2006 Refereed conferences

S. Acharya, J. Wang, Z. Ge, T. F. Znati, and A. Greenberg, “Simulation Study of Firewalls to Aid Improved Performance,” Annual Simulation Symposium, pp.18-26, Huntsville, AL, April 2006.

S. Acharya, J. Wang, Z. Ge, T. F. Znati, and A. Greenberg, “Traffic-Aware Firewall Optimization Strategies”, ICC’06, pp. 2225-2230,  Istanbul, Turkey,  June 2006.

H. Ai and D.J. Litman, “Comparing Real-Real, Simulated-Simulated, and Simulated-Real Spoken Dialogue Corpora,” Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Statistical and Empirical Approaches for Spoken Dialogue Systems, pp. 1-6, Boston, MA, 2006.

H. Ai, D.J. Litman, K. Forbes-Riley, M. Rotaru, J. Tetreault, and A. Purandare, “Using System and User Performance Features to Improve Emotion Detection in Spoken Tutoring Dialogs,” Proceedings of Interspeech ICSLP,  Paper 1682-Tue1A30.2, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006.

M. Aly, K. Pruhs, and P.K. Chrysanthis, “KDDCS: A Load-balanced in-network Data-centric
Storage Scheme for Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'06), pp. 317-326, Arlington, VA, November 2006.

M. Aly, P. K. Chrysanthis, and K. Pruhs, “Decomposing Data-Centric Storage Query Hot-spots in Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services (MOBIQUITOUS'06), pp. 1-9, San Jose, CA,  July 2006.

J. Beaver, P. K. Chrysanthis and K. Pruhs. “To Broadcast Push or Not and What?,” Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, pp. 40-48, Nara, Japan, May 2006.

A. Berfield, P.K. Chrysanthis, and A. Labrinidis, “Efficient Handling of Sensor Failures,” Proceedings  of the 3rd International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN'06), pp. 33-44, Seoul, Korea, September 2006 (held in conjunction with the VLDB 2006 Conference).

A. Berfield and D. Mossé, “Efficient Scheduling for Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Advances in Sensor Networks (IWASN 2006), San Jose, California, July 2006.

W. Chapman,  J. Dowling, G. F. Cooper, M. Hauskrecht,  and M. Valko, “Comparison of Chief Complaints and Emergency Department Reports for Identifying Patients with Acute Lower Respiratory Syndrome,” Proceedings of the National Syndromic Surveillance Conference,  Vol. 2, Baltimore, Maryland,
October 2006.

D. M. Chiarulli, S P. Levitan, S. J. Dickerson, J. Bakos, J. Martin, “Efficient Optical Communications Using Multi-Bit Differential Signaling,” SPIE Symposium on Optoelectronics, Photonics West: Photonics Packaging and Integration VIII, Paper No. 6126-16, San Jose, CA, January 2006.

S. Cho and L. Jin, “Managing Distributed, Shared L2 Caches through OS-Level Page Allocation,” Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), pp. 455-465, Orlando, Fl, December 2006.

Z. Ding, R. Hoare, A. Jones and R. Melhem, “Level-Wise Scheduling Algorithm for Fat Tree Interconnection Networks”, Proceedings of Supercomputing’06 (SC06),  Paper 7695-2700, Tampa, Fl, November  2006.

J. Edmonds and K. Pruhs, “Balanced Allocations of Cake,” FOCS 2006, pp. 623-634, Berkeley, Ca, October 2006.

M. Elhaddad, R. Melhem and T. Znati, “Supporting Loss Guarantees in Buffer-Limited Networks,” Proceedings of the International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS),  pp. 239-250, New Haven, CT, June 2006.

K. Forbes-Riley and D.J. Litman, “Modeling User Satisfaction and Student Learning in a Spoken Dialogue Tutoring System with Generic, Tutoring, and User Affect Parameters,” Proceedings Human Language Technology Conference/North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting (HLT-NAACL), pp. 264-171, New York, NY, June 2006.
 
K. Forbes-Riley, D.J. Litman, S. Silliman, and J. Tetreault., “Comparing Synthesized versus Pre-recorded Tutor Speech in an Intelligent Tutoring Spoken Dialogue System,” Proceedings 19th International FLAIRS (Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society) Conference, Melbourne Beach, Florida, May 2006.

