Recent activities by ECEB Faculty
Members:
October 3, 2006: Drs. Kerschberg, Kim and Scime awarded Patent Number 7,117,207, "Personalized Semantic Taxonomy-Based Search Agent."
The abstract of the patent is as follows:
Disclosed is a search mechanism comprising: accepting search intent information from a user having a search intent; creating a semantic taxonomy tree having term(s) representative of the search intent information; augmenting the term(s) with associated concepts derived from the term(s) using existing terminological data; associating a weight with at least one of the term(s); obtaining user preference intent; determining root term(s); transforming the semantic taxonomy tree to a Boolean search query; submitting the Boolean search query to searcher(s); receiving at least one search result(s); interpreting the search result(s); requesting page(s) specified the search result(s); receiving the page(s); generating ranked results; presenting the ranked results to the user; presenting the semantic taxonomy tree to the user; accepting user feedback from the user; and using the user feedback to update the user preference intent.
An article on WebSifter patent appeared on January 11, 2007 in the Mason Gazette.
Click on this link to view the patent.
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September, 2006: The ECEB welcomes Dr. Yong Uk Song of Yonsei University in Korea. Dr. Song is spending his sabbatical year with the E-Center for E-Business and the Department of Information and Software Engineering.
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March 19, 2006: The charter for the E-Center for E-Business has been renewed for a period of five years, until 2011!
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March 16, 2006:
The Center welcomes its newest member, Dr. Xinyuan (Frank) Wang. Dr. Wang’s research is in the area of Network Security.
His recent work on Voice over IP watermarking has received considerable media attention.
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March 4, 2006: We are pleased to welcome Dr. Duminda
Wijesekera to the ECEB. His research interests include: his research interests include security, multimedia, networks, secure signaling (telecom, railway and SCADA), avionics, missile systems, web and theoretical computer science.
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February 12, 2006: We extend a warm welcome to the newest faculty member of the Center, Dr. Jon Whittle, Associate Professor of Information and Software Engineering. Dr. Whittle’s research is in the general area of software engineering, and in particular, the modeling of complex, software-intensive systems.
- The E-Center for E-Business welcomes two new faculty members, Professors Carlotta Domeniconi and Jessica Lin. They are both active in the areas of data mining, text analysis and time series analysis.
- Dr. Menascé has accepted an appointment as
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the Volgenau School of
Information Technology and Engineering, effective September 1, 2005.
He will not serve as Co-Director during his tenure as Associate Dean.
Dr. Kerschberg will serve as Director of the ECEB.
- Dr. Menascé gave two invited talks during a trip to Europe:
- "Achieving QoS in Complex Distributed Systems through Autonomic Computing," Alcatel Technical Academy, Antwerp, Belgium, October 3, 2005.
- "Quality of Service Challenges for Web Based Systems and E-commerce," keynote address, Kick-off meeting of the E-Quality Research Center, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, September 30, 2005.
- Dr. Menascé gave the invited talk “Quality of Service
Aspects and Metrics in Grid Computing”, at the NY Computer Measurement
Group, New York, NY, February 11, 2005.
- Dr. Menascé has been invited to become a Member of the Editorial Board, ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), September 2005-present.
- Dr. Menascé presented the 3-hour tutorial “Fundamental
Concepts in Performance Engineering, at the 2004 Computer Measurement Group
Conference, Las Vegas, NV, December 5, 2004.
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Dr. Kerschberg was the Keynote Speaker, “Just-in-Time
Knowledge Management,” Conference on Professional Knowledge Management,
Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 10-13, 2005.
- Dr. Kerschberg gave an invited talk “Knowledge Sifter:
Agent-based Ontology-Driven Search over Heterogeneous Data Sources,” Center Of
Excellence Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, Kyoto University, March
8, 2005.
Dr. Kerschberg participated in the organization of
several conferences and symposia:
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Dr. Kerschberg, together with Dr. Hiromichi Fujisawa of
Hitachi Central Research Labs, Co-Chaired the Workshop on
Just-in-Time Knowledge Management, Kaiserslautern Germany, April 11,
2005,
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Program Committee member, Fourth International
Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE),
Agia Napa, Cyprus, October 31-November 4, 2005,
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Program Committee member, International Workshop on
Topic Map research and Applications, Villa Ida, Leipzig, Germany, October
6-7, 2005, http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra05/.
