text: Computer Science Faculty Research Overview CSIAC Meeting November 5th 2004 Faculty Research Areas • Artificial Intelligence and Robotics – Eugene Eberbach – Iren Valova – Xiaoqin Zhang • Networks and Systems – Emad Aboelela – Vinod M. Vokkarane • Software Engineering – Paul Bergstein – Richard L. Upchurch • Theory and Formal Methods – – – – Jan Bergandy Eugene Eberbach Boleslaw Mikolajczak Haiping Xu • Vision and Graphics – Ram Balasubramanian – Adam O. Hausknecht – Li Shen Dr. Emad Aboelela Assistant Professor Dr. Emad Aboelela Degrees Dr. Emad Aboelela received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Miami, Florida, in 1998. He received his M.Sc. In Computer Science from Alexandria University, Egypt, in 1993. He joined the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in September of 2001 Dr. Emad Aboelela Teaching CIS272 Introduction to Computer Systems CIS273 Computer Organization and Design CIS475 Computer Networks CIS476 Network Programming CIS577 Computer Networks CIS579 Multimedia Networking Dr. Emad Aboelela Research Quality-of-service for multimedia networking. Wireless sensor networks. Network topology design. Parallel IP-address forwarding. Network performance measurement and analysis. Dr. Emad Aboelela Awards Provost Travel Award, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Fall 2003 and Spring 2004. Graduate School Award of Academic Merit, University of Miami, Florida, 1998 Jury Award for Graduate Scholarship in Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Miami, Florida, 1998. Dr. Emad Aboelela Grants National Science Foundation (NSF) Collaborative Research Grant – "Redundant Traffic Encoding and Marking Scheme for Voice-Over-IP Quality-ofService" – September 2004 to September 2006. UMASS Dartmouth Foundation Research Grant, University of Massachusetts , May 2001 to May 2002. Dr. Emad Aboelela Recent Publications 1. Yiluo Song and Emad Aboelela, "A Parallel IP-Address Forwarding Approach Based on Partitioned Lookup Table Techniques", The 29th Conference on Local Computer Networks, Tampa, Florida, November 2004. 2. Phuong Tu and Emad Aboelela, "Genetic Algorithm Approach for Optimization of Backbone Network Topology Design", The Fourth International Network Conference, Plymouth, United Kingdom, July 2004. 3. Phuong Tu and Emad Aboelela, "An Optimization Model for Backbone Network Topology Design Based on Genetic Algorithm", 7th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, Florida, March 2004. 4. E. Aboelela: "Network Simulation Experiments Manual", Morgan Kaufmann Publisher, ISBN: 0120421712, June 2003. Dr. Emad Aboelela Recent Publications 5. E.Aboelela; C. Douligeris, "Quality of Service via an Optimal Routing Model", Appears in: "Quality and Reliability of Large Scale Telecommunication Systems", Peter Stavroulakis (Editor), Publisher: John Wiley, ISBN: 0-470-84770-0, pp. 281 - 295, February 2003. 6. E.Aboelela; C. Douligeris, "Fuzzy Reasoning Approach for QoS Routing in B-ISDN", Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Application in Engineering and Technology, Vol. 9, pp. 11-27, November 2000 7. E. Aboelela ; C. Douligeris, "Switching Theory Approach to Alarm Correlation in Network Management", 25th Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN'2000, Tampa, Florida, November 2000. 8. E. Aboelela; C. Douligeris, "Fuzzy Optimization Model For QoS Routing and Bandwidth Allocation ", World Scientific Publisher, Advances in Informatics, edited by Dimitrios Fotiadis & Stavros D Nikolopoulos, ISBN 981-02-41925, pp. 18-29, July 2000 Dr. Emad Aboelela Recent Publications 9. E. Aboelela ; C. Douligeris, "Fuzzy Generalized Network Approach for Solving an Optimization Model for Routing in B-ISDN", Telecommunication Systems Journal , Vol. 12 (1999) 2-3, pp. 237-263, December 1999. 10. E. Aboelela; C. Douligeris, " Fuzzy Temporal Reasoning Model for Event Correlation in Network Management ", 24th Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN'99 ,Lowell, Massachusetts, October 1999. 11. E. Aboelela; C. Douligeris, "Fuzzy Optimization Model For QoS Routing and Bandwidth Allocation ", 7th Hellenic Conference on Informatics, Ioannina, Greece, August 1999. 12. E. Aboelela, C. Douligeris, "Fuzzy Metric Approach for Routing in B-ISDN", IEEE 1999 International Conference on Communications, ( ICC99 ), Vancouver, Canada, June 1999. Dr. Ram Balasubramanian Assistant Professor Dr. Ramprasad Balasubramanian • Ph.D., Computer Science, June 2000 The University of South Florida, FL, USA Thesis: Non-Rigid Motion Analysis and its Application to MPEG-4. • M.S.O.R., Operations Research, Aug. 2003 The University of Kentucky, KY, USA • M.S., Applied Mathematics, Aug. 2001 The University of Toledo, OH, USA • B.Sc., Mathematics, Sep. 1989 The University of Madras, India Research Interests • • • • • 2-D and 3-D Visualization Rigid and Non-Rigid Motion Analysis Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Human-Computer Interaction Selected Publications • • • Chaudhuri, A., Gangopadhyay, R. Balasubramanian and S. Ray, Automated Oceanographic feature detection from high resolution satellite images, Proceedings of the Seventh IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging, 2004, Hawaii, August, 2004, 217-223. Detecting and Tracking of Mesoscale Oceanic Features in the Miami Isopycnic Circulation Ocean Model. Ramprasad Balasubramanian, Amit Tandon, Bin John and Vishal Sood. Proceedings of The IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing VIIP 2003, Pg. 169-174. Sept 8-10, Benalmedena, Spain. Visualization methods for heat transport in Miami Isopycnic Circulation Ocean Model (MICOM) by Ramprasad Balasubramanian, Amit Tandon and Vishal Shah. Proceedings of the Fifth IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM 2002) August 12-14, 2002, pp 281-286, Kauai, Hawaii, USA. Min Shin, Ramprasad Balasubramanian and Dmitry Goldgof. Framework for Integrating 2D Points and Curves for Tracking 3D Nonrigid Motion and Structure. Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), v3, pp. 831-834, September 2000. Research Projects • Extraction, Segmentation and Tracking of Eddies in Miami Isopycnic Circulation Ocean Model (3 Grad Students + 1 Physics Faculty) • Extraction of Eddies, Upwelling and other significant features in SST (Sea Surface Temperature) Satellite Data (2 Graduate Students + 1 Physics Faculty) • Modeling and Shape Analysis of Eddy Structures (1 Grad Student + 1 CIS Faculty) • Visualization of Eddy for Heat Transport Diagnosis in the CAVE (Collaboration with Faculty at Brown University) • Non-Rigid Motion Analysis (Collaboration with Faculty at UNCC) What are mesoscale eddies • Mesoscale: Size scale of about 100km • Eddies are energetic swirling currents found all over the ocean • Mesoscale eddies have deep roots of about 5km • They can transport momentum to the sea floor Why are mesoscale eddies important? • Poleward Heat transport – Heat moved by the from the equator towards poles – An important quantity in Climate Studies – Oceans are partly responsible for poleward heat transport – Contribution of mesoscale eddies to heat transport Why are mesoscale eddies important? • Biological communities of the ocean – Strongly affected by ocean circulation and mesoscale eddies – Nutrient rich cold water at the bottom – Cold cyclonic eddies can lift this nutrient waters towards surface – Sunlight on surface helps nutrient rich water promote chlorophyll rich plankton, and thereby the food chain from plankton to whales Statistical Border Detection Circle vs Ellipse – Segmentation Study Difference in Clustering Based Feature Extraction in SST