Research Centers
Center for the Advancement of Formal Methods
Director: Sotiris Skevoulis, PhD
Upon receiving an NSF grant for "Integrating Formal Methods Tools into the Undergraduate Curriculum," Dr. Sotirios Skevoulis created the Center for the Advancement of Formal Methods dedicated to the study and development of innovative approaches and tools to promote the integration of formal methods into academia.
Center for Pervasive Computing
Directors: Charles Tappert, PhD and Sung-Hyuk Cha, PhD
The Pervasive Computing Lab conducts research on biometric authentication, interactive visual systems, handwriting and voice forensics applications, and pervasive/mobile computing. The lab, originally supported by the Hudson Valley Center for Emerging Technologies, now receives occasional support from Kenan Funds and Seidenberg Summer Grants.
Publications resulting from Pervasive Computing research include:
S. Yoon, S. Choi, S. Cha, Y. Lee, and C.C. Tappert, "On the Individuality of the Iris Biometric", Int. J. Graphics, Vision and Image Processing , Vol. 5, 2005.
C.C. Tappert and S. Cha, "Recent Security-Related Research and Projects in CSIS at Pace University ," Proc. HTCIA 05 Northeast Regional Conf., Pace Univ., NYC, November 2005.
S. Yoon, S. Choi, S. Cha, Y. Lee, and C.C. Tappert, "On the Individuality of the Iris Biometric," Proc. ICIAR 05 , Toronto , Canada , September 2005.
S. Yoon, S. Cha, and C.C. Tappert, "On Binary Similarity Measures for Handwritten Character Recognition," Proc. ICDAR 05 , Seoul , Korea , August 2005.
S. Yoon, S. Choi, S. Cha, and C.C. Tappert, "Writer Profiling Using Handwriting Copybook Styles," Proc. ICDAR 05 , Seoul , Korea , August 2005.
M. Gibbons, S. Yoon, S. Cha, and C.C. Tappert, "Biometric Identification Generalizability," Proc. Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication , Rye Brook, NY, July 2005.
S. Yoon, S. Choi, S. Cha, Y. Lee, and C.C. Tappert, "Combining Multiple Iris Biometric Verifiers," Proc. The 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics , Orlando, FL, July 2005.
B. Ahmed, S. Cha, and C.C. Tappert, "Nationality Identification from Names Using N-Gram Based Cumulative Frequency Addition," Proc. The 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics , Orlando , FL , July 2005.
W. Huber, V. Hanson, S. Cha, C.C. Tappert, "Common Chatroom Abbreviations Speed Pen Computing," Proc. 11th International conference on Human-Computer Interaction , Las Vegas, NV, July 2005.
M. Manfredi, S. Cha, S. Yoon, and C.C. Tappert, "Similarity-Based Copybook Style Analysis Using Pseudo-Online Handwriting," Proc. 12th Conference of the International Graphonomics Society , Salerno , Italy , June 2005.
G. Bishop, S. Cha, and C.C. Tappert, "Identification of Pottery Shapes and Schools Using Image Retrieval Techniques," Proc. MCSCE , CISST, Las Vegas , NV , June 2005.
J. Galatti, S. Cha, M. Gargano, and C.C. Tappert, "Applying Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Problems of Incomplete Information: Optimizing Bidding in the Game of Bridge," Proc. MCSCE , ICAI, Las Vegas , NV , June 2005.
G. Bartolacci, M. Curtin, M. Katzenberg, N. Nwana, S. Cha, and C.C. Tappert, "Applying Keystroke Biometrics for User Verification and Identification," Proc. MCSCE , MLMTA, Las Vegas , NV , June 2005.
M. Gibbons, S. Yoon, S. Cha, and C.C. Tappert, "Analyzing Open Biometric Identification Systems," Proc. MCSCE , MLMTA, Las Vegas, NV, June 2005.
A. Evans, J. Sikorski, P. Thomas, S.-H. Cha, C. Tappert, J. Zou, A. Gattani, and G. Nagy, Computer Assisted Visual Interactive Recognition (CAVIAR) Technology , Proc. 2005 Electro/Information Technology (EIT) Conference , EIT 2005 , Lincoln, NE, May 2005.
G. Bishop, S.-H. Cha, and C. Tappert, "Identification of Pottery Shapes and Schools Using Image Retrieval Techniques," Proc. Computer Applications in Archeology , CAA 2005 , Tomar , Portugal , March 2005.
T. Lombardi, S.-H. Cha, and C. C. Tappert, "Lightweight Image Retrieval System for Paintings," Proc. Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia , paper 5682-24, Electronic Imaging 2005 , San Jose, CA, January 2005.
S.-H. Cha, S. Yoon, and C.C. Tappert, "Computer Assisted Handwriting Style Identification in Questioned Document Examination," Proc. Investigative Image Processing III , paper 5685-25, Electronic Imaging 2005 , San Jose , CA , January 2005.
