Technical Reports

To obtain copies of Technical Reports, please send your request via mail or email to the address below. Please request no more than five TRs at a time. Computer Science Department Worcester Polytechnic Institute 100 Institute Road, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609-2280, USA. research@cs.wpi.edu

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{Please note that additional publications by members of the department are listed in individual faculty home pages, and in the department's annual reports}.

• WPI-CS-TR-05-14 (pdf)
  Delivering Relevant and Useful Information with IMPACT (Aug 2005). Paul Timmins, and Craig Wills.
• WPI-CS-TR-05-10 (pdf)
  MTP: A Streaming-Friendly Transport Protocol (May 2005). Jae Chung. Mark Claypool, and Robert Kinicki.
• WPI-CS-TR-05-09 (pdf)
  Performance Analysis of the Intertwined Effects between Network Layers for 802.11g Transmissions (May 2005). Jon Gretarsson, Feng Li, Mingzhe Li, Ashish Samant, Huahui Wu, Mark Claypool, and Robert Kinicki.
• WPI-CS-TR-05-07 (pdf)
  Revised^-1 Report on the Kernel Programming Language (Mar 2005). John Shutt.
• WPI-CS-TR-05-06 (pdf)
  An Instance-Oriented Approach to Constructing Product Lines from Layers (Apr 2005). George T. Heineman.
• WPI-CS-TR-05-05 (pdf)
  Revisiting the Role of Pipelined Parallelism in Multi-Join Query Processing(Mar 2005) Bin Liu, and Elke A Rundenseteiner,
• WPI-CS-TR-05-04 (pdf)
  Adapting State-Intensive Non-Blocking Queries over Distributed Environments (Mar 2005). Bin Liu, and Elke A Rundenseteiner,
• WPI-CS-TR-05-03 (pdf)
  Weather Forecasting - Predicting Performance for Streaming Video over Wireless LANs (March 2005). Mingzhe Li, Feng Li, Mark Claypool, and Robert E. Kinicki.
• WPI-CS-TR-05-02 (pdf)
  Stochastic Fair Aggregate Rate Control: Practical Traffic Management for Efficient and Robust IP Networking (Feb 2005). Jae Chung, Mark Claypool, and Robert E. Kinicki.
• WPI-CS-TR-05-01 (pdf)
  Algebraic XQuery Decorrelation with Order Sensitive Operations (Mar 2005). Song Wang, Xin Zhang, Elke A Rundenseteiner, and Murali Mani.
  
  
• WPI-CS-TR-04-23 (pdf)
  Teaching Game Development: At the Intersection of Computer Science and Humanities & Arts (Nov 2004). David Finkel, Mark Claypool, Michael Gennert, Fred Bianchi, Dean O'Donnell, and Patrick Quinn.
• WPI-CS-TR-04-19 (pdf)
  Updating XML Views Published over Relational Databases: Towards the Existence of a Correct Update Mapping (Nov 2004) Ling Wang and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-04-18 (pdf)
  D-cape: A self-tuning continuous query plan distribution architecture (July 2004). Tim Sutherland, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-04-16 (pdf)
  Adaptive QoS-Driven Scheduling Framework for a Continuous Query System (Mar 2005) Tim Sutherland, Bradford Pielech, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-04-15 (pdf)
  Value and Relation Display for Interactive Exploration of High Dimensional Datasets (May 2004). Jing Yang, Anilkumar Patro, Shiping Huang, Nishant Mehta, Matthew O. Ward, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-04-14 (pdf)
  Clutter Reduction in Multi-Dimensional Data Visualization Using Dimension Reordering (May 2004). Wei Peng, Matthew O. Ward, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-04-13 (pdf)
  Exploiting Flow Relationships to Improve Performance of Networked Application (May 2004). Hao Shang and Craig Wills.
• WPI-CS-TR-04-12 (pdf)
  Tradeoffs Between Energy and Security in Wireless Networks (May 2004). Fernando C. Colon Osorio, Emmanuel Agu, and Kerry McKay.
• WPI-CS-TR-04-11 (pdf)
  The Effects of Loss and Latency on User Performance in Unreal Tournament 2003 (April 2004) Tom Beigbeder, Rory Coughlan, Corey Lusher, John Plunket, Emmanuel Agu, and Mark Claypool,
• WPI-CS-TR-04-10 (pdf)
  Traffic Sensitive Active Queue Management (April 2004). Mark Claypool, Robert Kinicki, and Abhishek Kumar.
• WPI-CS-TR-04-06 (pdf)
  The Effects of Latency on Online Madden NFL Football(Feb 2004). James Nichols and Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-04-05 (pdf)
  Distributing vertices along a Hamiltonian cycle in Dirac graphs (Feb 2004). Gabor N. Sarkozy and Stanley Selkow.
• WPI-CS-TR-04-04 (pdf)
  Inferring Queue Sizes in Access Networks by Active Measurement (Feb 2004). Mark Claypool, Robert Kinicki, Mingzhe Li, James Nichols, and Huahui Wu.
• WPI-CS-TR-04-03 (pdf)
  Aggregate Rate Control for Efficient and Practical Congestion Management (Aug 2004). Jae Chung, and Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-04-02 (pdf)
  On an Anti-Ramsey problem of Burr, Erdos, Graham and T. Sos (Feb 2004). Gabor N. Sarkozy and Stanley Selkow.
• WPI-CS-TR-04-01 (pdf)
  Adaptive Video Streaming using Content-Aware Media Scaling (Jan 2004). Mark Claypool and Avanish Tripathi.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-35 (pdf)
  Using Related Domain Names to Improve DNS Performance (May 2004). Hao Shang and Craig Wills.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-34 (pdf)
  Low Delay Marking for TCP in Wirelress Ad Hoc Network (Jan 2004). Choong-Soo Lee, Emmanuel Agu, Mark Claypool, and Robert Kinicki.
  
