Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Director, Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
IEEE Fellow; Editor-in-Chief: Scientific Programming 

Education



M.Eng. (Electronics) -- Warsaw Polytechnic University, Warsaw, Poland, 1973

Ph.D. (Computer Science) -- National Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 1976



Professional Career



University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1982-1985    Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Science

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

1985-1989		Associate Professor of Computer Science

1993-1994		Acting Department Chair, Department of Computer Science

1990-present 		Professor of Computer Science

1997-2001 		Associate Dean for Information Technology

1997-2002 		Chair of Information Technology Research Board

2003-present 		Founding Director, Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking



Entrepreneurship and Industrial Consulting



Optimaret, Inc., Newtonville, NY (2004), co-founder and President; Premonitia, Inc., Waltham, MA (2001), and EnterNet Inc., 
Troy, NY (2000), co-founder; CCCC, Philadelphia, PA (1983-88), chief scientific officer and consultant.

Consulting: Emerson, Inc.; International Medical Programs, Albany, NY; Cardiomag Imaging, Schenectady, NY; IBM Corp., 
Poughkeepsie, NY; Research and Development Center, General Electric, Schenectady, NY; UN Development Office, Vienna, Austria.



Professional Society Memberships, Honors, Awards and Activities



William H. Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award, RPI, 2003

IEEE Fellow (since 1999), Computer Society of IEEE: member since 1982

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Create-net, 2005

ACM National Lecturer(1988-89), Association for Computing Machinery: member since 1982

Editor-in-Chief: Scientific Programming (since 2000)

Area Editor: SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling  Simulation International (since 2003)

Member of the Editorial Board: Scalable Computing: Practices  Experience (since 2005)

First Prize in SuCuPar93, international parallel computation competition,Mannheim, Germany, 1993

NASA Certificate of Recognition for development of technical innovation, 1997

Gold Medal at the International Olympiad in Mathematics, 1968

Chair, The Third Workshop on Compilers, Languages and Run-Time Systems,Troy, NY, May, 1995

Vice-Chair, NSF-RPI Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Networking, Troy, NY, April 2004

Vice-Chair of Program Committee, PPAM05, Poznan, Poland, September 2005

Guest Editor: ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review (1996),
Journal of Parallel Algorithms and Applications (1996),Scientific Programming (1996, 1998)

Tutorials: SCSC'02, IEEE ICA3PP'96, ACM SAC'96, ISC'88

Member of the Editorial Board: Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices (1999-2004)
Research Interests


Sensor network, mobile networks, and network management and simulation, including the Internet, network middleware and Web-based computing. Scientific parallel computation, in particular run-time optimization, load balancing and monitoring of parallel and distributed object-oriented programs. Algorithm design and verification for parallel and distributed systems.


Administrative Experience


Founding Director the Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking (since 2003): developed the vision of the center and assembled about 25 faculty research team participating in the center research with focus on sensor networks, computer networking, embedded system software and computer security. Developed and implemented research program supported by multimillion dollar grants.

Associate Dean for Information Technology (1997-2001): principal member of the team that created the Information Technology Program at RPI and developed IT curriculum; chair of Computer Science department faculty search that hired eleven assistant professors from top schools since 1997, six of whom already won prestigious NSF Career's Awards; chair of the ``Future of School of Science'' panel and principal author of a report that identified Information Technology and Biotechnology as strategic directions for the school in 1999 (these two directions were later selected as growth initiatives for the entire university); currently leading an integration of research in Information Technology involving Schools of Engineering, Science and Humanities Social Science.

Chair of the Information Technology Research Board:(1997-2002) advisor to the Vice-President for Research and the Vice-Provost for Information Technology on strategic directions of IT research for university.

Founding Member of Scientific Computing Research Center (SCOREC) (since 1988: one of the five founding members of SCOREC which focuses on adaptive solvers for partial differential equations and multiscale and multiphase simulations. Co-author and co-Principal Investigator in major SCOREC grants.



Ph.D. Graduates 


Jeanette Bruno: ``Analyzing Conditional Data Dependencies in an EquationalLanguage Compiler,'' 1989;
the McNaughton Award for the best CS graduate student (1989);
Researcher, Corporate Research and Development Center, GE, Schenectady, NY.

Balaram Sinharoy: ``Optimizing Iterative Algorithms for Distributed-Memory Machines,'' 1992;
the McNaughton Award for the best CS graduate student (1992);
Senior Researcher, Future Directions Division, IBM Corp., Poughkeepsie, NY.

Can Ozturan: ``Distributed Environment and Load Balancing for AdaptiveUnstructured Meshes,'' 1995
(co-advisor with J. Flaherty); Assistant Professor, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Charles Norton: ``Object Oriented Paradigms in Scientific Computing,'' 1996;
Senior Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, Pasadena, CA.

Ewa Deelman: ``Performance Optimization of Parallel Discrete Event Simulationof Spatially Explicit
Problems,'' 1997; Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

Wesley Kaplow: ``Compile-Time and Run-Time Methods for Cache Optimization in Scientific Codes,''
1998; Senior Technology Director, Qwest Communications, Whippany, NJ.

Mohan Nibhanapudi: ``Adaptive Parallel Computations on Network of Workstations,'' 1998;
Researcher, Inktomi, Inc.

William Maniatty: ``High-Performance Computing Ecological Modeling,'' 1998;
the Gerhardt Prize for the outstanding graduate student in Science and Engineering (1997);
the McNaughton Award for the best CS graduate student (1998);
Assistant Professor, SUNY Albany.

Jeffrey Nesheiwat: ``Instrumentation Data Base Approach to the Analysis of Large Parallel and Object
Oriented Scientific Applications,'' 2000; Researcher, Oracle, Inc.

Gang Chen: ``New Methods for Parallel Discrete Event Simulation,'' 2003;
the McNaughton Award for the best CS graduate student (2003); researcher, MathWorks.

Alan Bivens: ``Distributed Framework for Deploying Machine Learning in Network Management
and Security,'' 2003; Researcher, IBM TJ Watson Laboratory, Poughkeepsie, NY.

Yu Liu; ``Loosely-Coordinated, Distributed, Packet-Level Network Simulation,'' 2004;
Software Engineer, SyncSort Incorporated, NJ.


Three theses in progress. Supervised 55 M.S. theses. Member of 36 Ph.D. committees at RPI, University of
Pennsylvania, Temple University, Technical University of Nova Scotia, Canada, Gerona University, Spain.

