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PUBLICATIONS: Papers, Thesis and Dissertations

Papers:

• “ A Cross-layer Design Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks with Environmental Monitoring Applications ”
  Y. Qian, K. Lu, D. Rodriguez, W. Rivera, M. Rodriguez
  Accepted for publication at Journal of Communication Software and Systems.
• “ A solutionware for hyperspectral imaging and analysis ”
  M. Velez-Reyes, W. Rivera-Gallego, and L. O. Jimenez-Rodriguez
  Chapter Book in High Performance Computing in Remote Sensing
  Editor(s) - Antonio J Plaza, Chein-I Chang, Chapman and Hall/CR, 2007.
• “A Grid based weather data radar retrieval and processing framework ”
  D. Arias, J. Sanabria, and W. Rivera
  IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2007.
• “Grid Based Pervasive Distributed Storage ”
  D. Arias, J. Sanabria and W. Rivera
  IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC), 2007
• “Editorial: Special Issue on Adaptive Grid Middleware ”
  T. Kielmann and W. Rivera
  Concurrency & Computation: Practice & Experience, Vol. 18, No. 13, 2006
• “Grid Portal Development for Sensing Data Retrieval and Processing ”
  D. Arias, M. Mendoza, F. Cintron, K. Cruz, and W. Rivera
  IEEE/ACM Second International Workshop on Grid Computing Environments (GCE06), Supercomputing 2006
• “Using Grid Computing to Enable Distributed Radar Data Retrieval and Processing ”
  D. Arias and W. Rivera
  IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT),2006
• “Parallel Implementation of an Inversion Model for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing ”
  C. Gerardino, Y. Rivera, J. Goodman, and W. Rivera
  49th IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS'06).
• “An Adaptive Quality of Service Based Scheduling Algorithm for Wide Area Large Scale Problems ”
  W. Lozano and W. Rivera
  IEEE International Conference on Network Computing and Applications, 2006.
• “Petri net workflow modeling for digital publishing measuring quantitative attributes ”
  G. Chaparro, N.G. Santiago, W. Rivera, and J.F. Vega
  IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC'06), 2006
• “The PDCLab Grid Testbed at UPRM ”
  K. Cruz, J. Sanabria, F. Cintron, and W. Rivera
  Fourth LACCEI International Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology (LACCET'2006), 2006.
• “ A Service Oriented Architecture Grid Based Environment for Hyperspectral Imaging Analysis. ”
  W. Rivera, C. Carvajal, and W. Lugo,
  International Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 11 No. 4, p. 104-111, 2005.
• “Grid-HSI: Using Grid Computing to Enable Hyperspectral Imaging Analysis.”
  C. Carvajal-Jimenez, W. Lugo-Beauchamp, K. Cruz, and W. Rivera
  Proc. Third IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology, p. 583-588, 2004
• “Performance of Hyperspectral Imaging Algorithms on IA-64.”
  W. Lugo-Beauchamp, C. Carvajal-Jimenez and W. Rivera,
  Proc. IASTED International Conference on Circuits, Signals, and Systems, p. 327-332, 2004
• “An efficient parallel algorithm with application to computational fluid dynamics.”
  W. Rivera, J. Zhu, and D. Huddleston,
  Journal of Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 45: 165-188, 2003.
• “Stability analysis of numerical boundary conditions in domain decomposition algorithms.”
  W. Rivera,
  Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation, 137: 375-385, 2003.
• “Mapping and characterization of applications in heterogeneous distributed systems.”
  J. Yeckle and W. Rivera,
  Proc.7 th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI2003).
• “An object-oriented framework for computational fluid dynamic simulations.”
  F. Perez and W.Rivera,
  Proc. International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Technology and Applications, 2003.
• “CompuGe: A computational geometry learning environment.” 
  W. Rivera,
  Proc. IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE2003).
• “ An efficient parallel algorithm for solving unsteady equations. "
  W. Rivera, J. Zhu, and D. Huddleston,
  Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics: Practice and Theory, P. Wilders, A. Ecer, J. Periaux, N. Satofuka, and P. Fox Eds. 293 - 300, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 2002.
• “Scalable parallel genetic algorithms.”
  W. Rivera,
  Artificial Intelligence Review, 16(2): 153-168, 2001.
• “An efficient parallel algorithm for solving unsteady nonlinear equations.”
  W. Rivera, J. Zhu, and D. Huddleston,
  Proc. International Conference on Parallel Processing, IEEE Computer Society, 2001, pp. 79-84.
• “Parallel performance investigation of a domain decomposition algorithm.”
  W. Rivera, J. Zhu, and D. Huddleston,
  Proc. Tenth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing,  SIAM Portsmouth, Virginia, 2001.

Thesis and Dissertations:

• A Framework for Dynamic Scheduling Based on Quality of Service Metrics
  Wilson E. Lozano-Rolon
  Thesis Master of Science in Computer Engineering, July 2006
• Petri Net Workflow Modeling for Digital Publishing Measuring Quantitative Dependability Attributes
  Gustavo A. Chaparro-Baquero
  Thesis Master of Science in Computer Engineering, July 2006
• Style-dependent Artifact Recognition for Digital Variable Data printing
  Hector J. Santos-Villalobos
  Thesis Master of Science in Computer Engineering, July 2005
• Using Grid Computing to Enable Hyperspectral Imaging Analysis
  Carmen Liliana Carvajal-Jimenez
  Thesis Master of Science in Computer Engineering, December 2004
• Parallelization of Hyperspectral Imaging Classification and Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms
  Wilfredo E. Lugo-Beauchamp
  Thesis Master of Science in Computer Engineering, December 2004

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