MCMC-08 Technical Program (tentative)
Day #0: June 10th Satellite Session on Language Technology
Day #1: June 16th. Room E6A102
| Time | Speaker | Talk |
| 9:20 - 9:50 |
John Hooper, Dean, HDR research Stephen Thurgate, Dean, Faculty of Sciences |
Address |
| Session #1: Information Protection and Security I | Chair: Rajan Shankaran | |
| 9:50 - 10:10 | Nguyen Vo | Network Protection against Botnets |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Aarthi Nagarajan | Techniques for the Design of Trust Enhanced Secure Applications |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Brett Watson | Network Protocol Design with Machiavellian Robustness |
| 10:50 - 11:10 |
MORNING TEA (Third Floor Tea Room) |
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| Session #2: Cryptography. Room E6A102 | Chair: Len Hamey | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Cameron McDonald | Automated differential path searching for SHA-1 |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Vijayakrishnan Pasupathinathan | Functional Cryptographic Protocols |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Qingsong Ye | Distributed Private Matching and Set Operations |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Sanka Balasuriya | Bounds of Character Sums and Exponential Sums |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | LUNCH | |
| 2:00 - 2:40 | Igor Shparlinski | Keynote Speech: Numbers at Work and Play |
| Session #3: Databases | Chair: Peter Busch | |
| 2:40 - 3:00 | Kalyan K. Janakiraman | Online management of complex spatial data for relevant web-enabled operations |
| 3:00 - 3:20 | Bruc Liong | Managing Supportability in Large Software Projects |
| 3:20 - 3:40 |
AFTERNOON TEA (Third Floor Tea Room) |
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| Session #4: Web Services and Business Processes | Chair: Diego Molla-Aliod | |
| 3:40 - 4:00 | YI WANG | Web Service Modelling, Discovery and Composition |
| 4:00 - 4:20 | Mahbub Hassan | A Framework for Change Management in Collaborative Business Processes |
| 4:20 - 4:40 | Sri Madhisetty | Utility Computing and its adoption in the IT-Industry |
Day #2: June 17th. Room E6A102
| Time | Speaker | Talk |
| Session #5: Rational Agents and Knowledge Representation | Chair: Yan Wang | |
| 9:50 - 10:10 | Ali Orhan AYDIN | ReCau: Reactive Causal Architecture |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Armin Hezart | Strength and Reliability of Arguments |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Raghav Ramachandran | Resource-Bounded Belief Change |
| 10:50 - 11:10 |
MORNING TEA (Third Floor Tea Room) |
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| Session #6: Data Mining and Analysis | Chair: Josef Pieprzyk | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Moad Maghaydah | RDBMS-Based Storage for Dynamic XML Documents |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Akther Shermin | Using Dynamic Bayesian Networks to infer Gene Regulatory Networks from Expression Profiles of Yeast Cell Cycle Genes |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Yihao Zhang | Element-Oriented Analysis in Unsupervised Data Mining |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Micah McCurdy | Cyclic Structures in Linearly Distributive Categories |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | LUNCH | |
| 2:00 - 2:40 | Peter Eades | Keynote Speech: Research in Information Technology |
| Session #7: Information Protection and Security II | Chair: Vijay Varadharajan | |
| 2:40 - 3:00 | Gaurav Gupta | Robust Digital Watermarking of Multimedia Objects |
| 3:00 - 3:20 | Stephen McCombie | Phishing and Eastern European Organised Cybercrime |
| 3:20 - 3:40 | Ji Ma | Formal Theory of Trust for Secure Systems |
| 3:40 - 4:00 |
AFTERNOON TEA (Third Floor Tea Room) |
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| Session #8: Programming Languages | Chair: Rajan Shankaran | |
| 4:00 - 4:20 | Matthew Roberts | Compiling Pattern-Computation |
| 4:20 - 4:40 | Howard Lovatt | Pattern Enforcing Compiler (PEC) for Java |
Day #3: June 18th. (Room E6A102, possibly except the panel session)
| Time | Speaker | Talk |
| Session #9: Human-centred Computing I | Chair: Debbie Richards | |
| 9:50 - 10:10 | Alexandre Rafalovitch | From Resolution to Execution |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Yi Fan Gao | Design for Integrating Virtual Reality to Facial Expression Analysis |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Iwan Kartiko | Visual Complexity of Virtual Actors in Instructional animation for learning |
| 10:50 - 11:10 |
MORNING TEA (Third Floor Tea Room) |
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| Session #10: Human-centred Computing II | Chair: Abhaya Nayak | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Md Russell Iqbal | Theory of Presence in Virtual Machines - Not Reality Machines |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Susan Bruck | Virtual reality immersive environments and their impact on health |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Eric Fassbender | VirSchool - An immersive environment for improved learning |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch (provided) plus Panel Discussion | Future of MCMC: Where do we go from Here?
Chair: Steve Cassidy |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Closing + Awards |
Last updated 6 June 2008