Teaching Experience

University Service



Patents

  1. Network Management and Control using Collaborative On-Line Simulation, applied for US Patent on December 15, 2000, based on U.S. Provisional Application Serial No. 60/170,896, with S. Kalyanaraman, K. Vastola, N. Sikdar, J. Jiang, Y. Tao, D. Harrison, B. Mo, B. Sikdar and H.T. Kaur.

Selected Publications (out of more than 250)



Books Edited

  1. B.K. Szymanski, Parallel Functional Languages and Compilers, Addison-Wesley, ACM Press Frontier Series, New York, 1991.

  2. B.K. Szymanski, Trends in Parallel Processing, UNIDO Emerging Technology Series, Vienna, 1996, 84 pp.

  3. B.K. Szymanski and B. Sinharoy, Languages, Compilers and Run-Time Systems for Scalable Computers, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, 335 pp.

  4. B.K. Szymanski and B. Yener, Advances in Pervasive Computing and Networking, Springer, 2005, 296 pp.

Selected Journal papers

  1. B.K. Szymanski, ``An Optimum Length of Fixed-Size Multiword List Items,'' Bulletin de l'Academia Polonaise des Sciences, Ser. Scien. Techn., 25, No. 9, pp. 89-93, 1976.

  2. J. Dobosz and B.K. Szymanski, ``An Implementation of a Relational Interface to an Information System,'' Information Systems, 6, No. 3, pp. 219-228, 1981.

  3. H. Rybinski and B.K. Szymanski, ``Multilevel Information System--Toward More Flexible Information Systems,'' Information Processing and Management, 17, No. 4, pp. 277-290, 1981.

  4. M. Sulej and B.K. Szymanski, ``Design of a Specialized Hardware Device for Data Selection and Transformation,'' Microprocessing and Microprogramming, 10, No. 4, pp. 255-259, 1982.

  5. J. Dobosz, S. Romanski, B.K. Szymanski, and E. Zabza-Tarka, ``Relational Access to Data in Information System: Research, Development and Applications,'' Automatic Documentation and Mathematical Linguistics, 16, No. 2, pp. 54-63, 1983.

  6. B.K. Szymanski, Y. Shi, and N. Prywes, ``Synchronized Distributed Termination,'' IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, SE-11, No. 10, pp. 1136-1140, October 1985.

  7. J. Tseng, Y. Shi, B.K. Szymanski, and N. Prywes, ``Real-Time Software Life Cycle with the MODEL System,'' IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, SE-12, No. 2, pp. 358-373, February 1986.

  8. N. Prywes, Y. Shi, B.K. Szymanski, and J. Tseng, ``Supersystem Programming with Model,'' IEEE Computer, 19, No. 2, pp. 50-60, February, 1986.

  9. B.K. Szymanski, ``Parallel Programming with Recurrent Equations,'' Int. Journal on Supercomputer Applications, 1, No. 2, pp. 44-74, 1987.

  10. Y. Shi, N. Prywes, A. Pnueli, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Very High Level Concurrent Programming,'' IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, SE-13, No. 8, pp. 1038-1046, September 1987.

  11. B.K. Szymanski and N. Prywes, ``Efficient Handling of Data Structures in Definitional Languages,'' Science of Computer Programming, 10, No. 3, pp. 221-245, 1988.

  12. B. McKenney and B.K. Szymanski, ``Generating Parallel Code for SIMD Machines,'' ACM Letters on Programming Languages and Systems, 1, No. 1, March 1992, pp. 59-73.

  13. B.K. Szymanski and B. Sinharoy, ``Complexity of the Closest Vector Problem in a Lattice Generated by (0,1)-Matrix,'' Information Processing Letters, 42, No. 3, pp. 121-126, May 1992.

  14. W. Maniatty, B. Sinharoy, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Efficiency of Data Alignment on MasPar,'' ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 28, No. 1, pp. 48-51, January 1993, special issue with Proc. II Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Run-Time Environments for Distributed Memory Multiprocessors, Boulder, CO, September 1992.

  15. B.K. Szymanski and T. Caraco, ``Spatial Analysis of Vector-Borne Disease: A Four Species Model,'' Evolutionary Ecology, 8, No. 3, 1994, pp. 299-314.

  16. B. Sinharoy and B.K. Szymanski, ``Finding Optimum Wavefront of Parallel Computation,'' Journal of Parallel Algorithms and Applications, 2, No. 1, 1994, pp. 5-26.

  17. B. Sinharoy, C. Ozturan, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Compiler Technology for Parallel Scientific Computation,'' Scientific Programming, 3, No. 3, 1994, pp. 201-225.

  18. B. Sinharoy and B.K. Szymanski, ``Data and Task Alignment in Distributed Memory Architectures,'' Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 21. No. 1, pp. 61-74, April 1994.

  19. B.K. Szymanski, ``An Upper Bound for a Time Step in Parallel Spatially Explicit Biological Simulations,'' System Analysis, Modelling and Simulation, 18-19, 1995, pp. 717-720 (special issue with Proc. 5th IMACS Symposium on System Analysis and Simulation, Berlin, June 1995).

  20. B.K. Szymanski, W. Maniatty, and B. Sinharoy, ``Simultaneous Parallel Reduction,'' Parallel Processing Letters, 5, no. 3, Sept. 1995, pp. 437-449.

  21. B. Sinharoy and B.K. Szymanski, ``Memory Optimization for Parallel Functional Programs,'' Computing Systems in Engineering, 6, nos 4/5, Oct. 1995, pp. 415-422.

  22. C. Norton, B.K. Szymanski, and V. Decyk, ``Object-Oriented Parallel Computation for Plasma Simulation,'' Communication of the ACM, 38, no. 10, Oct. 1995, pp. 88-100.

  23. W. Kaplow and B.K. Szymanski, ``Program Optimization Based on Compile-Time Cache Performance Prediction,'' Parallel Processing Letters, 6, no. 1, March 1996, pp. 173-184.

  24. V. Decyk, C. Norton, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Expressing Object-Oriented Concepts in Fortran90,'' ACM Fortran Forum, 16, no. 1, April 1997, pp. 13-18.

  25. W. Maniatty and B.K. Szymanski, ``Fine-Grain Discrete Voronoi Diagram Algorithm in #tex2html_wrap_inline337# and #tex2html_wrap_inline339# Norms,'' Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 26, no. 4, 1997, pp. 71-78.

  26. W. Kaplow and B.K. Szymanski, ``Tiling for Parallel Execution - Optimizing Node Cache Performance,'' Parallel Processing Letters, 7, no. 4, 1997, pp. 393-407.

