2007 ALAR Conference On Applied Research In Information Technology

Reynolds Center – University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Friday, March 9, 2007

Welcome and Announcements – Craig Thompson, Yupo Chan, Terry Talley,

Keynote: The Marketing Stakeholders of Consumer Data and Sifting for Sustainable Product Value, Josh Herman (Acxiom)

Acxiom Sponsored Research – D. Hoffman

· Enhanced Grid Modeling - Amy Apon, Baochuan Lu, Hung Bui, Linh Ngo (UAF), Larry Dowdy, Nathan Hamm (Vanderbilt), Doug Hoffman, Denny Brewer (Acxiom)

Acxiom Sponsored Research – T. Schweiger

· Mining Small World Networks Semantically Using Decision Trees (paper), Ameera Jaradat, Russell Deaton (UAF), Tom Schweiger (Acxiom)

· IntelliMatch: A SME-Driven Trainable Matching Engine (paper), C. Zhang, R. Ramamoorty, S. Ramaswamy, R. Seker, C. Bayrak, H. Elsalloukh (all UALR), Tom Schweiger (Acxiom)

Acxiom Sponsored Research – D. Hoffman

· Creating Subsets in the Workflow Grid, Wei (UCA), Srinivas Kolluru (Acxiom)

· Indexing and Querying the Workflow Grid, C. Thompson, R. Phillips, John Allison, Evan Kirkconnell (UAF), Srinivas Kolluru (Acxiom)

Acxiom Sponsored Research – T. Schweiger

· Grouping Algorithms For Finding Related Records in Huge Data Sets On Grids, Wing Ning Li, Donald Hayes, Johnson Zhang (UAF), Roopa Bheemavaram, Cameron Porter, Tom Schweiger, (Acxiom)

· Studies of Community Structures in Data, Xiaowei Xu (UALR), Tom Schweiger (Acxiom)

Lunch Panel – P. Cronan

· Enterprise Systems – Available Opportunities for Academic Use (hubs), David Douglas, Fred Davis, Christine Davis, Timothy Paul Cronan (UAF)

Lunch Panel – S. Mohan

· IP Multimedia Systems for Next Generation Wireless and Wireline Networks, Seshadri Mohan (UALR), Wayne Crolley (AT&T Global Business Solutions Engineering) Jesus Cabrera (Alltel Wireless)

Lunch meeting – T. Talley

· ALAR Board Meeting

Research Papers – J. Hoag

· Applications of Synthetic Data Generation, Joseph Hoag, Craig Thompson (UAF)

· Grid Data Service Simulation, Hai Nguyen (UAF)

Research Papers – P. Montrose

· Grid Security, Paul Montrose (Acxiom)

Research Papers – D. Thompson

· Quality Assurance: Best Practices and Test Automation for the Acxiom Workflow Grid, Jim Drake (Acxiom)

· Data Mining of Forest Cover and Human Lung Micro-Array Databases with Four-Selected Software, Dr. Qingyu Zhang, Dr. Richard Segall (ASU)

Research Papers – J. Cothren

· Managing Very Large LIDAR Point Clouds in Oracle 10g Spatial, Fred Limp, Jackson Cothren (UAF)

· Pre-Incident Indicators of Terrorism Events, Brent Smith, Kelly Damphousse, Jackson Cothren, Paxton Roberts (UAF)

Research Papers – J. Talburt

· Data Quality – John Talburt (UALR)

Research Papers – R. Zimmerman

· ARE-ON Network – Bob Zimmerman (UAF)

· A Research Study on Digital Watermarking for JPEG2000, (paper) Ping Hu (UCA)

Research Papers – W. Li

· An Empirical Study of Spelling Correction for Prospecting Application, (paper), Wing Ning Li (UAF)

· Methods for Maintaining Local Cluster Resources on the Open Science Grid, (paper), Matt Baker and Amy Apon (UAF)

Research Papers - A. Apon

· Using Shibboleth for Authorization and Authentication to the Subversion Version Control Repository System, Linh Ngo, Amy Apon (UAF)

· Application Packaging and Checkpointing on the Grid with VMWare, (paper), Reid Phillips, Matt Baker (UAF)

Research Papers

· Attack Tree-Based Security Analysis for MyProxy Online Credential Repository, Vineet Kumar Saini (Acxiom), Qiang Duan (UCA)

· Automatic GUI Generation for Device Agents - Kyle Neumeier, Joe Hoag