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This is the second paper I co-authored with my professors. It's an extension to the previous work in the area of Activation Timed Influence Networks (ATIN). This paper suggests that in an ATIN model, actions can be constrained and these constraints are defined in an Action Dependency Matrix (ADM). Using these constrained actions reduces an enormous amount of effort in the calculation and determination of optimal paths between the initial pre-conditions and final effects across the network. You can find this paper in the Special Issue of Informatica Journal website from  Informatica, Special Issue on Information Reuse & Integration.

This is simply amazing. It's like you'll never be lost or none of the places around the world would be unknown to you. Travelling around the world would be so enjoyable with these apps. Embedded video from CNN Video

This was a huge effort by our group of 8 graduate students including me in the Graduate level Software Project Management course during the first semester at George Mason University. We were given a case study which comprehended the allocation of budget, resources and a time frame given which we were supposed to come up with a project idea and develop a SPMP (Software Project Management Plan) which must conform to the given resources and details. The whole project was divided into eight phases (or eight deliverables for us). We delivered each phase after every two weeks almost. And compiled the whole document to formulate the complete Project Management Plan for a Patient Management and Tracking System. Following is just a major outline of the Plan: Introduction Deliverables Definition of Process Model, Organization Structure and Responsibilities Identification of Constraints and Dependencies Risk Management Plan Staffing Plan Technical Process defining Methods, Tools, Standar...

To the right pane of my Blog, I have added a Gadget which contains the javascript for launching the GoogleEarth interface which I obtained from Google Code PlayGround. The following button calls the init( )  method in the script and launches the GoogleEarth Application in the Gadget. Make sure you have the GoogleEarthAPI installed already, if not it asks you to download/install the API which is a matter of few seconds. And then attempt it again. Press this button to launch the GoogleEarth API.

This is one of the best and most useful resources that Google provides. The Google Playground gives you a bunch of APIs and code segments which are as easy to use as simple copy/paste into your application, and there you it is up and running. Check it out at  Google Code PlayGround .

This is my favorite TECH show. Every episode always has new and upcoming technologies and peripherals with lots of innovative ideas and activities which you can execute at your home. Check it out at  TEKZILLA .

One of the best applications of Lego MindStorm's Robots.

This is the first research paper I co-authored. An Activation Timed Influence Network  (ATIN) is an extension to an existing formalism called the Timed Influence Network  (TIN) which is based on Bayesian Network and has been experimentally used in the area of Effects Based Operations (EBOs). This paper was published in the IEEE Information Reuse and Integration Conference  2008  held in Las Vegas during July 13th-15th 2008. I had the opportunity to present it. You can download the paper from  Activation Timed Influence Networks .

I have tried to summarize a bunch of J2EE Projects which I completed in my graduate level course  Component Based Software Design . You can view the detailed report by clicking  J2EE/Component Based Software Design Projects . This document contains detail description of five projects implemented in the Component Based Software Design Graduate level course at George Mason University. Each project is the implementation of an Airline Reservation System but with some new functionality and new design decisions. The following J2EE projects were developed for an Airline Reservation System with different technologies to support  travel agent  and  airline HQ  functionalities i.e. adding an airline, searching for reservation, reserving a seat etc.  JBoss Application server  and  Oracle10g  Database were used.   A Java  Swing  application developed using  RMI  and  JavaBeans  to provide the above fun...

I contributed to this software modeling and architectural design project, we developed for the graduate level  software modeling and architectural design course. We were given a requirements specifications document related to a zone monitoring system, from which we started the preliminary design process. This preliminary design was presented and critiqued in the preliminary design review session. After which certain required changes were made in the design and the final critical design was presented in the critical design review session. Both design documents can be viewed from   Preliminary Design Document  and Critical Design Document .

We developed software requirements and specifications for the project called GREAT (Grade Reporting and Attendance Tracking System) in one of my graduate level courses. We had a team of four and the client group had four people also. We conducted regular meeting and interview sessions over every two weeks. And came out with this Software Requirements Specifications Document (SRS). You can view this document by clicking  GREAT SRS Document .