Mladen A. Vouk

Scientific and Numerical Computing

Current Research & Development Areas, Projects and Associations

• High-Performance Computing, Numerical and Scientific Software
  • High Performance and Grid Computing
  • International Federation for Information Processing, TC2, Working Group on Numerical Software

• Coding Theory and its Applications

• Network-based Scientific Problem Solving Environments
  • End-User Quality of Service
  • Internet2 PSEs: WLS/I2 - Network-Based Full-Motion Stereo Microscopy
  • Middleware Performance
  • SciDAC Scientific Data Management Center [A Review Article]
    • NCSU Scientific Data Management Center
    • Scientific Process Automation

• Bioinformatics, Application of Information Theory and Digital Signal Processing Methods to Genetics
  • Information Model for Translation in E- Coli
  • Free Energy Calculations for Genetic Codes
  • Scientific Data Management for Genomics
  • NC State Genomics Program
  • NC State Bioinformatics Program
  • NC BioGrid

Related Publications

• Journals, Books, and Patents
  1. Vouk M.A. and Lightowlers E.C., "An investigation of the recombination radiation from electron-hole condensate in intrinsic silicon", J. Phys. C: Solid State Physics, Vol. 8, 1975, 3695-3702
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  2. Vouk M.A. and Lightowlers E.C., "Two-phonon assisted free exciton recombination radiation from intrinsic silicon", J. Phys. C: Solid State Physics, Vol. 10, 1977, 3689-3699
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  3. Vouk M.A. and Lightowlers E.C., "A high resolution investigation of recombination radiation from Si containing the acceptors B, Al, Ga, In and Tl", J. Luminescence, Vol. 15, 1977, 357-384
  4. Lightowlers E.C., Henry M.O. and Vouk M.A., "Luminescence associated with transitions from an excited state of bound excitons in P, As, Sb and Bi doped Si", J. Phys. C: Solid State Physics, Vol. 10, 1977, L713-L718
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  5. Vouk M.A., "Conditions necessary for the formation of the electron-hole liquid in diamond and calculation of its parameters", J. Phys. C: solid State Physics, Vol. 12, 1979, 2305-2312
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  6. Vouk M.A., Coburn's Equations Calculation in, Carbon Monoxide, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CRITERIA 13, Published under the joint sponsorship of the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Health Organization, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1979, ISBN 92 4 154073 7 [PDF] [HTML]
  7. Vouk M.A., "FORTRAN 8X - revision of FORTRAN 77", Informatica (Yu), Vol. 5, 1981, 43-49 (in Croat)
  8. Paar V., Brant S., Canto L.F., Leander G. and Vouk M.A., "SU(6) quadrupole phonon model for even and odd nuclei and the SU(3) limit", Nuclear Physics, A378, 1982, 41-76.
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  9. Marinov A., Oelert W., Gopal S., Berg G.P.A., Bojowald J., Hurlimann W., Katayama I., Martin S.A., Mayer-Boricke C., Meissburger J. Romer J.G.M, Rogge M., Tain J.L., Turek P., Zemlo L., Mooy R.B.M, Glaudemans P.W.M., Brant S., Paar V., Vouk M.A., and Lopac V., "Study of proton-hole states in 61Co using the 62Ni(d,3He)61Co reaction at 78 MeV", Nucl. Phys., A431, 1984, 317-343.
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  10. Marinov A., Oelert W., Gopal S., Brinkmoller B., Hlawatsch G., Mayer-Boricke C., Meissburger J., Paul D., Rogge M, Romer J.G.M., Tain J.L., Turek P., Zemlo L., Mooy R.B.M., Glaudemans P.W.M., Brant S., Paar V., Vouk M.A., and Lopac V., "Proton-hole states in 57Co studied with the 58Ni(d,3He)57Co reaction at 78 MeV", Nucl. Phys., A438, 1985, 429-449
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  11. Tokunaga Y., Seyfarth H., Meyer R.A., Schult O.W.B, Borner H.G., Barreau G., Faust H.R., Schreckenbach K., Brant S., Paar V., Vouk M.A., Vretenar D., "Low-lying levels of 77Se studied by thermal neutron capture and evidence for a new term in the E2 operator of TQM (IBM)", Nucl. Phys., A439, 1985, 427-455.
