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Selected Publications:

John R. Williams, Abel Sanchez, Bill Mitchell, Sergio Hererro, "Next Generation Software Systems for Smart Grid and Smart City", SAP Academic Research Conference, August 21, 2009

María Arenas-Martínez, Sergio Herrero-Lopez, Abel Sanchez, John Williams, Paul Roth, Paul Hofmann, Alexander Zeier, "A Comparative Study of Data Storage and Processing Architectures for the Smart Grid", IEEE Smart Grid, October 2010

M. Arenas-Martinez, S. Herrero-Lopez, A. Sanchez, J. R. Williams, P. Roth, P. Hofmann, A. Zeier, “Smart grid simulator for next generation utility software systems”, Report to SAP, Palo Alto, July 2010.

Sergio Herrero-Lopez, John Williams, Abel Sanchez, "Parallel multiclass classification using SVMs on GPUs", ACM 3rd Workshop on General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Processing Units, 2010

T Mao, J Williams, A Sanchez, "Interoperable internet scale security framework for rfid networks", Data Engineering Workshop, 2008.IEEE 24th International Conference on Data Engineering

Williams, Sanchez, et al., "Modeling supply chain network traffic," in RFID Technology and Applications, Williams, Sarma, Miles, Ed. Cambridge University Press, 2008, Ch. 7

I. Yu, A. Sanchez and J. R. Williams, “A prototype design for a decentralized EPC discovery service”, Auto-ID Laboratory Whitepaper, January 2008.

J. R. Williams, A. Sanchez, P. Hofmann, T. Lin, M. Lipton, K. Mantripragada, “Evaluating registry architectures using a state machine simulator in a massively threaded environment”, Auto-ID Laboratory Whitepaper, January 2008. S. Herrero-Lopez, A. Sanchez and J. R. Williams, “Architecting an in-memory database system for EPCIS”, Auto-ID Laboratory Whitepaper, January 2008.

JH Ong, A Sanchez, J Williams, "Multi-UAV System for Inventory Automation", IEEE RFID Eurasia, 2007

JR Williams, A Sanchez, "Supply Chain Realms with Data Streams and Location Services" EU RFID, 2007

H. Ning, J.R. Williams, A.H. Slocum, A. Sanchez, "Inkboard–Tablet PC Enabled Design-Oriented Learning", Journal of Advanced Technology for Learning, 2005

H. Ning, J.R. Williams, A.H. Slocum, A. Sanchez, "On-line Peer Review in Teaching Design-oriented Courses", International Conference on Education and Information Systems: Technology and Applications (EISTA ’03), August 2003

MIT-NISAC Center for Grid Computing
Posting Date: March 10, 2003
This project develops a Web Services architecture to support agent based simulation of the US Critical Infrastructure across multiple platforms. The MIT Grid Computing Center, in collaboration with NISAC, has set up a distributed hardware and software test bed for agent-based web services simulation. The initial nodes are in NISAC and in MIT.

MIT RFID Network Simulator Coordination and Discovery Services
AUTO-ID Labs at MIT

EPC Technology
AUTO-ID Labs at MIT

RFID End-to-End Security
AUTO-ID Labs at MIT

Sensor Event Handling
AUTO-ID Labs at MIT

EPC Network
AUTO-ID Labs at MIT

EPC Sypply Chain
AUTO-ID Labs at MIT

Event Aggregation
AUTO-ID Labs at MIT

Container Security
AUTO-ID Labs at MIT

Robot World
IESL Labs at MIT

Agents Simulation
Posting Date: Jan 10, 2003
GRID Garden.NET – A Prototype .NET Implementation of OGSA GT3. A prototype .NET version of Globus OGSA GT3 has been developed and is being tested.

Robot World
Posting Date: Feb 10, 2003
Robot World will systematize the deployment and running of courses that use design projects as a vehicle for teaching engineering. Project Based Learning courses pose teaching and logistic challenges in that they typically use hardware and software laboratories and have student teams that operate with a high degree of autonomy. The initial focus of Robot World will be on four MIT courses that use the building of robots and robot software to motivate students to learn various aspects of engineering. This project will take an engineering product development approach to assembling customer needs and deploying a range of Web Services to meet those needs. We believe that the lessons learned during creation of Robot World will scale to the broader engineering community.

Sports Management
Posting Date: Feb 10, 2003
The objective: to facilitate the instantaneous challenge and acceptance of tennis/squash matches. The MIT community has approximately 300 active tennis players, with an equal number of squash players. Often finding an opponent of comparable skill that can fit your schedule is difficult.

Live Simulation Mapping Agent
Posting Date: Feb 10, 2003
The Live Simulation Mapping Agent is a program that acts as a geo-spatial computation agent. It provides useful mapping visualizations and interacts with other agents. It can provide important routing and live-update demographic and infrastructure data. * LSMA is an "add-on" program that allows users to do special feature-searches and lookups in MapPoint 2002. * Future versions will provide programmatic interface exposure that can be harnessed over the Internet, to coordinate with other distributed agent services.

Engineering Systems Learning Center
Posting Date: Dec 12, 2002
Enabling new learning about complex engineering systems - impacting education, research, practice and policy.

Course Portal
Posting Date Date: Jan 17, 2003
Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory (IESL) has created a system using Microsoft Web technology to enhance education processes – for professors, students and administrators. Developed to be highly scalable across institutions and countries, it can support an unlimited number of courses and students. The CADDIE Collaborative Architectures for a Distributed Instructional Environment is designed to take advantage of the wide range of collaboration technology available on today's highly calable Web Platforms, including messenger, voice over IP and real time and streaming video.

Event Management
Posting Date: Oct 17, 2002
The "events" project enables organizations to schedule, announce, and administer events and to provide online registration to these events. This application also allows organizations to sell tickets for these events and can be used in conjunction with the Ecommerce application for this purpose.

Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory - Poster Cover for Ed Tech
Posting Date: Feb 10, 2003
The mission of the Intelligent Engineering Systems Lab (IESL) is to improve the human's ability to engineer large-scale systems using advances in systems engineering, cognitive sciences and information technology.