Daniel Berleant

CV, on-line version

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Dept. of Information Science

ETAS Building, Rm. 259 C
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

2801 University Ave.

Little Rock, AR 72204

USA
(501) 683-7265

(501) 663-7173 (alternate)
(501) 683-7049  (fax)
berleant@gmail.com

jdberleant@ualr.edu

http://www.ualr.edu/jdberleant

EDUCATION

Ph.D.	1991	Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
M.S.	1990	Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
B.S.	1982	Computer Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

EXPERIENCE

2006-Present, Associate Professor

Dept. of Information Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

1999-2006, Associate Professor

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University

Lawrence Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics (2000-2006)

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program (2000-2006)

Information Infrastructure Institute (2003-2006

Human Computer Interaction Graduate Program (2003-2006)

1991-1999, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor

Dept. of Computer Science and Computer Engineering (1998-1999), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Dept. of Computer Systems Engineering (1991-1998)

Adjunct, Dept. of Electrical Engineering (1993-1999)

1983-1991, Research Scientist Engineer Associate, Research Assistant, and Teaching Assistant

Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin

1989, Technical Staff Member

Artificial Intelligence Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

1982-1983, Software Engineer

Sorcim Corp., San Jose, CA

1980-1982, Software Developer

Dept. of Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1979, Project Manager

Quadex Corp., Cambridge, MA

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS (“*” indicates student author)