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  12. Aurer-Kozelj J., Srdjak-Jorgic K., Ivic, M., and Vouk, M.A., "Prevalence and Distribution of Periodontal and other Oral Diseases in Croatia," RAD (Yugoslav Academy of Sciences), Vol. 436, pp 107-124, 1988.
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  13. Dennis R.L., D.W. Byun, J.H. Novak, K.J. Galluppi, C.C. Coats, M.A. Vouk, "The Next Generation of Integrated Air Quality Modeling: EPA's Models-3," Atmospheric Environment, Vol 30 (12), pp 1925-1938, 1996.
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  14. Ambrosiano-J; Balay-R; Coates-C; Eyth-A; Fine-S; Hils-D; Smith-T; Thorpe-S; Turner-T; Vouk-M, "The environmental decision support system: Air quality modeling and beyond," in Next Generation Environment Models and Computational Methods, ISBN089871378, editors: Delic-G; Wheeler-MF, SIAM Proceedings Series, SIAM, PA, pp. 47-57, 1997.
  15. Vouk M.A., and M.P. Singh, "Quality of Service and Scientific Workflows," in The Quality of Numerical Software: Assessment and Enhancements, editor: R. Boisvert, Chapman & Hall, pp.77-89 , 1997.
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  16. Singh M.P. and M.A. Vouk, "Network Computing," in John G. Webster (editor), Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, New York, Vol. 14, pp. 114-132, 1999.
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  17. Balay R.I, Vouk M.A., Perros H., "Performance of Network-Based Problem-Solving Environments," Chapter 18, in Enabling Technologies for Computational Science Frameworks, Middleware and Environments, editors Elias N. Houstis, John R. Rice, Efstratios Gallopoulos, Randall Bramley, Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-7809-1, 2000 [PDF]
  18. May E., M Vouk, D Bitzer, D Rosnick. Analysis of the Fractal Scaling Properties of Escherichia Coli K-12 Using the Wavelet Transform Modulus Maxima Method., Journal of Computational Biology, Vol. 7, Nos. 3/4, p.643, November 2000.
  19. Cheng Z., M.P. Singh, and M.A. Vouk, "Composition Constraints for Semantic Web Services," Chapter in "Real World Semantic Web Applications," IOS Press, Nieuwe Hemweg 6B, 1013 BG Amsterdam, The Netherlands editors V. Kashyap and L. Shklar, Volume 92, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 2002. http://www.iospress.nl/html/boek1038917894.html [PDF]
  20. Elebeoba E. May, Mladen A. Vouk, Donald L. Bitzer, and David I. Rosnick, "An error-correcting code framework for genetic sequence analysis," Journal of the Franklin Institute, Volume 341, Issues 1-2 , January-March 2004, Pages 89-109 [HTML] [PDF]
  21. May E., M., Vouk, D. Bitzer, D. Rosnick, Coding Theory Based Models for Protein Translation Initiation in Prokaryotic Organisms," pre-proceedings of the IPCAT 2003 (Fifth International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues), Lausanne, Switzerland, September 8-11, 2003, pp, 371-389, published by EPFL. Also in Biosystems. 2004 Aug-Oct; 76 (1-3):249-60. [PDF]
  22. Elebeoba E. May, Mladen A. Vouk, and Donald L. Bitzer, "Classification of Escherichia coli K-12 Binding Sites - An Error-control Coding Model," IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, 2006 Jan/Feb; 25(1):90-97. [PDF]
  23. Starmer J., A. Stomp, M. Vouk and D. Bitzer, "Predicting Shine-Dalgarno Sequence Locations Exposes Genome Annotation Errors," in PLOS Computational Biology, Volume 2, Issue 5, e57, May 2006, [HTML] [PDF]
  24. S Klasky, M Beck, V Bhat, E Feibush, B Ludäscher, M Parashar, A Shoshani, D Silver and M Vouk, "Data management on the fusion computational pipeline," SciDAC 2006, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 16 (2005), 510-520, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/16/1/070 [PDF]
  25. Lalit Ponnala, Anne-Marie Stomp, Donald L. Bitzer, and Mladen A. Vouk, "Analysis of Free Energy Signals Arising from Nucleotide Hybridization Between rRNA and mRNA Sequences during Translation in Eubacteria," EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Volume 2006, Article ID 23613, Pages 1-9, DOI 10.1155/BSB/2006/23613 [HTML] [PDF]
