Darcy Benoit's Publications

Refereed Publications

Benoit, D. and Wilder, P. The Open-Source Impact on Software Standards: A Case Study. 2nd International Advanced Database Conference, San Diego, CA June 27-29, 2006.
Benoit, D. and Shakshuki, E. Evaluating Tablet PCs for use in Higher Education. 7th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, Sydney, Australia, June 10-13, 2006.
Benoit, D. and Shakshuki, E. Experience and Evaluation in Using Tablet PCs at Acadia University. ED-MEDIA World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Orlando, Florida, June 26-30, 2006. (31% Acceptance rate)
Benoit, D. Automatic Performance Diagnosis for Changing Workloads in DBMSs. IEEE International Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems, Vienna, Austria, April 18-20, 2006, pp 509-513.
Benoit, D., Slauenwhite, D. and Trudel, A., A Web Census is Possible. Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT2006), Phoenix, Arizona, January 2006.
Benoit, D. Automatic Diagnosis of Performance Problems for Shifting Workloads in Database Management Systems. International Advanced Database Conference, San Diego, California, June 27-30, 2005, pp. 90-95.
Benoit, D. Automatic Diagnosis of Performance Problems in Database Management Systems. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 05), Seattle, Washington, June 13-16, 2005, pp. 326-327 (Short paper and poster).
Müldner, T., Benoit, D., and Wang, F. Generic Approach to Internationalization of Websites. The 8th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2004), Cambridge, MA, USA, November 2004, pp. 465-470.
Benoit, D., and Müldner, T. IDUX: Internationalization of Data Using XML. IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2004, Madrid, Spain, October 2004, pp. 469-476.
Martin, P., Powley, W., and Benoit, D., Using Reflection to Introduce Self-Tuning Technology into DBMSs. 8th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium, Coimbra, Portugal, July 2004, pp. 429-438.
Müldner, T., Wang, F. and Benoit, D., My Webpage Can Speak Many Languages. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA), Lugano, Switzerland, June 2004. AACE Proceedings, pp. 2040-2046.
Elnaffar, S., Powley, W., Benoit, D. and Martin, P., Today.s DBMSs: How Autonomic Are They? First International Workshop on Autonomic Computing Systems, Prague, September 2003, pp 651-655.
Benoit, Darcy G., Automated Diagnosis and Control of DBMS Resources, Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) PhD Workshop, Konstanz, Germany, March 2000.

Technical Reports

Müldner, T., Wang, F. and Benoit, D., Internationalization of Websites, Technical Report TR-2004-01, Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada, February 2004.
Elnaffar, S., Powley, W., Benoit, D. and Martin, P., Today.s DBMSs: How Autonomic Are They? Technical Report 2003-469, Queen.s University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, September 2003.

Conference Chair

General Chair, Atlantic Provinces Council on the Sciences (APICS) Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Conference, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 21-23, 2005.

Program Committees

The 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC'06), Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA September 29-October 1, 2006
First International Workshop Intelligent Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks (IA-WSN), Hong Kong, December 18-22, 2006.

Reviewer

International Journal of Information and Software Technology (Special Issue for selected papers of the International Workshop on Web and Mobile Information Systems) Taipei, Taiwan, March 2005.
International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, Silicon Valley, USA, July 19-21, 2006.