SERP'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-SERP (Refreshments will be available)
                  July 14 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Ballrooms 1-5)

                  O. Queue Design and Implementation Based on Service Level of NQS
                     Young-Joo Lee, Chan-Yeol Park, Sang-Dong Lee, and Joong-Kwon Kim
                     Korea Institute of Science of Technology Information, Taejon, Korea
                  O. Agile Development: Do Advantages Outweigh Short Comings?
                     Olayemi Olagbegi and Hisham M. Haddad
                     Kennesaw State University, USA
                  O. Quality Evaluation of Web-Sites of Indian e-Commerce Domain
                     Priyanka Tripathi, M Kumar, Namita Shrivastava
                     Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, India 
                  O. Assessment and Measurement Based Framework to Improve Productivity
                     and Predictability in Engineering Projects
                     Annie Abraham, Raghu Subramanian and  Rose Neena Tom
                     HCL Technologies Limited, India
                  O. A New Approach for Solar Analysis of Building
                     Mojtaba Samimi, Laya Parviz Sedghy and Morteza Adib
                     Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran;
                     Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran, Iran


01:20 - 02:20pm:  KEYNOTE:
                  A Formal Framework for Software System Modeling, Analysis and Realization
                  Xudong He; Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA


SESSION 1-SERP:   INTEGRATING HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES
                  Chair: Dr. Vincent Schmidt, Wright Patterson Air Force Base/AFB, USA
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 02:40pm - 04:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 8)

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Introduction to Human Factors Issues for Computing Professionals
                  Vincent Schmidt
                  Wright Patterson Air Force Base (AFB), Ohio, USA

02:40 - 03:00pm:  Eliciting Expectations to Support Initial Trust in Systems
                  Janet E. Miller
                  Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA

03:00 - 03:20pm:  BREAK

03:20 - 03:40pm:  Integrating Cognition into System Design
                  David O'Malley, Jon Zall, John Colombi, and Joe Carl
                  Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Cognitive Design Patterns
                  Christopher R. Hale and Vincent Schmidt
                  Science Applications International Corporation, Dayton, Ohio, USA

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Introduction to Human Factors for Computing Professionals
                  Don West and Vincent Schmidt
                  Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA


SESSION 2-SERP:   CASE STUDIES (Chair: TBA)
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 04:20pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 8)

04:20 - 04:40pm:  A Study of Communication Management in Chinese IT Projects
                  Hareton Leung and Michael Deng
                  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Comments as a Sublanguage: A Study of Comment Grammar and Purpose
                  Bradley L. Vinz and Letha H. Etzkorn
                  University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama, USA

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Domain Analysis: A Case Study of Engineering RFID Systems in Supply Chain
                  Leonardo Barreto Campos and Sergio Donizetti Zorzo
                  FederalUniversity of Vale do Sao Francisco, Brazil

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Automated Defect Prevention with Visual Studio Team System:
                  a Case Study for Software Engineering
                  Dorota Huizinga, David Phung, and Tae Ryu
                  California State University, USA; Boeing Corporation, USA

05:40 - 06:00pm:  FREE SLOT

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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