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2005 Publications

Alman, Susan W.

• Alman, Susan W., Steffans, Anne, Bryant, Marva. 2005. Race-based Financial Aid: An Overview. In Unfinished Business Race, Equity, and Diversity in Library and Information Science, ed. Maurice Wheeler. Scarecrow.

Biagini, Mary K.

• Biagini, Mary Kay. May-June, 2005. A Sense of Pittsburgh. Knowledge Quest 33(5): 14-16.

Brusilovsky, Peter

• Ahn, J. Brusilovsky, P. Farzan, R. July 24-25, 2005. Investigating Users Needs and Behavior for Social Search. Proceedings of Workshop on New Technologies for Personalized Information Access at 10th International User Modeling Conference (UM 2005). Edinburgh, UK.
• Brusilovsky, P., Farzan, R., Ahn, J. June 7-11, 2005. Comprehensive Personalized Information Access In An Educational Digital Library. Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Denver, CO: ACM Press.
• Brusilovsky, P., Sosnovsky, S. June 27-29, 2005. Engaging students to work with self-assessment questions: A study of two approaches. Proceedings of 10th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2005) 251-255. Monte de Caparica, Portugal: ADM Press.
• Brusilovsky, P., Sosnovsky, S., Shcherbinina, O. July 24-29, 2005. User Modeling in a Distributed E-Learning Architecture. Proceedings of 10th International User Modeling Conference. Edinburgh, UK: Springer Verlag.
• Brusilovsky, P., Sosnovsky, S., Yudelson, M. October 24-28, 2005. Ontology-based framework for user model interoperability in distributed learning environments. Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning (E-Learn 2005). Vancouver, Canada: AACE.
• Brusilovsky, P., Sosnovsky, S., Yudelson, M., Chavan, G. July 18-22, 2005. Interactive Authoring Support for Adaptive Educational Systems. Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2005). Amsterdam: IOS Press.
• Farzan, R., and Brusilovsky, P. July 24-29, 2005. Social navigation support through annotation based group modeling. Proceedings of 10th International User Modeling Conference. Edinburgh, UK: Springer Verlag.
• Ramp, E., De Bra, P., and Brusilovsky, P. October 24-28, 2005. Authoring and delivery of adaptive electronic textbooks made easy. Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning (E-Learn 2005). Vancouver, Canada: AACE.
• Ramp, E., De Bra, P., and Brusilovsky, P. September 6-9, 2005. High-Level Translation of Adaptive Hypermedia Applications. Proceedings of 16th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2005). Salzburg, Austria: ACM Press.
• Sosnovsky, S., and Brusilovsky, P. July 26, 2005. Layered Evaluation of Topic-Based Adaptation to Student Knowledge. Proceedings of Fourth Workshop on the Evaluation of Adaptive Systems at 10th International User Modeling Conference (UM 2005).
• Yudelson, M., and Brusilovsky, P. October 24-28, 2005. Collaborative Paper Exchange. Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning (E-Learn 2005). Vancouver, Canada: AACE.
• Yudelson, M., and Brusilovsky, P. July 18-22, 2005. NavEx: Providing Navigation Support for Adaptive Browsing of Annotated Code Examples. Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2005). Amsterdam, the Netherlands: IOS Press.
• Yudelson, M., Gavrilova, T., and Brusilovsky, P. July 24-29, 2005. Towards user modeling meta-ontology. Proceedings of 10th International User Modeling Conference. Edinburgh, UK: Springer Verlag.

Carbo, Toni

• Carbo, Toni. 2005. Reflections on Librarianship: Values, Ethics, and Practice. In Essays on Librarianship, ed. Norman Horrocks, 19-28. Scarecrow Press.
• Carbo, Toni. June 2005. Information Ethics Education: A Brief Overview of Current Issues. CSI Communications [Computer Society of India Communications] 28 (12): 25-28.
• Carbo, Toni. Summer, 2005. Anonymity in the Digital Age. SciTech Lawyer 4-6.

