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Thursday, March 31, 2016 – Hawthorne and Conference Center

6:00-8:00 PM Board Meeting/Dinner (Linden Room/Bayberry Restaurant)

Friday, April 1, 2016 – Hawthorne and Conference Center

7:30-8:15 AM 7:30 AM – 5 PM

Breakfast (Bayberry Restaurant) Registration (Sycamore 1 Foyer)

8:30-8:45 AM

Opening Session (Sycamore 1-2) Welcome Dr. Rebecca Caldwell, ADMI President, Winston-Salem State University Dr. Corey D. B. Walker, Dean of The College, Winston Salem State University

8:45-9:30 AM Keynote Speaker - Dr. John Trimble, Tshwane University of Technology Postal Service Development Requires ICT and Big Data

9:30-10:30 AM Faculty Session – Faculty Papers (Sycamore 3)

Student Session - Internship Roundtable (Laurel Learning Center)

10:30 – 10:45 AM Break (Laurel Learning Center Foyer/Sycamore 1 Foyer)

10:45 AM-12:30 PM

Faculty Session (Sycamore 3) – William Wolfe, CSSIA

Student Session (Laurel Learning Center) Dr. Cheryl Seals, Auburn University (10:45-11:55)

Student Session B (Laurel Learning Center) LaShanti Jenkins, Yahoo (12-12:30 PM)

12:30-2:30 PM

CReSIS Scholars Award Luncheon (Sycamore 1-2) - Andrea Lawrence Keynote Speaker – Todd Singleton (Intel) AWARDS - Dr. Linda Hayden

3:00 – 6:00 PM Cybersecurity Competition (Sycamore 3) - William Wolf/ Kevin Vaccaro, CSSIA

Spelman Olympiad (Laurel Learning Center)– Iretta Kearse, Spelman College

6:30 – 9:00 PM

Professional Networking and Graduate Fair ( Sycamore 1-2) (NCAR, Intel, CSSIA/Cisco, Yahoo, WSSU, NSU, HU, ECSU)

Saturday, April 2, 2016 – Hawthorne Inn and Conference Center

7:30 AM–12:00 PM 7:30 – 8:15 AM

Registration (Sycamore Foyer 1) Breakfast (Bayberry Restaurant)

8:30 – 10:30 AM Faculty Session (Sycamore 3 ) 8:30 AM – Dr. Pamela Jennings, CDI, Winston-Salem State University 9:30 AM – Dr. Linda Hayden, Elizabeth City State University

Student Workshop ( Laurel Learning Center) – Melinda Murdock, Intel

10:30 - 10:45 AM Break (Laurel Learning Center Foyer/Sycamore 1 Foyer)

10:30 AM – 12:15 PM Student Poster Session (Sycamore 1-2)

12:30 - 2:00 PM

Lunch (Sycamore 1-2) Keynote Speaker – Dr. N. Duru Ahanotu, Yahoo

2:00 – 4:00 PM Student Papers (Sycamore 1-2)

4:30 – 5:30 PM Business Meeting (Sycamore 1-2)

6:30 – 8:00 PM Awards Ceremony (Sycamore 1-2)

WELCOME FROM THE PRESIDENT

I am tremendously elated to welcome the Association of

Computer Information Science and Engineering Departments at

Minority Institutions to Winston-Salem, North Carolina for the

first time! The theme for Twenty-first Annual Symposium of the

Association of Computer Information Science and Engineering

Departments at Minority Institutions (ADMI) is Data Science.

We are extremely excited about this conference because we will

host two student competitions: the Cybersecurity Challenge and

the Spelman Olympiad.

For the next two days ADMI will continue our long tradition of

showcasing faculty and student research. There will be multiple

opportunities for networking, hands-on workshops, and special sessions. Again this year, we

focus on graduate education by offering a Graduate School Recruitment Fair. Please refer to the

Schedule at a Glance and take advantage of all of our intellectually stimulating activities.

The ADMI Board of Directors would like to thank our symposium sponsors and speakers for

their generous support. We also extend a special thanks to the Symposium and Local

Arrangements Committees for their untiring labor to make this conference a great success.

We hope you find this conference both interesting, motivating, and energizing and that you

enjoy meeting up with old friends and making new contacts. We look forward to receiving your

feedback on this conference and to seeing you again at ADMI 2017!

W E L C O M E T O A D M I 2016!

Thanks for joining us,

E. Rebecca Caldwell E. Rebecca Caldwell, Ph.D.

ADMI Keynote Speakers

Dr. John Trimble Fulbright Professor in Industrial Engineering

Department Tshwane University of Technology

Dr. John Trimble is currently serving as a Fulbright professor at Tshwane University of Technology’s Industrial Engineering Department. He holds a BSc in Engineering from Northwestern University, MSC in Computer Science from Stanford University, MSc in Operations Research from University of California, Berkeley and a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology /USA. Trimble has over 25 years of teaching experience at various universities in the USA, Zimbabwe, Rwanda and South Africa. He has served as Head of Department and Dean of ICT. Prior to joining the academy, Trimble worked in industry as a researcher, software developer and manager. Over the past 15 years, Trimble has been heavily involved with research and project concerning the use of ‘appropriate technology’. He has led in the organizing of 6 international conferences on appropriate technology, held across Africa in Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Ghana, South Africa and Kenya.

