Computational Science – ICCS 2009: 9th International Conference Baton Rouge, LA, USA, May 25-27, 2009 Proceedings, Part II

Front Matter....Pages -
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Third Workshop on Teaching Computational Science (WTCS 2009)....Pages 3-4
Combination of Bayesian Network and Overlay Model in User Modeling....Pages 5-14
Building Excitement, Experience and Expertise in Computational Science among Middle and High School Students....Pages 15-24
Using R for Computer Simulation and Data Analysis in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics....Pages 25-33
Teaching Model for Computational Science and Engineering Programme....Pages 34-43
Spread-of-Disease Modeling in a Microbiology Course....Pages 44-52
An Intelligent Tutoring System for Interactive Learning of Data Structures....Pages 53-62
A Tool for Automatic Code Generation from Schemas....Pages 63-73
The New Computational and Data Sciences Undergraduate Program at George Mason University....Pages 74-83
Models as Arguments: An Approach to Computational Science Education....Pages 84-92
A Mathematical Modeling Module with System Engineering Approach for Teaching Undergraduate Students to Conquer Complexity....Pages 93-102
Lessons Learned from a Structured Undergraduate Mentorship Program in Computational Mathematics at George Mason University....Pages 103-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-112
First Principle Study of the Anti– and Syn–Conformers of Thiophene–2–Carbonyl Fluoride and Selenophene–2–Carbonyl Fluoride in the Gas and Solution Phases....Pages 114-121
Density Functional Calculation of the Structure and Electronic Properties of Cu n O n (n=1-4) Clusters....Pages 122-130
Effects of Interface Interactions on Mechanical Properties in RDX-Based PBXs HTPB-DOA: Molecular Dynamics Simulations....Pages 131-140
Pairwise Spin-Contamination Correction Method and DFT Study of MnH and H 2 Dissociation Curves....Pages 141-150
Prediction of Exchange Coupling Constant for Mn 12 Molecular Magnet Using Dft+U....Pages 151-159
A Cheminformatics Approach for Zeolite Framework Determination....Pages 160-168
Theoretical Photochemistry of the Photochromic Molecules Based on Density Functional Theory Methods....Pages 169-178
Predictions of Two Photon Absorption Profiles Using Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Combined with SOS and CEO Formalisms....Pages 179-188
Front Matter....Pages 111-112
The Kinetics of Charge Recombination in DNA Hairpins Controlled by Counterions....Pages 189-196
Quantum Oscillator in a Heat Bath....Pages 197-202
Density Functional Theory Study of Ag-Cluster/CO Interactions....Pages 203-210
Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Study of Structure-Property Relationships in Diarylethene Photochromic Compounds....Pages 211-220
Free Energy Correction to Rigid Body Docking : Application to the Colicin E7 and Im7 Complex....Pages 221-228
The Design of Tris( o -phenylenedioxy)cyclo-trisphosphazene (TPP) Derivatives and Analogs toward Multifunctional Zeolite Use....Pages 229-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Atmospheric and Oceanic Computational Science....Pages 241-242
A Fully Implicit Jacobian-Free High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Mesoscale Flow Solver....Pages 243-252
Time Acceleration Methods for Advection on the Cubed Sphere....Pages 253-262
Comparison of Traditional and Novel Discretization Methods for Advection Models in Numerical Weather Prediction....Pages 263-272
A Non-oscillatory Advection Operator for the Compatible Spectral Element Method....Pages 273-282
Simulating Particulate Organic Advection along Bottom Slopes to Improve Simulation of Estuarine Hypoxia and Anoxia....Pages 283-292
Explicit Time Stepping Methods with High Stage Order and Monotonicity Properties....Pages 293-301
Improving GEOS-Chem Model Tropospheric Ozone through Assimilation of Pseudo Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer Profile Retrievals....Pages 302-311
Chemical Data Assimilation with CMAQ: Continuous vs. Discrete Advection Adjoints....Pages 312-321
A Second Order Adjoint Method to Targeted Observations....Pages 322-331
A Scalable and Adaptable Solution Framework within Components of the Community Climate System Model....Pages 332-341
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
GeoComputation 2009....Pages 345-348
Grid Workflow Modeling for Remote Sensing Retrieval Service with Tight Coupling....Pages 349-356
An Asynchronous Parallelized and Scalable Image Resampling Algorithm with Parallel I/O....Pages 357-366
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
Design and Implementation of a Scalable General High Performance Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Processing System on Performance and Function....Pages 367-374
Incremental Clustering Algorithm for Earth Science Data Mining....Pages 375-384
Overcoming Geoinformatic Knowledge Fence: An Exploratory of Intelligent Geospatial Data Preparation within Spatial Analysis....Pages 385-394
Spatial Relations Analysis by Using Fuzzy Operators....Pages 395-404
A Parallel Nonnegative Tensor Factorization Algorithm for Mining Global Climate Data....Pages 405-415
Querying for Feature Extraction and Visualization in Climate Modeling....Pages 416-425