Satellite Data Visualization in the CAVE Non-Rigid Motion Analysis – FAP Estimation Dr. Bolek Mikolajczak Professor Dr. Bolek Mikolajczak • Dr. Habilitis – post-doctoral degree in Computer Science with distinction, Poznan University of Technology and State Commission on Academic Cadres, 1979 • Ph. D. in Computer Science with distinction, Poznan University of Technology, 1974 • MS in Mathematics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 1972 • MS in Control Engineering with Specialization in Digital Systems, Poznan University of Technology, 1970 1. Software Development of Concurrent Computing Systems • Integrating Object-Oriented Design and High-Level Petri Nets in Development of Concurrent Software Systems • Integration of Object Oriented Design and Colored Petri Nets with Abstract Node Approach • Conceptual Modeling of Concurrent Systems through Stepwise Abstraction Using Petri Net Vicinity Preserving Morphisms Software Development and Engineering of Concurrent Computing Systems, ctnd. • Modeling and Resolving Inheritance Anomaly in Concurrent OO Systems with Colored Petri Nets • Modeling and Analyzing Multi-level Security Features of Complex Information Systems using Colored Petri Nets Combining OO with Petri Nets Abstract Node Approach 2. Design of Parallel Algorithms • Parallel Algorithm Computing All Homomorphisms of Deterministic Finite Automata (all decompositions) – algorithm design, analysis and MPI and transputerbased implementations • Experimental study of time and space performance of Parallel ocean modeling system with MPI implementation 3. Design and Analysis of Workflow Management Systems • Design and Verification of Information Systems, and in particular, Workflow Management Systems • Workflow (Mining) Rediscovery Algorithms and their Complexity • Workflow Modeling and Analysis Using Petri Nets • Modeling and Verifying Manufacturing/ Production Systems as Workflows using Petri Nets 4. Grants • NSF 01-52; ATE Articulation Partnerships, Establishing an Articulated Computer Science Program: From BCC through UMD, co-principal investigator with P. Grocer, BCC; $309,000 • CITI, PhaseII-IFAC, Program Committee member, $1 mln, 2004-2005. Grants, ctnd. • 2000-2001; BHE Commomwealth Information Technology Initiative (CITI) Grant, $144,858. • 2001-2002; Federal Grant, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI, Software Engineering of Web-enabled Navy, PI, coinvestigators: P. Bergstein and R. Upchurch, $25,000. 5. Most recent publications • • • • Mikolajczak, B., Wang, Z., Conceptual Modeling of Information Systems with Morphisms of Petri Nets, "Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining", IIS'03, Zakopane, Poland, June 2-5, 2003; Advances in Soft Computing, Springer, Physica Series, 2003, pp. 535-540. Mikolajczak B., Sefranek, Ch. Integrating Object-Oriented Design with Petri Nets – A Case Study of ATM System, 2003 IEEE International Conference Systems, Man, Cybernetics SMC'2003, Washington, DC, Oct. 5-8, 2003, IEEE Computer Society Press. Mikolajczak, B., Wang Z., Conceptual Modeling of Concurrent Systems through Stepwise Abstraction and Refinement using Petri Net Morphisms, 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER2003, Chicago, Illinois, Oct. 13-16, 2003, in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, vol. 2813, pp. 433-445. Mikolajczak, B., Stepwise Abstractions of Workflow Systems using Petri Net Morphisms, Proc. of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, March 21-23, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan. Dr. Li Shen Assistant Professor Dr. Li Shen • Ph.D., Computer Science, 2004 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA Thesis: Three Dimensional Shape Analysis with Parametric Surface Modeling • M.S., Computer Science, 1996 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Thesis: A Rapid Normalization Technique in Term Rewriting Systems • B.S., Computer Science, 1993 Xi'an Jiao Tong University, China Thesis: The Design and Implementation of A Personnel and Salary Information Management System Research Areas • • • • Image processing and computer vision Pattern analysis and machine intelligence Data mining and bioinformatics Geometric modeling and graphics Selected Publications (1) • • • • • Li Shen, James Ford, Fillia Makedon, and Andrew Saykin. A surface-based approach for classification of 3D neuroanatomic structures. Intelligent Data Analysis, An International Journal, 8(5), to appear. Li Shen, Ling Gao, Zhenwu Zhuang, Ebo DeMuinck, Heng Huang, Fillia Makedon, and Justin Pearlman. An interactive 3D visualization and manipulation tool for effective assessment of angiogenesis and arteriogenesis using computed tomographic angiography. SPIE Medical Imaging 2005, San Diego, California, 12-17 February 2005. Li Shen and Fillia Makedon. Spherical parameterization for 3D surface analysis in volumetric images. IEEE Conference on ITCC'04: International Conference on Information Technology, pp 643-649, Las Vegas, NV, April 5-7, 2004. Li Shen, Fillia Makedon, and Andrew Saykin. Shape-based discriminative analysis of combined bilateral hippocampi using multiple object alignment. Medical Imaging 2004: Image Processing, SPIE Proceedings 5370, pp 274-282, San Diego, California, 14-19 February 2004. Li Shen, James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Yuhang Wang, Tilmann Steinberg, Song Ye, and Andrew Saykin. Morphometric analysis of brain structures for improved discrimination. MICCAI'03: Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, LNCS 2879, pages 513-520, Montreal, Canada, Nov 15-18, 2003. Selected Publications (2) • • • • • • Li Shen, Ling Cheng, Faye Teng, Fillia Makedon, James Ford, Tilmann Steinberg, and Andrew J. Saykin. A multimedia system for tracing and studying regions-of-interest in brain images. MTAC'01: IEEE Multimedia Technology and Application Conference, pages 238-245, Irvine, CA, November 7-9, 2001. Li Shen, Ling Cheng, James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Vasileios Megalooikonomou, and Tilmann Steinberg. Mining the most interesting web access associations. WebNet'00: World Conference on the WWW and Internet, pages 489-494, San Antonio, TX, Oct. 30-Nov. 4, 2000. V. Megalooikonomou, James Ford, Li Shen, and Fillia Makedon. Data mining in brain imaging. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 9(4):359-394, 2000. Li Shen, Hong Shen, Ling Cheng, and Paul Pritchard. Fast association discovery in derivative transaction collections. Knowledge and Information Systems, An International Journal, 2(2):147-160, May 2000. Li Shen, Hong Shen, and Ling Cheng. New algorithms for efficient mining of association rules. Information Sciences, 118(1-4):251-268, September, 1999. Li Shen and Hong Shen. Mining flexible multiple-level association rules in all concept hierarchies. DEXA'98: The 9th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, LNCS 1460, pp 786-795, Vienna, Austria, August 24-28, 1998. Selected Projects Shape Classification Goal: Learn a shape-based medical classifier Healthy Classifier: Schizophrenic Schizophrenic or not? Selected Projects Surface registration Sample application: measuring ventricle wall thickness Joint work with Dartmouth Advanced Imaging Center at Dartmouth Medical School Selected Projects Shape analysis of brain structures – Hippocampus – Amygdala – Entorhinal cortex Goal: distinguish the following populations to help diagnosis – – – – Healthy normal Cognitive complaint Mild cognitive impairment Alzheimer disease Joint work with Dartmouth Brain Imaging Laboratory at Dartmouth Medical School Selected Projects Lung Image Analysis – Lung nodule classification Goal: Distinguish – – – Cancer Inflammatory Scar Joint work with Dartmouth Advanced Imaging Center at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Selected Projects Interactive Vessel Manipulation Goal: effective assessment of angiogenesis and arteriogenesis using computed tomographic angiography Joint work with Dartmouth Advanced Imaging Center at Dartmouth Medical School Dr. Iren Valova Associate Professor Dr. Iren Valova • PhD in Computer Science – Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 1997 • Postgraduate MS in Applied Mathematics and Informatics – Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1993 • BS/MS in Computer Science – Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1991 Research areas • Neural Networks – Learning algorithms – Architectures – Brain modeling and simulations • • • • Data Mining Image Processing Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Recent Publications - Journal • I.Valova, N.Gueorguieva, Y.Kosugi, Oscillation-driven neural network for simulation of olfactory system. Springer Neural Computing and Applications, Vol.13, No.1, pp 6579, April 2004. • N.Gueorguieva, I.Valova, DYPOF: Dynamically Adaptive Neural Network With Potential Functions. Journal of Smart Engineering System Design, 5:517-536, No.4, 2003. • I.Valova, Y.Kosugi. Hadamard-based image decomposition and compression. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol.4, No.4, pp 306-319, December 2000. Selected Recent Publications Conference • I.Valova, N.Gueorguieva, F.Troescher, Synchronization of Spiking Neurons Modeling Inhibition / Excitation Firing, ASME Press Series on Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks (ANNIE 2004) • I.Valova, G.Milano, K.Bowen, Optimizing Genetic Algorithms to Train Fully Connected Feedforward Neural Networks, ASME Press Series on Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks (ANNIE 2003), pp 391-396, In Part 2: Evolutionary programming, Volume 13, Smart Engineering System Design, eds C. Dagli et al, 2003. • N.Gueorguieva, I.Valova, Building RBF Neural Network Topology Through Potential Functions, Springer-Verlag Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol.2714. Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing (ICANN – ICONIP 2003), pp 1033 – 1040, Kaynak, E. Alpaydin, E. Oja, L. Xu (Eds.), ISBN 3-540-40408-2 Invited seminars • Dynamics of Odor Encoding: Neural Circuit Modeling, Seminar on Medical Imaging and Visualization , 2002 Awards and recognition • Best paper award in the Theoretical Developments in Computational Intelligence category at the Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE'02): Smart Engineering System Design – Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming, and Data Mining conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, November 3-6, 2002 • Reviewer for the US Department of Education, Fund for Improvement for Postsecondary Education grant evaluation session Current research projects • Simulation of olfactory information processing – Oscillatory model – Spiking neuron model Current research projects • Radial basis function neural networks – Potential functions-based learning algorithm – Clustering Current research projects • Self-organizing feature maps – Growing parallel architectures and algorithms – Autonomous learning SOMs Current research projects • Independent component analysis – Neural network architectures Dr. Vinod M. Vokkarane Assistant Professor Dr. Vinod Vokkarane • Ph.D., Computer Science, Aug. 2004 The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Thesis: Design of Architectures and Protocols for Optical BurstSwitched Networks • M.S., Computer Science, Dec. 2001 The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Thesis: Burst Segmentation: A New Approach to Reduce Packet Loss in Optical Burst-Switched Networks • B.Eng. (Hons), Computer Science and Eng., Sep. 1999 The University of Mysore, India Thesis: Design and Implementation of LDAP Research Interests • • • • • Optical Networks Wireless Networks Sensor Networks Satellite Communication Networks Information Security Selected Publications • • • • • • • • • • • Book: J.P. Jue and V.M. Vokkarane, "Optical Burst Switched Networks," Springer, 2005. Q. Zhang, V.M. Vokkarane, J.P. Jue, and B. Chen, "Absolute QoS Differentiation in Optical Burst-Switched Networks," to appear, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of Communications (JSAC), vol. 22, no. 9, Nov. 2004. Q. Zhang, V.M. Vokkarane, and J.P. Jue, "Path Clustering: An Approach to Implement Absolute QoS Differentiation in Optical Burst-Switched Networks," accepted, IEEE Globecom 2004, Dallas, TX. V.M. Vokkarane, J. Wang, R. Jothi, X. Qi, B. Raghavachari, and J.P. Jue, "Dynamic Dual-Homing Protection in WDM mesh Networks," Proceedings, IEEE ICC 2004, Paris, France, June 2004. R. Jothi, and V.M. Vokkarane, "Threshold-Based Differentiated Intermediate-Node Initiated (TDINI) Signaling for Optical Burst-Switched Networks," Proceedings, Informs TELECOM 2004, Mar. 2004. J. Wang, V.M. Vokkarane, X. Qi, and J.P. Jue, "Dual-Homing Protection in WDM Mesh Networks," Proceedings, IEEE/OSA OFC 2004, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 2004. Q. Zhang, V.M. Vokkarane, B. Chen, and J.P. Jue, "Early Drop and Wavelength Grouping Schemes for Providing Absolute QoS Differentiation in Optical Burst-Switched Networks," Proceedings, IEEE Globecom 2003, San Francisco, CA, vol. 5, pp. 2628-2632, Dec. 2003. V.M. Vokkarane and J.P. Jue, "Burst Segmentation: an Approach for Reducing Packet Loss in Optical Burst-Switched Networks ," Special Issue on Engineering the Next Generation Optical Internet, SPIE/Kluwer Optical Networks, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 81-89, Nov./Dec., 2003. G. Thodime, V.M. Vokkarane, and J.P. Jue, "Dynamic Congestion-Based Load Balanced Routing in Optical Burst-Switched Networks," Proceedings, IEEE Globecom'03, vol. 5, pp. 2694-2698, Dec. 2003. V.M. Vokkarane and J.P. Jue, "Segmentation-Based Non-Preemptive Scheduling Algorithms for Optical Burst-Switched Networks, " Proceedings, WOBS 2003, Dallas, TX, Oct. 2003. F. Farahmand, V.M. Vokkarane, and J.P. Jue, "Practical Priority Contention Resolution for Slotted Optical Burst Switching Networks, " Proceedings, WOBS 2003, Dallas, TX, Oct. 2003. Selected Publications (cont.) • • • • • • • • V.M. Vokkarane and J.P. Jue, "Prioritized Burst Segmentation and Composite Burst Assembly Techniques for QoS Support in Optical Burst-Switched Networks," IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of Communications (JSAC), vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 1198-1209, Sept. 2003. Q. Zhang, V. M. Vokkarane, B. Chen, and J.P. Jue, "Early Drop Scheme for Providing Absolute QoS Differentiation in Optical Burst-Switched Networks," Proceedings, IEEE HPSR 2003, Torino, Italy, pp. 153-157, June 2003. V.M. Vokkarane, G. Thodime, V. Challagulla, and J.P. Jue, "Channel Scheduling Algorithms using Burst Segmentation and FDLs for Optical Burst-Switched Networks," Proceedings, IEEE ICC 2003 conference, Anchorage, Alaska, vol. 2, pp. 1443-1447, May 2003. R. Karanam, V.M. Vokkarane, and J.P. Jue, "Intermediate Node Initiated (INI) Signaling: A Hybrid Channel Reservation Technique for Optical Burst-Switched Networks," Proceedings, IEEE/OSA OFC 2003, Atlanta, TuJ2, vol. 1, pp. 213-215, Mar. 2003. V.M. Vokkarane, Q. Zhang , J.P. Jue, and B. Chen, "Generalized Burst Assembly and Scheduling Techniques for QoS Support in Optical Burst-Switched Networks," Proceedings, IEEE Globecom 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 