  27. J.E. Flaherty, R.M. Loy, M.S. Shephard, B.K. Szymanski, J.D. Teresco, and L.H. Ziantz, ``Adaptive Local Refinement with Octree Load-Balancing for the Parallel Solution of Three-Dimensional Conservation Laws,'' Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 47, pp. 139-152, 1997.

  28. V. Decyk, C. Norton, and B.K. Szymanski, ``How to Express C++ Concepts in Fortran 90,'' Scientific Programming, 6, No. 4, Winter 1997, pp. 363-390.

  29. W. Maniatty, B.K. Szymanski, and T. Caraco, ``Parallel Computing with Generalized Cellular Automata'' Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices, 1, no. 1, 1998, pp. 31-50.

  30. J.E. Flaherty, R.M. Loy, C. Ozturan, M.S. Shephard, B.K. Szymanski, J.D. Teresco and L.H. Ziantz, ``Parallel Structures and Dynamic Load Balancing for Adaptive Finite Element Computation,'' Applied Numerical Mathematics, 26, no. 1-2, 1998, pp. 241-263.

  31. T. Caraco, M.C. Duryea, G. Gardner, W. Maniatty, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Host Spatial Heterogeneity and Extinction of an SIS Epidemics,'' Journal of Theoretical Biology, 192, pp. 351-361, 1998.

  32. V. K. Decyk, C. D. Norton, and B.K. Szymanski, ``How to support inheritance and run-time polymorphism in Fortran 90,'' Computer Physics Communications, 115, pp. 9-17, Dec. 1998.

  33. T. Caraco, G. Gardner, E. Deelman, W. Maniatty, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Lyme Disease: Self-Regulation and Pathogen Invasion,'' Journal of Theoretical Biology, 193, pp. 561-575, 1998.

  34. T. Caraco, W. Maniatty, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Population Dispersion and Equilibrium Infection Frequency in a Spatial Epidemic,'' PhysicaD, 132, pp. 511-519, 1999.

  35. P. Fry, J. Nesheiwat, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Experiences with Distributed Computation of Twin Primes Distributions,'' Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices, 2, No. 3, November, 1999, pp. 299-313.

  36. J. Nesheiwat and B.K. Szymanski, ``Scalable performance analysis for parallel scientific computations,'' Electronic Modeling, 22, No. 2, June 2000, pp. 25-43, US version in Engineering Simulations, 18, No. 2, 2001, pp. 179-198.

  37. S. Koenig, Y. Liu, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Efficient and Inefficient Ant Coverage Methods,'' Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 31, no. 1-4, May 2001, pp. 41-76.

  38. S. Glavankov, D. White, T. Caraco, A. Lapenis, G. Robinson, W. Maniatty, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Lyme Disease in New York State: Spatial Pattern at a Regional Scale,'' American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 65, No. 5, May 2001, pp. 538-555.

  39. J. Miller, P. Fishwick, P. Benjamin, S. Tayor, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Research and Commercial Opportunities in Web-Based Simulation,'' Simulation Practice and Theory, 9, no. 1-2, October 2001, pp. 55-72.

  40. T. Caraco, M. Duryea, S. Glavankov, W. Maniatty, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Host Spatial Heterogeneity and the Spread of Vector-Borne Infection,'' Theoretical Population Biology, 59, No. 3, May 2001, pp. 185-206.

  41. J. Bivens, M. Embrechts, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Network Congestion Arbitration and Source Problem Prediction Using Neural Networks,'' Smart Engineering System Design, vol. 4, 2002, pp. 243-252.

  42. E. Deelman and B.K. Szymanski, ``Simulating Spatially Explicit Problems on High Performance Architecture,'' Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing vol. 62, 2002, pp. 446-467.

  43. C. Carothers and B.K. Szymanski, ``Checkpointing Multithreaded Programs,'' Dr. Dobb's Journal vol. 15, no 8, August 2002, pp. 45-60.

  44. T. Caraco, S. Glavankov, G. Chen, B.K. Szymanski, T. Ohsumi, and J. Flaherty, ``Vector-borne infection with stage-structured transmission: a spatial model for Lyme disease,'' The American Naturalist 160, No. 3, September 2002, pp. 348-359.

  45. J. Nesheiwat and B.K. Szymanski, ``Instrumentation Database System for Performance Analysis of Parallel Scientific Applications,'' Parallel Computing, 28, no. 10, pp. 1409-1449, 2002.

  46. K. Fialkowski and B.K. Szymanski, ``Conceptor: a Model of Emergence of Basic Speech Structures as a part of Consciousness Development,'' Pro Dialog, 16, 2003, pp. 45-49.

  47. A. Bivens, R. Gupta, I. McLean, B. Szymanski and J. White, ``Scalability and Performance of an Agent-based Network Management Middleware,'' International Journal of Network Management, 14, 2004, pp. 131-146.

  48. Y. Liu, B.K. Szymanski and A. Saifee, ``Genesis: A Scalable Distributed System for Large-scale Parallel Network Simulation,'' Computer Networks Journal, 50(12), August 2006.

  49. T. Caraco, S. Glavanakov, S. Li, W. Maniatty and B. Szymanski, ``Spatially structured superinfection and the evolution of disease virulence,'' Journal of Theoretical Biology, accepted for publication, 2006.

Book Chapters Contributed

  1. K. Fialkowski, H. Rybinski, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Information Flow in National System for Research and Development,'' in Informatics and Industrial Development, F.G. Foster (ed), Tycody Int. Publishing Company, Dublin, Ireland, 1982, pp. 308-342.

  2. B. Sinharoy, B. McKenney and B.K. Szymanski, ``Scheduling EPL Programs for Parallel Processing,'' in Languages, Compilers and Run-Time Environments for Distributed Memory Machines, J. Saltz and P. Mehrota (edts) North Holland, Amsterdam 1992, pp. 221-236.

  3. M. Benantar, J. E. Flaherty, C. Ozturan, M. S. Shephard, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Parallel Computation in Adaptive Finite Element Analysis,'' in Adaptive Analysis and Meshing, Elsevier, London, UK, 1993, pp. 255-279.

  4. C. Bottasso, J. Flaherty, C. Ozturan, M. Shephard, B.K. Szymanski, J. Teresco, and L. Ziantz, ``The Quality of Partitions by an Iterative Load Balancer'' Languages, Compilers and Run-Time Systems for Scalable Computers, B.K. Szymanski and B. Sinharoy (edts), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Reading, MA, 1996, pp. 265-278.

  5. E. Deelman, W. Kaplow, P. Tannenba B.K. Szymanski, and L. Ziantz, ``Integrating Data and Task Parallelism in Scientific Programs,'' Languages, Compilers and Run-Time Systems for Scalable Computers, B.K. Szymanski and B. Sinharoy (edts), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Reading, MA, 1996, pp. 169-184.

