The Sensorium Infrastructure and Projects at BU/CS

sen.so.ri.um \sen-'so-r-e--m, -'so.r-\ \-e--\ n or sensoriums or sen.so.ria [LL, sense organ, fr. L sensus sense] pl : the parts of the brain concerned with the reception and interpretation of sensory stimuli; broadly : the entire sensory apparatus	Computer Science Boston University

This page includes an exhaustive list of all Sensorium-related papers and software artifacts published since 2002. This list has been updated last on July 25, 2006.

Journal and Conference Papers

	V. Athitsos, J. Wang, S. Sclaroff, and M. Betke. Detecting instances of shape classes that exhibit variable structure. In To be published in the Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2006), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Graz, Austria, May 2006. Springer Verlag. 10 pp.
	V. Athitsos, J.B. Wang, M. Betke, and S. Sclaroff. Detecting instances of shape classes that exhibit variable structure. In EECV, number LNCS 3951, pages 121-134, May 2006.
	M. Betke, O. Gusyatin, and M. Urinson. SymbolDesign: A user-centered method to design pen-based interfaces and extend the functionality of pointer input devices. Universal Access in the Information Society, 4(3):223-236, March 2006.
	M. Betke, J. Ruel, G. C. Sharp, S. B. Jiang, D. P. Gierga, and G. T. Y. Chen. Tracking and prediction of tumor movement in the abdomen. In A. Fred and A. Lourenço, editors, Pattern Recognition in Information Systems: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Pattern Recogntion in Information Systems -- PRIS 2006, pages 27-37, Paphos, Cyprus, May 2006. INSTICC Press.
	John W. Byers, Jeffrey Considine, Gene Itkis, Mei-Chin Cheng, and Alex Yeung. Securing Bulk Content Almost for Free. Computer Communications, Special Issue on Internet Security, 29(3), February 2006.
	John W. Byers, Gu-In Kwon, Michael Luby, and Michael Mitzenmacher. Fine-Grained Layered Multicast using STAIR. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, March 2006.
	T. Castelli, M. Betke, and C. Neidle. Facial feature tracking and occlusion recovery in American Sign Language. In A. Fred and A. Lourenço, editors, Pattern Recognition in Information Systems: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Pattern Recogntion in Information Systems -- PRIS 2006, pages 81-90, Paphos, Cyprus, May 2006. INSTICC Press.
	Yevgeniy Dodis, Jonathan Katz, Leonid Reyzin, and Adam Smith. Robust fuzzy extractors and authenticated key agreement from close secrets. In Cynthia Dwork, editor, Advances in Cryptology--CRYPTO 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, 20-24 August 2006.
	Yevgeniy Dodis, Rafail Ostrovsky, Leonid Reyzin, and Adam Smith. Fuzzy extractors: How to generate strong keys from biometrics and other noisy data. Technical Report 2003/235, Cryptology ePrint archive, url http://eprint.iacr.org, 2006. Preliminary version in Advances in Cryptology--EUROCRYPT 2004, volume 3027 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag.
	Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. On the Impact of Low-Rate Attacks. In Proceedings of ICC'2006: The IEEE International Conference on Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.
	Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Small-world Characteristics of Internet Topologies and Multicast Scaling. The Computer Networks Journal (COMNET): The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, 50(5), April 2006.
	Feifei Li, Ching Chang, George Kollios, and Azer Bestavros. Characterizing and Exploiting Reference Locality in Data Stream Applications. In Proceedings of IEEE ICDE'06: The International Conference on Data Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2006.
	Feifei Li, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George Kollios, and Leonid Reyzin. Dynamic authenticated index structures for outsourced databases. In Twenty Fifth ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. ACM, 2006.
	R. Li, M.H. Yang, , and S. Sclaroff. Monocular tracking of 3d human motion with a coordinated mixture of factor analyzers. In EECV, number LNCS 3952, pages 137-150, May 2006.
	Nikolaos Laoutaris and Georgios Smaragdakis and Azer Bestavros and Ioannis Stavrakakis. Mistreatment in Distributed Caching Groups: Causes and Implications. In Proceedings of Infocom'06: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.
	Michael Ocean, Azer Bestavros, and Assaf Kfoury. snBench: Programming and virtualization framework for distributed multitasking sensor networks. In Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Virtual execution environments (VEE 2006), pages 89 -- 99, New York, NY, USA, June 2006. ACM Press.
	M. Shugrina, M. Betke, and J. Collomosse. Empathic painting: Interactive stylization through observed emotional state. In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR 2006), Annecy, France, June 2006. 8 pp.
