Peter
C. Nelson
Professor and Head
Department of Computer Science
Address:
CS Department (M/C 152)
(312) 996-3259 (office)
(312) 413-0024 (fax)
nelson@cs.uic.edu
Research
Activities and Interests:
My research at UIC has focused on
developing efficient artificial intelligence (AI) search techniques. This research has two components: basic
research into developing general, efficient heuristic search algorithms, and
applied research and development using heuristic search and other AI methods to
solve problems in the areas of transportation, manufacturing, molecular biology
and high-availability computer clusters.
One
of our most interesting results in this area has been the development of a new
heuristic search algorithm named perimeter
search. This admissible technique is referred to as perimeter search since
it relies on a perimeter of nodes around the goal or destination node. During the search process, generated nodes
are compared to the perimeter nodes.
When a match is found, the search can terminate. Analytical and experimental results were
published in the Artificial Intelligence Journal showing that perimeter search
is more efficient than IDA* and A* in terms of time complexity and nodes
expanded for two problem domains. Additional general search results have been
in the area of search algorithms that learn; a method for reducing cycles for
depth-first searches on graphs; and parallel bidirectional search algorithms.
Our
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) research involves improving the
utilization and efficiency of existing roadway transportation systems using
information technology. From 1991-95, I
conducted ITS research for the ADVANCE (Advanced Driver and Vehicle Advisory
Navigation ConcEpt) project, supported by the
Illinois Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration
(FHWA). ADVANCE equipped test vehicles in the northwestern suburbs of
I
have also conducted several other ITS-related projects. In 1994-95 my Laboratory developed a regional
Corridor Traffic Information Center for IDOT that included the first World Wide
Web site to graphically display current traffic conditions, see www.ai.uic.edu for details (The CALTRANS WWW traffic map
was also developed around the same time.) .
Our traffic map web site has over 50,000,000 hits per year. Another
project, funded by the National Research Council’s Transportation Research Board, has developed powerful
new data fusion techniques utilizing artificial neural networks. Reliable data fusion is critically important
for advanced traveler information systems, which must continually combine
semantically distinct probe, loop detector, anecdotal, and historical data into
meaningful current traffic information.
Another project, initiated by the FHWA and the
Manufacturing
optimization, modeling, and knowledge discovery research has been supported by
Motorola for the last ten years. This
work involves optimizing the assignment of components to the feeder slots of
high-speed "chip shooters" (devices which place IC chips onto printed
wire circuit boards) in a high-mix manufacturing environment. A variety of AI methods (e.g., genetic
algorithms, tabu search, neural networks, and
rule-based systems) have been utilized to consistently produce near-optimal
results for high-speed placement over a wide class of machines. The methods and
software we have developed are currently being used in Motorola factories
around the world. This work has included balancing and optimizing a complete
assembly line and generalizing our machine specific work into a flexible
simulation and optimization toolkit. Extensions to this work include the
development of the data mining software for design and manufacturing, and
meta-knowledge extraction and management for SMT optimization.
Bioinformatics
research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health National Center
for Human Genome Research to develop a DNA restriction mapping tool. This tool automates the process of inferring
DNA restriction maps from DNA segmentation data. We have studied the utility of
certain AI techniques in this domain, namely Pratt's separation theory (to
guarantee optimal use of the data), Dempster and
Shafer's theory of evidence (for reasoning with uncertain data), and heuristic
search guided with neural networks to traverse the search space
efficiently. Our restriction mapping
tool has been downloaded by numerous molecular biology laboratories around the
world from our homepage.
Work
in the area of highly available computer clustering has been supported by Sun
Microsystems and the National Science Foundation. High availability (HA) in a cluster is
achieved through redundancy; all critical resources have designated redundant
resources that can take over the service responsibilities of the original
resource in case of a failure. Our work
involves applying constraint logic programming (CLP), rule-based systems and
heuristic search techniques to the configuration and failure handling in HA clusters.