Todd Singleton Sales Executive & Solution Architect

Intel Corporation

Todd Singleton is a technologist with nearly 20 years of experience in a wide range of Silicon Valley software companies - from small startups to IBM & Intel. At Intel, he currently works on security solutions for software-defined networks (private clouds). Prior to this, he led the worldwide sales team for Mashery, a business focused on enabling the API economy. In addition to working as a sales leader, Todd worked as a Software Architect, Chief Evangelist, and a Software Engineer. At IBM, he led an engineering team to build data center software for the Eclipse Foundation and was a member of IBM's Global Architecture Board. He earned a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, where he also taught Public Speaking and took 1st place in Stanford’s 2002 Global Social Entrepreneurship Challenge. He earned an undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University while playing four years of Varsity Basketball for Coach K.

ADMI Keynote Speakers

Dr. N. Duru Ahanotu Director of

Data Management for Marketing Yahoo

Dr. Ahanotu is a graduate of Stanford University with twenty-five years of experience doing analytic modeling, executing pricing strategies through price optimization, and implementing, developing, and selling enterprise software. He adds to this industry experience another five overlapping years of research in knowledge management and organizational learning.

Duru Ahanotu currently works for Yahoo, a digital guide to the world wide web. During his near 6-year career at Yahoo, Dr. Ahanotu has taken on multiple analytic and managerial roles. Dr. Ahanotu is now Director of Data Management for Marketing where he manages a smaller decentralized team of data engineers and data scientists along with business analysts. He is also an active member of the Yahoo Black Network, and in 2016, he organized a month-long celebration of Black History Month.

Before working at Yahoo, Dr. Ahanotu was last a Sales Consultant in the Advertiser and Publisher Solutions (APS) group within Microsoft Advertising. In this capacity, he provided product knowledge, functional expertise, and technical support to APS account executives who sold APS’s suite of media monetization products. Dr. Ahanotu took on this role after Microsoft acquired his former employer Rapt, Inc.

With Rapt, Dr. Ahanotu last served as an Engagement Manager for a software implementation for a $100 million on-line publisher with a rapidly growing business. With his project team, Dr. Ahanotu created and coordinated novel approaches to inventory forecasting, structuring of product hierarchies, and ETL across software systems for order management, advertising delivery, and Rapt’s software.

Dr. Ahanotu earned a Master’s and Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems (1999), a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and Honors in Values, Technology, Science, and Society (1991) - all at Stanford University. His interests include hanging out with his family, blogging on the analysis of financial markets, traveling, planning family and alumni events, and chocolate.

ADMI SYMPOSIUM PRESENTERS

LaShanti Jenkins

Senior Manager, UR and Diversity Programs YAHOO Inc.

Upon receiving a Bachelors of Science in Computer Information Systems from Hampton University, LaShanti Jenkins worked for Lockheed Martin as an Embedded Software Engineer. It was during that time that LaShanti discovered her passion for recruiting and decided to make a career transition. She has since worked for multiple media companies (including Time Inc., Disney ABC Television Group and NBC Universal) attracting and hiring the best talent. Throughout her career LaShanti has hired hundreds of candidates for various roles from Intern to Vice President and on several occasions has participated in events to prepare individuals for their careers through resume critiques, mock interviews and panel discussions. LaShanti is currently at Yahoo working on their Talent Acquisition team and spearheading efforts for University Recruiting and Diversity programs. In this role, she is committed to seeing that diverse, transformative talent is amongst the candidate pipeline for roles with Yahoo.

Dr. Linda Hayden Professor

Elizabeth City State University

Linda Bailey Hayden is a Professor at Elizabeth City State University and is responsible for over $22 million in funded projects. She leads education activities for the NSF Science and Technology Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS). Professor Hayden is an NSF Presidential Awardee for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring and is on the Advisory Board for NSF Geoscience Division. Dr. Hayden is Vice President for Programs for the Association of Computer and Information Science/Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions (ADMI), which is a CReSIS partner. Hayden has collaborated extensively with Indiana University on several technical and Minority Serving Institution projects including an NSF REU site program from the Office of Polar Programs that funded hundreds of ADMI students. With respect to the NSF EAGER project faculty workshop at the 2016 ADMI conference, Dr. Hayden not only served as instructor of record for the RS 506 course during phase-one but she is working collaboratively with the ADMI board during phase-two, to develop a faculty workshop and a student workshop devoted to this project.


