Prof. Dr. Kurt Maly, şef departament şi Prof. Dr. Stephan Olariu, Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Statele Unite, vor vizita facultatea noastră miercuri 21 martie.

In 21 martie, de la ora 12:00, in sala C335, sunt planificate două conferinţe, intitulate „A Prototype of the HumanVirus Interactome Resource (HVIR)” (Prof. Dr. Kurt Maly) si „On Securing Wireless Sensor Networks” (Prof. Dr. Stephan Olariu). Rezumatele conferinţelor urmează acestui anunţ.

Tot in 21 martie, de la ora 17:00, in sala C310, este planificata o intalnire a d-lor profesori cu studentii facultatii noastre, din anii terminali si de la studiile de master. Intalnirea are ca scop prezentarea activitatilor departamentului si a programelor de studii de la Old Dominion University.

Toti cei interesati sunt invitati sa participe.

Fişiere ataşate:

• Old Dominion University
• CS Department Research
• A Prototype of the HumanVirus Interactome Resource (HVIR)

A Prototype of the HumanVirus Interactome Resource (HVIR)

SPEAKER

Prof. Dr. Kurt Maly, Computer Science Department, Old Dominion University, email: maly@cs.odu.edu

ABSTRACT

Documenting the interaction of HTLV virus proteins with those of the host cell is crucial to understanding the process of the virus replication and pathogenesis, and provides an essential foundation for the development of safe and effective therapeutic treatments. Although numerous interactions have been reported in the scientific literature and various databases there is currently no method for efficiently accessing this information. In this paper we report on a project to design and implement mechanisms to extract and harvest this information on a continuous basis to compile a comprehensive, up-to-date digital library of the described interactions between HTLV and cellular proteins. We have added a visualization service to the digital library that allows researchers to view the interaction network and manipulate it to narrow the choices of future experiments that will validate hypotheses about the various biological processes.

BIO SKETCH

Kurt J. Maly received the Dipl. Ing. degree from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, and the M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY. He is Kaufman Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. Before that, he was at the University of Minnesota, both as faculty member and Chair. He also is Visiting Professor at Chengdu University of Science and Technology, People’s Republic of China and is Honorary Professor at Hefei University of Technology, PRC. He was a member of Board of the Microelectronic and Information Sciences Center, Minneapolis. His research interests include digital libraries, very high-performance networks protocols, interactive multimedia remote instruction, and Internet resource access. His research has been supported by DARPA, NSF, NASA, CIT, ARPA and the U.S. Navy among others. Technical consultant for e-bay, patent law, software companies. Dr. Maly is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery.

On Securing Wireless Sensor Networks

SPEAKER

Prof. Dr. Stephan Olariu, Computer Science Department, Old Dominion University, email: olariu@cs.odu.edu

ABSTRACT

Networking unattended wireless sensors is expected to have significant impact on the efficiency of a large array of military and non-military applications. The main goal of wireless sensor networks is to obtain globally meaningful information from strictly local gleaned by individual sensor nodes. The network is deployed such that the sensors are embedded, possibly at random, in a target environment. Utilizing the basic capabilities of sensor nodes in the network different types of monitoring and control applications that address the target environment can be developed. Depending on the application at hand, the interface between a sensor network and the outside world is provided by aircraft, helicopters, ground-based vehicles, satellites, co-located sink-nodes, etc. However, a wireless sensor network is only as good as the information it produces. In this respect, the most important concern is information security. Indeed, in most application domains sensor networks will constitute a mission critical component requiring commensurate security protection. Sensor network communications must prevent disclosure and undetected modification of exchanged messages. Due to the fact that individual sensor nodes are anonymous and that communication among sensors is via wireless links, sensor networks are highly vulnerable to security attacks. If an adversary can thwart the work of the network by perturbing the information produced, stopping production, or pilfering information, then the perceived usefulness of sensor networks will be drastically curtailed. Thus, security is a major issue that must be resolved in order for the potential of wireless sensor networks to be fully exploited. This talk is concerned with a number of novel solutions to the important problem of securing wireless sensor networks.