The following is the list of recent and upcoming graduate writing
project and thesis defenses. These projects represent the research
to complete the Master's Degree in Computer Science.
Anyone may attend the upcoming defenses.

Friday, May 26, 2006 at 1000 in MH 225
"Implementint Properties as a Built-in Feature of the Java Programming Language" by Alexander Alves
Advisor: Prof. Horstmann, Committee: Prof. Taylor and Prof. Louden

Thursday, May 25, 2006 at 1500 in MH 225
"Quick Pay-Protocol for Online Payment" by Jian Dai
Advisor: Prof. Stamp, Committee: Prof. Pollett and Dr. D. Blockus

Thursday, May 25, 2006 at 0930 in MH 225
"Distributed Channel Assignment Through Load Balancing Techniques" by Steven Licking
Advisor: Prof. M. Moh, Committee: Dr. Chen and Prof. Stamp

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 1800 in MH 424
"JUICE: An SVG Renderint Peer for Java Swong" by Ignatiud Yuwono
Advisor: Prof. Horstmann, Committee: Prof. Pearce and Dr. Martin

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 1400 in MH 225
"Analysis and Detection of Metamorphic Computer Viruses" by Wing Wong
Advisor: Prof. Stamp, Committee: Prof. Chun and Prof. Kim

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 1100 in MH 233
"Agent Based Platform for Wireless Sensor Network Application Development" by Zachary Walker
Advisor: Prof. M. Moh, Committee: Prof. Pearce and Prof. T. Moh

Friday, May 19, 2006 at 1445 in MH 234
"Bluetooth Security Protocol Analysis and Improvement" by Chi Shing Lee
Advisor: Prof. Stamp, Committee: Prof. M. Moh and Dr. D. Blockus

Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at 1400 in MH 223
"Context-Awareness and Usability of Mobile Data Collection Application" by Lenna Slingerland
Advisor: Prof. Chun, Committee: Prof. Araya, and Prof. T. Moh

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 1200 in MH 324
"Data Warehouse Design Based on Granular Computing" by David Jamin
Advisor: Prof. Lin, Committee: Prof. Chun, and Prof. Pollett

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 1300 in DMH 347
"Finding Optimal Reduct for Rough Set by Using C4.5" by Xi Lin
Advisor: Prof. Lin, Committee: Prof. Pollett, and Prof. Lee

Thursday, May 4, 2006 at 1400 in DH 219
"Engineering Enterprise Software Systems Interactive UML Models and Aspect-Oriented Middleware" by Paul Nguyen
Advisor: Prof. Chun, Committee: Prof. Kim, and Prof. Chang (from Computer Engineering)

Tuesday, May 24, 2005. at 1500 in MH 222
"Adaptive Behavior for Fighting Game Characters" by Leo Lee
Advisor: Prof. Pollett, Committee: Dr. Rucker, and Prof. Smith

Tuesday, May 24, 2005. at 1330 in MH 224
"A Surfing Game with Undulating Landscape Driven by Cellular Automata" by Min Yang
Advisor: Dr. Rucker, Committee: Prof. Moh, and Prof. Kirchherr

Tuesday, May 24, 2005. at 1200 in MH 224
"Security Enhancements for Mobil Voice Over IP Sigaling Systems" by Dennis Nieh
Advisor: Prof. Moh, Committee: Prof. Drobot, and Prof. Stamp

Monday, May 23, 2005. at 1500 in MH 235
"A Scriptable XML Editor with Multiple CSS Configurable Views" by Tong Ho
Advisor: Prof. Horstmann, Committee: Prof. Araya, and Prof. Pollett

Monday, May 23, 2005. at 1030 in MH 235
"A Performance Evaluation of Serial ATA" by Robert Lo
Advisor: Dr. Kennedy, Committee: Prof. Moh, and Prof. Chun

Thursday, May 19, 2005. at 1530 in MH 235
"A New Approach to Authentication in Wireless Computing Clusters" by Matthew Thornton
Advisor: Prof. Chun, Committee: Prof. Moh, and Prof. Stamp