	Georgios Smaragdakis, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros, and Ioannis Stavrakakis. A Feedback Control Approach to Mitigating Mistreatment in Distributed Caching Groups. In Proceedings of IFIP Networking 2006, Coimbra, Portugal, May 2006.
	Eveline Veloso, Virgilio Almeida, Wagner Meira, Azer Bestavros, and Shudong Jin. A Hierarchical Characterization of a Live Streaming Media Workload. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 14(1), February 2006.
	Richard West and Gabriel Parmer. Application-specific service technologies for commodity operating systems in real-time environments. In Proceedings of the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), San Jose, California, April 2006.
	Richard West and Gabriel Parmer. Application-specific service technologies for commodity operating systems in real-time environments. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2006.
	J. Alon, V. Athitsos, and S. Sclaroff. Accurate and efficient gesture spotting via pruning and subgesture reasoning. In Hand and Gesture (Proc. IEEE Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction), volume 3766 of LNCS, pages 189-198. Springer Verlag, October 2005.
	J. Alon, V. Athitsos, and S. Sclaroff. Online and offline character recognition using alignment to prototypes. In Proc. International Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), pages 839-845, August 2005.
	J. Alon, V. Athitsos, and S. Sclaroff. Simultaneous localization and recognition of dynamic hand gestures. In Proc. IEEE Motion Workshop, pages 254-260, 2005.
	V. Athitsos and S. Sclaroff. Boosting nearest neighbor classifiers for multiclass recognition. In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Learning in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages 45-52, June 2005.
	V. Athitsos, J. Alon, and S. Sclaroff. Efficient nearest neighbor classification using a cascade of approximate similarity measures. In Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), volume 1, pages 486-493, June 2005.
	V. Athitsos, J. Alon, S. Sclaroff, and G. Kollios. Filtering methods for similarity-based multimedia retrieval. In Proc. Seventh International Workshop of the EU Network of Excellence DELOS on AUdio-Visual Content and Information Visualization in Digital Libraries (AVIVDiLib), pages 77-86, 2005.
	V. Athitsos, M. Hadjieleftheriou, G. Kollios, and S. Sclaroff. Query-sensitive embeddings. In Proc. ACM Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 706-717, June 2005.
	Adam Bakewell and Assaf J. Kfoury. Properties of a rewrite system for unification with expansion variables. Technical report, Department of Computer Science, Boston University, April 2005. (PostScript) (PDF)
	Adam Bakewell, Sébastien Carlier, A. J. Kfoury, and J. B. Wells. Inferring intersection typings that are equivalent to call-by-name and call-by-value evaluations. Technical report, Department of Computer Science, Boston University, April 2005. (PostScript) (PDF)
	Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Assaf Kfoury, and Ibrahim Matta. Typed Abstraction of Complex Network Compositions. In Proceedings of ICNP'05: The 13th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Boston, MA, November 2005.
	Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Assaf Kfoury, and Michael Ocean. SNBENCH: A Development and Run-Time Platform for Rapid Deployment of Sensor Network Applications. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Broadband Advanced Sensor Networks (Basenets 2005), Boston, MA, October 2005.
	Azer Bestavros, John Byers, and Khaled Harfoush. Inference and Labeling of Metric-Induced Network Topologies. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 16(10), October 2005.
	M. Betke, O. Gusyatin, and M. Urinson. SymbolDesign: A user-centered method to design pen-based interfaces and extend the functionality of pointer input devices. Universal Access in the Information Society, 2005. In print.
	Melissa Chase, Alexander Healy, Anna Lysyanskaya, Tal Malkin, and Leonid Reyzin. Mercurial commitments with applications to zero-knolwedge sets. In Ronald Cramer, editor, Advances in Cryptology--EUROCRYPT 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 422-439. Springer-Verlag, 2005.
	Chiyan Chen and Hongwei Xi. Meta-Programming through Typeful Code Representation. Journal of Functional Programming, 15(6):797-835, 2005.
	Chiyan Chen, Rui Shi, and Hongwei Xi. Implementing Typeful Program Transformations. Fundamenta Informaticae, 69(1-2):103-121, 2005.
	David B. Chua, Eric D. Kolaczyk, and Mark Crovella. Efficient monitoring of end-to-end network properties. In Proceedings of Infocom 2005, Mar 2005.
	David B. Chua, Eric D. Kolaczyk, and Mark Crovella. A statistical framework for efficient monitoring of end-to-end network properties. In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS (Poster Paper), June 2005.
	Sa Cui, Kevin Donnelly, and Hongwei Xi. ATS: A Language That Combines Programming with Theorem Proving. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems, pages 310-320, Vienna, Austria, September 2005.
	Nenad Dedic, Gene Itkis, Leonid Reyzin, and Scott Russell. Upper and lower bounds on black-box steganography. In Joe Kilian, editor, First Theory of Cryptography Conference --- TCC 2005, volume 3378 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 227-244. Springer-Verlag, February 10-12 2005.