Education:
Northwestern
University
Ph.D.
in Computer Science June
1988
M.S.
in Computer Science August
1986
B.A.
in Computer Science and Mathematics May
1984
Positions
Held:
2001
– present Professor
and Department Head
Department of
2000
– 2001 Professor and
Computer Science Division Chair
Department of Electrical Engineering and
2000
– 2001 Director
1994
- 2000 Associate
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and
1991
- present Director
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Department
of Electrical Engineering and
1988
- 1994 Assistant
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and
1987
- present Consultant
Computer science consulting for a variety
of companies including AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bell Communications Research,
Discover Card Financial Services, Peapod, UBS Warburg, and Reuters.
1986
- 1992 Member of
Technical Staff
(part-time) AT&T Bell
Laboratories
Positions
Held: (continued)
1985
- 1988 Teaching
Assistant
Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science Northwestern University
1985 Software
Engineer
(summer) AT&T
Information Systems
1984
- 1985 Murphy
Graduate Fellow
Northwestern University
Publications:
Theses
"Parallel Bidirectional Search using
Multi-Dimensional Heuristics," Ph.D. Dissertation (Advisor: Lawrence Henschen), Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science,
"A Parallel A* Algorithm," M.S.
Thesis (Advisor:
Books
R. Person, B. Weil, S. Nelson, P. C.
Nelson, P. Aiker, T. Stanley, and D.
E.
Torres, P. Nelson, and N. Rouphail, “Estimating Link
Delays for Arterial Streets,” Urban and Regional Transportation Modeling:
Essays in Honor of David Boyce (edited by Der-Horng
Lee) to be published by Edward Elgar in 2004.
Journal
Papers
A.A. Toptsis,
C.T. Yu, and P.C. Nelson, "Computing the Transitive Closure of Symmetric
Matrices," Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, Springer-Verlag Vol. 468, (1990) pp. 174-183.
T. Murata, P. C. Nelson, and J. Yim, "A Predicate - Transition Net Model for a
Multiple Agent Planning System," Information Sciences, Vol. 57-58,
(1991) pp.361-384.
P. C. Nelson and A. A. Toptsis, "Unidirectional and Bidirectional Search
Algorithms," IEEE Software, Vol. 9 No. 2, March (1992) pp. 77-83.
Journal
Papers (continued)
P. C. Nelson and A. A. Toptsis, "Wave-Shaping in Multiprocessor Bidirectional
Heuristic State Space Search," Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence,
Springer-Verlag Vol. 541, (1991) pp. 92-104.
J.F.
Dillenburg and P. C. Nelson, "Improving the
Efficiency of Depth-first Search by Cycle Elimination,” Information
Processing Letters, Vol. 45, No. 1, (1993) pp. 5-10.
A. A. Toptsis and P.C. Nelson,
"Parallel Bidirectional Heuristic State Space Search," Heuristics,
Vol. 6, No. 4, (1993) pp. 40-49.
J.F. Dillenburg
and P. C. Nelson, "Perimeter Search," Artificial Intelligence
Journal Vol. 65, (1994) pp. 165-178.
J.
Inglehart and P.C. Nelson, "On the limitations
of automated restriction mapping," Computer Applications in the
Biosciences Vol. 10, no. 3, (1994) pp. 249-261.
J. Yim, P. C.
Nelson, and T. Murata, "Predicate - Transition Net Reachability
Testing Using Heuristic Search," Transactions of The
P. C. Nelson and C. Lain, "Heuristic
Improvement through Triangulation," Journal of Experimental and
Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 7, No. 2, (1995) pp. 345-359.
J.F. Dillenburg
and P. C. Nelson, "Improving Search Efficiency Using Possible Subgoals," Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Vol. 22, No. 4-7, (1995) pp.397-414.
A.
