Dr. Graciela González

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics

Email: csc_ghg@shsu.edu  Phone: (936)294-1591

 

 

Current Classes and other Projects
Summer 2005 CS 164 Introduction to Programming Using C++ (T Th)
CS 165 Programing Algorithms and Data Structures
CCSC:SC 2006 Conference

Office Hours
Summer 2005

Lee Drain Bldg (LDB) 435

MW 9-10 am

3-5pm in AB1215

Others by appointment
 
Research Interests
My main research interests include visualization and modeling of multimedia information, particularly of information extracted from databases, human-computer interaction, theories of actions, agents, and temporal logic. As an offspring of my previous work, I have started research on web modeling, web services, and applications of intelligent software agents on the web.
 
Biographical Outline
Dr. Graciela Gonzalez joined the faculty of SHSU in the Fall of 2001. She received a Master of Science in Computer Science degree in 1994, and a Ph.D in Computer Science in December, 2000, both from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). On her Dissertation she presented a display specification language based on SQL that allows for the specification of complex multimedia displays and temporal presentations to be included using simple SQL-like instructions in the query itself. She also presented the syntax and semantics of a new non-Markovian action language used to model the display specification language.
During the course of her studies, she started teaching classes at UTEP, and was actively involved in reviewing five Master Thesis based on the display specification language subject of her dissertation. She was the main author to published papers in prestigious conferences such as ACM Multimedia ’98, IEEE’s ICDE ’98 and ICMCS ’99, and co-author to a paper published in the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications. She also reviewed the book Principles Of Multimedia Database Systems, Solutions Manual by V.S. Subrahmanian, published by Morgan Kaufman in 1998.
At the same time, from 1991 through 1996, she worked full time as Software Engineer and then Project Leader at EDM International, in charge of 5 Software Engineers. There she did development for Candle Corp., and later designed and oversaw development of a high-volume electronic imaging system, capable of controlling the flow of over 250,000 images per day for image enhancement, automatic character recognition, and manual entry by hundreds of operators. She also worked in upper management and technological development for the corporate offices of Ingles Individual, an English School franchise, for 4 years, concentrating on development of interactive educational resources, computer-aided video production, and web development.
Dr. Gonzalez's main research interests include multimedia databases, human-computer interaction and Intelligent Interfaces, theories of actions, agents, and temporal logic. As an offspring of her previous work, she has started research on the relatively new fields of Web Semantics and modeling, Web Services, and the application of intelligent software agents on the web.
 
Publications

Gonzalez, G., Baral, C., and Gelfond, M. "Alan: An Action Language for Non-Markovian Domains", accepted for publication in the International Journal for Symbolic Logic (Studia Logica), February 2005..

Graciela Gonzalez, Md Galibur Rahman, "Modelling of Multimedia Presentations with non-Markovian Conditions" Proceedings of the International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (MIS 2004), College Park, MD , USA, August 25 - 27, 2004.

Gonzalez, G. “Constructivism in an Introduction to Programming Course”, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 19, Number 4, April 2004.

Gonzalez, G., Baral, C., and Gelfond, M. "Alan: An Action Language for Modelling Multimedia Presentations Using Non-Markovian Domains",  IJCAI-03 Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action, and Change (NRAC'03), August 2003.

Gonzalez, G., Dalal, G. "Generating Graphs and Charts from Database Queries using SVG", W3C's 2nd Annual Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics, SVG Open 2003, Vancouver, CA, July 2003.

Gonzalez, G.  “Constructivism, Group Work, and Epistemic Games to Enrich an Introduction to Programming Class” (Research Poster Presentation, ACM’s SIGCSE Conference 2003, Reno, NV).

Gonzalez, G., Baral, C., and Cooper, P. “Modeling Multimedia Displays Using Action Based Temporal Logic”, The Sixth IFIP Working Conference on Visual Database Systems VDB6, Brisbane, Australia, May 2002. (PDF 216KB)

Baral, C., Gonzalez, G., "Using Virtual Reality to Display Answers to Multimedia Queries",in Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems 1999 (ICMCS ‘99), IEEE, Florence, Italy, 1999.

Baral, C., Gonzalez, G.,  Nandigam, A., SQL+D: Extended Display Capabilities for Multimedia Database Queries - , Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference, 1998.

Baral, C., Gonzalez, G.,  Reddy, R., "A multimedia display extension to SQL: Language Design and Architecture"in IEEE's International Conference in Data Engineering 1998 (ICDE 98).

Baral, C., Gonzalez, G., and Son, T., "Conceptual modeling and querying in multimedia databases",  in Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, p. 37-66, 1998.

Gonzalez, G. "Intervals Help to Design an Imaging System,", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, Vol. 4, No. 1.

Baral, C., Gonzalez, G., and Son, T., "Issues in Querying Multimedia Databases", 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, 1996.
 
Professional Involvement

Oct 2002. Attended the 8th Multimedia Information Systems Workshop. Tempe, AZ.

 

Fall 2002. Faculty Advisor to the Women and Minorities in Computer Science, SHSU Student Organization.

 

Spring 2002. Organized the First Software Engineering Expo at SHSU, where Senior Computer Science students showcased their projects and met with industry representatives.

 

May 2002. Served as reviewer for the special issue on "Conceptual and Dynamic Aspects of Multimedia Content Desrcirption" in the IEEE Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

 

Nov 2001. Attended the 7th Multimedia Information Systems Workshop. Capri, Italy.

 

Reviewed: Principles Of Multimedia Database Systems, Solutions Manual by V.S. Subrahmanian, published by Morgan Kaufman in 1998.
 

Classes Taught
Spring 2005 CS 164 01 Introduction to Programming Using C++ (T Th)
CS 164 02 Introduction to Programming in C++ (M W)
CS 165 Programing Algorithms and Data Structures

 
Fall 2004 CS 164 05 Introduction to Programming Using C++ (M W)
CS 164 06 Introduction to Programming in C++ (T Th)
CS 566 Database Systems
 

Summer I 2004

CS 164 Introduction to Programming

CS 470 Object Oriented Development Visual Basic.NET (cacelled)
 
Spring 2004 CS 165 Programing Algorithms and Data Structures
CS 234 Introduction to Networking
CS 437 Software Engineering
CS 584 Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms
 
Fall 2003 CS 164 Introduction to Programming Using C++
CS 165 Programing Algorithms and Data Structures
CS 566 Database Systems
 

Summer I 2003

CS 164 Introduction to Programming

CS 470 Object Oriented Application Development Visual Basic.NET
 
Spring 2003 CS 165 Programing Algorithms and Data Structures
CS 437 Software Engineering
CS 584 Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms
 
Fall 2002 CS 164 Introduction to Programming Using C++
CS 165 Programing Algorithms and Data Structures
CS 566 Database Systems

Spring 2002

CS 164 Introduction to Programming Using C++

CS 437 Software Engineering

CS 584 Advanced Data Structures

Fall 2001

CS 164 Introduction to Programming Using C++

CS 566 Database Systems
 
Presentations
On Databse Theory and XML (PowerPoint)

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