L. Gao, J. Yang, M. Chrobak, Y. Zhang, S. Nguyen, H.H. Lee, “ A Low- Cost Memory Remapping Scheme for Address Bus Protection,” The 15th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilations Techniques, pp. 74-83, Seattle Washington, September 2006.

S. Gobriel, D. Mossé, and R. Melhem, “Mitigating the Flooding Waves Problem in Energy-Efficient Routing for MANETs,” The 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006), Section 6A, Lisboa, Portugal, July 2006.

S. Gobriel, S. Khattab, D. Mossé, J. Brustoloni and R. Melhem, “RideSharing: Fault Tolerant Aggregation in Sensor Networks Using Corrective Actions”, Proceedings of the Third Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON),  Section 17, Reston, VA, September 2006.

A. Gopalan and T. Znati, “PeerNet: A Peer-to-Peer Framework for Service and Application Deployment in MANETs,” IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC), Phuket, Thailand, January 2006.

R. Hwa, C. Nichols, K. Sima'an, “Corpus Variations for Translation Lexicon Induction,” Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, pp.74-81, Cambridge, Mass, 2006.

M. Hauskrecht, and B. Kveton,  “Approximate Linear Programming for Solving Hybrid Factored MDPs,” Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, January 2006.

J.D. Hiser, D. Williams, A. Filipi, J.W. Davidson, and B. Childers, “Evaluating Fragment Creation Policies for SDT Systems,” 2nd International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, pp.122-132,  Ottawa, Canada, June 2006.

Y. Huang, B. Childers, and M.L. Soffa, “Catching and Identifying Bugs in Register Allocation,” 13th International Static Analysis Symposium, Seoul, Korea, August 2006.

L. Jin and S. Cho, “A Characterization Study on Memory Value Reuse,” Proceedings of the Workshop on Memory Performance Issues (WMPI) during the IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Austin, Texas, February 2006.

L. Jin and S. Cho, “Reducing Cache Traffic and Energy with Macro Data Load,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), pp. 147-150, Tegernsee, Germany, October 2006.

L. Jin, H. Lee, and S. Cho, “Flexible Page-Level Data Mapping to Cache Slices in Multicore Processors,” Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Memory Systems Performance and Correctness (MSPC), during the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), pp. 92-101, San Jose, California, October 2006.

L. Jin, W. Wu, J. Yang, C. Zhang and Y. Zhang, “Reduce Register Files Leakage Through Discharging Cells,” Section 3.1,  IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, San Jose, California, October 2006.

P. Jordan, M. Makatchev, U. Pappuswamy, K. VanLehn and P. Albacete, “A Natural Language Tutorial Dialogue System for Physics,” G. Sutcliffe & R. Goebel (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International FLAIRS Conference, pp. 521-526, AAAI Press,  Menlo Park, California,  May 2006.

J. Brustoloni, S. Khattab, C. Satamaria, B. Smyth, and D. Mossé, “Integrated Scheduling of Application- and Network-Layer Tasks in Delay-Tolerant MANETs,” IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2006), Section WSN 12-5,  San Francisco, California, November 2006.

S. Khattab, D. Mossé and R. Melhem, “Honeybees: Combining Replication and Evasion for Mitigating Base-station Jamming in Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the 14th Int. Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-time Systems (WPDRTS), CD Rom 1639411,  Rhodes Island, Greece April 2006.

S. Khattab, R. Melhem, D. Mossé and T. Znati, “Honeypot Back-propagation for Mitigating Spoofing Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks,” Proceedings of the 2nd International, Workshop on Security in Systems and Networks (SSN), pp. 25-29,  Rhodes Island, Greece , April 2006.

R. Kumar, C.P. Rose, and D.J. Litman, “Identification of Confusion and Surprise in Spoken Dialog using Prosodic Features,” Proceedings International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2006), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,  September 2006.

B. Kveton and M. Hauskrecht, “Learning Basis Functions in Hybrid Domains,” Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on AI (AAAI-06), pp. 1161-1166, Boston, Mass, July 2006.