	Kevin Donnelly and Hongwei Xi. Combining higher-order abstract syntax with first-order abstract syntax in ATS. In MERLIN '05: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Mechanized reasoning about languages with variable binding, pages 58-63, New York, NY, USA, 2005. ACM Press.
	Benoit Donnet, Timur Friedman, and Mark Crovella. Improved algorithms for network topology discovery. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM2005), Mar 2005.
	Benoit Donnet, Philippe Raoult, Timur Friedman, and Mark Crovella. Efficient algorithms for large-scale topology discovery. In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, June 2005.
	U.M. Erdem and S. Sclaroff. Look there! Predicting where to look for motion in an active camera network. In Proc. IEEE Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), pages 105-110, September 2005.
	Nahur Fonseca and Mark Crovella. Bayesian packet loss detection for TCP. In Proceedings of Infocom 2005, Mar 2005.
	Rodrigo Fonseca, Virgílio Almeida, and Mark Crovella. Locality in a web of streams. Communications of the ACM, 48(1):82-88, Jan 2005.
	Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Exogenous-Loss Aware Traffic Management in Overlay Networks: Toward Global Fairness. The Computer Networks Journal (COMNET): The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, 2005.
	Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, and Yuting Zhang. Reduction of Quality (RoQ) Attacks on Internet End-Systems. In Proceedings of Infocom'05: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, Miami, Florida, March 2005.
	Gene Itkis, Robert McNerney, and Scott Russell. Intrusion-resilient secure channels. Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2005/114, 2005. `http://eprint.iacr.org/2005/114`.
	Gene Itkis, Robert McNerney, and Scott Russell. Intrusion-resilient secure channels. In John Ioannidis, Angelos Keromytis, and Moti Yung, editors, Applied Cryptography and Network Security, Third International Conference, ACNS 2005, New York, NY, USA, June 7-10, 2005, Proceedings, volume 3531 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 238-253, 2005.
	Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Small-world Characteristics of Internet Topologies and Multicast Scaling. The Computer Networks Journal (COMNET): The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, 2005.
	G. Kollios, D. Papadopoulos D. Gunopulos, and V. Tsotras. Indexing mobile objects using dual transformations. VLDB Journal, 14(2):238-256, April 2005.
	Anukool Lakhina, Mark Crovella, and Christophe Diot. Mining anomalies using traffic feature distributions. In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2005, August 2005.
	K.M. Law and S. Sclaroff. Foreground object segmentation from binocular stereo video. In Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXIII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision (Proc. of SPIE), pages C1-C8, November 2005.
	R. Li and S. Sclaroff. Multi-scale 3D scene flow from binocular stereo sequences. In Proc. IEEE Motion Workshop, pages 147-153, 2005.
	J. J. Magee, M. Betke, M. R. Scott, and B. N. Waber. A real-time vision interface based on gaze detection -- EyeKeys. In B. Kisacanin, V. Pavlovic, and T. S. Huang, editors, Real-Time Vision for Human-Machine Interaction. Springer Verlag, 2005. In press.
	Hany Morcos, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. M2RC: Multiplicative-increase/additive-decrease Multipath Routing Control for Wireless Sensor Networks. ACM SIGBED Review, Special Issue on the Best of SenSys 2004, 2(1), January 2005.
	W. Nunziati, J. Alon, S. Sclaroff, and A. del Bimbo. View registration using interesting segments of planar trajectories. In Proc. IEEE Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), pages 75-80, September 2005.
	W. Nunziati, S. Sclaroff, and A. del Bimbo. An invariant representation for matching trajectories across uncalibrated video streams. In Video Processing, Retrieval, and Multimedia Systems (Proc. Conf. on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR)), volume 3568 of LNCS, pages 318-327. Springer Verlag, July 2005.
	P. Papapetrou, G. Kollios, S. Sclaroff, and D. Gunopulos. Discovering frequent arrangements of temporal intervals. In Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM), pages 354-361, November 2005.
	Niky Riga, Alberto Medina, Ibrahim Matta, Craig Partridge, Jason Redi, and Isidro Castineyra. Transport Services for Energy Constrained Environments. In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'05, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005. Work-in-progress Session.
	S. Sclaroff, M. Betke, G. Kollios, J. Alon, V. Athitsos, R. Li, J. Magee, and T.-P. Tian. Tracking, analysis, and recognition of human gestures in video. In Proc. International Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), pages 806-810, August 2005.
	Abhishek Sharma, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. dPAM: A Distributed Prefetching Protocol for Scalable Asynchronous Multicast in P2P Systems. In Proceedings of Infocom'05: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, Miami, Florida, March 2005.