Cox, Richard

• Cox, Richard. 2005. Archives and Archivists in the Information Age. New York: Neal-Schuman.
• Cox, Richard. 2005. A Minor Nuisance Spread Across the Organization: Factors Leading to the Establishment and Support of Records and Information Management Programs City: Pittsburgh, PA. ARMA International Educational Foundation.
• Cox, Richard. January, 2005. Reading Photographs as Evidence. Records & Information Management Report 21: 11-16.
• Cox, Richard. January-February, 2005. Archival Satisfaction: Writing and the Professional Community. Archival Outlook 10-11.
• Cox, Richard. February, 2005. Truth and the Record in the Post-Truth Society. Records & Management Report 21: 1-13.
• Cox, Richard. March, 2005. Information Technology and the Competitive Advantage. Records & Information Management Report 21: 14-16.
• Cox, Richard. March, 2005. Archiving Archives: Rethinking and Revitalizing a Concept. Records & Information Management Report 21: 1-13.
• Cox, Richard. March, 2005. Recordkeeping in Merry Old England (and Other Places): The Value of a Historical Perspective. Records & Information Management Report 21: 14-16.
• Cox, Richard. March-April, 2005. Reading and Archival Knowledge. Archival Outlook 14, 23.
• Cox, Richard. April, 2005. Censorship and Records. Records & Information Management Report 21: 1-12.
• Cox, Richard. April, 2005. The Resurgence of Scholarly Interest in How People Create Records. Records & Information Management Report. 21: 13-14.
• Cox, Richard. May, 2005. Playing Publisher, Building Knowledge, and Providing Opportunities: Rethinking a Professional Association’s Publications Program. Records & Information Management Report 21: 1-13.
• Cox, Richard. May, 2005. Keepers, One and All. Records & Information Management Report 21: 14-15.
• Cox, Richard. June, 2005. Records on Trial. Records & Information Management Report 21: 14-16.
• Cox, Richard. Spring-Summer, 2005. Lester J. Cappon and the Relationship of History, Archives, and Scholarship in the Golden Age of Archival Theory. American Archivist 68: 74-111.
• Cox, Richard. Spring-Summer 2005. American Archivist Cover Controversy. American Archivist 68: 8-11.
• Cox, Richard. July-August, 2005. Scandal, Scoundrels, and Something Spicy. Archival Outlook 8-9.
• Cox, Richard. September, 2005. Information Technology and Work: A Historical Case Study. Records & Information Management Report 21: 15-16.
• Cox, Richard. October, 2005. A Harmless Whiff of Disturbed Air:” Sound Records. Records & Information Management Report 21: 1-13.
• Cox, Richard. October, 2005. Are There New Information Professionals? Records & Management Report 21: 14-16.
• Cox, Richard. November, 2005. Recordkeeping in Society. Records & Information Management Report 21: 14-16.
• Cox, Richard. December, 2005. The Need for Case Studies —and a Start. Records & Information Management Report 21: 14-15.
• Cox, Richard. 2005. Relacões perigosas: o governo norte-americano e seus arquivos. In Documentos privados de interesse publico: o acesso em questão, 69-88. Sao Paulo: Intituo Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
• Cox, Richard. Fall-Winter, 2005. Public Memory Meets Archival Memory: The Interpretation of Williamsburg’s Secretary’s Office. American Archivist 68: 279-296.
• Cox, Richard, Meister, Barbara, Reynolds, David, and Salsich, Anne. November, 2005. Teaching About Records, Ethics, and Accountability: Three Cases. Records & Information Management Report 21: 1-13.

Detlefsen, Ellen

• Detlefson, E. G. May, 2005. Information Specialist in Context (ISIC): NLM Informationist Fellowship Opportunities. Medical Library Association News 376 (9).
• Detlefson, E. G. Spring, 2005. Who’s Teaching? The Journal of the Research Section of MLA 19 (1): 5. http://gain.mercer.edu/mla/research/hyp05v19n1.pdf.

