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List of Ph.D. Graduates

Adel Abunawass, 1990,  advisor Ken Magel
     "Solving the Sequential Learning Problem in Neural Networks"

Nagesh Kadaba, 1990, advisor Ken Nygard
     "A Multiparadigm Approach to Vehicle Routing"

Omran Bukhres, 1990, advisor Ken Magel
     "Performance Evaluation in Distributed Database"

Sam R. Thangiah, 1991, advisor Ken Nygard
     "Gideon: A Genetic Algorithm System for Vehicle Routing with Time Windows"

Taesik Kim, 1992, advisor Ken Nygard
     "Artificial Intelligence and Optimization in Air Cargo Routing"

Kirk Anthony Scott, 1992, advisor Bill Perrizo
     "Multi-Way Equijoin Query Acceleration Using Hit-Lists"

Cheng-Hong Yang, 1992, advisor Ken Nygard
     "Genetic Search and Time Constrained Routing"

Ramzi Haraty, 1992, advisor Bill Perrizo
     "Transaction Management in Multilevel Secure Database Systems"

Samy Abunaser, 1993, advisor Ken Magel
     "A Methodology for Expert Systems Testing and Debugging"

Youxian Jin, 1993, advisor Ken Nygard
     "QUICGIS-A Quadcode Based Geographical Information System"

Hossein Hakimzadeh, 1993, advisor Bill Perrizo
     "Object Centered Concurrency Control for Object-Oriented Databases"

Prabhu Ram, 1993, advisor Bill Perrizo
     "Residual Surrogates in Database Query Processing"

Rhonda Ficek, 1993, advisor Ken Nygard
     "Multi-Depot Routing with Genetic Algorithms"

Shahrzad Amirsoleymani, 1993, advisor Bill Perrizo
     "Performance Analysis of Combined Concurrency Control and Commit Protocols in Distributed Database Systems"

Brajendra Nath Panda, 1993, advisor Bill Perrizo
     "Query Processing in Multilevel Secure Database Systems"

Lester McCann, 1994, advisor Bill Perrizo
     "Enhanced Database Concurrency Control in a Supercomputer Vector-Processing Environment"

Ming-Hong Liu, 1994, advisor Vasant Ubhaya
     "O(n) Algorithms for Discrete n-Point Isotonic Approximations Having Integer Values"

Chieh-ying Kan, 1994, advisor Xudong He
     "A Formal Method Combining Petrinets and Algebraic Specification"

Richard S. Walker, 1995, advisor Ken Nygard
     "SchedGen: Heuristics for Customized Airlift Resource Allocation and Scheduling"

Ping Zhong, 1995, advisor Ken Magel
    "A Grammar-Based Approach to Data Structure Oriented Software Testing"

Thomas Gibbons, 1995, advisor Xudong He
     "Unsupervised Categorization of Sequential Data"

Sandra Andersen, 1996, advisor Ken Magel
     "Testing Object-Oriented Programs in an Object-Oriented Manner"

Weili Yao, 1997, advisor Xudong He
     "Implementation of Hierarchical Algebraic Predicate Transition Nets---Issues and Approaches"

Hyun Mee Choi, 1998, advisor Ken Nygard
     "Congestion Avoidance Schemes for ABR Traffic in ATM Networks"

Ronald Marsh, 1998, advisor Paul Juell
     "A Correlation Architecture for Scale and Rotation Tolerant Pattern Recognition"

Daniel Brekke, 1999, advisor Paul Juell
     "Management of Conferences in Wide Area Networks"

Zhili Zhang, 1999, advisor William Perrizo
     "Atomic Commitment and Query Processing in Database Systems over Wide Area Active Networks"

Alex Rousskov, 2000, advisor Valery Soloviev
     "Performance of Web Caching Proxies"

Patrick Paulson, 2001, advisor
     "Using Reinforcement Learning for Similarity Assessment in Case-Based Systems"

Tai-L'Ane Ping, 2001, advisor Paul Juell
     "KASE: A Knowledge and Structure Encapsulated Domain Independent Paradigm"

Kuo-di Jian, 2002, advisor Ken Nygard
     "New Graph Planning Procedure within an Agent Architecture"

Qin Ding, 2002, advisor William Perrizo
     "Association Rule Mining on Remotely Sensed Images Using P-Trees"

Hassan Reza, 2002, advisor Xudong He
     "A Framework to Specify Software Architecture of a System Based on Petri Net Patterns"

Venkata Goli, 2002, advisor William Perrizo
     "Complete Overflow Management Algorithm to Join Large Relation Tables"

Qiang Ding, 2004, advisor William Perrizo
     "Multi-Relational Data Mining using Vertical Database Technology"

Fei Pan, 2004, advisor William Perrizo
     "Comprehensive Vertical Sample-based EIN-ring KNN/LSVM Classification and Applications"

Alaa Abdelghaffar Hassan Attia, 2004, advisor Ken Magel
   "Evaluating Unit Testing Methods"

Hassan Najadat, 2005, advisor Ken Nygard
     "Constraint-Based Clustering Procedure for Data Envelopment Analysis"
 
Curtis Hill, 2005, advisor Brian M. Slator
     "ProgrammingLand:  An Automated System for Computer Science Education"

Baoying Wang, 2005, advisor William Perrizo
     "Comprehensive Density-Based Cluster Analysis"

Dongmei Ren, 2005, advisor William Perrizo
     "Outlier Analysis Using P-Trees"

Imad Rahal, 2005, advisor William Perrizo
     "A Vertical, Extensible Framework for the Scalable Mining of Association Rules"

Stephan Krebsbach, 2005, advisor William Perrizo
     "A Set-Preserving Approach for Developing Invisible Digital Watermarking Methods for Remotely Sensed Satellite Images"

Md Masum Serazi, 2005, advisor William Perrizo
     "A Super-Max Data Mining Benchmark by Vertically Structuring Data"

Syed (Shawon) Rahman, 2006 (Software Engineering), advisor Paul Juell
     "Testing Before Coding  Software Development Method"

Joshua Pauli, 2006 (Software Engineering),
advisor Dianxiang Xu
     "Integrated Decomposition of Functional and Security Requirements for Secure Information Systems"

Taufik Abidin, 2006, advisor William Perrizo
     "Vertical Total Variation for Developing a Scalable Nearest-Neighbor Classifier"

George Hamer, 2006, advisor William Perrizo
     "Vertical Steganography and Steganalysis on Relational Databases"