• IN PREPARATION OR SUBMITTED 
1. D. Berleant, J. Ding*, and D. Nettleton, “Corpus properties of protein interaction descriptions in MEDLINE,” in preparation.
2. G. Kahrimanis and D. Berleant, “Location measurements without prior distributions based on the calculus of probability alone,” in preparation.
3. S. Ferson, D. Berleant, et al., “Myths about correlations and dependencies and their implications for risk analysis.”
4. D.J. Berleant, O. Kosheleva, V. Kreinovich, and H.T. Nguyen, “Unimodality, independence lead to NP-hardness of interval probability problems,” Reliable Computing, to appear.
• JOURNAL ARTICLES 
1. D. Berleant, F.G. Cozman, O. Kosheleva, and V. Kreinovich, “Dealing with imprecise probabilities: interval-related talks at ISIPTA'05,” Reliable Computing, 12 (2) (2006), pp. 153-165.
2. J. Ding*, L. Hughes*, D. Berleant, A.W. Fulmer, and E.S. Wurtele, “PubMed Assistant: a biologist-friendly interface for enhanced PubMed search,” Bioinformatics, accepted.
3. J. Ding*, K. Viswanathan, D. Berleant, L. Hughes, E. S. Wurtele, D. Ashlock, J. Dickerson, A. Fulmer, and P. S. Schnable, “Using the biological taxonomy to access biological literature using PathBinderH,” Bioinformatics, 21(10) (May 2005), pp. 2560-2562.
4. J. Ding* and D. Berleant, “MedKit: a helper toolkit for automatic mining of MEDLINE/PubMed citations,” Bioinformatics, 21 (Mar. 2005), pp. 694-695.
5. D. Berleant and J. Zhang*, “Bounding the times to failure of 2-component systems,” IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 53 (4) (Dec. 2004), pp. 542-550.
6. H. Regan, S. Ferson and D. Berleant, “Equivalence of methods for uncertainty propagation of real-valued random variables,” International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 36 (2004), pp. 1-30.
7. D. Berleant and V. Nesterov, “Editors’ note,” Reliable Computing, 10 (2) (2004), pp. 81-82. (Reliable Computing is the journal of the interval computing community.)
8. D. Berleant and J. Zhang*, “Using Pearson correlation to improve envelopes around the distributions of functions,” Reliable Computing, 10 (2) (2004), pp. 139-161. (Reviewed. Reliable Computing is the journal of the interval computing community.)
9. D. Berleant and J. Zhang*, “Representation and problem solving with Distribution Envelope Determination (DEnv),” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 85 (1-3) (2004), pp. 153-168.
10. D. Berleant, L. Xie*, and J. Zhang*, “Statool: a tool for Distribution Envelope Determination (DEnv), an interval-based algorithm for arithmetic on random variables,” Reliable Computing 9 (2) (2003), pp. 91-108. (Reliable Computing is the journal of the interval computing community.)
11. D. Berleant, M.-P. Cheong*, C. Chu, Y. Guan, A. Kamal, G. Sheblé, S. Ferson, and J.F. Peters, “Dependable handling of uncertainty,”  Reliable Computing 9 (6) (2003), pp. 407-418. (Invited. Reliable Computing is the journal of the interval computing community.)
12. D. Berleant, “Safe and effective computer arithmetic” (a review of Scientific Computing, Validated Numerics, Interval Methods, Joint Proceedings of SCAN 2000 and Interval 2000, ed. by W. Krämer and J. von Gudenberg, Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2001), The Computer Journal 45 (5) (2002), pp. 578-579. (Invited.)
13. D. Berleant, “Does typography affect proposal assessment?,” Communications of the ACM 43 (8) (August 2000), pp. 24-25.
14. H. Berghel, D. Berleant, T. Foy*, and M. McGuire*, “Cyberbrowsing: information customization on the Web,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) 50 (10) (May, 1999), pp. 505-511.
15. J. Simonson, D. Berleant, X. Zhang*, M. Xie*, and H. Vo*, “Version augmented URI's for reference permanence via an Apache Module design,” Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 30 (1-7) (April 1998), pp. 337-345. Also presented at the Seventh International World Wide Web Conference (WWW7), Brisbane, Australia.
16. D. Berleant and C. Goodman-Strauss, “Bounding the results of arithmetic operations on random variables of unknown dependency using intervals,” Reliable Computing 4 (2) (1998), pp. 147-165. (Reliable Computing is the journal of the interval computing community.)
17. D. Berleant and H. Cheng*, “A software tool for automatically verified operations on intervals and probability distributions,” Reliable Computing 4 (1) (1998), pp. 71-82. (Reliable Computing is the journal of the interval computing community.)