Dikos, P.C. Nelson, T. Tirpak
and W. Wang, “Optimization of PCCA in High-Mix Environments Using Genetic
Algorithms,” Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 75, (1997) pp. 303-324.
J.A.
Inglehart, P.C. Nelson and Yibo
Zou, “Mapper: An
Intelligent Restriction Mapping Tool,” Bioinformatics, Vol. 14 No. 2
(1998) pp. 101-111.
J.A. Inglehart
and P.C. Nelson, “Solving Systems of Difference Constraints Constrained by
Random Variables,” Heuristics, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1998) pp. 1-14.
P.V. Palacharla
and P.C. Nelson, “Application of fuzzy logic and neural networks for dynamic
travel time estimation,” International Transactions in Operational Research
(special issue Operations Research Methods in Intelligent Transportation
Systems), Vol. 6, No. 1 (1999) pp. 145-160.
Journal Papers
(continued)
W. Wang, P.C. Nelson and T. M. Tirpak, “Optimization of High-Speed Multi-Station SMT
Placement Machines Using Evolutionary Algorithms,” IEEE Transactions on
Electronics Packaging Manufacturing, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1999) pp. 137-146.
P.
Csaszar, T. M. Tirpak, and
P.C. Nelson, “Object-Oriented Simulator Design for an Automated High-Speed
Modular Placement Machine Family,” SIMULATION, Vol. 73, No. 6 (1999)
pp.341-351.
P. Csaszar, T.
M. Tirpak, and P.C. Nelson, “Optimization of a
High-Speed Placement Machine Using Tabu Search
Algorithms,” Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 96 (2000) pp. 125-147.
P.
Csaszar, P. C. Nelson, R. R. Rajbhandari,
and T. M. Tirpak, “Optimization of Automated High
Speed Modular Placement Machines Using Knowledge-Based Systems,” IEEE Trans.
on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews, Vol. 30,
No. 4, November 2000. pp. 408-417..
Chi Zhou, Peter C. Nelson, Thomas M. Tirpak, Weimin Xiao and Spencer
A. Lane, “An Intelligent Data Mining System for Drop Test Analysis of
Electronic Products Manufacturing,” IEEE Transactions on Electronics
Packaging Manufacturing, Vol. 24 No. 3, (July 2001) pp. 222 -231.
Thomas M. Tirpak,
Pradosh Kumar Mohapatra,
Peter C. Nelson, and Rajan R. Rajbhandari, “A Generic
Classification and Object-Oriented Simulation Toolkit for SMT Assembly
Equipment,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part A:
Systems and Humans, Vol. 32, No. 1, (January 2002), pp. 104-122.
Chi Zhou, Weimin
Xiao, Peter C. Nelson, and Thomas M. Tirpak,
“Evolving Accurate and Compact Classification Rules with Gene Expression
Programming,” IEEE Trans. of Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 7, No. 6,
(December 2003), pages 519 – 531.
Journal
Papers Under Review
P. Csaszar, Marcin Kadlucka, P.C. Nelson, T.
M. Tirpak, and "Tabu
Search for Rugged Search Spaces with Multiple Symmetric Basins," in
revision for Artificial Intelligence.
Thomas
M. Tirpak, Marcin
Kadluczka, Weimin Xiao, and
Peter C. Nelson, “A Signal Processing Platform for Brain-Computer Interface
Optimization,” submitted (2/04) to IEEE
Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.
P. C. Nelson and L. J. Henschen, "Parallel Bidirectional Heuristic
Searching," Proceedings of Canadian Information Processing Society 5,
(Edmonton, Alberta) 1987, pp. 117-124.
P. C. Nelson, "Parallel Heuristic
Search Using Islands," Proceedings of Fourth Conference on Hypercubes, Concurrent Computers, and Applications,
(Monterey, California) March 1989, pp. 909-916.
P. C. Nelson and L. J. Henschen, "Multi-Dimensional Heuristics," Proceedings
of Eleventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
(Detroit, Michigan) August 1989, pp. 316-321.
