2004 Refereed Conferences

• Abdulla, G., "Simulation of the Future LSST Data Pipelines" Extended abstract, ADASS meeting, Pasadena California October 2004, UCRL-CONF-205562
• Aufderheide,M.B., Henderson,G.L., Schach von Wittenau,A.E., Slone,D.M., Barry,A., and Martz,H.E., “HADES, a Code for Simulating a Variety of Radiographic Techniques”, Proceedings, 2001 IEEE Nuclear Sciences Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, October 16-22, 2004. UCRL-PROC-207617.
• Barthélemy, Marc, Edmond Chow, and Tina Eliassi-Rad, “Knowledge representation issues for graphs in homeland security,” 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on AI Technologies for Homeland Security, March 21-23, 2005, to appear.  UCRL-ABS-207328.
• Borgo, R.,  V. Pascucci, and R. Scopigno. “Massive data pre-processing with a cluster based approach”. In Proceedings of the 2004 Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV-04), pages 67–74, Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland, June 10–11 2004. UCRL-PROC-208678
• Bronevetsky G., Schulz M., Peter P., Marques D., and Pingali K., "Checkpointing for Shared Memory Programs at the Application- level", Proceedings of the Sixth European Workshop on OpenMP, Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 18-22, 2004, UCRL-CONF-206542.
• Bronevetsky G., Schulz M., Peter P., Marques D., and Pingali K., "Application-level Checkpointing for Shared Memory Programs", Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2004), Boston, Oct. 9-13, 2004, UCRL-CONF-205594.
• Bulatov, Vasily, Wei Cai, Jeff Fier, Masato Hiratani, Gregg Hommes, Tim Pierce, Meijie Tang, Moono Rhee, Kim Yates, and Tom Arsenlis. Scalable line dynamics in ParaDiS. In Proc. SC '04: High Performance Networking and Computing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 2004. ACM Press and IEEE Computer Society Press. UCRL-CONF-207716
• Buttler, D., “A Short Survey of Document Structure Similarity Algorithms,” International Conference on Internet Computing, Los Vegas, NV, June 21–24, 2004. UCRL-CONF-202728.
• Buttler, D., D. Rocco, and L. Liu “Efficient Web Change Monitoring with Page Digest,” Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conf., New York, NY, May 17–22, 2004. UCRL-CONF-202469.
• Cantú-Paz, E. “Adaptive Sampling for Noisy Problems,” In Deb, K. et al. (Eds.). Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference-2004.  (pp. 947--958). Berlin: Springer Verlag. UCRL-CONF-203216.
• Cantú-Paz, E. “Feature Subset Selection, Class Separability, and Genetic Algorithms.”  In Deb, K. et al.(Eds.). Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference -2004. (pp. 959--970).  Berlin: Springer Verlag.  Best paper award nominee. UCRL-CONF-202041
• Cantu-Paz, E., Cheung, S-C., and Kamath, C. Retrieval of Similar Objects in Simulation Data Using Machine Learning Techniques. Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems III. SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Jose, January 2004. UCRL-JC-153866. pp 251-258.
• Cantu-Paz, E., S. Newsam, and C. Kamath, “Feature Selection in Scientific Applications,” in Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 2004. UCRL-CONF-202657.
• Cheung. S., Kamath, C., “Robust techniques for background subtraction in urban traffic video”, Video Communications and Image Processing, Proceedings, Volume 5308, SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Jose, January 2004, UCRL-CONF-200706,  pp.881-892.
• Choi, G., J. Kim, D. Ersoz, A. Yoo, C. R. Das. "Coscheduling in Clusters: Is It a Viable Alternative?," Proc. SC2004, Nov 2004. UCRL-CONF-200869.  (Nominated for best student paper.)
• Cole-McLaughlin, K.,  and V. Pascucci. “Multiresolution representation of topology”. In Proceedings of the 4th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, And Image Processing (VIIP 2004), pages 282–289, Marbella, Sapin, September 2004. UCRL-PROC-208680
• Dahlgren, T.L. and P.T. Devanbu, “Adaptable Assertion Checking for Scientific Software Components,” in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software Engineering for High Performance Computing System Applications, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, May 24, 2004. UCRL-CONF-202898.
