Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• Stephyn G. W. Butcher and John W. Sheppard, "Distributional Smoothing in Bayesian Fault Diagnosis," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 58, No. 2, February 2009, pp. 342–349.
• Kihoon Choi, Satnam Singh, Anuradha Kodali, Krishna Pattipati, John Sheppard, Setu Madhavi Namburu, Shunsuke Shigua, Danil Prokhorov, and Liu Qiao, "Novel Classifier Fusion Approaches for Fault Diagnosis in Automotive Systems," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, February 2008.
• Brian Haberman and John W. Sheppard, "Overlapping Particle Swarms for Energy-Efficient Routing in Sensor Networks," submitted to Swarm Intelligence, Springer, May 2008.
• John W. Sheppard and Stephyn G. W. Butcher, “A Formal Analysis of Fault Diagnosis with D-Matrices,” Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, 2007.
• John W. Sheppard and Mark A. Kaufman, “A Bayesian Approach to Diagnostics and Prognostics from Built In Test,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, special issue on Built In Test, Vol. 54, No. 3, June 2005.

Conference/Workshop Papers

• John W. Sheppard, Stephyn G. W. Butcher, Patrick J. Donnelly, and Benjamin R. Mitchell, “Demonstrating Semantic Interoperability of Diagnostic Models via AI-ESTATE,” Proceedings of the IEEE IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 2009.
• John W. Sheppard, Timothy J. Wilmering, and Mark A. Kaufman, “IEEE Standards for Prognostics and Health Management,” to appear in IEEE AUTOTESTCON 2008 Conference Record, Salt Lake City, UT, September 2008.
• Edward Kao, Peter VanMaasdam, and John Sheppard, "Image-Based Tracking Utilizing Particle Swarms and Probabilistic Data Association," Proceedings of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, St. Louis, MO, September 21-23, 2008.
• Stephyn G. W. Butcher and John W. Sheppard, "Asset-Specific Bayesian Diagnostics in Mixed Contexts," IEEE AUTOTESTCON 2007 Conference Record, Baltimore, MD, September 2007.
• Stephyn G. W. Butcher and John W. Sheppard, “Improving Diagnostic Accuracy by Blending Probabilities: Some Initial Experiments,” Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-07), Nashville, TN, May 2007.
• Kihoon Choi, Satnam Singh, Krishna Pattipati, John W. Sheppard, Setu Madhavi Namburu, Shunsuke Chigusa, Danil V. Prokhorov, and Lui Qiao, "Novel Classifier Fusion Approaches for Fault Diagnosis in Automotive Systems," IEEE AUTOTESTCON 2007 Conference Record, Baltimore, MD, September 2007.
• Mark A. Kaufman, John W. Sheppard, and Timothy J. Wilmering, "Model-Based Standards for Diagnostic and Maintenance Information Integration," IEEE AUTOTESTCON 2007 Conference Record, Baltimore, MD, September 2007.
• Sean R. Martin, Steve E. Wright, and John W. Sheppard, "Offline and Online Evolutionary Bi-Directional RRT Algorithms for Efficient Re-Planning in Environments with Moving Obstacles," Proceedings of the 3rd annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, New York: IEEE Press, September 2007.
• Satnam Singh, Kihoon Choi, Anuradha Kodali, Krishna Pattipati, John Sheppard, Setu Madhavi Namburu, Shunsuke Chigusa, Danil V. Prokhorov, and Liu Qiao, “Dynamic Multiple Fault Diagnosis: Mathematical Formulations and Solution Techniques,” Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-07), Nashville, TN, May 2007.
• Timothy J. Wilmering and John W. Sheppard, “Ontologies for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery to Support Diagnostic Maturation,” Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-07), Nashville, TN, May 2007.
• Stephen G. W. Butcher, John W. Sheppard, Mark A. Kaufman, Hanh Ha, and Craig MacDougall, “Experiments in Bayesian Diagnostics with IUID-Enabled Data,” IEEE AUTOTESTCON 2006 Conference Record, Anaheim, California, September 2006, pp. 605–614.
• John W. Sheppard, Stephyn G. W. Butcher, Mark A. Kaufman, and Craig MacDougall, “Not-So-Naive Bayesian Networks and Unique Identification in Developing Advanced Diagnostics,” Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 2006.
• John W. Sheppard and Stephyn G. W. Butcher, “On the Linear Separability of Diagnostic Models,” IEEE AUTOTESTCON 2006 Conference Record, Anaheim, California, September 2006, pp. 626–635.
• John W. Sheppard and Timothy J. Wilmering, “Recent Advances in IEEE Standards for Diagnosis and Diagnostic Maturation,” Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 2006.

Technical Reports (available upon request)

• Brian Haberman, "Overlapping Particle Swarms for Energy-Efficient Routing in Sensor Networks," PhD Qualifying Project, JHU-NISL-08-001, February, 19, 2008.
• Stephyn G. W. Butcher, "Experiments with Asset-Specific Diagnostic Models using Naive Bayes Classifiers," PhD Qualifying Project, JHU-NISL-08-002, March 25, 2008.
• Charles Robertson, "BayesNetBuilder -- A General Dynamic Bayesian Network Builder," MSE Project Report, JHU-NISL-08-003, August 27, 2008.
• John Sheppard, Stephyn Butcher, Patrick Donnelly, and Benjamin Mitchell, "Predictive Health Management and Advanced Diagnostics for Automated Test Systems," JHU-NISL-08-004, October 31, 2008.
• John W. Sheppard and Stephyn G. W. Butcher, "Interoperable Adaptive Diagnostics in Automatic Test Systems: Experimental Results and Standardization Progress," JHU-NISL-07-001, March 3, 2007.
• John W. Sheppard, Stephyn G. W. Butcher, and Ramendra Chauhan, "Electronic Systems Bayesian Stochastic Prognosis: Algorithm Development,: JHU-NISL-07-002, September 14, 2007.
• Omar F. Zaidan, "Dynamic Classifier Selection with Support Vector Machines of Varying Cost Functions, PhD Qualifying Project, JHU-NISL-07-003, October 22, 2007.
• John W. Sheppard, "An Evaluation of the Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (WEKA) and BayesiaLab Software Tools for Developing and Deploying Diagonstic Bayesian Networks," JHU-NISL-06-001, September 29, 2006.