Recent Faculty Publications

Current External Research Funding

Kenneth B. Baclawski

Baclawski, Kenneth B. 1998. Category theory techniques in software engineering. Presented to the Department of Mathematics, January, Northeastern University.

 

---. 1998. Software components for lie group representations. Presented to the Department of Mathematics, February, Northeastern University.

 

---. 1998. High-performance, domain-specific information retrieval. Presented to Inso Corporation, July, Providence, Rhode Island.

 

---. 1998. Object-oriented parsing and transformation. Presented at the Seventh OOPSLA Workshop on Behavioral Semantics of Business and System Specifications, October, Vancouver, Canada.

 

Agnes Chan

Chan, Agnes H. 1997. On electronic commerce. Panel discussion at the IEEE Conference on Application in Local Area Networks, November, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

 

---. 1998. Sequences for ultrafast communication network. Presented at the NATO Workshop on Sequences, Difference Sets, and Correlations, August, Bad Windsheim, Germany.

 

---. 1998. Ultrafast generation of pseudorandom sequences. Presented to the Institute of Mathematics Applications, August, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

 

Gene D. Cooperman

Cooperman, Gene D. 1997. Task-Oriented Parallel C (TOP-C) and large mathematics computations. Presented in October, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan.

 

---. 1998. Parallel TOP-C and scaling up with DSM. Presented at the Workshop on Distributed HPC and GigaWAN, September, University of Essen, Germany.

 

---. 1998. TOP-C: Task-Oriented Parallel C. Presented at the Workshop on Parallel Symbolic Computation, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), October, Berkeley, California.

 

Cooperman, Gene D., and Victor Grinberg. 1997. TOP-WEB: Task-oriented metacomputing on the Web. Presented at the Ninth IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS-97), October, Washington, D.C.

 

Harriet J. Fell

Fell, Harriet J., and Linda Ferrier. 1997. The Baby Babble Blanket. Presented at the Educational Media and Materials Program for Individuals with Disabilities Cross-Project Conference, March, Office for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Washington, D.C.

 

---. 1997. The Baby Babble Blanket. Presented as part of the Thursday Language Lectures, Department of Linguistics, April, Northeastern University.

 

---. 1997. Using the Baby Babble Blanket. Presented at the Massachusetts Early Intervention Workshop, April, Springfield, Massachusetts.

 

Fell, Harriet J., Linda Ferrier, Joel Mac Auslan, and Karen Chenausky. 1998. Automatic babble recognition for early detection of speech-related disorders. Colloquium, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, November, Northeastern University.

 

Fell, Harriet J., Linda Ferrier, Joel MacAuslan, Karen Chenausky, and U. Muroff. 1997. Early Vocalization Analyzer, EVA-Methodological considerations. Presented at the American Speech and Hearing Association National Conference, November, Boston, Massachusetts.

 

Fell, Harriet J., Joel Mac Auslan, Karen Chenausky, and Linda Ferrier. 1998. Automatic babble recognition for early detection of speech-related disorders. Presented at ASSETS '98, April, Marina del Rey, California.

 

Fell, Harriet J., and Viera K. Proulx. 1997. Exploring Martian planetary images. Presented at the Twenty-Eighth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, February, San Jose, California.

 

Fell, Harriet J., Viera K. Proulx, and Richard A. Rasala. 1998. Scaling: A design pattern in introductory computer science courses. Presented at the Twenty-Ninth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, February, Atlanta, Georgia.

 

Robert P. Futrelle

Futrelle, Robert P. 1998. Summarization of documents that include graphics. Presented at the AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Text Summarization, March, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

 

---. 1998. Demonstration of the diagram understanding system. Presented at the AAAI 1998 Fall Symposium on Formalizing Reasoning with Visual and Diagrammatic Representations, October, Orlando, Florida.

 

Carole D. Hafner

Hafner, Carole D. 1998. Representing 'purpose': Broadening and deepening the picture of teleological knowledge. Presented at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Functional and Teleological Reasoning, July, Madison, Wisconsin.

 

Karl J. Lieberherr

Lieberherr, Karl J. 1997. Adaptive and aspect-oriented programming. Presented at Smalltalk and Java in Industrie and Ausbildung, September, Erfurt, Germany.