2002. V.M. Vokkarane, K. Haridoss, and J.P. Jue, "Threshold-Based Burst Assembly Policies for QoS Support in Optical Burst-Switched Networks," Proceedings, SPIE Optical Networking and Communication Conference (OptiComm) 2002, Boston, MA, vol. 4874, pp. 125-136, July 2002. V.M. Vokkarane, J.P. Jue, and S. Sitaraman, "Burst Segmentation: an Approach for Reducing Packet Loss in Optical Burst-Switched Networks," Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2002, New York, NY, vol. 5, pp. 2673-2677, Apr. 2002. V.M. Vokkarane and J.P. Jue, "Prioritized Routing and Burst Segmentation for QoS in Optical Burst-Switched Networks," Proceedings, IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2002, Anaheim, CA, WG6, pp. 221-222, Mar. 2002. Invited Talks and Awards • Invited Talks – "QoS in Optical Burst-Switched Networks," Dept. of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Nov. 25, 2002. – "Burst Segmentation: an Approach for Reducing Packet Loss in Optical Burst-Switched Networks," State Univ. of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, May 3, 2002. • Awards – Best Dissertation Award, UT-Dallas, 2003-04 – Texas Telecommunication Engineering Consortium Fellowship 200203 Research Projects • Optical Burst-Switched Networks – – – – Scheduling and Signaling Quality of Service Congestion Control TCP Performance • Multi-Layer Survivability using Dual-Homing Protection over Wireless and Optical Networks • Energy-Efficient Routing and Information Security in Wireless Sensor Networks QoS in Optical Burst Switching Burst Segmentation Prioritized Scheduling Composite Burst Assembly • • • • Burst Segmentation: minimizes data loss Prioritized Scheduling: supports for different classes of traffic Composite Burst Assembly: further minimizes packet loss Efficient utilization of network resources Publications: IEEE JSAC 2003, SPIE/Kluwer Optical Networks 2003, IEEE [ICC, OFC, GLOBECOM] 2002 Multi-Layer Survivability using Dual-Homing Protection Coordinated Dual-Homing Protection across multiple networks [ICC 2004, OFC 2004] Dr. Haiping Xu Assistant Professor Dr. Haiping Xu • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 2003. • M.S. in Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, 1998. Academic/Research Specializations • Current teaching and research interests: theoretical computer science, software engineering and distributed computing. • Special interest and expertise: model-based software development and agent-oriented software engineering. • Specific research issues in this area include: – formal specification and design of complex software systems; – model-based development of agent-oriented software, including design and implementation of software agents; – real-world applications of agent technology. Journal Publications • Haiping Xu, Zhiguo Zhang, and Sol M. Shatz, "A Security Based Model for Mobile Agent Software Systems," Submitted to the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE), August 2004. • Haiping Xu and Sol M. Shatz, "ADK: An Agent Development Kit Based on a Formal Model for Multi-Agent Systems," Journal of Automated Software Engineering (AUSE), October 2003, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 337365. • Haiping Xu and Sol M. Shatz, "A Framework for Model-Based Design of Agent-Oriented Software," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (IEEE TSE), January 2003, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 15-30. • Ravi K. Gedela, Sol M. Shatz, and Haiping Xu, "Compositional Petri Net Models of Advanced Tasking in Ada-95," Computer Languages, July 1999, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 55-87. Conference Publications • • • • • Haiping Xu and Xiaoqin Zhang, "A Methodology for Role-Based Modeling of Multi-Agent Software Systems," Submitted to the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-2005), August 2004. Haiping Xu and Sol M. Shatz, "A Framework for Modeling Agent-Oriented Software," In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-21), April 16-19, 2001, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, pp. 57-64. Haiping Xu and Sol M. Shatz, "An Agent-Based Petri Net Model with Application to Seller/Buyer Design in Electronic Commerce," In Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS 2001), March 26-28, 2001, Dallas, Texas, USA, pp. 11-18. Haiping Xu and Sol M. Shatz, "Extending G-Nets to Support Inheritance Modeling in Concurrent Object-Oriented Design," In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2000), October 8-11, 2000, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, pp. 3128-3133. Ravi K. Gedela, Sol M. Shatz, and Haiping Xu, "Formal Modeling of Synchronization Methods for Concurrent Objects in Ada 95," In Proceedings of the ACM Annual International Conference on Ada (SIGAda'99), October 17-21, 1999, Redondo Beach, CA, USA, pp. 211-220. Invited Seminar Lectures • Haiping Xu, "A Model-Based Approach for Development of Multi-Agent Software Systems,", Computer Science Colloquium, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Boston, December 2003. Honors • University Fellowship, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 2001. • Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute (DAGSI) Scholarship, Dayton, OH, 1998. Current Research Projects • Secure, Personalized Mobile Agents for Stock Trading. • Multi-Agent System for Online Auctions. • Role-Based Modeling of Multi-Agent Software Systems. Dr. Xiaoqin Zhang Assistant Professor Dr. Xiaoqin Zhang Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, September, 2002. Master of Science, Computer Science. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1998. Bachelor of Science, Computer Science. University of Science & Technology of China, P.R.China, 1995. Journal Publications 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser and Sherief Abdallah, "Efficient Management of MultiLinked Negotiation Based on a Formalized Model", accepted by the Journal of Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, to appear. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser, Rodion Podorozhny "Multi-Dimensional, MultiStep Negotiation for Task Allocation in a Cooperative System". Journal of Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 7, page 1-36, 2004. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser and Tom Wagner. "A Layered Approach to Complex Negotiations". In the (WIAS) Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal. Page 91-104, Vol 2. No. 2. 2004. IOS Press, Netherlands. Victor Lesser, Bryan Horling, Frank Klassner, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, and Shelley XQ. Zhang. "BIG: An Agent for Resource-Bounded Information Gathering and Decision Making." In Artificial Intelligence journal, Special Issue on Internet Information Agents, Volume 118, Number 1-2, pp. 197-244, May 2000, Elsevier Science. Also available as UMass Computer Science Technical Report 1998-52. Victor Lesser, Bryan Horling, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, and Xiaoqin Zhang. "Resource-Bounded Searches in an Information Marketplace." In IEEE Internet Computing: Agents on the Net, Volume 4, Number 2, pp. 49-57, March 2000, IEEE Computer Society Publications. Conference Publications 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Shen, Jiaying; Zhang, Xiaoqin; and Lesser, Victor. "Degree of Local Cooperation and its Implication on Global Utility". In Proceedings of Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2004). July, 2004. To appear. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser and Tom Wagner "A Two-Level Negotiation Framework for Complex Negotiations", In the Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2003). pp. 311-317. 