	Augustin Soule, Anukool Lakhina, Nina Taft, Konstantina Papagiannaki, Kave Salamatian, Antonio Nucci, Mark Crovella, and Christophe Diot. Traffic matrices: Balancing measurements, inference and modeling. In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, June 2005.
	A. Thangali and S. Sclaroff. Periodic motion detection and estimation via space-time sampling. In Proc. IEEE Motion Workshop, pages 176-182, 2005.
	T.P. Tian and S. Sclaroff. Hand signals recognition from video using 3D motion capture archive. In Proc. IEEE Motion Workshop, pages 189-194, 2005.
	T.P. Tian, R. Li, and S. Sclaroff. Articualted pose estimation in a learned smooth space of feasible solutions. In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Learning in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages 50-57, June 2005.
	M. Vlachos, G. Kollios, and D. Gunopulos. Elastic translation invariant matching of trajectories. Machine Learning Journal, 58(2):301-334, February 2005.
	B. N. Waber, J. J. Magee, and M. Betke. Fast head tilt detection for human-computer interaction. In Proceedings of the ICCV Workshop on Human Computer Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Beijing, China, October 2005. Springer Verlag. 10 pp.
	J. Wang, E. Gu, and M. Betke. MosaicShape: Stochastic region grouping with shape prior. In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society International Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), pages 902-908, San Diego, CA, June 2005.
	Richard West and Gerald Fry. Comparison of k-ary n-cube and de bruijn overlays in qos-constrained multicast applications. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Applications (PDPTA), June 2005.
	Richard West and Gary Wong. Cuckoo: a language for implementing memory- and thread-safe system services. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Programming Languages and Compilers, June 2005.
	Q. Yuan, S. Sclaroff, and V. Athitsos. Automatic 2D hand tracking in video sequences. In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), pages 250-256, 2005.
	Q. Yuan, A. Thangali, and S. Sclaroff. Face identification by a cascade of rejection classifiers. In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Face Recognition Grand Challenge Experiments, pages 152-159, June 2005.
	Yuting Zhang, Azer Bestavros, Mina Guirguis, Ibrahim Matta, and Richard West. Friendly Virtual Machines: Leveraging a Feedback-Control Model for Application Adaptation. In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM/USENIX Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, Chicago, Illinois, June 2005.
	Dengping Zhu and Hongwei Xi. Safe Programming with Pointers through Stateful Views. In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, pages 83-97, Long Beach, CA, January 2005. Springer Verlag LNCS vol. 3350.
	V. Athitsos, J. Alon, S. Sclaroff, and G. Kollios. Boostmap: A method for efficient approximate similarity rankings. In Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pages II:268-275, 2004.
	Adam Bakewell and Assaf J. Kfoury. Unification with expansion variables. Technical report, Department of Computer Science, Boston University, December 2004. (PostScript) (PDF)
	Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Assaf Kfoury, and Ibrahim Matta. Safe Compositional Specification of Networking Systems. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), 34(3), July 2004.
	Adam Bradley, Azer Bestavros, and Assaf Kfoury. A Typed Model for Encoding-Based Protocol Interoperability. In Proceedings of ICNP'04: The 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Berlin, Germany, October 2004.
	D. Buzan and S. Sclaroff. Extraction and clustering of motion trajectories in video. In IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pages II:512-524, 2004.
	John W. Byers, Jeffrey Considine, and Michael Mitzenmacher. Geometric Generalizations of the Power of Two Choices. In Proceedings of ACM SPAA 2004, June 2004.
	M. La Cascia, L. Valenti, and S. Sclaroff. Fully automatic, real-time detection of facial gestures from generic video. In Proc. IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2004.
	Chiyan Chen, Rui Shi, and Hongwei Xi. A Typeful Approach to Object-Oriented Programming with Multiple Inheritance. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, pages 23-38, Dallas, TX, June 2004. Springer Verlag LNCS vol. 3057.
	Chiyan Chen, Dengping Zhu, and Hongwei Xi. Implementing Cut Elimination: A Case Study of Simulating Dependent Types in Haskell. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, pages 239-254, Dallas, TX, June 2004. Springer Verlag LNCS vol. 3057.
	J. Considine, F. Li, G. Kollios, and J. Byers. Approximate aggregation techniques for sensor databases. In Proc. of the20th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2004.
	Gali Diamant, Leonid Veytser, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros, Mina Guirguis, Liang Guo, Yuting Zhang, and Sean Chen. itmBench: Generalized API for Internet Traffic Managers. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Globecom Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD'04), Austin, Texas, November 2004.