  
• WPI-CS-TR-03-33 (pdf)
  Performance Enhancement of TFRC in Wireless Networks (Dec 2003). Mingzhe Li, Emmanuel Agu, Mark Claypool, and Robert Kinicki.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-32 (pdf)
  The Effect of Latency on User Performance in Real-Time Strategy Games (Oct 2003). Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-31 (pdf)
  An Evaluation of the Run-Time Performance of the Model-Tracing Algorithm of Two Different Production Systems: JESS and TDK (August 2003). Sanket Choksey and Neil Heffernan.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-30 (pdf)
  Cost-Driven View Maintenance over Distributed Data Sources (August 2003). Bin Liu and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-29 (pdf)
  A Framework for Optimizing View Maintenance Plans over Distributed Data Sources (August, 2003). Bin Liu, Elke A. Rundensteiner, and David Finkel.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-28 (pdf)
  Enhancing Active Queue Management with Round-trip Time Awareness (July 2003). Choong-Soo Lee, Mark Claypool, and Robert Kinicki.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-27 (pdf)
  A Methodology for Evaluating Predictions of Transfer and an Empirical Application to Data from a Web-Based Intelligent Tutoring System: How to Improve Knowledge Tracing in Dialog Based Tutors. (July 2003). Neil T. Heffernen and Ethan A. Croteau.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-26 (pdf)
  Search Smarter, Not Harder - Using Personalization to Improve Web Search Results (July 2003). Mark Claypool, Eugene Cushman, Daniel Murphy, and George Stuart.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-25 (pdf)
  Addressing Order Challenges in XML Query Processing (July 2003). Maged El-Sayed, Katica Dimitrova, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-24 (pdf)
  An Event Sequence Language and its Relationship to Weak Automata (August, 2003). Kathi Fisler.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-23b (pdf)
  Updating XQuery Views Published over Relational Data (December 2003). Ling Wang, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-23a (pdf)
  MASS: A Multi-Axis Storage Structure for Large XML Documents (June 2003). Kurt W. Deschler, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-22 (pdf)
  Distance-Enhanced Association Rules for Gene Expression (June 2003). Aleksandar Icev , Carolina Ruiz, and Elizabeth F. Ryder.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-21 (pdf)
  Monads for Programming Languages (June 2003). John Shutt.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-20 (pdf)
  An Efficient and Incremental System to Mine Contiguous Frequent Sequences (June 2003). Maged El-Sayed, Elke A. Rundensteiner, and Carolina Ruiz.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-18 (pdf)
  Characteristics of Streaming Media Stored on the Web (June 2003). Mingzhe Li, Mark Claypool, Robert Kinicki, and James Nichols.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-17 (pdf)
  Order-sensitive View Maintenance of Materialized XQuery Views (April 2003). Katica Dimitrova, Maged El-Sayed, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-16 (pdf)
  GP-evolved Technical Trading Rules Can Outperform Buy and Hold (April 2003). Lee A. Becker and Mukund Seshadri.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-15 (pdf)
  Cooperative Coevolution of Technical Trading Rules (April 2003). Lee A. Becker and Mukund Seshadri.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-14 (pdf)
  Exploration of Dimensionality Reduction for Text Visualization (April 2003). Shiping Huang, Matthew O. Ward, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-13 (pdf)
  Interactive Hierarchical Dimension Ordering, Spacing and Filtering for Exploration of High Dimensional Datasets (April 2003) Jing Yang, Wei Peng, Matthew O. Ward, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-12 (pdf)
  Seamless Integration of Diverse Data Types into Exploratory Visualization Systems (April 2003). Anilkumar Patro, Matthew O. Ward, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-11 (pdf)
  Mapping Nominal Values to Numbers for Effective Visualization (April 2003). Geraldine E. Rosario, Elke A. Rundensteiner. David C. Brown, and Matthew O. Ward.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-10 (pdf)
  Adjusting Forward Error Correction with Temporal Scaling for TCP-Friendly Streaming MPEG (April 2003). Huahui Wu, Mark Claypool, and Robert Kinicki.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-09 (pdf)
  Comprehensibility & Overfitting Avoidance in Genetic Programming for Technical Trading Rules (April 2003). Lee A. Becker and Mukund Seshadri.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-07 (pdf)
  The Effect of Latency on User Performance in Warcraft III (February 2003). Nathan Sheldon, Eric Girard, Seth Borg, Mark Claypool, and Emmanuel Agu.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-06 (pdf)
  On a question of Gowers concerning isosceles right-angle triangles (February 2003). Gabor N. Sarkozy and Stanley Selkow.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-05 (pdf)
  On a Turan-type hypergraph problem of Brown, Erdos and T. Sos (February 2003). Gabor N. Sarkozy and Stanley Selkow.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-04 (pdf)
  Decomposing lambda --- the Kernel programming language (February 2003). John N. Shutt.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-03 (pdf)
  An Algebraic Approach for Incremental Maintenance of Materialized XQuery Views (April 2003). Maged EL-Sayed, Ling Wang, Luping Ding, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-02 (pdf)
  An extension of the Ruzsa-Szemerédi Theorem (February 2003). Gábor N. Sárközy, and Stanley Selkow.
• WPI-CS-TR-03-01 (pdf)
  Applying Byzantine Agreement to the Intrusion Detection Problem in Distributed Systems (February 2003). Fernando C. Colon Osorio and Xiaoning Wang.
  