B. Kveton and M. Hauskrecht, “Solving Factored MDPs with Exponential-Family Transition Models,”Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Planning and Scheduling, pp. 114-120, Cumbria, UK, June 2006.

A. Labrinidis, H. Qu, and J. Xu, “Quality Contracts for Real-Time Enterprises,” Proceedings of First
International Workshop on Business Intelligence for the Real Time Enterprise (BIRTE'06) 2006, held in
conjunction with the VLDB 2006 Conference, Seoul, Korea, September 2006.

W. Li, Y. Zhang, and J. Yang, “Dynamic Authentication-Key Re-assignment for Reliable Report Delivery,”
IEEE 3rd International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, Vancouver, Canada, October 2006.

WH. Lin, T. Wilson, J. Wiebe and A. Hauptmann, “Which Side are you on? Identifying Perspectives at the Document and Sentence Levels,” CoNLL-2006.

M. Makatchev, K. VanLehn, P.W. Jordan, and U. Pappuswamy,  “Representation and Reasoning for Deeper Natural Language Understanding in a Physics Tutoring System,” G. Sutcliffe & R. Goebel (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International FLAIRS Conference, AAI  Press, Menlo Park, CA,  May, 2006.

D. Mossé, L. Comfort, A. Amer, J. Brustoloni, P. K. Chrysanthis, M. Hauskrecht, A. Labrinidis, R. Melhem,  and K. Pruhs, “Secure-CITI Critical Information-Technology Infrastructure,” 7th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (DG.O 2006), pp. 253-254,  San Diego, CA, May 2006.

C. Murray and K. VanLehn, “A Comparison of Decision-theoretic, Fixed-policy and Random Tutorial Action Selection,” K. Ashley & M. Ikeda (Eds.), Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 8th International Conference, (ITS2006), pp. 114-123, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2006.

P. Neophytou, A. Labrinidis, and P.K. Chrysanthis, “WhiteBoard P2P: A Peer-to-Peer Reliable Data Dissemination Infrastructure for Collaborative Applications,” International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Computing: Theory and Applications 2006 (ISYC '06), pp. 317-326, Ayia Napa, Cyprus,
July 2006.

G. Nicholas, M. Rotaru, and D. J. Litman, “Exploiting Word-level Features for Emotion Prediction,” Proceedings of IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), Palm Beach, Aruba, December 2006.

M. Okuda and T. Znati, “Virtual Theater Network: Enabling Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Streaming Service,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS’06), pp. 21-32, Grand Canyon, USA, August 2006.

C. Papadakis, P. Fragopoulou, E. Athanasopoulos, M. Dikaiakos, A. Labrinidis, and E. Markatos, “A Feedback Based Approach to Reduce Duplicate Messages in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems,” Proceedings  of 2nd CoreGRID Workshop on GRID and Peer to Peer Systems Architecture (CoreGRID'06), Paris, France, January 2006.

M. Pilla, B. Childers, P. Navaux, F. Franca, and Amarildo da Costa, “A Speculative Trace Reuse Architecture with Reduced Hardware Requirements,” IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD), Oureto, Brazil, October 2006.

A. Purandare and D.J. Litman, “Humor: Prosody Analysis and Automatic Recognition for FRIENDS,” Proceedings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Sydney, Australia, 2006.

H. Qu, A. Labrinidis, and D. Mossé, “UNIT: User-centric Transaction Management in Web-Database Systems,” Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'06), Atlanta, GA, April 2006.

E. Riloff, S. Patwardhan and J Wiebe, “Feature Subsumption for Opinion Analysis,” Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2006).

M. Ringenberg, and K. VanLehn, “Scaffolding Problem Solving with Annotated, Worked-out Examples to Promote Deep Learning,” K. Ashley & M. Ikeda (Eds.), Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 8th International Conference,(ITS2006), pp. 625-634, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2006.

M. Rotaru and D.J. Litman, “Dependencies between Student State and Speech Recognition Problems in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues,” Proceedings Joint Conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (Coling/ACL), Sydney, Australia, 2006.

M. Rotaru and D. J. Litman, “Discourse Structure and Speech Recognition Problems,” Proceedings of Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006.

M. Rotaru and D.J. Litman, “Exploiting Discourse Structure for Spoken Dialogue Performance Analysis,” Proceedings Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Sydney, Australia, 2006.

