Message from the Department Head Faculty Shreeram Abhyankar David C. Anderson Alberto Apostolico Mikhail J. Atallah Chandrajit L. Bajaj Gerald Baumgartner Bharat Bhargava Douglas E. Comer Samuel D. Conte H. E. Dunsmore Wayne R. Dyksen Ahmed K. Elmagarmid Greg N. Frederickson Walter Gautschi Ananth Grama Concettina Guerra Apostolos Hadjidimos Susanne E. Hambrusch Christoph M. Hoffmann Antony Hosking Elias N. Houstis Anupam Joshi Bradley J. Lucier Robert E. Lynch Dan C. Marinescu Aditya P. Mathur Jens Palsberg Kihong Park Jörg Peters Norman Ramsey Vernon J. Rego John R. Rice Vincent F. Russo Elisha Sacks Eugene H. Spafford John M. Steele Wojciech Szpankowski Samuel S. Wagstaff, Jr. Sanjiva Weerawarana Michal Young Computing FacilitiesGeneral FacilitiesEducational FacilitiesI/O EquipmentNetworking ServicesPurdue University Computing CenterResearch LabsBond LaboratoryCOAST LaboratoryCollaborative Modeling and VisualizationCS&E LabELLPACK-PDELabInterBaseInternetworking and Systems Research LabPacsLabScalable Parallel AlgorithmsSERCSoftLabSurfLabXinuPurdue University Computing Center Facilities Research Funding Research Projects The ACES Project Adaptable Video Conferencing Systems Algorithmic Algebraic Geometry Algorithmic and Combinatorial Issues in Pattern Matching Algorithmic and Combinatorial Tools for Sequence Analysis Algorithms for Factoring Large Integers Analytical Approach to Probabilistic Problems on Words The Arachne Threads System Arcadia The Ariadne Threads System Autonomous Agents for Intrustion Detection Audit Trail Content and Format Audit Trail Reduction Brew Bond Characterizing Misuse Detection The Clam Communications System Competitive Dynamics of QoS Provision in High-Speed Networks Compiler Support for Persistence Component Based Software Testing, Reusability, and Fault-Tolerance Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Technology Computer-aided Mechanical Design Research The Conch Communications System Congestion Control for Self-Similar Network Traffic Crosspoint Project Data Compression Based on Approximate Pattern Matching Data Compression from String Matching Perspective: Second Order Properties Data Processing Suite Developing Optimal Object-Oriented Design and Programming Techniques The DISplay System Distributed Database Systems Research (RAID Project) Distributed Object-Oriented Database Research Dynamics Research The EcliPSe Simulation System Educational Enhancement of VSERC Efficient Algorithms and Data Structures in Computer Aided Geometric Design ELLPACK System EMMA Fault-Tolerant Computing in Large-Scale Distributed Systems Firewalls Evaluation Foundations and Tools for Surface Modeling Garbage Collection for Object-Oriented Software Geometric and Solid Modeling Graph Algorithms and Data Structures Hierarchical Solvers and Preconditioners for Boundary Element Methods High-Performance Computing (HPC) Methods and Systems for Partial Differential Equations (PDE) InterBase Lab Interrogative Visualization of Multidimensional Data Joint Modeling Low-Threat Patch Distribution Mobile Computing Modeling and Visualization of Polymers and Bio Molecules Models for Parallel and Uni-Processor Architectures Modularization Constructs for Functional and Object-Oriented Languages Multidisciplinary Problem Solving Environments Multimedia Data Compression Based on Pattern Matching Multiresolution Object Recognition Net //ELLPACK Neural Computing Next-Generation Network Security Nonlinear Wavelet Image Processing Parallel and Distributed Computing for Solving Very Large Structural Biology Problems Parallel Methods and Collaborating Systems for Solving Partial Differential Equations Parallel Scalable Libraries and Algorithms for Computer Vision The ParaSol Distributed Simulation System A Pattern Matching Approach to Audit Data Reduction and Anomaly and Misuse Detection Pattern Matching Image Compression PDE Solving Kernels and Systems for Scalable MIMD Multiprocessors PDELab: PDELab: Problem Solving Environments and Methods for the Development of PDE-Based Applications on Parallel Machines PPK: Purdue PSE Kernel Project SHASTRA: Distributed and Collaborative Multimedia Synthetic Environments for Geometric Design Purdue Online PYTHIA: Using Computational Intelligence to Support Problem Solving Environments The Renaissance Object-Oriented Operating System Research in VLSI Circuit Compaction SciencePad Secure Patch Distribution Security Archive Security Tool Evaluation SoftLab--A Laboratory for Computational Science Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) Software Testing for Security Flaws Spatial Constraint Solving Stability Considerations for Networks: Asymptotic Behaviors and Limits of Multidimensional Models The Study of the Paging and I/O Activity of Parallel Programs Support for Multimedia Data Communication Over a Wide-Area Network SYNKILL The Tonitza Project Vulnerabilities Database Web //ELLPACK: A Web Based Problem Solving Environment for Partial Differential Equations White-box Models for the Estimation of Software ReliabilityWide Area Network Traffic Measurement and Characterization Publications S. S. Abhyankar A. Apostolico M. J. Atallah C. L. Bajaj B. Bhargava O. A. Bukhres D. E. Comer R. A. DeMillo H. E. Dunsmore A. K. Elmagarmid G. N. Frederickson W. Gautschi C. Guerra A. Hadjidimos S. E. Hambrusch A. Helal C. M. Hoffmann A. L. Hosking E. N. Houstis A. Joshi R. E. Lynch D. C. Marinescu A. P. Mathur J. Peters N. Ramsey V. Rego J. R. Rice V. F. Russo E. P. Sacks E. H. Spafford W. Szpankowski S. S. Wagstaff S. Weerawarana M. Young Ph. D. Students December 1996 August 1996 May 1996