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Veronika M. Megler: Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Megler, V.M. (supervised by Maier, D.) Taming the Metadata Mess. In: ICDE Brisbane Workshops (PhD Symposium), April, 2013.
• Megler, V.M. and Maier, D.: Data Near Here: Bringing Relevant Data Closer to Scientists. In: Computing in Science and Engineering, March 2013, Volume 15, No. 3. Also available here by permission.
  • Megler,V.M. and Maier, D.: When Big Data Leads to Lost Data. In: PIKM 2012: 5th Workshop for Ph.D. Students at CIKM, Maui, Hawaii (2012). Winner of PIKM "Best Paper" award. Also available here.
  • Maier, D., Megler, V.M., Baptista, A., Jaramillo, A., Seaton, C., Turner, P., 2012. Navigating Oceans of Data, in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7338, pp. 1–19.
• Megler, V.M. & Maier, D., 2011. Finding Haystacks with Needles: Ranked Search for Data Using Geospatial and Temporal Characteristics. In J. Bayard Cushing, J. French, & S. Bowers, eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6809, pp.55-72. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Presentations and Industry Publications

• "Data Near Here: Ranked Geospatial-Temporal Search of Scientific Data", VM Megler and David Maier, presented at Symposium on Space-Time Integration in Geography and GIScience, AAG 2011, April 2011
• "Data Near Here: Ranked Geospatial-Temporal Search of Scientific Data (Take 1)", Veronika Megler and David Maier, GIS In Action 2011, March 2011
• “I’m By Myself: A Mapping Mashup”, 27 pages, submitted to developerWorks for publication, August 2008
• “From Tapes to Bits: The Changing Landscape of Broadcasting”, IBM G299-0857, Veronika Megler and Luis Estrada, December 2005
  • "Build a Digital Animation System" series, IBM developerWorks, Veronika Megler and George Dolbier, 2005
  • "Part 5: Size up the job", August 2005
  • "Part 4: Networking and adjusting the fit", August 2005
  • "Part 3: Choose the storage system design", August 2005
  • "Part 2: Create, edit, and store rich content", July 2005
    • "Part 1: Understanding the Existing Infrastructure", July 2005
  • "Architecting an Animation Studio", IBM Techdocs, May 2005
  • "Building an Animation and Special Effects Studio From the Ground Up", IBM G299-0652, June 2005 (French edition)
  • "Online Games Infrastructures", S&D TechConnect presentation, IBM TechDocs, August 2004. This presentation won 2^nd prize in IBM Sales & Distribution-wide TechConnect competition and 1^st prize in the Technical category in the Pacific Northwest TechConnect.
  • ARC-120: "Architectures and technologies that power Hollywood can power your customers", George Dolbier and Veronika Megler, IBM AP/Americas Professional Leadership Technical Exchange 2005 Conference; also web lecture, 8 March 2005
  • Online Game Architectures Series: Demonstrated value and application of IBM’s e-business patterns and web architectures to the emerging business of online games.
    • "Online Game Architectures, Part 5: "Online Game Architectures, Part 5: Making the game work", IBM developerWorks, 11 August 2004
    • "Online Game Architectures, Part 4: Addressing community requirements, game upgrades, and account maintenance", IBM developerWorks, 27 July 2004
    • "Online Game Architectures, Part 3: Integrating additional device-support functions", IBM developerWorks, 13 July 2004
    • "Online Game Architectures, Part 2: Concentrating on the game", IBM developerWorks, 23 June 2004
    • "Online Game Architectures, Part 1: Developing a high-level business description and identifying patterns", IBM developerWorks, 7 June 2004
  • "WTAS & Parlay: Where Business Computing and Telco Meet", Linux Workshop West / Linux University, 1 April 2003.
  • "Business Apps via Telco Gateway – Part 2: See the Parlay APIs in Action", IBM developerWorks, February 2003. Described several application examples, and showed how to implement using Parlay.
  • "Business Apps via Telco Gateway – Part 1: Introduction to the Parlay Architecture", IBM developerWorks, January 2003. Provided introduction to the Parlay standard, positioned the standard against other standards, and provided an overview of how the technology applies in the telco market.
  • “Parlaying a Telco Platform into a Business Application (using WTAS)", January 2003. This paper was professionally published by IBM with funds donated by Intel and was distributed on marketing CD’s. Used in marketing situations to show IBM’s understanding of the space, and to describe end-to-end application integration using Parlay. Provided several application examples, from design to implementation.
