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Information Systems and Technology Center


/ Hidesada Kanda / Professor
/ Gennadiy Nikishkov / Visiting Professor
/ Leo Nagamatsu / Associate Professor
/ Akira Fujitsu / Assistant Professor
/ Tongjun Huang / Research Associate

ISTC consists of the Information Processing Center and the University Library. ISTC's main purpose is to provide information services through computer facilities and library services.

  1. Besides providing regular services, IPC staff provided the following new supports during FY 1998.
  2. Concerning Library services, 2068 volumes Japanese Books, 1251 volumes Western Books, 154 Japanese Magazines, and 502 Western Magazines were purchased with 1998 regular budget.


Refereed Journal Papers

  1. Leo Nagamtsu., Statistics of User Access to the Campus Network through Dialup IP Ports. Academic Information Processing Environment Research, vol.2, pp.19--26, 1999.

    In the University of Aizu, Information Sysytems and Technology Center has provided a dialup IP connection service from public telephone lines, since the opening of our university (1993). Through this service, users can access to the campus computer system for 24 hours from home and outside of the university. But, there are some problems, such as (1) The number of ports is limited, and in peak hours all ports are occupied so that any new connection would not be accepted. (2) There is no reasoning to support such service by the university, if most users mainly access to the Internet (resources of outside). In this paper, we analyze current situation of usage for the dialup IP ports of our university, and discuss on the effective and fair service policy for usage of resources managed by the information processing center.

  2. Z. Cheng and T. Huang., An Extension of Committee Coordination Problem and Its Decentralized Solution. CHINESE JOURNAL OF ELECTRONICS, vol.7, No.4, pp.322--327, 1998.

    In this paper, we consider an extended committee coordination problem in an autonomous decentralized social environment. The conventional committee coordination problem and a distributed algorithm, as a solution to this problem in distributed environment, are presented by K.M.Chandy and J.Misra. The algorithm guarantees the synchronous and exclusion properties of the problem and is fair (i.e. starvation-free) and makes progress (i.e. deadlock-free). In an autonomous decentralized social environment, besides the above mentioned properties, some social properties.

    In this paper, we extend the committee coordination problem by introducing some social properties, such as individual preference and stable assignment and give a decentralized social algorithm as a solution to this extended problem. The algorithm guarantees not only the synchronous and exclusion properties but also individual preference and stable assignment properties.


Refereed Proceeding Papers

  1. Leo Nagmatsu and Daisuke Suwa., Searching Idly Running Processes on Workstations in Classroom. Proc. of DPS Workshop of SIG on Distributed Processing and Systems, pp.209--212, Information Processing Society of Japan, Nov. 1998.

    To establish an effective management system for computer cluster is important, both from educational and research viewpoint. In classroom workstations of our university, some hosts are heavyly loaded when no one has logged in. This load is mainly caused by idly running process. In educational situation, owner of these processes must be warned. In research view, tracing load behavior of each host is useful for distributed computing. The total number of classroom workstations is quite large, with many educational computer classrooms of our university. We studied to search idly running processes, and then report the result of searching experiments for those idly runnig processes.

  2. Leo Nagamatsu., Technology basis for the software development and evolution. Proc. of Workshop on Software Engineering in Kochi, pp.69--70, Sig on SE, Information Processing Society of Japan, Jan. 1998.

    This paper gives an overview of problems related to the method for constructing support framework for development and evolution of complex software systems. Especially for softwares which are constructed from modules, it is described from viewpoint of relation to existing software technology.

Unrefereed Papers

  1. Leo Nagamatsu, Takafumi Hayashi and Masahiro Akiba. Reports on Accesses to the Campus Network of the University of AIZU through Public Ports. Proc. of the Annual Conferrence on Education and Information Processing, pp.180--183, Ministry of Education, Oct. 1998.

    In our University, a dialup IP connection service from public telephone lines are supported. Users can access to the campus computer system for 24 hours from home and outside of the university. But, there are some problems of limited number of ports and no available ports in peak hours. For the basis of future facility plan, some statistics on the usage of dialup IP ports are reported and analyzed.

Grants

  1. Leo Nagamatsu., Advanced management scheme for University Computer Systems. Fukushima Prefectural Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Education, Research/Educational Project Support, 1998.

Academic Activities

  1. Tongjun Huang. A member of IEICE, 1998.

Others

  1. Naoki Wakamatsu., On the Performance of a Packet Capture Program for Network Traffic Analysis. The Univ. of Aizu, 1998, Thesis Advisor: L. Nagamatsu.

  2. Masayoshi Senzaki., A High Performance WWW Server Using Perl Modules. The Univ. of Aizu, 1998. Thesis Advisor: L. Nagamatsu.


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November 1999