T. Murata, P. C. Nelson, and J. Yim, "A Predicate - Transition Net Model for Single
Agent Planning," Proceedings of AI, Simulation and Planning in High
Autonomy Systems Conference, (
A.A. Toptsis, C.T. Yu, and P.C. Nelson, "Computing the
Transitive Closure of Symmetric Matrices," Proceedings of International
Conference on Computing and Information (ICCI 90), (
P. C. Nelson and J. Dillenburg,
"Experimental Analysis of Heuristic Island Search," Proceedings of
The Fifth Rocky Mountain AI Conference, (Albuquerque, New Mexico) June
1990, pp. 231-238.
A.A. Toptsis, C.T. Yu, and P.C. Nelson, "Benchmarking Two
Types of Restricted Transitive Closure Algorithms," Proceedings of IEEE
COMPSAC 1990, October 1990, (
P. C. Nelson, J. F. Dillenburg,
and L. Dubinsky, "HSAS: A Heuristic Development
Tool," Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Tools for Artificial
Intelligence, (
T. Murata, P. C. Nelson, and J. Yim, "Predicate-Transition Net Reachability
Testing Using Artificial Intelligence Search Techniques," Proceedings
of Third International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge
Engineering, (Skokie, Illinois) June 1991, pp. 160-165.
P. C. Nelson and A. A. Toptsis, "Superlinear
Speedup Using Bidirectionalism and Islands," Proceedings
of 12th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Workshop on
Parallel Search, (Sydney, Australia) August 1991, pp. 129-134.
Conference
Papers (continued)
P. C. Nelson and A. A. Toptsis, "Search Space Clustering in Parallel
Bidirectional Heuristic Search," Proceedings of 4th University of New
Brunswick Artificial Intelligence Symposium, (Fredericton, New Brunswick,
Canada) September 1991, pp. 563-573.
J. Inglehart
and P.C. Nelson, "LinkFinder: An Expert System
that Constructs Phylogenic Trees," Proceedings of 2nd NASA CLIPS
Conference, (
P.C. Nelson and J. Warpinski,
"NMESys: An Expert System for Network Fault
Detection," Proceedings of 2nd NASA CLIPS Conference, (
A. Kirson, B.
Smith, D. Boyce, P. Nelson, J. Hicks, A. Sen, J. Schofer, F. Koppelman, C. Bhat, "The Evolution of ADVANCE," Proc. of 3rd
International Conference on Vehicle Navigation and Information Systems,
Sept. 1992, pp. 516-522.
P. C. Nelson, P. Petrov,
and P. Pollock, "Assigning Segment and Link Identifiers for ADVANCE,"
Proceedings of Intelligent Vehicles 93 Symposium, (
P. C. Nelson, J. Dillenburg,
and C. Lain, "Vehicle-Based Route Planning in Advanced Traveler
Information Systems," Proceedings of Intelligent Vehicles 93 Symposium,
(
P. C. Nelson and P. Palacharla,
"A Neural Network Model for On-line Data fusion in ADVANCE,” Proceedings
of
N.M.
Rouphail and P.C. Nelson, "Data Fusion for an
ATIS Operational Test: Description and Computational Issues," Proceedings
of the First Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, (
P.
Palacharla and P.C. Nelson, "Understanding
Relations between Fuzzy Logic and Evidential Reasoning Methods,” Proceedings
of Third IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, (
Conference
Papers (continued)
P. Palacharla
and P.C. Nelson, "Evidential Reasoning in Uncertainty for Data
Fusion," Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Information
Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, (
P. Palacharla,
P. Nelson and V. Sisiopiku, "Data Fusion Using
Fuzzy-Valued Logic," Proceedings of 1994 Intelligent Vehicles Symposium,
(
V. Sisiopiku,
P. Palacharla and P.C. Nelson, "Fuzzy Reasoning
Model for Converting Loop Detector Data into Travel Times," Proceedings
of 27th ISATA Advanced Transport Telematics/
Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems Conference, (Aachen,
Germany) November 1994, pp. 373-380.
