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Events for August 28, 2006
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Meet USC (AM session)
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. Please call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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On Average Throughput and Alphabet Size in Network Coding
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
SPEAKER: Dr. Emina Soljanin, Bell LaboratoriesABSTRACT: Network coding, envisioned as an extension of multicommodity data routing, offers two main advantages with respect to routing. First, this technique offers large symmetric throughout (the one achievable uniformly by all receivers) benefits in some directed networks. Second, while optimal multicommodity routing is NP hard, network coding can be performed in a randomized and decentralized manner with high probability of success when the code alphabet size is sufficiently large. In this talk, we will settle the question about the benefits that network coding offers in directed multicast networks with respect to the receivers' average throughput achievable by routing. We will also address certain issues concerning the network code alphabet size as a tradeoff between routing and coding as well as between deterministic and randomized coding, and show that, for certain classes of networks, there are huge savings to be made in terms of alphabet size if one resorts to routing as opposed to coding with a small throughput loss, or to deterministic as opposed to random coding with no throughput loss.BIO: Emina Soljanin received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sarajevo University, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1986, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, in 1989 and 1994.
From 1986 to 1988, she worked in the Energoinvest Company, Bosnia and Herzegovina, developing optimization algorithms and software for power system control. After graduating from Texas A&M, she joined Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, where she now serves as a Distinguished Member Staff in the Mathematical Sciences Research Center. Her research interests are in the broad area of communications, information and coding theory as well as their applications in storage and wireless systems, and, more recently, quantum computation and statistics.
Dr. Soljanin was the recipient of the 1992 Texas A&M University Electrical Engineering Department Fouraker fellowship. She served as a Technical Proof-Reader, 1990-1992, and as the Associate Editor for Coding Techniques, 1997-2000, for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. She was a co-chair for DIMACS Special Focus on Computational Information Theory and Coding 2001-2005.Host: Prof. Urbashi Mitra, ubli@usc.eduLocation: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - -248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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MODELING AND SIMULATION OF PROCESSES FOR COMPLEX SOFTWARE-INTENSIVE SYSTEMS
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University Calendar
Epstein ISE Department SeminarDr. Raymond Madachy,
Research Scientist,
USC Center for Software EngineeringABSTRACT:
The evaluation of process strategies for the architecting and engineering of complex systems involves many interrelated factors. This talk will describe research on the modeling and simulation of processes for developing complex software-intensive systems. Effective systems and software engineering requires a balanced view of technology, business or mission goals, and people. System dynamics is a rich and integrative simulation framework used to quantify their complex interactions and the strategy tradeoffs between cost, schedule, quality and risk. Past and currently funded research will be highlighted including overviews of 1) a commercial business value model of the dynamics between product specifications, development cost and schedule, software quality practices, and market factors to determine the appropriate balance of process activities and 2) a model for an extremely large and complex system-of-systems for the U.S. Army to assess incremental hybrid processes in light of change volatility and support decision-making with respect to process design, change deferral policies and staffing.MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 2006,
GERONTOLOGY BUILDING (GER) ROOM 309,
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Meet USC (PM session)
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. Please call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Admission & Student Affairs
