Computer Science Department

Honors Theses

Wyatt B. Chaffee

A Shared Channel Technique for Optimal Performance in Optical Burst Switched Networks
High Honors; May 2005
Advisor: H. Wang

Anne I. Huang

Strategic Filtering and Analysis of TCP Application Traffic for Improved Network Monitoring
Honors; May 2005
Advisor: B. Lowekamp

Keywan F. Tabatabai

Identifying Web Server's IP Fingerprint
High Honors; May 2004
Advisor: H. Wang

George Zagaris

Orthogonal Unstructured Mesh Generation for Highly Deformable Bodies
Honors; May 2004
Advisor: N. Chrisochoides

Benjamin Cox

ConcernEditor: A Prototype Editor for Software Plans.
Highest Honors; May 2004.
Advisor: D. Coppit

Evan McCreedy

A Fault-Tolerant and Adaptive Implementation of mpiBLAST for Large-Scale or Distributed Heterogeneous Clusters.
High Honors; May 2004.
Advisor: D. Nikolopoulos

Xiomara Maya

Multiple Sequence Alignment with MP-Score.
Honors; May 2003.
Advisor: W. Mao

Eric Davis Rozier

Non-Parametric Estimatiom of the Cumulatine Intensity Function for a Non-Homogeneous Service Process
Honors; May 2003.
Advisor: L. Leemis

Ryan Shipley

On Efficient Skyline Computation
High Honors; May 2003.
Advisor: P. Godfrey

Sam Small

Perceived Bandwidth and Topology-based Clique Selection for Network Monitoring
High Honors; May 2003.
Advisor: B. Lowkamp

Mark A. Fashing

Adventures in Non-photorealism: Creating a Painterly Renderer.
Highest Honors; May 2001.
Advisor: R. Prosl.

Eric J. Koskinen

IP Substitution as a Building Block for Fault Tolerance in Stateless Distributed Network Services.
Highest Honors; May 2001.
Advisor: P. Kearns.

Adam P. Gurson

Simplex Search Behavior in Nonlinear Optimization.
Highest Honors; May 2000.
Advisor: V. Torczon.

Christopher M. Siefert

Model-Assisted Pattern Search.
Highest Honors; May 2000.
Advisor: V. Torczon.

Elizabeth D. Dolan

Pattern Search Behavior in Nonlinear Optimization.
Highest Honors; May 1999.
Advisor: V. Torczon.

Brandon H. Mitchell

Causally Ordered Message Passing in MPI.
High Honors; May 1999.
Advisor: P. Kearns.

Brad Arkin.

Algebraic Structures in Feistel Ciphers and an Analysis of GOST.
Highest Honors; May 1998.
Advisor: W. Bynum.

Jesse L. Chappell.

Unifying the Workstation Cluster: A Kernel-Level Facility for Remote Process Execution and Signaling.
Highest Honors; May 1998.
Advisor: P. Kearns.

Paul N. Pruitt.

An Asynchronous Checkpoint and Rollback Facility for Distributed Computations.
Highest Honors; May 1998.
Advisor: P. Kearns.

Matthew Nash Schmid.

A Multi-Tasking Mobile Robot Operating System Supporting the Subsumption Architecture.
Honors; May 1997.
Advisor: W. Bynum.

Neal Cardwell

Causally-Structured Output Streams for Distributed Computations.
Highest Honors; May 1996.
Advisor: P. Kearns.

Nathan A. Carr

Marching Pyramids: Reconstructing Isosurfaces with Body Centered Cubic Lattice Data.
High Honors: May 1996.
Advisor: Richard Prosl

Brian Dewey

Kernel-Level Implementation of an Encrypting File System.
Highest Honors; May 1996.
Advisor: P. Kearns.

James Thomas Eanes

2D Visualization Algorithms on Random Grids.
Honors: May 1996.
Advisor: Richard Prosl

Craig Chaney

The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Subsumption Architecture in Robotics Programming.
Honors; May 1995.
Advisor: W. Bynum.

Heji Kim

Markov Chain Compaction.
Highest Honors; May 1995.
Advisor: G. Ciardo.

Tin Siladin.

A Scan Conversion Algorithm for Line Segments in 3D Discrete Voxel Space.
High Honors; May 1995.
Advisor: R. Prosl.

Gregory S. Miller.

An Object-Oriented Framework for Compiler Construction.
High Honors; May 1993.
Advisor: R. Noonan.

Bruce R. Childers.

Program Source File Compaction.
Honors; May 1991.
Advisor: P. Kearns.

Daniel W. O'Brien.

Honors; May 1991.
Advisor:

Steven A. Bondi.

Priority Queue Algorithms and the Multi-Server Queue Model.
Honors; May 1990.
Advisor: S. Park.

Stephen J. Harvey.

A Simulation Analysis of Mobile-Servers on a Congested Network.
High Honors; May 1990.
Advisor: S. Park.

David H. Smithgall, Jr.

A Complete Node Address-Based Solid Modeling System.
High Honors; May 1989.
Advisor: R. Prosl.

Emily A. West.

A Blast Protocol for File Transfer in the Ethernet Environment.
High Honors; May 1989.
Advisor: P. Kearns.

Donna L. Wood.

Production Systems in Grammar Form.
Honors; December 1988.
Advisor: R. Collins.

Michael C. Ryan.

The Synthesis of Autonomous Navigation Systems for Mobile Robots.
High Honors; May 1988.
Advisor: W. Bynum.

Evan R. Zweifel.

Extend: An Extensible Compiler System Based on Automatically-Generated Grammars.
High Honors; May 1988.
Advisor: R. Collins.

Michael Jonas.

Opaque Query Optimization and Dataflow in a DBMS Environment.
May 1987.
Advisor: M. Franek.

Christopher D. Payne.

Tangle: An Experimental Environment for Expert Systems Research.
High Honors; May 1987.
Advisor: L. Morell.

Robert D. Rhoad.

A Semantically Driven Database Management System.
Honors; May 1987.
Advisor: W. Bynum.

Curt A. Richter.

micPas: An Experiment in High Level Microprogramming.
High Honors; May 1987.
Advisor: W. Bynum.

Stephen H. Lucas.

Transformational Modeling in Diagnosing Novice Programmer Misconceptions.
December 1986.
Advisor: L. Morell.

Andrew V. Jewell.

PargenPlus: An Introspective, Knowledge-Based LR Parser Generator Supporting Direct State Access and Bi-level Ambiguity.
High Honors; May 1986.
Advisor: R. Collins.

Frederick Stevens.

Object Oriented, Graphics Based, Abstraction Language (OOGBAL).
May 1986.
Advisor: L. Morell.

Sandra L. Whitworth.

New Results on the Change-Making Problem.
High Honors; May 1985.
Advisor: P. Stockmeyer.