RAS-Group News (1999/2000) -- Leong Hon Wai

Leong Hon Wai, School of Computing, National University of Singapore

Current News for RAS-Group Projects

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Upcoming Events (as of 7-July-2000)

RAS-Group Meeting-with-Alumni Day (to be determined)

May-July Vacation 2000

(Vac Wk10) 03-08 Jul 2000

07 Jul 2000 (Fri) -- Project Tracking Meeting
- VRPS -- Second Round Expt Design (but report not ready yet) [Late: VSRP -- UROP Report Draft]
- iBAPS -- Absent [Very Late: Emergency Mode]
- RADS-PS -- Second Round Expt Results [Late: First Research Report Draft]
05 Jul 2000 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Seminar, 2-4pm @???
- Welcome Back: Shaofa, Zou Min, Yizhi
- Ibarakis Talk "Meta Heuristic Search as General Problem Solver"

(Vac Wk9) 26 Jun -- 01 Jul 2000

30 Jun 2000 (Fri) -- Project Tracking Meeting
- VRSP -- Second Round Evaluation Report
28 Jun 2000 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Seminar, 2-4pm @???
- Koong Jiann: IRAS Design and Structure
- Tuan Anh: Parameters in Insertion Algorithms for VRPS

(Vac Wk8) 19-24 Jun 2000

23 Jun 2000 (Fri) -- Project Tracking Meeting
- iBAPS -- Second Round Evaluation Report
- VRSP -- Suggested Improvements, Design&Impl Plan
- ALS -- Initial Project Plan -- Koong Jiann
- RADS-PS -- Second Round Evaluation Report
- Data-Analysi-Uing-VB -- by Francis (well done)
21 Jun 2000 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Seminar, 2-4pm @???
- Using EndNote for Biblography -- Foo Hee Meng
- RADS-PS Experimenation Results -- Foo Hee Meng
- VRPS Experiment Design -- TTA, LJH

(Vac Wk7) 12-17 Jun 2000

16 Jun 2000 (Fri) -- Project Tracking Meeting 2-4 @TR1
- iBAPS -- In progress
- VRSP -- Evaluation Report
- RADS-PS -- Results; (Suggested Improvements, Design&Impl Plan)
15 Jun 2000 (Thu) -- AGVS Demo, 4pm @MR2
14 Jun 2000 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Seminar, 2-4pm @TR1
- To be announced...
- To be announced...

(Vac Wk6) 05-10 Jun 2000

09 Jun 2000 (Fri) -- Project Tracking Meeting
- VRSP -- Expt-Design Plan
- RADS-PS -- Evaluation Report
- iBAPS -- No report yet (Evaluation Report)
07 Jun 2000 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Seminar, 2-4pm @???
- Supply Chain Management -- Tan Chiu Yang and Tan Gek Woo
- Inventory Routing Problem -- Lao Yizhi
- Prototype Review;
- Inventory Routing Problem -- Lao Yizhi

(Vac Wk5) 29 May -- 03 Jun 2000

02 Jun 2000 (Fri) -- Project Tracking Meeting []
- VRSP-TTA -- Data Managers ready;
- VRSP-LJH -- Data Managers ready; First Prototype;
- RADS-PS-HNL -- First Prototype; Expt-Design Plan
- RADS-PS-NHK -- First Prototype; Expt-Design Plan
- iBAPS -- First Prototype [No GUI], First Prototype [with simple GUI]
1 June 2000 (Thu) -- RAS-Group Seminar, 2:00pm @???
- Nisha to present iBAPS Solution Proposal
31 May 2000 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Seminar, 2-4pm @MR2
- "Meeting-cum Seminar on WAP" -- with CEO of DomL
30 May 2000 (Tue) -- Tuan Anh back from Vietnam;
ShuaiCheng to China; back 10-July