  
• WPI-CS-TR-02-29 (pdf)
  Adjusting Forward Error Correction for TCP-Friendly Streaming MPEG (December 2002). Huahui Wu, Mark Claypool, Robert Kinicki.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-28(pdf)
  Modular Verification of Feature-Oriented Software Models (November 2002). Kathi Fisler, and Shriram Krishnamurthi.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-25 (pdf)
  XML Algebra Optimization (Oct 2002). Xin Zhang, Bradford Pielech, and Elke Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-24 (pdf)
  XAT: XML Algebra for the Rainbow System (July 2002). Xin Zhang, and Elke Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-22(pdf)
  Visual Hierarchical Dimension Reduction for Exploration of High Dimensional Datasets (June 2002). Jing Yang, Matthew O. Ward, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-21 (pdf)
  RED-Worcester - Traffic Sensitve Active Queue Management (May 2002). Vishal Phirke, Mark Claypool, and Robert Kinicki
• WPI-CS-TR-02-20 (pdf)
  Active Queue Management for Web Traffic (May 2002). Matthew Hartling, Mark Claypool, Robert Kinicki.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-19
  Chablis - Achieving Fair Bandwidth Allocation with Priority Dropping Based on Round Trip Time (May 2002). Choong-Soo Lee, Mark Claypool, and Robert Kinicki
• WPI-CS-TR-02-17(pdf)
  FairPlayer or FoulPlayer? - Head to Head Performance of RealPlayer Streaming Video Over UDP versus TCP (May 2002). Jae Chung, Yali Zhu, and Mark Claypool
• WPI-CS-TR-02-16(pdf)
  MediaPlayer versus RealPlayer - A Comparison of Network Turbulence (May 2002). Mingzhe Li, Mark Claypool, and Robert Kinicki
• WPI-CS-TR-02-15
  Discovery of High-Dimensional Inclusion Dependencies (May 2002). Andreas Koeller, Elke Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-14(pdf)
  An Adaptable Benchmark for MPFS Performance Testing (May 2002). Yubing Wang and Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-12(pdf)
  RealTracer - Tools for Measuring the Performance of RealVideo on the Internet (May 2002). Yubing Wang and Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-10
  Traffic Sensitive Active Queue Management for Improved Multimedia Streaming (April 2002). Vishal Phirke, Mark Claypool, Robert E. Kinicki.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-09 (pdf)
  XEM: XML Evolution Management (February 2002). Hong Su, Diane K. Kramer, Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-08(pdf)
  A Transactional Approach to Parallel Data Warehouse Maintenance (February 2002). Bin Liu, Songting Chen, Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-07 (pdf)
  Prefetching For Visual Data Exploration (February 2002). Punit R. Doshi, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Matthew O. Ward, Daniel Stroe.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-06
  Chardonnay - Achieving Fair Bandwidth Allocation with Priority Dropping Based on Round Trip Time (February 2002). Mark Claypool, Robert E. Kinicki, Choong-Soo Lee.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-05 (pdf)
  Analysis of RED-Family Active Queue Management (February 2002). Jae Chung, Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-04 (pdf)
  Network Analysis of Counter-strike and Starcraft (February 2002). Mark Claypool,David LaPointe, Josh Winslow.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-03 (pdf)
  Discovering a Research Agenda for Using Design Rationale in Software Maintenance (January 2002). Janet E. Burge, David C. Brown.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-02 (pdf)
  DyDa: A Compensation Based Approach for Dynamic Data Warehouse Maintenance (January 2002). Xin Zhang, Songting Chen, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-02-01 (pdf)
  NFRs: Fact or Fiction? (January 2002). Janet E. Burge, David C. Brown.
  
  
• WPI-CS-TR-01-21 (pdf)
  Adaptive Multimedia Content Delivery for Scalable Web Servers (December 2001). Rahul Pradhen,Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-01-20 (pdf)
  Adaptive Explicit Congestion Notification (AECN) Techniques for Heterogeneous TCP Flows (October 2001) Zici Zheng, Robert E. Kinicki.
• WPI-CS-TR-01-19(pdf)(doc)
  A Framework for Visualizing the behavior of component-based systems (July 2001). Matt Ward and George Heineman.
• WPI-CS-TR-01-18(pdf)
  Year 2001 Computer Science Department {MQP} Review (Sept 2001). Micha Hofri, Craig Wills.
• WPI-CS-TR-01-16(pdf)
  An Empirical Study of RealVideo Performance Across the Internet (July 2001). Yubing Wang, Mark Claypool, and Zheng Zuo.
• WPI-CS-TR-01-14(pdf)
  Evolving Legacy System Features using Regression Test Cases and Components (June 2001). Alok Mehta and George T. Heineman.
• WPI-CS-TR-01-13 (pdf)
  Automatic Transformation of XML Documents (May 2001). Hong Su, Harumi Kuno, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-01-12 (pdf)
  Selective Flooding for Improved Quality-of-Service Routing (May 2001). Mark Claypool, Gangadharan Kannan.
• WPI-CS-TR-01-11(pdf)
  The CONTENT MANAGER: A tool to develop multilingual and multipreference web sites. (May 2001). Alok Mehta, Piedad Rodriguez, Ricardo Rodriguez, George T. Heineman.
• WPI-CS-TR-01-09(pdf)
  Demonstration of Ameliorating Packet Loss in a Video Stream by Using Interleaving (October 2001). Yali Zhu and Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-01-08(pdf)
  Evolving Legacy Systems by Locating System Features using Regression Test Cases (June 2001). Alok Mehta, George T. Heineman.
• WPI-CS-TR-01-07 (pdf)
  Infering User Interest (May 2001). Mark Claypool. David Brown, Phong Le, Makoto Waseda.
• WPI-CS-TR-01-06 (pdf)
  Router Support for Better Video Transmission (April 2001). Jae Chung, Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-01-05 (pdf)
  Using Redundancy and Interleaving to Ameliorate the Effects of Packet Loss in a Video Stream (October, 2001). Yali Zhu, Mark Claypool, and Yanlin Liu.
• WPI-CS-TR-01-04 (pdf)
  Sangam: Modeling Transformations for Integrating Now and Tomorrow (March 2001). Kajal T. Claypool, Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-01-02 (pdf)
  Improving Multimedia Streaming with Content-Aware Video Scaling (March 2001). Avanish Tripathi, Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-01-01 (pdf)
  B+ Retake: Sustaining High Volume Inserts into Large Data Pages (February 2001). Kurt Deschler, Elke A. Rundensteiner.
  
