SYMPOSIUM
ON APPLIED COMPUTING
(SAC95)
Opryland
Hotel Nashville, Tennessee
February
26 - February 28, 1995
SAC 9195
PRE-SYMPOSIUM TUTORIALS SUNDAY,
FEBRUARY 26 1:30PM - 5:00 PM
TUTORIAL
#1: COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
IN MEDICAL AND
TECHNICAL APPLICATIONS -
CONDITIONS AND
METHODS
Johnson
Room: Presenters: Madjid
Fathi-Torbaghan and
Christopher
Tresp, The Computational Intelligence Group,
The University
of Dortmund
Abstract: This tutorial will yield a principal insight
into the
possibilities
for the use of Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems and
Evolutionary
Algorithms in the context of medical
and
technical
applications.
One important
aspect will be the basic assumption for medical
applications
which is given by the doctors acceptance and the
safeness of the
used method.
According to
this the aspect is further given by the different
methods, which
will fit the task of the high uncertainty field of
medicine. So it
is necessary to use sophisticated methods for
development and
optimization of medical systems.
Some topics are:
- ECG/EEG diagnosis
- cerebral tumor analysis
- pattern recognition on MR-Tomograms
The other aspect
is given by the field of mechanical
engineering. The
main interest in this tutorial lays in the
optimization of
fuzzy sets with Evolution Strategies.
Additional topics are:
- material design
- spotwelding
TUTORIAL
#2: PARALLEL DATABASE SYSTEMS
ENGINEERING
Polk Room: Presenter: Dr. Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese
University of
Hong Kong
Abstract: Today, very large databases may easily involve
over tera-bytes
of data. This
trend shows no sign of
diminishing.
Albeit the advancements in
processor technology,
handling
such large volume of information is
becoming
increasingly
difficult for conventional database management
systems which
run on sequential computers. To overcome this
predicament, a
number of research projects are investigating the
use of parallel
computers. The inherent parallelisms behind
its data model
(e.g. relational) render database suitable
for
parallel implementation. In this tutorial, the concept of
parallel
database systems (PDS)
which is based
on the
extended dataflow
computation model will be
presented. In
addition, few
engineering issues regarding to the
implemen-
tation of the
model will be reviewed.
TUTORIAL #3: THE WORLD WIDE WEB
Jackson
Room: Presenter: Robert Inder, The University of
Edinburgh
Abstract: The World Wide Web (WWW) is the fastest-
growing use of
the Internet---its so-called "killer application".
This tutorial is
aimed at those who want to know what lies
behind all this
excitement. The WWW is said to make it
simple both to
publish and to fetch multi-media material over
the
Internet. This tutorial will give attendees
an overview of
what the WWW is,
what it can actually do and what will be
involved in
starting to make use of it.
The tutorial
will start from the basics of explaining terms like
browser, server,
HTML, crawlers and meta-indexes, and finish
with giving an
overview of how to write documents, to
configure a WWW
site, and the basics of doing more than just
distributing
static documents.
By the end of
the tutorial, attendees will have a clear idea of
what is involved
in using the Web, and where they can find the
software and
detailed technical information that they need.
TUTORIAL
#4: OBJECT ORIENTED
PROGRAMMING
USING ADA9X
Shiloh
Room: Presenter: Brad Balfour, Caci, Inc.
Sponsored by ACM
SIGAda
Abstract: This tutorial will introduce experienced Ada
'83
programmers to
the basics of object oriented
programming as
OOP has been
implemented in the Ada 9X language.
Basic OOP
concepts, techniques, issues, and idioms will be
covered and the
use of Ada 9X to implement them would be
explored. The emphasis in this tutorial would be on
the
presentation and
discussion of complete, working
examples.
Concepts would
be introduced, small examples given,
idioms
developed, and then rolled into complete, compilable
examples.
All examples will have been compiled on
one or
more Ada 9X test
compilers. Additionally, the tutorial
will
examine the
interaction of OOP features with other
parts of the
language such as
hierarchical library units and protected
types.
The tutorial
attempts to present a balanced treatment between
Ada 9X
specific language issues and general
OOP concepts.
