COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
2005 - 2006 - Project Presentations, 5th Period, 4th Quarter

Portfolio Components for 4th quarter
Research Paper LaTeX/PDF Poster PDF/PPT Slides PPT Abstract DOC/PPT Running Descr. Oral Pres. Timeline Software Tests
C. Hayes (GA, Machine Learning, Othello) :LaTeX 7 + pages ssp / Intro - Problem statement 30 wds, Purpose 70 wds, Scope 110 wds / Background and Review of Lit. - Advances in AI 60 wds, GAs 80 wds, AI and Othello 90 wds / N-Queens problem - development 180 wds, Results 50 wds / Othello Development 50 wds, heuristics 70 wds, weighting 100 wds, forward search 80 wds, GA 170 wds, improvements to algorithm 100 wds / Results and further study - not finished : : :Done : : : :
R. Kappiyoor (Sablescape Universe game) : LaTeX 2 pgs ssp / Abstr. 4 paragr 140 wds / Intro 2 paragr, 2 sect. 100 wds / Procedure Methodology 4 paragr 4 sect. 100 wds / Different prototypes 2 paragr 2 sect. 50 wds / Biblio 6 ref. :Abstr 40 wds / Goal 60 wds / Expected results 30 wds / 1 large screenshot :7 slides / Abstr, Purpose, Devel., Results Concl :Draft done : : :Done :
T. Loffredo (Physics Engine Graphics Application - Realistic Pool) :.DOC 4 pages ssp/ Abstract 90 wds / Introduction - purpose 60 wds, Scope 50 wds, Background 120 wds / Theory 2 paragr 150 wds / Design criteria, resources used, procedure and workplan - 1 pg / Testing 30 wds + 2 screenshots / Results and discussion 60 wds / Conclusions and recs 80 wds / Biblio 8 ref :Abstr 2 paragr 160 wds / screenshot + 40 wds / Diagr of rotation - 40 wds / Diagr of leapfrog method 130 wds / Results 200 wds / screenshot of webbing 60 wds COMPLETED and PRINTED 5/23 :11 slides / Intro, Goal and scope, background, theory, design criteria and resources, workplan, testing, Results, Conclusion :DONE : :DONE :Done :
M. Murphy (Modeling epidemic spread - agent based) : .DOC 3 pages dsp / Abstr 60 wds / Introduction 60 wds / Methods 3 parag 1 page 200 wds / Results 100 wds/ Biblio - 5 url ref. :Abstr 70 wds / Backgr 60 wds / Procedures and Methods 15 wds / Results 20 wds / 1 graph days vs percent infected : 13 slides / Abstr, purpose and scope, results, current work, methods, example graph, explanation, testing, programming language, results, evolution, what I learned : : : :Done :
L. Ouyang (Modeling NP Complete problems) : LaTeX 5+ pages ssp / Abstr 120 wds / Intro - P and NP 3 paragr 200 wds, Steiner tree 3 paragr 130 wds / Backgr 2 paragr 160 wds / Devel - backgr 60 wds, Model + 2 diagrams 50 wds / Software design 2 paragr 200 wds / Tools 3 bullet items / Conclusions 6o wds / Results 50 wds / Improvement 5 wds / Biblio 8 ref. : : 17 slides / Introduction / Turing machines / What does this mean? / NP Who cares? / How? / What do we do? / Additional methods / Soap methods / Steiner problem / how soap works here / Tools used / Design / Soap model / Ideal soap solution / Conclusions - these methods "suck"? : : : : :
C. Powell (Physics modeling - Solar System) :LaTeX 11 pgs dsp / Abstr 60 wds / Intro 270 wds / Backgr Solar System 160 wds; Processing 3D Graphics - Lighting 100 wds; Animation 30 wds; Orbital Physics 100wds; Previous work 150 wds / Procedure and Development - Preliminary tasks 60 wds; Physically accurate planetary motion 150 wds; User interaction 50 wds; Advanced graphics 30 wds / Wrap up - Results 30 wds; Discussion 65 wds / Conclusion 65 wds / Appendices - Leapfrog algorithm 40 wds + formula; the project so far - not done / 2 screenshots - Neptune; M,V and E orbiting the Sun / Bibliogr - 7 ref :Abstr 60 wds / Intro 70 wds / Results 120 wds / 1 screenshot - M, V, and E orbiting the Sun :16 slides Purpose / Areas of Study / Intended Results / Previous work / Timeline / Gravitational Physics - formulas / Leapfrog Alg - formulas / Testing / Problems / Results / Change in Intentions / 2 screenshots of planetary positions :DONE : : :Done :
A. Ravichandran (Artificial learning - pattern recognition) :.doc version (needs LaTeX vers) dsp. / Abst 100 wds / Intro 4 paragr 125 wds / Backgrd: AI Today: Word, Battlefield2, Rise of Nations - 2.5 pgs; Current methods: hard coding Pluto rocket, statistical analysis, neural nets; Human brain - 2 pgs / Theory - Design criteria, 2 pgs / Results 3 pgs / Conclusions 2 pgs / Recommendations .5 pg : : : : : : :
A. Smith (Intranet 2 development) :(See A. Deason 1st period) 4-06-06 / LaTeX, 5 pgs ssp / Abst 140 wds / Goals 60 wds / Appl. Struct 2pgs 4 sect. / Usability Tests 80 wds / Dev. Management 1 pg :Backgr 160 wds / Appl. Struc 100 wds / Benchmarks 120 wds / 1 screensh., 2 graphs :8 slides / Old Intranet / Iodine / Structure / Timeline / Struct / Benchmarks / Learn'd : : : : :
D. Stalcup (OOP techniques on an Interactive Simulation) :.DOC 5+ pages ssp/ Abstr. 90 wds / Intro - Purpose, Scope, Background 80 wds total / Project Dart Hounder - Overview, Summary of Gamplay and Vocabulary, Gameboard, Square, Terrain, Weather, Entity, Noncharacters, Characters - 3+ pages total / Design, Engineering and Construction - Summary of project steps and results 1 page / Results, Discussion, Conclusion - NOT DONE / NO BIBLIOGRAPHY :Abstr 60 wds / Gameboard, Entity (needs to be inserted), Character, NonCharacter, Terrain, Square, Weather ~ 250 wds total / Structural Diagr of these components :17 slides / I'm going to tell you... / Intro / Object Oriented Programming / What is meant by OO mindset / Project Dart Hounder / Overview / Dart Hounder Gameboard / Square / Terrain / Weather / Entities / NonCharacters / Characters / What Results are being looked for? / Results - Pros and Cons : : :Done : :
D. Tran (Statistical Analysis of Business Data from Countries Throughout the World) :Nothing turned in - Summer Mentorship report is needed : : : : : : :
J. Trent (Graphic techniques using the Processing Language) :.DOC 5pages ssp / Abstr 75 wds / Intro - Purpose, Scope 70 wds / Backgr and Research - Backgr 20 wds / Camera Implementation - 210 wds / formulas .5 page / More on Camera 200 wds / Procedure and Dev. 50 wds / Results 20 wds / Discussion 500 wds / Concl 30 wds / 7 References :Abstr 100 wds / Backgr 100 wds / Procedure and Methodology 70 wds / Results 40 wds / Conclusion 30 wds / Sections need Editing / 1 screenshot :5 slides / Intro / Purpose / Current work / Current status of program : : : : :