Druzdzel, Marek

• Anderson, Michael L., Barkovsky, Thomas, Berry, Pauline, Blank, Douglas, Chklovski, Timothy, Domingos, Pedro, Druzdzel, Marek J., Freksa, Christian, Gersh, John, Hegarty, Mary, Leong, Tze-Yun, Lieberman, Henry, Lowe, Ric, Luperfoy, Susann, Mihalcea, Rada, Meeden, Lisa, Miller, David P., Oates, Tim, Popp, Robert, Shapiro, Daniel, Schurr, Nathan, Singh, Push, Yen, John. 2005. Reports on the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium Series. AI Magazine, 26 (2): 87-92.
• Druzdzel, Marek J. February, 2005. Intelligent decision support systems based on SMILE. Journal Software 2.0 2: 12-33.
• Kraaijeveld, Pieter, and Druzdzel, Marek J. June 1-3, 2005. GeNIeRate: An interactive generator of diagnostic Bayesian network models. Working Notes of the 16th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX 05). Monterey, CA, USA.
• Lu, Tsai-Ching, and Druzdzel, Marek J. 2005. Mechanism-based causal models for adaptive decision support. Challenges to Decision Support in a Changing World, Papers from the 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.
• Yuan, Changhe, and Druzdzel, Marek J. 2005. Importance sampling in Bayesian networks: An influence-based approximation strategy for importance functions. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 05). Corvallis, OR: AUAI Press.
• Yuan, Changhe, and Druzdzel, Marek J. 2005. How heavy should the tails be? Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2005), eds. Ingrid Russell and Zdrawko Markov, 799-804. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

He, Daqing

• He, Daqing, and Ahn, Jae-wook. 2005. A Study of Three Relevance Feedback Techniques. Proceedings of Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2005). Gaithersburg, MD.
• He, Daqing, and Ahn, Jae-wook. Pitt at TREC05: Hard and Enterprise. Proceedings of Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2005). Gaithersburg, MD.
• He, Daqing, and Ahn, Jae-wook. 2005. Pitt at CLEF05: Data Fusion for Spoken Document Retrieval. Proceedings of Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2005). Vienna, Austria.

Hirtle, Stephen C.

• Hirtle, S. C. (forthcoming). Landmarks for navigation in humans and robots. In M.E. Jefferies and W.-K. Yeap (Eds.) Spatial Mapping Approaches in Robotic and Natural Mapping Systems. New York: Springer.
• Hirtle, S. C. (forthcoming). Navigation in electronic environments. In G. Allen (Ed.), Applied Spatial Cognition. Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Hirtle, S. C. (forthcoming). Information design for the support of navigation. In J. Portugali (Ed.), Complex Artificial Environments. Berlin: Springer.

Joshi, James B. D.

• Bhatti, Rafae, Joshi, James B. D., Bertino, Elisa, Ghafoor, Arif. 2005. X-GTRBAC: An XML-based Policy Specification Framework and Architecture for Enterprise-Wide Access Control. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 8 (2): 187-227.
• Bhatti, Rafae, Shafiq, Basit, Joshi, James B. D., Bertino, Elisa, Ghafoor, Arif. November 2005. X-GTRBAC Admin: A Decentralized Administration Model for Enterprise Wide Access Control. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 8 (4): 338-423.
• Chandran, Suroop M., Joshi, James B. D. November, 2005. LoT RBAC: A Location and Time-based RBAC Model. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2005). New York.
• Chandran, Suroop M, and Joshi, James B. D. 2005. Towards Administration of a Hybrid Role Hierarchy. IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEE-IRI).
• Joshi, James B. D., Bertino, Elisa, and Ghafoor, Arif. January, 2005. Generalized Temporal Role Based Access Control Model. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 7 (1).
• Joshi, James B.D., Shyu, Mei-Ling, Chen, Shu-Ching, Aref, Walid, and Ghafoor, Arif. 2005. A Multimedia-Based Threat Management and Information Security Framework. In Web and Information Security, eds. Elena Ferrari and Bhavani Thuraisingham. Idea Group.
• Piromruen, Smithi, and Joshi, James B. D. 2005. An RBAC Framework for Time Constrained Secure Interoperation in Multi-domain Environment. IEEE WORDS-2005.
• Shafiq, Basit, Joshi, James B. D., Bertino, Elisa, and Ghafoor, Arif. November, 2005. Secure Interoperation in a Multi-Domain Environment Employing RBAC Policies. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 17 (11): 1557-1577.
• Shafiq, Basit, Masood, Ammar, Ghafoor, Arif, and Joshi, James B. D. 2005. A Role-Based Access Control Policy Verification Framework for Real-Time Systems. IEEE WORDS-2005.

Karimi, Hassan

• Khan, M. N., Odman, M. T., and Karimi, H. A. 2005. Evaluation of Algorithms Developed for Adaptive Grid Air Quality Modeling using Surface Elevation Data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 29 (6): 718-734.
• Yang, L. W., Liu, X; J., Jursa C., Holliman, M., Rader, A. J., Karimi, H. A., and Bahar, I. 2005. iGNM: a database of protein functional motions based on Gaussian Network Model. Bioinformatics 21 (13): 2978-2987.

