Spring 2011 CIS 4911 Senior Project Catalog Description: Students work on faculty supervised projects in teams of up to 5 members to design and implement solutions to problems utilizing knowledge obtained across the spectrum of Computer Science courses. Written Reports: 4 (S/w Eng. Projects - Project Plan Document, Requirements Document, Design Document, Final Project Document) Oral Presentations: Between 3 and 5, average 15 minutes each

Spring 2011 CIS 4911 Senior Project Guidelines for the Student: Meet with the Academic Adivsor/Senior Project Coordinator by the 4 th week of the prior semester, to obtain permission to register for the course. Meet with the Mentors/Clients and discuss potential projects during the prior semester.

Spring 2011 CIS 4911 Senior Project During the senior project semester, the student must schedule appointments with the Mentor/Client in order to produce the project deliverables in a timely manner. All the teams assigned by Friday Dec. 3rd. Visit for updates

Comparative Genomics Database Prof. Giri Narasimhan, Bioinformatics Research Group Build a genomic database to achieve the following:  Store and retrieve comprehensive information over internet  Provide user-interface for non-experts to make complex queries  Provide ways to use existing bioinformatics & visualization tools Skills Required:  Databases and internet programming  Healthy curiosity

vMoodle Dr. Ming Zhao  Office: ECS 363,   Web: Project vMoodle  Develop a virtual machine based online learning system using current technologies  Study the research challenges to the scalability of such systems Required expertise  C, Java, or PHP programming  Experience with virtual machines

Stop Caller ID Spoofing Easy to spoof caller IDs with VoIP  Easy access to caller ID spoofing service Use certificates to authenticate caller IDs  Similar to prevention of Web phishing Implement authentication protocol based on open source VoIP software Advisor: Dr. Deng Pan Contact: Required Expertise:  C programing on Linux  VoIP SIP protocol  Digital certificates

Environment for Software Architecture Modeling This project involves the development of an environment for a software architecture modeling framework called SAM. The top level GUI for SAM. Needs functionality such as zoom in zoom out to facilitate user’s modeling process. Besides, a Petri net checker has to be implemented to check the completeness of the modeling process. Advisor: Dr. Xudong He Contact: Required Expertise:  Java programming  Knowledge of GUI libraries  Knowledge of XML

User Controlled Subliminal Display This is a Linux based (Ubuntu desktop) open source project. It requires a customized video buffer configuration to display a user specified subliminal image at selected interval times with low refresh rate. A GUI interface needs to be developed to customize the configurations settings and to synthesize subliminal images. Advisor: Dr. Nagarajan Prabakar Contact: Required Expertise:  Unix/Linux basic skills  X configuration  Linux GUI libraries

Virtual Labs Dr. Masoud Sadjadi  Office: ECS 212 C,   Web: Project Virtual Labs  Contribute in the requirement analysis, design, and development of virtual labs using Moodle and Virtual Machine technologies.  Different topics: defining and monitoring virtual environments, flexible scheduling, fair resource sharing, scalable design to accommodate students in several classes, provisioning and deployment of virtual environment in the Cloud, etc. Required expertise  Formal training in Software Engineering  Experience in developing code in Java and PHP  Experience with virtual machines  Familiarity with Moodle and Web services is a plus

Interactive Network Experiment Prof. Jason Liu, Modeling and Networking Systems Research Group ( Develop an interactive simulation framework to visualize the dynamic state of a virtual network  Efficiently retrieve network state in real time  Provide user interface to visualize the network state in real time Skills Required:  Java and C/C++ Programming  UNIX environment  Complex software packages (GUI and DBMS)

2011 Open Health Tools Academic Challenge Undergraduate Development of an open source software application that includes the ability for a consumer to submit home medical device data from home to an instance of CONNECT (database). Demonstrate the ability to view the home medical device data through an innovative consumer GUI on the consumer device used to submit the data. Advisor: Dr. Peter Clarke Contact: Required Expertise:  Java programming  Knowledge of XML  Medical device interfaces