	Yevgeniy Dodis, Leonid Reyzin, and Adam Smith. Fuzzy extractors: How to generate strong keys from biometrics and other noisy data. In Christian Cachin and Jan Camenisch, editors, Advances in Cryptology--EUROCRYPT 2004, volume 3027 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, 2004.
	M. Erdem and S. Sclaroff. Optimal placement of cameras in floorplans to satisfy task requirements. In Proc. Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision, Camera Networks, and Non-classical Cameras (OMNIVIS), pages 30-41, 2004.
	Vijay Erramilli, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. On the Interaction between Data Aggregation and Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the First IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (IEEE SECON 2004), Santa Clara, CA, October 2004.
	Gerald Fry and Richard West. Adaptive routing of QoS-constrained media streams over scalable overlay topologies. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), May 2004.
	Gerald Fry and Richard West. Dynamic characteristics of k-ary n-cube networks for real-time communication. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Communications in Computing, June 2004.
	Bamba Gueye, Artur Ziviani, Mark Crovella, and Serge Fdida. Constraint-based geolocation of Internet hosts. In Proceedings of the ACM/SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, pages 288-293, October 2004.
	Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Bandwidth Stealing via Link-targeted RoQ Attacks. In Proceedings of CCN'04: IASTED International Conference on Communication and Computer Networks, MIT, Cambridge, MA, November 2004.
	Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Exploiting the Transients of Adaptation for RoQ Attacks on Internet Resources. In Proceedings of ICNP'04: The 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Berlin, Germany, October 2004.
	Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Routing Tradeoffs inside a d-dimensional Torus with applicability to CAN. In Proceedings of the 1st International Computer Engineering Conference New Technologies for the Information Society (ICENCO'04), Cairo, Egypt, December 2004.
	Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Niky Riga, Gali Diamant, and Yuting Zhang. Providing Soft Bandwidth Guarantees Using Elastic TCP-based Tunnels. In Proceedings of ISCC'04: IEEE Symposium on Computer and Communications, Alexandria, Egypt, 2004.
	O. Gusyatin, M. Urinson, and M. Betke. A method to extend functionality of pointer input devices. In C. Stary and C. Stephanidis, editors, Proceedings of the 8th International ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3196, pages 426-439. Springer Verlag, Vienna, Austria, June 2004.
	Oleg Gusyatin, Mikhail Urinson, and Margrit Betke. A method to extend functionality of pointer input devices. In Proc. 8th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, 2004.
	Chun-Yuan Hsiao and Leonid Reyzin. Finding collisions on a public road, or do secure hash functions need secret coins. In Matt Franklin, editor, Advances in Cryptology--CRYPTO 2004, volume 3152 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 92-105. Springer-Verlag, 15-19 August 2004.
	V. Kriakov, A. Delis, and G. Kollios. Management of highly dynamic multidimensional data in a cluster of workstations. In Proc. of the 9th Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2004.
	Raj Krishnamurthy, Sudhakar Yalamanchili, Karsten Schwan, and Richard West. Sharestreams: A scalable architecture and hardware support for high-speed qos packet schedulers. In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, April 2004.
	G. Kwon and J. Byers. ROMA: Reliable Overlay Multicast with Loosely Coupled TCP Connections. In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Hong Kong, March 2004.
	Anukool Lakhina, Mark Crovella, and Christophe Diot. Characterization of network-wide anomalies in traffic flows. In Proceedings of the ACM/SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, pages 201-206, October 2004.
	Anna Lysyanskaya, Silvio Micali, Leonid Reyzin, and Hovav Shacham. Sequential aggregate signatures from trapdoor permutations. In Christian Cachin and Jan Camenisch, editors, Advances in Cryptology--EUROCRYPT 2004, volume 3027 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 74-90. Springer-Verlag, 2004.
	J. J. Magee, M. R. Scott, B. N. Waber, and M. Betke. EyeKeys: A real-time vision interface based on gaze detection from a low-grade video camera. In IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction (RTV4HCI), Washington, D.C., July 2004. IEEE Computer Society. 8 pp.
	Nikos Mamoulis, Huping Cao, George Kollios, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, Yufei Tao, and David Cheung. Mining, indexing, and querying historical spatio-temporal data. In Proc. ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), 2004.
	Silvio Micali and Leonid Reyzin. Physically observable cryptography (extended abstract). In Moni Naor, editor, First Theory of Cryptography Conference --- TCC 2004, volume 2951 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 278-296. Springer Verlag, February 19-21 2004. Available from `http://www.cs.bu.edu/fac/reyzin/research.html`.
	Hany Morcos, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. M2RC: Multiplicative-increase/additive-decrease Multipath Routing Control for Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM SenSys '04), Baltimore, Maryland, November 2004. Short Paper.
