The Third New Zealand Computer Science Research Students' Conference Presentation's Programme

Wednesday 7th April

Full paper presentation, Session 1: 9:00am-10:20am
Chaired by David Bainbridge

• Brent Martin, Constraint-based student modeling: representing student knowledge
• Steven Mills, Graph-based object hypothesis
• Gordon Paynter, Familiar: automating repetition in common applications

• Bruce McKenzie, How to chose a research topic

• Yingying Wen, Chinese word segmentation
• Bin Meng, Collaborative work through the World Wide Web

• Richard Littin, Data and control speculative execution
• David McWha, Using timestamps to maintain causal dependencies
• Feng Gao, Improving MIB interoperability in network management
• Yuanhua Yu, Methods for evaluating cache performance

• Jacky Baltes, Time and project management as a graduate student

• Stuart Marshall , Using Dyno in Test Driving & Visualising Java Components
• Chu-Kuan Lin and Channa Rajanayaka, Simulation of stochastic ground water model
• Joe Prachuabmoh, Production strategies for a newspaper production

Thursday 8th April

Full paper presentations, Session 3: 9:00am-10:20am
Chaired by Steve Reeves

• Greg Reeve, Improving software using requirements formalisation
• Sasha Rubin, Finite Automata and well ordered sets
• Yong Wang, Clustering semi-parametric mixtures

• Sally Jo Cunningham, How to use a library effectively for research purposes

• David Ferry, Data communication issues in deployment of new Telecom services
• Mark Staveley, Using keyphrases in automatic hypertext generation

• Aaron Roydhouse, Discovering regularities in sequential data
• Stuart Yeates, Automatic extraction of acronyms from text
• Brendon Woodford, Analysing images of pest damage to apples using wavelets
• Burkhard Wunsche, The visualization of strain tensor fields

• Te Taka Keegan, He Tirohanga Ipurangi 1999: Mäori Language on the Internet

• Ian Witten, How to write to be published

Friday 9th April

Full paper presentations, Session 5: 9:00am-10:2 0am
Chaired by Tony McGregor

• Yuming Lin, Path-tracking control of non-holonomic car-like robot with reinforcement learning
• Simon McCallum, Mechanisms for memory consolidation
• Robin Otte, A fuzzy logic controller for non-holonomic vehicles

• Mark Hall, How to write a thesis