CSC'10: July 12, 2010 Schedule

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


08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'10 Opening Remarks - July 12, Monday:
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:40am:  Keynote Lecture - July 12, Monday:
                  Computing With Words and Perceptions - A Paradigm Shift
                  Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
                  Professor EECS & Director BISC; Member, National Academy of
                  Engineering; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, AAAS, AAAI, and IFSA;
                  University of California, Berkeley, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:45 - 10:40am:  Keynote Lecture - July 12, Monday:
                  Search for Life in the Universe
                  Dr. Firouz Naderi
                  Associate Director, Project Formulation and Strategy, Jet
                  Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech/NASA; Head, NASA Mars Exploration
                  Program (2000-2005); Fellow, AIAA; Recipient of NASA's
                  Outstanding Leadership Medal & Space Technology Hall of Fame
                  Medal & NASA's highest award, the Distinguished Service Medal.
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:45 - 11:35am:  Keynote Lecture - July 12, Monday:
                  Looking Ahead at Heterogeneous Systems: A Suppliers Perspective
                  Jon Huppenthal
                  President and Chief Executive Officer, SRC Computers, LLC
                  Co-Founder (with Late Seymour Cray)
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:40a - 12:20p:  Keynote Lecture - July 12, Monday:
                  Cloud Computing: The Next Revolution in Information Technology
                  Prof. Rajkumar Buyya
                  Director, CLOUDS Lab, The University of Melbourne, Australia;
                  CEO, Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd, Melbourne, Australia; Recipient of the
                  2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing;
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:20 - 01:20pm   LUNCH (On Your Own)


01:20 - 03:00pm:  During this period, CSC'10 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to PDPTA'10, GCA'10, BIOCOMP'10, MSV'10,
                  FECS'10, ERSA'10, & FCS'10. These sessions discuss topics that
                  significantly overlap the scope of CSC'10.

03:00 - 03:20pm:  BREAK


SESSION 1-CSC:    NOVEL APPLICATIONS + ALGORITHMS + APPROXIMATION METHODS
                  Chair: George E. Hrabovsky, Madison Area Science and Technology, USA
                  July 12, 2010 (Monday); 03:20pm - 05:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Platinum Room)

03:20 - 03:40pm:  Predictive Modeling of Forecast Uncertainty in the Route
                  Availability Planning Tool (RAPT)
                  John Hayward, Ngaire Underhill, Richard DeLaura
                  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA

03:40 - 04:00pm:  The DIRECT Algorithm Applied to a Problem in Biomechanics with
                  Conformal Mapping
                  David R. Easterling, Layne T. Watson, Michael Madigan
                  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia, USA

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Finite Element Analysis of Backfill Above Buried Corrugated Steel
                  Plate Structure
                  Liu Baodong, Feng Zhimao, Feng Li
                  Beijing JiaoTong University, Beijing, P. R. China

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Autonomous Control of a Flock of 1-Trailer Mobile Robots
                  K. Raghuwaiya, S. Singh, B. Sharma, J. Vanualailai
                  University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Islands

04:40 - 05:00pm:  FREE SLOT

05:00 - 05:20pm:  FREE SLOT


05:20 - 06:00pm:  DISCUSSION/POSTER SESSION A-CSC
                  July 12, 2010 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways of Ballrooms 1-5)

                  O. Stability Properties of a Finite Difference-extrapolation
                     Scheme for the Numerical Solution of Initial Value Problems
                     Adel N. Boules
                     University of North Florida, Florida, USA
                  O. Novel Collaborative Constraints Solving Techniques Case Studies
                     on Synchronizing a MIP Solver and a CP Solver
                     Chendong Li and Yichen Liu
                     University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA;
                     Texas Tech University, Texas, USA
                  O. Least Squares Digital Differentiator Filters (LSDD)
                     Abdulwahab A. Abokhodair
                     King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
                  O. There will also be a number of other papers.


06:00 - 09:00pm:  KEYNOTE & INVITED PRESENTATIONS + TUTORIALS
                  (Please see the lists at the begining of this booklet)


09:10 - 11:30pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER / SOCIAL
                  July 12 - Monday; 9:00pm - 11:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballrooms 1-5)

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