	Gabriel Parmer, Richard West, Xin Qi, Gerald Fry, and Yuting Zhang. An internet-wide distributed system for data-stream processing. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'04), June 2004.
	Xin Qi, Gabriel Parmer, and Richard West. An efficient end-host architecture for cluster communication services. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster '04), September 2004.
	Leonid Reyzin. A Note On the Statistical Difference of Small Direct Products. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2004-032, CS Department, Boston University, September 21 2004. Available from `http://www.cs.bu.edu/techreports/`.
	Niky Riga, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. DIP: Density Inference Protocol for wireless sensor networks and its application to density-unbiased statistics. In Proceedings of SANPA'04: Second International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications, Boston, MA, August 2004.
	Abhishek Sharma, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Performance Evaluation of Distributed Prefetching for Asynchronous Multicast in P2P Networks. In Proceedings of WCW'04: The 9th International Workshop on Web Caching And Content Distribution, Beijing, China, October 2004.
	Georgios Smaragdakis, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. SEP: A Stable Election Protocol for clustered heteregeneous wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of SANPA'04: Second International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications, Boston, MA, August 2004.
	Liying Tang and Mark Crovella. Geometric exploration of the landmark selection problem. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3015, Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM2004), pages 63-72, April 2004.
	Y. Tao, G. Kollios, J. Considine, F. Li, and D. Papadias. Spatio-temporal aggregation using sketches. In Proc. of the20th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2004.
	Richard West, Yuting Zhang, Karsten Schwan, and Christian Poellabauer. Dynamic window-constrained scheduling of real-time streams in media servers. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 53(6):744-759, June 2004.
	Hongwei Xi. Applied Type System (extended abstract). In post-workshop Proceedings of TYPES 2003, pages 394-408. Springer Verlag LNCS 3085, 2004.
	Yuting Zhang and Richard West. End-to-end window-constrained scheduling for real-time communication. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA'04), August 2004.
	Yuting Zhang, Richard West, and Xin Qi. A virtual deadline scheduler for window-constrained service guarantees. In Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), December 2004.
	J. Alon, S. Sclaroff, G. Kollios, and V. Pavlovic. Discovering clusters in motion time series data. In Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2003.
	V. Athitsos and S. Sclaroff. Database indexing methods for 3D hand pose estimation. In Proc. 5th International Workshop on Gesture and Sign Language based Human-Computer Interaction, 2003.
	V. Athitsos and S. Sclaroff. Estimating 3D hand pose from a cluttered image. In Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2003.
	Azer Bestavros and Shudong Jin. OSMOSIS: Scalable Delivery of Real-Time Streaming Media in Ad-Hoc Overlay Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE ICDCS'03 Workshop on Data Distribution in Real-Time Systems, Providence, RI, May 2003.
	Adam Bradley, Azer Bestavros, and Assaf Kfoury. Systematic Verification of Safety Properties of Arbitrary Network Protocol Compositions Using CHAIN. In Proceedings of ICNP'03: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Atlanta, GA, November 2003.
	J. W. Byers, J. Considine, and M. Mitzenmacher. Simple load balancing for distributed hash tables. In Proc. of 2nd Int'l Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS), pages 31-35, Berkeley, CA, February 2003.
	Chiyan Chen and Hongwei Xi. Implementing Typeful Program Transformations. In Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Semantics Based Program Manipulation, pages 20-28, San Diego, CA, June 2003.
	Chiyan Chen and Hongwei Xi. Meta-Programming through Typeful Code Representation. In Proceedings of the Eighth ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, pages 275-286, Uppsala, Sweden, August 2003.
	Jeffrey Considine, John W. Byers, and Ketan Mayer-Patel. A case for testbed embedding services. In Proceedings of HotNets-II, November 2003.
	S. Crampton and M. Betke. Counting fingers in real time: A webcam-based human-computer interface with game applications. In Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (UA-HCI), pages 1357-1361, Crete, Greece, June 2003.
	Gerald Fry and Richard West. Adaptive routing of qos-constrained media streams over scalable overlay topologies. In IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (work-in-progrss), December 2003. Full version in IEEE RTAS, May 2004.
	K. Grauman, M. Betke, J. Lombardi, J. Gips, and G. R. Bradski. Communication via eye blinks and eyebrow raises: Video-based human-computer interfaces. International Journal Universal Access in the Information Society, 2(4):359-373, November 2003.
	Liang Guo and Ibrahim Matta. Search Space Reduction in QoS Routing. Computer Networks, 41(1), January 2003.
	M. Hadjieleftheriou, G. Kollios, V. Tsotras, and D. Gunopulos. On-line discovery of dense areas in spatio-temporal databases. In Proc. of the 8th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), 2003.