18. D. Berleant and B. Kuipers, “Qualitative and quantitative simulation: bridging the gap,” Artificial Intelligence 95 (2) (1997), pp. 215-255.
19. D. Berleant, L. Shi*, X. Wei*, K. Viswanathan*, C. Chai*, N. Majid*, Y. Qu*, and P. Sunkara*, “LEARN: software for foreign language vocabulary acquisition from English unrestricted text,” Computer Assisted Language Learning 10 (2) (1997), pp. 107-120.
20. D. Berleant, “Engineering Word Experts for word disambiguation,” Natural Language Engineering 1 (4) (Dec. 1995), pp. 339-362.
21. D. Berleant and B. Liu*, “Robert's Rules of Order for email meetings,” Computer 28 (11) (Nov. 1995),  pp. 84-85.
22. D. Berleant, “A unified representation for numerical and qualitative simulations,” Applied Computing Review 3 (1) (Summer 1995), pp. 23-26. (Extended abstract in the AI and Simulation Workshop proceedings, 1989. Previous version: A Unification of Numerical and Qualitative Model Simulation, Proceedings of the 1989 Workshop on Model Based Reasoning, IJCAI-89.)
23. D. Berleant and H. Berghel, “Customizing Information: part 2, how successful are we so far?,” Computer 27 (10) (Oct. 1994), pp. 76-78.
24. D. Berleant and H. Berghel, “Customizing Information: part 1, getting what we need, when we need it,” Computer 27 (9) (Sept. 1994), pp. 96-98.
25. H. Berghel and D. Berleant, “The challenge of customizing cybermedia,” Heuristics 7 (2) (Summer/Fall 1994), pp. 33-43.
26. R. R. Goforth and D. Berleant, “A simulation model to assist in managing the HIV epidemic: IMAP2,” Simulation 63 (2) (Aug. 1994), pp. 128-136.
27. D. Berleant, S. Lovelady*, and K. Viswanathan*, “A foreign vocabulary learning aid for the networked world of tomorrow: the LEARN project,” SIGICE Bulletin 19 (3) (Feb. 1994), pp. 22-29.
28. D. Berleant, “Automatically verified reasoning with both intervals and probability density functions,” Interval Computations (1993 No. 2), pp. 48-70. (Interval Computations, now called Reliable Computing, is the journal of the interval computing community.)
• SOFTWARE
1. D. Berleant (project leader), PubMed Assistant, a biologist friendly interface for enhanced PubMed searches, at http://metnetdb.gdcb.iastate.edu/browser. On-line as of 2005.
2. D. Berleant (project leader), PathBinderH, a large bioinformatics text repository, at www.plantgenomics.iastate.edu/PathBinderH. On-line as of 2005.
3. D. Berleant (project leader), MetNet PathBinder, a plant metabolomics text repository currently being integrated into the overall MetNet system per an NSF grant. http://metnetdb.gdcb.iastate.edu/pathbinder/. On-line as of 2005.
4. D. Berleant (project leader), Statool, a system for arithmetic on partially specified probability distributions. http://class.ee.iastate.edu/berleant/home/Research/Pdfs/versions/statool/distribution/index.htm. Latest version uploaded July, 2005.
5. D. Berleant (project leader), MultiBrowser, a system for information foraging. (Available upon request.)
• BOOK CHAPTERS
1. J. A. Dickerson, D. Berleant, P. Du*, J. Ding*, C. M. Foster*, L. Li*, and E. S. Wurtele, “Creating, modeling, and visualizing metabolic networks,” chapter 17 in H. Chen, S. S. Fuller, C. Fiedman, and W. Hersh, eds., Medical Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine, Springer, 2005, pp. 491-518.
2. J.A. Dickerson, D. Berleant, Z. Cox*, W. Qi*, D. Ashlock, E.S. Wurtele, and A.W. Fulmer, “Creating metabolic network models using text mining and fuzzy expert systems,” in J.T.L. Wang, C.H. Wu, and P. Wang, eds., Computational Biology and Genome Informatics, World Scientific Publishing Co., 2003, pp. 207-238.
3. D. Berleant, “Testing and qualification,” in W.D. Brown, ed., Advanced Electronic Packaging: With Emphasis on Multichip Modules, Instructor's Solutions Manual, IEEE Press, 1999, pp. 62-67.
4. S. Kolluru* and D. Berleant, “Testing and qualification,” chapter 12 in W. D. Brown, ed., Advanced Electronic Packaging: With Emphasis on Multichip Modules, IEEE Press, 1999, pp. 447-491.
5. D. Berleant, “Automatically verified arithmetic on probability distributions and intervals,” in B. Kearfott and V. Kreinovich, eds., Applications of Interval Computations, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, pp. 227-244. 