Thursday, May 19, 2005. at 1400 in MH 235
"EJB Performance Measurement Frame Work" by Denis Gefter
Advisor: Prof. Chun, Committee: Prof. Pollett, and Rosti Geneler

Wednesday, May 18, 2005. at 0900 in MH 235
"Multicasting of Real-Time Video Streams Over the Internet" by Layla Pezeshkmehr
Advisor: Prof. Moh, Committee: Prof. Lin, and Prof. Drobot

Tuesday, May 17, 2005. at 1400 in MH 235
"Integrating Role Based Access Control into the JXTA Peer to Peer Architecture" by Amit Mathur
Advisor: Prof. Stamp, Committee: Prof. Pollett, and Dr. Blockus

Friday, May 13, 2005. at 1300 in MH 233
"Per-Thread Batch Queues" by Tri Nguyen
Advisor: Prof. Chun, Committee: Prof. Araya, and John Tong

Thursday, May 12, 2005. at 1330 in MH 233
"Metamorphic Software for Buffer Overflow Mitigation" by Xufen Gao
Advisor: Prof. Stamp, Committee: Prof. Pollett, and Dr. Blockus

Thursday, April 28, 2005. at 1200 in MH 235
"Stealthy Ciphertext" by Martina Simova
Advisor: Prof. Stamp, Committee: Prof. Pollett, and Dr. Kennedy

Friday, February 11, 2005. at 1330 in MH 235
"Schemes to Make Aries and XML Work in Harmony" by Thien An Nghuyen
Advisor: Prof. Pollett, Committee: Prof. Moh, and Prof. Lin

Thursday, December 23, 2004, at 1200 in MH 233
"Automatet Database Mapping for EJB 2.0 Container Managed Entity Beans" by Angela Lau
Advisor: Prof. Horstmann, Committee: Prof. Pearce, and Dr. Smolgovsky

Tuesday, December 21, 2004, at 1200 in MH 233
"Proxy Deployment for Application-Layer Multicasting of Video Streams Over the Internet" by Maggie Nguyen
Advisor: Prof. Moh, Committee: Prof. Araya, and Dr. Magnaghi

Tuesday, December 21, 2004, at 1000 in MH 233
"Protocol Specification I D S for MVOIP" by Phu Truong
Advisor: Prof. Moh, Committee: Prof. Drobot, and Prof. Stamp

Monday, December 20, 2004, at 1300 in MH 235
"Wireless Sensor Network Routing Protocols for Biomedical and Environmental Monitoring" by Lan Dung
Advisor: Prof. Moh, Committee: Dr. Martin, and Prof. Stamp

Monday, December 20, 2004, at 1130 in MH 235
"Tree-Based Data Gathering Protocols" by Marie Dumont
Advisor: Prof. Moh, Committee: Prof. Drobot, and Prof. Stamp

Thursday, December 16, 2004, at 1500 in MH 223
"USB Key Profile Manager for Mozilla" by Yun Zhou
Advisor: Prof. Pollett, Committee: Prof. Moh, and Prof. Stamp

Wednesday, December 15, 2004, at 1630 in MH 235
"Privacy Policies for Semantic Web Services: Specification and Matching" by Son Nguyen
Advisor: Prof. Pearce, Committee: Prof. Pollett, and Dr. Denker

Wednesday, December 15, 2004, at 1500 in MH 235
"Feasible C" by Yan Yao
Advisor: Prof. Pollett, Committee: Prof. Agustin, and Prof. Louden

Wednesday, December 15, 2004, at 1300 in MH 233
"Three-Dimensional Cellular Automata " by Harry Fu
Advisor: Prof. Rucker, Committee: Prof. Beeson, and Prof. Pearce

Wednesday, December 15, 2004, at 1300 in MH 235
"An Automata-Based Intrusion Detection System" by Priya Baliga
Advisor: Prof. Lin, Committee: Prof. Chun, and Prof. Drobot