J. Dillenburg,
C. Lain, P.C. Nelson, and D. Rorem, "The Design of the
P. Palacharla
and P.C. Nelson, "On-line travel time estimation using fuzzy neural
networks," The Second World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems,
(Yokohama, Japan) November 1995, pp. 112-116.
P. Mohapatra,
P. C. Nelson, T. M. Tirpak, and P. Csaszar, “A Generic Simulation and Optimization System for
Chip Placement Machines,” Proceedings of the International Conference on
Information Technology (CIT’ 99), (
P.C. Nelson, T. M. Tirpak,
T.M. Tirpak,
A.J. Aswani, and P.C. Nelson, “Optimization of
Revolver Head SMT Machines using Simulated Annealing,” 25th International
Electronics Manufacturing Technology Symposium, (Santa Clara,
California), October 2000, pp. 214-220.
Chi
Zhou, P.C. Nelson, W. Xiao, and T. M. Tirpak,
“Discovery of Classification Rules by Using Gene Expression Programming,” to
appear at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI’02),
Las Vegas, U.S.A., June 24-27, 2002, pp. 1355-1361.
Conference
Papers (continued)
T. Tirpak, G. Sundaresan, C. Zhou, and P.C. Nelson, “Hybrid Evolutionary
Algorithm - Expert System Solution for Optimizing SMT Placement Machines,” to
appear at International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering
(IKE’02), Las Vegas, U.S.A., June 24-27, 2002, pp. 674-679.
C. Zhou, and P.C. Nelson, “Predicting
Traffic Congestion Using Recurrent Neural Networks,” 9th World
Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems,
J. Dillenburg, O.Wolfson, and P. Nelson, “The Intelligent Travel
Assistant,” The 5th International Conference on Intelligent
Transportation Systems, (
G. Trajcevski,
O. Wolfson, B. Xu and P.
Nelson, "Real-Time Traffic Updates in Moving Objects Databases," 5th
International Workshop on Mobility in
Databases and Distributed Systems, in conjunction with the 13th
International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications,
September 2002, Aix en Provence, France, electronic
proceedings.
J.F. Dillenburg,
P.C. Nelson, O. Wolfson, O. Yu, A.P. Sistla, S. McNeil, A. Ouksel, Xu and J. Ben-Arie, “Applications
of a Transportation Information Architecture,” to appear in IEEE Conference on
Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC04), 2004.
Thomas M. Tirpak, Juan Lopez, and
Peter C. Nelson, " Factory Doctor: A Decision-Support System for
Electronics Manufacturing Optimization " submitted to the 16th International
Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE-2004).
Marcin Kadluczka,
Peter C. Nelson and Thomas M. Tirpak, “N-to-2-Space
Mapping for Visualization of Search Algorithm Performance,” submitted to
19th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2004).