6. D. Berleant and B. Kuipers, “Qualitative-numeric simulation with Q3,” in B. Faltings and S. Struss, eds., Recent Advances in Qualitative Physics, MIT Press, 1992, pp. 3-16. (Preliminary versions in AAAI's 1990 MBR Workshop and in the 4th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning 1990.)
7. R. Doyle, U. Fayyad, D. Berleant, L. Charest, L. de Mello, H. Porta and M. Weismeyer, “Sensor selection in complex systems monitoring using information quantification and causal reasoning,” in B. Faltings and S. Struss, eds., Recent Advances in Qualitative Physics, MIT Press, 1992, pp. 229-244.
• PROCEEDINGS - FULL PAPER REVIEWED
1. M.-P. Cheong*, G. B. Sheblé, and D. Berleant, “Knowledge extraction and data mining for the competitive electricity auction market,” Proceedings of The 9^th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS 2006), Stockholm, June 11-15, 2006.
2. D. Berleant, O. Kosheleva, and H. Nguyen, “Adding unimodality or independence makes interval probability problems NP-hard,” Proceedings of the Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2006), Paris, France, July 2-7, 2006, pp. 833-839.
3. V. Kreinovich, D. Berleant, S. Ferson, and W.A. Lodwick, “Combining interval, probabilistic, and fuzzy uncertainty: foundations, algorithms, challenges – an overview,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (FNG’05), Tijuana, Oct. 13-145, 2005.
4. M.-P. Cheong*, G. Sheblé, D. Berleant, J. Zhang*, and G. Kahrimanis, “Uncertainty quantification in a model electric energy bidding problem: a multi-criteria decision making approach,” Proceedings of the 15th Power Systems Computation Conference, Liège, Belgium, Aug. 22-26, 2005.
5. J. Zhang* and D. Berleant, “Arithmetic on random variables: squeezing the envelopes with new joint distribution constraints,” Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium On Imprecise Probabilities and Their Applications (ISIPTA ’05), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, July 20-23 2005, pp. 416-422.
6. D. Berleant, M. Dancre, J.-P. Argaud, and G. Sheble, “Electric company portfolio optimization under interval stochastic dominance constraints,” Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium On Imprecise Probabilities and Their Applications (ISIPTA ’05), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, July 20-23 2005, pp. 51-57.
7. J. Ding* and D. Berleant, “Design of a Standoff Object-Oriented Markup Language (SOOML) for annotating biomedical literature,” 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Miami, May 25-28, 2005, pp. 382-385.
8. D. Berleant, J. Miao, M. Arvold*, J. Brown*, R. DeVries*, T. Drucker*, L. Elkin*, C. Gofron*, and K.-H. Kim*, “Head-tail display: a lightweight approach to query-dependent document display,” Hypertext 2004, Santa Cruz, CA, Aug. 9-13, 2004, pp. 22-23. (Acceptance rate for short papers: 24 of 56.)
9. M.-P. Cheong*, D. Berleant, and G. Sheblé, “Information Gap Decision Theory as a tool for strategic bidding in competitive electricity markets,” Proceedings, 8^th Int. Conf. on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, Sept. 12-16, 2004, Ames, Iowa. (Awarded one of the student prize paper awards.)
10. J. Miao* and D. Berleant, “From paragraph networks to document networks,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology (ITCC 2004), April 5-7, Las Vegas, Vol. 1, pp. 295-303.
11. D. Berleant, J. Miao*, Z. Gu*, and D. Xu*, “Toward dialogues with documents: MultiBrowser,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology (ITCC 2004), April 5-7, Las Vegas, Vol. 1, pp. 287-294.
12. J. Ding*, D. Berleant, J. Xu, and A. W. Fulmer, “Extracting biochemical interactions from MEDLINE using a link grammar parser,” in Proceedings of the Fifteenth IEEE Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2003),  Nov. 3-5, Sacramento, pp. 467-471.
13. J. Miao* and D. Berleant, “A graph based approach to comparing search engines, proceedings,” Fifth Russian Conference on Digital Libraries, St. Petersburg, Oct. 29-31, 2003.
14. M.-P. Cheong*, D. Berleant, and G. Sheblé, “On the dependency relationship between bids,” in Proceedings of the 35th North American Power Symposium, Rolla, Missouri, Oct. 20-22, 2003.
15. J. Ding*, D. Berleant, D. Nettleton, and E. Wurtele, “Mining MEDLINE: abstracts, sentences, or phrases?,” Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 7 (2002), Kaua'i, Hawaii, Jan. 3-7, pp. 326-337. (Acceptance rate for track was 6 of 17; international conference; Web site hosted by Stanford University at psb.stanford.edu.)
