| Topic | Presenter | Add. Readers | Length | |||
| Week #1 | Wednesday | 8/27/2008 | Syllabus, Expectations | von Ronne | --- | full |
| Week #2 | Monday | 9/1/2008 | NO CLASS -- Labor Day | --- | --- | --- |
| Wednesday | 9/3/2008 | Navigating the Research Literature (meet at library) | Charles Wu | --- | full | |
| Week #3 | Monday | 9/8/2008 | Faculty Presentation: QoS and Security in Wireless Networks | Turgay Korkmaz | --- | 30 min |
| Wednesday | 9/10/2008 | Faculty Presentation | Daniel Jiménez | --- | 40 min | |
| Week #4 | Monday | 9/15/2008 | Pompili et al.: Routing algorithms for delay-insensitive and delay-sensitive applications... | Fred Diehl | Chengwei, Mark | 1 slot |
| Wednesday | 9/17/2008 | Speculative Improvements to Verifiable Bounds Check Elimination | Andreas Gampe | --- | 25 min | |
| Week #5 | Monday | 9/22/2008 | Dmitri Roussinov et al.: Beyond Keywords: Automated Question Answering on the Web | Steve O'Hara | Hongwei, Hui | 1 slot |
| Wednesday | 9/24/2008 | Solis and Obraczka: The impact of timing in data aggregation for sensor networks | Pengjun Pan | Ali, Yifeng | 1 slot | |
| Week #6 | Monday | 9/29/2008 | Chen et al.: Discovering Gapped Binding Sites of Yeast Transcription Factors | Chengwei Lei | Micah, Hongwei | 1 slot |
| Wednesday | 10/1/2008 | Ma and Yang: An Energy-Efficient Data Gathering Mechanism for Large-Scale Mutlihop Sensors Networks | Yifeng Guo | Andreas, Nihat | 1 slot | |
| 10/6/2008 | Zhou and Pei: Preserving Privacy in Social Networks Against Neighborhood Attacks | Lijie Zhang | Ali, Pengjun | 1 slot | ||
| Wednesday | 10/8/2008 | Faculty Presentation (meet at 4pm in HSS 3.03.20) | Shouhuai Xu | --- | ||
| Week #8 | Monday | 10/13/2008 | Andersen et al.: Accountable Internet Protocol | Nihat Altiparmak | Chengwei, Hui | 1 slot |
| Gyimothy et al.: Empirical validation of object-oriented metrics on open source software for fault prediction | Micah Spears | Andreas, Steve | 1 slot | |||
| Wednesday | 10/15/2008 | Li et al.: Preservation of Proximity Privacy in Published Numerical Sensitive Data | Hongwei Tian | Pengjun, Lijie | 1 slot | |
| Week #9 | Monday | 10/20/2008 | Superblocking Dot Product | Tony Castaldo | --- | 1 slot |
| Wednesday | 10/22/2008 | Wang et al.: Detecting SYN flooding attacks | Ali Teke | Tony, Fred | 1 slot | |
| Rajan et al.: Model Validation using Automatically Generated Requirements-Based Tests | Hui Shen | Mark, Yifeng | 1 slot | |||
| Week #10 | Monday | 10/27/2008 | Haley et al., Security Requirements Engineering: A Framework for Representation and Analysis | Mark Robinson | Micah, Nihat | 1 slot |
| Wednesday | 10/29/2008 | Faculty Presentation | Carola Wenk | --- | full | |
| Week #11 | Monday | 11/3/2008 | Zheng et al.: Optimal Block Design for Asynchronous Wake-Up Schedules and Its Applications in Multihop Wireless Networks | Fred Diehl | Tony | 1 slot |
| Wednesday | 11/5/2008 | Faculty Presentation: Research Agenda at UTSA's Institute for Cyber Security | Ravi Sandhu | --- | full | |
| Week #12 | Monday | 11/10/2008 | Lin and Katz: Question answering from the web using knowledge annotation and knowledge mining techniques | Steve O'Hara | Chengwei, Hongwei | 1 slot |
| Bairavasundaram et al.: An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack | Ali Teke | Micah, Pengjun | 1 slot | |||
| Wednesday | 11/12/2008 | Liu and Terzi: Towards Identity Anonymization on Graphs | Lijie Zhang | Steve | 1 slot | |
| Egyed: Fixing Inconsistencies in UML Design Models | Hui Shen | Mark | 1 slot | |||
| Week #13 | Monday | 11/17/2008 | Friedman et al.: Providing k-anonymity in data mining | Hongwei Tian | Lijie | 1 slot |
| Lei and Ruan: A Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Finding DNA Sequence Motifs | Chengwei Lei | --- | 1 slot | |||
| Wednesday | 11/19/2008 | Castelluccia et al.: Efficient Aggregation of Encrypted Data in Wireless Sensor Networks | Pengjun Pan | Fred, Ali | 1 slot | |
| Somasundara et al.: Mobile Element Scheduling with Dynamic Deadlines | Yifeng Guo | Nihat | 1 slot | |||
| Friday, 3:30pm | 11/21/2008 | Software Testing: An Evolution-Centric Perspective | Gregg Rothermel | --- | ||
| Week #14 | Monday | 11/24/2008 | Blanc et al.: Detecting model inconsistency through operation-based model construction | Mark Robinson | Andreas | 1 slot |
| Nikora and Munson: An approach to the measurement of software evolution | Micah Spears | Hui | 1 slot | |||
| Wednesday | 11/26/2008 | (No class: attend 11/21 talk of Gregg Rothermel instead.) | ||||
| Week #15 | Monday | 12/1/2008 | Ballani and Francis: Mitigating DNS DoS Attacks | Nihat Altiparmak | Fred, Tony | 1 slot |
| Solar-Lezama et al.: Sketiching Concurrent Data Structures | Andreas Gampe | Tony, Yifeng | 1 slot | |||
| Wednesday | 12/3/2008 | Goto and van de Guijn: Anatomy of High-Performance Matrix Multiplication | Tony Castaldo | Lijie, Steve | 2 slots? |