ISSO 1995-1996 Annual Report

Publications

Vermuri Balakotaiah
Jayawardena, S. S. and V. Balakotaiah, "Stability of Wavy Films in Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flows at Normal and Microgravity Conditions," Proc., 3rd Microgravity Fluid Physics Conf., Cleveland, OH, 1996.
Yu, L.-Q., F. K. Wasden, A. E. Dukler, and V. Balakotaiah. "Nonlinear Evolution of Waves on Falling Films at High Reynolds Numbers," Physics of Fluids 7.8 (1995): 1886-1902.

William E. Fitzgibbon
High Speed Compressible Flow. Ed. J. A. Desideri, W. Fitzgibbon, R. Glowinski, J. Periaux, and R. Sanders. John Wiley & Sons. (In press.)
Fitzgibbon, W. E., S. Hollis, and J. Morgan. "Steady State Solutions for Balanced Reaction Diffusion Systems on Heterogeneous Domains," Advances in Partial Differential Equations. (Scheduled for publication.)
Fitzgibbon, W. E., S. Hollis, and J. Morgan. "Stability and Lyapunov functions for reaction-diffusion." (In preparation.)

Bowen Loftin
Hancock, L., A. K. Pandya, and J. C. Maida. "Applications of Capturing Human Motion in a Virtual Reality System," Proc., 13th Annual Meeting of the Houston Soc. for Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX, 1995.
Loftin, R. B. "Hands Across the Atlantic," Virtual Reality Special Report 3.2 (1996): 39-41.
Loftin, R. B. and P. Kenney. "Training the Hubble Space Telescope Flight Team," IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications 15.5 (1995): 31-37.
Pandya, A. K., L. Hancock, D. Morgan, and J. C. Maida. "Analysis of Human Posture Using a Strength Model and a Virtual Environment," Proc., 14th Annual Houston Conf. on Biomedical Engineering Research.
Pandya, A. K., L. Hancock, and J. C. Maida. "Analysis of Human Motion Using the Strength Model in a Virtual Environment," (unpublished).
Salzman, M., C. Dede, and R. B. Loftin. "Usability and Learning in Educational Virtual Realities," Proc., Human Factors and Ergonomics Soc. 39th Annual Meeting San Diego, CA, Oct. 9-13, 1995. 1: 486-90.

G. Ron Chen
Chen, G. R. and D. Zhang. "Back-Driving a Truck with Suboptimal Distance Trajectories: A Fuzzy Logic Control Approach," IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems, 1995. (Accepted for publication.)
Chen, G. R. and D. Zhang. "Backing a Truck-Trailer with Suboptimal Distance Trajectories," Proc., FUZZ-IEEE Conf., New Orleans, LA, Sept. 8-11, 1996.
Chen, G. R., G. Chen and S. H. Hsu. Linear Stochastic Control Systems, CRC Pub., 1995.
Malki, H. A., D. Feigenspan, D. Misir, and Chen, G. R. "Fuzzy PID Control of a Flexible-Joint Robot Arm with Uncertainties from Time-Varying Loads," IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, 1996. (Submitted for publication.)
Malki, H. A., G. R. Chen, and S. Hou. "A New Approach to Automatic PID Tuning: The Large Zeta Tuning Method," ASEE Technology Journal. (Submitted for publication.)
Misir, D., H. A. Malki, and G. R. Chen. "Design and Analysis of Fuzzy PID Controllers," Int'l J. Fuzzy Sets and Systems 79 (1996): 297-314.
Sooraksa, P. and G. R. Chen. "Mathematical Modeling of a Flexible Robot Arm," Proc., IEEE Int'l Conf. on Control Appl., Dearborn, MI, Sept. 15-18, 1996.
Sooraksa, P. and G. R. Chen. "Fuzzy PI+D Control for Flexible Robot Arms," Proc., IEEE Int'l Conf. on Control Appl., Dearborn, MI, Sept. 15-18, 1996.