16. D. Berleant, Z. Gu*, S. Russell, J. F. Peters, S. Ramanna, and H. Berghel, “Using software engineering concepts and techniques to leverage learning: a novel approach,” 2001 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 24-27, 12 pages.
17. J. A. Dickerson, D. Berleant, Z. Cox*, W. Qi*, D. Ashlock, and E. Wurtele, “Creating metabolic network models using text mining and expert knowledge,” Atlantic Symposium on Computational Biology, Genome Information Systems & Technology (CBGIST 2001), pp. 26-30.
18. D. Berleant, “Models for reader interaction systems,” Ninth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Washington, D.C., Nov. 6-11, 2000, ACM Press, pp. 127-133. (Acceptance rate: 66 of 179.)
19. J. Simonson, D. Berleant, and A. Bayyari*, “Document authentication and permanence service,” HyperText 2000, May 30 - June 3, San Antonio, Texas, pp. 226-227. (Acceptance rate for short papers: 22 of 48.)
20. D. Berleant and B. Liu*, “Is sensitivity analysis more fault tolerant than point prediction?,” Simulation in the Medical Sciences: Proceedings of the 1997 Western MultiConference, The Society for Computer Simulation International, pp. 196-199. 
21. D. L. Andrews, J. M. Conrad, L. Schaper, S. A. Mengel, and D. Berleant, “Design of a high speed MIMD distributed processor node using MCM technology,” Proceedings of the 1993 International Electronics Packaging Conference, Sept., San Diego, International Electronics Packaging Society, pp. 132-139. 
22. D. Berleant, R. Goforth, and J. Yuan*, “A computer model for predicting AIDS incidence among intravenous drug abusers,” Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Sciences, 1993, Arkadelphia, AR.
23. J. Mathew*, J. M. Conrad, and D. Berleant, “Word sense disambiguation by constraint satisfaction: a feasibility study,” Proceedings of the Arkansas Computer Conference, Oct. 14-15, 1993, Little Rock, Arkansas Society for Computer and Information Technology, pp. 74-79.
24. D. Berleant, H. Berghel, and K. Viswanathan*, “Electronic information management: a perspective,” Proceedings of the Arkansas Computer Conference, Oct. 14-15, 1993, Little Rock, Arkansas Society for Computer and Information Technology, pp. 50-57.
25. R. R. Goforth, D. Berleant, K. Bognaes*, and H. Bushar, “Histogram editing for semi-quantitative data input in interactive simulations,” Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, Indiana, ACM Press, pp. 627-633.
26. D. Berleant and R. Kaduchak*, “Learn a foreign language in (almost) zero minutes a day: a computer-assisted instruction system,” Proceedings of the Arkansas Computer Conference, Oct. 29-30, 1992, Little Rock, Arkansas Society for Computer and Information Technology, pp. 57-62.
27. D. Berleant, R. R. Goforth, and A. Khanna*, “Comparison of simulation with PDFs vs. fuzzy values,” Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Simulation in Industrial Engineering and in Problems of Urban Development, Nov. 18-19, 1992, Mexico City, Society for Computer Simulation, pp. I9-I15.
28. D. Berleant, A. Chandra, K. Bognaes*, C.-G. Liaw, L. Sheng* and J. Ch'ng*, “Probabilities of qualitative behaviors for dependability analysis of a fault-tolerance model,” Proceedings of the 1992 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, Mar. 1-3, 1992, Kansas City, ACM Press, pp. 883-889.
29. D. Berleant, “Qualitative-quantitative simulation: in brief,” Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on AI, Simulation and Planning in High Autonomy Systems, Apr. 1-2, 1991, Cocoa Beach, Florida, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 233-240.
30. D. Berleant and B. Kuipers, “Combined qualitative and numerical simulation with Q3,” 4th International Workshop on Qualitative Physics, July 9-12, 1990, Lugano, Switzerland, pp. 140-152.
31. D. Berleant*, “A unification of numerical and qualitative model simulation,” Proceedings of the 1989 Workshop on Model Based Reasoning, Sponsored by AAAI, pp. 91-96.
32. R. Doyle, D. Berleant*, L. Falcone, and U. Fayyad*, “Selective simulation and selective sensor interpretation in monitoring,” Proceedings of the AIAA Computers in Aerospace VII Conference and Exhibit, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1989, pp. 859-870.