2003, Halifax, Canada. Acceptance rate 23%. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser and Tom Wagner "Integrative Negotiation In Complex Organizational Agent Systems", In the Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2003). pp. 140-146. 2003. Halifax, Canada. Acceptance rate 23%. Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser "Multi-Linked Negotiation in Multi-Agent System" In the Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2002), acceptance rate 26%. Page 1207-1214. July 15-19, 2002, Bologna, Italy. Xiaoqin Zhang, Rodion Podorozhny, Victor Lesser, "Cooperative, MultiStep Negotiation Over a Multi-Dimensional Utility Function Multi-Agent Systems Negotiation," Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference, Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2000), pages:136-142. ASTED/ACTA Press, Banff, Canada, July 2000. Current research projects: sophisticated negotiation This research is focused on the sophisticated negotiation in multi-agent systems for complex distributed applications. It explores a number of ideas to speed up the negotiation and reduce the computational burden involving how to order overlapping negotiations in time and abstractions, and how to constrain individual negotiation in terms of a concept called flexibility and where to pre-plan for the possibility of re-visiting settled negotiations by introducing flexibility into the original statement of the issue being negotiated so as to limit the effects of re-negotiation on other settled issues. Specifically, we focus on the following issues related to negotiations in our target application areas: ordering of multiple Related negotiations, abstraction in hierarchical negotiation, and flexibility management for sophisticated negotiations. Study of Formation of Virtual Organization • Virtual organization refers to the temporary teaming of organizations for the rapid development of a new product or service; by sharing physical, human and knowledge resources, via information technologies, a virtual organization enables member enterprises to share skills, costs, access to one another's markets and, at the same time decrease the risk of investments. To realize this new generation of business model, the ability to form, operation, and dissolution of virtual enterprise is of foremost importance. While the concepts of virtual organization are similar to a traditional vertically integrated enterprise, however, its implementation in e-marketplace remains a difficult task as challenges and obstacles remain unsolved. • The project is to implement a multi-agent system that simulates an artificial emarketplace, for which we have derive mechanisms for the decision-making processes in various stages of a virtual organization. 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Hi, have just installed spiceworks on an SBS 2003 box and all machines including the SBS box where spiceworks is installed have the same error message below
"This device appears to be a Windows computer, but it isn't responding to remote requests. This can happen for a number of reasons including permission settings for the user specified. Please see the help section."
The SBS box is able to access all client machines, remote administration is enabled and all client firewalls have TCP/UDP 135 open to the local subnet and the remote administration exception enabled via GP. It seems bizzare that the SBS box is giving this error when the discovery process is local and not remote? This box is configured exactly the same as the other SBS boxes I have installed spiceworks on albeit that this version is 3.1 and the other were an earlier version?
Has anyone else got this problem?
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Spanish firm Gomez-Acebo & Pombo has reported a third successive year of falling revenue, but has almost halted the rate of decline, posting a turnover drop of just 0.9 per cent last year.
Turnover fell from €61.9m in 2012 to €60.7m last year (7 February 2013). The results follow a 1.4 per cent drop between 2011 and 2012, and a 7.7 per cent drop between 2010 and 2011 (17 February 2012).
Despite the figures, managing partner Manuel Martin said the year had been a solid one for the firm, adding that fee collection had improved by 17 per cent and the average value of new cases had risen by 7 per cent. The average hourly fee had also increased, Martin said.
"This is due largely to the increase in the wide experience, importance and prestige of mandates and the clients we serve," Martin said, adding that Gómez-Acebo was also "avoiding commodity work".
The firm's corporate and banking and capital markets teams both saw an increase in revenues, of 14 per cent and 10 per cent respectively. Martin added that 2013 was "not a bad year" for real estate, litigation and white collar crime.
He said the firm's representative offices in London and New York had both had strong years. Gómez-Acebo launched in New York in late 2012 (26 July 2012) and Martin said the office had "begun to bear fruit" already.
Headcount at Gómez-Acebo has fallen considerably over the past few years. Between 2012 and 2013 fee-earner numbers fell by 3 per cent, from 285 to 276, while qualified lawyer numbers dropped from 270 in 2012 to 244 last year.
The firm has nevertheless also been hiring, adding a number of lawyers in Madrid in particular, and promoting five partners last year.
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The row over domestic energy prices has intensified as the head of one of the big six companies accused Ed Miliband of risking investment in Britain and laying the ground for blackouts by proposing a fuel price freeze.
As Downing Street indicated that Tory ministers were looking to cut financial support for energy efficiency in poorer households as part of a drive to bring down the overall cost of fuel bills, the owner of Scottish Power warned that the Labour leader was attempting to defy international markets.
Ignacio Galán, the chairman of Spanish energy company Iberdrola, which owns Scottish Power, said: "I'd be delighted if Mr Miliband can already fix a cap for the international gas prices, for the international oil prices, for the international coal prices. But he does not have enough knowledge and power to fix this cap as well for those raw materials, which are already creating this energy."
The Spanish executive, who said Britain was in desperate need of investment, accused Miliband of putting at risk Scottish Power's plans for investment worth £15bn. "This winter or the next two winters some problems can happen, some blackouts can happen in the country," he said. "To create some uncertainty around these [investment plans] is very negative."
The warning came as Downing Street all but confirmed that Tory ministers were looking to target the Energy Company Obligation (ECO), which helps poorer households improve energy efficiency. George Osborne is understood to be keen to reduce the obligation, which costs billpayers £1.3bn a year and accounts for 4%, or £47, of an average annual bill, according to government figures.
Asked whether ECO was under review by No 10 or the Treasury, with a view to unwinding the measure, the prime minister's spokesman said: "People's budgets are squeezed, people are feeling the pressure. They would expect us to look across the range of what can be done. We have already made an announcement [to address the rising costs of living] in the context of rail fares. We are going to continue that process of work."
