2008 Refereed Conferences

N. AbouGhazaleh, B. Childers, D. Mosse’, and R. Melhem, “Integrated CPU and Cache Power Management in Multiple Clock Domain Processors,” International Conference on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers, pp. 209-233, Goteborg, Sweden, January 2008.

H. Ai and D. Litman “Assessing Dialog System User Simulation Evalution Measures Using Human Judges,” Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pp. 622-629, Columbus, OH, June 2008.

J. Albrecht and R. Hwa, “The Role of Pseudo References in MT Evaluation,” Proceedings of the 3rd ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translations, Columbus, OH, June 2008.

J. Albrecht, R. Hwa, and G.E. Marai, “The Chinese Room - Understanding and Correcting Machine Translation,” IEEE Information Visualization-2008 Poster Compendium, Tucson, Arizona, Oct 2008.

P. Andreou, D. Zeinalipour-Yazti, P. Chrysanthis, and G. Samaras, “Workload-Aware Query Routing Trees in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. of the 9th Int’l Conference on Mobile Data Management, pp. 189-196, April 2008.

J. Baiocchi, B. Childers, J. Davidson, and J. Hiser, “Reducing Pressure in Bounded DBT Code Caches,” International Conference on Compilers, Architecture and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, pp. 109-118, Atlanta, Georgia , October 2008.

C. Banea, R. Mihalcea, J. Wiebe, and S. Hassan, “Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis Using Machine Translation,” pp. 127-135, EMNLP 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2008.

C. Banea, R. Mihalcea, and J. Wiebe, “A Bootstrapping Method for Building Subjectivity Lexicons for Languages with Scarce Resources,” LREC 2008, pp. 2764-2767, Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008.

N. Bansal, D. Bunde, H. Chan and K. Pruhs, “Average Rate Speed Scaling,” LATIN 2008, pp.240-251, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2008.

J. Brustoloni and D. Kyle, “Updates and Asynchronous Communication in Trusted Computing Systems,” Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Distributed Computer Systems, IEEE, pp. 194-205, Beijing, China, June 2008.

J. Brustoloni, R Villamarín-Salomón, P. Djalaliev and D. Kyle, “Evaluating the Usability of Usage Controls in Electronic Collaboration,” Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, ACM, pp. 85-92, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2008.

S. Chang, Z. Zhang, C. Ihrig, P. Maresca, V. Ternelli, "Transformations for Rapid Prototyping of Time-critical Applications", Proceedings of 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, pp. 4-13, Redwood City, CA, July 2008.

M. Chi and K. VanLehn, “Eliminating the Gap between the High and Low Students through Meta-Cognitive Strategy Instruction,” Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 9th International Conference (ITS2008), pp. 603-613, Amsterdam, June 2008.

C. Cho, D. Kim, J. Kim, D. Lim, and S. Cho, “Early Prediction of Product Performance and Yield via Technology Benchmark,” Proceedings of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, pp. 205-208, San Francisco, CA, September 2008.

S. Cho, S. Demetriades, S. Evans, L. Jin, H. Lee, K. Lee, and M. Moeng, “TPTS: A Novel Framework for Very Fast Manycore Processor Simulation,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), pp. 446-453, Portland, OR, September 2008.

C. Chung, K. Pruhs, and P. Uthaisombut, “The Online Transportation Problem: On the Exponential Boost of one Extra Server,” LATIN 2008, pp. 228-239, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2008.

C. Chung, K. Ligett, K. Pruhs and A. Roth, “The Price of Stochastic Anarchy,” SAGT 2008, pp. 303-314, Paderborn, Germany, April 2008.

S. Demetriades, M. Hanna, S. Cho and R. Melhem, “An Efficient Hardware-based Multi-hash Scheme for High Speed IP Lookup,” Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on High Performance Interconnects (HOTi), pp. 103-110, Stanford, California, August 2008.

P. Djalaliev, M. Jamshed, N. Farnan and J. Brustoloni, “Sentinel: Hardware-Accelerated Mitigation of Bot-Based DDoS Attacks,” Proceedings of the 17th Intl. Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN’08), St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, August 2008.

M. Elhaddad and R. Melhem, “On the Emulation of Finite-Buffered OQ Switches Using Combined Input-Output Queuing”, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Distributed Systems (DISC), Arcachon, France September 2008.

K. Forbes-Riley, D. Litman, and M. Rotaru, “Responding to Student Uncertainty During Computer Tutoring: An Experimental Evaluation,” Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, pp. 60-69, Montreal, Canada, June 2008.

K. Forbes-Riley, D. Litman, S. Silliman, and A. Purandare, “Uncertainty Corpus: Resource to Study User Affect in Complex Spoken Dialogue Systems,” Proceedings 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pp. 513-517, Marrakech, Morocco, May-June 2008.

