1999 Final Year Projects Prof. Michael R. Lyu
Lyu9901: TravelNet Design a Web-based travel manager to reserve airplane tickets and hotel. A distributed system using database transaction and mobile agent techniques. Issues on data integrity and agent efficiency. Similar to Microsoft’s Expedia; HK specific. Final development in Java/CORBA platform.
Lyu9902: Wireless Campus Experiment on CSE’s newly established net-centric and wireless network. Evaluate wireless campus and architecture. Develop software and system infrastructure. Create wireless education contents and service accessing/enabling techniques. Design courseware in wireless environment.
A Wireless Demo Center
Internet-Centric Wireless Campus Internet-Centric Server Platform-Independent Middleware Distributed Component API (CORBA, DCOM, RMI) Thin-client devices Desktop PCs Notebook, palmtop, PDAs Education Application Education Application Education Application Wire/wireless connection
Lyu9903: Web Proxy Server Implement reliable, secure, and intelligent proxy server for web management. Allow accessing, caching, processing of Web contents and multimedia data. Develop special-purpose private network. Joint work with AT&T Research Lab. using their intelligent proxy system (iProxy).
Integrated Smart Proxy Server
Lyu9904: Digital Video Library Develop a multi-lingual digital video library for multimedia information capture, search, retrieval, summarization, and presentation. Robust indexing and retrieval of audio and video documents; cross-linking of multiple information streams (“multi-modal”); video segmentation; video extraction and display. Joint work with CMU’s Informedia project.
CMU Informdia Project
Image Segmentation and Summarization
Lyu9905: Multi-Agent Security Explore security issues for multi-agent distributed systems with E-commerce. Involve data encryption, authentication, firewall, and mobile agent techniques. Develop secure E-commerce applications. Design and evaluate security attack scenarios.
Read/manipulate properties; control execution Security Issues for Mobile Agents Read/manipulate (Other agents) Environment Malicious Host Agent System call