Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, May 28^th, 1997

Location:

DC 1302 --- ***NOTE CHANGE FROM USUAL LOCATION***

Time:

13:30

Chair:

Clara Tsang

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour this week:

???

Coffee hour next week:

Nathan Litke

3. Next meeting

Date:

June 4^th, 1997

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

13:30

Chair:

Teresa Yeung

Technical presentation:

Clara Tsang

4. Forthcoming

Chairs:

1. Tali Zvi (6/11)
2. Balasingham Balakumaran (6/18)
3. Richard Bartels (6/25)

Tech Presenters:

1. Teresa Young (6/11)
2. Tali Zvi (6/18)
3. Balasingham Balakumaran (6/25)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Navid Sadikali

Title:

How do we judge photorealism in computer graphics?

Abstract:

Research in photorealistic rendering considers itself to be more of a form of engineering rather than a form of art. However, as anyone who has played with a raytracer knows, making something look realistic is a learned skill, if not an art. I will look at some of the quantitative ways in which researchers are trying to "judge" the quality of their simulations, and leave it up to you to judge if their approach is going to be successful.

6.General Discussion Items

• Steve: Shalini Aggarwal is a new grad student starting in the fall term. She will be visiting us next week; she would like to meet with several grad students (which I assume will not be a problem) and it would be good if we could find her a place to stay on Wednesday night.
• Jerry: Lab Duty

7. Action List

• Alias Brown Bag Seminar Series

8. Director's Meeting

9. Seminars

• Systems Interoperability, a New Approach Based on Software Agent-Oriented Frameworks


Zakaria Maamar, Dept of Computer Science, Laval University
Thursday, May 29, 1997
10:30am
DC 1302

We introduce the concept of software agent-oriented frameworks for the design and the development of interoperable environments. Interoperability is a process that allows coopera- tive interactions between several systems. These latter are dis- tributed on networks and can present incompatibilities in dif- ferent ways (material, software, terminology). As a solution, we suggest to develop multiagent systems that will enable hetero- geneous systems to interact efficiently. These systems are com- posed of software agents integrated in a framework architecture. Our research is applied to Georeferenced Digital Libraries (GDL) interoperability. A GDL is an information base describing several geodocumentary resources available in an organization. Most organizations developed their GDLs without considering a real standardization with other partners in the field. There- fore, we intend to set up software agent-oriented frameworks that will support GDLs interoperability by providing users with ser- vices that will free them from worrying about information distri- bution and terminological disparities.

• ATM Network Design


Janelle Harms, University of Alberta
Monday, June 2, 1997
10:00 - 11:00 am
DC 1331

The design of ATM networks takes place at many levels: from physical design to the design of routing algorithms. The first phase of creating an ATM network is the design of the physical network. This includes problems of where to place ATM switches, how to interconnect them and how to provision them. Once the physical network is set up, virtual paths can be created in order to provide management capability and improve call set up. Finally, routing algorithms must be designed to handle the call requirements. In this talk, design problems at each of these levels will be discussed.

10. Lab Cleanup (until 14:30 or 5 minutes)