Archived CIS News
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Dr. Ramprasad Balasubramanian (CIS) awarded follow on grant from ONR (5/18/2011)
Grant Continuation Award
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Professor Vinod Vokkarane awarded a multi-year Department of Energy (DOE) grant (11/18/2010)
Dr. Vinod Vokkarane (CIS) has been awarded a $525,000 grant from DOE.
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UMass Dartmouth to join statewide effort to diversify participation in information technology (1/5/2009)
UMD has been awarded grant funding as part of a project to bring more women and underrepresented minorities into information technology (IT) and computing education and careers throughout Massachusetts.
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Dr. Ramprasad Balasubramanian of the Computer Science Department awarded $150,000 grant by the Office of Naval Research (12/10/2008)
Dr. Ramprasad Balasubramanian of Computer Science Department has been awarded $150,000 for a period of two years (2009-10) by the Office of Naval Research (ONR).
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College of Engineering CS and CE students succeed in IEEE Robotic Competition (11/19/2008)
College of Engineering CS and CE students succeed in IEEE Robotic Competition
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CIS Senior Capstone Software Engineering Project a success at Naval Undersea Warfare College, Newport, RI (10/27/2008)
Senior Computer Science students received real-world experience as part of their Senior Capstone Software Engineering Project
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CIS announces new academic program, "Software Engineering Option," starting Spring 2009 (10/24/2008)
CIS announces a new academic program, the "Software Engineering Option," which will be offered in the spring 2009 semester as a part of the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree program
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MASCOT: Manycast Architecture for Service-Oriented Tactical Operations (6/3/2008)
Dr. Vinod Vokkarane (PI) and Dr. Ramprasad Balasubramanian (Co-PI) of the Computer and Information Science Dept.
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Marine Corp Award Joint Grant between NUWC and CIS faculty (5/21/2008)
CIS faculty member Dr. Ramprasad Balasubramanian and Frederick Berkeley (NUWC) have been awarded a $50,000 grant by the Marine Corp.
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CIS Professors Awarded Research Grant by Marine Corps (5/5/2008)
CIS Professors have been awarded a $50,000 research grant by the US Marine Corps. The grant is funded through the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC), Newport and Northrop Grumman Corporation.
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CIS Chairperson, Dr. Boleslaw Mikolajczak awarded subcontract $90,000 NSF Grant (3/27/2008)
CIS Chairperson, Dr. Boleslaw Mikolajczak awarded subcontract $90,000 NSF Grant
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MS/CS graduate student Derek Beaton awarded NSF Grant for the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes program (3/6/2008)
Program helps students initiate scientific relationships that will enable future collaboration with foreign counterparts
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Dr. Haiping Xu awarded NSF grant (6/26/2007)
Dr. Haiping Xu awarded NSF grant
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Software Engineering option expands Computer and Information Science offerings (4/12/2007)
Responding to industry needs within the region, UMass Dartmouth's College of Engineering will add a software engineering option this fall to the programs offered in the Computer and Information Science Department.
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Computer and Information Science to offer new Software Engineering Option beginning Fall 2007 (3/7/2007)
Computer Science majors will be able to select either the mainstream Computer Science Program or the Software Engineering Option at the beginning of their sophomore year
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New Technology Courses Developed by Computer and Information Science (3/1/2007)
"Exploring Computer Programming with Animation" and "Advanced Web Site Development" to be offered
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Shelley Zhang and Other Researchers Awarded Contract to Develop the Generalized Integrated Learning Architecture(GILA). (9/15/2006)
Assistant Professor Shelley Zhang of the Computer and Information Science Department and other researchers from 11 universities and institutes, united by Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, (ATL), won a $22 million, 48-month contract ($290K for UMass Dartmouth) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the Generalized Integrated Learning Architecture (GILA).
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Vinod Vokkarane and Collaborator Awarded NSF Grant on Optical Networks (8/23/2006)
Assistant Professor Vinod Vokkarane of the Computer and Information Science Department and his collaborator from the University of Texas at Dallas, Professor Jason Jue, have been awarded a $440,000.
Sheetal Naik and Emad Aboelela published "IDEM- Internet Delay Emulator Approach for Assessing VoIP Quality" in The 2005 Systems Communications Conference, Multimedia Communications Systems, Montreal, Canada, pp. 92-97, August 14-17, 2005.