Koshman, Sherry

• Jansen, B.J., Koshman, S., and Spink, A. October 28-November 2, 2005. Repeat visits to Vivisimo.com: implications for successive Web searching. ASIST 2005. Charlotte, NC.
• Koshman, S. 2005. Testing user interaction with a prototype visualization-based information retrieval system. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 56 (8): 824-833.
• Koshman, S., Spink, A., and Jansen, B.J. July 22-27, 2005. Using clusters on the Vivisimo web search engine. HCI International. Las Vegas.
• Spink, A., Jansen, J., Blakely, C., and Koshman, S. December 12, 2005. Web searcher interactions with multiple federate content collections. Australian Document Computing Symposium. Sydney, Australia.
• Spink, A., Koshman, S., Jansen, B.J., Park, M., and Field, C. April 11-15, 2005. Multitasking web search on Vivisimo.com. IEEEITC. Las Vegas, NV.

Krishnamurthy, Prashant

• Jakllari, G., Krishnamurthy, S., Faloutsas, M., and Krishnamurthy, P. September, 2005. Power Efficient Broadcasting with Cooperative Diversity in Ad Hoc Networks. Proceedings of WPMC 2005. Aalborg, Denmark.
• Kiratiwintakorn, P., and Krishnamurthy, P. December 6-9, 2005. An Energy Efficient Authentication and Key Management Protocol for IEEE 802.11 WLANs. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS). Bangkok.
• Krishnamurthy, P. 2005.Wireless Networks and Standards and Protocol: 802.11. In Handbook of Information Security. John Wiley and Sons.
• Krishnamurthy, P., and Krishnamurthy, S. 2005. Use of Smart Antennas in Ad Hoc Networks. In Ad hoc Networks: Technologies and Protocols, eds. Mohapatra, P., and S. Krishnamurthy. New York: Springer.

Lewis, Mike

• Carpin, S., Wang, J., Lewis, M., Birk, A., Jacoff, A. 2005. High fidelity tools for rescue robotics: results and perspectives. Robocup 2005 Symposium.
• Giampapa, J., Sycara, K., Owens, S., Glinton, R., Seo, Y.,Yu, B., Grindle, C., Xu, Y., and Lewis, M. July, 2005. An Agent-Based C4ISR Testbed. Eighth International Conference on Information Fusion. Philadelphia, PA.
• Glinton, R., Giampapa, J., Owens, S., Sycara, K., Grindle, C., and Lewis, M. July, 2005. Intent Inferencing Using an Artificial Potential Field Model of Environmental Influences. Eighth International Conference on Information Fusion. Philadelphia, PA.
• Hughes, S., and Lewis, M. 2005. Partially guided viewpoint control in virtual environments. Human Factors 47 (3): 630-643.
• Hughes, S. and M. Lewis. 2005. Task-Driven Camera Operations for Robotic Exploration. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part A 35 (4): 513-522.
• Jacobson, J., and Lewis, M. 2005. Game engine virtual reality with CaveUT. IEEE Computer 38 (4): 79-82.
• Nourbakhsh, I., Sycara, K., Koes, M., Young, M., Lewis, M., and Burion, S. 2005. Human-Robot Teaming for Search and Rescue. IEEE Pervasive Computing 72-78.
• Sycara, K., Scerri, P., Giampapa, J., Srinivas, S., and Lewis, M. July 22-27, 2005. Task allocation in teams for launch and range operations. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCII'05). Las Vegas, NV.
• Wang, J., Lewis, M., Hughes, S., Koes, M., and Carpin, S. 2005. Validating USARsim for use in HRI Research. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 49th Annual Meeting.
• Xu, Y., Scerri, P., Yu, B., Lewis, M., and Sycara, K. 2005. An integrated token-based algorithm for scalable coordination. Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'05).

Metzler, Douglas

• Martincic, C., and Metzler, D. P. April 22-23, 2005. An expert system development environment for introductory AI course projects. The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, The proceedings of the Tenth Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeastern Conference. Providence College, Providence, RI.
• Payne, V., and Metzler, D. M. June 23-24, 2005. Hospital Care Watch (HCW), An Ontology and Rule-based Intelligent Patient Management Assistant. Proceedings of The 18th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE CBMS 2005). Trinity College. Dublin, Ireland.

