It will be a busy summer for Computer Science and Electrical Engineering professor Hillol Kargupta, who has been invited to speak at three international conferences on his research in data mining.

The first, from June 4-6, is the 3^rd International Conference on Sensor Systems and Software to be held in Lisbon, Portugal. Dubbed S-CUBE 2012 for short, the conference aspires to be a venue to “address the research challenges facing system development and software support for wireless sensor network-based systems that have the potential to impact society in many ways,” says the website.

As the keynote speaker, Dr. Kargupta will discuss the possibilities of wirelessly harnessing data from vehicles. Features of the talk include an overview of the market, emerging product-types, core technical challenges, and a description of how advanced data analysis has helped create new and innovative, commercially successful products.The talk reflects the work he’s been doing at Agnik, a Columbia-based data analytics company for distributed, mobile, and embedded environments that Dr. Kargupta co-founded.

From August 1-3, Dr. Kargupta will speak at the 36^th Annual Conference of the German Classification Society in Hildesheim, Germany. This year, Dr. Kargupta joins nine other confirmed speakers from around the world, who will speak on topics ranging from Data Analysis to Machine Learning to Knowledge Discovery. His talk will explore distributed data stream mining from sensor networks and discuss algorithms and data mining applications in embedded machine-to-machine wireless networks.

Dr. Kargupta closes his international tour with a stop at the Sixth International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data (Sensor-KDD ’12) in Beijing, China. One of four invited speakers, Dr. Kargupta joins Dr. Ashok N. Srivastava of the NASA Ames Research Center, Dr. Ian Davidson, a professor of Computer Science at UC: Davis, and Dr. Dr. Ralf Birken, a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University.

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Mobile Relays Based Federation of Multiple Wireless
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Jerome Stanislaus

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Wireless sensor networks are used to continuously monitor certain area of interest and send data to a base station for processing. In many applications, WSN serve in inhospitable environments where multiple nodes may simultaneously fail causing the network to be divided into disjoint segments. Restoring connectivity in this case would be necessary for the WSN to become fully functional again. A similar scenario is when multiple standalone WSNs may need to be federated to collectively handle an important event that requires data sharing among these networks. A viable approach for establishing connectivity among these network segments is by employing mobile data collectors (MDCs). Few MDCs can be used to create intermittent links among the segments by touring and carrying data. Obviously, the travel path of the MDCs will affect the date delivery latency. We present two algorithms for finding optimized travel routes for the MDCs so that the average and maximum delay for delivering the inter-segment traffic is minimized. The algorithms deal with two variants of the federation problem that differ in the available MDC count. The first algorithm handles the case when the number of available MDCs is more than the number of segments, while the second tackles the problemwhen the MDC count is significantly less. The performance of the algorithm is validated through simulation.

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