R. Gheorghiu, and K. VanLehn, “XTutor: An Intelligent Tutor System for Science and Math Based on Excel,” Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 9th International Conference, pp. 749-751, Montreal, Canada, June 2008.

S. Gobriel, R. Cleric, and D. Mossé “Adaptations of TDMA Scheduling for Wireless Sensor Networks,” International Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN'08), held in conjunction with ECRTS 08, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2008.

S. Gobriel, S. Khattab, D. Mosse’ and R. Melhem, “GroupBeat: Wireless Sensor Networks Made Reliable,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, Atlanta, GA, September 2008.

S. Guirguis, S.K. Chang, and R. Kulkarni, “A Multimedia Data Streams Model for Content-Based Information Retrieval,” Proceedings of 2008 International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS2008), pp. 232-239, Boston, MA, September 2008.

M. Hauskrecht and R. Pelikan, “Inter-Session Reproducibility Measures for High-Throughput Data Sources,” Proceedings of the Summit on Translational Bioinformatics, San Francisco, CA, March 2008.

R. Hausmann, B. van de Sande, and K. Vanlehn, “Shall we explain? Augmenting Learning from Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Peer Collaboration,” Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 9th International Conference, ITS2008, Vol. 5091/2008, Amsterdam: IOS Press, Montreal, Canada, June 2008.

R. Hausmann, B. van de Sande and K. VanLehn, “Trialog: How Peer Collaboration Helps Remediate Errors in an ITS,” Proceedings of the 21th International FLAIRS Conference, AAAI, pp. 415-410, Menlo Park, CA, May 2008.

R. Hausmann, and B. van de Sande, and K. VanLehn, “Are Self-explaining and Coached Problem Solving More Effective When Done by Pairs of Students Than Alone?” Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2369-2374, Washington, DC, July 2008.

R. Hausmann and K. VanLehn, “Self-Explaining in the Classroom: Learning Curve Evidence,” Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1067-1072, Austin, Texas, July 2008.

L. Jin and S. Cho, “Taming Single-Thread Program Performance on Many Distributed On-Chip L2 Caches,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), pp. 487-494, Portland, OR, September 2008.

P. Jordan and D. Litman, “Minimal Feedback During Tutorial Dialogue, ” Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Vol. 5091: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, pp. 671-673, Montreal, Canada, June 2008.

S. Jung, and K. VanLehn, “Bi-directional Search for Bugs: A Tool for Accelerating Knowledge Acquisition for Equation-Based ITS,” Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 9th International Conference, ITS2008, pp758-762, Montreal, Canada, June 2008.

S. Khattab, S. Gobriel, D. Mosse’ and R. Melhem, “Live Baiting for Service-level DoS Attackers,” IEEE INFOCOM 08, pp. 171-175, April 2008.

S. Khattab, D. Mossé and R. Melhem, “Jamming Mitigation in Multi-Radio Wireless Networks: Reactive or Proactive?,” Proceedings of SecureComm 2008, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2008.

S. Khattab, D. Mossé and R. Melhem “Modeling of the Channel-hopping Anti-Jamming Defense in Multi-Radio Wireless Networks,” Proceedings of Mobiquitous, Dublin, Ireland, July 2008.

J. Kim, S. Cho, and S-J. Kim, “Preliminary Studies to Develop a Ubiquitous Computing and Health-monitoring System for Wheelchair Users,” Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Body Area Networks, Tempe, AZ, March 2008.

B. Kvelton and M. Hauskrecht, “Partitioned Linear Programming Approximations for MDPs,” Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Helsinki, Finland, July 2008.

A. Lee and M. Winslett, "Towards Standards-Compliant Trust Negotiation for Web Services," Proceedings of the Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management, and Security, pp.311-326, Trondheim, Norway, June 2008.

A. Lee and M. Winslett, "Towards an Efficient and Language-Agnostic Compliance Checker for Trust Negotiation Systems," Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security, Tokyo, Japan, March 2008.

Q. Li, A. Labrinidis and P. Chrysanthis, “ViP: A User-Centric View-Based Annotation Framework for Scientific Data,” Proceedings of the 20th Int’l Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, pp.228-239, July 2008.

Q. Li, A. Labrinidis and P. Chrysanthis. “User-centric Annotation Management for Biological Data,” Proceedings of 2nd International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, June 2008.

W. Li, Y Du, Y Zhang, B. Childers, P. Zhou and J. Yang, “Adaptive Buffer Management for Efficient Code Dissemination in Multi-Application Wireless Sensor Networks,” International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 1, pp.295-301, Shanghai, China, December 2008.

H. Ling and T. Znati, “Locate More Sensors with Fewer Anchors in Wireless Sensor Networks,” The 3rd International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications-Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5258, pp. 570-581, Dallas, TX, October 2008.

H. Ling and T. Znati, “Locate More Nodes in Under Water Sensor Networks Using Out-of-Range Information,” Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, pp. 2349-2354, March, 2008.