Asked whether the ECO would be wound up, the spokesman said: "I would expect them to look across the full board, across the living standards space."
On the subject of green subsidies, the spokesman said: "We are going to look across the board where we may be able to continue to do more to help families with the budget pressures that they face."
The remarks are likely to infuriate the Liberal Democrat energy secretary, Ed Davey, who wrote on Tuesday to energy companies, most of whom oppose the ECO scheme, demanding greater transparency over how much the policy actually costs them to implement.
On Thursday Miliband accused energy company SSE of "ripping off" consumers after it unveiled an 8.2% price rise. Caroline Flint, the shadow energy and climate change secretary, said: "What any investor needs isn't short term returns based on overcharging but long term certainty on returns. By rebuilding trust in the market and providing greater investor certainty our market reforms will support investment. That is why we have committed to the 2030 power sector decarbonisation target which the industry has been calling for and we will stick with the system of contracts for difference which guarantees investors a return on their investment."


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Jeezy Arrested Again in Outside Atlanta (Details)
Seems like Jeezy just not feeling the cops right now. Apparently the cops responded to an alarm call from his Jeezy's girlfriend home. When the police arrived, he refused to identify himself to the police. The police asked Jeezy for his name and ID in which he replied "Fuck you, I ain't telling you". Then when the police tried to apply cuffs on him, Jeezy allegedly kept pulling away from the cops. If you remember he was recently arrested for terroristic threats towards his son. His representative later cleared what happen with the logic of being set up by his baby mother. Either way, Jeezy is definitely not in the best place with the cops.
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The death of justice.
Is there an exemption for the disclosure of National Security information to attorney's to get "good legal representation"? Is that what Comey is implying in this clip.
I doubt it.
Here's the problem - Comey was explaining Hillary's motive in violating the law. Motive is not an element of the crime. The issue is "intent" - specifically did she intend to give security information to people who were not cleared to receive it.
Comey has basically conceded that Hillary violated the law.
A Facebook friend observes:
"The prime federal law enforcement agency in the country has essentially told the American people they they are no longer willing or able to serve the interests of the people. They serve the interests of a currently unelected presumptive nominee and the elites who protect her. That is, in my mind, nothing less than a coup d'etat. And we are all just sitting here with our mouths open while the other half of the country is playing arm-chair lawyer/judge/jury by claiming that they know there was no case against her in the first place (no matter what Comey explicitly said)."
And this is AFTER we had the spectacle of the IRS targeting political opponents AND nothing was done to punish the guilty or protect the innocent.
We owe these people nothing.
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A friend of mine tried to sign up for Obamacare at the Healthcare.Gov website and ran into some trouble right at the password!
Imagine if the crap going on at the Obamacare website was happening at a business in the private sector that had to actually manage expenses and answer for their bottom-line results.
Government, particularly the Obama government, operates under neither of those constraints.
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PURPOSE: The purpose of our study was to describe the spectrum of brachial artery reactivity, and assess an important marker of endothelial inflammation (Nitric Oxide) - in a group of hypertensive population with and without OSAHS, non hypertensive patients with OSAHS, and in Obese patients without OSAHS compared to healthy volunteers.
METHODS: One hundred and fifty subjects were enrolled and subdivided into: (Group I) Forty patients with controlled essential systemic hypertension., (Group II) Forty patients with resistant hypertension. All hypertensive patients (groups I and II) were subjected to limited cardio respiratory sleep study, and subdivided based on the presence or absence of obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome.(Group III) Thirty non hypertensive patients newly diagnosed to have OSAHS.(Group IV) Thirty non hypertensive obese otherwise apparently healthy. (GroupV, Control group) Ten non-smoking healthy volunteers. Assessment of vascular reactivity was done using Doppler ultrasound assessment of brachial artery responsiveness to both endothelium -dependent and endothelium -independent stimuli, then measurement of marker of endothelial inflammation was done including level of plasma Nitric oxide . Representative samples were taken to undergo assessment of plasma level of nitric oxide .
RESULTS: Brachial artery reactivity showed a significantly blunted response to shear stress (Endothelium Dependent stimulus) in patients with OSAHS, in patients with resistant hypertension and in patients with both OSAHS and hypertension. On the other hand, NTG mediated dilation (Endothelium Independent stimulus) was also significantly blunted in patients with resistant hypertension with or without OSAHS and in patients with severe OSAHS. Serum Nitrates was found to be of statistically significantly lowest values in patients with severe OSAHS, and in patients with both OSAHS and hypertension. Obesity alone, as well as hypertension alone were also associated with decreased levels of serum Nitrates but to a much lesser extent than OSAHS combined to hypertension.
CONCLUSIONS: Endothelial dysfunction is considered a pre-hypertension step in patients without overt hypertension. It is considered a marker of systemic inflammation which can be detected in patients with OSAHS
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Measures to restore endothelial integrity are of utmost importance in clinical practice to guard against the development of hypertension, CAD, CVS, and other clinical syndromes
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As the van pulled out of the parking garage, the pointy faced woman handed Damien a small square box.
"Thank you, Vanessa. You've made me proud." he told her, cooing.
He turned his attention back to the box, a hungry look in his eyes. He licked his lips anxiously, then let out an ear-spitting shriek of laughter.
Isla jumped, apparently shaken once more, as Damien flicked his thumb on the lid of the box, revealing a dull red button. She gasped and reached for him, screaming objections.
The explosion was deafening, and it shook the van on its axles, rattling Isla and the other passengers around like beans in a can. Damiens chair actually tipped over and he tumbled to the floor, laughter still pouring from his mouth.
'He really is crazy!' Isla thought, holding on to the side of the van for dear life. He bombed her hospital! There were so many people still in there!
So many people that relied on her to keep them safe. She killed them; she was the reason they were all dead now.
"You bastard! What the hell is your fucking problem?" she screamed, leaping on him and tearing at him with her fingers. She was absolutely fuming. There was no way that she was going to help him, not after he killed those that trusted her so much.
For some reason, as the tears streamed down her face, she remembered thinking that Damien had changed during the surgery, that a near death experience had brought him to sanity.
But as they struggle on the floor, she peered into his eyes and saw no sign of sanity at all. His eyes were wild, like some estranged animal. They were sharp and cold and as blue as the deepest part of the ocean. He was the Conductor of Death himself. To him, killing was fun, it was an art; a fun past-time.
Isla stopped, her breath coming in gasps. They were both still, his eyes locked on hers as she came to her realization. Slowly, she crawled off of him and tucked herself into the far back corner of the van, her arms curled around her knees. Damien never took his gaze from her as he was helped into his seat.
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At an event in Dublin this week, a vision of the future was presented for the logistics and supply chain sectors.
These are industries which, despite the constant chatter about optimisation, streamlining and technology, remain bloated and inefficient.
It's estimated that there are one million free slots on container ships around the world. This is the situation, as GTR reported in its latest cover story, before the world's biggest container ships come online in 2017.