  26. Ilkay Altintas, Oscar Barney, Zhengang Cheng, Terence Critchlow, Bertram Ludaescher, Steve Parker, Arie Shoshani and Mladen Vouk, "Accelerating the scientific exploration process with scientific workflows," sciDAC 2006, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 46 (2006), 468-478, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/46/1/065 [PDF]
  27. M. A. Vouk, I. Altintas R. Barreto, J. Blondin, Z.Cheng, T. Critchlow, A. Khan, S. Klasky, J. Ligon, B. Ludaescher, P. A. Mouallem, S. Parker, N. Podhorszki, A. Shoshani, C. Silva, " Automation of Network-Based Scientific Workflows," Proc. of the IFIP WoCo 9 on Grid-based Problem Solving Environemnts: Implications for Development and Deployment of Numerical Software, IFIP WG 2.5 on Numerical Software, Prescott, AZ, 2006, printed in IFIP, Vol 239, "Grid-Based Problem Solving Environments, eds. Gaffney PW and Pool JCT (Boston: Springer), pp. 35-61, 2007. [Scan PDF] [Color Draft PDF]
  28. D.A. Batchelor, M. Beck, A. Becoulet, R.V. Budny, C.S. Chang,P.H. Diamond, J.Q. Dong, G.Y. Fu, A. Fukuyama, T.S. Hahm,D.E. Keyes, Y. Kishimoto, S. Klasky, L.L. Lao1, K. Li1, Z. Lin¤1, B. Ludaescher, J. Manickam, N. Nakajima1, T. Ozeki1, N. Podhorszki, W.M. Tang, M.A. Vouk, R.E. Waltz, S.J. Wang, H.R. Wilson, X.Q. Xu,M. Yagi, F. Zonca, "Simulation of Fusion Plasmas: Current Status and Future Direction," Plasma Science and Technology, Vol.9, No.3, Jun. 2007, pp. 312-387, doi:10.1088/1009-0630/9/3/13 [PDF]
  29. Arie Shoshani, Ilkay Altintas, Alok Choudhary, Terence Critchlow, Chandrika Kamath, Bertram Ludäscher, Jarek Nieplocha, Steve Parker, Rob Ross, Nagiza Samatova, Mladen Vouk , :SDM Center Technologies for Accelerating Scientific Discoveries," SciDac 2007 Proceedings Dec 2006,n Journal of Physics, Conference Series, Vol. 78, paper #012068, 5 pages. [PDF]

• Conferences and Meetings
  1. Vouk M.A. and Lightowlers E.C., "Fine structure in the luminescence spectra from excitons bound to acceptors in silicon", Proc. 13th Int. Conf. Physics of Semiconductors, Rome (ed. F.G. Fumi, Tipografia Mavres, Rome, Italy), 1976, 1098-1101
  2. Vouk M.A., "COEX: An interactive analysis and interpretation program for investigation of carboxyhaemoglobin level in blood following exposure to carbon monoxide", Proc. 14th Yugoslav Int. Symposium on Information Processing, Informatica 79, Bled (ed. B. Dzonova-Jerman-Blazic, M. Kovacevic, S.d. Informatika, Ljubljana, Slovenia), 1979, 7.303.1-7.303.2
  3. Vouk M.A., "Application of the NAG library for deconvolution and shape-fitting of experimental data", Proc. 3rd BiH Symposium on Informatics, Jahorina (ETF, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina), 1979, 353.1-353.8 (in Croat)
  4. Vouk M.A., "Mathematical models for analysis of the carbon-monoxide/ carboxyhaemoglobin system in human blood", Proc. Symposium on Biomedical Cybernetics, Skopje (Drustvo za biokibernetika na SR Makedonija, Skopje, Macedonia), 1980, 66-77 (in Croat)
  5. Vouk M.A., "BLOCK3, algorithm and program for three dimensional graphics", Proc. 4th BiH Symposium on Informatics, Jahorina (ETF, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina), 1980, 168.1-168.9 (in Croat)
  6. Kuljis J. and Vouk M.A., "Comparative analysis of some numerical quadrature routines suitable for evaluation of the Fermi integral", Proc. 2nd Int. Symposium "Computer at the University", Cavtat (ed. M.A. Vouk and B. Aurer, SRCE, Zagreb, Croatia), 1980, 3.58-3.60 (in Croat)
  7. Novak J. and Vouk M.A., "On Fortran courses at the University Computing Centre Zagreb", ibid., 1980, 5.26-5.27 (in Croat)
  8. Vouk M.A., "GRIDSURF: A simple algorithm and program for axonometric projection of a surface grid", Proc. 3rd Int. Symposium "Computer at the University", Cavtat (ed. M.A. Vouk, M. Gredelj, N. Hadjina, SRCE, Zagreb, Croatia), 1981, 360.1-360.11
  9. Vouk M.A. and Kaliterna Lj., "SACCADE: A system for real-time investigation of saccadic eye movements", Proc. 5th BiH Symposium on Informatics, Jahorina (ETF, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina), 1981, 311.1-311.10 (in Croat)
  10. Ercegovac Dj. and Vouk M.A., "Grafika3: A software package for three dimensional graphics", Proc. 6th BiH Symposium on Informatics, Jahorina (ETF, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina), 1982, 116.1-116.9 (in Croat).