(Vac Wk4) 22-27 May 2000

26 May 2000 (Fri) -- Project Tracking Meeting [RADS, iBAPS, RADS-PS]
- VRSP -- Detailed Design Ready; (slightly behind) [--Data Managers ready]
- RADS-PS -- (Slightly behind) [--First Prototype]
- iBAPS -- (Needs a lot of work; in danger of EM (emerg mode)) [--First Prototype [with simple GUI]]
24 May 2000 (Wed) -- Visit from PSA, 2-4pm @MR1,SoC,NUS
- Talk and Demo on BAPS v2.0 -- LeongHW, David, HM
- Visitors: David Tan, Ku Liang Ping, Sherry

(Vac Wk3) 15-20 May 2000

19 May 2000 (Fri) -- Project Tracking Meetings [All?]
- VRSP -- Design of VRSP-Package (Comments: on schedule)
- iBAPS -- (Behind Schedule) [--Solution Engine Done [no GUI]]
17 May 2000 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Seminar, 2-4pm @???
- iBAPS -- Plane-Sweep Algorithm --- Nisha (Not Done)
- VRSP -- Solution Proposal Presentation --- JiangHong
Need to Schedule a Talk on RAS-Architecture
- Must Attend: LJH, OJC, NRC, NHK, Michael
- For now, see some un-organized sample high-level designs -- [ link ]

(Vac Wk2) 08-13 May 2000

12 May 2000 (Fri) -- Project Tracking Meetings [RADS-PS, iBAPS, VRSP, NCP]
- RADS-PS, iBAPS, VRSP -- Overall Project Plan Documents (Comment: On Schedule)
- RADS-PS, iBAPS -- Initial Design Documents (Comment: On Schedule)
10 May 2000 (Wed) -- Follow-up Meeting of Annual Review
- 2-4pm @SR2 (S15,L4)
- Present: LHW, OTW, FHM, LYZ, NHK, HNL, LSC, LJH, Michael
- Outcome: The RAS Review 2000 Doc
10 May 2000 -- BAPS News: Bug fix
- OTW+LHW fixed bug in BAPS-Packing
- Bug was with Multi-Section Packing of Unpackable Vessels fixed
- Details: Programming mistake -- Bad while loop
10 May 2000 -- BAPS News: Bug Report (porting problems)
- After porting BAPSv2.0 to the rp6488 account -- problems with running
- Still tracking -- Suspect problems with dynamic libraries.

(Vac Wk1) 01-06 May 2000 -- RAS Review Week

Weekend; Shaofa back to China; coming back 30-June
5 May 2000 (Fri) -- Annual Review RAS Group
- 9:00am -- 12nn @ SR4 (S17,L6)
- Participants: (Compulsory for Honours students and above; All are welcome.)
- Present: LHW, OTW, FHM, LYZ, NHK, YSF, ZM, HNL, LSC, NRC, LJH
- Outcome: The RAS Review 2000 Doc
4 May 2000 (Thu) -- Review of RAS Methodology
- 9:00am -- 12nn @ SR4 (S17,L6)
- Agenda --- Read ahead before the meeting.
- Participants: All RAS-Group members (compulsory for Honours students and above)
- Present: LHW, OTW, FHM, LYZ, NHK, YSF, ZM, HNL, LSC, YCL, LJH
- Outcome: The New RAS Methodology
06 May 2000 -- BAPS News: BAPS-v2.0a (with GUI) Phase 2 -- update from David
- More project files
- Offline packing works now -- Gergov still has problems
- Plot for Display (with scaling and all that)
- Can also call a Re-Pack with various packing parameters
04 May 2000 -- Good News: BAPS-v2.0a (with GUI) -- ready to run on sununx (by David)
- Phase 1 ready -- simple GUI, simple engine integration
- Not every parameter setting works properly
- Still some bugs -- esp with Packing paramter settings
- Side Note: Perl-Tk appears to fit the bill.
04 May 2000 -- BAP News: Shuaicheng announces approx alg results for
- on-line first fit algorithm
- off-line first-fit-decreasing-length [??]