33. B. Kuipers and D. Berleant*, “Using incomplete quantitative knowledge in qualitative reasoning,” Proceedings of the Seventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-88), Morgan-Kaufmann, Los Altos, California, pp. 324-329. (Also presented at the Qualitative Physics Workshop, 1988).
• PROCEEDINGS - OTHER
1. V. Kreinovich, D. Berleant, S. Ferson, and W.A. Lodwick, “Combining interval, probabilistic, and fuzzy uncertainty: foundations, algorithms, challenges – an overview,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (FNG’05), Tijuana, Oct. 13-145, 2005.
2. D. Berleant, J. Zhang*, and G. Sheblé, “Activity networks and uncertainty quantification: 2^nd-order probability for solving graphs of concurrent and sequential tasks,” Proceedings, NSF Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing, Savannah Georgia, Sept. 15-17, 2004, pp. 53-67. http://www.gtsav.gatech.edu/rec/recworkshop/proceedings/papers.html.
3. D. Xu*, D. Berleant, G. Takle, and Z. Pan, “A better understanding of the effects of software defects in weather simulation,” WRF/MM5 User’s Workshop poster session, Boulder, June 22-25, 2004.
4. J. Zhang* and D. Berleant, “Envelopes around cumulative distribution functions from interval parameters of standard continuous distributions,” Proceedings, North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS 2003), Chicago, pp. 407-412.
5.  D. Berleant, J. Zhang*, R. Hu*, and G. Sheblé, “Economic dispatch: applying the interval-based distribution envelope algorithm to an electric power problem,” SIAM Workshop on Validated Computing 2002 Extended Abstracts, Toronto, May 23-25, pp. 32-35. (Entire submission refereed.)
6. D. Berleant, L. Xie*, J. Zhang*, and G. Sheblé, “An improved tool for distribution envelope determination, a technique for interval-based, verified arithmetic on random variables,” SIAM Workshop on Validated Computing 2002 Extended Abstracts, Toronto, May 23-25, pp. 26-31. (Entire submission refereed.)
7. G. Sheblé and D. Berleant, “Bounding the composite value at risk for energy service company operation with DEnv, an interval-based algorithm,” SIAM Workshop on Validated Computing 2002, Extended Abstracts, Toronto, May 23-25, pp. 166-171. (Entire submission refereed.)
8. J. N. Davis and D. Berleant, “The ‘problem’ of foreign/second-language reading: a technological solution,” Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Technology in Education (ICTE), Santa Fe, March 8-11, 1998. (Abstract refereed.)
9. R. Goforth and D. Berleant, “The use of probability density functions in an epidemiological model and computer simulation,” abstract, Second Asian Mathematical Conference (AMC95), Oct. 17-20, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, p. 107. (Abstract refereed.)
10. H. Cheng*, and D. Berleant, “A software tool for automatically verified reasoning with intervals and probability distributions,” International Journal of Reliable Computing Supplement (peer-refereed extended abstracts of APIC '95 International Workshop on Applications of Interval Computations), El Paso, TX, Feb. 23-25, pp. 58-61. Also at ftp://interval.usl.edu/pub/interval_math/Feb._1995_El_Paso_conference/extended-abstracts/cheng. (Entire submission refereed.)
11. D. Berleant, H. Cheng*, P. Hoang*, M. Ibrahim*, S. Jamil*, and P. Krovvidi*, “Robustness measurement: an approach to assessing simulation program reliability,” in M. J. Chinni, ed., Proceedings of the Military, Government and Aerospace Simulation Conference, The Society for Computer Simulation, 1994 (ISBN 1-56555-072-2), pp. 165-170.
12. D. Berleant* and A. Chandra*, “Probabilities of qualitative behaviors for dependability analysis: overview,” Model Based Reasoning Workshop Notes, AAAI-91, July. (Earlier version in Knowledge Based Construction of Probabilistic and Decision Models Workshop Notes, AAAI-91.)  (Entire submission refereed.)
• OTHER PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
1. J. Ding*, K. Viswanathan*, D. Berleant, E. Wurtele, D. Ashlock, J. Dickerson, A. Fulmer, and P. S. Schnable, “PathBinderH: a tool for sentence-focused, plant taxonomy-sensitive access to the biological literature,” Software Artifact Research and Development Laboratory Technical Report SARD11-19-04, 2004.
2. D. Berleant, “Combining evidence: the Naïve Bayes model Vs. semi-naïve evidence combination,” Software Artifact Research and Development Laboratory Technical Report SARD04-11, 2004.
