MSV'08: July 14, 2008 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'08 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:35am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  The Parallel Computing Landscape: A Berkeley View 2.0
                  Prof. David A. Patterson
                  Pardee Prof. of CS; Director, RAD Lab & Par Lab; Past
                  President, ACM; Member, National Academy of Engineering;
                  Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow of IEEE, ACM,
                  & AAAS; University of California at Berkeley.
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:40 - 10:25am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  Searching in the "Real World"
                  Prof. Ophir Frieder
                  The Royden B. Davis, SJ, Chair in Interdisciplinary
                  Studies at Georgetown University; IITRI Chair Professor
                  of CS at Illinois Institute of Technology; Director,
                  Information Retrieval lab; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:30 - 11:15am:  Keynote Lecture 3:
                  Achieving your Dreams
                  Anousheh Ansari
                  CEO, Chairman and Co-founder of Prodea Systems, Inc., USA;
                  Space Ambassador
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:15a - 12:00p:  Keynote Lecture 4:
                  Dimensions in Reconfigurable Computing: A New Wave in
                  Electronic System Designs
                  Chris Phillips
                  Vice President of Engineering at ElementCXI, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:00 - 12:40pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)

12:40 - 01:20pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION A-MSV (Refreshments will be available)
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Ballrooms 1-5)

                  O. Microsoft Excel as a Design Tool for Small-Scale Industries
                     (SMI) and Laboratory Purpose in the Field of Power Electronics
                     and Electrical Drives
                     Vinod N. Makwana and Kalpesh J. Chudasama
                     A.D. Patel Institute of Technology, India
                  O. A Mixed Integer Programming Formulation for IC Final Testing
                     Order Selection Problem
                     C. Y. Huang, A. H. I. Lee and T. Y. Chang
                     Ching Yun University, China
                  O. Implementation of FlexRay CC and BG Protocols with Application
                     to a Robot System
                     Yi-Nan Xu, Hyun-Soo Kang, Yong-Eun Kim, Kyung-Ju Cho, & Jin-Gyun Chung
                     Chonbuk National University, Korea


SESSION 1-MSV:    MODELING (Chair: TBA)
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 01:20pm - 02:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 3)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  Modeling the Spread of Mobile Malware
                  Juil C. Martin, Legand L. Burge III, Alfred Marcus &
                  Alicia N. Washington
                  Howard University, USA

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Modeling and Simulation of Human Lumbar Spine
                  Ahmed Sameh and Ayman Kassem
                  The American University in Cairo, Egypt;
                  King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

02:00 - 02:20pm:  A Model for the Economic Costs of Biological Invasion
                  Claudia M. Dias, Simone A. Delphim, Luiz Bevilacqua, and
                  Augusto C. N. R. Galeao
                  National Laboratory of Scientific Computing - LNCC, Brazil;
                  Federal University of ABC, Brazil


SESSION 2-MSV:    TOOLS, TECHNIQUES AND IMPLEMENTATIONS (Chair: TBA)
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 02:20pm - 03:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 3)

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Multiprocessor Simulation Using Communicating Sequential Processes
                  Pranav Vaidya and Jaehwan John Lee
                  IUPUI, USA

02:40 - 03:00pm:  ORUIES: Object Oriented User Interface for Embedded Systems
                  Hytham S. Mousa and William A. Stapleton
                  The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA;
                  Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, USA

03:00 - 03:20pm:  Cascade Vulnerability Problem Simulator Tool
                  Servin Christian and Ceberio Martine
                  UTEP, USA

03:20 - 03:40pm:  BREAK


03:40 - 06:00pm:  During this period, MSV'08 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to PDPTA'08, CSC'08, IPCV'08, CGVR'08,
                  or FECS'08.  These sessions discuss topics that overlap the
                  scope of MSV'08.


06:00 - 09:00pm:  Tutorials (please see the list of tutorials)


09:10 - 11:30pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER & BANQUET KEYNOTE - July 14 (Monday)
                  High Performance Computing and Computational Intelligence: Link
                  to the Translational Medicine and Personalized Healthcare
                  Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
                  Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and
                  National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
                  (LOCATION: Ballrooms 1-5)

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