Dr. Pamela L. Jennings Executive Director

Center for Design Innovation

Pamela L. Jennings, PhD is the Executive Director of the Center for Design Innovation - a multi-campus research center in the University of North Carolina system in Winston-Salem, NC. Jennings served as a Program Officer at the National Science Foundation CISE IIS division. There she led the NSF CreativeIT program and co-managed the Human Centered Computing and Cyberlearning Transforming Education programs. During her tenure at the National Science Foundation she funded several collaborative workshops between the NSF and NEA that generated discourse about research that integrates the arts, technology, and science. She held a post as professor of Digital Media Art and Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. Early in her career she was a design researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center and SRI International. Jennings’ research and entrepreneurial projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation CreativeIT, Cyber-manufacturing, and Small Business Innovative Research programs as well as the Highway1 Hardware Start-up Incubator in San Francisco. Jennings is a 1993 MacDowell Artist Colony Fellow. Her creative works are discussed in “Creating Their Own Image: the History of African-American Women Artists”, Oxford University Press and “Struggles for Representation: African American Film/Video/New Media Makers”, Indiana University Press. She has presented works at several ACM conferences and cultural institutions around the world. Jennings received her PhD in Human Centered Systems Design and Digital Media, School of Computer Science, University of Plymouth, UK; MBA, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan; MFA, Computer Art, School of Visual Arts, NYC; MA in Studio Art, International Center of Photography/New York University Program; and BA, Psychology, Oberlin College.


Dr. Cheryl Seals

Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department

Auburn University

Dr. Cheryl Seals is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department at Auburn University. Dr. Cheryl Seals is an assistant professor in Auburn University's Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. She received her B.S. from Grambling State University, M.S. from North Carolina A&T State University and Ph.D. from Virginia Tech with all of her degrees in the area of Computer Science. Dr. Seals studies the area of novice programmers utilizing visual programming techniques, user interface design projects to improve interaction design, and game design & development and the dimensions games can add to computer literacy. She has a vested interested in programs that are community centered, increase diversity in technology, and targeted at helping today's youth strive for a better tomorrow. She continuously works with programs that provide computer interventions for students in the elementary,

middle and high schools in the local area.

William Wolfe Senior Network Consulting Engineer in the

Center of Excellence Cisco Systems

William Wolfe has been in the IT industry for over 35 years. Bill’s career has spanned various disciplines within IT including Sales, Product Management, Enterprise Architecture, Network Engineering, Application Development and for over 12 years as a CIO/CTO. He is currently a Senior Network Consulting Engineer in the Center of Excellence for Cisco Systems. Bill has had industry experience in Retail, Manufacturing, Distribution, Real Estate, Finance, Utilities and Healthcare. Bill is also an Instructor for the Cisco Networking Academy, VMWare Academy, EMC Academy and Moraine Valley Community College. Bill holds numerous advanced industry certifications in Routing, Switching, Voice/Collaboration, Wireless, Security, Data Center and Virtualization; as well as being a Cisco Certified Academy Instructor and Academy Instructor Trainer. Bill resides in Chicago with his family and is an avid car collector and sports car racer.


Sidd Maini User Experience Engineer

School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University

Sidd Maini works as a User Experience Engineer at the School of Informatics and Computing. He is currently managing the design and development for the online learning technologies being used for the Data Science graduate program. He is passionate about using technology for making online learning more effective. He has worked on projects such as e-humanity (as a Product Manager), MSI-CIEC, FutureSystems, and QuakeSim (NASA). He was part of a team with Josh Rosen and Marlon Pierce that developed an Audio-Video collaboration tool called AVATS that was used for broadcasting the entire e-Science 2008 conference to audiences around the world.

Graduate Papers Author Title Institution

1 Anietie Andy Exploiting Named Entity Synonyms in Question Answering Systems

Howard univerity

2 Charles Scott

Devin Wynne

Pilot Study Web-Based Single Sign-On: Are We Giving Up Security and Privacy for Convenience?

Hampton University

3 Blaize Strothers FaceRadar: Extending Open Source Software to Accelerate Image Processing in Digital Forensic Investigations through Face Detection

Hampton University

4 Swedhana Viswanathan Data Science a Software Prospective Hampton University

5 Marcellus Williams Clonal vs. Negative Selection in Artificial Immune Systems (AIS)

Hampton University

Faculty Papers Author Title Institution

1 Jason Black Practical investigation of anomaly detection in wireless BAN

Florida A& M University

2 Gina Bullock

and Albert Esterline

A Multiagent System for Structural Health Monitoring

North Carolina A & T State University

3 Bruce Chittenden Discovering Raspberry Pi Hampton University

4 Christo Dichev et al. Preparing All Students for the Data-driven World

Winston Salem State University

Undergraduate Papers Author Title Institution

1 Yenny Dominguez

A Computational Framework for Identity Based on Situation Theory and Dempster-Shafer Theory

North Carolina A&T University

2 Raveen McKenzie A Corresponding Study of Water Quality Evaluation of the Pasquotank Watershed in Northeastern NC

Mississippi Valley State University

3 Ifeanyi Onyenweaku Services and Management System for MVSU Career Services Center


4 Ayanna Overton

Kamberlin King

Charlie Nelson

Validation of the Antarctic Snow Accumulation and Ice Discharge Basal Stress Boundary of the S. E. Region of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

North Carolina A&T U.