  
• WPI-CS-TR-00-25
  Incremental Maintenance of Schema-Restructuring Views in SchemaSQL (Jan 2001). Andreas Koeller, Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-00-24 -- (pdf)
  An Open Source Laboratory for Operating Systems Projects (November 2000). Mark Claypool, Dave Finkel, Craig Wills
• WPI-CS-TR-00-23 -- (pdf)
  On edge colorings with at least q colors in every subset of p vertices (October 2000). Gabor N. Sarkozy, Stanley Selkow.
• WPI-CS-TR-00-22 -- (pdf)
  Router Support for Fair, Smooth Multimedia Networking (September 2000). Jae Chung, Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-00-20 -- (pdf)
  Finding parameters which influence the performance of Java for streaming video over the network (September 2000). Mark Claypool,Vikram Chhabra,Akshay Kothare
• WPI-CS-TR-00-19
  Extending the Object Query Language for Transparent Metadata Access (October 2000). Hong Su, Kajal T. Claypool, Elke. A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-00-18 -- (pdf)
  Implicit Interest Indicators (July 2000). Mark Claypool, Phong Le, Makoto Waseda, David Brown.
• WPI-CS-TR-00-17 -- (pdf)
  The Performance of Distance Education Video in Java (June 2000). Mark Claypool, Tom Coates, Shawn Hooley, Eric Shea and Chris Spellacy.
• WPI-CS-TR-00-15
  Class-Based Router Queue Management for Linux (April 2000). Mark Claypool, Jae Chung, Edwin Mercado, Nicolas Leazard, and Miguel Maldonado.
• WPI-CS-TR-00-14 -- (pdf)
  Putting PANTS on Linux: Transparent Process Migration in a Beowulf Cluster (April 2000). Kevin Dickson, Chuck Homic, Mark Claypool, and David Finkel.
• WPI-CS-TR-00-13 -- (pdf)
  A New Adaptive-Support Algorithm for Association Rule Mining (May 2000). Weiyang Lin, Carolina Ruiz, Sergio Alvarez
• WPI-CS-TR-00-11 -- (pdf)
  NNVis: An Interactive Visualization Tool for Neural Networks (March 2000). Matthew Streeter,Matt Ward,Sergio Alvarez.
• WPI-CS-TR-00-10 -- (pdf)
  Dynamic-CBT -- Better Performing Active Queue Management for Multimedia Networking (March 2000). Mark Claypool and Jae Chung.
• WPI-CS-TR-00-07 -- (pdf)
  Dynamic-CBT and ChIPS - Router Support for Improved Multimedia Performance on the Internet (March 2000). Jae Chung and Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-00-06
  Scalable Visual Hierarchy Exploration (March 2000). Ionel Daniel Stroe, Elke A. Rundensteiner, and Matthew O. Ward.
• WPI-CS-TR-00-02 -- (pdf)
  Better-Behaved, Better-Performing Multimedia Networking (January 2000). Jae Chung and Mark Claypool.
  