The tutorial
will attempt to survey many important issues and
not to explore
any one in too much depth. Although the tutorial
will stress the
Ada 9X implementation of OOP concepts, there
will be some
comparison to other OOP languages as well.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY
27
OPENING
CEREMONIES - ROBERTSON ABC
8:30 AM - 9:00
AM
Conference
Welcome and Awards
Jim Hightower,
California State University, Fullerton,
Conference
Chair
9:00 AM -
10:00AM
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
CYBER-SURFING: the State-of-the-Art in
Client Server
Browsing and Navigators
Hal Berghel, The
University of Arkansas
(Program
Director,ACM Technology Outreach Program)
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COFFEE BREAK
10:00 - 10:30
GOVERNORS LOBBY
______________________________________________
TECHNICAL
SESSIONS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY
27
10:30AM -
12:00PM
EDUCATION
APPLICATIONS -Room: Cleveland
Chair: Jim
Hightower, California State University, Fullerton
Collaborative
and Multimedia Interactive Learning
Environment for
Engineering Education
Mark Gudzial, Noel Rappin, David Carson,
Georgia Institute of Technology
:) When You
Grade That: Using E-mail and the
Network in
Programming
Courses
David Arnow, Brooklyn College of CUNY
SCAD: A Computer
Generated Simulation for Audit
Instruction
Jon M Andrus, California State University,
Fullerton
Marcia S. Niles, University of Idaho
Scripting of
Event Driven Programs For Graphical, Computer
Based
Laboratories
Donald A. Garrett, Michael B., Barry L.
Kurtz,
Louisiana Tech University
SCIENTIFIC
COMPUTING - Room: Sylvan
Chair: Mahir
Ali, University of North Dakota
RayTracing as a
Tool for Visualization of Pathogen Spread in
Natural Forest
Stands
J.A. Hoskins, W.D. Hoskins, University of
Manitoba
Query Execution
in Prism and Seaview: A Cost Analysis
Brajendra Panda, Alabama A&M University
William Perrizo, North Dakota State University
Domain Vector
Hashing for Earth System Data Querying
William Perrizo, Venkata Nagarjuna Rao
Goli,
North Dakota State University
EIS: A
Network-Accessible Repository for Ecosystem
Modelers and
Managers
R. Ford, R. Righter, T. Duce, V. Hemige, D.
Thompson, University of Montana
PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGES
COMPILING
TECHNIQUES - Room: Ashwood
Chair: Barrett
Bryant, University of Alabama-Birmingham
Control Flow
Analysis: a Functional Languages Compilation
Paradigm
Manuel Serrano, INRIA
Achieving
Efficient Register Allocation via Parallelism
Christine Makowski, Lori L. Pollock,
University of
Delaware
Combining
Structural and Procedural Programming by
Parallelizing
Compilation
Reiner W. Hartenstein, Karin Schmidt,
University
of Daiserslautem
PARALLEL AND
DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS
Room: Clifton
Chair: Roger
Wainwright, University of Tulsa
Multicriteria
Vehicle Route-Planning Using Parallel A* Search
Michael Gudaitis, Gary Lamont, Andrew
Terzuoli,
Air Force Institute of Technology
Load Balancing
in a Distributed Processsing System for High-
Energy Physics
Jagadeesh Kasaraneni, Theodore Johnson,
Paul
Avery, University of Florida
Optimal
Hypercube Algorithms for Robot Configuration Space
Computation
Jing_Fu Jenq, Tennessee State University
Wing Ning Li, University of Arkansas
NEURO-FUZZY
MODELS FOR FUZZY
CLASSIFICATION - Room:
Mercer
Chair: Nadine
Tschichold-Guerman, ETH Zuerich
Cough Detection
Using Fuzzy Classification
Peter Stegmaier-Stracca, Nadine Tschichold-
Guerman, ETH Zuerich
A Sub-bayesian
Nearest Prototype Neural Network with Fuzzy
Interpretability
for Diagnosis Problems
Saman Halgamuge, Christoph Grimm, Manfred
Glesner, Damnstadt University of Technology
Fuzzy Input
Coding for an Artificial Neural Network
Hans-Heinrich Bothe, Technical University
Berlin
Fuzzy signals in
control loops
Rainier Palm, Siemens AG
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LUNCH BREAK 12:00PM - 1:30PM
(No Formal
Program)
__________________________________________
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TECHNICAL
SESSIONS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY
27
1:30PM - 3:00PM
EDUCATION
APPLICATIONS II -Room: Cleveland
Chair: Jim
Hightower, California State University, Fullerton
A Decision
Support System for Academic Advising
W. Scott Murray, Louis A. Le Blanc,
University of
Arkansas at Little Rock
Persistence in
Music Data Structures
L. E. Nugroho, James Cook University
A. S. M. Sajeev, Monash University
Using System
Dynamics to Model Courseware Development:
The Project
Dynamics of Complex Problem-solving
J. Michael Spector, USAF Armstrong
Laboratory
Learner-Controlled
Situation With Distance Education
Marie-Michele Boulet, University Laval
SCIENTIFIC
COMPUTING II - Room: Sylvan
Chair: G. E.