  11. Curkovic S., Garvas-Delic A. and Vouk M.A., "Dynamic testing and evaluation of PL/1 software", ibid., 1982, 186.1-186.10 (in Croat)
  12. Vouk M.A. and Ercegovac Dj., "The first test effectiveness ratio for Fortran software (or How much are the test data worth?)", Proc. 6th Symposium on Computer Aided Analysis and Design, Stubicke Toplice (ETF/Liber, Zagreb, Croatia), 1982, 207-213 (in Croat)
  13. Vouk M.A. and Novak J., "Cost of intra-language conversion of Algol 60 software", ibid., 1982, 185.1-185.10
  14. Vouk M.A. and Kaliterna Lj., "A system for on-line detection and analysis of saccadic eye movements", Proc. 4th Congress of the European Federation of Medical Informatics, "Medical Informatics Europe 82", Dublin (ed. R.R. O'Moore, B. Barber, P.L. Reichertz and F. Roger, Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, Vol. 16 Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York), 1982, 767-769
  15. Vouk M.A., Mornar V. and Baranovic M., "Halstead metrics counting models for the Statistical System programming language"., Proc. 7th BiH Symposium on Informatics, Jahorina (ETF, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina), 1983, 111.1-111.7.
  16. Novak J. and Vouk M.A., "An estimate of the language level for the specialized programming language Statistical System", ibid., 1983, 112.1-112.7
  17. Vouk M.A., "On the cost of mixed language programming", ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 1984, Vol. 19(12), 54-60.
  18. "Dani Primarne Zdravstvene Zastite", Labin (Croatia), 1985, 93-97 (in Croat).
  19. Aurer-Kozelj J., Vouk M.A., Bacic M., Srdjak-Jorgic K., Vutuc-Pavlic B., and Plancak D., "Prevalence of dental caries and dentofacial anomalies in the county of Labin", Proc. Symp. "Dani Primarne Zdravstvene Zastite", Labin (Croatia), 1985, 99-105 (in Croat).
  20. Aurer-Kozelj J., Vouk M.A., Bacic M., Srdjak-Jorgic K., Vutuc-Pavlic B., and Plancak D., "Prevalence of periodontal diseases in the county of Labin", Proc. Symp. Aurer J., Svub M., Vouk M.A. and Luzar V., "Evaluation methodology and sample assessment for epidemiological study of the oral health of the population of S.R. Croatia", Proc. 8th Intl. Symp. "Computer at the University", Cavtat 1986, 11.03.1-11.03.8 (in Croat).
  21. Aurer J., Srdjak-Jorgic K., Vouk M.A. and Filipovic-Ljubic M., "Analysis of epidemiological data on oral diseases in S.R. Croatia", Proc. 8th Intl. Symp. "Computer at the University", Cavtat 1986, 11.04.1-11.04.8 (in Croat).
  22. Vouk M.A. and Deimel L.E., "Software errors and complexity: A comment", Proc. 8th Intl. Symp. "Computer at the University", Cavtat 1986, 3.01.1-3.01.10.
