Research Examples for Student Projects, 2004-2005

Advanced Scientific Computing Reports:
- Plasma simulation code on supercomputers at DOE's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Berkeley Lab.,
- Federal Plan for High-End Computing
- Grand Challenges: Science, Engineering, and Societal Advances Requiring Networking and Information Technology Research
- Science-Based Case for Large-Scale Simulation,
- Network Provisioning and Protocols for DOE Large-Science Applications.
- Theory and Modeling in Nanoscience
- Genomes to Life: Biological Solutions for Energy Challenges.
- High-Performance Networks for High-Impact Science.
- Getting Up to Speed - The Future of Supercomputing
Planetary and Space Physics
Numerical methods Cal Tech
Papers from Evolutionary Computation Lab, GMU
Computational methods, Materials Science
- Applied Computational methods
RSS, Internet information gathering
- CIT crisis management
- Crawling on the WWW Va tech
- Intelligent Fusion of Structural and Citation-Based Evidence for Text Classification Va tech
- Digital Library logging using XML Va Tech
- CMU Database
- Data mining CMU databases
- Mining the World Wide Web CALD
- Searching by Content and Data Mining in Multimedia Databases Center for Automated Learning and Discovery, CALD
- Statistical and Related Computational Methods for Disclosure Limitation, CALD
KDUAL
- High Performance Server Architectures
Baseball, Basketball, Statistics
- Baseball Statistics Course Bowling Green
- Detecting the Hot Hand an Alternative Model (pdf), Northwestern U
- Hot Hand in Sports, 4 principles, Hot hand analysis
- Jim Albert papers(Bowling Green U) (with Bayesian analysis), Using Data Simulations to Develop Streakiness, Sabermetrics Statistical Correlations with OPS Onbase Percentage plus Slugging Percentage
- Intuitive Markov Chain Lesson from Baseball (Georgia Tech)
- Teaching Statistics with Sports Examples
- Behavioral Finance and Sports Betting Stanford U
RSS, XML
- RSS and XML O'Reilly book
- RSS at Harvard Law
- Introduction to RSS (Really Simple Syndication, lightweight XML)
- RSS news readers, Straw (Gnome)
- RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0, RSS 1.0 Spec
- XML and Intro to RSS, tutorials
Machine Learning, Tic-Tac-Toe
- Learning Tic-Tac-Toe, Ruby Quiz, .zip solutions
- Learning Tic-Tac-Toe + sample C++ code (CMU)
- Reinforcement Learning assignment
- Machines learn how to play games, tic-tac-toe
- Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Rule Generation
Othello, AI heuristics
- Heuristics for Othello
Datamining and Machine Learning
- Datasets from UCI, from Silicon Graphics and MLC++
  This includes a tic-tac-toe endgame database
- Machine Learning assignments, using C4.5, tic-tac-toe, connect-4, more
- Machine Learning pdf, Oregon State
- What is Machine Learning
Decision Trees, Machine Learning
- Tutorials CSE5230 Data Mining
  - Decision Trees, Bayes Classifier, k-means clustering
  - Citing online sources
- Decision trees from AAAI and Decision tree applet
- Data Mining course with voting data and sample assignment (pdf),
  Pima Indian dataset
- Introduction to Machine Learning, Nils Nilsson text online, CSI5387 Univ. Ottawa
- Robot navigation using Decision trees
- Decision trees with minimal cost
- AI course overview
Evacuation scenarios + computer modeling
- Simulex crowd dynamics, sample screenshots, Myriad
- Modeling Small Area Evacuation (pdf)
- Computer models for simulating human behavior (New Zealand) - Fire evacuation
Atmospheric Modeling, computer modeling
- Scientific overview - Good Ozone, Bad Ozone, Laboratory Studies
- Ozone Milestones, scroll down for "substances that deplete the ozone", pdf
- Treaty to accelerate the phase out of depleting compounds
- ozone links
- Climate models
- Stratospheric Ozone layer, Global tropospheric ozone, Datasets
- Computer modeling in Energy and Environment pdf
- Effect of Short Atmospheric Lifetimes on Stratospheric Ozone
- Climate change and ozone loss
- Atmosphere/energy group Stanford U
- Mark Jacobson author of Fundamentals of Atmospheric modeling, Stanford, SLides for Atmospheric pollution
- The Ozone Hole
- Greenhouse Effect
- CAMP - GMU Comprehensive Atmospheric Modeling Program
Traffic Modeling + computers
- Netlogo simulations:
  - Traffic Two lanes
  - Traffic Intersection
  - Gridlock multiple intersections
- Modeling of Traffic Signal Control and Transit Signal Priority Strategies in a Microscopic Simulation Laboratory, MIT
- Traffic management Netlogo, Dresner's original applet
  also see NQueens
- Cars cruising in Santa Fe, Netlogo, See the model
- Traffic simulator applet - Horstmann
- Traffic Simulation
- Traffic Flow with cellular automata
- Traffic model from MASON
IPv6
- KAME Project - a joint effort to create a single solid software set, especially targeting IPv6/IPsec