Fall 2007 SERC Showcase
Agenda

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 Ball State University
December 5-6, 2007

 Tuesday, December 4, 2007

6:00 p.m.

Policy Board Dinner Meeting

Vera Mae’s Bistro, Muncie, IN

 

 

 

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

8:00 - 10:00 a.m.

Registration & Continental Breakfast

Alumni Center, BSU

8:30 - 10:00 a.m.

8:30 – 1:00 p.m.

Poster Sessions

Live Experiment – Rating Usability

Alumni Center, BSU

9:00 - 10:00 a.m.

Software Demonstrations

Alumni Center, BSU

 

Norm Wilde, University of West Florida, “Finding Features using Trace Graph 4”

10:00 - 10:25 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions

Alumni Center, BSU

 

Dr. Jo Ann Gora, President, Ball State University

Wayne Zage, SERC Director, Ball State University

10:25 - 11:40 p.m.

Research Presentations Session 1

Alumni Center, BSU

 

10:25 - 10:50 a.m.  Boniface Hicks, St. Vincent College, PA, “Information Flow Tools: Software Engineering to Provable Security”, Sponsor: Motorola

10:50 - 11:15 a.m. Dolores Zage, Ball State University, “Before and After: Exploring the Link Between UML Design Metrics and Detailed Design Metrics”, Sponsor: Raytheon

11:15 - 11:40 a.m. Jonathan Kaplan, Sun Microsystems,  Project Wonderland: a toolkit for building virtual worlds”, Invited Presentation

11:40 - 12:00 p.m.

Discussion Break

Alumni Center, BSU

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Lunch

Alumni Center, BSU

1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

Panel:

Web 2.0 Impact on Software Engineering

Alumni Center, BSU

 

Moderator: Jim King, CEO, Gloo Media

Panelists:     Mark Boxberger, VP, Exact Target

                       Jonathan  Kaplan, Wonderland Architect, Sun Microsystems

                       Sarah “Intellagirl” Robbins, Director of Emerging Technologies,

                       Mediasauce

                       Val Casey, Researcher in Lero, The Irish Software Engineering

                       Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland

 

2:30 - 3:20 p.m.

Research Presentations Session 2

Alumni Center, BSU

 

2:30 - 2:55 p.m. John Dailey ,Vinayak Tanksale, Wayne and Dolores Zage, Ball State University,  “LifeWerx”, New Proposal in response to Rockwell Collins’ IRFP

2:55 - 3:20 p.m.  Vibhav Kapnadak, Murat Senel, Purdue University  and Edward Coyle, Georgia Tech, “Cognitive Radio Networks: Distributed Estimation for Incumbent Characterization and Avoidance”, Sponsor: Raytheon

 

3:20 - 3:50 p.m.

Posters, Resumes & Ice Cream

Alumni Center, BSU

3:50 - 5:05 p.m.

Research Presentations Session 3

Alumni Center, BSU

 

3:50 - 4:15 p.m. Sharon Simmons, Dennis Edwards and Norm Wilde, University of West Florida, “Understanding Software Features by Integrating Dynamic and Static Analysis”, Sponsor: Motorola

4:15 - 4:40 p.m. Norman Wilde, Dennis Edwards, Sharon Simmons, University of West Florida, “Maintaining Distributed Systems: JointSTARS to SOA?”, Sponsor: Northrop Grumman

4:40 - 5:05 p.m.  Don McLaughlin and Frances Van Scoy, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering West Virginia University, “Virtual Worlds in a Collaborative Development Environment”, New Proposal in response to Rockwell Collins’ IRFP

 

5:05 – 5:25 p.m.

Discussion Break

Alumni Center, BSU

5:25 – 6:30 p.m.

Wine, Cheese & Art

Museum of Art, Fine Arts Building, BSU

6:30 – 9:00 p.m.

Banquet

Banquet Speaker: Alex Chernushin, Director of Programs, Ball Aerospace

Title: " WorldView – Pushing the Rock"

Recital Hall, Fine Arts, BSU

 

 

 

Thursday December 6, 2007

8:00 - 9:00 a.m.

Breakfast Buffet, Poster Sessions

Alumni Center, BSU

9:00 - 9:20 a.m.

State of SERC
Wayne Zage, SERC Director

Alumni Center, BSU

9:20 –9:30 a.m.

Live Experiment – Rating Usability

Preliminary Results, Kirsten Smith, Ball State University

9:30  10:00 a.m.

Research Presentations Session 4

Alumni Center, BSU

 

9:30 - 9:55 a.m. Paul Gestwicki and Fu-Shing Sun , Ball State University, "Design Pattern Automation for Re-engineering", New Proposal

9:55 – 10:20 a.m. Ugo Buy, University of Illinois at Chicago, “An Eclipse plug-in for Cache’s ObjectScript Language, Sponsor: Ontario

10:20 – 10:45 a.m. Alex Hill, Electronic Visualization Lab, University of Illinois at Chicago, “A Single-Authored Framework for Desktop and Immersive Interfaces”, Invited Presentation

 

10:45 - 11:05 a.m.

Discussion Break 

Alumni Center, BSU

11:05 - 12:15 p.m.

Research Presentations Session 5

Alumni Center, BSU

 

SMART, SMART: Security Measurements and Assuring Reliability through Metrics Technology Project Presentations, Sponsor: ARL

Wayne Zage, Dolores Zage, Paul Gestwicki, Vinayak Tanksale, Joe Morris, Ashley Keith, Blake Self, Ball State University, Aditya Mathur, K. Jayaram, Purdue University, Ugo Buy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Jeff Stineburg,  SERC researcher

 

§          Wayne Zage, “Overview of SMART Project”

§          Joe Morris, Dolores Zage, Vinayak Tanksale, Ball State University, “Vulnerability Analysis of http, openSSH and Firefox”

§          Aditya Mathur, Purdue University, “Integrating Model Checking and Test Generation for Reliable and Secure Concurrent Programs”

§          Paul Gestwicki, Ball State University, “Visualization Support for SMART, the RAVE tool”

12:15 - 12:25 p.m.

Closing Remarks

Alumni Center, BSU

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

Alumni Center, BSU

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Final IAB Discussion

Alumni Center, BSU