Munro, Paul

• Zheng, L., Munro, P., Gilbertson, J., and Becich, M. J. 2005. K-Means color quantization and run-length feature for image content imaging and abstraction. CBMI-05.

Spring, Michael B.

• Rotondi, A.J., Sinkule, J., and Spring, M.B. March-April, 2005. An Interactive Web-Based Intervention for Persons with TBI and their families: Use and Evaluation by Female Significant Others. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 20 (2): 173-185.
• Spring, M.B., and Grindle, C.E. January 3-6, 2005. A Dynamic Structure for Experiential Data in a Collaboration Marketplace to Manage Tacit and Contextual Knowledge for Reuse. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Big Island, HI.

Taylor, Arlene G.

• Introduction: From Catalog to Gateway to ... (to be published as the introduction to From Catalog to Gateway. Chicago: American Library Association, 2005).
• What Have We Got to Lose? The Effects of Controlled Vocabulary on Keyword Searching Results. (with Tina Gross). (accepted for publication in College & Research Libraries, May 2005).
• Taylor, Arlene G. 2005. Introduction: From Catalog to Gateway to. In From Catalog to Gateway. Chicago: American Library Association.
• Taylor, Arlene G., and Gross, Tina. May, 2005. What Have We Got to Lose? The Effects of Controlled Vocabulary on Keyword Searching Results. College & Research Libraries 66 (3): 212-230.

Thompson, Richard

• Thompson, Richard, and Iqbal, H. October, 2005. Telecommunications, A Discipline of Our Own – 1st Progress Report. ITERA Summit. Las Vegas, NV.
• Thompson, Richard, and Lu, Shi. April, 2005. Routing Based on Operation, Delay, and Capacity. IEEE CQR Workshop.
• Thompson, Richard, and Myakotnykh, E. April, 2005. Actuarially Sizing the Network. IEEE CQR Workshop.
• Thompson, Richard, and Ngamwongwattana, B. April, 2005. Variable Packetization for Reduced End-to-End Delay. IEEE CQR Workshop.
• Thompson, Richard, and Rugsachart, A. April, 2005. Testing Voice Quality and Internet Delay Procedures and Results. IEEE CQR Workshop.

Tipper, David

• Charnsripinyo, C., and Tipper, D. October 17-19, 2005. Topological Design of 3G Wireless Backhaul Networks for Service Assurance. Proceedings Fifth International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks, (DRCN 2005). Ischia, Italy.
• Grover, W., and Tipper, D. 2005. Design and Operation of Survivable Networks. Journal of Network and Systems Management (Special Issue on Designing and Managing Optical Networks and Service Reliability) 13 (1).
• Liu, Yu, Tipper, D., and Siripongwutikorn, P. February, 2005. Approximating Optimal Spare Capacity Allocation by Successive Survivable Routing. ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking 13 (1): 198-211.
• Lu, Y., Tipper, D., and Vajanapoom, K. October 17-19, 2005. Spare Capacity Allocation in Multi-Layer Networks. Proceedings Fifth International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks, (DRCN 2005). Ischia, Italy.
• Siripongwutikorn, P., Banerjee, S., and Tipper, D. September, 2005. Fuzzy Based Adaptive Bandwidth Control for Loss Guarantees. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (Special Issue on Adaptive Learning Systems in Communication Networks) 16 (5): 1147-1162.
• Tipper, D., and Krishnamurthy, P. 2005. A Mobile Applications Course. NSF Engineering and Computing Education Grantee PI Meeting. Washington, DC.

Tomer, Christinger

• Tomer, Christinger. May, 2005. Review of Humanizing Information Technology. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (online preview edition).