  
• WPI-CS-TR-99-39 -- (pdf)
  S-Expressiveness and the Abstractive Power of Programming Languages (December 1999). John N. Shutt.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-38 -- (pdf)
  Abstraction in Programming --- working definition (December 1999). John N. Shutt.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-37 -- (pdf)
  MinMax Trees: Efficient Relational Operation Support for Hierarchical Data Exploration (December 1999). Ionel D. Stroe, Elke A. Rundensteiner, and Matthew O. Ward.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-34 -- (pdf)
  An experimental evaluation of component adaptation techniques (November, 1999). George T. Heineman, Helgo O. Ohlenbusch.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-33 -- (pdf)
  Aggregation Path Index for Incremental Web View Maintenance (October 1999). Li Chen and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-32 -- (pdf)
  The RE-WEB Approach towards Web View Generation and Restructuring: Re-usable ODMG-based Templates (October 1999). Li Chen, Kajal Claypool, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-30 -- (pdf)
  Expectation Formation in Multi-Agent Design Systems (October 1999). David Brown and Dan Grecu.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-29
  Exploiting Object Relationships for Web Caching (October 1999). Craig E. Wills and Mikhail Mikhailov.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-28 -- (pdf)
  Discovery of Design Methodologies (September 1999). David Brown, Cirrus Shakeri and Mohammad N. Noori.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-27 -- (pdf)
  Reasoning with Design Rationale (September 1999). David Brown and Janet Burge.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-26
  An Efficient Algorithm fir the Approximate Median Selection Problem (October 1999). S. Battiato, D. Cantone, D. Catalano, G. Cincotti, and Micha Hofri.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-25
  NS by Example (October 1999). Jae Chung and Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-24
  1999 Computer Science Department {MQP} Review (August 1999). Micha Hofri and Craig Wills.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-23 -- (pdf)
  Enhancing Existing Incremental View Maintenance Algorithms Using the Multi-Relation Encapsulation Wrapper (August 1999). Lingli Ding, Xin Zhang, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-21 -- (pdf)
  An Ounce of Prevention is Worth A Pound of Cure: Formal Verification for Consistent Database Evolution (October 1999). Kajal T. Claypool and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-20 -- (pdf)
  DyDa: Dynamic Data Warehouse Maintenance in a Fully Concurrent Environment (July 1999). Xin Zhang and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-19
  Video Redundancy - A Best-Effort Solution to Network Data Loss (Technical Demonstration) Yanlin Liu and Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-18 -- (pdf)
  Using Redundancy to Repair Video Damaged by Network Data Loss (August 1999). Yanlin Liu and Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-17 -- (pdf)
  Thresholds for More Accurate Collaborative Filtering (June 1999). Mark Claypool and Anuja Gokhale.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-16 -- (pdf)
  Combining Content-Based and Collaborative Filters in an Online Newspaper (June 1999). Mark Claypool, Anuja Gokhale, Tim Miranda, Pavel Murnikov, Dmitry Netes and Matthew Sartin.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-15 -- (pdf)
  Extending Schema Evolution to Handle Object Models with Relationships (March, 1999). Kajal T. Claypool, Elke A. Rundensteiner, and George T. Heineman.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-14 -- (pdf)
  PSWEEP: Parallel View Maintenance Under Concurrent Data Updates of Distributed Sources (March 1999). Xin Zhang and Elke Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-13
  Experiences with the Webware, Interfaces and Networking Experimental Laboratory (September 1999). David C. Brown, Isabel Cruz, David Finkel, Robert E. Kinicki, and Craig Wills.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-12 -- (pdf)
  Performance Analysis of Dynamic Webpage Generation Technologies (January 1999). Bhupesh Kothari and Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-11 -- (pdf)
  PThreads performance (January 1999). Bhupesh Kothari and Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-10 -- (pdf)
  Demand Paging in Windows NT. (Feb. 1999) Mark Claypool, David Finkel, Gangadharan Kannan, Mikhail Mikhailov, Saqib Syed, Yefim Somin, Sujit Kum.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-06 (pdf)
  Optimizing the Performance of Schema Evolution Sequences. (March 1999).Kajal T. Claypool, Chandrakant Natarajan, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-05 -- (pdf)
  Architectural Evolution of Legacy Systems (February 1999). George Heineman and Alok Mehta.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-04 -- (pdf)
  Adaptation of Software Components (February, 1999). George Heineman.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-03 -- (pdf)
  Recursive Adaptable Grammars (January 1999). John N. Shutt
• WPI-CS-TR-99-02 -- (pdf)
  The Effects of Jitter on the Perceptual Quality of Video (January 1999). Mark Claypool and Jonathan Tanner.
• WPI-CS-TR-99-01
  Examining the Cacheability of User-Requested Web Resources (January 1999). Craig E. Wills and Mikhail Mikhailov.
  
  
• WPI-CS-TR-98-28
  Design Rationale Types and Tools (Fall, 1998). Janet E. Burge, with David C. Brown
• WPI-CS-TR-98-27
  Towards a Better Understanding of Web Resources and Server Responses for Improved Caching (Jan 1999) Craig E. Wills, Mikhail Mikhailov.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-26
  Efficient Reorganization of Binary Search Trees (December, 1998). Micha Hofri, Hadas Shachnai.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-24 -- (pdf)
  View Maintenance Strategies after View Synchronization (November, 1998). Anisoara Nica, Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-23 -- (pdf)
  Integrating the Rewriting and Ranking Phases of View Synchronization (November, 1998). Andreas Koeller, Elke A. Rundensteiner and Nabil Hachem.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-22 (pdf)
  A Transformation-Based Combination Framework for Approximate Reasoning Sergio A. Alvarez
• WPI-CS-TR-98-21 -- (pdf)
  Java Jitters -- The Effects of Java on Jitter in a Continuous Media Stream (August 1999). Jonathan Tanner and Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-20 -- (pdf)
  An Evaluation of Component Adaptation Techniques (August 1998, revised February 1999). George T. Heineman, Helgo M. Ohlenbusch.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-19 -- (pdf)
  The Effects of High-Performance Processors, Real-Time Priorities and High-Speed Networks on Jitter in a Multimedia Stream (July 1998). Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-18 -- (pdf)
  End-to-End Quality in Multimedia Applications (July 1998). Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-17 -- (pdf)
  Quality Planning for Distributed Collaborative Multimedia Applications (July 1998). Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-16 -- (pdf)
  Touchstone: A Lightweight Processor Benchmark (July 1998). Mark Claypool.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-15 -- (pdf)
  DNA Computation solution to NP-complete problems. George T. Heineman, Richard Resnick, and Gabor Sarkozy.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-14 -- (pdf)
  OQL_SERF: An ODMG Implementation of the Template-Based Schema Evolution Framework (July 1998). Kajal Claypool, Jin Jing, Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-13 -- (pdf)
  Adaptation and Software Architecture (November 1998). George Heineman.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-12 -- (pdf)
  An Complex Ports and Roles within Software Architecture (July 1998). Helgo M. Ohlenbusch and George T. Heineman.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-9 -- (pdf)
  SERF: Schema Evolution through an Extensible, Re-usable and Flexible Framework (June 1998). Kajal Claypool, Jin Jing, Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-8 -- (pdf)
  Data Warehouse Maintainance Under Concurrent Schema and Data Updates (Auguse 1998). Xin Zhang and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-7 -- (pdf)
  SEE: A Spatial Exploration Environment Based on a Direct Manipulation Paradigm (May 1998). Sudhir Kaushik and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-6 -- (pdf)
  Direct-Manipulation Spatial Exploration Using SVIQUEL (March, 1998). Sudhir Kaushik and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-4 -- (pdf)
  Using Complex Substitution Strategies for View Synchronization (February, 1998). Anisoara Nica, Elke Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-2 -- (pdf)
  Data Warehouse Evolution: Trade-offs Between Quality and Cost of Query Rewritings (February, 1998). Amy J. Lee, Andreas Koeller, Anisoara Nica, Elke Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-98-1 -- (pdf)
  Computer Supported Cooperative Work: An Annotated Bibliography (January 1998). Kathy Merck.
  