Haiping Xu, Zhiguo Zhang, and Sol M. Shatz published "A Security Based Model for Mobile Agent Software Systems," in the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering ( IJSEKE), Auguest 2005, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 1-28.
Dr. Boleslaw Mikolajczak presented a paper entitled "Workflow Mining Alpha Algorithm - A Complexity Study" during International Information Processing and Web Mining Conference, June 13-16, 2005 held in Gdansk, Poland and published in Advances in Soft Computing, Springer, 2005.
Dr. Boleslaw Mikolajczak presented a paper entitled "Distributed Actor-based Approach to the Optimal Polygon Triangulation Problem with Visualization Using Colored Petri Nets" during 17th Trieennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies IFORS 2005, July 11-15, 2005, Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort and Spa, Honolulu, Hawaii, US. The paper will be published in Journal of Control and Cybernetics.
Publications:
Dr. Iren Valova, Associate Professor with Computer and Information Sciences
Department has published the following refereed papers:
I.Valova, G.Milano, K.Bowen, Optimizing Genetic Algorithms to Train Fully Connected Feed - Forward Neural Networks, ASME Press Series on Inteligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks (ANNIE 2003), Smart Engineering System Design, eds C. Dagli et al, (2003) November, Missouri, USAI.Valova, N.Gueorguieva, V.Zacharias, Incremental broadcasting as a strategy for multi agent communication, ASME Press Series on Inteligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks (ANNIE 2003), Smart Engineering System Design, eds C. Dagli et al, (2003) November, Missouri, USAI.Valova, N.Gueorguieva, M.Kempka, Feed-forward neural networks with sigmoidal and radial basis hidden neurons, 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, October 5-8, 2003, Washington, D.C., USAN.Gueorguieva, G.Georgiev, I.Valova, Facial expression recognition using feedforward neural networks, Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2002), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, (June) 2003
N.Gueorguieva, I.Valova, Building RBF Neural Network Topology Through Potential Functions. Springer-Verlag Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol.. 27140. Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing (ICANN - ICONIP 2003), Kaynak, E. Alpaydin, E. Oja, L. Xu (Eds.), Istanbul, Turkey, (June) 2003
Dr. Mikolajczak, B., chairperson of Computer and Information Science Department, has recently been accepted for several publications:
B. Mikolajczak, A. Ottlik, Specification of Distributed Software Systems with Actors Using Object-Oriented Petri Nets, Intelligent Information Systems 2002, Advances in Soft Computing, Springer Verlag, Physica Series, 2002, pp.423-434. B. Mikolajczak, Petri Net Approach to Inter-organizational Workflow: A Case Study of Printed Wiring Board Manufacturing with Renew and Woflan, Proc. of the IEEE International Conference Systems, Man, Cybernetics, SMC’02, Tunisia, October 6-9, 2002; IEEE Press. Mikolajczak, B., Wang, Z., Conceptual Modeling of Information Systems using Vicinity Preserving Morphisms, International Symposium “Intelligent Information Systems”, IIS’03, Zakopane, Poland, June 2-6, 2003; Advances in Soft Computing, Springer Verlag, Physica Series, 2003. Mikolajczak, B., Eranosian, G., Gallaghar, G., Performance Study of Parallel Algorithms of LU Decomposition for Dense Matrices, 2003 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, June 23-26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada. Mikolajczak, B., Sefranek, Ch., Integrating Object Oriented Design with Petri Nets – Case Study with SYROCO, SCI’2003, Orlando, Florida, July 27-30, 2003. Mikolajczak B., Sefranek, Ch. Integrating Object-Oriented Design with Petri Nets – A Case Study of ATM System, 2003 IEEE International Conference Systems, Man, Cybernetics SMC’2003, Track on “Petri Nets and Discrete Event Systems”, Washington, DC, Oct. 5-8, 2003, IEEE Computer Society Press.
Mikolajczak, B., Wang Z., Conceptual Modeling of Concurrent Systems through Stepwise Abstraction and Refinement using Petri Net Morphisms, 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER2003, Chicago, Illinois, Oct. 13-16, 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