  6. T. Caraco, W. Maniatty, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Spatial Effects and Competitive Coexistence,'' Spatiotemporal Models in Biological and Artificial Systems, F.L. Sliva at al. (edts), IOS Press, Amsterdam, 1997, (Vol. 37 in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications), pp. 9-16.

  7. J.E. Flaherty, M. Dindar, R.M. Loy, M.S. Shephard, B.K. Szymanski, J.D. Teresco, and L.H. Ziantz, ``An adaptive and parallel framework for partial differential equations,'' Numerical Analysis, 1997, Papers presented at 17th Dundee Biennial Conference, UK, June 24-27, 1997, Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics Series, 380, Griffiths, Higham and Watson (edts), Addison Wesley Longman, Edinburgh, UK, 1998, pp. 74-90.

  8. B.K. Szymanski, ``Scalable Computers,'' Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 39, A. Kent and J.G. Williams (exec. edts), Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, 1998, pp. 211-228.

  9. J. Nesheiwat and B.K. Szymanski, ``Instrumentation Database for Performance Analysis of Parallel Scientific Applications,'' Languages. Compilers, and Run-Time Systems for Scalable Computers, selected papers from 4th Int. Workshop LCR98, Pittsburgh, PA, May 30, 1998, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1511, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1998, pp. 229--242.

  10. M. Nibhanapudi and B.K. Szymanski, ``Adaptive Parallelism On A Network of Workstations,'' High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, J. Schaeffer (ed.), Papers presented at HPCS98, Edmonton, Canada, May 20, 1998, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Reading, MA, 1998, pp. 439-452.

  11. W. Maniatty, B.K. Szymanski, and T. Caraco, ``High-Performance Simulation of Evolutionary Aspects of Epidemics,'' Applied Parallel Computing, B. Kagstrom et al (eds), Papers presented at 4th Int. Workshop, PARA'98, June 16, 1998, Umea, Sweden, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1541, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998, pp. 322-331.

  12. J.E. Flaherty, R.M. Loy, M.S. Shephar, M.L. Simone, B.K. Szymanski, J.D. Teresco, and L.H. Ziantz, ``Distributed Octree Data Structures and Local Refinement Method for the Parallel Solution of the Three-Dimensional Conservative Laws,'' Grid Generation and Adaptive Algorithms, M. Bern, J.E. Flaherty and M. Luskin (edts), IMA Volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications, Vol. 113, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis and Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1999, pp. 113-134.

  13. M. Nibhanapudi and B.K. Szymanski, ``BSP-based Adaptive Parallel Processing,'' High Performance Cluster Computing, vol. I, Architectures and Systems, Rajkumar Buyya (editor), Prentice Hall, New York, 1999, pp. 702-721.

  14. K. Fialkowski and B.K. Szymanski, ``Conceptor: a model of selected consciousness features including emergence of basic speech structures in early childhood,'' Art, Technology, Consciousness mind@large, Roy Ascott (ed.) Intellect Press, Bristol, U.K., 2000, pp. 185-190.

  15. W. Maniatty, B.K. Szymanski, and T. Caraco, ``Parallel Computing with Generalized Cellular Automata,'' in Progress in Computer Research, Vol. I, edited by Frank Columbus, Nova Scientific Publishers, Huntington, NY, 2001, pp. 51-75.

  16. P. Fry, J. Nesheiwat, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Experiences with Distributed Computation of Twin Primes Distribution,'' in Progress in Computer Research, Vol. II, edited by Frank Columbus, Nova Scientific Publishers, Huntington, NY, 2001, pp. 187-203.

  17. N. Lehman, T. Caraco, W. Maniatty, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Spatial Models of Persistence in RNA Worlds: Exploring the Origins of Life,'' Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, LNCS Vol. 2328, Springer Verlag, Berlin, June 2002, pp. 896-903.

  18. G. Chen, J. Branch, M. Pflug, L. Zhu and B Szymanski, ``SENSE: A Wireless Sensor Network Simulator,'' Ch. 13 in Advances in Pervasive Computing and Networking, Springer, New York, NY, 2004, pp. 249-267.

  19. M. Embrechts, B. Szymanski and K. Sternickel, ``Introduction to Scientific Data Mining,'' Ch. 10 in Computationally Intelligent Hybrid Systems: The Fusion of Soft Computing and Hard Computing, Wiley, New York, 2004, pp. 317-365.

  20. K. El Maghraoui, T. Desell, B.K. Szymanski, J.D. Teresco, and C.A. Varela, ``Towards a Middleware Framework for Dynamically Reconfigurable Scientific Computing,'' Grid Computing: New Frontiers of High Performance Computing, vol. 14, L. Grandinetti (editor), Elsevier, November 2005.

  21. Paul F. Evangelista, Mark J. Embrecht, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski ``Taming the Curse of Dimensionality in Kernels and Novelty Detection,'' Advances in Soft Computing, vol. 14, Springer 2006.

Selected Refereed Conference Proceedings

  1. J. Bankowski and B.K. Szymanski, ``JOSK--A Syntax Description Language,'' Weiterbildunszentrum fur Mat. Kyb. und Rechentech., No. 38, UT Dresden, Germany, Part 1, pp. 85-115, special issue with Proc. Int. WG4 Meeting on Definition and Implementation of Specialized Languages, Budapest, Hungry, 1979.

  2. M. Sulej and B.K. Szymanski, ``Hardware Data Extractor,'' Proc. #tex2html_wrap_inline341#P81, Second Int. Symposium on Microcomputer Applications, Vol. 1, pp. 153-159, Budapest, Hungary, 1981.

  3. N. Prywes, Y. Shi, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Nonprocedural-Dataflow Specification of Concurrent Programs,'' Proc. COMPSAC '83, Seventh Int. Computer Software and Application Conference, Chicago, IL, pp. 287-297, 1983.

  4. N.S. Prywes, E. Lock, A. Pnueli, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Use of MODEL VHLL in Software Development and Maintenance,'' Proc. COMPCON '84, San Francisco, CA, pp. 316-320, 1984.

  5. N.S. Prywes, E. Lock, A. Pnueli, and B.K. Szymanski, ``On the Scope of Static Checking in Definitional Languages,'' in Proc. ACM Annual Conference (San Francisco, CA, October 8-10, 1984). ACM, New York, pp. 197-207, 1984.