Albert M. K. Cheng
Chen, J. -R. and A. M. K. Cheng. "Response Time Analysis of EQL Real-Time Rule-Based Systems," IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering 7.1 (1995): 26-43.
Cheng, A. M. K. "Fault-Tolerant EQL and MRL Rule-Based Programs," 2nd World Conf. on Integrated Design and Process Technology (IDPT), Austin, Texas, Dec. 1996. (Scheduled for publication.)
Cheng, A. M. K. "Formal Complexity Measurement of OPS5 Rule-Based Programs," IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, Sept. 1996. (Submitted for publication.)
Cheng, A. M. K. "Measuring the Structural Complexity of OPS5 Rule-Based Programs," Proc., 20th IEEE-CS Computer Software and Applications Conf., Seoul, Korea, Aug. 1996. (Scheduled for publication.)
Cheng, A. M. K. "Self-Stabilizing Real-Time Rule-Based Systems," IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, 1996. (Submitted for publication.)
Cheng, A. M. K. and C. -Y. Wang. "Increasing Rule-Based System Parallelism via Look-Ahead Conflict Resolution and Synchronization Minimization," IEEE Trans. on Computers, 1996. (Submitted for publication.)
Cheng, A. M. K. and H. -Y. Tsai. "Timing Analysis of OPS5 Expert Systems," IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, 1996. (Scheduled for publication.)
Cheng, A. M. K. and J. -R. Chen. "Response Time Analysis of OPS5 Production Systems," IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 1995. (Submitted for publication.)
Cheng, A. M. K. and Q. Zhou. "Parallel RTCTL Model Checking on the KSR Multiprocessors," Proc., 11th IEEE-CS Int'l Parallel Processing Symp., Sept. 1996. (Submitted for publication.)
Cheng, A. M. K. and X. Gu. "Improving the I/O Performance of Real-Time Database Systems with Multiple-Disk Storage Structures," Proc., 25th Intl. Conf. on Parallel Processing I (1996): 204-11.
Cheng, A. M. K. and X. Huang. "An Imprecise Real-Time Video Transmission Algorithm," Proc., Int'l Computer Science Conf., Hong Kong, Dec. 1995.
Cheng, A. M. K. and X. Huang. "Improving Real-Time Image and Video Transmission with Imprecise Algorithms," IEEE Trans. on Computers, 1995. (Submitted for publication.)
Huang, X. and A. M. K. Cheng. "Applying Imprecise Computation Algorithms to Real-Time Image and Video Transmission," Proc., IEEE-CS Real-Time Technology and Applications Symp. (1995): 96-101.
Jiang, F. and A. M. K. Cheng. "A Context Switch Reduction Technique for Real-Time Task Synchronization," ACM Trans. on Computer Systems, 1996. (Submitted for publication.)
Lee, P. -Y. and A. M. K. Cheng. "Reducing Match Time Variance in Production Systems with HAL," 1996. (Submitted for publication.)
Lee, T. and A. M. K. Cheng. "Multiprocessor Scheduling of Independent Hard-Real-Time Periodic Tasks with Task Migration Constraints," Proc., IEEE-CS Workshop on Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, Dec. 1994.
Nguyen, L. N. and A. M. K. Cheng. "An Imprecise Real-Time Image Magnification Algorithm," Proc., Int'l Symp. on Multimedia Systems, Yokohama, Japan, Mar. 1996.
Wang, C. -Y. and A. M. K. Cheng. "Increasing Production System Parallelism via Synchronization Minimization and Look-Ahead Conflict Resolution," Proc., 24th Int'l Conf. on Parallel Processing III (1995): 85-92.
Wong, C. and A. M. K. Cheng. "An Approach for Imprecise Transmission of TIFF Image Files Through Congested Real-Time ATM Networks," 1996. (Submitted for publication.)
Zupan, B. and A. M. K. Cheng. "Optimization of Rule-Based Systems Using State Space Graphs," IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering (1996). (Scheduled for publication.)
Zupan, B., A. M. K. Cheng, and M. Bohanec. "Stability Analysis of Real-Time Systems: Porting Crisp Methods to Fuzzy," Electrotechnical Review: J. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 62.3-4 (1995): 163-70.
Zupan, B., A. M. K. Cheng, and M. Bohanec. "Static Stability Analysis Method for Fuzzy Rule-Chaining Real-Time Systems," Proc., IFAC Conf. on Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control, Slovenia, Nov. 1995.