• Deschamps,T., P. Schwartz, D. Trebotich, P. Colella, D. Saloner and R. Malladi, “Vessel segmentation and blood flow simulation using level-sets and embedded boundary methods”, International Congress Series, Volume 1268, pp. 75-80, June (2004). Presented at 18th International Congress and Exposition for Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Chicago.  UCRL-CONF-208522.
• Diachin, L.; P. Knupp, T. Munson, and S. Shontz, A Comparison of Inexact Newton and Coordinate Descent Mesh Optimization Techniques, Proceedings of the 13th International Meshing Roundtable, Williamsburg, VA, September, 2004. UCRL-CONF-205150.
• Dias, J., “Standards in Application Security and the Benefits of Interoperability,” RSA Conf. 2004, San Francisco, CA, February 23–27, 2004. Need UCRL number.
• Edelsbrunner, H., J. Harer, A. Mascarenhas, and V. Pascucci. “Time-varying Reeb graphs for continuous space-time data”. In Proceedings of the twentieth annual symposium on Computational geometry (SoCG ’04), pages 366–372. ACM Press, 2004. UCRL-PROC-208697
• Edelsbrunner, H., J. Harer, V. Natarajan, and V. Pascucci. “Local and global comparison of continuous functions”. In Proceeding of the IEEE conference on Visualization, pages 275–280, October 2004. UCRL-PROC-208677
• Eder, D., Koniges, A., Bonneau, F., Vierne, J., Combis, P., Tobin, M., Andrews, J., Mann, K., and  MacGowan, B. “Simulation of Shrapnel to Aid in the Design of NIF/LMJ Target-Diagnostic Configurations,” Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications: State of the Art 2003, 2004, pp. 572–575. UCRL-JC-155340
• Eliassi-Rad, T., and T. Critchlow, “A Hybrid Approach to Multiresolution Modeling of Large-Scale Scientific Data,” Proc. of the 20th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing – Data Mining Track, Santa Fe, NM, March 2005. UCRL-CONF-206419.
• Fernandez de Vega, F., Cantú-Paz, E., Lopez, J.I., Manzano, T. (2004). “Saving Resources with Plagues in Genetic Algorithms,” In Yao, X. et al. (Eds.) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature---PPSN VIII. (pp. 272--281). Berlin: Springer Verlag. UCRL-CONF-204742.
• Fisher, A., D. White, G. Rodrigue, A Generalized Mass Lumping Scheme for Maxwell’s Wave Equations, Proc. IEEE Ant. and Prop. Symp., June, 2004.  UCRL-CONF-201900.
• Girill, T. R., "Documentation as Problem Solving for Literacy Outreach Programs," Proc. of Society for Technical Communication 2004 Region 8 Conference, Univ. of Calif. Davis, July 2004.  UCRL-CONF-205156
• Hwa, L.M., Mark A. Duchaineau, Kenneth I. Joy, "Adaptive 4-8 Texture Hierarchies", Proceedings IEEE Visualization 2004, October 2004, pp. 219-226, Winner of the "Best Paper" award, UCRL-CONF-205705
• Isenburg, M., P. Lindstrom, and J. Snoeyink, “Lossless Compression of Floating-Point Geometry,” Proc. CAD ’04, Pattaya City, Thailand, May 24-28, 2004.  UCRL-CONF-204158.
• Kamath, C., A. Gezahegne, S. Newsam, G.M. Roberts, Salient Points for Tracking Moving Objects in Video, to appear in Proceedings, Image and Video Communications and Processing, SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Jose, January 17-20, 2005. UCRL-CONF-208738
• Koniges, A. E., Marinak, M. M., and Tipton, R., “A New Numerical Treatment of Hohlraum boundaries for ALE Rad/Hydro Codes,” Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications: State of the Art 2003, 2004, pp. 261–263. UCRL-JC-152364.