Grants and Contracts: (40+ grants and contracts exceeding $8
million)
"Multi-Dimensional Heuristics: A New
AI Search Technique,"
"Software Research and Development
for Intelligent
"Sun Scholarpak
Software Grant,"
"Software Research and Development
for Intelligent
"Software Research and Development
for Intelligent
"Advanced Traveler Information
Systems,"
"Automated Restriction Mapper,"
"An Automatic Process Plan Selection
System,"
"Software
Research and Development for Intelligent
"Software Research and Development
for Intelligent
Grants
and Contracts: (continued)
"An Intelligent Automated
Restriction Mapping Tool,"
"Software Research and Development
for Intelligent
"Application of Neural Networks to
Data Fusion: A Feasibility Study,"
“Feeder Setup Optimization Software,”
“Optimization of PCB Automated Placement
Machines,”
“Software R&D for the
“Simulation, Modeling, and Optimization
of PCB Automated Placement Machines,”
“An Object-Oriented Toolkit for
Electronics Assembly Machine Simulation, Optimization, and Product Design
Evaluation,”
“Software R&D for the
“Regional Travel Forecasting Model
Validation,”
“Optimization
of SMT Assembly Machines using Evolutionary Algorithms and Tabu Search,”
Grants
and Contracts: (continued)
“Optimization
for Revolver-Head Type SMT Assembly Machines,”
“Software R&D for the
“Research and Development of an Advanced
“Optimization
of SMT Assembly Machines and Lines,”
“Web-Based Analysis and Knowledge Discovery Tools for
Electronics Manufacturing,”
“Predicting Short-Term Expressway
Travel-Times using Neural Networks,”
“Distributed Intelligent Dynamic
Management,”
“Intelligent Web-Based Analysis and
Knowledge Discovery Tools for Manufacturing,”
“Ridematch System 21: An
Intelligent Web-based System for Ride Matching,”
“Traffic and Incident Management System Integration,”
“Rule-Based Extensions for Evolutionary SMT Optimization
and Data Mining Tools for Manufacturing and Design,”
Grants and Contracts: (continued)
“Research and Development of an Urban
“Gateway Traveler Information and Datapipe
Project,”
“Gateway
Traveler Information
System,” amendments
“Travel Information Systems at the User Level,”
“Research and Development of an Incident Information
System,”
“Data
Mining Tools for Manufacturing and Design and Meta-Knowledge
Extraction and Management for SMT Optimization,”
“CISE Research Resources: Matching Advanced Visualization and Intelligent Data Mining to High-Performance Experimental Networks,” 11/1/02 - 10/31/05, $862,000 (Sponsor: National Science Foundation, Principal Investigator: T. DeFanti; Co-PIs O. Yu, J. Leigh, P. Nelson and R. Grossman).
“Regional Transit Asset Management System Enhancements,”
“Gateway Traveler Information System,”
“Knowledge Discovery for Manufacturing and Design,” notification
of intent to fund received,
Graduate
Students Supervised:
Ph.D. Dissertations Completed
Marcin Kadluczka
(2003), “Searching for General Metaheuristic for
Optimization Problems and Knowledge Management.”
Ben Kao (2003), (co-advisor
with Prof. Simon Kasif) “Learning Algorithms For Large Datasets.”
Chi Zhou (2002), “Gene
Expression Programming and Rule Induction for Domain Knowledge Discovery and
Management.”
P. Csaszar
(1998), “Optimization Automated Placement Machines Using Tabu
Search Algorithms.”
W. Wang, (1998) “Optimization of Surface
Mount Technology Placement Machines using Evolutionary Algorithms.”
J. Inglehart,
(1997) “Inferring DNA Structures from Segmentation and Sequence Data via
Intelligent Search.”
P. Palacharla
(1995), “A Pattern Recognition Approach to Data Fusion in Intelligent
J. Dillenburg
(1993), “Techniques for Improving the Efficiency of Heuristic Search.”
A. Toptsis
(1992), “
J. Yim (1990),
(co-advisor with Prof. Murata) “A Predicate/Transition Net Model For Artificial Intelligence Robot Planning.”
Ph.D. Dissertations in Progress
P. Petrov,
"Distributed Intelligent Dynamic Management."
Jack Xie,
“Automatic Text Summarization for Business Intelligence.”
Xin Li, “Gene Expression Programming.”
M.S. Theses Completed
Sathish Kumar Murugesan
(2002), “Software Unite Scheduling in Highly Available Clusters Using
Constraint Programming Techniques.”
Pradosh Mohapatra
(2000), “A Generic Simulation and Optimization
System for Surface
Hankus Lukasz (2000),
“Object-Oriented Design of a GIS.”