Hedrick, Oklahoma State University
Supporting
Heterogeneous Data Import for Data Visualization
R. Ford, R. Thompson, D. Thompson,
University
of Montana
Data Modeling of
Scientific Experimentation
J. Michael Pratt, Elmira College
Optimal
Initialization of Mixed-Layer Model Using the Adjoint
Technique
Rachel Fiedler, S. Lakshmivarahan, S.K.
Dhall,
University of Oklahoma
John M. Lewis, National Severe Storms
Laboratory, NOAA
CONCURRENCY IN
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Room: Ashwood
Chair: Hisham
Al-Haddad, Marshal University
Turning a
Functional Data Type into a Concurrent
Programming
Language
Enno Scholz, Freie Universitat Berlin
The Concurrent
Object-Oriented Language Braid
Matthew Huntbach, Queen Mary and Westfield
College, University of London
Modelling Distributed
Systems using Z
Howard Bowman, John Derrick, University of
Kent
PARALLEL AND
DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATION II
Room: Clifton
Chair: Huizhu
Lu, Oklahoma State University
Implementing a
System on a Shared Memory Parallel Processor
Robert Purdom, Acxiom Corp
Reverse
Engineering and Reengineering of a Large Serial
System into a
Distributed-Parallel Version
Kosmas Karadimitriou, John Tyler, N. E.
Brener,
Louisiana State University
Implementation
of Finger Trees in the Hypercube Architecture
A. Alfantookh, K. M. George, Oklahoma State
University
Hisham Al-Haddad, Marshall University
Conceptual Model
of Real-Time Systems: A Perspective
T. K. Sateesh, Open University
GENERATION AND
IMPLEMENTATION OF FUZZY
RULE BASED
SYSTEMS - Room: Mercer
Chair: Saman K.
Halgamuge, Darmstadt University of
Technology
NEFCLASS - A
Neuro-Fuzzy Approach for the Classification
of Data
D. Nauck, R. Kruse, Technical University of
Braunschweig
Generation and
Improvement of Fuzzy Classifiers with
Incremental
Learning Using Fuzzy RuleNet
N. Tschichold-Guerman, ETH Zurich
Intelligent
Hybrid Systems for Financial Decision Making
S. Goonatilake, University College London
Design of a VLSI
Very High Speed Reconfigurable Digital
Fuzzy Processor
E. Gandolfi, A. Gabrielli, M. Masetti, M.
Russo,
University of Bologna Via Imerio and National
Institute for Nuclear Physics (Italy)
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COFFEE BREAK
3:00 - 3:30 PM
GOVERNORS LOBBY
_______________________________________________
TECHNICAL
SESSIONS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY
27
3:30PM - 5:00PM
DATA BASE
APPLICATIONS - Room: Cleveland
Chair: Venkat N.
Gudivada, Ohio University
Performance
Analysis of A Periodic Data Reorganization
Algorithm for
Concurrent Blink-Trees in Database Systems
Ing-Ray Chen, National Cheng Kung
University
Salah Hassan, Mtel Technologies
SMR-Tree: An Efficient Index Structure for Spatial
Databases
Kap S. Bang, Huizhu Lu, Oklahoma State
University
Discrimination
Network for Rule Condition Matching in
Object-Oriented Database Rule Systems
Moez Chaabouni, Compuware Corporation
Soon M. Chung , Wright State University
An Efficient
Algorithm for Computing a Minimum Node
Cutset From a
Vertex-Disjoint Path Set for Timing
Optimization
Wing Ning Li, University of Arkansas
MEDICAL
APPLICATIONS - Room: Sylvan
Chair: Ed Lamie,
California State University, Stanislaus
An Expert System
for Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial
Infarction
Ana Regina Rocha, Kathia M. de Oliveira,
Vera
Werneck, Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro
Alvaro Rabelo Jr., A. D. de Souza, Antonio
A.
Ximenes, N. Lobo, Federal University of
Bahia
JoaoWerther C.S. Filho, Marcio Alirio,
Mario C.