3. M.-P. Cheong, G. B. Sheblé, and D. Berleant, “Business intelligence using information gap decision theory and data mining approach in competitive bidding,” report, EPRC/PAR 41st Annual Meeting, 2004.
4. S. Ferson, J. Hajagos*, D. Berleant, J. Zhang*, W. T. Tucker, L. Ginzburg, and W. Oberkampf, “Dependence in Dempster-Shafer theory and probability bounds analysis,” Technical Report SAND2004-3072, Sandia National Laboratory, October 2004.
5. D. Berleant and Z. Gu*, “Hash table sizes for storing n-grams for text processing,” Technical Report 10-00a, Software Research Lab, 3215 Coover Hall, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Oct. 2000.
6. D. Berleant, “Tip on using mid-course evaluations,” Relative to Teaching newsletter, Teaching and Faculty Support Center, U. of Arkansas, April, 1996. 
7. D. Berleant, “Software ‘robustness’ assessment addresses the question: ‘how much do bugs matter?,’” Arkansas Computer Bulletin 8 (1) (Winter 1995), p. 8.
8. D. Berleant, “From the industrial age to the information age: research projects are constructing missing links,” Arkansas Computer Bulletin 7 (7) pp. 4-6. Portions also appear in Arkansas Razorbytes 2 (1) (Spring 1994).
9. D. Berleant with others, “The Computer Cartooned,” cartoons about computers, serialized in the Arkansas Computer Bulletin, 1993-94. From the unpublished manuscript.
10. D. Berleant*, The Use of Partial Quantitative Information with Qualitative Reasoning, dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1991. 
11. D. Berleant*, “Constraint propagation by Waltz Filtering is sound,” Constraint Directed Reasoning Workshop Notes, AAAI-90, pp. 2-11. 
12. D. Berleant*, “Probabilities of qualitative behaviors from probability distributions on inputs,” technical report AI90-136, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, August 1990.
• PANELS, PRESENTATIONS, AND POSTERS
1. [2005] D. Berleant, “Further Computational Challenges Regarding CDF Bounds/P-Boxes/Credal Sets…,” Fourth International Symposium On Imprecise Probabilities And Their Applications (ISIPTA ’05), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, July 23. (Invited panel)
2. [2005] D. Berleant, “Paths to the Future,” Institute for Information Science and Technology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, May 5.
3. [2005] D. Berleant, “Searching and Serving Biological Texts: Generalizing the Lessons,” Overture/Yahoo, Feb. 25. (Presentation)
4. [2005] L. Hughes, J. Ding, K. Viswanathan, A. Fulmer, D. Berleant, and P.S. Schnable, “PathBinderH: a Tool for Linnaean Taxonomy-Aware Literature Searches,” Plant and Animal Genome XIII Conference, San Diego, January 15-19. (Poster)
5. [2004] D. Berleant, M.-P. Cheong, G. Kahrimanis, G. Sheblé, and J. Zhang, “Optimizing Electric Power Bidding Under Severe Uncertainty,” INFORMS Annual Meeting 2004, Denver, October 24-27. (Presentation)
6. [2004] M.-P. Cheong, G. Sheblé, and D. Berleant, “Information Gap Based Decision Theory for Data Mining of Competitive Bidding,” IEEE Power Engineering Society 2004 General Meeting, Denver, Colorado, June 6-10. (Presentation)
7. [2003] D. Berleant and J. Ding, “Extracting Protein Interactions from Sentences: the PathBinder Project,” 3rd Annual UI/ISU Bioinformatics Workshop, Iowa City, April 25. (Invited talk)
8. [2002] E.S. Wurtele, J.A. Dickerson, Z. Cox, D. Cook, D. Ashlock, D. Berleant, B. Fatland, and C.M. Foster, “Computational Analysis of Genome-Wide Metabolome, Proteome, and Transcriptome Expression Data in Arabidopsis,” First International Congress on Plant Metabolomics, April 7-11, Wageningen, The Netherlands. (Invited talk presented by 1st author)
9. [2002] G. Sheblé, D. Berleant, J. Zhang, M. Cheong, and R. Thomas, “Market Interaction and Market Power” (III), Power Systems Engineering Research Center, Industrial Activities Board meeting, Dec. 12, Atlanta, Georgia. (Poster)
10. [2002] D. Berleant, “(a+b)^a, Cumulative Credibility, and the Distribution Envelope Determination (DEnv) Algorithm,” Epistemic Uncertainty Workshop, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, Aug. 6-7. (Poster)
11. [2002] D. Ashlock and D. Berleant, “Machine Learning and Bioinformatics Workshop,” Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc., July 10-11, Coralville, Iowa. (Presentation)
12. [2002] J. Miao and D. Berleant, “EPICS at ISU,” EPICS National Meeting, May 29-30, West Lafayette, IN. (Poster)