With the internet of things, big data, digitisation and the use of artificial intelligence, however, some companies are predicting a transformation, with others able to demonstrate how they are already using these practices to make their businesses work better.
The internet of things (IoT) involves the connectivity of devices: using smart technology to heat your home, to boil your kettle or to secure your office.
In the trade finance business, we have seen very recently how the implementation of smart contracts can help reduce transaction times. In the complex world of supply chains, such technology can be much more wide-reaching if it's used properly, and so the evangelism at the IoT summit in Ireland was understandable, if a little premature.
Lasse Eriksson, vice-president of digitisation at Finnish company Cargotec, said that in the cargo trade, using smart devices to monitor and control vessel fuel consumption, to conduct requisite maintenance and repairs and to manage and co-ordinate the fleet correctly could save US$350,000 per vessel per year. With more than 90,000 ships currently sailing the world, that is a colossal US$32bn industry saving each year.
In the container industry, the savings could amount to US$17bn. Poor stowage plans means ships are not filled to maximum capacity (although with global trade figures nosediving, it's questionable whether they would be full with even the smartest technology). Poor communication between ocean carriers and port terminals lead to congestion at terminal entrances. 20% of all containers booked simply don't show up at the port.
Using smart technology to gather and analyse data, many of these issues can be worked through.
"One benefit is you don't have big surprises coming up, if something is not what it's supposed to be," Eriksson explains to GTR. "Currently a lot of the information chain goes through email or Excel. That causes a lot of hassle in the supply chain. At least, with this technology, you're aware of these matters and you can prepare better for them."
The IoT is voguish: another buzzword in the zeitgeist-heavy world of fintech (case in point). But it has, in various forms (machine-to-machine, the internet of everything), been around for decades, through the automation and robotification of factories, production lines, and also in the cargo industry.
Cargotec, for instance, has for a decade operated automated shuttle carriers which pick up containers at the quay, before bringing them to the yard where a fully-automated crane lifts them into place. "It will be nice to compare them to Google's cars," Eriksson says.
Maersk Line, the world's largest shipping company, has been working on an IoT solution since 2010: a refrigerated container (or reefer) fleet that as of 2015, is fully networked.
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When the images from SundayÆs MTV Video Music Awards began spreading around the Internet, I didnÆt know what to think.
My first question: WhoÆs the lizard girl, and why is she trying to mate with that man in the striped clown outfit?
Miley Cyrus wanted our attention, and she got it. IÆm just not sure whether she thought weÆd all watch her twerk, wag her tongue, make ōI just sniffed a pile of methö faces, and bump and grind with singer Robin Thicke and/or giant teddy bears on stage, and say to ourselves, ōWhoa, Miley Cyrus sure is a grown-up performer now.ö
I can, however, figure out what the suits at MTV were thinking: ōThis is awesome. We have the go-to awards show that people are guaranteed to watch every year, because some foolish, attention-addicted celebrity high on their own media coverage will do something stupid and outrageous and deliver us huge ratings.ö
Maybe Cyrus wanted to join Gene Simmons, Michael Jordan, Lassie and Spinal Tap in the Tongue-Wagging Hall of Fame. I canÆt think of any other explanation.
While I was digesting the various opinions around the Internet I kept trying to get a handle on CyrusÆ berserk routine (and, also, on how Thicke broke into QueenÆs warehouse and stole one of Freddie MercuryÆs outfits). I wasnÆt the only one. Did you see the looks on the celebs in the crowd? When youÆre doing something so freakish and tasteless that Rihanna is making faces like she just discovered someone put toenail clippings in her drink, you know something weird is happening.
But the thing that sticks in my mind were the ones who were defending Cyrus, such as Justin Timberlake, who said that people should expect outrageousness at the VMAs and shouldnÆt be upset merely because a young woman was expressing her sexuality.
Right. Rihanna would find such behavior appalling.
Actually, what we witnessed Sunday night was a young woman not expressing her newfound sexuality, but a willingness to do just about anything to get our attention.
Mission accomplished, I guess.
If anything, Cyrus was saying that silly, sexually provocative (but not really) behavior is what defines her these days. Those around her should find that troubling. Her decision to do whatever it was she did Sunday wasnÆt based on furthering herself as an entertainer or gaining new respect for a former Disney child star. It was bizarre, and hopefully, for her, not the night we some day all refer to as the beginning of the end.
IÆm fine with a young women exploring and expressing her sexuality (as long as she isnÆt one of my daughters). However, the best female entertainers over the years have been able to do so in a manner that meant something.
Madonna did it with creative and clever songs and videos that actually had points, as controversial as they were. Beyoncķ wears some outrageously revealing outfits, but she sings and dances like no one else and never loses sight of the fact that sheÆs in control Ś which itself is a terribly sexy thing. Even Rihanna, as troubling as some of her antics can be, never lets you forget sheÆs a singer and an entertainer.
Are they good examples for kids? ThatÆs a question for which parents could give dozens of varied answers. But it can be argued that Madonna, Beyoncķ and Rihanna each had or have a plan for furthering their career. At least those entertainers stay in the limelight while not tarnishing their careers too much while doing it.
Cyrus acting like someone spiked her mineral water with amphetamines isnÆt sexy, not does it contribute to her career in any meaningful or interesting way. We get it Ś she doesnÆt want to be associated with Disney anymore. She wants an new adult image, which is ironic, considering how goofy she acted.
Something is getting lost in translation. If Cyrus wants to do something different, she should go act in a serious movie. Record real music that stands mostly on its own merits, as opposed to garnering headlines for raunchy videos and drug references. SundayÆs performance was not delivered by a woman other women, or anyone else, should take seriously.
The scary thought is that once the attention from the VMAs wears off, and it wil, what will she resort to next? SheÆd better think of something better than what sheÆs shown us so far.
Otherwise, her grown-up career will be over before it really got started.


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This is the (long overdue) third part of a series on creating bindings to C libraries for the D programming language.
In part one, I introduced the difference between dynamic and static bindings and some of the things to consider when choosing which kind to implement. In part two, I talked about the different linkage attributes to be aware of when declaring external C functions in D. Here in part three, I'm going to begin discussing how to translate C type declarations into D. I'll continue the discussion in part four.
First off, I want to mention a particular page over at dlang.org called Converting C .h Files to D Modules. This is required reading for anyone planning to work on a D binding to a C library. This series should be considered a companion to that page.
Dealing With Types
When translating C types to D, the large majority take only a handful of forms:
* typedefs
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* function parameters
All of the translation guidelines discussed in this post cover all four situations, but there are special cases regarding function parameters that will be covered in part five when I talk about function declarations. It's also possible to find global variable declarations in a C header. But, in my experience, they aren't generally encountered when creating library bindings.