David R. Criswell
Criswell, D. R. and R. G. Thompson. "Data Envelopment Analysis of Space and Terrestrially-Based Large Scale Commerical Power Systems for Earth: A Prototype Analysis of Their Relative Economic Advantages, Solar Energy," Special issue on Power from Space. Ed. P. Glaser, Elsevier Sc. Ltd, Pergamon, 56.1(1996): 119-31.
Criswell, D. R. "Lunar-Solar Power System: Need, Concept, Pay-offs, Challenges," IEEE Potentials (1996): 4-7.
Criswell, D. R. "The Moon and Commerical Solar-Electric Power," in Power Technology International. Ed. A. Tucker, London, 1997. [In press.]
Criswell, D. R. "Lunar Solar Power System: Scale and Cost versus Technology Level, Boot-Strapping, and Cost of Earth-to-Orbit Transport," 46th Congress of the Int'l Astronautical Federation (IAF). Oslo, Norway Oct. 2-6, 1995.
Criswell, D. R. "Lunar Solar Power System: Review of the Technology Base of an Operational LSP System," 47th Congress of the Int'l Astronautical Federation (IAF), Beijing, China, Oct. 5-11, 1996.
Thompson, R. G. and D. R. Criswell. "Lunar Solar Power Productivity Potential: A Prototype Analysis," Proc. 12th Symp. on Space and Nuclear Power, Part 2 (1995): 965-71.
Thompson, R. G., E. A. Waltz, D. R. Criswell, P. S. Dharmapala, and R. M. Thrall. "Lunar Solar Power Initiative U. S. Economic Growth Potential Using DEA/AR Methods," The Institute of Management Sciences TIMS Interfaces. (Submitted for publication.)

George E. Fox
Pitulle, C., K. O. F. Hedenstierna, and G. E. Fox. "Artificial Stable RNAs: A Novel Approach for Monitoring Genetically Engineered Microorganisms," Appl. Env. Micro. 61 (1995): 3661-66.
Pitulle, C., K. O. F. Hedenstierna, and G. E. Fox. "Useful Properties of Restriction Enzymes that Recognize Interrupted Palindromes," Bio. Techniques 21 (1996). (In press.)
Pitulle, C, L. D. Souza, and G. E. Fox. "A Low Molecular Weight Artificial RNA of Unique Size with Multiple Probe Target Regions," Syst. Appl. Microbiol. (1996). (In press.)
Setterquist, R. A. and G. E. Fox. "Dictyocaulus viviparus: Nucleotide Sequence of Dv3-14," Int'l J. Parasitology 25 (1995): 137-38.
Setterquist, R. A., G. K. Smith, R. Jones, and G. E. Fox. "Diagnostic Probes Targeting the Major Sperm Protein Gene May be Useful for the Molecular Identification of Nematodes," J. Hematology (1996). (In press.)
Setterquist, R. A., G. K. Smith, T. H. Oakley, Y. -H. Lee, and G. E. Fox. "Sequence, Overproduction and Purification of Vibrio proteolyticus Ribosomal Protein L18 for in vitro and in vivo Studies," Gene (1996). (In press.)
Smith, G. K. and G. E. Fox. "Insights to Primitive Replication Derived from Structures of Small Oligonucleotides," Microbiologia SEM 11 (1995): 215-22.
Smith, G. K., J. Ji, G. E. Fox, and X. Gao. "DNA CTG Triplet Repeats Involved in Dynamic Mutations of Neurologically Related Gene Sequences form Stable Duplexes," Nucleic Acids Res. 23 (1995): 4303-11.
Yang, Y. and G. E. Fox. "An Archaebacterial 5S rRNA Analog is Stably Expressed in Escherichia coli," Gene 168 (1996): 81-85.

Karolos M. Grigoriadis
Beran, E, and K. M. Grigoriadis. "Combined Alternating Projection and Semidefinite Programming Algorithms for Fixed-Order Control Design," Proc., 13th Int'l Federation of Automatic Control World Congress, San Francisco, CA, June 1996.
Grigoriadis, K. M., and J. Watson. "HI Filtering via Linear Matrix Inequalities," Proc., 13th Int'l Federation of Automatic Control World Congress, San Francisco, CA, June 1996.
Grigoriadis, K. M. and J. Watson. "Reduced-Order HI Filtering," IEEE Trans. of Aerospace and Electronic Systems. (Submitted for publication.)
Mayzus, A. Integrated Structural/Control Design via Iterative Redesign, M. S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Houston, Aug. 1996.
Mayzus, A. and K. M. Grigoriadis. "Performance Bounded Integrated Structural and Control Design via Linear Matrix Inequalities," 15th Int'l Modal Analysis Conf., Orlando, FL, Feb. 1997. (Scheduled for publication.)
Mayzus, A. and K. M. Grigoriadis. "Robust Integrated Structural and Control Design for Vector Second-Order Systems via LMIs," 1997 Am. Control Conf. (Submitted for publication.)

