Current Projects
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Rick Sojda and I are collaborating on a project entitled
Investigating Whether Artificial Intelligence Can Be Used To
Detect Birds in Nexrad Data that was first funded by USG and
is now funded by NREL.
The work involves neural networks and data reformulation.
Currently, M.S. student Reggie Mead is working with us.
Summer 2006 - Summer 2009.
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Neal Richter
is working on a Ph.D. Neal is studying properties of adaptive
mutation in the context of genetic algorithms.
Recent Funded Projects
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Rick Sojda and I collaborated on a project entitled
Wetland Data Organization and Computer Modelling
that was funded through the USGS. The work involved
data reformulation and Bayesian Belief Networks.
Two students worked on the project:
a math Ph.D. student (Julia Sharp) and
a CS undergraduate (Reggie Mead). Fall 2005 - Fall 2007.
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Mike Emery
used an agent-based approach to track people moving around
in a facility such as an airport. The development environment
we used was COUGAAR.
Rick Donovan
of Montana Tech was the PI and the funding came from the Montana
Board of Research and Commercialization.
Summer 2004 - Fall 2005.
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Jeff Elser
was funded by
RightNow Technologies
to modify and incorporate learning into
publicly available search engines such as
ht://dig.
Jeff continues to work on this project for his master's thesis.
Spring 2005 - Summer 2005.
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Rick Sojda and I employed
Brad Pascoe to do some
embedded computer programming. Specifically, Brad
constructed interfaces for programmable thermometers
and water measuring sticks that are deployed at Red
Rocks National Wildlife Refuge.
Summer 2003.
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Modeling Methods for Assessing the Effects of Coalbed
Methane Production on Emergent Wetlands.
Rick Sojda
of the Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center and I
explored AI modeling techniques such as Bayesian Belief
Networks, fuzzy expert systems, and agent-based systems for
modeling the effects of coalbed methane production.
The project was sponsored by the USGS (United States Geological
Survey). A master's student, Hugh Richardson, was supported.
Summer 2002.
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Collaborative Development of Artificial Intelligence Methodologies
for Natural Resource Applications in the Northern Rockies.
Rick Sojda and I used an agent-based system called Decaf
to help wildlife managers study the impacts of natural resource
decisions on local wildlife populations. The project was sponsored
by the USGS. In the fall of 2001 and spring of 2002 an undergraduate,
Devin Gray,
was supported. In the summer of 2002 a master's student,
Wenhao Lin was supported.
Fall 2001 - Fall 2002.
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A Scheduling Investigation. Raytheon Corporation sponsored this
project to explore how genetic algorithms can be used to solve
various difficult scheduling problems that they confront.
The project supported a master's student, Scott Furois and
an undergraduate, Ryan Woodham.
Fall 2000 - Fall 2001.
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Customer Support Technologies.
Kase Cannon, a master's student, was supported
by RightNow Technologies, Inc.
to improve a customer support web using natural language and
statistical techniques.
Spring 2000.
Other Projects
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Nick Howard undertook an independent study project (CS 470)
to evaluate and improve the
VCSM
web site. Fall 2005 - Spring 2006.
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Noriko Rogers finished her master's project
that explores how to use AI game playing techniques
in the context of the game of Avalam.
Summer 2005.
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Darrin Sommers
investigated how
machine learning techniques such as neural networks and genetic
algorithms could be used to model bioinformatic information.
The data was provided by
Mike Hahn of the Health and Human Development
Department. Spring 2005.
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Jack Whitehouse put together a
tutorial
on Holodeck, a product that helps track down security holes
in software. The tutorial was used by students taking a "software
quality and reliability" course at Massey University in August.
Summer 2004
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Gabe Rudy
investigated how a boosting technique
(AdaBoost) could be used to increase the classification accuracy
of a decision stump. He presented his results at the
undergraduate scholar's conference in April on the MSU campus.
He also presented his results at a student poster competition at
the CCSC Conference
in Salem, Oregon in October.
Spring 2004.
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Stuart Howard
completed a master's project
that constructs a web-based interface to the
NeuroSys Database project. This database is
used by BRIN (Biomedical Research Infrastructure
Network). Spring 2004.
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Justin Hart explored the use of Hidden Markov
Models to model a human's strategy in the context
of a computer game. Fall 2003.
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Gabe Rudy
conducted an investigation
of search techniques in the context of the Rush Hour
problem. Spring 2003.
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Valerie Wagner completed a master's project
entitled Mobile Intersection Counter: A Traffic Engineering
Software Application for the Palm OS. Fall 2002.
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Michael Milvich
completed a senior design project
where he created an image editor for Mac OS X from scratch.
Fall 2001 - Spring 2002.
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Scott Duren investigated AI game playing techniques
in the context of a Java Othello applet that he constructed
from scratch. Fall 2001.
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Hasari Tosun
completed a master's project that used
different learning techniques to predict the
age of an abalone. Spring 2000.
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Scott Duren
investigated the effectiveness
of different search techniques on the eight-puzzle.
Fall 1999 - Spring 2000.