  23. Vouk M.A., McAllister D.F., and Tai K.C., "An experimental evaluation of the effectiveness of random testing of fault-tolerant software", Proc. Workshop on Software Testing, Banff, Canada, July 1986 (IEEE CS Press 86), 74-81.
  24. Vouk, M.A., "Scientific Computing and Multidimensional Arrays in C", Proc. 11th International Symposium "Computer at the University", Cavtat , Croatia, June 1989 (Invited paper).
  25. Vouk, M.A., "Multidimensional Arrays in C", Proc. Symposium on Scientific Software, Beijing, P.R. China (Ed. Cai, Fosdick, Huang, China University of Science and Technology Press, Beijing, China), pp232-249, June 1989 (Invited paper).
  26. Vouk, M.A., "Multidimensional Arrays in C," 2nd NCEG Meeting, NCEG document #89-032, Minneapolis, September 1989.
  27. Vouk, M.A., "Multidimensional Arrays in C," in the materials for Supercomputing '89, Workshop D on Scientific and Numerical Programming in C, (ed. T. MacDonald, Cray Research, Inc.), November 1989.
  28. Vouk, M.A., "Using Back-to-Back Testing for Regression Test and Porting," Proc. 7th International Conference on Testing Computer Software, pp 209-218, 1990.
  29. Vouk, M.A., and Bitzer D., "Fast Convolution Decoding for High-Speed Networks," Third Triangle Conference on Computer Communications, (abstract) pp 13-14, 1990.
  30. Balay R., M. A. Vouk, H. Perros " A Lightweight Software Bus for Prototyping Problem Solving Environments", the Eleventh International Conference on Systems Engineering, Las Vegas, pp. 626-630., 1996. [PDF]
  31. John Ambrosiano, Carlie Coats, Mark Reed, Atanas Trayanov, Richard Loft, Celeste Matarazzo, Tim Turner, Mladen Vouk, "Data Archetypes for the Fusion of Parallel Simulation Codes in Climate Modeling and Other Applications", Parallel Object-Oriented Methods and Applications '96 (POOMA'96), Santa Fe, New Mexico February 28 - March 1, 1996
  32. Balay R., H. Perros and M. A. Vouk. "The Lightweight Software Bus : A Message Broker for Prototyping Problem Solving Environments", Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Computer Communication (ICCC '97), Cannes, November 19-21, 1997.
  33. Vouk M.A., R. Balay, and J. Ambrosiano, "EDSS - An Environment for Large-Scale Numerical Computing and Decision Making," IFIP/WG 2.5 International Workshop on Current Directions in Numerical Software and High-Performance Computing, Kyoto, Japan, pp.34, October 1995.
  34. S. Thorpe, J. Ambrosiano, R. Balay, C. Coats, A. Eyth, S. Fine, D. Hils, T. Smith, A. Trayanov, T. Turner, and M. Vouk, "The Package for Analysis and Visualization of Environmental Data,", Proc. of Cray User Group Meeting, Charlotte NC Oct 14-16, 1996., pp 46. [PDF]
  35. Singh M.P., Vouk M.A., "Scientific workflows: scientific computing meets transactional workflows," Proceedings of the NSF Workshop on Workflow and Process Automation in Information Systems: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions, Univ. Georgia, Athens, GA, USA; 1996, pp.SUPL28-34.
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  36. Thorpe, S., J. Ambrosiano, C. Coats, A. Eyth, S. Fine, D. Hils, T. Smith, A. Trayanov, R. Balay, M. Vouk, T. Turner, 1996: The Package for Analysis and Visualization of Environmental Data. Proc., Computing in Environmental Resource Management, 2-4 December, Research Triangle Park, NC, Air & Waste Management Assoc., 241-249.
  37. Case, Gary N., Vouk, Mladen A., and John M. Mackenzie, Jr., "Real-Time Full Motion Stereo Microscopy Over Internet," in Microscopy and Microanalysis, Volume 5, Suppl. 2, p. 368, 1999.