  6. B.K. Szymanski, Y. Shi, and N. Prywes, ``Terminating Iterative Solution of Simultaneous Equations in Distributed Message Passing Systems,'' Proc. Fourth ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributing Computing, Minacki, Canada, pp. 287-292, 1985.

  7. N. Prywes and B.K. Szymanski, ``Programming Supercomputers in an Equational Language,'' Proc. First Int. Conference on Supercomputing Systems, St. Petersburg, FL, pp. 37-45, December 1985.

  8. B.K. Szymanski, ``Beyond ADA - Generating Ada Code from Equational Specifications,'' Proc. Sixth Annual National Conference on ADA Technology, Washington, D.C., pp. 494-499, March 14-17, 1988.

  9. J. Bruno and B.K. Szymanski, ``Conditional Data Dependence Analysis in an Equational Language Compiler,'' Proc. Third Int. Conference on Supercomputing Systems, Boston, MA, pp. 358-365, May 15-20, 1988.

  10. B.K. Szymanski, ``A Simple Solution to Lamport's Concurrent Programming Problem with Linear Wait,'' Proc. 1988 Int. Conference on Supercomputing, St. Malo, France, pp. 621-626, July 4-8, 1988.

  11. K. Spier and B.K. Szymanski, ``Interprocess Data Dependency Analysis,'' Proc. First Annual IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributing Processing, Dallas, TX, 1989, pp. 387-388.

  12. B.K. Szymanski, ``Mutual Exclusion Revisited,'' Proc. Fifth Jerusalem Conference on Information Technology, Jerusalem (October 1990), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1990, pp. 110-117.

  13. K. Spier and B.K. Szymanski, ``Interprocess Analysis and Optimization in the Equational Language Compiler,'' Proc. CONPAR'90/VAP IV Conference, Zurich, Switzerland (September 1990), LNCS 457, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1990, pp. 287-98.

  14. S. Azzaro and B.K. Szymanski, ``Simulating Dedicated UNIX PC-Based Application Systems,'' Proc. 1990 Winter Simulation Conference, O. Balci, R.P. Sadowski, R.E. Nance (edts), New Orleans, LA, December 1990, pp. 831-838.

  15. R. Govindaraju and B.K. Szymanski, ``Synthesizing Scalable Computations from Sequential Programs,'' Proc. Scalable High Performance Computing Conference, Williamsburg, VA, April 1992, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 228-231.

  16. C. Ozturan, J. E. Flaherty, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Adaptive Methods and Rectangular Partitioning Problem,'' Proc. Scalable High Performance Computing Conference, Williamsburg, VA, April, 1992, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 409-415.

  17. B. Sinharoy and B.K. Szymanski, ``Finding Optimum Wavefront for Parallel Computation,'' Proc. 26th Hawaii Int. Conference on System Sciences, Maui, HI, Jan. 1993, IEEE Computer Science Press, Los Alamitos, CA, Vol. II, p. 225-334, 1993.

  18. W. Maniatty, B.K. Szymanski, and T. Caraco, ``Implementation and Performance of the Parallel Ecological Simulations,''Proc. Applications in Parallel and Daistributed Computing, Caracas, Venezuela, April 1994, IFIP Transactions A-44, C. Girault (ed), North Holland, Amsterdam, 1994, pp. 93-102.

  19. B.K. Szymanski, ``Parallel Functional Language -- EPL and its Compiler,'' Proc. 2nd Massey Functional Programming Workshop, Palmerston North, New Zaealand, January 1994, L. Leslie and N. Perry (edts), Massey University, pp. 129-152.

  20. L. Ziantz, C. Ozturan, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Run-Time Optimization of Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication on SIMD Machines,'' Proc. 6th Int. Conference on Parallel Architecture and Languages, PARLE'94, Athens, Greece (July 1994), LNCS 817, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994, pp. 313-22.

  21. B.K. Szymanski and J. Vidal, ``Automatic Verification of a Class of Symmetric Parallel Programs,'' Technology and Foundations, B. Perhrson and I. Simon (edts), Proc. 13th IFIP World Congress, Hamburg, Germany, August, 1994, IFIP Transactions A-51, vol. 1, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1994, pp. 571-576.

  22. W. Kaplow, W. Maniatty, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Impact of Memory Hierarchy On Program Partitioning and Scheduling,'' Proc. 28th Hawaii Int. Conference of System Sciences, Maui, HI, January, 1995, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1995, vol. II, pp. 93--102.

  23. C. Norton, B.K. Szymanski, and V. Decyk, ``Parallel Object Oriented Implementation of a 2D Bounded Electrostatic Plasma PIC Simulation,'' Proc. Seventh SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, San Francisco, February, 1995, SIAM, Philadelphia, 1995, pp. 207-212.

  24. M. Nibhanapudi, C. Norton, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Plasma Simulation on Networks of Workstations using the Bulk-Synchronous Parallel Model,'' Proc. Int. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'95), Athens, GA, November 1995, CSREA, 1995, pp. 13--22.

  25. E. Deelman, B.K. Szymanski, and T. Caraco,``Parallel Discrete Event Simulation of Lyme Disease,'' Biocomputing: Proc. 1996 Pacific Symposium, Hawaii, HI, January 1996, L. Hunter and T. Klein (edts), World Scientific Publishing Corp., Singapore, 1996, pp. 191-202.

  26. M. Nibhanapudi and B.K. Szymanski, ``Adaptive Parallelism in the Bulk-Synchronous Parallel Model,'' Proc. EurPar96 Parallel Processing, Lyon, France, August 1996, vol. II, LNCS 1124, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1996, pp. 311-318.

  27. J.E. Flaherty, R.M. Loy, C. Ozturan, M.S. Shephard, B.K. Szymanski, J.D. Teresco and L.H. Ziantz, ``Parallel Structures and Dynamic Load Balancing for Adaptive Finite Element Computation,'' Proc. Conference on Grid Adaptation in Computational PDE's: Theory and Applications, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 1-5, 1996.

  28. E. Deelman, B.K. Szymanski, and T. Caraco, ``Simulating Lyme Disease Using Parallel Discrete Event Simulation,'' Proc. 1996 Winter Simulation Conference, J.M. Charnes, D.M. Morrice, D.T. Brunner and J.J. Swain, San Diego, December 1996, pp. 1191-1198.

  29. C. Norton, V. Decyk, and B.K. Szymanski, ``High Performance Object Oriented Scientific Programming in Fortran 90,'' Proc. Eighth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Minneapolis, MN, March 14-17, 1997, SIAM Press, N. Heath, et. al (edts).