Semester 2, 1999/2000

24-29 Apr 2000 (Wk 17; Exam-Wk2) -- No Meeting

17-22 Apr 2000 (Wk 16; Exam-Wk1)

18-April-2000 (Tue) -- Plan for GUI for BAPS V2.0 out (LHW,OTW)
- Will use Perl-Tk for GUI prototyping
- Perl-Tk is cross-platform
17 Apr 2000 (Mon) -- David's MSc Presentation

A Graph Partitioning Algorithm for the Berth Allocation Problem
Monday, 17-April, 10:00am - 11:30am @ EC

10-15 Apr 2000 (Wk 15; Study-Week)

12 Apr 2000 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Seminar (Wed 4-6pm, @TR1)
- MSc Presentation Dry Runs -- David Ong
  Thanks to all who attended the dry run even on study week.

03-08 Apr 2000 (Wk 14)

05 Apr 2000 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Seminar (Wed 4-6pm, @TR1)
- Plane Sweep Algorithm for Euclidean MST -- LaoYZ (collaboration with J. Nievergelt and HW Leong)

27 Mar -- 01 Apr 2000 (Wk 13)

29 Mar 2000 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Meeting (Wed 4-6pm, @TR1)
- Feature List Extraction for GIS Proximity Search -- Ngai Lam, Francis
- Feature List -- just out

20-25 Mar 2000 (Wk 12) -- RAS Honours Project Presentation Week

20-Mar (Mon) 10:30am @MR2 -- Yeo Chun Guan,
Project: SPIDER: Service Planning: Intelligent Design, Evaluation and Refinement
23-Mar (Thu) 9:30am @MR2 -- Yang Shaofa,
Project: Algorithms for Low Power MUX Decomposition
23-Mar (Thu) 11am @TR1 -- Zou Min
Project: Optimized Data Structures for Naming Service in CORBA Middleware
Details of these Honours Project -- [ link ]
Detailed Schedule -- link ]

13-18 Mar 2000 (Wk 11)

17 Mar 2000 (Fri) -- CORBA Project Presentation to Inprise (company sponsor)
- 3:30pm @SR2
15 Mar 2000 (Wk 11) -- RAS-Group Meeting (Wed 4-6pm, @TR1)
- HYP Dry Runs -- Zou Min
- HYP Dry Runs -- Yeo Chun Guan

06-11 Mar 2000 (Wk 10) -- NITA/NOI Project Showcase

11 Mar 2000 (Saturday) -- RAS-Group Projects on showcase in NITA/NOI'2000.
8 Mar 2000 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Meeting Cancelled

28 Feb - 04 Mar 2000 (Wk 9)

1 Mar 2000 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Meeting (Wed 4-6pm, @TR1)
- Insert/Delete in Point-Quad and k-d Trees -- by Francis Ng
- RAS-Group RoadMap on Professional Competency -- by LeongHW
- Projects for NITA Showcase -(decided on iBAPS, RADS, iRAS)
28 Feb 2000 (Mon) -- (Mon) Talk with PSA CTSD -- LeongHW

21-26 Feb 2000 (Wk 8) -- Semester Break Week

23 Feb 2000 (Wed) -- Discussion with Nievergelt on EMST
23 Feb 2000 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Seminar (Wed 4-6pm, @TR1)
- Range/Query in Point-Quad and k-d Trees -- by Ho Ngai Lam
22 Feb 2000 (Tue) -- ITS Discussion, 4pm @Engg

14-20 Feb 2000 (Wk 7)

20 Feb 2000 (Sun) -- RAS-Group Y2000 BBQ
17 Feb 2000 -- (Thu) Talk with LTA people
16 Feb 2000 -- Talk on "Creativity in Problem Solving" in Hwa Chong Junior College
16 Feb 2000 (Wk 7) -- RAS-Group Meeting (Wed 4-6pm, TR1)
- Point-QuadTree Data Structure -- by Ho Ngai Lam
- Time-Constrained Power Optimization of MUX -- by Yang Shaofa

07-12 Feb 2000 (Wk 6)

09 Feb 2000 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Seminar (Wed 4-6pm, @TR1)
- Spatial Data Structures -- by Ho Ngai Lam and Francis Ng Hoong Kee

31 Jan --05 Feb 2000 (Wk 5) --- Chinese New Year Week

05-07 Feb 2000 -- CHINESE NEW YEAR
02 Feb 2000 (Wed) -- MOU Signing with MultiScience, 10:00am @SR1
02 Feb 2000 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Meeting (Wed 4-6pm, @TR1)
- Vehicle Routing Talk -- by Tran Tuan Anh and Liu Jiang Hong

24-29 Jan 2000 (Wk 4) -- RAS-Group Meetings resumes....

