 W

 Guest

Current topics in bioinformatics and their computational challenges        

Abstract

ppt slides

 Jianhua Ruan, Ph.D.

CS, UTSA

10/22 M

 
  • Model Checking Techniques      ppt slides
  • Adaptive Cache Compression for High-Performance Processors by Alaa R. Alameldeen and David A. Wood  pdf slides
  • Mark Reith
  • Samira Khan

10/24 W

 

·        A Methodology for P2P File-Sharing Traffic Detection" from IEEE Could   ppt slides

·        Packet Classification, Network Algorithmics 2005 by George Varghese.  ppt slides

 

·        Wanying Zhao

 

·        Baris Tas

 

 

General topic presentations

 

10/29 M

 

·        Graph Coloring and Applications   ppt slides

 

·        Steve O'Hara

 

·        Adam Cramer

10/31 W

 Guest

·        Multimedia Information Retrieval   pdf slides

·        Parametric Search: A Geometric Optimization Technique  ppt slides

·        Qi Tian, PhD, CS, UTSA

·        Cook, Atlas F.

11/05 M

 

·        Linux Loadable Kernel Modules and Device Drivers   ppt slides

·        Data Mining for Intrusion Detection    ppt slides

·        Harrison, Keith B.

·        Al-Bataineh, Areej S.

11/07 W

 

·        Quantum Computation    pdf slides

·        Scheduling Multiprocessor Real-Time System ppt slides

·        Khan, Samira M.

·        Qi, Xuan

11/12 M

 

·        Dynamic programming   ppt slides

·        Grid Computing             ppt slides

·        Chowdhury, Omar

·        Zhao, Wanying

11/14 W

 

·        Optimization: linear programming  ppt slides

·        Overview of Stringology                ppt slides

·        Guo, Yifeng

·        Zhang, Like

11/19 M

 Guest

·        A Transactional Framework for Programming Wireless Sensor/Actor Networks

 ppt slides

Murat Demirbas, Ph.D.  University at Buffalo

11/21 W

 Guest

·        The Institute for Cyber Security and its Research Agenda

Part1 and part2

Ravi Sandhu, PhD

Executive Director, Institute for Cyber Security

UTSA

11/26 M

 

·        Genetic Algorithm Practicum    slides

·        Web Services                          slides

·        Semantic Web                         slides

·        Castaldo, Tony

·        Gampe, Andreas

·        Li, Xia

11/28 W

 Guest

Development of Computational Methods to Derive Expression “Similarity” Between Your Data Set and Large Public Databases of Gene Expression

Abstract

Slides

Stephen E. Harris Phd, U. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

12/03 M

 

Student Study Day – no class

 

 

 

·        Machine learning

·        High Level Architecture (HLA) for distributed computer simulation

·        Doderer, Mark

·        Tas, Baris