• Koniges, A. E., Marinak, M. M., Tabak, M., and Hermann, M. C., “Studies of Indirect Drive IFE Capsules in Two and Three Dimensions,” Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications: State of the Art 2003, 2004, pp. 154–157. UCRL-JC-152363.
• Laney, D., and V. Pascucci. “Progressive compression of volumetric subdivision meshes”. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission (3DPVT), pages 293–300, September 2004. UCRL-CONF-203679
• Larson , J. Walter; Boyana Norris, Everest T. Ong, David E. Bernholdt, John B. Drake, Wael R. Elwasif, Michael Ham, Craig e. Rasmussen, Gary Kumfert, Daniel S. Katz, Shujia Zhou, Cecelia DeLuca, and Nancy s. Collins, "Components, The Common Component Architecture, and the Climate/Weather/Ocean Community" 84th American Meterological Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, 2004.  Need UCRL number.
• Lee, B., R. Vuduc, J. Demmel, and K. Yelick. “Performance models for evaluation and automatic tuning of symmetric sparse-matrix vector multiply.” International Conference on Parallel Processing, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 2004. Need UCRL number.
• Mascarenhas, A., M. Isenburg, V. Pascucci, and J. Snoeyink. “Encoding volumetric meshes for streaming isosurface extraction”. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission (3DPVT), pages 293–300, September 2004. UCRL-PROC-208696
• Max, N., Greg Schussman, Ryo Miyazaki, Kei Iwasaki, and Tomoyuki Nishita, “Diffusion and Multiple Anisotropic Scattering for Global Illumination in Clouds”, Journal of WSCG, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2004, pp. 277–284. UCRL–CONF-200276
• McCallen, Rose C., et. al, “DOE’s Effort to Reduce Truck Aerodynamic Drag-Joint Experiments and Computations Lead to Smart Design,” Proc. of the 34th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, Portland, Oregon, June 28 – July 1, 2004. UCRL-CONF-204819.
• McPherson, J., K-L Ma (UC Davis), P. Krystosek, T. Bartoletti, and M. Christensen, “PortVis: A Tool for Port-Based Detection of Security Events,” Proc. of CCS Workshop on Visualization and Data Mining for Computer Security, ACM Conf. on Computer and Communications Security, October 29, 2004. UCRL-CONF-205756.
• Nevins, W. M., E. Bringa, B.I. Cohen, R.H. Cohen, M. Dorr, G. Gilmer, A. Kubota, J. Hittinger, G. Kerbel, C. Mundy, T. Rognlien, and X.Q. Xu, “Kinetic Simulation of Boundary Plasma Transport,” 46th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, Savannah, GA, November 15-19, 2004. UCRL-ABS-205397.
• Newsam, S. and B. S. Manjunath, “Normalized Texture Motifs and their Application to Statistical Object Modeling,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision, June 2004. UCRL-CONF-202814.
• Newsam, S., and Kamath, C., “Retrieval using texture features in high resolution multi-spectral satellite imagery”, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Theory, Tools, and Technology, VI, SPIE Defense and Security, Orlando, April 2004, pp 21-32. UCRL-CONF-201981.
• Newsam. S, J. Tesic , L. Wang and B. S. Manjunath, "Issues in Mining Video Datasets," in Proceedings of SPIE International Symposium On Electronic Imaging, Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia, January 2004. UCRL-CONF-200471.
• Paoluzzi, A., V. Pascucci, and G. Scorzelli. “Progressive bsp representation and boolean operations for dimension-independent polyhedra”. In Proceeding of the ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling, pages 203–211. ACM, June 2004. UCRL-PROC-208679
• Pascucci, V., “Isosurface computation made simple: Hardware acceleration, adaptive refinement and tetrahedral stripping”. In Proceedings of the Joint Eurographics -IEEE TVCG Symposium on Visualization (VisSym), pages 293–300, May 2004. UCRL-CONF-202459
• Pesco, S., P. Lindstrom, V. Pascucci, and C. T. Silva, “Implicit Occluders,” Proc. IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics 2004, Austin, TX, Oct. 10-15, 2004. UCRL-CONF-202186.