Susan M. Merritt, Fred Grossman, and Charles C. Tappert, "The D.P.S. in Computing Program - A View from the Start and An Assessment Following Its Fifth Year," CSIS Technical Report 219, October 2005.
John Galatti, Sung-Hyuk Cha, Michael Gargano and Charles Tappert, "Applying Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Problems of Incomplete Information: Optimizing Bidding in the Game of Bridge," Proc. CSIS Research Day , Pace University , NY , May 2005.
Gulsebnem Bishop, Sung-Hyuk Cha and Charles Tappert, "A Greek Pottery Shape and School Identification and Classification System Using Image Retrieval Techniques," Proc. CSIS Research Day , Pace University , NY , May 2005.
Bashir Ahmed, Sung-Hyuk Cha and Charles Tappert, "Detection of Foreign Entities in Native Text Using N-gram Cumulative Frequency Addition," Proc. CSIS Research Day , Pace University , NY , May 2005.
Carl E. Abrams, Sung-Hyuk Cha, Michael Gargano, and Charles Tappert, "Semantic Geometric Features: A Preliminary Investigation of Automobile Identification," Proc. CSIS Research Day , Pace University , NY , May 2005.
Mary L. Manfredi, Sung-Hyuk Cha, Sungsoo Yoon and Charles C. Tappert, "Handwriting Copybook Style Analysis of Pseudo-Online Data," Proc. CSIS Research Day , Pace University , NY , May 2005.
Gary Bartolacci, Mary Curtin, Marc Katzenberg, Ngozi Nwana, Sung-Hyuk Cha and Charles Tappert, "Long-Text Keystroke Biometric Applications over the Internet," Proc. CSIS Research Day , Pace University , NY , May 2005.
Michael Gibbons, Sungsoo Yoon, Sung-Hyuk Cha and Charles Tappert, "On Evaluating Open Biometric Identification Systems," Proc. CSIS Research Day , Pace University , NY , May 2005.
Sung-Hyuk Cha, Sungsoo Yoon, and Charles C. Tappert, "Enhancing Binary Feature Vector Similarity Measures," CSIS Technical Report 210, January 2005.
Center for Robotics and Intelligent Agents
Director: D. Paul Benjamin, PhD
The Pace University Robotics Laboratory continued a three-way collaboration with Brigham Young University and Fordham University begun last year to design a robotic cognitive architecture. Pace and Fordham's Robotics Labs own similar robot models. The collaborating professor at Fordham is Professor Damian Lyons, whose specialty is computer vision. Professor Deryle Lonsdale of Brigham Young is in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, and is focusing on the development of the robots' ability to speak. Pace's Professor Paul Benjamin focuses on the development of the robots' cognitive architecture. Considerable progress was made this year on these three aspects of the robotic architecture.
The VMSoar project, involves implementing a network security agent that learns to detect network intrusions, has resulted in a publication co-authored with two Seidenberg graduate students.
D. Paul Benjamin and Adrian Walker
Semantic Encoding of Relational Databases in Wireless Networks,?Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Defense Symposium on Data Mining, Intrusion Detection, Information Assurance and Data Networks Security (March 2005).
D. Paul Benjamin, Ranjita Shankar-Iyer and Archana Perumal
VMSoar: A Cognitive Agent for Network Security,?Proceedings of The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Defense Symposium on Data Mining, Intrusion Detection, Information Assurance and Data Networks Security (March 2005).
Center for Undergraduate Research and Collaborative Computing
Director: Dennis Anderson, PhD
The Undergraduate Research and Collaborative Computing (URCC) Lab, established by Dr. Dennis Anderson, serves to involve undergraduates in significant research in computing with the goal of encouraging them to conduct research in applied computing. Beginning in 2005, five undergraduate and graduate researchers: Bennett Pursell (BS/CS), Ishan Chaterjee (BS/CS), Anthony Oren (BS/IS), Andreas Zimmerer (MS/CS), and Prashant Srivastav (MS/CS) worked in New York City on projects related to Internet2 database, open source, social computing and other special projects such as NYC 2012's Nations of New York Web site Development Project, World Trade Center Memorial Foundation Web site Development Project and United Nations Language and Communication Program Web site Development Project.
Center for Information Assurance Education and Research
Director: Narayan Murthy, PhD
The Information Assurance Education and Research Center was established this year for the purpose of exploring computer vulnerabilities with the objective of improving prevention and detection techniques through research.
Through the Center, Pace University also promotes education, research, and outreach in the field of information security. Recently, a Security Lab was created with funding from a National Security Agency grant of $30k obtained through the efforts of Dr. Narayan Murthy.
The Security Lab is located in Room 321 at the Goldstein Academic Center in Pleasantville. Students and faculty can access the lab both physically and virtually via a VPN connection. The lab's network was set up outside the University network so that students can safely experiment with powerful security tools. This lab has a Linux server and other servers for experimenting with security software tools and the other is a honeypot. The lab is equipped with twelve Windows machines to be used for hands-on work in numerous security courses.