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Program Committee member, International Conference on
Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, DaWaK 2004, Zaragoza, Spain,
September 1-3, 2004.
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Program Committee member, Workshop on Theory and
Applications of Knowledge Management, TAKMA 2004, Zaragoza, Spain, August 30
- September 3, 2004.
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Program Committee member, 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM
International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004),
Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2004.
Dr. Menascé participated in the organization of
several conferences and symposia:
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General Chair of ACM’s Federated Computing Research Conference, 2007.
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Program Committee member, 6th ACM Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 2007), Buenos Aires, Argentina, February 2007.
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Program Committee member, Seventh ACM Conference on E-commerce, Ann Arbor, MI, June 11-15, 2006. http://stiet.si.umich.edu/ec06/.
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Program Committee member, Autonomic Computing track of the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006), Lisbon, Portugal, July 4-7, 2006, http://icdcs2006.di.fc.ul.pt/
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Program Committee member, Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST'05), Torino, Italy, September 19-22, 2005.
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Program Committee Co-chair, IFIPS Performance 2005, France, October 2005.
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Program Committee Member, 2005 International Conference on Web Engineering, Sydney, Australia, July 2005. http://www.icwe2005.org
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Tutorials Chair and Program Committee Member, 2005 Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 2005), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, July 11-15, 2005. http://wosp2005.uib.es/
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Program Committee Member, 2005 International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2005), Seattle, Washington, June 2005. http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/~parashar/icac2005/
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Program Committee Member, Internet Computing and Applications Track of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Columbus, Ohio, June 5-9, 2005. http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/icdcs05/
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Program Committee Member, IEEE ISSPIT - International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Rome, Italy, December 18--21, 2004. http://www.isspit.org/isspit/2004/index.html
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Program Committee Member, 1st. International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST), Enschede, The Netherlands, September 27-30, 2004. http://www.qest.org/qest2004/
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Drs.
Menascé and Barbará received a Best Paper Finalist award with their paper
"Fractal Characterization of Web Workloads," published in the Proceedings
of the WWW 2002 Conference, Web-Engineering Track, Honolulu, Hawaii, May
7-11, 2002. Other authors of the paper include B. Abrahao, V. Almeida, and
F. Ribeiro from the UGMG, Brazil.
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Dr.
Menascé has been invited to be a regular contributor to the magazine Internet
Computing, writing a column called "Scaling the Web."
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Dr.
Menascé presented the talk "QoS Measurement and Control in Web and
E-Commerce Services," at the E-Commerce Seminar Series of the Computer
Science Department of the North Carolina State University, March 20, 2002. http://ecommerce.ncsu.edu/seminar/menasce.html
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Dr.
Menascé became an Associate Editor of the journal Electronic
Commerce Research and Applications.
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Dr. Kerschberg
served as Guest Editor for a Special Issue on Scientific Databases, for the Journal
of Intelligent Information Systems. He is also an Editor-in-Chief
for the journal.
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The E-Center
for E-Business is proud to be a sponsor of the International
Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents.
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Dr. Menascé
received the A. A. Michelson award from the Computer Measurement Group
on December 3, 2001. This is a lifetime achievement award given in
recognition of "outstanding contributions to computer metrics."
Read the
acceptance speech at
www.cs.gmu.edu/~menasce/michelson/menasce-michelson-acceptance.pdf
and the citation plaque at
www.cs.gmu.edu/~menasce/michelson/michelson-citation-plaque.pdf)
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Dr. Menascé,
gave the 3-hour tutorial "Technologies for Scaling Web Services" at the 2001 CMG Conference, Anaheim, CA on December 2, 2001.
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On December
19, 2001, Dr. Kerschberg participated, via the Internet, in the "Distance
Collaborative Seminar among Kyoto University, Kansai University and George
Mason University". The seminar was hosted by Dr. Yahiko
Kambayashi of Kyoto University and Dr. Shinichi Ueshima of Kansai
University. Both Kyoto and Kansai Universities were linked
by satellite, while GMU was linked via the Internet and NetMeeting.
