CISE
The Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering is concerned with the theory, design, development and application of computer systems and information processing techniques. The mission of the CISE Department is to educate undergraduate and graduate majors as well as the broader campus community in the fundamental concepts of the computing discipline, to create and disseminate computing knowledge and technology, and to use our expertise in computing to help society solve problems.
Departmental News
Chen and Helal Receive IEEE/IPSJ SAINT 2009 Best Paper Award
CISE professor Sumi Helal and Ph.D. candidate Chao Chen received the prestigious best paper award for their research article entitled "Device Integration in SODA using the Device Description Language." SAINT 2009 - the 9th Annual International Symposium on Applications and the Internet is jointly sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the Information processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).
The paper describes a framework along with implementation and a proposed standard of a description language that revolutionizes the way sensors and devices are integrated, interconnected and deployed. The Device Description Language (DDL) enables a network of devices to autonomically and dynamically integrate and interconnect with one another without the need for engineers or system integrators. The framework enables programmers and developers to view the sensor network or the pervasive space as a collection of services, following the service-oriented device architecture. The paper contributes a re-distribution of roles and a clean separation of concerns among the sensor network owner, sensor and device manufacturers, system developers, middleware providers, and the run-time system supporting the entire life-cycle of the sensor network or the pervasive space.
DDL is based on the Atlas sensor platform archietcture and middleware developed by Dr. Helal and his students, and commercialized by Pervasa, Inc, a University of Florida start up founded in 2006.
Assistant Professor My T. Thai receives the prestigious DoD YIP Award
My T. Thai, an assistant professor in the CISE Department, received the DoD YIP Award for her research project, entitled "C-WMD: Models, Complexity, and Algorithms in Complex Dynamic and Evolving Networks." The Young Investigator research Program (YIP) recognizes and supports early career development of outstanding young investigators who show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. In addition to this award, Dr. Thai's research group has been supported by two other NSF grants.
Dr. Thai's research group has been working on combinatorial optimization and its application in networks, including computer networks, online social networks, and biological networks. More specifically, her group research focuses on the designs and analyses of several new models and approximation algorithms for various practical problems, mostly optimization, arising from the networking fields mentioned above. These studies have led into many beautiful and challenging questions and results in theory, which enrich other computer science and mathematical areas, such as graph theory and advance the optimization theory. Besides seeking for theoretical solutions with a provable performance bound, the group is also concerned about their practical implementation in real life. More details about her research group can be found at http://www.cise.ufl.edu/AppliedOptimization. (Full Story Here)
Distinguished Professor and Chair Sartaj Sahni receives the Honorary Professor Award from Asia University, Taiwan
Distinguished Professor and Chair Sartaj Sahni received the Honorary Professor Award from Asia University, Taiwan on May 22, 2009. Other recent recipients of this award include Professors Lofti Zadeh (University of California, Berkeley) and Amir Pneuli (New York University).
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