	Khaled Harfoush, Azer Bestavros, and John Byers. Measuring Bottleneck Bandwidth of Targeted Path Segments. In Proceedings of Infocom'03: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, San Fransisco, CA, May 2003.
	J. Isidoro and S. Sclaroff. Stochastic refinement of the visual hull to satisfy photometric and silhouette consistency constraints. In Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), pages 1335-1342, 2003.
	Gene Itkis. Cryptographic tamper evidence. In 10th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security. ACM, October 27-30 2003. Available from `http://www.cs.bu.edu/fac/itkis/papers.html`.
	Gene Itkis and Peng Xie. Generalized key-evolving signatures, or how to foil an armed adversary. In 1st MiAn International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security. Springer Verlag, 2003. Available from `http://www.cs.bu.edu/fac/itkis/papers.html`.
	Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Small-world Characteristics of Internet Topologies and Multicast Scaling. In Proceedings of Mascots'2003: The IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Orlando, FL, October 2003.
	Shudong Jin, Liang Guo, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. A Spectrum of TCP-friendly Window-based Congestion Control Algorithms. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 11(3), June 2003.
	G. Kollios, D. Gunopulos, N. Koudas, and S. Berchtold. Efficient biased sampling for approximate clustering and outlier detection in large datasets. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 15(5), September 2003.
	Raj Krishnamurthy, Karsten Schwan, Richard West, and Marcel Rosu. On network coprocessors for scalable, predictable media services. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 14(7):655-670, July 2003.
	G.-I. Kwon and J. W. Byers. Smooth multirate multicast congestion control. In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, San Francisco, CA, April 2003.
	Walid Taha, Stephan Ellner, and Hongwei Xi. Generating Imperative, Heap-Bounded Programs in a Functional Setting. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Embedded Software, pages 340-355, Philadelphia, PA, October 2003. Springer Verlag LNCS 2855.
	Liying Tang and Mark Crovella. Virtual landmarks for the Internet. In Proceedings of the ACM/SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Confer ence 2003, October 2003.
	Hongwei Xi. Dependently Typed Pattern Matching. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 9(8):851-872, 2003.
	Hongwei Xi. Facilitating Program Verification with Dependent Types. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, pages 72-81, Brisbane, Australia, September 2003.
	J. Zhong and S. Sclaroff. Segmenting foreground objects from a dynamic textured background via a robust Kalman filter. In Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), pages 44-50, 2003.
	Dengping Zhu and Hongwei Xi. A Typeful and Tagless Representation for XML Documents. In Proceedings of the First Asian Symposium on Programming Languages a nd Systems, pages 89-104, Beijing, China, November 2003. Springer Verlag LNCS 2895.
	Dhiman Barman and Ibrahim Matta. Effectiveness of Loss Labeling in Improving TCP Performance in Wired/Wireless Networks. In Proceedings of ICNP'2002: The 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Paris, France, November 2002.
	Azer Bestavros, John Byers, and Khaled Harfoush. Inference and Labeling of Metric-Induced Network Topologies. In Proceedings of Infocom'02: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, New York, NY, June 2002.
	J. W. Byers, J. Considine, M. Mitzenmacher, and S. Rost. Informed content delivery across adaptive overlay networks. In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, pages 47-60, Pittsburgh, PA, August 2002.
	J.W. Byers, G. Horn, M. Luby, M. Mitzenmacher, and W. Shaver. FLID-DL: Congestion Control for Layered Multicast. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 20(8):1558-1570, October 2002.
	J.W. Byers, M. Luby, and M. Mitzenmacher. A digital fountain approach to asynchronous reliable multicast. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 20(8):1528-1540, October 2002.
	R. L. Cloud, M. Betke, and J. Gips. Experiments with a camera-based human-computer interface system. In 7th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, pages 103-110, Paris, France, October 2002.
	S. Crampton and M. Betke. Finger counter: A human-computer interface. In 7th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, pages 195-195, Paris, France, October 2002.
	C. Fagiani, M. Betke, and J. Gips. Evaluation of tracking methods for human-computer interaction. In IEEE Workshop on Applications in Computer Vision, pages 121-126, Orlando, Florida, December 2002.
	J. Gips, P. DiMattia, and M. Betke. Collaborative development of new access technology and communication software. In Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC 2002), Odense, Denmark, August 2002.
	M. Hadjieleftheriou, V. Kriakov, Y. Tao, G. Kollios, A. Delis, and V. Tsotras. Spatio-temporal data services in a shared-nothing environment. In Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), June 2002.
	J. Isidoro and S. Sclaroff. Stochastic mesh-based multiview reconstruction. In Proc. International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission, pages 568-577, June 2002.
	Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Cache and Relay Streaming Media Delivery for Asynchronous Clients. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Networked Group Communication, Boston, MA, October 2002.
	Shudong Jin and Azer Bestavros. Scalability of Multicast Delivery for Non-sequential Streaming Access. In Proceedings of Sigmetrics'2002: The ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, 2002.
	Shudong Jin, Azer Bestavros, and Arun Iyengar. Accelerating Internet Streaming Media Delivery using Network-Aware Partial Caching. In Proceedings of ICDCS'2002: The IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2002.
	Marwan Krunz and Ibrahim Matta. Analytical Investigation of the Bias Effect in Variance-Type Estimators for Inference of Long-Range Dependence. Computer Networks -- Special Issue on Advances in Modeling and Engineering of Long-Range Dependent Traffic, 40(3):445-458, October 2002.
	Anukool Lakhina, John Byers, Mark Crovella, and Ibrahim Matta. On the Geographic Location of Internet Resources. In Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Workshop, Marseille, France, November 2002.
	J. Lombardi and M. Betke. A camera-based eyebrow tracker for hands-free computer control via a binary switch. In 7th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, pages 199-200, Paris, France, October 2002.
	D. Papadopoulos, G. Kollios, D. Gunopulos, and Vassilis Tsotras. Indexing mobile objects on the plane. In Proc. of MDDS, 2002.
	M. Siddiqui and S. Sclaroff. Surface reconstruction from multiple views using rational B-splines and knot insertion. In Proc. International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission, pages 372-378, June 2002.
	Eveline Veloso, Virgilio Almeida, Wagner Meira, Azer Bestavros, and Shudong Jin. A Hierarchical Characterization of a Live Streaming Media Workload. In Proceedings of the ACM/Usenix Internet Measurment Workshop (IMW'02), Marseille, France, November 2002.
	M. Vlachos, C. Domeniconi, D. Gunopulos, G. Kollios, and N. Koudas. Non-linear dimensionality reduction techniques for classification and visualization. In Proc. of ACM SIGKDD, 2002.
	M. Vlachos, D. Gunopulos, and G. Kollios. Robust similarity measures for mobile object trajectories. In Proc. of MDDS, 2002.

Software Artifacts and Tools

	Hongwei Xi. Applied Type System, 2006.
	Adam Bradley, Azer Bestavros, and Assaf Kfoury. The StaXML for PhP Web Gateway. Available from http://cs-people.bu.edu/artdodge/research/ibench/staxml/php/gateway/staxphp.php, January 2004.
	Joseph J. Hallett and Assaf J. Kfoury. Programming examples needing polymorphic recursion. Technical Report BUCS-TR-2004-004, Department of Computer Science, Boston University, January 2004. (PostScript) (PDF)
	Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Niky Riga, Gali Diamant, and Yuting Zhang. ITMbench: A Linux API for Internet Traffic Management. Available from http://www.cs.bu.edu/groups/itm/itmBench/index.html, December 2003.
	Liang Guo and Ibrahim Matta. Size-aware Scheduling of TCP Flows. Boston University, The Traffic Managers Project, May 2003.
	Gene Itkis and Tianye Zhang. Java-based implementation of the intrusion-resilient signatures, 2003. Available from `http://sibir.bu.edu`.
	Alberto Medina, Ibrahim Matta, and Nina Taft. Traffic Analysis Toolkit. Boston University and Sprint, 2003.
	Khaled Harfoush and Azer Bestavros. Periscope: A Linux API for active measurements of Internet internal characteristics using user-defined probing structures. Available from http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/harfoush/periscope.htm, September 2002.
	Vassilis Athitsos and Stan Sclaroff. Hand image database for use in testing systems for hand pose estimation. http://www.cs.bu.edu/groups/ivc/Data/.
	Kevin Harmon, Soren Johnson, and Leonid Reyzin. An implementation of syndrome encoding and decoding for binary BCH codes, secure sketches and fuzzy extractors.
	Assaf Kfoury, Geoff Washburn, and Joe Wells. Implementing compositional analysis using intersection types with expansion variables.
	Feifei Li, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George Kollios, and Leonid Reyzin. Implementation of authenticated index structures for outsourced databases.
	R. Rosales and S. Sclaroff. Matlab implementation of articulated body pose algorithms. Beta implementation available to collaborators at other institutions: Rutgers, Ohio State U, U Palermo and U Florence. software will be made available for Public FTP after Beta.
	Romer Rosales and Stan Sclaroff. Matlab implementation of human pose estimation algorithms. http://www.cs.bu.edu/groups/ivc/Software/SMACode.htm.
	Richard West. User-level sandboxing: http://www.cs.bu.edu/fac/richwest/sandboxing.html. Software available upon request.


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