  38. May, E.E.; Vouk, M.A.; Bitzer, D.L.; Rosnick, D.I., "Coding model for translation in E. coli K-12," BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint , Volume: 2 , 1999 Page(s): 1178 vol.2 [PDF]
  39. Rosnick, D.I.; Bitzer, D.L.; Vouk, M.A.; May, E.E., "Free energy periodicity in E.coli," BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint , Volume: 2 , 1999 Page(s): 1216 vol.2 [PDF]
  40. May, E.E., Vouk M.A., Bitzer D.L. and Rosnick D., "Random Vector Model for Translation Initiation in E-Coli K-12," The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 99), Posters and Software Demonstrations, Lengauer, Schneider, Bork, Brutlag, Glasgow, Mewes and Zimmer; Editors, August 6 - 10, 1999 in Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 95.
  41. May, E.E.; Vouk, M.A.; Bitzer, D.L.; Rosnick, D.I.,"The ribosome as a table-driven convolutional decoder for the Escherichia coli K-12 translation initiation system," Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE , Volume: 4 , 2000 Page(s): 2466 -2469 vol.4 [PDF]
  42. Eni May, M.A. Vouk, D.L. Bitzer, D. Rosnick, BioMedical Engineering Symposium, "Coding Theory Based Maximum-Likelihood Classifier for Translation Initiation Regions in Escherichia Coli K-12", Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 28, Supplement 1. p.S-26, October 2000.
  43. Rosnick, D.I.; Bitzer, D.L.; Vouk, M.A.; May, E.E., "Free energy periodicity in E. coli coding," Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE , Volume: 4 , 2000 Page(s): 2470 -2473 vol.4 [PDF]
  44. John Mackenzie and Mladen Vouk, "Development of a Remote Instrumentation Control and 3D Display System for Electron Microscope Research and Distance Education Applications over Gigabit Networks," February, 2001 (NCNI ).
  45. M.A. Vouk, "Software Reliability Engineering of Numerical Systems," Mini Symposium on "Accuracy and Reliability in Scientific Computing" Proc of the 2001 SIAM Annual Meeting, to be held July 9-13, 2001 in San Diego, California, USA.
  46. Zhengang Cheng, Munindar P. Singh, and Mladen A. Vouk, "Composition Constraints for Semantic Web Services," WWW2002 Workshop on Real World RDF and Semantic Web Applications, to appear in the proceedings, May 7, 2002. [PDF]
  47. Elebeoba May, M. A. Vouk, D. L. Bitzer and D. I. Rosnick, "A Coding Theory Framework for Genetic Sequence Analysis," Poster, in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, October 11-13, 2002 [PDF]
  48. David Rosnick, D. Bitzer, M. Vouk and E. May "Escherichia coli Protein Coding Sequence Detection by Analysis of Free Energy Periodicity," Poster CP2-10, in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, October 11-13, 2002 [PDF]
  49. May, E.E.; Vouk, M.A.; Bitzer, D.L.; Rosnick, D.I., "Constructing optimal convolutional code models for prokaryotic translation initiation", 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Proceedings of the Second Joint EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002., Volume: 3 , 2002 pp. 2188 -2189 [PDF]
  50. Elebeoba E. May, Mladen A. Vouk, Donald L. Bitzer, and David I. Rosnick, "Use of Iterative Methods in Biological Coding Theory: Applications," Proceedings of the Sixth IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing. March 27-30, 2003, University of Colorado at Denver , http://wwwmath.cudenver.edu/IMACS03/
  51. Altintas I., S. Bhagwanani, D. Buttler, S. Chandra, Z. Cheng, M. Coleman, T. Critchlow, A. Gupta, W. Han, L. Liu, B. Ludaescher, C. Pu, R. Moore, A. Shoshani, M. Vouk, "A Modeling and Execution Environment for Distributed Scientific Workflows," Proc. 15th IEEE International Conference on Scientific and Statisical Database Management (SSDBM 2003), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 9-11 July 2003, Editors: Silvia Nittel and Dimitrios Gunopulos, pp. 247-250.
