Computer Science Department
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~hollan
We propose a high-performance architecture tailored to the needs of NII applications, that emphasizes security at the most fundamental level, and provides intuitive adaptive zooming graphical interfaces for users. We will use this architecture to develop an integrated NII application devel opment and evaluation environment. This will leverage Pad++ interface work (Bederson, Hollan), ccr approaches to computation and communication across administrative domains (Ackley), immunologically-based (Forrest) and statistically-based (Helman) approaches to computer secu rity, adaptive systems (Ackley, Forrest, Mitchell), intelli gent databases (Helman, Veroff), and SUNMOS/Puma technology (Maccabe) for high-performance computing.
The success of our current work is evidenced by the excite ment the novel Pad++ interface software is generating; by the long term support of our intelligent database, statisti cally-based security, and data mining efforts from several sources; by a patent and commercial interest in our novel applications of immunological modeling to computer secu rity; by close interactions with the Santa Fe Institute in the area of adaptive systems; by long term visualization collab orations with the National Laboratories at Sandia and Los Alamos; and by spectacular success of the collaboration between UNM and Sandia National Laboratory to develop SUNMOS (the Sandia and UNM OS), which was used as the compute node operating system in the 1994 Gordon Bell award wining submission and in establishing the Intel Paragon as the world's fastest computer (281 GFlops on MP LINPACK, 329 GFlops on LU factorization code).
An NII Experimental Laboratory and Shared Applications Focus An applications focus is fundamental to the integration we propose. We will establish an NII Experimental Laboratory in the Science and Engineering Library to serve as an appli cations testbed and focal point for the coordination and integration of our research. The end-to-end research pro gram required will be the forcing function for integrating our existing software and highlighting crucial research issues that can too easily be finessed or ignored without such an application-centered focus. Application domains will initially include those associated with our existing research: effective browsers for the World Wide Web and other distributed information sources using our Pad++ zooming interface paradigm; information mining using our intelligent database and automated reasoning technology; information visualization employing our work on splatting, particle systems, and volume visualization; modeling and simulation in areas such as immunology; computer security applications for detecting unauthorized use of computers, guaranteeing the integrity of data files, and preventing the spread of computer viruses; and information filtering using adaptive systems.
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Forrest, S., Perelson, A.S., Allen, L., and Cherukuri, R., "Self-nonself discrimination in a computer." In Pro ceedings of the 1994 IEEE Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1994.
Forrest, S. and Mitchell, M., "What makes a problem hard for a genetic algorithm? Some anomalous results and their explanation," Machine Learning, Vol. 13, Nos.2-3, 1993.
Helman, P. and Liepins, G., "Statistical foundations of audit trail analysis for the detection of computer misuse," IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 9, Sept. 1993.
Helman, P. and Veroff, R., "Designing deductive data bases," Journal of Automated Reasoning, Vol. 4, No. 1, April 1988, 29-69.
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Hill, W.C., Hollan, J.D., Wroblewski, D., and McCandless, T., "Edit wear and read wear." In Proceedings of CHI'92 Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM/ SIGCHI, 1992, 3-9.
Hollan, J.D. and Stornetta, S., "Beyond being there." In Proceedings of CHI'92 Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM/SIGCHI, 1992, 119-125. Also appeared as a chapter in Readings in Groupware and Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Becker, (ed.), 1993, 842- 848.
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