Tuesday, December 14, 2004, at 1400 in MH 222
"Hidden Marker Model for Text Analysis" by Tun Tao Tsai
Advisor: Prof. Stamp, Committee: Prof. Smith, and Prof. Pollett

Thursday, December 9, 2004, at 1330 in MH 322
"Trust for Semantic Web Services" by Andrew Ton
Advisor: Prof. Pearce, Committee: Prof. Pollett, and Dr. Denker

Thursday, December 9, 2004, at 1100 in MH 422
"Authentication by Mouse Movements" by Shivani Hashia
Advisor: Prof. Pollett, Committee: Prof. Stamp, and Prof. Chun

Friday, December 3, 2004, at 1300 in MH 322
"Optimized Schedulint of Jobs Under Memory Constraints" by Meera Belur
Advisor: Prof. Chun, Committee: Dr. Kennedy and Prof. Pollett

Friday, November 19, 2004, at 1500 in MH 233
"Compilation Scheduling Policy with the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine" by Azeem Jiva
Advisor: Prof. Chun, Committee: Prof. Louden and Prof. Pollett


Thursday, November 18, 2004, at 1500 in MH 222
"Distributed Gaming Using J2ME" by Rekha Vaddepalli
Advisor: Prof. Pollett, Committee: Prof. Pearce and Prof. Stamp


Wednesday, November 10, 2004, at 1500 in MH 224
"Tools for Visulizing and Navigating Hierachical Information" by Hung Nguyes
Advisor: Prof. Araya, Committee: Prof. Avila and Prof. Pearce


Monday, June 28, 2004, at 1600 in MH 323
"Distributed Gaming Using XML" by Padmini Paladugu
Advisor: Prof. Pollett, Committee: Prof. Araya and Prof. Rucker

Wednesday, May 12, at 1600 in SH 311
"XML Editor ommands with Multiple Undo/Redo" by Swati R. Pathak
Advisor: Prof. Horstmann, Committee: Prof. Pollett and Prof. Stamp

Wednesday, May 12, at 1900 in MH 223
"Data Mining and Data Warehousing Using Granular Computing" by Hooman Moobed
Advisor: Prof. Lin, Committee: Prof. Pollett and Mr. Eric Louie

Monday, May 17, at 1230 in MH 323
"Organic Molecule Formula to 3D Model (Molecule 3D)" by Charlie Tran,
Advisor: Prof. Chun, Committee: Prof. Drobot and Ms. Hao Nguyen

Tuesday, May 18, at 1330 in MH 235
"A Visual Literate Programming Approach " by Gang Zhang
Advisor: Prof. Horstmann, Committee: Prof. Pollett and Prof. Tseng

Friday, May 21, at 1700 in MH 222
"XML Authoring and Validation" by Nupura Neurgaonkar
Advisor: Prof. Horstmann, Committee: Prof. Pollett and Dr. Martin

Friday, May 21, at 1030 in MH 224
"Energy-Efficiency and Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks" by Eun Jik Kim.
Advisor: Prof. Moh, Committee: Prof. Kennedy and Dr. Gomez


Friday, May 21, at 1300 in MH 224
"Animation of Two Algorithms for the Generation of Phlogenetic Trees" by Hui Xu.
Advisor: Prof. Kirchherr, Committee: Prof. Avila and Ms. Jing Gao

Tuesday, May 25, at 1500 in MH 222
"Paperful to Paperless Integration of Office Forms Framework" by Nupura Neurgaonkar
Advisor: Prof. Pollett, Committee: Prof. Stamp and Prof. Agustin

Wednesday, May 26, at 1200 in MH 222
"Stylesheet Translations of SVG to VML" by Julie Nabong
Advisor: Prof. Pollett, Committee: Prof. Araya and Prof. Chun

Wednesday, May 26, at 1730 in MH 222
"Software Watermarking via Assembly Code Transformations" by Smita Thaker
Advisor: Prof. Stamp, Committee: Prof. Pollett and Dr. David Blockus

Updated Thursday, May 25, 2006