COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Fall/Spring 2007 - 2008
Example Research Papers

Read one of the following papers from these example areas of research:
- Computer graphics:
  - Control of Complex, Physically Simulated Robot Groups from UVa Graphics Group papers
  - Computer generated watercolor
  - and RUBE: A CUSTOMIZED 2D AND 3D MODELING FRAMEWORK FOR SIMULATION by Fishwick, Lee et al; Adaptive Unwrapping for Interactive Texture Painting by Igarashi and Cosgrove; Interactive Solid Texturing using Point-based Multiresolution Representations by Reuter and Schmitt
  - Physics engine:
    - Finite Element analysis: CHARMS: A Simple Framework for Adaptive Simulation using finite element solvers, from Eitan Grinspun
    - How To Implement a Pressure Soft Body Model by Matyka, from Computer Simulations in Physics
  - Virtual Solar System Project:Building Understanding through Model Building by Barab, Hay, Barnett, Keating
- Compilers and Languages:
  - Functional Programming in C++ from FC++,
  - Georgia Tech
  - Designing and Implementing the Chuck Programming Language by Wang, Cook, Misra Princeton Dept of CS and School of Music;
  - Designing and Implementing Combinator Languages by Swierstra
  - Implementing Constraint Imperative Languages with Higher-order Functions by Grabmuller
  - Why C++ is not just an Object-Oriented Programming Language by Stroustrup, from Publications by Bjarne Stroustrup and Specifying C++ Concepts
- Grid computing: Legion: Lessons Learned Building a Grid Operating System from Grid computing at UVa
- Opensource development:
  - Experience in Discovering, Modeling, and Reenacting Open Source Software Development Processes from Open Source Software Development Univ. of California Irvine
  - I Walk the Open Road from Open Source Research community
  - Open Source in the business world: Open, but not as usual from The Economist
- Artificial life: Seeing Around Corners from Brookings Institue and Sugarscape
- Agent based ecology:
  - The Ecology of Echo from Echo by John Holland
  - Epidemic spread: AGENT-BASED MODELING OF SEASONAL POPULATION MOVEMENT AND THE SPREAD OF THE 1918-1919 FLU:THE EFFECT ON A SMALL COMMUNITY by Carpenter, written in Repast
  - Agent-Based Modeling of Cultural Change in Swarm Using Cultural Algorithmsby Kobti, Reynolds, Kohler; and Echo by John Holland; and Modeling Nature's Emergent Patterns with Multi-agent Languages by Wilensky and Individual-based Modeling and Ecology by Grimm and Railsback Individual-based Modeling and Ecology by Grimm and Railsback
  - Agent based modeling links
- Agent based models of society
  - Example current project with GMU/Smithsonian - Inner Asia BC civilization modeling (will use MASON)
  - Tutorial on Agent-based Modeling and Simulation by Macal and North
  - Modeling civil violence: An agent-based computational approach by Epstein from PNAS;
  - A Comparison of Two Methods of Network Formation:Top-Down and Bottom-Up (societal dynamics);
- Agent based models of financial markets:
  - Estimation of Agent-based models: Asymmetric Herding Model from Empirical Validation of Computational Models
  - also see Using Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems to Simulate Economic Models by Guessoum and Rejeb and Agent-based modelling of customer behaviour in the telecoms and media markets by Twomey and Cadman
- Agent based software engineering: On Agent Based Software Engineering from Computational Laboratories
- Cooperation: Evolution of Cooperation from Evolution of Social Norms
- Ant Colony Optimization:
  - Ant Algorithms
  - An Efficient Rectilinear Steiner Minimum Tree Algorithm Based on Ant Colony Optimization
  - Ant colony optimization
- Game AI:
  - Using Experience-Based Learning in Game Playing by Dejong and Schultz, from online papers
  - Interactive Computer Games by Laird and van Lent, from AI and Computer Games Research
  - AI Characters and Directors for Interactive Computer Games from Game Research and Technology
  - GO and AI; Computer Go: an AI Oriented Survey; Evolving a Roving Eye for GO
- Games - Optimal Path Finding: Near Optimal Hierarchical Path Finding from Journal of Game Development
- Games: Game Design Patterns and Diverse World of Computer Games from Digital Library at Digital Games Research Association
- Traffic Modeling: Modeling Lane-changing Behavior in Presence of Exclusive Lanes from Publications at Intelligent Traffic Systems Program MIT, referenced from Individual Based Models
  also Agent-Based Simulation of Traffic Jams, Crowds, and Supply Networks by Helbing; and A Multi-Agent System for On-Line Simulations based on Real-World Traffic Data by Wahle and Schreckenberg;
  Multiagent Traffic Management: Opportunities for Multiagent Learning; and Intelligent Traffic Light Control by Wiering
- Computer Music:
  - Time stretching and pitch-shifting of audio signals
  - Sound Analysis and Processing
  - At the Crossroads of Evolutionary Computation and Music: Self-Programming Synthesizers, Swarm Orchestras and the Origins of Melody and On the evolution of music in a society of self-taught digital creatures from Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research, also see Computer Music Research
- Algorithms: An O(NxN) Heuristic for Steiner Minimal Trees in 3d by MacGregor Smith, Weiss, Patel, from J. MacGregor Smith ECS U. Mass
- Object oriented programming: Why C++ is not just an Object-Oriented Programming Language by Stroustrup, from Publications by Bjarne Stroustrup and Specifying C++ Concepts
- Distributed and Grid computing
  - Distributed Computing Life Science Apps at Distributed Computing.info; also Grid.org projects
  - XGrid agent for Unix architectures and Cross platform Xgrid project and XGrid and Cross Platform Computing, the paper
  - Building a Distributed Object System
- Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition: Introduction to Machine Learning by Nils J. Nilsson, download from machine learning website (view with xpdf), Pattern recognition resources, more Pattern recognition files
- Computer Vision: Human Motion Analysis from Computer Vision Researchby Ken Tabb
- Natural Language Processing
  - "Dialog Processing" - Natural language processing and understanding by software.
  - "An Interactive Russian-English Translation Program" - Natural language processing and understanding.
    also see Natural Language processing overview, and NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AS A SOURCE OF LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE by L.L. Iomdin
    and To the Cosmos by Electric Train English/Russian version for translation test; sample software for sale $$$
  - also see Part-of-Speech Tagging of Transcribed Speech from Natural Language Processing publications
- Computability Logic:
  - Computability Logic: a formal theory of Interaction from Giorgi Japaridze
  - Computability Logic on the web, Computability Logic homepage

COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH Fall/Spring 2007 - 2008 Example Research Papers

COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Fall/Spring 2007 - 2008
Example Research Papers