MVSU

Kentucky State University

Undergraduate Student Posters

Author Title Institution

1 Justin Anderson Application of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) to Water Filtration

Hampton University

2 Kevin Benton Daquan Rascoe

Design and Installation of a Video Conference Solution at the Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research at Elizabeth City State University


3 Blake Bowers Wireless Network Security: Real Time Detection of Threats to Wireless Networks

Tennessee State University

4 William Brown III Evolvable Neural Networks for NANO Robots

Hampton University

5 Sasha Cheek Christopher Council Gina Murphy

Sensory-Equipped Robots with Reactive Behavior

North Carolina State University

6 Timothy Darrah

Robert Turner

Design and Optimization of a Bio-Inspired Sumersible Vehicle in a Hydroponic Environment

Tennessee State University

7 Ricky Dixon Applications of Integration Using Mathematica Mississippi Valley State University

8 Tony Gibbs Teaching Programming Using The Finch Robot Winston-Salem State University

9 Nicholas Gobern

Douglas Harmon

QuaDaisha Neal

The Impact of Technology in the Military Hampton University

10 Kendra Goodson

Cloud AI-Based Conversational Robot Spelman College

11 Kamberlin King

Ayana Overton

Charlie Nelson

Validation of the Antarctic Snow Accumulation and Ice Discharge Basal Stress Boundary of the Southeastern RE

Mississippi Valley State University, North Carolina State University, Kentucky State University

12 Kendall Lane

Jacques Dupree

Fareed Hester

Impact of Technology in the Music Industry Economy

Hampton University

13 Tatyana Matthews Investigating the Security Risks and Vulnerabilities of an Android System


14 Zora More Alexis Chambers

The Impact of Technology on the Strategic Communication Field

Hampton University

Undergraduate Student Posters


15 Zora More Access Control Rule Logic Circuit Simulation: Immediate Fault Detecting System

Hampton University

16 Whitney Nelson William Brown III Marcus Pearson

The Impact of Technology in Marine Science Hampton University

17 Aaron McLeod Zhanel Tucker Jerome Hough

The Impact of Technology in Aviation Industry Hampton University

18 Deja Marrow A Freshman Perspective: Using the Finch Robot in Programming


19 Anissa Norman Charles Hockaday, Jr.

Implementation of Social Media for Dissemination of Research Activities at the Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research at ECSU


20 Omar Owens Tori Wilbon

Exploring Learning Algorithms for Layer Identification


21 Derrick W. Perry

Twitter MD: Using Twitter to Discover Health Issues in North Carolina


22 Joseph D. Perry Tween Analysis of WSSU Affiliates Using Heuristics


23 Nigel Pugh Exploration of Mobile Testing through Automatic Test Case Generation


24 Jefferson Ridgeway IV Regression Testing Selection for Android Applications


25 Na’Kaila Sandidge Conversion of VMOC Satellite Schedules to Keyhole Markup Language


26 Anthony Scott Maya Smith

Analyzing Stock Data Using Multi-Dimensional Scaling


27 Simone Smarr Enhancing a Physically Engaging Video Game through the Investigation of Augmented Reality

Spelman College

28 Jamal Stevenson Raveen McKenzie Ricky Dixon Steffi Walthall

A Corresponding Study of Water Quality Evaluation of the Pasquotank Watershed I Northeastern North Carolina with a Sea Level Rise Component

Mississippi Valley State University, Elizabeth City State University

29 Tori Wilbon Exploring Learning Algorithms for Layer Identification


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Joshua Young Camryn Ivey Elijah Milton

Using Robotics to Reduce Stress in Children


Graduate Student Posters


1 Taiwo Orogbangba Mitigating Vulnerabilities in Cloud Computing System

Hampton University

2 Devin Wayne

Charles Scott

Using Data Analytics to Detect Unknown Threats of Violent Behavior Social Network

Hampton University

Symposium Keynote Abstracts

Postal Service Development Requires ICT and Big Data

Presenter: John Trimble, Ph.D.

Abstract

The Fulbright Scholars program has given me the opportunity to conduct research with the South African

Post Office (SAPO). I will provide some background information on opportunities for students and faculty

to conduct research in Africa through the Fulbright program. However, the focus of my presentation will

be on current research with the SAPO. Postal systems around the world have well developed

infrastructures and a historical link to local communities. The post office predates the telephone and

internet as a standard form of communication. The expansion of the internet has shifted communication to

the digital media. Email, SMS, Twitter and Facebook communication have replaced much of the traditional

letter mail. However, the post office as an institution is much more than letter mail delivery. The

community engagement, logistics operations, and infrastructure management components of the post

office play a valuable role in community development and community service. To increase the role of the

post office the use of information communication technology (ICT) must be expanded. In particular, the

post office must leverage the extensive use big data and analytics to optimize operations and expand

through innovation. This study examines work done in this direction and presents a strategy for further

engagement. The methodology of framework development is used to extend the ICT driven research

agenda developed in 2015 to a framework that addresses the big data analysis requirements and

curriculum requirements to prepare practitioners in service industries such as the Post Office.

Big Data and Decision-Making

Presenter: N. Duru Ahanotu, Ph.D.