 

---. 1998. Smaller, more evolveable software. Presented to IEEE Boston Chapter, February, Boston, Massachusetts.

 

---. 1998. Evolution of software through adaptive programming. Presented at the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency principal investigator meeting, March, Los Angeles, California.

 

---. 1998. Generic programming using adaptive and aspect-oriented programming. Presented in April, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.

 

---. 1998. Demonstration of Demeter/Java. Presented as part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency Evolutionary Design of Complex Systems Demo Days, July, Baltimore, Maryland.

 

---. 1998. Adaptive plug-and-play components. Presented at IBM, September, Yorktown Heights, New York.

 

David H. Lorenz

Lorenz, David H. 1997. Tiling design patterns: A case study using the interpreter pattern. Presented at OOPSLA '97, October, Atlanta, Georgia.

 

---. 1998. Compilation of source code into an object-oriented pattern. Presented at the PhD Workshop, ECOOP '98, July, Brussels, Belgium.

 

---. 1998. Visitor beans: The first aspect-oriented pattern. Presented at the AOP Workshop, ECOOP '98, July, Brussels, Belgium.

 

Ibrahim Matta

Matta, Ibrahim. 1998. A load-profiling approach to routing guaranteed bandwidth flows. Presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM, March, San Francisco, California.

 

---. 1998. WTCP: A simple mechanism for improving TCP performance for wireless users. Presented in April, University of California, Riverside.

 

---. 1998. Challenges in building end-to-end QoS architectures. Presented at the Workshop on Distributed High Performance Computing and Gigabit Wide Area Networks, September, Essen, Germany.

 

Rajamohan Rajaraman

Rajaraman, Rajmohan. 1997. Analysis of a local search heuristic for facility location problems. Presented at AT&T Laboratories, December, Florham Park, New Jersey.

 

---. 1997. Analysis of a local search heuristic for facility location problems. Presented at Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies, December, Murray Hill, New Jersey.

 

---. 1997. Analysis of a local search heuristic for facility location problems. Presented in December, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

 

---. 1998. Analysis of a local search heuristic for facility location problems. Presented at the Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, January, San Francisco, California.

 

---. 1998. Data replication in distributed environments. Presented at Bell Communications Research, March, Morristown, New Jersey.

 

---. 1998. Data replication in distributed environments. Presented in April, State University of New York at Albany.

 

---. 1998. Data replication in distributed environments. Presented in April, University of Houston, Texas.

 

---. 1998. An adversarial model for distributed dynamic load balancing. Presented at the Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, June, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

 

---. 1998. Placement algorithms for hierarchical cooperative caching. Presented at the Workshop of Complexity Issues in Parallel and Distributed Computation, June, Fields Institute, University of Toronto, Canada.

 

Betty J. Salzberg

Salzberg, Betty J. 1997. Online reorganization. Presented in March, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

 

---. 1997. Parallel join algorithms. Presented in September, Macedonia University, Thessaloniki, Greece.

 

---. 1997. The BT forest: A branched and temporal access method. Presented in October, University of Extra Madura, Caceres, Spain.

 

---. 1997. Parallel join algorithms. Presented at the Rodin-Berso seminar, Institute Nationale en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), November, Rocquencourt, France.

 

---. 1998. The BT forest: A branched and temporal access method. Presented in July, Boston University and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne, Australia.

 

Raoul N. Smith

Smith, Raoul N. 1997. Emotions and computers. Presented in April, University of Delaware.

 

Mitchell Wand

Wand, Mitchell. 1997. Types in compilation: Scenes from an invited lecture. Invited talk at the Workshop on Types in Compilation, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Functional Programming '97, June, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

 

---. 1997. Type analysis, flow analysis, and program transformations. Presented at GTE Networking, November, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

---. 1998. New Jersey programming language seminar: Set constraints for destructive update transformation. Presented at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, June, Murray Hill, New Jersey.

 

---. 1998. Constraint systems for useless variable elimination. Presented in October, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

 

---. 1998. Constraint systems for useless variable elimination. Presented in November, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

 

Recent Faculty Publications

Current External Research Funding