E. Torres (1996), “Application of Neural
Networks to Data Fusion.”
P. Noel (1996), “Strategies for Solving Semeai in Go Using Genetic Algorithms.”
A. Dikos
(1995), "Optimization of Printed Circuit Card Assembly in High-Mix Environments
using Genetic Algorithms."
J. Inglehart
(1993), "On the Limitations of Automated Restriction Mapping."
C. Lain (1993), "Heuristic
Improvement through Triangulation."
J. Dillenburg
(1991), "Experimental
Analysis of
M.S. Projects Completed
Gomathy Sundaresan
(2002) “Hybrid Genetic Algorithm Rule-Based System for Optimizing SMT Placement
Machines.”
Tricia Sproule (2001) “LMT Client Test Tool.”
Revanta Banerji (2000), Semi-Automated
Classification of Web Documents.”
Amitkumar J. Aswani
(2000), “ Optimization of Revolver Head SMT Machines
using Adaptive Simulated Annealing.”
M.S. Projects Completed
(continued)
Mukund Pattangi
(2000), “Rating and Censorship On the Internet.”
Juan Lopez (2000), “Cost Reduction &
Calculation Tools for Electronics Manufacturing.”
Eric S.
Leung (1999), “Line Balancing of Multi-Station Revolver Head Machines Using
Rule-Based Expert Systems.”
M. T. Cornelison
(1998) “Predicting Traffic Congestion using Neural Networks.”
R. R. Rajbhandari
(1998), “ Optimization of Automated High Speed Modular
Placement Machines Using Knowledge-Based Systems.”
Weisong Xu (1998), “An Object-Oriented
Evolutionary Optimizer for a Turret-Based Chip Shooter.”
Parthiv Sheth (1998),
“An Intelligent Forecasting System for the Federal Reserve Bank of
Jose Afonso B.
Pinto (1997), “SNMP Network Management Expert System Java Package.”
Lauren L. Willming
(1997), “Simul Graphical User Interface.”
Y. Zou (1996),
"An Intelligent Automated Restriction Mapping Tool."
S.M Chung (1995), "Analysis and
Simulation of Selected Database Restoration Techniques."
Jing Zhang (1995), "An Economic
Occupational Forecasting Tool."
V. Shah (1990), "Globular Dynamics:
An Implementation of Physically Modeled Soft Objects."
P. Z. Kokan
(1994), "Fuzzy Implementation of Proportional Integral Derivative (PID)
Controllers."
J. Warpinski
(1992), "Expert Systems for Network Fault Detection."
A. Mazurkiewicz
(1992), "An Empirical Study of the Convergence Rate of the Back Propagation
Learning Algorithm for Artificial Neural Networks."
M. Managheb
(1990), "Knowledge-Based Planning and Scheduling with CLIPS."
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Supervised:
Dr. Virginia Sisiopiku,
Dr. Anestis Toptsis, Summer 1991.
Direction of Research
Associates and Technicians:
Name Highest Degree Employment Dates
A. Cai M.S.
K. Dicke M.S.
J. Dillenburg Ph.D.
C. Drake M.S.
C. Lain M.S.
D. Rorem M.S.
M. Rosheim M.S.
Redeye,
Daily Herald,
Chicago Sun-Times,
Chicago Tribune,
CBS Channel
San Diego Union-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune, July 29, 1999,
Thursday, Frontpage
Headline: “GAME WARY; RETAILERS ARE REFUSING TO SELL SOME TITLES AS CONCERN ABOUT
THE EFFECTS OF VIOLENCE GROWS.; STORES OPPOSE CHECKING IDS,” by Susan Chandler..
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Professional
Activities and Awards:
Referee and session
moderator for IJCAI - 89.
Head Site Judge for
1989 ACM
Referee for 1989 International Parallel
Processing Conference.