Abstract

This is the era of big data and big promises. Yet, many of the limits to knowledge still exist. As such, the process of making good data-driven decision as has not changed. The availability of massive amounts of data has instead transformed the richness of evidence we can bring to bear to our decisions. In this talk, I will review the current state of big data, especially as it is seen at Yahoo. I then propose a model for constructing an efficient and effective “supply chain” that transforms data into insights. I conclude with an example of how we use this supply chain at Yahoo to build better user experiences and to drive our business.

The Power, Applicability, and Accessibility of Computation

Presenter: Todd Singleton

Abstract:

Throughout history, societal outcomes have been heavily influenced by mankind's ability to leverage

technology. Over the past several decades, we have experienced the tremendous power of silicon-based

computing, as nearly every aspect of our society is impacted by it. Intel, the world¹slargest microprocessor

manufacturer, has taken the leadership role for making compute powerful, applicable, and accessible. As

new professionals enter the computing industry, the stage is set for a wide array of new and relevant

innovations.

Symposium Presentation Abstracts

Computational Thinking in Design at the Center for Design Innovation Presenter: Pamela L. Jennings, Ph.D., Executive Director Abstract: In this talk, I will introduce models from my work in computational thinking in design that form the bases

for research and learning opportunities at the Center for Design Innovation. The Center for Design

Innovation, a multi-campus research center of the UNC system, is a place where creative practitioners,

artists, engineers, and educators, together rethink assumptions as they theorize and invent new creative

forms and complex systems. Data becomes the object of introspection, speculation and dynamic learning.

Open research and inquiry are encouraged in a constantly evolving workbench of tools, processes and

concepts. Dialogue across disciplines is a prerequisite and play and discovery are the vehicles for

innovation and change. This confluence of activity results in new paradigms for understanding local and

global social ecologies. It generates new models for understanding creativity as a cognitive process and

critical component for innovation. It is an incubator for generating transdisciplinary research that

stimulates breakthroughs in science, engineering and art while addressing new perspectives on the world

in which we live.

Computer Science Curriculum Enhancement using Cloud Computing

Presenters: Linda Bailey Hayden, Ph.D., Professor, Elizabeth City State University Sidd Maini, User Experience Engineer, Indiana University

Abstract:

The overarching goal of this NSF EAGER project is to investigate the concept that Computational Science

curricula and research using Cloud Computing can be well suited for Minority Serving institutions (MSI's).

Many aspects of Cloud Computing are compelling for MSI's. The project activities include course

development and delivery using massive open online courses (MOOC's) by a select group of ADMI

institutions and faculty. ECSU and IU will work collaboratively with ADMI institutions revising selected

courses to include a mix of virtual and residential modules. With that in mind, a MOOC teach-the-teacher

workshop for MSI computer science faculty is planned for June 8-10, 2016. This “Computer Science

Curriculum Enhancement using Cloud Computing” workshop, during the 2016 ADMI conference, will detail

our current NSF EAGER project efforts and future opportunities for ADMI faculty.

Faculty Paper Abstracts

Discovering Raspberry Pi

Bruce Chittenden Department of Computer Science

Hampton University 100 E. Queen Street

Hampton, Virginia 23668 01 757-412-8746

[email protected]

The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit-card sized single-board computer that plugs into a HDMI monitor and

uses a standard USB keyboard and mouse [1]. This paper outlines how the Raspberry Pi was introduced

and incorporated into Operating Systems at Hampton University. A series of program assignments are

developed utilizing the Raspberry Pi to enhance students’ learning in Operating Systems concepts are

discussed in this paper.1 The feedback from the students was incredibly positive as they really enjoyed the

hands-on nature of working with the Raspberry Pi and the actual source code for the Linux Operating

System.

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A Multiagent System for Structural Health Monitoring

Gina Bullock Albert Esterline Dept. of Computational Sci. & Eng. Dept. of Computer Science

North Carolina A&T State University North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro, NC 27411 Greensboro, NC 27411

1-336-334-7717 1-336-285-2440 [email protected] [email protected]

This faculty paper reports on work on structural health monitoring done for NASA at North Carolina A&T

State University. We are developing a system where a hierarchically structured collection of monitor agents

monitors the health of a structure by interpreting acoustic signals. This paper addresses the problem of

how the main agents (the “monitor” agents) can get organized into a hierarchy that reflects the hierarchy in

the monitored structure. The agent framework used is JADE. The alternative approaches are worked out

for a structure much simpler than an aircraft, namely, a plate equipped with two kinds of sensors. The

approaches we consider are the contract net protocol (CNP), the iterated CNP, and coalition game theory.

The first two are distributed approaches provided with the JADE framework. The third is centralized; we

implement it in the Python programming language. The iterated CNP generally produces better solutions

than the basic CNP, and coalition game theory generally produces solutions better than the iterated CNP

but requires more resources (including information). And the iterated CNP requires more resources than

the basic CNP. We suggest when use of the various approaches is appropriate.