C. Rusu, A. Ferreira, C. Scordino, A. Watson, R. Melhem and D. Mossé, “Energy-Efficient Real-Time Heterogeneous Server Clusters,” Proceedings of the Real-time Application Symposium (RTAS), San Jose, CA , April 2006.

J.P. Rybczynski, D. E. Long and A. Amer. “Adapting Predictions and Workloads for Power Management,” Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS 2006), Monterey, CA, USA: IEEE, pp.3-12, September 2006.

C. Sangpachatanaruk, T. Znati, “A Community-Based, Agent-Driven, P2P Overlay Architecture for Personalized Web,” APWeb 2006: 616-627, 2006.

S. Shao, A. Jones and R. Melhem, “A Compiler-based Communication Analysis Approach for Multiprocessor Systems,”  Proceedings of the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Rhodes Island, Greece,  April 2006.

M. Sharaf, P.K. Chrysanthis, A. Labrinidis, and K. Pruhs, “Efficient Scheduling of Heterogeneous Continuous Queries,” Proceedings of the 32nd Very Large Databases Conference (VLDB'06), pp. 511-522, Seoul, Korea, September 2006.

W. Shi, J. B. Fryman, G. Gu, H. S. Lee, Y. Zhang, and J. Yang, “InfoShield: A Security Architecture for Protecting Information Usage in Memory,” IEEE12th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, pp. 225-234, Austin, TX, February 2006.

T. Singliar and M. Hauskrecht, “Towards a Learning Traffic Incident Detection System,” ICML 2006 Workshop on Machine Learning Algorithms for Surveillance and Event Detection, Pittsburgh, PA,
June 2006.

S. Somasundaran, J. Wiebe, P. Hoffmann and D.J. Litman, “Manual Annotation of Opinion Categories in Meetings,” Proceedings of the ACL/Coling Workshop on Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora, Sydney, Australia, 2006.

J. Tetreault and D.J. Litman, “Using Reinforcement Learning to Build a Better Model of Dialogue State,” Proceedings 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Trento, Italy, 2006.

J.R. Tetreault and D. J. Litman, “Comparing the Utility of State Features in Spoken Dialogue Using Reinforcement Learning,” Proceedings Human Language Technology Conference/North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting (HLT-NAACL), New York, NY, 2006.

R. Villamarín-Salomón, J. Brustoloni, M. DeSantis and A. Brooks, “Improving User Decisions about Opening Potentially Dangerous Attachments in Email Clients,” Extended Abstract, Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security , Carnegie Mellon/CyLab/ACM, July 12-14, 2006.

A.Ward and D.J. Litman, “Cohesion and Learning in a Tutorial Spoken Dialog System,” Proceeding 19th International FLAIRS (Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society) Conference, Melbourne Beach, FL, May 2006.

J. Wiebe and R. Mihalcea, “Word Sense and Subjectivity” Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2006), pp. 1065-1072, Sydney, Australia,
July 2006.

P. Xia, P. K. Chrysanthis, and A. Labrinidis, “Similarity-Aware Query Processing in Sensor Networks,” Proc. of the 14th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS'06), pp. 1-8, Rhodes, Greece, April 2006.

J. Xu and A. Labrinidis, “Replication-Aware Query Processing in Large-Scale Distributed Information Systems,” Proceedings of the 9th International ACM Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB'06), held in conjunction with the SIGMOD 2006 Conference, Chicago, IL, June 2006,.

Y. Zhang, J. Yang, and L. Gao, “Efficient Group Key Management with Tamper-resistant ISA Extensions, IEEE 17th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, pp. 269-274, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, September 2006.

Y. Zhang, J. Yang, and H. T. Vu, “The Interleaved Authentication for Filtering False Reports in Multipath Routing-based Sensor Networks,” IEEE 20th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Rhodes Island, Greece, April 2006.

T. Znati, J. Amadei, D. R. Pazehoski, and S. Sweeny, “Design and Analysis of an Adaptive, Global Strategy for Detecting and Mitigating Distributed DoS Attacks in GRID Environments,” Annual Simulation Symposium,   pp.2-9, Huntsville, AL, April 2006.