  30. W. Kaplow, B.K. Szymanski, P. Tannenbaum, and V. Decyk, ``Run Time Reference Clustering for Cache Performance Optimization,'' Proc. Second Aizu Int. Symposium on Parallel Algorithms/Architectures Synthesis, Aizu-Wakamtsu, Japan, March 17-21, 1997, pp. 42-49, IEEE Computer Science, Los Alamitos, CA.

  31. E. Deelman and B.K. Szymanski, ``Breadth-First Rollback in Spatially Explicit Simulations,'' Proc. PADS97, 11th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, Burg Lockenhaus, Austria, June 10-13, 1997, pp. 124-131, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA.

  32. E. Deelman and B.K. Szymanski, ``Continuously Monitored Global Virtual Time'', Proc. Int. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'97), Las Vegas, NV, June 30-July 3, 1997, Vol. I, pp. 1-10, CSREA, 1997.

  33. M. Nibhanapudi and B.K. Szymanski, ``Runtime Support for Virtual BSP Computer,'' Parallel and Distributed Computing, Proc. Workshops at 12th Intern. Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS/SPDP 1998), Orlando, FL, March 1998, LNCS 1388, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1996, pp. 147-158.

  34. E. Deelman and B.K. Szymanski, ``Dynamic Load Balancing in Parallel Discrete Event Simulation for Spatially Explicit Problems,'' Proc. 12th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation---PADS98, Calgary, Canada, June 1998, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 46-53.

  35. P.H. Fry, J. Nesheiwat, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Computing Twin Primes and Brun's Constant: A Distributed Approach,'' Proc. Seventh IEEE Int. Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Chicago, IL, July 1998, IEEE Computer Science Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1998, pp. 42-49.

  36. W. Maniatty, B.K. Szymanski, and T. Caraco, ``High-Performance Computing Tools for Modeling Evolution in

  37. A. Bivens, L. Gao, M. F. Hulber and B.K. Szymanski, ``Agent-Based Network Monitoring,'' Proc. Autonomous Agents99 Conference, Workshop 1, Agent Based High Performance Computing: Problem Solving Applications and Practical Deployment, Seattle, WA, May 1999, pp. 41-53.

  38. S. Koenig and B.K. Szymanski, ``Value-Update Rules for Real-Time Search,'' Proc. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 1999, pp. 718-724, Orlando, FL, July 1999.

  39. A. Bivens, P. Fry, L. Gao, M.F. Hulber, Q. Zhang and B.K. Szymanski, ``Distributed Object-Oriented Repositories for Network Management,''Proc. 13th Int. Conference on System Engineering, pp. CS169-174, Las Vegas, NV, August, 1999.

  40. M. Yuksel, B. Sikdar, B.K. Szymanski, and K.S. Vastola, ``Workload generation for ns simulations of wide area networks and the Internet,'' Proc. Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation, SCS, San Diego, CA, 2000, pp. 93-98.

  41. G. Chen, B.K. Szymanski, and T. Caraco, ``Multiparadigm Simulations in Modeling Spread of Lyme Disease,'' Proc. ESM2000: 14th European Simulation Multiconference, Ghent, Belgium, May 23-26, 2000, Rik Van Landeghem (edt), SCS Press, Delft, Netherlands, 2000, pp. 631-638.

  42. S. Gurun and B.K. Szymanski, ``Automating Internet Routing Behavior Analysis Using Public WWW Traceroute Services,'' Proc. IFIP/IEEE MMNS'2000 Conference, Fortaleza, Brazil, September 2000, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 2000, pp. 47-59.

  43. J. Bivens, B.K. Szymanski, and M. Embrechts, ``Network Congestion Arbitration and Source Problem Prediction using Neural Networks,'' Proc. Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, ANNIE'2000, ASME Press, Fairfield, NJ, 2000, pp.489-494.

  44. G. Chen and B.K. Szymanski, ``Component-Based Simulation,'' Proc. European Simulation Multiconference, ESM2001, SCS Press, Delft, Netherlands, 2001, pp. 68-75.

  45. T. Ye, S. Kalyanaraman, B. Mo, B.K. Szymanski, D. Harrison, B. Sikdar, H. Kaur, and K. Vastola, ``Network Management and Control Using Collaborative On-line Simulation,'' Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Communications ICC2001, IEEE Computer Science Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 2001, Helsinki, Finland, June 2001.

  46. B.K. Szymanski, Y.Liu, A. Sastry, and K. Madnani, ``Real-Time On-Line Network Simulation,'' Proc. 5th IEEE Int. Workshop on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications DS-RT 2001, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 2001, Cincinnati, OH, August 13-15, 2001, pp. 22-29.

  47. G. Chen and B.K. Szymanski, ``Component-Oriented Simulation Architecture: Towards Interoperability and Interchangeability,'' Proc. 2001 Winter Simulation Conference, B.A. Peters, J.S. Smith, D.J. Medeiros, and M.W. Rohrer, eds., SCS Press, 2001, pp. 495-501.

  48. B.K. Szymanski and M-S. Chung, ``A Method for Indexing Web Pages Using Web Bots,'' Proc. Int. Conference on Info-Tech Info-Net ICII'2001, November 2001, Beijing, China, IEEE CS Press, p. 1-6.

  49. B.K. Szymanski, Q. Gu, and Y. Liu, ``Time-Network Partitioning for Large-Scale Parallel Network Simulation under SSFNet,'' Proc. Applied Telecommunication Symposium, San Diego, CA, April 14-17, 2002, SCS Press, pp. 90-95.

  50. G. Chen and B.K. Szymanski, ``Lookback: A New Way of Exploiting Parallelism in Discrete Event Simulation,'' Proc. 16th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, Washington, DC, May 12-15, 2002, IEEE CS Press, pp. 153-162.

  51. B.K. Szymanski, A. Saifee, A. Sastry, Y. Liu and K. Madnani, ``Genesis: A System for Large-scale Parallel Network Simulation,'' Proc. 16th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, Washington, DC, May 12-15, 2002, IEEE CS Press, pp. 89-96.

  52. G. Chen and B.K. Szymanski, ``Lookahead, Rollback and Lookback, Searching for Parallelism in Discrete Event Simulation,'' Proc. SCSC 2002 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, July 2002.

  53. A. Bivens, M. Embrechts, C. Palagiri, R. Smith, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Network-based Intrusion Detection using Neural Networks,'' Intelligent Engineering Systems through Artificial Neural Networks, Vol. 12, Proc. ANNIE 2002 Conference, November 10-13, 2002, St. Louis, MI, ASME Press, New York, NY, 2002, pp. 579-584.