Please follow the links below to view pictures taken by Professor Yahiko
Kambayashi of Kyoto University:
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Dr. Kerschberg
traveled to Japan during November 22 - December 6, 2001 to attend ER
2001 and WISE 2001 Conferences held at Yokohama and Kyoto, respectively. He also visited
Kansai University in Osaka, Japan and delivered a lecture on the WebSifter
Project.
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Dr. Menascé presented "QoS Issues in Web and E-commerce Services," in
the Distinguished Lecture Series, Computer Science and Engineering Division,
at the University of Michigan on October 25, 2001.
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Dr. Menascé chaired a panel discussion on E-Commerce Education at the 2001 ACM
Conference on E-Commerce, Tampa, Florida, October 16, 2001.
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Dr. Menascé
presented the keynote address, "Using Performance Models to Dynamically
Control E-Commerce Performance," at the 2001 Aachen International
Multiconference on Measurement, Modelling, and Evaluation of
Computer-Communication Systems, Aachen, Germany, September 12, 2001.
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Dr. Kerschberg
presented the keynote address, "Knowledge
Management in Heterogeneous Data Warehouse Environments," at the
International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, Munich
Germany, September 6, 2001.
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Dr.
Menascé's new book titled "Capacity
Planning for Web Services," has been published by Prentice Hall,
September 2001.
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Dr. Menascé was an invited speaker at the panel "Server Performance
Modeling and Tuning" at OPNETWork 2001, Washington, D. C., August 29,
2001.
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Professors
Ravi Sandhu, Edgar Sibley and Larry Kerschberg presented a talk entitled
"Secure Objects in E-Business Environments," at the Technology
Seminar Series of the National Reconnaissance Office, in Chantilly,
Virginia, July 31, 2001.
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Dr. Kerschberg
served as Program Chair for the International Conference on Scientific and
Statistical Database Management, held at George Mason University's Fairfax
Campus, 18-20 July 2001. The event was sponsored by the E-Center for
E-Business and the Center for Earth Observing and Space Research.
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Dr. Menascé gave a talk "Understanding Workloads in E-Business,"
at Microsoft Research in Seattle, WA on May 1, 2001.
Doctoral Dissertations for Students Associated with the ECEB
- Dr. Monchai Sopitkamol defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "Experimental Study of Performance Sensitivity of Configurable Parameters of Web-based Systems," November 2004. His advisor was Dr. Menascé.
- Dr. Randy Howard defended his his Ph.D. dissertation “A Knowledge-Based Framework for Dynamic Semantic Web Services within Virtual Organizations” in October 2004. His advisor was Dr. Kerschberg.
- Dr. Riki Morikawa defended his Ph.D. dissertation “A Framework for an Analytical Knowledge Base that Combines XML Topic Maps, Bayesian Networks, and the Concept of Network Scenarios for Enhanced Knowledge Sharing” in July 2004. His advisor was Dr. Kerschberg.
- Dr. Ibrahim S. Abdullah defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "Meta-Protocol: On-the-fly Protocol Agreement and Code Generation," March 2004. His advisor was Dr. Menascé.
- Willa Pickering, “Assessing the Role and Conduct of Online Collaborative Projects in E-Learning”, July 24, 2003, now at Lockheed Martin Corporation. Dr. Kerschberg was her advisor.
- Dr. Harry Foxwell defended his Ph.D. dissertation “A Web-based System for Representing, Retrieving, and Visualizing Analogies” in April 2003. His advisor was Dr. Menascé.
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Dr. Alan
Harbitter defended his Ph.D. dissertation "A Methodology for
Analyzing the Performance of Authentication Protocols" in
November 2001. His advisor was Dr. Menascé.
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Dr. Ron Dodge,
Jr. defended his PhD Dissertation entitled "Improving E-commerce System
Performance with Dynamic System Tuning," April 2001. Professors
Menascé and Barbará were co-advisors to Dr. Dodge.
The ECEB Infrastructure Grant Award
- The Virginia Center for Innovative Technology has awarded the ECEB a $75,000
Infrastructure Award, for the period July 15, 2000 to July 14, 2001.
- Industry matching funds from ECEB Members total $55,000.
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