Applying Wavelet and Fourier Transform Analysis to Large Geophysical Datasets....Pages 426-434
Seismic Wave Field Modeling with Graphics Processing Units....Pages 435-442
Front Matter....Pages 443-443
Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems – DDDAS 2009....Pages 445-446
Characterizing Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems (DDDAS) in Terms of a Computational Model....Pages 447-448
Enabling End-to-End Data-Driven Sensor-Based Scientific and Engineering Applications....Pages 449-459
Feature Clustering for Data Steering in Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems....Pages 460-469
An Ensemble Kalman-Particle Predictor-Corrector Filter for Non-Gaussian Data Assimilation....Pages 470-478
Computational Steering Strategy to Calibrate Input Variables in a Dynamic Data Driven Genetic Algorithm for Forest Fire Spread Prediction....Pages 479-488
Injecting Dynamic Real-Time Data into a DDDAS for Forest Fire Behavior Prediction....Pages 489-499
Event Correlations in Sensor Networks....Pages 500-509
Front Matter....Pages 511-511
Chairs’ Introduction to Workshop on Computational Finance and Business Intelligence....Pages 513-514
Lag-Dependent Regularization for MLPs Applied to Financial Time Series Forecasting Tasks....Pages 515-523
Bias-Variance Analysis for Ensembling Regularized Multiple Criteria Linear Programming Models....Pages 524-533
Knowledge-Rich Data Mining in Financial Risk Detection....Pages 534-542
Front Matter....Pages 511-511
Smoothing Newton Method for L 1 Soft Margin Data Classification Problem....Pages 543-551
Short-Term Capital Flows in China: Trend, Determinants and Policy Implications....Pages 552-560
Finding the Hidden Pattern of Credit Card Holder’s Churn: A Case of China....Pages 561-569
Nearest Neighbor Convex Hull Classification Method for Face Recognition....Pages 570-577
The Measurement of Distinguishing Ability of Classification in Data Mining Model and Its Statistical Significance....Pages 578-587
Maximum Expected Utility of Markovian Predicted Wealth....Pages 588-597
Continuous Time Markov Chain Model of Asset Prices Distribution....Pages 598-605
Foreign Exchange Rates Forecasting with a C -Ascending Least Squares Support Vector Regression Model....Pages 606-615
Multiple Criteria Quadratic Programming for Financial Distress Prediction of the Listed Manufacturing Companies....Pages 616-624
Kernel Based Regularized Multiple Criteria Linear Programming Model....Pages 625-632
Retail Exposures Credit Scoring Models for Chinese Commercial Banks....Pages 633-642
The Impact of Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 on Crude Oil Price....Pages 643-652
Front Matter....Pages 653-653
Preface for the Joint Workshop on Tools for Program Development and Analysis in Computational Science and Software Engineering for Large-Scale Computing....Pages 655-656
Snapshot-Based Data Backup Scheme: Open ROW Snapshot....Pages 657-666
Managing Provenance in iRODS....Pages 667-676
Instruction Hints for Super Efficient Data Caches....Pages 677-685
A Holistic Approach for Performance Measurement and Analysis for Petascale Applications....Pages 686-695
A Generic and Configurable Source-Code Instrumentation Component....Pages 696-705
Front Matter....Pages 707-707
Dynamic VO Establishment in Distributed Heterogeneous Business Environments....Pages 709-718
Interactive Control over a Programmable Computer Network Using a Multi-touch Surface....Pages 719-728
Front Matter....Pages 707-707
Eye Tracking and Gaze Based Interaction within Immersive Virtual Environments....Pages 729-736
Collaborative and Parallelized Immersive Molecular Docking....Pages 737-745
The gMenu User Interface for Virtual Reality Systems and Environments....Pages 746-753
Front Matter....Pages 755-755
VIII International Workshop on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling - CGGM’2009....Pages 757-758
Reconstruction of Branching Surface and Its Smoothness by Reversible Catmull-Clark Subdivision....Pages 759-769
A New Algorithm for Image Resizing Based on Bivariate Rational Interpolation....Pages 770-779
Hardware-Accelerated Sumi-e Painting for 3D Objects....Pages 780-789
A New Approach for Surface Reconstruction Using Slices....Pages 790-800
Tools for Procedural Generation of Plants in Virtual Scenes....Pages 801-810
Front Matter....Pages 811-811
Toward the New Generation of Intelligent Distributed Computing Systems....Pages 813-814
Multi-agent System for Recognition of Hand Postures....Pages 815-824
From Algorithm to Agent....Pages 825-834
The Norm Game - How a Norm Fails....Pages 835-844
Graph Grammar Based Petri Nets Model of Concurrency for Self-adaptive hp -Finite Element Method with Triangular Elements....Pages 845-854
Multi-agent Crisis Management in Transport Domain....Pages 855-864
Agent-Based Model and Computing Environment Facilitating the Development of Distributed Computational Intelligence Systems....Pages 865-874
Graph Transformations for Modeling hp -Adaptive Finite Element Method with Mixed Triangular and Rectangular Elements....Pages 875-884
Agent-Based Environment for Knowledge Integration....Pages 885-894
Agent Strategy Generation by Rule Induction in Predator-Prey Problem....Pages 895-903
Handling Ambiguous Inverse Problems by the Adaptive Genetic Strategy hp –HGS....Pages 904-913
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