  54. H. Lamehamedi, B.K. Szymanski, and E. Deelman, ``Data Replication Strategies in Grid Environments,'' Proc. 5th Int. Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP2002, Beijing, China, October 2002, IEEE Computer Science Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 2002, pp. 378-383.

  55. G. Chen and B.K. Szymanski, ``COST: A Component-Oriented Discrete Event Simulator,'' Proc. Winter Simulation Conference, WSC02, December 2002, vol. I, pp. 776-782.

  56. G. Chen, B.K. Szymanski, and L. Wilson, ``Component-Based Simulation and Agent-Based Brokering: Towards Ad Hoc Simulations in Crisis and Emergency Management,'' Proc. Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation, CNDS'03, Orlando, FL, January 2003, pp. 37-44.

  57. H. Lamehamedi, Z. Shentu, B.K. Szymanski, and E. Deelman, ``Simulation of Dynamic Data Replication Strategies in Data Grids,'' Proc. 12th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW2003), Nice, France, April 2003, IEEE Computer Science Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 2003.

  58. B.K. Szymanski, Y. Liu, and R. Gupta ``Parallel Network Simulation under Distributed Genesis,'' Proc. 17th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, San Diego, CA, June 2003, pp. 61-68.

  59. G. Chen and B.K. Szymanski, ``Four Types of Lookback,'' Proc. 17th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, San Diego, CA, June 2003, pp. 3-10.

  60. B. Bouqata, C.D. Carothers, M.J. Zaki, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Understanding Filesystem Performance for Data Mining Applications,'' Proc. 6th International Workshop on High Performance Data Mining: Pervasive and Data Stream Mining (HPDM:PDS'03) at the Third International SIAM Conference on Data Mining, San Francisco, CA, May 2003.

  61. I. McLean, B.K. Szymanski, and A. Bivens, ``Methodology of Risk Assessment in Mobile Agent System Design,'' Proc. 4th Annual Information Assurance Workshop, West Point, NY, June 2003, IEEE Computer Society Press, June 2003, pp. 35-42.

  62. K. Sequeira, M.J. Zaki, B. Szymanski, and C. Carothers, ``Improving Spatial Locality using Data Mining,'' Proc. 9th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, P. Domingos, C. Faloutsos, T. Senator, H. Kargupta, L. Getoor (eds.), Washington, DC, August 2003, pp. 649-654.

  63. M. Embrechts, B. Szymanski, K. Sternickel, T. Naenna, and R. Bragaspathi, ``Use of Machine Learning for Classification of Magnetocardiograms'' Proc. IEEE Conference on System, Man and Cybernetics, Washington DC, October 2003, pp. 1400-1405.

  64. S. Coull, J. Branch, B. Szymanski and E. Breimer, ``Intrusion Detection: A Bioinformatics Approach,'' Proc. 19th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Las Vegas, NV, December, 2003, pp. 24-33 (the best student paper award).

  65. B. Szymanski, J. Flaherty, J. Teresco and C. Varela, ``Adaptive Computation over Dynamic and Heterogeneous Networks,;SPMquot; in Proc. Large Scale Scientific Computing Workshop, R. Wyrzykowski, J. Dongarra, M. Paprzycki and J. Wasniewski (Eds.), Proc. 5th International Conference, PPAM 2004, (Revised Papers) LNCS, vol. 3019, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2004 pp. 1083-1090.

  66. Boleslaw Szymanski and Yongqiang Zhang, ``Recursive Data Mining for Masquerade Detection and Author Identification,'' Proc. 5th IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics Information Assurance Workshop, West Point, IEEE CS Press, Los Alamitos, CA, June 2004, pp. 424-431.

  67. Paul Evangelista, Mark Embrechts and Boleslaw K. Szymanski, ``Computer Intrusion Detection through Predictive Models,'' Smart Engineering System Design: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Programming, Data Mining and Complex Systems, St. Louis, Missouri, ASME Press, November 2004, pp. 489-494.

  68. Lawrence Bush, Christopher Carothers and Boleslaw K. Szymanski, ``Algorithms for Optimizing Energy Use and Path Resilience in Sensor Networks,'' Proc. 2nd European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), Istambul, Turkey, January 31-February 2, 2005, pp. 391-396.

  69. J. Branch, G. Chen and B. Szymanski, ``ESCORT: Energy-efficient Sensor Network Communal Routing Topology Using Signal Quality Metrics,'' Proc. International Conference on Networking - ICN 2005, Reunion Island, LNCS, Springer-Verlag, Volume 3420, 2005, Editors: Pascal Lorenz, Petre Dini, pp. 438-448.

  70. G. Chen, J. Branch, B. Szymanski, ``Local Leader Election, Signal Strength Aware Flooding, and Routeless Routing,'' Proc. 5th IEEE International Workshop on Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc Networks and Sensor Networks, WMAN05, Denver, CO, April, 2005.

  71. P.F. Evangelista, P. Bonnisone, M.J. Embrechts, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Fuzzy ROC Curves for the 1 Class SVM: Application to Intrusion Detection,'' 13th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, ESANN05, Burges, Belgium, April 2005, pp. 345-350.

  72. J.-S. Lee and B.K. Szymanski, ``Stabilizing Markets via a Novel Auction Based Pricing Mechanism for Short-term Contracts for Network Services,'' Proc. 9th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Nice, France, May 2005, IEEE Press, pp. 367-380.

  73. P.F. Evangelista, M.J. Embrechts, P. Bonnisone, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Fuzzy ROC Curves for Unsupervised Nonparametric Ensemble Techniques,'' International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2005, pp. 3040-3045, Montreal, Canada, August 2005.

  74. J.-S. Lee and Boleslaw K. Szymanski, ``A Novel Auction Mechanism for Selling Time-Sensitive E-Services,'' Proc. 7th International IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'05), Munich, Germany, IEEE Press, July 2005, pp. 75 - 82, (nominated for the best paper award).

  75. G.G. Chen, J.W. Branch, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Self-selective Routing for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,;SPMquot; Proc. 2005 IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications WiMob 2005, Vol. 3, Montreal, Canada, Aug. 2005, pp. 57-64, 2005 (the best student paper award).

  76. L. Zhu, G. Chen, B. Szymanski, C. Tropper, and T. Zhang, ``Parallel Logic Simulation of Million-Gate VLSI Circuits,'' Proc. 13th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS05, Atlanta, GA, IEEE Press, September 2005.

  77. G. Chen and B.K. Szymanski, ``DSIM: Scaling Time Warp to 1,033 Processors,'' Proc. Winter Simulation Conference, WSC2005, IEEE Press, December 2005.