Shulman, Stuart

• Beisser, Sally, Shulman, Stuart, Larson, Teresa. 2005. Closing the Digital Divide with Service Learning. Academic Exchange Quarterly 9 (1): 31-35.
• Beisser, Sally, Shulman, Stuart, Larson, Teresa. 2005. Empowerment through Service-Learning: Teaching Technology to Senior Citizens. The Innovation Journal 10 (1).
• Shulman, Stuart. Winter 2004/2005. The Internet Still Might (but Probably Won’t) Change Everything. I/S Journal 1 (1): 111-145.
• Shulman, Stuart. 2005. Whither Deliberation: Mass e-Mail Campaigns and U.S. Regulatory Rulemaking. ICEG 2005: The International Conference on e-Government.
• Shulman, Stuart, Callan, Jamie, Hovy, Eduard, and Zavestoski, Stephen. May 15-18, 2005. Language Processing Technology for Electronic Rulemaking Rulemaking: A Project Highlight. Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on Digital Government Research.
• Shulman, Stuart, Katz, Jonah, Quinn, Courtney, and Srivastava, Paritosh. 2005. Empowering Environmentally-Burdened Communities: An Emerging Role for Information Technology. Local Environment 10 (5): 1-13.
• Shulman, Stuart W. 2005. eRulemaking: Issues in Current Research and Practice. International Journal of Public Administration 28: 1-21.
• Shulman, Stuart W., and Shelley, Mack C. May 15-18, 2005. Give the People What They Want: Research Notes from the Hunt for Better Rulemaking. Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on Digital Government Research.
• Shulman, Stuart W., Thrane, Lisa, and Shelley, Mack C. 2005. eRulemaking. In Handbook of Public Information Systems, ed. David G. Garson, 237-254. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
• Thrane, Lisa, Shulman, Stuart, Shelley, Mack, Beisser, Sally, and Larson, Teresa. 2005. Does Computer Training Translate to E-political Empowerment among Midwestern Senior Citizens? In Young Technologies in Old Hands: An International View on Senior Citizens’ use of ICT, ed. B. Jaeger, 159-173. Copenhagen, Denmark: DJØF Publishing.

Sochats, Ken

• Sochats, Ken, Ponas, Glenn, and Temple, Chris. July 26-31, 2005. GIS in Pittsburgh Public Schools. ESRI International Users’ Conference. San Diego, CA.
• Sochats, Ken, Ponas, Glenn, Temple, Chris, and Regan, Robert. July 26-31, 2005. The Pittsburgh Street Addressing Project. ESRI International Users’ Conference. San Diego, CA.

Weiss , Martin

• Shin, Seung-Jae, Tucci, Jack, Weiss, Martin, and Correa, Hector. April, 2005. 2+2 Tier Banded Frameworks of Interconnectedness: Industry Structure Determinants. Allied Academies Conference. Distinguished Research Award. Memphis, TN.
• Shin, Seung-Jae, and Weiss, Martin BH. April, 2005. Optimal Pricing for Broadband Wireless Internet Access Service. IEEE Communications Society Wireless Telecommunications Symposium. Cal State Pomona.
• Tonmukayakul, Arnon, and Weiss, Martin. 2005. An Agent-based model for secondary use of radio spectrum. IEEE Conference on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN). Baltimore, MD.
• Weiss, Martin, Huang, Kuang, Chiu. September, 2005. Trust in Grids and P2P Systems. International Telecommunications Society Asia Pacific Regional Conference. Perth, Australia.
• Weiss, Martin, and Larsen, Ronald L. September, 2005. Trust in P2P-based Digital Library Systems: An Analysis of the Incentives. International Telecommunications Society Asia Pacific Regional Conference. Perth, Australia.

Zadorozhny, Vladimir

• Sharma, D., Zadorozhny, V., and Chrysanthis, P. 2005. Structural Health Monitoring with Whirlpool. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM). Stanford, CA.
• Sharma, D., Zadorozhny, V., and Chrysanthis, P. 2005. Timely Data Delivery in Sensor Networks using Whirlpool. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks. In conjunction with 31st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB DMSN). Trondheim, Norway.
• Zadorozhny, V., Sharma, D., Chrysanthis, P., and Labrinidis, A. 2005. Data Transmission Algebra for Collision-Aware Scheduling in Sensor Networks. In Formal Methods in Compositional infrastructures of Heterogeneous Distributed Information Systems. Russian Academy of Science.
• Zadorozhny, V., Sharma, D., Krishnamurthy, P., and A., Labrinidis. 2005. Tuning Query Performance in Mobile Sensor Databases. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM). Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
• Zadorozhny, V., Sharma, D., Krishnamurthy, P., and Labrinidis, A. May 9-13, 2005. Tuning Query Performance in Mobile Sensor Databases. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'05). Cyprus.
• Zadorozhny, V., Gal, A., Raschid, L., and Ye, Q. 2005. AReNA: Adaptive Distributed Catalog Infrastructure Based On Relevance Networks. Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB). Trondheim, Norway.

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