18. SEDE 2009: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

18th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE-2009), June 22-24, 2009, Imperial Palace Hotel Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Proceedings. ISCA 2009

Data Engineering Applications

Hyun-Jeong Seok, Qiang Zhu, Gang Qian, Sakti Pramanik, Wen-Chi Hou: Deletion Techniques for the ND-tree in Non-ordered Discrete Data Spaces. 1-6
Donna L. Hudson, Maurice E. Cohen: The Electronic Medical Record: A Temporal Multimedia Database. 7-12
Durga Toshniwal, Rishiraj Saha Roy: Using Shape Patterns for Clustering Unstructured Text Documents. 13-18
Mohammed E. El-Telbany, Samah Rafat, Sultan H. Aljahdali: Natural-Inspired Data Clustering: A Hybridization between Ant Clustering and Particle Swarm Optimization. 19-25
Amal Shehan Perera, William Perrizo: Gene Function Prediction. 26-31

Simulation, Interfacing and Agent-Based Systems

Sharad Sharma: Military Route Planning in Battle Field Simulations for a Multi-Agent System. 32-36
Paolo Perego, Luca Maggi, Sergio Parini, Giuseppe Andreoni: BCI++: A New Framework for Brain Computer Interface Application. 37-41
Alejandro Garcés, Ricardo Quirós, Miguel Chover, Hebert Pérez-Rosés, Ianisse Quinzán, Pilar Espinosa: Denotational Semantics for Social Communication among Agents. 42-46
Marwan Sabbouh, Daniel J. Hebert, Caleb Wan, Scott Bennett, Dan Potter: Using Mapping Relations for XML Schema Mediation. 47-54
Panu Silvasti, Seppo Sippu, Eljas Soisalon-Soininen: Processing Schema-Optimized XPath Filters by Deterministic Automata. 55-60

Special Session on Software Engineering Applications and Tools

David T. Brown, Roger V. Hoang, Matthew R. Sgambati, Frederick C. Harris Jr.: An Application for Tree Detection Using Satellite Imagery and Vegetation Data. 61-66
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Sergiu M. Dascalu, Frederick C. Harris Jr.: Software Development Aspects of a Mobile Food Ordering System. 67-72
Ben Seelbinder, Sergiu M. Dascalu: Student's Aid: A Touchscreen Device. 73-78
Kelvin Parian, Joshua Hegie, Andrew Kimmel, Sergiu M. Dascalu, Frederick C. Harris Jr.: WiELD-CAVE: Wireless Ergonomic Lightweight Device for use in the CAVE. 79-84

Software Architecture and Software Quality

Mohamed Oussama Hassan, Laurent Deruelle, Henri Basson: Towards a Change Propagation Process in Software Architecture. 85-90
Danielle Azar, Haidar M. Harmanani, Rita Korkmaz: A Hybrid Heuristic Approach To Optimize Rule-Based Software Quality Estimation Models. 91-98
Pooyan Jamshidi, Fereidoon Shams, Sedigheh Khoshnevis, R. Teimourzadegan, A. Nikravesh: Rearchitecting Meta-modeling Foundation: A Formal Approach. 99-104
Cobra Rahmani, Mansour Zand, Harvey P. Siy, Satish Mahadevan Srinivasan: A Survey on Model Driven Software Development. 105-110

Modeling, UML, and Graphs

Elhillali Kerkouche, Allaoua Chaoui, El Bay Bourennane, Ouassila Labbani: Modeling and Verification of Dynamic Behavior in UML Models: A Graph Transformation Approach. 111-118
Zekai Demirezen, Yu Sun, Jeff Gray, Frédéric Jouault: Supporting Tool Reuse with Model Transformation. 119-125
Anthony A. Hock-koon, Mourad Oussalah: Composite Service MetaModel. 126-131
Pranshu Gupta, David A. Gustafson: Test Suites Effectiveness from Sequence Diagrams and Function Call Trees. 132-137

Data Mining and Databases

Moez Essaidi, Aomar Osmani: Data Warehouse Development Using MDA and 2TUP. 138-143
Ahmed A. Bahjat, Hamoud Al-Jamaan, Mohammad Al-Shayeb: SQL-Guard Design Pattern. 144-148
Tingda Lu, William Perrizo, Yan Wang, Gregory H. Wettstein, Amal Shehan Perera: Experimental Study on Item-based P-Tree Collaborative Filtering Algorithm for Netflix. 149-154
Kemal Taljanovic, Adnan Salihbegovic: An Improved Wave Planning Technique For Material-To-Man Order Picking Operation. 155-160