13. [2002] D. Berleant and others, “Validation Workshop Panel,” SIAM Workshop on Validated Computing, Toronto, May 24. (Invited Panel)
14. [2002] D. Berleant and D. Ashlock, “Collaborative Research Project: Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc., and Iowa State University,” Mar. 21, Coralville, IA. (Presentation)
15. [2002] D. Berleant, “Support for Oligo Manufacturing with Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery,” Integrated DNA Technologies, Feb. 28, Coralville, IA. (Presentation)
16. [2002] D. Berleant, “Vehicle Diagnostics and Prognostics for Benefits over the Long-, Short-, and Medium-Term,” John Deere and Co., Feb. 14, Waterloo, IA. (Presentation)
17. [2001] J. Ding*, D. Berleant, D. Nettleton, and E. Wurtele,  “Mining MEDLINE: Abstracts, Sentences, or Phrases?,” Plant Sciences Institute Scientific Symposium, Oct. 19, 2001, Ames, Iowa. (Poster)
18. [2001] D. Berleant, G. Sheblé, and J. Zhang, “Market Interactions and Market Power,” (II),  Power Systems Engineering Research Center, Industrial Activities Board meeting, June 1, Oak Brook, Illinois. (Poster)
19. [2001] D. Berleant, “On Completion Time of Concurrent Tasks,” Dept. of Computer Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, April 5. (Presentation)
20. [2000] G. Sheblé, D. Berleant, and R. Thomas, “Market Interaction and Market Power” (I), Power Systems Engineering Research Center, Industrial Activities Board meeting, Dec. (Poster)
21. [2000] W. Qi* and D. Berleant, “PathBinder: a System for Mining MEDLINE for Protein Interactions,” Joint Bioinformatics Workshop, Nov. 3-4, 2000, Iowa City. (Poster)
22. [2000] L. Elkin*, C. Gofron*, M. Travis*, and D. Berleant, “WISER: Split Windows for Browsing Scientific Literature,” Joint Bioinformatics Workshop, Nov. 3-4, 2000, Iowa City. (Poster)
23. [2000] J. Ding*, B. Duwairi*, J. Miao*, and D. Berleant, “Three Systems for Improved Access to Literature on the Web,” Joint Bioinformatics Workshop, Nov. 3-4, 2000, Iowa City. (Poster)
24. [1999] D. Berleant, “Arithmetic on Random Variables of Unknown Dependency,” Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Nov. 18. (Presentation)
25. [1999] D. Berleant, “Thicket Approach to Arithmetic on Random Variables,” Applied Biomathematics, Setauket, NY, July. (Presentation)
26. [1999] D. Berleant, “Dialogues With Documents,” Dept. of Computer and Information Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, Mar. (Presentation)
27. [1999] D. Berleant, “Dialogues With Documents: Customized Interaction With Texts,” Dept. of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, Mar. 5. (Presentation) 
28. [1996] D. Berleant, “From Concept to Theory to Software to Applications - the Research Strategy and Status of Verified Combination of Intervals with Distribution Functions,” SIAM 1996 Annual Meeting, abstract on p. 44 of final program, Kansas City, Missouri. (Presentation)
29. [1996] D. Berleant, “Research at the Software Artifact Research Laboratory,” School of Computer Science, Information Systems, and Telecommunications, DePaul University, Chicago, Feb. 16. (Presentation)
30. [1995] D. Berleant, “AI and Other Research at the SAR&D Laboratory,” Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, Orono, July 21. (Presentation)
31. [1994] D. Berleant, “IMAP2: Interactive Modeling for AIDS Prediction,” Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland, July 18. (Presentation)
32. [1994] D. L. Andrews, J. M. Conrad, S. A. Mengel, and D. Berleant, “Architectural Tradeoffs and Design for a Scalable Distributed Memory, High Speed, Message Passing MIMD Multiprocessor,” Scalable High Performance Computing Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee, May 23-25. (Poster)
33. [1993] D. Berleant, “Simulation with Incomplete Information: Then, Now, and the Future,” Advanced Information Systems Section Seminar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, June 18. (Presentation)
34. [1991] D. Berleant, “Perspectives in AI,” Arkansas Computer Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 18. (Invited panel)

FUNDING

1. [Co-PI] NSF. “MetNet: Integrated Software for Arabidopsis Systems Biology Research.” 2005-2007. $969,634. (PI: E.S. Wurtele)

2. [PI] Electricité de France, “Portfolio Optimization Under Stochastic Dominance Constraints: the Interval Approach.” 2005-2006. $43,657.62. (Co-PI: G. Sheblé)

3. [PI] Invitrogen Corp. “Web Site