Thomas J. Hebert
Gopal, S. S. and T. J. Hebert. "Bayesian Image Segmentation using Spatially-Variant Finite Mixtures and the Generalized EM Algorithm," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 1996. (Submitted for publication.)
Gopal, S. S. and T. J. Hebert. "Pre-Reconstruction Restoration of SPECT Projection Images Using a Neural Network," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 41.4 (1994): 1620-25.
Hebert, T. J. et al. "Design of an Automated Algorithm for Labeling the Cardiac Blood Pool in Gate SPECT Images of Radio-Labeled Red Blood Cells," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. (Accepted for publication.)
Hebert, T. J. and K. Lu. "Expectation Maximization Algorithms, Null Spaces, and MAP Image Restoration," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing 4.8 (1995): 1084-95.
Hebert, T. J. et al. "A Fully Automated Optimization Algorithm for Determining the 3-D Patient Contour from Photo-Peak Projection Data in SPECT," IEEE Trans. Med. Imag. 14.1(1995): 122-37.
Hebert, T. J. and D. Malagre. "An Optimization Approach to Edge Detection," J. Optical Soc. of Amer. A 11.1 (1994): 80-88.
Hebert, T. J. and S. S. Gopal. "Maximum Likelihood Pre-Processing for Improved Filtered Backprojection Reconstructions," J. Comp. Assisted Tomography 18.2 (1994): 283-92.
Zhuang, W. et al. "Numerical Evaluation of Methods for Computing Tomographic Projections," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 41.4 (1994): 1660-65.

Ben H. Jansen
Jansen, B. H. and H. N. Nyberg. "Measuring the Similarity Between Trajectories using Clustering Techniques," Chaos 3.2 (1993): 143-51.
Markusson, O. " Similarity Measures and Algorithms for Nonlinear Systems Identification," M. S. Thesis, Univ. of Houston, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aug. 1995.
Mavrofrides, D. C. " Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis of Pre- and Post-Flight EMG," M. S. Thesis, Univ. of Houston, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dec. 1996.

Heidar A. Malki
Kenarangui, R., I. Hassanzadeh, and H. A. Malki. "A FLN Artificial Neural Network Based Fuzzy Controller for Generator Excitation Control," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, 1996. (Submitted for publication.)
Malki, H. A., J. L. Baldwin, and A. Khwari. "Estimating Permeability using Neural Networks in Thinly Bedded Shaly Gas Sands," SPE Computer Applications (April 1996): 58-62.
Malki, H. A., G. R., Chen, and S. Hou. "A New Approach to Automatic PID Tuning: The Large Zeta Tuning Method," ASEE Technology Journal. (Submitted for publication.)
Malki, H. A., D. Feigenspan, D. Misir, and G. R. Chen. "Fuzzy PID Control of a Flexible-Joint Robot Arm with Uncertainties from Time-Varying Loads," IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, 1996. (Submitted for publication.)
Misir, D., H. A. Malki, and G. R. Chen. "Design and Analysis of Fuzzy PID Controllers," Int'l J. Fuzzy Sets and Systems 79 (1996): 297-314.

Stephen E. Morse
Morse, S. E., B. Jiang, B. G. Morse, and T. Aye. "Changes in AC/A Ratio Among Symptomatic Virtual Reality Users," Optometry and Vision Science (1996). (Submitted for publication.)

Russell G. Thompson
Criswell, D. R. and R. G. Thompson. "Data Envelopment Analysis of Space and Terrestrially-Based Large Scale Commercial Power Systems for Earth," Solar Energy 56.1 (1996): 119-31.
Thompson, R. G. and D. R. Criswell. "Lunar Solar Power Productivity Potential: A Prototype Analysis," Proc. 12th Symp. on Space and Nuclear Power, Part 2 (1995): 965-71.
Thompson, R. G., E. A. Waltz, P. S. Dharmapala, and R. M. Thrall. "Linked-Cone Profit Ratio Estimates of Total Factor Productivity Growth," Advances in Computational Economics Special Issue, Computational Approaches to Economic Problems, Kluwer Acad. Publishers. (Scheduled for publication.)
Thompson, R. G., E. A. Waltz, D. R. Criswell, P. S. Dharmapala, and R. M. Thrall. "Lunar Solar Power Initiative U. S. Economic Growth Potential Using DEA/AR Methods," The Institute of Management Sciences TIMS Interfaces. (Submitted for publication.)

