COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Student Research Projects 2007-2008

  • Course Offerings 2007 and 2008
  • Research portfolio summary
  • Research topics links
  • Information for Juniors, Dec 5 and 9, 2007
  • All Project titles 2007-08

    1. Exploring Artificial Societies through Sugarscape (Computer simulation and modeling).

      Netlogo/MASON (Java)

      Ruby

      Java

    2. Particle Swarm Optimization and Social Interaction Between Agents, Ant Colony Optimization (PSO, ACO)

      OpenGL

      Java

    3. Using Genetic Algorithms to Optimize the Traveling Salesman Problem(Genetic Algorithms).

      C

      Java

    4. Agent Based Simulation, Negotiation, and Strategy Optimization of Monopoly (Computer Simulations).

    5. Simulation of the Spread of a Virus Using Agent Based Modeling (Agent Modeling).

      Java

    6. Evolving Motor Techniques for Artificial Life (Simulation and Modeling).

      Breve

    7. Simulating Evolution (Artificial Life, Computer Modeling).

      Java

      Java

      Java

      Java

    8. Analysis of Spectro-temporal Receptive Fields in an Auditory Neural Network (Computer Modeling, Computational Biology).

      Matlab

    9. Machine Learning for Musical Analysis and Creation (Machine Learning, Computer music).

      C

      PHP, MySQL

    10. TJHSST Website Redesign (Software Engineering).

      Python, Ruby, Java

      PHP, MySQL

    11. Elementary Education in a Technology Age (Computer Science Education). 1st quarter:

      Scratch (MIT)

      Java

      Java

    12. Development of a Generic Font Optical Character Recognition (OCR) (Machine Vision).

      Java

    13. Sign Language Recognition (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition). 1st quarter:

      C

    14. Dynamic Image Resizing (Image Processing).

      C

    15. Application of Face Recognition to a Seam-Carving Algorithm for Content Aware Image Resizing (Image Processing, Machine Vision).

      C

    16. Image Sharpening - Unblurring/Deblurring (Image Processing).

      Java

    17. First Person Pac Man 3D Graphics (3D Graphics).

      Java3D

    18. Pathfinding Algorithms in Mutating Graphs(Algorithms).

      Java

    19. Invariants of Functions on Permutations of Sets, Applications of Geometrical Bijections (Mathematical Algorithms).

    20. Conformal Mapping Using the Schwarz-Christoffel Transform (Computer Modeling).

      Java

      C

    21. Development of a German-English Translator (Computational Linguistics).

      Java

      Java

    22. C to Java Language Translation (Language Translation, Compiling).

      Java

    23. Java Decompiler (Compiler/Decompiler Design).

      Java

  • Mentorship Fall 2007

    1. SyntenyChecker: quality control from syntenic regions at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) (Computational Bioinformatics).

    2. Code Refactoring with Legacy Code in Flight Model Software (Computer graphics and simulation).
  • Mentorship 2006-2007
    1. (Summer/Fall mentorship), TASC Component Architecture and Simulation Environment (TCASE) (Systems Modeling, Northrop Grumman IT)
    2. (Summer/Fall), Implementation of Artificial Physics Using AIBO Robot and the Pyro Programming Environment (AI Robotics, NRL), paper, poster, and presentation
    3. (Fall Mentorship - IT.com), , paper, poster, and presentation
    4. (Summer/Fall), Assessing Terrorism Threat Rankings to Specific Sites (Risk Analysis, Digital Sandbox)
    5. (Fall Mentorship - Astute Tech)
    6. (Summer/Fall), Integrated Spell Checker and Search Engine (Internet AI, IT.com), poster
    7. (Summer/Fall), Use of the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) Algorithm and Applications With An Intranet Search Program (Internet Datamining and AI search, IT.com), paper, poster
    8. (Fall - Mentorship - GMU Experimental Economics), paper, poster, and presentation, project description
    9. (Fall - Mentorship - Mitre Tech), , paper, poster, and presentation
    10. (Summer/Fall), Designing a View Management System for Augmented Reality (Virtual Reality Systems, NRL)
    11. Traffic Management, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC), Highway Driving Simulator, project description