Special Session on Applications in Software Engineering and Data Engineering

Hacène Fouchal, Antoine Rollet, Abbas Tarhini: Robustness Testing on Composed Timed Systems. 161-167
Narayan C. Debnath, Laura Felice, Maria Carmen Leonardi, María Virginia Mauco, German Montejano, Daniel Riesco: A Strategy to Derive RSL Specification from Feature Models. 168-173
Daniel Riesco, German Montejano, Narayan C. Debnath, Manuel Pérez Cota: Management Automation Specified by SPEM Work Breakdown Element using Workflow Technology. 174-179
Satish Srinivasan, Scott Lancaster, Mansour Zand, Cobra Rahmani: Specifying Requirements for Real-Time Systems. 180-184
Ghassan Filimban, Sultan Aljahdali: Adoption of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to Electronic Commerce: A Statistical Meta-Analysis Approach. 185-193
Narayan C. Debnath, Afsaneh Rahbar, Mehran Mohsenzadeh: Combination of a MANET Data Communication Protocol with a Service Discovery Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks in a Framework. 194-199
S. Changder, Narayan C. Debnath: New Techniques and Algorithms for Text Steganography through Hindi Text. 200-204

Software Security and Programming Techniques

Daniel D. Hein, Hossein Saiedian: Security Requirements Engineering: The Mobile Phones Context. 205-210
Brahma Dathan: Checking for Liskov Substitution Principle Compliance in Java Programs. 211-216
Reza Meimandi Parizi, Abdul Azim Abdul Ghani, Rusli Abdulla, Rodziah Binti Atan: Towards a Framework for Automated Random Testing of Aspect-Oriented Programs. 217-223
Wu-Hsien Shen, Chwen-Tzeng Su: A Metaheuristic to Solve a Traveling Salesman Problem. 224-229

Distributed and Real-Time Systems

Carleton Coffrin, Laurent D. Michel, Alexander A. Shvartsman, Elaine L. Sonderegger, Pascal Van Hentenryck: Optimizing Network Deployment of Formally-Specified Distributed Systems. 230-237
Bechir Alaya, Claude Duvallet, Bruno Sadeg: (m, k)-frame: A Method to Control the Quality of Service in Distributed Multimedia Systems. 238-243
Boris S. Verkhovsky, Roberto D. Rubino: Internal Corporative Security: Protocols Preventing Leakage of Sensitive Information and Assuring Authorized Network Traffic in the Domain of Gaussian Integers. 244-249

Machine Learning

Amal Shehan Perera, D. G. Niroshini Dayaratne, William Perrizo: Evolutionary Nearest Neighbour Classification Framework. 250-255
William Perrizo, Gregory H. Wettstein, Amal Shehan Perera, Tingda Lu: The Universality of Nearest Neighbor Sets in Classification and Prediction. 256-259
James D. McCaffrey: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of Partial Antirandom Testing. 260-265
Ching-Tang Hsieh, Yeh-Kuang Wu, Kuo-Ming Hung, Chih-Yu Chang: A Machine Learning Approach for Watermarking in Dithered Halftone Images. 266-270

Face and Speech Recognition

Ching-Tang Hsieh, Chih-Yu Chang, Min-Nan Hsiao: A Lip Segmentation Using New Threshold Method Towards An Automatic Speech Recognition System. 271-274
Norhaslinda Kamaruddin, Abdul Wahab: Speech Emotion Profiiling for Inter and Intra-Cultural Assessment. 275-280
Ching-Tang Hsieh, Yu-Cheng Lee, Min-Nan Hsiao: Facial Image Aging Synthesis Based on the Log-Gabor Wavelet. 281-284

Face and Emotion Recognition

Ching-Tang Hsieh, Chang-Chu Chen, Min-Nan Hsiao: Face Recognition Based Presentation Checking System. 285-288
Abdul Wahab, Norhaslinda Kamaruddin, Lavan Palaniappan: EEG Signals for Emotion Recognition. 289-294
Ching-Tang Hsieh, Meng-Shian Shih, Min-Nan Hsiao: PSO accelerated 3D face angle searching system for face recognition. 295-