Freitas, Fundacao Bahiana de Cardiologia
Automatic
Determination and Visualization of Relationships
Among Symptoms
for Building Medical Knowledge Bases
Gwang S. Jung, Jackson State University
Venkat N. Gudivada, Ohio University
Conformational
Statistics of Models for Serine-and Threonine-
Linked
Glycopeptides using Umbrella Sampling
Anthony J. Duben, Southeast Missouri State
University
Computer
Algorithm for Adaptive Extraction of Fetal Cardiac
Electrical
Signal
Donna M. Mooney, University of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences, Lynn J. Groome, Lynn S.
Bentz,
University of South Alabama, J. Doug
Wilson,
University of Arkansas-Little Rock
LOGIC
PROGRAMMING - Room: Ashwood
Chair: Barrett Bryant, University of
Alabama-Birmingham
The Power of
Partial Translation: an Experiment with the C-
ification of
Binary Prolog
Paul Tarau, Universite de Moncton
Bart Demoen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Koen De Bosschere, Universiteit Gent
Linear Logic
Behaviour of Term Graph Rewriting Programs
Richard Banach, University of Manchester
George A. Papadopoulos, University of
Cyprus
Search in
Concurrent Logic Languages
Matthew Huntbach, Queen Mary and Westfield
College, University of London
PARALLEL AND
DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATION III
Room: Clifton
Chair: Gary
Lamont, Air Force Institute of Technology
Embedding Tree
Structures in Massively Parallel Computers
J. Gaber, B. Toursel, G. Goncalves, T. Hsu
, Lillel
University of Science and Technology
Processing Sets
on a SIMD Machine
Alberto Baudino, Giancarlo Colla, Giuseppe
Marino, University of Genova Giancarlo
Succi,
University di Trento
The Use of
Parallelization in the Generation of Binary Linear
Codes
Roberta Sabin, Loyola College
A Scalable
Parallel Strassen's Matrix Multiplication Algorithm
for Distributed
Memory Computers
Qingshan Luo, Univ of the South
John B. Drake, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory
FUZZY
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Room: Mercer
Chair: G.
Bordogna, G.Pasi
New methods for
Relevance Feedback: improving Information
Retrieval
Performance
P.V. Biron, UCLA
D.H.Kraft, Louisiana State University
Quantified
statements in a flexible relational query language
P. Bosc, L. Lietard, O. Pivert,
IRISA/ENSSAT
A dynamical
model for reaching consensus in Group Decision
Making
Mario Fedrizzi, Michele Fedrizzi,
R.A.Marques
Pereira, A. Zorat, Universita di Trento
Fuzzy Databases
in a new Era
B.P. Buckles, F.E. Petry, Tulane University
Fuzzy behaviour
and relationships in a fuzzy OODB-model
N. Van Gyseghem and R. de Caluwe,
University of
Ghent
Pattern-based
retrieval in a Fuzzy Object Oriented Database
D. Lucarella, G. Bordogna, G. Pasi, ENEL
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TECHNICAL
SESSIONS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY
27
5:00PM - 6:00PM
FUZZY
APPLICATIONS I - Room:
Cleveland
Chair: Ali
Asgharzadeh, University of New Mexico
A Fuzzy Approach
to CO-Design System Partitioning
Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri,
Universita'
di Catania
Design of an
Adaptive Control system for DC Servo Monotor
F. Remy, M. Weck, Technical University of
Achen
Implementation
of Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks Control
Algorithm Using
a Digital Signal Processing Chip
Kishan Kumar Kumbla, Mohammad Jamshidi,
University of New Mexico
Jorge Benitez-Read, Centro Nuclear de
Mexico
Video Printing
and Fuzzy Control
Ali Asgharzadeh, Mohammad Jamshidi,
University of New Mexico
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RECEPTION/CASHBAR
6:00 PM -
7:00 PM
SEVIER AB
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TUESDAY FEBRUARY
28, 1995
________________________________
8:30AM - 9:00AM
CSC OPENING CEREMONIES
AND ACM STATE OF
THE ASSOCIATION
ADDRESS
JEFFERSON A
and B rooms
Stuart H.
Zweben, Ohio State University
(Presiden, ACM)
Frank L.
Friedman, Temple University
(Chair, ACM
Computing Week Steering Committee)
Robert E. Beck,
Villanova University
(Conference
Chari, CSC 9195)
Richard Brice,
MCC
(Program Chair,
CSC 9195)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
9:00AM - 10:00
AM
(Joint with CSC)