  
• WPI-CS-TR-97-12
  An `AI in Design' View of Design (June 1997). David C. Brown & Dan L. Grecu.
• WPI-CS-TR-97-11
  Studying the Use of Peer Learning in the Introductory Computer Science Curriculum (September 1997). Craig E. Wills, D. Deremer, R.A. McCauley & Linda Null.
• WPI-CS-TR-97-10 -- (pdf)
  SVIQUEL: A Spatial Visual Query and Exploration Language (December 1997). Sudhir Kaushik & Elke Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-97-9 -- (pdf)
  Composing Software Systems from Adaptable Software Components (November 1997). George T. Heineman.
• WPI-CS-TR-97-8
  CVS: The Complex Substitution Algorithm for View Synchronization (September 1997). Anisora Nica, Amy J. Lee, Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-97-7 -- (pdf)
  Computer Science Department MQP Review (August 1997). Robert E. Kinicki & George T. Heineman.
• WPI-CS-TR-97-6 -- (pdf)
  A Model for Designing Adaptable Software Components (September 1997). George T. Heineman.
• WPI-CS-TR-97-5 -- (pdf)
  Global Optimization of Spatial Joins Using R-trees (January 1997). Yun-Wu Huang, Ning Jing, Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-97-4 -- (pdf)
  The EVE Framework: View Synchronization in Evolving Environments (December 1997). Amy J. Lee, Anisoara Nica, and Elke A. Rundensteiner.
• WPI-CS-TR-97-3
  A Practical Approach to Transparent Schema Evolution (1997). Elke A. Rundensteiner, A.J. Lee and Y.G. Ra.
• WPI-CS-TR-97-2
  Prefetching on the Web Using Client and Server Profiles (June 1997). Joel Sommers and Craig E. Wills.
• WPI-CS-TR-97-1 -- (pdf)
  The Enumeration of Labeled Graphs by Number of Cutpoints (January 1997). Stanley M. Selkow.
  
  
• WPI-CS-TR-96-3 -- (pdf)
  Resource-Efficient Policies for Information Transfer in a Mobile Environment (December 1996). Craig E. Wills, Matthew T. Murray & Ravindran Thangarajah.
• WPI-CS-TR-96-2 -- (pdf)
  A 3-level Atomicity Model for Decentralized Workflow Management Systems (September 1996). Israel Z. Ben-Shaul & George T. Heineman.
• WPI-CS-TR-96-1 -- (pdf)
  The CORD approach to Extensible Concurrency Control (August 1996). George T. Heineman & Gail E. Kaiser.
  
  
• WPI-CS-TR-95-4 -- (pdf)
  Self-Modifying Finite Automata -- Power and Limitations (December 1995). John N. Shutt.
• WPI-CS-TR-95-3 -- (pdf)
  Approximate Query Answering In Numerical Databases (November 1995). Nabil I. Hachem, Chenye Bao & Stephen Taylor.
• WPI-CS-TR-95-2 -- (pdf)
  Self-Modifying Finite Automata -- Basic Definitions and Results (August 1995). Roy S. Rubinstein & John N. Shutt.
• WPI-CS-TR-95-1 -- (pdf)
  1995 Computer Science Department MQP Review (August 1995). Robert E. Kinicki & Craig E. Wills.
  
  
• WPI-CS-TR-94-4 -- (pdf)
  Analyzing NIBGF and Bang Files Using the Capitalist Model (November 1994). Stephen Taylor, Nabil I. Hachem & Stanley Selkow.
• WPI-CS-TR-94-3 -- (pdf)
  Replaces WPI-CS-TR-94-1. Derivation Nets: A Petri Net Model for the Management of Data Derivations in Scientific Experiments (August 1994). Nabil I. Hachem, Nina Serrao, Michael A. Gennert & Ke Qiu.
• WPI-CS-TR-94-2 -- (pdf)
  Experience with an Interactive Attribute-Based User Information Environment} (August 1994). Craig E. Wills, Dominic Giampaolo & Michael Mackovitch. Proceedings: The IEEE International Conference on Computers and Communications, March 1995, Phoenix, AZ.
• WPI-CS-TR-94-1
  Replaced by WPI-CS-TR-94-3
  