• Pitel, V., A. Martyanov, L. Kasumova, R. Babcock, and C. Heinberg, “Proposals for the Future Development of the Russian Automated Federal Information System for Nuclear Material Control and Accounting: The Universal Reporting Concept,” 45th Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) Conf., Orlando, FL, July 2004. UCRL-CONF-204879.
• Quinlan, D.; Markus Schordan, Qing Yi and Andreas  Saebjornsen, "Classification and Utilization of Abstractions for  Optimization", The First International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Paphos, Cyprus, Oct, 2004. UCRL-CONF-206619
• Schulz, M., Bronevetsky G., Fernandes R., Marques D., Pingali K, and Stodghill P., "Implementation and Evaluation of a Scalable Application-level Checkpoint-Recovery Scheme for MPI Programs", Proceedings of Supercomputing 2004, Pittsburgh, Nov. 6-12, 2004, UCRL-CONF-205612.
• Senecal, J. G., P. Lindstrom, M. A. Duchaineau, and K. I. Joy, “An Improved N-Bit to N-Bit Reversible Haar-Like Transform,” Proc. Pacific Graphics 2004, Seoul, Korea, Oct. 6-8, 2004.  UCRL-CONF-204061.
• Senecal, J.,  Mark A. Duchaineau, Kenneth I. Joy, "Length-Limited Variable-to-Variable Length Codes for High-Performance Entropy Coding", Proceedings of the 2004 Data Compression Conference (DCC 2004), 23-25 March 2004, Snowbird, UT, USA, pp. 389-398, UCRL-CONF-201688.
• Senecal, J.G., Mark A. Duchaineau, Kenneth I. Joy, "Reversible N-Bit to N-Bit Integer Haar-Like Transforms", Proceedings of the 7th IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM '04), August 16-18, 2004, Kauai, Hawaii, pp 135-140, UCRL-CONF-202451-REV-1.
• Trebotich, D., P. Colella and D. Liepmann, “Computational modeling of bio-fluids in multi-scale systems”, American Physical Society Division of Fluid Mechanics, Seattle, Nov (2004). UCRL-PRES-208219.
• Trebotich, D., P. Colella and G. H. Miller, A tightly coupled particle-fluid model for DNA-laden flows in complex microscale geometries, to appear in Proceedings of the Third MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics (2005). UCRL-CONF-208132.
• Trebotich, D., P. Colella, G. H. Miller, A. Nonaka, T. Marshall, S. Gulati and D. Liepmann, “A numerical algorithm for complex biological in irregular microdevice geometries”, Technical Proceedings of the 2004 Nanotechnology Conference and Tradeshow, Volume 2, 470-473, Boston (2004).  UCRL-CONF-201479.
• Trebotich, D., T. Deschamps and P. Schwartz, “Air-flow simulation in realistic models of the trachea”, Technical Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 3933-3936, San Francisco, Sept (2004). UCRL-CONF-208523.
• Weeratunga, S., and Kamath, C., “An investigation of implicit active contours for scientific image segmentation”, Video Communications and Image Processing, Proceedings, Volume 5308, SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Jose, January 2004, UCRL-CONF-200711, pp 210-221.
• Wolford, J. K., M. I. Frank, and M-A Descalle, “Modeling of Fission Neutrons as a Signature for Detection of Highly Enriched Uranium,” Proc. of Conf. on Sensors and C3I Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense, Orlando, FL, April 2004. pp. 609–620. UCRL-CONF-202869.
• Yi, Qing, and Dan Quinlan, “Applying Loop Optimizations to Object-oriented Abstractions Through General Classification of Array Semantics”,  the 17th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.  Sep. 2004. UCRL-CONF-203233 
• Yi, Qing,, Ken Kennedy, Haihang You, Keith Seymour and Jack Dongarra, “Automatic Blocking Of QR and LU Factorizations for Locality”, the Second ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory System Performance, Washington, DC, USA.  June. 2004. UCRL-CONF-202762