26 Jan 2000 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Meeting (Wed 4-6pm, @TR1)
- Organizational Meeting -- LHW

17-22 Jan 2000 (Wk 3) -- No Group Meetings yet

03-15 Jan 2000 (Weeks 1&2) -- No Group Meetings yet

06-13 Jan 2000 (Wk 1-2) -- LeongHW attend ALENEX'2000 and SODA'2000
- Met with Joseph and friend
- Met with Unni and Ki-Seok (Dave Liu's group)
Jan-2000 -- Ngai Lam does project on proximity search
29-Dec-1999 -- Francis Ng Hoong Kee (from Malaysia) joins the group.

Semester I, 1999/2000

(Week 24, Vac-Wk7) -- 27 Dec 1999 -- 01 Jan 2000

(Week 23, Vac-Wk6) -- 20-25 Dec 1999

(Week 22, Vac-Wk5) -- 13-18 Dec 1999

(Week 21, Vac-Wk4) -- 06-11 Dec 1999

(Week 20, Vac-Wk3) -- 29 Nov 1999 -- 04 Dec 1999

(Week 19, Vac-Wk2) -- 22-27 Nov 1999

26 Nov 1999 --- RAS-Group Seminar 10am @SR4
- Timing-Constrained, Low Power MUX Decomposition -- Yang Shaofa
25 Nov 1999 (Thu) -- Lunch with RADAN (Eddy)

(Week 18, Vac-Wk1) -- 15-20 Nov 1999

19 Nov 1999 (Fri) --- RAS-Group Seminar 10am @SR4
- UROP Presentations
- Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problems (1 & 2)
- Network Cluster Problem
17-Nov 1999 (Wed) --- Lunch Meeting with MS (ChuaTS) 11am @MS

(Week 17, Exam-Wk2) -- 08-13 Nov 1999

12 Nov 1999 (Fri) -- Visit from Yeo Eng Guan (RAS-Alumni)

(Week 16, Exam-Wk1) -- 01-06 Nov 1999

2 Nov 1999 -- Meeting with Engg -- CTR (Fwa) 9:30am @Engg

(Week 15, Study Week) -- 25-30 Oct 1999

28 Oct 1999 (Thu) -- Visit by MultiScience (Mr Chong)

(Week 14) -- 18-23 Oct 1999 [CS310x/CS3288 Presentation Week]

23 Oct 1999 (Sat) -- RADS-GIS Project 12:00nn @RAS-Garage
23 Oct 1999 (Sat) -- RADS-GUI Project 10:30am @RAS-Garage
19 Oct 1999 -- BAP Partitioning Project 3:30pm @RAS-Garage

(Week 13) -- 11-16 Oct 1999 [CS310x/CS3288 Presentation Week]

16 Oct 1999 (Sat) -- INKS-KAD Project, 10:30am @RAS-Garage
16 Oct 1999 (Sat) -- INKS-RPS Project, 12:00nn @RAS-Garage
14 Oct 1999 (Thu) -- BAP Packing Project 10:30am @RAS-Garage
Various Dry-runs of Project Presentations
12 Oct 1999 -- To Stratech (with Wee Kheng)

(Week 12) -- 04-09 Oct 1999 [No Talks]

Oct 1999 -- Three new UROP students joins the group
- Tran Tuan Anh and Liu Jianghong on Vehicle Routing
- Ou Yang Jian Choong on Network Clustering

(Week 11) -- 27 Sep -- 02 Oct 1999 [No Talks]