Typedefs, Aliases, and Native Types
D used to have typedefs. And they were strict in that they actually created a new type. Given an int typdefed to a Foo, a type Foo would actually be created rather than it being just another name for int. But D also has alias, which doesn't create a new type but just makes a new name for an existing type. In D2, typedef was deprecated. Now we are left with alias.
alias is what should be used in D when a typedef is encountered in C, excluding struct declarations (more on that in part four). Most C headers have a number of typedefs that create alternative names for native types. For example, you might see something like this in a C header.
typedef int foo_t; typedef float bar_t;
In a D binding, it's typically a very good idea to preserve the original typenames. The D interface should match the C interface as closely as possible. That way, existing C code from examples or other projects can be easily ported to D. So the first thing to consider is how to translate the native types int and long into D.
Fortunately, on the dlang page I mentioned above, there is a table that lists how all the C native types translate to D. If you look it up, you'll see that an int is an int, a float is a float, and so on. So to port the two declarations above, simply replace typedef with alias and all is well.
alias int foo_t; alias float bar_t;
One thing I'd like to point out about that table, though. It lists the D int as equivalent to the C long. In most cases, this is true. But there is a possibility that the C long type could actually be 64-bits on some platforms, whereas D's int type is always 32-bits and D's long type is always 64-bits. As a measure of protection against this possible snafu, it's prudent to use a couple of handy aliases on the D side that are declared in core.stdc.config: c_long and c_ulong.
// In the C header typedef long mylong_t; typedef unsigned long myulong_t; // In the D module import core.stdc.config; // Although the import above is private to the module, the aliases are public // and visible outside of the module. alias c_long mylong_t; alias c_ulong myulong_t;
One more thing. If you are translating typedefs that use types from C's stdint.h, you have two options for the aliases. You can use native D types, since the sizes are fixed, or you can include core.stdc.stdint, which mirrors the C header, and just replace typedef with alias. For example, here are some types from SDL2 translated into D.
// From SDL_stdinc.h typedef int8_t Sint8; typedef uint8_t Uint8; typedef int16_t Sint16; typedef uint16_t Uint16; ... // In D, without core.stdc.stdint alias byte Sint8; alias ubyte Uint8; alias short Sint16; alias ushort Uint16; ... // And with the import import core.stdc.stdint; alias int8_t Sint8; alias uint8_t Uint8; alias int16_t Sint16; alias uint16_t Uint16; ...
Translating anonymous enums from C to D requires nothing more than a copy/paste.
// In C enum { ME_FOO, ME_BAR, ME_BAZ }; // In D enum { ME_FOO, ME_BAR, ME_BAZ, }
Note that enums in D do not require a final semicolon. Also, the last member may be followed by a comma.
For named enums, you may want to do just a bit more than a direct copy/paste. Named enums in D require the name be prefixed when accessing members. Example:
// In C typedef enum { ME_FOO, ME_BAR, ME_BAZ } MyEnum; // In D enum MyEnum { ME_FOO, ME_BAR, ME_BAZ } // In some function... MyEnum me = MyEnum.ME_FOO;
There's nothing wrong with this in and of itself. In fact, there is a benefit in that it gives you some type safety. For example, if a function takes a parameter of type MyEnum, you can't just pass any old int in its place. The compiler will complain that int is not implicitly convertible to MyEnum. That may be acceptable for an internal project, but for a publicly available binding it is bound to cause confusion because it breaks compatibility with existing code samples. One work around that maintains type safety is the following.
alias MyEnum.ME_FOO ME_FOO; alias MyEnum.ME_BAR ME_BAR; alias MyEnum.ME_BAZ ME_BAZ; // Now this works MyEnum me = ME_FOO;
It's obvious how tedious this could become for large enums. If type safety is not important, there's one more workaround.
alias int MyEnum; enum { ME_FOO, ME_BAR, ME_BAZ }
This will behave exactly as the C version.
Often in C, #define is used to declare constant values. OpenGL uses this approach to declare values that are intended to be interpreted as the type GLenum. Though these values could be translated to D using the immutable type modifier, there is a better way.
D's enum keyword is used to denote traditional enums and also manifest constants. In D, a manifest constant is an enum that has only one member, in which case you can omit the braces in the declaration. Here's an example:
// This is a manifest constant of type float enum float Foo = 1.003f; // We can declare the same thing using auto inference enum Foo = 1.003f; // float enum Bar = 1.003; // double enum Baz = "Baz!" // string
For single #defined values in C, these manifest constants work like a charm. But often, such values are logically grouped according to function. Given that a manifest constant is essentially the same as a one-member enum, it follows that we can group several #defined C values into a single, anonymous D enum.
// On the C side. #define FOO_SOME_NUMBER 100 #define FOO_A_RELATED_NUMBER 200 #define FOO_ANOTHER_RELATED_NUMBER 201 // On the D side enum FOO_SOME_NUMBER = 100 enum FOO_A_RELATED_NUMBER = 200 enum FOO_ANOTHER_NUMBER = 201 // Or, alternatively enum { FOO_SOME_NUMBER = 100, FOO_A_RELATED_NUMBER = 200, FOO_ANOTHER_NUMBER = 201, }
Personally, I tend to use the latter approach if there are more than two or three related #defines, and the former if it's only one or two values.
But let's get back to the manifest constants I used in the example up above. I had a float, a double and a string. What if there are multiple #defined strings? Do you have to declare a seperate manifest constant for each one? No, not if you don't want to. D's enums can be typed to any existing type. Even structs.
// In C #define LIBNAME "Some Awesome C Library" #define AUTHOR "John Foo" #define COMPANY "FooBar Studios" // In D, collect all the values into one enum declaration of type string enum : string { LIBNAME = "Some Awesome C Library", AUTHOR = "John Foo", COMPANY = "FooBar Studios", }
Neat, eh? Again, note the trailing comma on the last enum field. I tend to always include these in case a later version of the C library adds a new value that I need to tack on at the end. A minor convenience.
More to Come
I think that's about enough for this session. In part four, we'll take a look at structs. There are a couple of pitfalls to be aware of when porting them over to D and I'll give you some advice to get around them.


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I have a problem in my knitting that I've never noticed when doing projects with small knitting needles, but it's somewhat obvious when I'm doing projects with larger needles (I'm working with size 13s right now for an afghan): my knits and my purls aren't even.
For example: When working stockinette stitch, I will knit the row on the right side, then I purl the wrong side of the work. However, after doing two rows of stitches (one was knit, one was purl) one row of stitches looks larger (probably looser) than the other row. Once again, I think this problem looks exaggerated when I'm using the larger needles, because it's never been a problem before. I've tried increasing the tension on the loose rows and trying to loosen the tighter rows, but I can still see that there's unevenness in my stitching.
Any suggestions?
This happens to a lot of us; mine are uneven sometimes, and okay other times... onthe same size needle. It's usually because of how the purl stitch is wrapped - it can be looser. If it's really obvious, you could use an 11 for the purl row and see if that helps.
Many people tend to purl more loosely than they knit, or vice versa. So you could try going down a needle size for either the knit or purl row, depending on which one's looser.
Thanks for the super quick reply! I'll use the different size needles when I need to, but I'm going to keep working on making my stitches a little more precise.
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It's called rowing out, search for more info, using a different needle size often does help, can be done on interchangeables too!Sarah