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GENERAL POSTER SESSION
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A Reinforcement Learning Approach
for Load Balancing in Scientific
Applications Characterized by a Large
Number of Time Steps
Presenter: Srishti Srivastava (Mississippi
State University)
For effectively load balancing scientific
applications, a number of loop scheduling
algorithms are available; however, selecting
the algorithm that is appropriate for an
application involves guesswork especially
at runtime. Reinforcement Learning (RL)
solves problems via learning, planning and
decision-making. A RL agent following the
model-free learning approach becomes
very useful for automatically selecting the
appropriate load balancing algorithm during
the lifetime of the application and learning
using well known techniques like QLEARN
and SARSA.
A Symbiotic, Inter-disciplinary
Collaboration: Mobile Application
Benefits for Software Development and
Science Courses
Presenter: Sonal Dekhane (Georgia
Gwinnett College)
This poster addresses two problems in
different domains by integrating them
into one interdisciplinary project. The
software engineering students have been
“hired” to design and develop a mobile
application to help tutor organic chemistry
concepts by involving multiple avenues of
learning. By enabling this business relationship
we attempt to provide the software
engineering students with authentic
learning experiences and to provide organic
chemistry students with an efficient learning
tool.
A Tangible Query System for Learning
the Structure of Amino Acids
Presenter: Promita Chakraborty (Virginia
Polytechnic Institute)
We are building a tangible query
interface to aid in learning the
structure of amino acids by school children.
Students would be able to interact with
the system and would learn the chemical
structure of amino acids by querying the
system. Teaching school children a topic as
complex as the structure of amino acids is a
hard task. A suitable learning model needs
to be designed, and the necessary tools
need to be built.
Accommodating Gender Discrepancies
in the Application of the Internet, for a
More Enriching Academic Environment
Presenter: Ritika Jhangiani (College of
Saint Scholastica)
The goal of this study is to identify if there
exists a gender difference among college
level students with respect to how they use
the internet and their attitude and comfort
level towards using it. This information could
provide valuable guidelines for teachers
towards tailoring the use of the internet, in
order to provide a more satisfying learning
experience for male and female college
students.
Adaptive Binarization Method with
Variable Window Size
Presenter: Alexandra Olteanu (University
“Politehnica” of Bucharest)
Document image binarization is the step
at the base of every content conversion
system and requires maximum quality for
the output, since it affects all subsequent
processing steps. Our method aims to
overcome a series of problems that global
binarization algorithms cannot treat and
to bring a significant improvement to local
binarization methods, such as Niblack’s, by
using a variable window size.
Adaptive Scheduling Approach Used
for Rescheduling in Large Scale
Distributed Systems
Presenter: Alexandra Olteanu (University
“Politehnica” of Bucharest)
Fault tolerance is an important issue
which is studied in the context of Large
Scale Distributed Systems (LSDS). The
proposed fault tolerant solution for resource
management in LSDS combines an adaptive
scheduling approach that selects the most
appropriate scheduling algorithm depending
on the application type and the set of
available resources, and a generic rescheduling
algorithm that supports a large variety
of scheduling heuristics which are chosen in
advance.
Alice Franchise - An Exploration of
Storytelling Alice, Alice 2.x, and
Alice 3.0
Presenter: So Phi A Ngo (Roger Williams
University)
Alice Franchise poster shows the varied
Alice programming environments,
developed at Carnegie Mellon University. It
explicates the differences between Storytelling
Alice, designed for middle school,
Alice 2.x, designed for high school/preCS1,
and Alice 3 (Beta), designed for CS1 and as
a to bridge to Java. The poster session will
include examples of implementation of each
program, especially for outreach, with an
emphasis on introductory programming in a
media rich environment.
Amazon Mechanical Turk: A Method
for Multi-National Collaboration for
The Purpose of Discovering Foreign
Language Nicknames
Presenter: Elizabeth McGrath (MITRE)
This research considers if crowdsourcing
via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (Mturk)
labor market could be used effectively to
discover Arabic nicknames. According to a
U.S. government report, the Christmas day
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