1 Oct 1999 -- Talk by Nemhauser (TLI Talk)

(Week 10) -- 20-25 Sep 1999

23 Sep 1999 (Thu) -- TDP "Chat with Charles Leiserson"
22 Sep 1999 -- RAS-Group Seminar 6pm @TR1
- INKS Demo 2 (Both Arch and RPS) -- YCL LhW
- RAS Rectangle Packing Game -- LSC
20 Sep 1999 (Mon) -- Meeting with NCB (S-One)

(Week 9) -- 13-18 Sep 1999

15 Sep 1999 -- Meeting with Inprise (Yong and Som)

(Week 8, Mid-Sem Break) -- 06-11 Sep 1999

11 Sep 1999 (Sat) -- NUROP Congress in NTU
10 Sep 1999 (Fri) -- SoC Research Open House & UROP Showcase
08 Sep 1999 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Seminar 6pm @TR1
- Low Power MUX Decomposition -- Yang Shaofa

(Week 7) -- 30 Aug -- 04 Sep 1999

02 Sep 1999 (Thu) -- Visit to Stratech, 10am @Stratech
01 Sep 1999 (Wed) -- RAS-Group Seminar 6pm @TR1
- RADS-GUI/GIS August Milestone Demo -- (GUI and GIS groups)
31 Aug 1999 (Tue) -- Visit from Stratech, 2:0pm @MR1

(Week 6) -- 23-28 Aug 1999

27 Aug 1999 (Fri) -- Steven came to visit @10am
25 Aug 1999 (Wed) -- Lunch with SCV -- (LHW,OTW,FHM)

(Week 5) -- 16-21 Aug 1999

18 Aug 1999 -- RAS-Group Seminar 6pm @TR1
- INKS-RPS Report -- LhW
- CORBA Project Report -- ZM
- SPIDER Project Report -- YCG

(Week 4) -- 09-14 Aug 1999 Busy Week...

14 Aug 1999 (Sat) -- discussion with Som&Dan -- Inprise
13 Aug 1999 (Fri) (Wk 4) -- IMPORTANT MILESTONE
- after visit to CMIT (Wong Poh Kam)
- and talk with Tat Seng
13 Aug 1999 (Fri) -- Shaofa (Heuristic for Timing-Constraint LPMD)
13 Aug 1999 (Fri) -- visit from Mr Wee Tia Sen (IT-Wizard)
- [now with CET and posted to Beijing]
- -- he passed me CET-ITS contacts
11 Aug 1999 (Wk 4) -- RAS-Group Meeting resumes (Wed 6-8pm, TR1)
- Research Report by INKS-KAD -- Chin Lin
- Prototype Review (July Milestone) Demo -- RADS-GUI/GIS Teams
10 Aug 1999 -- Visit from Stratech

(Week 3) -- 02-07 Aug 1999

05 Aug 1999 (Week 3) -- Discussion with RADAN -- LeongHW
04 Aug 1999 (Week 3) -- Research discussion with Company-A -- LeongHW, FooHM
04 Aug 1999 (Week 3) -- Meeting on CVS for version control -- FooHM, David, Shaofa, Zou Min
04 Aug 1999 (Week 3) -- IMPORTANT MILESTONE for RAS-Group

Moved into the RAS-Garage.

(Week 2) -- 26-31 July 1999

28 Jul 1999 -- Meeting with all UROP students (discuss NUROP Abstract)

(Week 1) -- 19-24 July 1999

22 July 1999 (Thu) (Week 1) -- RAS-Group Research Meeting 5:00pm @SR4
- INKS Prototype Demo -- INKS Group
- Vessel Partitioning -- Report and Demo -- Degui
- Update on RAS-Garage design -- Yizhi
19 July 1999 (Mon) (Week 1) -- Nisha working on RAS Time Table

(Week 0) -- 12-17 July 1999

17 July 1999 (Sat) (Week 0) -- Yizhi working on design of RAS-Garage
13 July 1999 (Tue) (Week 0) -- RAS-Group Research Meeting 10am @SR4
- Mockup of Rectangle Packing Game -- Shuaicheng
- RAS Coding Standards -- David and Shaofa
July 1999 -- Yu Xinguo start part-time PhD studies with me.
30 June 1999 -- Yeo Chun Guan come aboard as Honours student working on the SPIDER project.

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