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Preparing All Students for the Data-driven World

Christo Dichev, Darina Dicheva Department of Computer Science Winston Salem State University

601 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Winston Salem, NC 27110

[email protected] [email protected]

Lillian Cassel, Don Goelman

Department of Computing Sciences Villanova University

800 Lancaster Avenue

Villanova, PA 19085

[email protected] [email protected]

Michael Posner Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Villanova University 800 Lancaster Avenue Villanova, PA 19085

[email protected]

As Data Science gains in importance in industry, government and society, the creation of appropriate courses and teaching activities is necessary for building up a competent workforce. In this paper, we describe our experience of the development of a low-level undergraduate introductory Data Science course. The course is without prerequisites and multidisciplinary in terms of targeted skills, involving expertise in computer science and statistics and incorporating different domain areas, such as astronomy and social networks. We describe the general design decisions, the adopted learner-centered approach and the stepwise development of the course. The first version of the course is taught at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) in Spring 2016 and the second iteration will occur at Villanova in Fall 2016.

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Exploiting Named Entity Synonyms in Question Answering Systems

Anietie Andy Computer Science Department

Howard University 202-486-4095

[email protected]

Mugizi Rwebangira

Computer Science Department Howard University

[email protected]

Community Question answering (CQA) systems have increasingly become popular among internet users. CQA’s such as Yahoo! Answers have a large repository of resolved questions i.e. questions that have been satisfactorily answered. One of the challenges with these systems is that some questions are left unanswered thereby leaving the user unsatisfied. Papers have proposed algorithms to reduce the number of unanswered questions. Some of the proposed algorithms work as follows: (i) direct the unanswered question to CQA users that can potentially answer the question and (ii) use answers to past resolved questions that are similar to the given question. This paper explores an approach that extracts the word synonyms of named entities in a given question and searches the dataset of past resolved questions for similar resolved questions to the given question. The answer to the most similar resolved question is used to satisfy the given question. This paper proposes an algorithm to improve the CQA user experience by using the answer to the most similar past resolved question to satisfy a given question. In cases where the answer to the most similar question cannot satisfy the given question, the proposed algorithm recommends the answer to a related question. Although the answer to the related question will probably not satisfy the given question, it will engage the CQA user and perhaps provide a clue to answer the given question.

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Pilot Study Web-Based Single Sign-On: Are We Giving Up Security and Privacy for Convenience?

Graduate Student Paper Abstracts

Charles Scott and Devin Wynne

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Chutima Boonthum-Denecke

Department of Computer Science

Hampton University

Hampton, VA, USA 23668

{charles.c.scott26, devin.m.wynne}@gmail.com

mailto:[email protected]

Within our society we have seen a dramatic increase in the amount of individuals that have access to the

World Wide Web to complete daily tasks. Many of these tasks include keeping up with friends by using

social media, checking bank account statements, and transferring files to colleagues all over the world. This

ubiquitous tool has virtually revolutionized our entire daily life activities as we know it. With the

introduction of mobile smart phones and other digital advancements many debates have been raised

regarding security and privacy issues. A number of which have seamlessly stemmed from the trade-offs

between privacy and convenience. With the boom of web services and social media; web-based single sign-

on (SSO) schemes are being deployed and used by individuals all over the world. This commercially

adopted scheme raises concerns that could potentially allow users to give up on their privacy and security

personal credentials for convenience. This paper describes the popular Web SSO system security posture. A

survey is conducted as a part of this pilot study to examine the usage and understanding of individuals

utilizing these convenient and precarious schemes. The use of this study will ultimately aid in answering

the underlying question: are we as a society slowly giving up security and privacy for convenience?

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FaceRadar: Extending Open Source Software to Accelerate Image Processing in Digital

Forensic Investigations through Face Detection

Blaize K. Strothers Faculty Advisor: Dr. Chutima Boonthum-Denecke

Department of Computer Science

Hampton University Hampton, VA 23668

[email protected]

In digital forensics, image analysis represents one of the most labor-intensive tasks during an investigation.

However, there is an absence of publicly available, low-cost solutions for streamlining these investigations

through image processing automation. Several methods of automated forensic image processing use

computer vision to carry out face detection and recognition, but few make use of freely available and

extensible open source software. This paper proposes the modification of open source forensic software to

add functionality that optimizes forensic image processing through face detection and face recognition add-

ons. An original extension module for the Autopsy open source forensic software was developed using

OpenCV open source computer vision libraries to accomplish face detection. FaceRadar was created using

original design, implementation, and testing efforts. This open source approach to optimizing image

processing in digital forensic investigations creates opportunities for image processing at low time, effort,

and financial cost, making efficient image analysis in computer forensics investigations possible in a variety

of limited-resource settings.

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Data Science – A Software Perspective

Swedhana Viswanathan Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jean Muhammad

Hampton University 100 E.Queen Street

Hampton Virginia 23668

[email protected]

Information science is a powerful tool to study the personality trait of a person as individual or a group or as an entity of a society. Data science helps in storing the information, sieving the required information from the rest, analyzing the data to produce qualitative and quantitative products and securing the data. This paper is an attempt to briefly study data science in a software perspective with data mining as the topic of interest. Various methods and techniques used in data mining and analysis are considered. Few examples of data mining in various fields are discussed. Commercially available data mining/analysis tools are looked into. The author has taken Rapid Miner -a commercially available data mining and predictive analysis tool for this paper and briefly reviewed its text analysis tool. A use case analysis to explore the performance of the tool for various document types was conducted using the tool. Rapid miner is open sourced written in JAVA. This is an initial study of the tool and cannot be considered as the ultimate critique analysis.