  52. Vouk, M.A., "Integration of heterogeneous scientific data using workflows - a case study in bioinformatics," Information Technology Interfaces, 2003. ITI 2003. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on 16-19 June 2003 Page(s),25 - 28 [PDF]
  53. May, E.E.; Vouk, M.A.; Bitzer, D.L.; Rosnick, D.I.; "Binding motif based code models for prokaryotic translation initiation," Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, 2003. 4th International IEEE EMBS Special Topic Conference on 24-26 April 2003 Page(s):5 - 8 [PDF]
  54. Ponnala L., D. L. Bitzer, M. A. Vouk, "On finding convolutional code generators for translation initiation of Escherichia Coli K-12", Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp. 3854-3857, September 2003 [PDF]
  55. Mishra M., S. Vu, D. Bitzer, M. Vouk, A. Stomp, "Coding Sequence Detection and Free Energy Periodicity in Prokaryots," GENSIPS 2004 (http://www.cis.jhu.edu/gensips2004/) [PDF]
  56. Mishra M., S. K. Vu, D. L. Bitzer, M. A. Vouk, "Free Energy Periodicity In Prokaryotic Coding and its Role in Identification of +1 Ribosomal Frameshifting in the Escherichia Coli K-12 Gene prfB," EMBS 2004 (http://www.ucsfresno.edu/embs2004/), pp [PDF]
  57. Ponnala L., T.M. Barnes, D.L. Bitzer, MA. Vouk, "The search for the optimal ribosome 3. tail end in E. coli," 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS04), 1-5 Sept, 2004, pp. 2824-2827, Vol 4. [PDF]
  58. L. Ponnala, T.M. Barnes, D.L. Bitzer, M.A. Vouk. "Ribosome tail ends as signal detectors for protein production in prokaryotes", Proc. North Carolina Symposium on Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, 12-15 Oct. 2004 Page(s):15 - 23. [PDF]
  59. Xing C., M. Mishra, S. K. Vu, W.E. Alexander, D. L Bitzer, M. A. Vouk, "Free Energy Based Analysis of the Coding Region of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae," NC Symposium on Biotechnology & Bioinformatics (http://ewh.ieee.org/cmte/tech4life/), October 12-15, 2004, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
      This paper received Second Prize at the Student Paper Contest, [PDF]
  60. Starmer J., A. Stomp, M. Vouk and D. Bitzer, "Predicting Fidelity of Protein Synthesis in E. coli," Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2005), May 22 - 24, 2005 , Newport, Rhode Island (CD-ROM), [PDF]
  61. Ponnala L., T. Barnes, D. Bitzer, M. Vouk and A. Stomp "A signal processing-based model for analyzing programmed frameshifts," Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2005), May 22 - 24, 2005 , Newport, Rhode Island (CD-ROM), [PDF]
  62. L. Ponnala, A. Stomp, D.L. Bitzer, M.A. Vouk. "Statistical significance and biological relevance of a sinusoidal pattern detected in translational free energy signals" CD-ROM Proc. Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2006), May 28-30, 2006, College Station, Texas, IEEE Catalog 06EX1377C, ISBN 0-4244-0385-5, LoC 2006924248., pp. 55-56, [PDF]
  63. Starmer J., A. Stomp, M. Vouk and D. Bitzer, "Searching for Ribosome-mRNA Hybridization Sites," CD-ROM Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2006), May 28 - 30, 2006 , College Station, Texas, IEEE Catalog 06EX1377C, ISBN 0-4244-0385-5, LoC 2006924248., pp. 59-60. [PDF]
  64. Phoemphun Oothongsap, Yannis Viniotis and Mladen Vouk, "Experimental Analysis of the SABUL Congestion Control Algorithm." Third International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference, Athens, Greece, May 9-14, 2004. Proceedings, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3042/2004, Ch 143, pp. 1433-1439.
  65. Mouallem, P. and Vouk.M., "Fault Tolerance and Reliability in Scientific Workflows, " Proc. of ETFS 2006 - International Workshop on Engineering of Fault-Tolerant Software, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 12-13 June 2006, pp.
  66. Berenson, S, Michael J.J., and Vouk., M.A., "The relationship between high-school mathematics and career choices among high achieving young women," Annual Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, PME 30, 16-21 July 2006 (http://pme30.cz/)
  67. Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Rachael S. Dwight, Carolyn S. Miller, C. Dianne Raubenheimer, Matthias F. Stallmann, Mladen A. Vouk, "A case for smaller class size with integrated lab for introductory computer science," March 2007 ACM SIGCSE Bulletin , Proceedinds of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education SIGCSE '07, Volume 39 Issue 1, pp 341-345.