Invited Papers

  1. J. Baron, E. Lock, N. Prywes, and B.K. Szymanski, ``An Argument for Nonprocedural Languages,'' in The Role of Language in Problem Solving I, R. Jernigan, B.W. Hamil and D.M. Weintraub (edts), Elsevier Science Publishers (North-Holland), New York, NY, 1985, pp. 127-145.

  2. N.S. Prywes and B.K. Szymanski, ``Software Development of Parallel Processing in a Distributed Computer Architecture,'' in Supercomputing Systems: Architecture, Design and Performance, S.P. Kartashev and S.I. Kartashev (edts), Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY, 1990, pp. 271-291.

  3. C. Ozturan, J.E. Flaherty, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Scalable Software Tools for Adaptive Scientific Computations,'' Trans. Tenth Army Conference on Applied Mathematics and Computing, West Point, NY, July 1992, ARO Report 93-1, pp. 159-172.

  4. B.K. Szymanski, ``Scalable Software Tools for Parallel Computations,'' NATO Workshop on High Performance Computing, published in Software for Parallel Computation, J.S. Kowalik and L. Grandinetti (edts), NATO ASI Series F, Vol. 106, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1993, pp. 76-90.

  5. B.K. Szymanski, J. Hicks, R. Jagannathan, V. Sarkar, D. B. Skillicorn and R. K. Yates, ``Is There a Future for Functional Languages in Parallel Programming?'' Panel Summary, published in Proc. IEEE Computer Society 1994 Int. Conference on Computer Languages, Toulouse, France, May 16-19, 1994, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 299-304, 1994.

  6. B.K. Szymanski, ``Specifying Parallel Programs in Functional Language: the EPL Experience,'' DIMACS Meeting on Specification of Parallel Programs, published in Specification of Parallel Algorithms, G. Blelloch, M. Chandy, and S. Jagannathan (edts), DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 18, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1994, pp. 201-223.

  7. J.E. Flaherty, R.M. Loy, M.S. Shephard, B.K. Szymanski, J.D. Teresco and L.H. Ziantz, ``Predictive Load Balancing for Adaptive Finite Element Computation,'' Proc. Int. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'97), Las Vegas, NV, June 30-July 3, 1997, Vol. I, pp. 460-469, CSREA, 1997.

  8. B.K. Szymanski and C. Norton, ``Monitoring Scientific Computations---An Object-Oriented Approach,'' Proc. 2nd Int. Conference on Parallel Processing Applied Mathematics - PPAM'97, Zakopane, Poland, September 1997, Vol. I, pp. 104-116.

  9. V. Decyk, C. Norton, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Experiences with Object Oriented Parallel Plasma Simulations,'' Plenary talk, Proc. Computing in High Energy Physics'95, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 18-22, 1995, Ronald Shellard and Trang D. Nguyen (edts), World Scientific, Singapore, 1996, pp. 26-30, also Technical Report PPG-1552, Institute of Plasma and Fusion Research, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, September 1995.

  10. J.E. Flaherty, R.M. Loy, P.C. Scully, M.S. Shephard, B.K. Szymanski, J.D. Teresco and L.H. Ziantz, ``Load Balancing and Communication Optimization for Parallel Adaptive Finite Element Methods'', Proc. XVII Int. Conference of Chilean Computer Science Society, Valparaiso, Chile, November 1997, pp.246-255, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA.

  11. P.H. Fry and B.K. Szymanski, ``Metacomputing: Parallel Computation Over the Internet,'' Proc. Third Int. Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM99, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, September 1999, pp. 17-31.

  12. G. Chen, H. Lamehamedi, A. Vargun, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Web-Enabled and Speculative High Performance Computing,'' Proc. Int. SGI User's Conference, SGI2000, Cracow, Poland, October, 2000, AGH Press, Cracow, 2000, pp. 75-90.

  13. G. Chen and B.K. Szymanski, ``Linking spatially explicit parallel continuous and discrete models,'' Proc. Winter Simulation Conference, Orlando, Florida, December 2000 IEEE Computer Press, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 1705-1712.

  14. M. Hulber, D. Dillenberger, and B.K. Szymanski, ``Scalable Distributed Java Workload Manager,'' Int. Workshop on Performance-Oriented Program Development for Distributed Architectures, PADDA2001, Munich, Germany, April 2001.

  15. G. Chen and B.K. Szymanski, ``A Component Model for Discrete Event Simulation,'' Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, 4th International Conference, PPAM 2001 Naleczow, Poland, September 9-12, 2001 (Revised Papers), September 2001, LNCS vol. 2328, Springer Verlag, Berlin, June 2002, pp. 580-594.

  16. K. Fialkowski and B.K. Szymanski, ``Model of Pattern Processing Based on a Conceptor,'' Virtual Worlds Simulations, WMC'03, Orlando, FL, January, 2003.

  17. K. Mandani and B.K. Szymanski, ``Integrating Distributed Wireless Simulation Into Genesis Framework,'' Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 2003, pp. 203-209.

  18. B. Szymanski and Y. Liu, ``Loosely-Coordinated, Distributed, Packet-Level Simulation of Large-Scale Networks,'' Proc. Winter Simulation Conference, WSC03, New Orleans, LA, December 2003, pp. 712-720.

  19. B. Szymanski, C. Varela, J. Cummings and J. Napolitano, Dynamically Reconfigurable Scientific Computing on Large-Scale Heterogeneous Grids, Proc. 5th International Conference PPAM03, (Revised papers) R. Wyrzykowski, J. Dongarra, M. Paprzycki and J. Wasniewski (Eds.), LNCS, vol. 3019, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 419-430.

  20. Y. Liu and B. Szymanski, ``Distributed Packet-Level Simulation for BGP Networks under Genesis,'' Proc. Summer Computer Simulation Conference, July 2004, SCS Press, San Diego, CA, pp. 271-278.

  21. Gang Chen, Lijuan Zhu and Boleslaw Szymanski, ``SENSE: A New Sensor Network Simulator,'' 3rd IEEE Upstate New York Workshop on Sensor Networks, Syracuse, NY, October 6, 2005.

  22. K. El Maghraoui, B.K. Szymanski, and C. Varela ``IOS: A Middleware for Decentralized Distributed Computing,'' 6th International Conference on Parallel Programming and Applied Mathematics, PPAM05, Poznan, Poland, September, 2005.

  23. Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Gilbert Chen, and Joel W. Branch, ``Computing with Time Using Broadcast: From Neural to Wireless Networks,'' 4th IEEE Upstate New York Workshop on Sensor Networks, Syracuse, NY, October 7, 2005.

Selected Invited Talks