  
• WPI-CS-TR-93-11 -- (pdf)
  Self-Modifying Finite Automata (December 1993). Roy S. Rubinstein & John N. Shutt.
• WPI-CS-TR-93-10
  An Evaluation Of Spec Benchmarks (December 1993). Jozo J. Dujmovic.
• WPI-CS-TR-93-9
  A Method For Evaluation And Design Of Benchmark Suites (December 1993). Jozo J. Dujmovic.
• WPI-CS-TR-93-8
  Adaptive Resource Management (December 1993). Craig E. Wills & Surendar Chandra.
• WPI-CS-TR-93-7
  Evaluation Of Spec Benchmarks Using A Black-Box Method (December 1993). Jozo J. Dujmovic.
• WPI-CS-TR-93-6
  The Independence Number Of Graphs In Terms Of Degrees (August 1993). Stanley M. Selkow. Discrete Mathematics 122, 1993, pp. 343-348.
• WPI-CS-TR-93-5
  1993 Computer Science Department MQP Review (August 1993). Robert E. Kinicki & Craig E. Wills.
• WPI-CS-TR-93-4
  Visualization Of A User's Information Space (August 1993). Craig E. Wills, Joachim Heck & Ramin Taraz. Proceedings: The ACM Computer Science Conference, Phoenix, AZ, March 1994.
• WPI-CS-TR-93-3 -- (pdf)
  Music Related Computer Science MQP's (July 1993). Roy S. Rubinstein.
• WPI-CS-TR-93-2 -- (pdf)
  Multiscale Relaxation Labeling Of Fractal Images (April 1993). Jeffrey A. Choate & Michael A. Gennert. A condensed version appeared in Proceedings: The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, New York, NY, June 1993.
• WPI-CS-TR-93-1 -- (pdf)
  A Visual Programming Environment For Supporting Scientific Data Analysis (March 1993). Yuhong Zhang, Matthew O. Ward, Nabil I. Hachem & Michael A. Gennert. Proceedings: The Symposium on Visual Languages, Bergen, Norway, August 1993.
  
  
• WPI-CS-TR-92-8 -- (pdf)
  Managing Derived Data In The Gaea Scientific DBMS (December 1992). Nabil I. Hachem, Ke Qiu, Michael A. Gennert & Matthew O. Ward Proceedings: The 19th VLDB Conference, Dublin, Ireland, August 1993.
• WPI-CS-TR-92-7
  Sharing Customization In A Campus Computing Environment (December 1992). Craig E. Wills, Kirstin Cadwell & William Marrs. Proceedings: HCI International '93, Orlando, FL, August 1993.
• WPI-CS-TR-92-6
  A Visual Environment For Scientific Data Analysis (August 1992). Yuhong Zhang.
• WPI-CS-TR-92-5 -- (pdf)
  (Revised version of 90-3) Relativizations Of The P-Printable Sets. And The Sets With Small Generalized Kolmogorov Complexity (August 1992). Roy S. Rubinstein.
• WPI-CS-TR-92-4
  A Neural Network That Uses A Hebbian/Backpropagation Hybrid Learning Rule (January 1992). Richard J. Wood & Michael A. Gennert. Proceedings: The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'92), Baltimore, MD, June 1992.
• WPI-CS-TR-92-3 -- (pdf)
  Providing Temporal Support In Database Management Systems For Global Change Research (January 1992). Ke Qiu, Nabil I. Hachem, Matthew O. Ward & Michael A. Gennert. Proceedings: The 6th International Working Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDM'92), ETH, Switzerland, June 1992.
• WPI-CS-TR-92-2
  Comparisons Of Distributed Operating System Performance Using The Wpi Benchmark Suite (January 1992). David Finkel, Robert Kinicki, Jonas Lehmann & Joseph CaraDonna.
• WPI-CS-TR-92-1
  Developing Benchmarks To Measure The Performance Of The Mach Operating System (January 1992). David Finkel, Robert Kinicki, Aju John, Bradford Nichols & Somesh Rao. Proceedings: The USENIX Mach Workshop, Burlington, VT, October 1990.
  
  
• WPI-CS-TR-91-15
  Load Sharing Using Multicasting (December 1991). Craig E. Wills & David Finkel. Proceedings: The IEEE International Conference on Computers and Communications, Phoenix, AZ, March 1993.
• WPI-CS-TR-91-14
  Resource-Driven Resource Location (October 1991). Craig E. Wills & Shanti Suresh. Proceedings: The 26th International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii, January 1993.
• WPI-CS-TR-91-13
  Computer Science Department MQP Review (July 1991). Robert E. Kinicki & Craig E. Wills.
• WPI-CS-TR-91-12
  [AIRG-DCB91-GFS]
  An Intelligent Graphical Interface For Tunnel Support Specification (July 1991). David C. Brown, Guillermo F. Salazar & Shawna X. Liu. Proceedings: The First World Congress on Expert Systems, Orlando, FL, December 1991.
• WPI-CS-TR-91-11
  Performance Analysis Of The Object Cluster Locking Protocol For Distributed Object-Bases (July 1991). Robert E. Kinicki.
• WPI-CS-TR-91-10
  A Petri-Net Driven Knowledge Base System For Automated Microcode Generation In VLSI (May 1991). Nabil I. Hachem. Proceedings: The IASTED International Symposium on Modeling and Simulation, Calgary, Canada, July 1991.
• WPI-CS-TR-91-9
  [AIRG-DCB91-ENCYC]
  Design (May 1991). David C. Brown. Article published in: The Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, (Ed.) S.C. Shapiro, Wiley-Interscience, 1992.
• WPI-CS-TR-91-8
  Strategies For Using Multicasting To Locate Resources (April 1991). Craig E. Wills. Proceedings: The IEEE 16th Conference on Local Computer Networks, Minneapolis, MN, October 1991.
• WPI-CS-TR-91-7
  A Model For Executing Computations In A Distributed Environment (April 1991). Craig E. Wills. Readings in Distributed Computing Systems, (Eds.) T.L. Casavant & M. Singhal, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1994.
• WPI-CS-TR-91-6
  Cractal Generation And Analysis (May 1991). David Gosselin & Jeffrey LeBlanc.
• WPI-CS-TR-91-5
  [AIRG-MBS91-IntCAD]
  Evaluating Design Knowledge Compilation Mechanisms (March 1991). Maryann B. Spillane & David C. Brown. Intelligent Computer Aided Design, (Eds.) D.C. Brown, M.B. Waldron & H. Yoshikawa, North-Holland, 1992.
• WPI-CS-TR-91-4
  [AIRG-DCB91-MDT&M]
  Routineness Revisited (1991). David C. Brown. In: Mechanical Design: Theory and Methodology, (Eds.) M. Waldron & K. Waldron, Springer-Verlag, 1996, pp. 195-208.
• WPI-CS-TR-91-3
  [AIRG-DCB91-CACPD]
  Using Design History Systems For Technology Transfer (1991). David C. Brown & Rahul Bansal. Computer-Aided Cooperative Product Development, (Eds.) D. Sriram & R. Logcher, Lecture Notes Series, Springer-Verlag, 1991.
• WPI-CS-TR-91-2
  [AIRG-DCB91-AIinD]
  An Experimental Evaluation Of Some Design Knowledge Compilation Mechanisms (June 1991). David C. Brown & Maryann B. Spillane. Proceedings: The First International Conference on AI in Design, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 1991.
• WPI-CS-TR-91-1
  [AIRG-DCB91-HD]
  Compilation: The Hidden Dimension Of Design Systems (1991). David C. Brown. Intelligent CAD, III, (Eds.) H. Yoshikawa & F. Arbab, North-Holland, 1991.
  