1990
Invited Speaker at the 1991 International
Conference on Computing and Information (
SAE 1993 Location Coding Workshop Participant (
Invited Speaker for the
Communication Society of the
Organizing committee
member of the 1994 Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (Paris).
Member of the Board of
Examiners (1994), Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur).
Invited Panel Member
representing the
Invited Speaker (joint
presentation with Martin Monahan of FHWA) at the 1995 Pacific Rim
Transportation Technology Conference (Seattle), “An Update on the ADVANCE
Project,” July 1995.
Invited Speaker at the
1995 International Federation of Operational Research Societies 4th Specialized
Conference - Operations Research and Engineering Design (
Professional
Activities and Awards: (continued)
Invited Speaker at the 1995 UIC
Engineering Alumni Association Dinner, “Smart Cars, Smart Factories, and
Beyond,” November 1995.
Member of (USDOT sponsored) GCM Priority
Corridor Architecture, Communications and Infrastructure Committee
(1996-00).
Invited Speaker at
1999
Invited Speaker at
Invited Speaker at
Keynote Speaker for the Intelligent Transportation
Systems Workshop held at Academia Sinica’s
Invited participant for a jointly
sponsored NSF and USDOT workshop held at UIC to formulate a ten-year basic
research program in transportation (October 2000).
Program Committee Member for IEEE 5th
International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (
2002 Federal Highway
Administration National Award for Traveler Information Web Sites for our
Gateway System GCMTravel.org (four awards nationally).
Invited
speaker for Motorola Labs Technology Seminar Series (webcast
to Motorola’s 3000 scientists and engineers around the world), “Domain
Knowledge Discovery and Management for Electronics Manufacturing and Design,”
December 2002.
Expert Witness Testimony,
Invited Speaker at
Illinois Institute of Technology, “Applied AI and Electronics Manufacturing Optimization,”
November 2003.
Professional
Activities and Awards: (continued)
Member of the IEEE
Intelligent Transportation Systems Council, 2004 - current.
Program Committee
Member for 2004 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing, and
Control (ICNSC 2004) which will be held on
Referee for IEEE Software.
Referee for IEEE Transactions on Robotics
and Automation.
Referee for Information Processing
Letters.
Referee for Journal of Experimental and
Theoretical Artificial Intelligence.
Referee for Journal
of Parallel and Distributed Computing.
Referee for Transportation Research – Part
C.
Referee for the National Science
Foundation.
Member of the
Association of Computing Machinery.
Member of the IEEE Computer Society
Member of the American Society of
Engineering Education
Lifetime member of the
American Association of Artificial Intelligence.
Campus
Level Activities
Steering Committee Member for UIC/UIUC
Symposium on Bioinformatics in Medicine and Biology,
Health Informatics
Department of Physics Head Review
Committee Member, 2002-03
Faculty Advisory Committee for External
Education (online programs, summer session, continuing education, Tutorium In Intensive English),
2002-present.
Campus
Level Activities (continued)
Vice-Chancellor for
Research’s Health Informatics Task Force, 2001-present.
Urban Transportation Center Faculty
Advisory Committee, 2001 – present.
Intellectual Property
Advisory Committee, 2000-present.
College
of Engineering and Departmental Activities:
EECS Computer Science Division Chair,
2000-2001.
Director, Engineering
Office of Transportation Research, 2000- 2001.
Member, EECS Ph.D.
Program Self-Study Review Committee, 1999.
Chair, EECS Computer Committee,
1996-1998.
Member, EECS
Reorganization Steering Committee, 1999-2000.
Member, EECS Advisory Committee 1996-1997
Member, EECS Faculty Search Committee 1995-1997
Member, EECS Undergraduate Committee 1994-1996
Member, EECS Advisory Committee 1996-1997
Member, EECS Department Scholarship
Committee 1991-1993
Member, EECS Department Computer
Committee 1988-1993.
Member, EECS Department Library and
Grievance Committee 1988-1991.
Honors College Advisor 1989-1990.