G.E. Marai, J. Crisco, and D. Laidlaw, “A Kinematics-Based Method for Evaluating the Stabilizing Role of Ligaments in the Carpal Joint,” 16th Annual Symposium on Computational Methods in Orthopaedic Biomechanics, March 2008.

K. Minami, A. Lee, M. Winslett, and N. Borisov, “Secure Aggregation in a Publish-Subscribe System,” Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, October 2008.

S. Obermeier, S. Bottcher, M. Hett, P. K. Chrysanthis and G. Samaras. “Adjourn State Concurrency Control Avoiding Time-Out Problems in Atomic Commit Protocols,” Proceedings of the 24th Int’l Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 1477-1479, April 2008.

T. Okumura, B. Childers and D. Mosse’’, “Running a Java VM inside an Operating System Kernel: A Networking Case Study,” ACM International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, Seattle, Washington, March 2008.

A. Purandare and D. Litman, “Analyzing Dialog Coherence using Transition Patterns in Lexical and Semantic Features,” Proceedings 21st International FLAIRS Conference, Coconut Grove, Florida, May 2008.

A. Purandare and D. Litman, “Content-Learning Correlations in Spoken Tutoring Dialogs at Word, Turn and Discourse Levels,” Proceedings 21st International FLAIRS Conference, Coconut Grove, Florida, May 2008.

I. Qazi and T. Znati, “On the Design of Load Factor based Congestion Control Protocols for Next-Generation Networks," IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Phoenix, AZ, April 2008.

J. Ruppenhofer, S. Somasundaran, and J. Wiebe, “Finding the Sources and Targets of Subjective Expressions,” The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, pp. 2781-2788, Morocco, May 2008.

M. Sharaf, S. Guirguis, A. Labrinidis, K. Pruhs, and P. Chrysanthis, “ASETS: A Self-Managing Transaction Scheduler” Proceedings of 3rd Int’l Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 56-62, Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.

T. Singliar and M. Hauskrecht, “Approximation Strategies for Routing in Stochastic Dynamic Networks,” Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, January 2008.

S. Somasundaran, J. Ruppenhofer, and J. Wiebe, “Discourse Level Opinion Relations: An Annotation Study,” SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pp.129-137, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2008.

N. Smith, M. Heilman, and R. Hwa, “Question Generation as a Competitive Undergraduate Course Project,” Proceedings of the NSF Workshop on the Question Generation Shared Task and Evaluation Challenge, Arlington, VA, September 2008.

S. Somasundaran, J. Wiebe, and J. Ruppenhofer, “Discourse Level Opinion Interpretation,” Proceedings of The 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, C08-101, Manchester, UK, August 2008.

M. Valko, G. Cooper, A. Seybert, S Viseweswaran, M. Saul, and M. Hauskrecht, “ Conditional Anomaly Detection Methods for Patient-Management Alert Systems,” International Conference on Machine Learning in Health Care Applications, Helsinki, July 2008.

M. Valko and M. Hauskrecht, “Distance Metric Learning for Conditional Anomaly Detection,” Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Florida AI Research Society Conference, pp. 684-690, Coconut Grove, Florida, May 2008.

M. Valko, R. Pelikan and M. Hauskrecht, “Learning Predictive Models for Multiple Heterogeneous Proteomic Data Sources,” Proceedings of the Summit on Translational Bioinformatics, San Francisco, CA, March 2008.

V. Verroios, K. Kollias, P. K. Chrysanthis and A. Delis, “Adaptive Navigation of Vehicles in Congested Road Networks,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services, Sorrento, Italy, July 2008.

R. Villamarín-Salomón and J. Brustoloni, “Identifying Botnets Using Anomaly Detection Techniques Applied to DNS Traffic,” Proceedings of the 5th Annual Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, IEEE, pp.476-481, Las Vegas, NV, January 2008.

S. Wang, and M. Hauskrecht, “Improving Biomedical Document Retrieval using Domain Knowledge,” Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, pp. 785-786, Singapore, July 2008.

A. Ward and D. Litman, “Semantic Cohesion and Learning,” Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, pp. 459-469, Montreal, Canada, June 2008.

J. Yang, X. Zhou, M. Chrobak, Y. Zhang, and L. Jin, “Dynamic Thermal Management through Task Scheduling,” International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, pp.191-201, Nashville, Tennessee, Texas, April 2008.

W. Zhang, V. Liberatore, J. Beaver, P. K. Chrysanthis and K. Pruhs, “Scalable Data Dissemination Using Hybrid Methods,” Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE Int’l Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, pp. 1-12, April 2008.

X. Zhou, Y. Xu, Y. Du, Y. Zhang and J. Yang, “Thermal Management for 3D Processors via Task Scheduling,” International Conference on Parallel Processing, cd format only, Portland, Oregon, September 2008.