  
• WPI-CS-TR-90-18
  Implications Of Elastic Buckets On The Performance Of An Extendible Hashing File (October 1990). Nabil I. Hachem.
• WPI-CS-TR-90-17
  [AIRG-LAB902]
  Knowledge Reusability In Diagnostic Environments (November 1990). Lee A. Becker & Todd Guay.
• WPI-CS-TR-90-16
  [AIRG-LAB901]
  Connectionist Processing For Case-Based Reasoning (November 1990). Lee A. Becker & Kamran Jazayeri.
• WPI-CS-TR-90-15
  Delay Analysis Of A Ring-Based, Two-Level, Asymmetric Metropolitan Area Network (October 1990). Robert E. Kinicki & Xiannong Meng. Proceedings: The IASTED International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Calgary, Canada, July 1991.
• WPI-CS-TR-90-14
  On Direct Algorithms For Computing The Transitive Closure Of A Two-Dimensionally Structured File (August 1990). Stephen Taylor & Nabil I. Hachem.
• WPI-CS-TR-90-13
  Implementation Of An Efficient Transitive Closure Operation For Main Memory (Very Large) Deductive Databases (May 1990). Nabil I. Hachem.
• WPI-CS-TR-90-12
  Performance Analysis Of Elastic Buckets Applied To Dynamic Hashing Methods Without An Index (May 1990). Nabil I. Hachem & P. Bruce Berra.
• WPI-CS-TR-90-11
  [WPI-CSCIU-RC-90-1]
  Generation And Analysis Of Fractal Pavement Surface Distress Images (June 1990). David Gosselin & Jeffrey LeBlanc.
• WPI-CS-TR-90-10
  [AIRG-EWL90-AIENG]
  Knowledge Compilation By Analogy: Adaptation Of Design Plans By Analogical Matching And Derivational Plan Transformation (July 1990). Edward W. Large & David C. Brown. Proceedings: The Fifth International Conference on Applications of AI in Engineering, Boston, MA, July 1990.
• WPI-CS-TR-90-9
  [AIRG-RH90-AIENG]
  Knowledge Compilation Using Constraint Inheritance (July 1990). Rosemary Horner & David C. Brown. Proceedings: The Fifth International Conference on Applications of AI in Engineering, Boston, MA, July 1990.
• WPI-CS-TR-90-8
  [AIRG-EJM90-DT&M]
  Constraint Absorption And Relaxation Using A Design History (February 1990). Edmund J. Meehan & David C. Brown. Proceedings: The Second International ASME Design Theory and Methodology Conference, Chicago, IL, September 1990.
• WPI-CS-TR-90-7
  [AIRG-DCB90-AIENG]
  Research Into Knowledge-Based Design At Worcester Polytechnic Institute (July 1990). David C. Brown. Proceedings: The Fifth International Conference on Applications of AI in Engineering, Boston, MA, July 1990.
• WPI-CS-TR-90-6
  Load Indices For Load Sharing In Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems (September 1990). David Hatch & David Finkel. Proceedings: The UKSC Conference on Computer Simulation, Brighton, England, September 1990.
• WPI-CS-TR-90-5
  Microeconomic Algorithms Applied To Load Balancing In Heterogeneous And Real-Time Distributed Computing Systems (May 1990). Lynn R. Bauersachs & David Finkel. Modeling and Simulation, 21, Proceedings of the Pittsburgh Conference, May 1990.
• WPI-CS-TR-90-4
  Separating Complexity Classes With Tally Oracles (April 1990). Lane A. Hemachandra & Roy S. Rubinstein.
• WPI-CS-TR-90-3
  (See 92-5 for revised version.) Relativizations Of The P-Printable Sets And The Sets With Small Generalized Kolmogorov Complexity (March 1990). Roy S. Rubinstein.
• WPI-CS-TR-90-2
  Document Formatting Using Attribute Grammars (June 1990). Karen A. Lemone.
• WPI-CS-TR-90-1
  Implementing Semantics Of Object-Oriented Languages Using Attribute Grammars (May 1990). Karen A. Lemone, Jeffrey J. McConnell, Mary Ann O'Connor & Joseph Wisnewski. Proceedings: The ACM Computer Science Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 1991.