  68. L. Ponnala, D. L. Bitzer, A. Stomp, M. A. Vouk. "A computational model of reading frame maintenance" 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-EMBS (http://embc2006.njit.edu/), August 2006, Page(s) 4540 - 4543
  69. Chuanhua Xing, Donald Bitzer, Winser Alexander, Anne-Marie. Stomp, and Mladen Vouk, ``Free Energy Analysis on the Coding Region of the Individual Gene of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae'', 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, (http://embc2006.njit.edu/) August 2006, pp. 4225-4228
  70. Oothongsap, Phoemphun, Yannis Viniotis, and Mladen Vouk, "Improvements of the SABUL Congestion Control Algorithm," Proc of the Fifth International Symposium on COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, NETWORKS AND DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING (http://www.wcl.ee.upatras.gr/CSNDSP/), 19-21 July, 2006, Patras, Greece [Slides-PPT-Patras] [Slides-PPT]
  71. Mladen Vouk, "Automation of Large-scale Network-Based Scientific Workflows," Microsoft eScience Workshop, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, October 13 - 15, 2006, pp. 21 [Event and WVM Talk (Keyword: Vouk)] [Slides PDF]
  72. Sam Averitt, Michale Bugaev, Aaron Peeler, Henry Schaffer, Eric Sills, Sarah Stein, Josh Thompson, Mladen Vouk, "The Virtual Computing Laboratory," Proceedings of the International Conference on Virtual Computing Initiative, May 7-8, 2007, IBM Corp., Research Triangle Park, NC, pp. 1-16. [Paper PDF] [Slides PDF]
  73. Roselyne Barreto, Terence Critchlow, Ayla Khan, Scott Klasky, Leena Kora, Jeffrey Ligon, Pierre Mouallem, Meiyappan Nagappan, Norbert Podhorszki, Mladen Vouk, "Managing and Monitoring Scientific Workflows through Dashboards," Poster # 93, at Microsoft eScience Workshop Friday Center, University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill, NC, October 13 - 15, 2007, pp. 108 [PDF]
  74. Ilkay Altintas, George Chin, Daniel Crawl, Terence Critchlow, David Koop, Jeff Ligon, Bertram Ludaescher, Pierre Mouallem1, Meiyappan Nagappan, Norbert Podhorszki, Claudio Silva, MladenVouk, "Provenance in Kepler-based Scientific Workflow Systems,” Poster # 41, at Microsoft eScience Workshop Friday Center, University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill, NC, October 13 - 15, 2007, pp. 82 [PDF]

• Pending

Organization of Related Professional Meetings

• IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics 2005, May 22 - 24, 2005, Newport, Rhode Island, Member of the Technical Committee
• IFIP TC2 Working Conference on the Working Conference on "Software Architectures for Scientific Computing Applications"," October 2-4, 2000, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Member of the Program Committee.
• International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces (ITI), 1991- present, Member of the International Program Committee.
• The Third NSF "Train-The-Trainer" Workshop on Parallel Processing, 26-27 June 1998, San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, CA. [OSC Report]
• IFIP TC2 Working Conference on the "Quality of Numerical Software," July 1996, Oxford, U.K., Member of the Program Committee.
• The Second NSF "Train-The-Trainer" Workshop on Parallel Processing, 6-9 May 1996, Cornell Theory Center, Ithaca, NY.
• Workshop on Educational and Training Technology, NIST, March 1996, Program Co-Chair.
• The First NSF "Train-The-Trainer" Workshop on Parallel Processing, 10-12 April 1995, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, RTP, NC.
• IFIP WG 2.5 Workshop on Current Issues in Numerical Software, Organizer, Raleigh, NC, October 1994.
• International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics - 1991, Co-Chair (with S. Feldman) of a minisymposium on "Scientific and Numerical Computing in C".
• First International Markov Chains conference, member of the organizing committee, 1989
• IFIP TC2 Working Conference "Programming Environments for High Level Scientific Problem Solving," September 1991, Karlsruhe, F.R. Germany, Member of the Program Committee.
• International Symposium "Computer at the University", organized by SRCE, Zagreb, Croatia, Member of the Program Committee., 1986
• International Symposium "Computer at the University", organized by SRCE, Zagreb, Croatia, Editor of the proceedings, also Member of the Organizing Committee. 1980-83.

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