John C. Watson
Watson, J. C. "Interfacing UNIX Relational Database Management Systems to the World Wide Web/Internet," Engineering and Architecture Symp., Feb. 5-6, 1996.
Watson, J. C. "Simulation of a Medium Voltage Substation Distribution Circuit for Power Line Carrier Communication System Applications," IEEE Proc., Generation, Transmission, and Distribution. (Submitted for publication.)
Watson, J. C. "Spread Spectrum SCADA Communication Systems for Energy Management," Engineering and Architecture Symp., Jan. 30-31, 1995.
Watson, J. C. "A UNIX Bourne Shell Interface for Parts Database Conversions," Information Systems Incorporating Database Technology. (Submitted for publication.)

William R. Widger
Magyar, A., X. Zhang, H. Kohn, and W. R. Widger. "The Antibiotic Bicyclomycin Affects the Secondary RNA Binding Site of Escherichia coli Transcription Termination Factor rho," J. Biol. Chem.271 (1996). (In press.)
Park, H. -G., A. Zwiefka, W. R. Widger, and H. Kohn. "Bicyclomycin and Dihydrobicyclo-mycin Inhibition Kinetics of E. coli rho Dependent Transcription Termination Factor ATPase Activity," Biochemica et Biophysica Acta. 323 (1995): 447-54.
Park, H.-G., X. Zhang, W. R. Widger, and H. Kohn. "Role of the C(1) Triol Group in Bicyclomycin: Synthesis and Biochemical and Biological Properties," J. Org. Chem. (1996). (In press.)
Park, H. -G., Z. Zhang, X. Zhang, W. R. Widger, and H. Kohn. "Role of the C(5)-C(5a)Exomethylene Group in Bicyclomycin: Synthesis, Structure, and Biochemical Properties," J. Org Chem. (1996). (In press.)
Samartzidou, H., F. Abdi, W. Ford and W. R. Widger. "Towards a Cosmid Derived Physical Map of the Synechococcu PCC 7002 Genome," in Bacterial Genomes: Physical Structure and Analysis. Ed. F. J. deBruijn, J. R. Lupski, and G. Weinstock. N. Y.: Chapman & Hall, 1996. (In press.)
Santillan, A., H. G. Park, X. Zhang, O. -S. Lee, W. R. Widger, and H. Kohn. "The Role of the [4.2.2] Bicyclic Unit in Bicyclomycin: Synthesis Structure, Chemical Biochemical and Biological Properties," J. Org. Chem. (In press.)
Widger, W. R., C. Xiangxing and H. Samartzidou. "The Physical Genome Map of Synechococcus PCC 7002," in Bacterial Genomes: Physical Structure and Analysis. Ed. F. J. deBruijn, J. R. Lupski, and G. Weinstock. N. Y.:Chapman & Hall, (1996). (In press.)

Larry C. Witte
Bousman, W. S., L. C. Witte, and J. B. McQuillen. "Gas-Liquid Flow Patterns in Microgravity: Effects of Tube Diameter, Liquid Viscosity and Surface Tension," Int'l J. Multiphase Flow (1996). (In press.)
Fore, L. B., L. C. Witte, and J. B. McQuillen. "Heat Transfer to Annular Gas-Liquid Mixtures at Reduced Gravity," J. Thermophysics and Heat Transfer (1996). (In press.)
Fore, L. B., L. C. Witte, and J. B. McQuillen. "Thermal Hydraulics of Two Phase Slug Flow under Reduced Gravity," Int'l J. Multiphase Flow (1996). (In press.)
Taitel, Y. and L. C. Witte. "The Role of Surface Tension in Microgravity Slug Flow," Chemical Engineering Science 51.5 (1996): 695-700.

David C. Zimmerman
James, G. H., D. P. Roach, B. D. Hansche, R. Meza, Jr., N. A. Robinson. "Health Monitoring Studies on Composite Structures for Aerospace Applications," Proc., 5th ASCE Int'l Conf. on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space, Albuquerque, NM, June 1-6, 1996. 1127-32.
James, G. H., D. C. Zimmerman, and T. Cao. "Damage Identification Studies on Composite Aerospace Structures," AIAA J. Guidance, Dynamics, and Control. (Submitted for publication.)