Ali R. Hurson
Department Chair and Professor
Department of Computer Science
Missouri University of Science and Technology
e-mail: Ali R. Hurson
325 Computer Science Building
Rolla, MO 65409-0350
(573) 341-6201 (Department)
(573) 341-4501 (Fax)

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Selected Publications ( Publications )

Areas of Interest

Parallel and Distributed Systems, Databases, Multi-Databases, Pervasive and Mobile Computing. 

With the advance in technology, the data distribution issue has evolved to data integration from heterogeneous sources. Multi-databases are designed to allow access to heterogeneous and autonomous data sources.

The concept of mobility has introduced additional complexities and restrictions in multi-database systems: reduced capacity network connection, processing, resource, and power restrictions.

An extended multi-database system that facilitates “anytime, anywhere” access to information is called a Mobile Data Access System (MDAS).

Within the scope of MDAS, we distinguish three classes of services: Broadcast based services, On-demand based services, and Pervasive based services.  Within the scope of broadcasting, we introduce and evaluate algorithms that address: data allocation and retrieval on single and parallel channels, application of indexing on the air channel(s),    access conflict and conflict resolution, and    power management.

Within the scope of on-demand services with regard to technological limitations, we introduce and analyze solutions that address: query processing, location dependence, location awareness, continuous queries, application of mobile agents, multimedia data processing, transaction processing, power management, ad hoc networking, caching, and security.

Selected Publications
Books/Book Chapters

Sedigh, S., Hurson, A.R. , and Shirazi, B. Tools and techniques for interoperability and dynamic reconfiguration of pervasive systems. In M. Denko and M. S. Obaidat, editors, Pervasive Computing and Networking . John Wiley & Sons, 2010, to appear.

Lim, J.B., Hurson, A.R. , and Jiao, Y., “TRANSACTION PROCESSING IN MOBILE, HETEROGENEOUS DATABASE SYSTEMS”, Encyclopedia of Computer Science & Engineering ,  Wiley publications, 2009, Vol. 5, pp. 2922-2930.

Hurson, A.R. , Jean, E., Gao, X., Ongtang, M., Jiao, Y., and Potok, T.E., “Recent Advances in Mobile Agent-Oriented Applications”. In When Computational Intelligence meets Mobile Paradigm , 2009, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Chapter 6, pp. 106-139.

Kavi, K., Akl, R., and Hurson, A.R., “Real Time Systems”, Encyclopedia of Computer Science & Engineering , 2008, Wiley publications. 

Journals

Jean, E., Jiao, Y., and Hurson, A.R.   Addressing mobile agent security through agent collaboration, Journal of Information Processing Systems , 3(2), pp. 43-53, 2008.

Yang B. and Hurson A.R. , “Semantic-Aware and QoS-Aware Image Caching in Ad Hoc Networks”,   IEEE Transaction on Data and Knowledge Engineering , 19(12), pp. 1694-1707, 2007.

Jiao, Y. and Hurson, A.R. , “Energy-Efficient Wireless Information Retrieval”,   Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Special issue on Network-Based Computing , 73(3), pp. 1145-1163, 2007. 

Conference Proceedings

Hsu H.-Y., Zhu, S., and Hurson, A.R. ,  “A Hotspot-based Protocol for Attack Traceback in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, 5^th   ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communication Security , 2010.

Parthasarathy, R., Peterson, N., Shirazi, B., Song, W., and Hurson, A.R. “Over the Air Programming on Imote2-based Sensor Networks”,   Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences , 2010.  

Hurson, A.R. , and Sedigh, S., “A pervasive computing platform for individualized higher education”, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering , 2009.

Sedigh S., and Hurson. A. R. , “A pervasive framework for customizing course content to student needs”, Proceedings of the 1st National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium , 2009.

Tangpong A., Kesidis G., Hsu Hung-yuan, and Hurson, A.R. , “Robust Sybil Detection for MANETs”, ICCCN 2009.

Jean E., Collins, R.T., Hurson, A.R. , Sedigh, S., and Jiao, Y., “Pushing Sensor Network Computation to the Edge”, Wicom 2009.

Peterson N., Anusuya-Rangappa L., Shirazi B., Huang R., Song W.-Z., Miceli M., McBride D., Hurson A.R. , LaHusen R., “TinyOS-based Quality of Service Management in Wireless Sensor Networks”,   Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences , 2009.

Ongtang M., Hurson A.R. , Jiao   Y., “Agent-based Infrastructure for Data and Transaction Management in Mobile Heterogeneous Environment”, International Conference on   Communications and Mobile Computing , 2009.

Recent Grants

Pervasively Secure Infrastructures (PSI): Integrating Smart Sensing, Data Mining, Pervasive Networking, and Community Computing, NSF/ITR, $2,220,076, 2003-2010(Co. PI).