Systems

Panoptyk: information driven MMO engine

foaad — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 01:54:03 +0000

Panoptyk: information driven MMO engine

foaad Sun, 08/14/2022 - 18:54

Authorship

Mitchell Miller, Sean Mendonca, Nathan Philliber and Foaad Khosmood

Publication

Foundations of Digital Games

Poster or Panel Discussion

Location

San Luis Obispo, California

Monday, August 26, 2019 - 12:00

Tags

ACM DL

Abstract

Project Panoptyk is a game engine designed to run Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) games with information creation, sharing, and exchange as the central gameplay focus. This engine is a work in progress, intended to serve as a platform for simulating human/robot interaction, as well as automatic generation of game assets, quests, and real-estate. The project also aims to create an open platform allowing indie and research communities to experiment with MMO concepts.

FDG_2019 Panoptyk Poster.pdf

Gaining efficiency in human assisted transcription and speech annotation in legislative proceedings

foaad — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 01:47:08 +0000

Gaining efficiency in human assisted transcription and speech annotation in legislative proceedings

foaad Sun, 08/14/2022 - 18:47

Authorship

Thorsten Ruprechter, Foaad Khosmood, Toshihiro Kuboi, Alex Dekhtyar and Christian Gütl

Publication

Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age

Poster or Panel Discussion

Location

Delft, Netherlands

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - 12:00

Tags

ACM DL

Abstract

We present a study using the Digital Democracy transcription tool. Human transcribers work to up-level and annotate California state legislative proceedings using the tool. Four phases of UI and functionality improvements are introduced and for each phase, the resulting change in efficiency is measured and presented.

Gaining efficiency Poster-DGO 2018.pdf

Exploring Reporter-Desired Features for an AI-Generated Legislative News Tip Sheet

foaad — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 00:47:21 +0000

Exploring Reporter-Desired Features for an AI-Generated Legislative News Tip Sheet foaad Sun, 08/14/2022 - 17:47

Authorship

Patrick Howe, Christine Robertson, Lindsay Grace and Foaad Khosmood

Publication

International Society of Online Journalists Journal Special Issue Theme: AI and the News

Journal

Friday, April 1, 2022 - 12:00

Tags

ISOJ

Abstract

This research concerns the perceived need for and benefits of an algorithmically generated, personalizable tip sheet that could be used by journalists to improve and expand coverage of state legislatures. This study engaged in two research projects to understand if working journalists could make good use of such a tool and, if so, what features and functionalities they would most value within it. This study also explored journalists’ perceptions of the role of such tools in their newswork.

Deconstructing Human Assisted Video Transcription and Annotation for Legislative Proceedings

foaad — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 00:40:12 +0000

Deconstructing Human Assisted Video Transcription and Annotation for Legislative Proceedings foaad Sun, 08/14/2022 - 17:40

Authorship

Thorsten Ruprechter, Foaad Khosmood and Christian Gütl

Publication

Journal of Digital Government: Research and Practice

Journal

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - 12:00

Tags

ACM DL

Abstract

Legislative proceedings present a rich source of multidimensional information that is crucial to citizens and journalists in a democratic system. At present, no fully automated solution exists that is capable of capturing all the necessary information during such proceedings. Even if professional-quality automated transcriptions existed, other tasks such as speaker or rhetorical position identifications are not fully automatable. This work focuses on improving and evaluating the transcription software used by the Digital Democracy initiative, named Transcription Tool.

PIDIoT: Probabilistic Intrusion Detection for the Internet-Of-Things

foaad — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 19:58:11 +0000

PIDIoT: Probabilistic Intrusion Detection for the Internet-Of-Things foaad Sun, 08/14/2022 - 12:58

Authorship

Max Zinkus, Bruce DeBruhl and Foaad Khosmood

Publication

IEEE Globecom

Conference

Location

Waikoloa, Hawaii

Sunday, December 1, 2019 - 12:00

Tags

Github

Abstract

The Internet-of-things promises sweeping change through increased connectivity and ubiquitous integration of technology into our lives. However, as we create economies of scale for data aggregation and processing, we also create attractive targets for various adversaries. In this work we design a lightweight, probabilistic intrusion detection system, or PIDIoT. We design PIDIoT to use operational measurements from IoT devices, with lightweight hash functions and Bloom filters to perform fuzzy anomaly detection.

PolyFS: An Extensible, Underspecified, Pedagogical File System and Disk Emulator

foaad — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 03:51:13 +0000

PolyFS: An Extensible, Underspecified, Pedagogical File System and Disk Emulator foaad Sat, 02/15/2014 - 19:51

Authorship

Foaad Khosmood and Phillip L. Nico

Publication

American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference

Conference

Location

Riverside, California

Monday, April 1, 2013 - 12:00

Tags

Systems

ASEE-PSW-2013 Proceedings

Abstract

In recent years, teaching file systems at the undergraduate level has become increasingly challenging. File systems, while essential to most computer systems, are almost never offered as an exclusive required course for a computer science curriculum. The topic is usually taught as part of a course on operating systems (OS), along with other introductory topics such as process management, scheduling, concurrency, deadlocks, distributed processing and multiprocessing.