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Clonal vs. Negative Selection in Artificial Immune Systems (AIS)

Marcellus Williams Hampton University

100 East Queen Street Hampton, VA 23668

1(757)316-6319

[email protected]

Moayed Daniel Daneshyari Hampton University

100 East Queen Street Hampton, VA 23668

1(757) 728-6406

[email protected]

In this paper, we review the bio-inspired Artificial Immune System (AIS) using two detection and selection mechanism known as negative selection and clonal selections. AIS mimic the behavior of natural immune system to find the unknown pattern that have not been seen by the system similar to what bodies would do in facing the microbial entities. We simulate the behavior of negative selection and clonal selection and compare them with each other to see the benefit of each one. Our goal is to design a system that can be utilized as an Intrusion Detection (ID) tool in networking security paradigms.

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Undergraduate Student Paper Abstracts

A Computational Framework for Identity Based on Situation Theory and Dempster-Shafer Theory

Yenny Dominguez Department of Computer Science North Carolina State University

Greensboro, NC 27411 336-905-9888, USA

[email protected]

A prototype for cyber identity is presented in a computational framework based on Barwise and Devlin’s

situation theory. We use real-life examples in identifying an individual to create what we call an id-situation; an

id-situation is where an id-action is performed. We use the Semantic Web standards to represent these id-

situations from our real-life examples. The examples include identifying an individual by fingerprint and by

mugshot. Central to our account is how to represent the strength of the evidence, within the situations, as a

measure of the support for judgments reached in the id-situation. To measure evidence of an identity from the

supporting situations, we used the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence. This theory is elaborated in this paper

to apply to situation theory. This paper was advised under faculty member Dr. Albert Esterline

{[email protected]}from the Department of Computer Science at NC A&T State University.

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Pi in the Sky

Whitney Nelson

Faculty Advisor: Mr. Bruce Chittenden Department of Computer Science

Hampton University 100 East Queen Street Hampton, VA 23668

[email protected]

Weather data collection and analysis is vital for earth climate studies. Approached with the problem of

collecting and organizing weather data at low cost, we decided to use the credit card sized Raspberry Pi (R-Pi)

computers to tackle the problem. R-Pi clusters are flexible to a) collect weather data via sensors, b) host the

obtained weather data on a cloud, c) organize the weather data on a database and d) host a web server that can

provide access to the weather data. While our team worked on the overall project, my role was to generate

scripts for the user-server-database interactions. When a user requests data to the server, the request is

serviced by a series of scripts performing different tasks. The first task is to create a connection to the database,

where the weather data is stored. The second task is to transform the user request into an appropriate query

based on user selection. Then, the query generated, after passing a validity test, is sent to the database server.


mailto:%[email protected]%7d


Upon receiving the data from the database, it is again checked for validity. The final task is to format the

received data for displaying as plot or tables.

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A Corresponding Study of Water Quality Evaluation of the Pasquotank Watershed in

Northeastern North Carolina with a Sea Level Rise Component

Jamal Stevenson, Raveen McKenzie, Ricky Dixon

Mississippi Valley State University 14000 Highway 82 West

Itta Bena, Mississippi 38941

Linda Hayden, Principal Investigator

Elizabeth City State University 1704 Weeksville Road, Campus Box 672

Elizabeth City, North Carolina 27909

Jeff Wood, Mentor

Elizabeth City State University 1704 Weeksville Road, Campus Box 672


Steffi Walthall

Savannah College of Art and Design 342 Bull Street

Savannah, Georgia 31402

The Pasquotank River Watershed covers over 450 square miles and is located in the Coastal Plain of northeastern North Carolina. It flows from the Great Dismal Swamp at the Virginia/North Carolina border into the Albemarle Sound. The watershed is part of the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine System, the second largest system in the United States after the Chesapeake Bay Estuary and provides a transition between spawning grounds and the waters of the Albemarle Sound. Forested swamp wetlands border much of the waterways. Increased agricultural and urban development has greatly affected water quality during recent years.

The 2015 Research Experience for Undergraduates Pasquotank River Watershed Team completed various tests along the tributaries and the river itself, adding to the previously gathered data from 2011, 2013, and 2014. The test points were derived during the 2011 Summer Watershed Team research project with four points added during the 2014 summer project. Results were compared with previous readings for analysis. Streams tested were the Newbegun Creek, Knobbs Creek, Areneuse Creek, Mill Dam Creek, and Sawyers Creek. These streams, along with the river, cover a large area of the watershed and provide a wide variety of shore development from swampland and farmland to industrial development.

In-house tests on this year’s samples continued to include pH, salinity, total dissolved solids, and conductivity. Air/water temperature, dissolved oxygen, wind speed/direction, and turbidity/clarity measurements were taken in the field. The results from these readings were placed into an online database where they are correlated to the location of the sample using Google Maps®.