  • "How to Plan, Implement and Support Wireless-Enabled Business Applications (using IBM eServer pSeries)", IBM Solutions Sales, December 2003. In response to an industry consultant’s paper, described how IBM pSeries processors and IBM software addressed the industry’s and the consultant’s concerns.
  • “VXML and VoIP boost customer satisfaction“,IBM developerWorks, March 2003. Extending “Talk to my VoIP”, showed how to use implicit caller information to improve customization of dynamic IVR responses.
  • "Talk to my VoIP", IBM developerWorks, November 2002. Explained how to build a dynamic Interactive Voice Response application using IBM’s WebSphere Voice Server, WebSphere Application Server and Cisco’s VoIP router – complete with multiple language support.
  • "A Highly Available DB2 Cluster in an IBM WebSphere Application Server pSeries Environment", IBM Solution Sales, September 2002. Documented an innovative method of providing high-speed fail-over for DB2 using off-the-shelf, available components. Showed that fail-over could be virtually invisible to application clients.
  • “Networking with Coworkers: Turn Your Office Phone Network into an Application Platform with VoIP and XML", IBM developerWorks, July 2002. Described how to integrate Cisco VoIP phones with WebSphere Application Server applications.
  • "Architecting the IBM Wireless Infrastructure (using WES 2.1), INF110", Conference paper and web lecture, IBM Professional Leadership Technical Exchange Conference, May 2002. Based on the redbook (below), this presentation demonstrated the power and complexity of the WES solution and architecture for people without the time to read the entire redbook.
  • "I-mode a la mode", IBM developerWorks, February 2002,Described how to create an application for use on i-mode phones, using generally available off-the-shelf components.
  • "The Semi-Walled Garden: Japan’s I-mode Phenomenon", REDP1066, IBM Redpiece, November 2001. Analyzed Japanese i-mode technology and business model; debunking myths about technology being the difference between Japan and US/EMEA adoption.
  • "WebSphere Everyplace Server for Architects and Integrators", SG24-6189, IBM Redbook; co-author; wrote product performance & scalability chapters; November 2001. This redbook became the “design bible” for architects working with this complex product suite.
  • "A Highly Available & Scalable LDAP Cluster in an IBM® AIX® Environment", IBM Developer Relations, September 2001. Documented an innovative method for high-speed fail-over of IBM’s LDAP product, in a method virtually invisible to clients.
  • "Managing Multiple VM Systems",Australasian Share/Guide Conference 19,1988. VM was one of the first operating systems to provide automated and remote management capabilities. This paper described experiences using these tools “in the real world”.
  • "When Virtual Machines Require Real Resources: Capacity in a VM Environment", Computer Measurement Group of Australia Annual Conference,1987. This paper debunked myths surrounding the misunderstood area of VM. performance and capacity. It showed the uses and flaws of several widely used techniques, and suggested alternatives.
  • "IBM Announcements: VM", Australasian Share/Guide Conference 16,1987.
  • "VM/XA SP Release 1", IBM Redbook,1986,VM/XA SP R1 was the first release of VM for the XA architecture. This redbook created the baseline documentation for systems programmers and systems engineers needing to build these complex environments.
  • "CMS/XA SP Release 1", IBM Redbook,1986. A companion to the “VM/XA SP R1” redbook, this redbook described the first version of CMS to run in the XA architecture, for use by programmers and product designers.
  • "The Hobbit", Phillip Mitchell and Veronika Megler, 1982, published by Melbourne House. Classic computer game written for Z80: (wikipedia article). It is now featured in the Internet Archive's Historic Software Collection, and according to the Australian Center for the Moving Image was Australia's first major game export.
  • "Penetrator", Phillip Mitchell and Veronika Megler, 1982, published by Melbourne House. Best-selling computer game written for the Z80.

Patents

• US8560531 B2, 'A Search Tool that Utilizes Numerical Scientific Metadata Matched Against User-Entered Parameters', Megler and Maier, filed June 2011, issued October 15,2013
• US 7,865,478 B2, "Based on Repeated Experience, System for Modification of Expression and Negating Overload from Media and Optimizing Referential Efficiency" (BORES ME NO MORE), Badovinatz and Megler [names alphabetical by IBM standard], filed June 4, 2005, issued January 4, 2011