Analysis tools were developed in order to compare the data from all years for any variations or similarities. Excel spreadsheets were developed to look more closely at individual points and tests for each point. Past

projects have used a general analysis of the entire stream to determine water quality. Steps were also made to research the development of an online graphing tool for analyzing the data at individual points over several years. Test results collected were added to a database developed during the 2014-2015 academic year at Elizabeth City State University. This database was connected to a data visualization page utilizing Google Maps®.

The results show that there were variations for the individual water quality scores, but the overall water quality score for all the tested water sources remained at a comparable level from previous years. Mill Dam Creek rose above the previous three scores of 48 (2011), 47 (2013), and 49 (2014) and achieved a medium water quality score of 57. Areneuse Creek improved in water quality with a medium water quality score of 60. Sawyers Creek became the lowest scoring waterway tested at 35. Knobbs Creek decreased from previous years with a water quality score of 42. For a fourth consecutive testing year, Newbegun Creek fell within the medium water quality range with a score of 65. Pasquotank River rose from the previous testing year’s score of 35 but still remained within the bad water quality range with a score of 45. The Lower Pasquotank remained the highest scoring tributary for a second consecutive year with a score of 85.

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Services and Management System for MVSU Career Services Center

Ifeanyi Rowland Onyenweaku

Department of Mathematics, Computer, and Information Sciences Mississippi Valley State University

Itta Bena, Mississippi [email protected]

Services and management systems are web or Operating system applications used to reduce the problem of functionality inefficiencies of the activities of different departments or institutes. Due to these problems, a Services and Management System was sought to be designed and developed, not just for MVSU Career Services but also for all other institutions that do not have a services and management online system. Therefore, this System created is aimed at creating a career services online platform that helps the students of MVSU, all over the world, to interact with MVSU Career Services Center (CSC). We have been able to build a system that allows the students to complete their CSC registration, request appointments, which could be for mock interviews, resume reviewing and other career related forums or workshops. This site also provides accessible information on internships, co-ops and job opportunities to students, and help track students’ career journey in the school. Also, this system will also conduct real-time stats and reports of most career activities attended or participated by the students.

In all, though this system is still being worked on, however, it has increased the efficiency of the operations being done by the MVSU Career Services by a good percentage. It is leading to less paper work and less time taken to perform career related activities.

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Validation of the Antarctic Snow Accumulation and Ice Discharge Basal Stress Boundary of the Southeastern Region of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Kamberlin King

Antarctic Remote Sensing Research Team Mississippi Valley State University

Itta Bena, Mississippi [email protected]

Ayanna Overton

Antarctic Remote Sensing Research Team North Carolina A&T State University

Greensboro, North Carolina [email protected]

Charlie Nelson

Antarctic Remote Sensing Research Team Kentucky State University

Frankfort, Kentucky [email protected]

Michael Jefferson

Antarctic Remote Sensing Research Team Mentor Elizabeth City State University Elizabeth City, North Carolina [email protected]

Linda Hayden, Ph.D Principal Investigator

Elizabeth City University 1704 Weeksville Road, Box 672


The largest ice shelf in Antarctic, Ross Ice Shelf, was investigated over the years of 1970-2015. Near the basal stress boundary between the ice shelf and the West Antarctic ice sheet, ice velocity ranges from a few meters per year to several hundred meters per year in ice streams. Ice velocity increases as the ice moves seaward, reaching more than 1 km yr-1 in the central portions of the ice front. Most of the drainage from West Antarctica into the Ross Ice Shelf flows down two major ice streams, each of which discharges more than 20 km3 of ice each year.

Along with velocity changes the warmest water below parts of the Ross Ice Shelf resides in the lowest portion of the water column because of its high salinity. Vertical mixing caused by tidal stirring can thus induce ablation by lifting the warm water into contact with the ice shelf. This process can cause melting over a period of time and eventually cause breakup of ice shelf.

With changes occurring over many years a validation is needed for the Antarctic Snow Accumulation and Ice Discharge (ASAID) basal stress boundary created in 2003. After the 2002 Larsen B Ice Shelf disintegration, nearby glaciers in the Antarctic Peninsula accelerated up to eight times their original speed over the next 18





months. Similar losses of ice tongues in Greenland have caused speed-ups of two to three times the flow rate in just one year. Rapid changes occurring in regions surrounding Antarctica are causing concern in the polar science community to research changes occurring in coastal zones over time. During the research, the team completed study on the Ross Ice Shelf located on the southwestern coast of the Antarctic. The study included a validation of the ABSB vs. the natural basal stress boundary (NBSB) along the Ross Ice Shelf. The ASAID BSB was created in 2003 by a team of researchers headed by National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA GSFC), with an aim of studying coastal deviations as it pertains to the mass balance of the entire continent. The point data file was aimed at creating a replica of the natural BSB. Select cloud free Landsat satellite imagery from satellites 1 through 7 was used to detect changes occurring over the span of 19 years. The last major interest in the study included documenting the deviations or incorrect placements of the ABSB vs NBSB. ENVI 4.7 as well as ENVI 5.0 image manipulation software was used in the geo-rectifying and the geo-referencing process. Changes that occurred were documented in the form of a data table with the change that occurred along with the latitude and longitude geographic coordinates.

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