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 Usability Study” 2004-2005. $34,000. (Co-PIs: P. Patterson, S. Smith)

4. [PI] The Procter and Gamble Co. “Ontology-Based Clustering of Texts.” 2004-2005. $28,793.

5. [PI] Corporation for National and Community Service (a federally funded corporation with competitive grant programs). “EPICS at Iowa State University: Assistive Technology for Disabled Children.” Subcontract from Purdue University. 2000-2004. Responsible for approx. $88,739 out of $122,790 total. (Co-PIs: R. Anderson, S. Openshaw, and J. Comer)

6. [PI] Hewlett-Packard Development Co. Tablet PC. 2003. $1,699 in hardware.

7. [Co-PI] Rockwell-Collins Foundation. “Equipment for Software Engineering Research Laboratory,” funds to be used to equip a laboratory. 2002. $25,000. (PI: S. Kothari)

8. [Participant] Iowa State University. Human-Computer Interaction Initiative. 2002-2003. (PIs: J Bernard, C. Cruz-Neira, J. Oliver, and A. Sannier)

9. [Participant] Iowa State University. Information Infrastructure Institute. 2002-2003. Approximately $450,000. (PIs: A. Somani, S. Kothari, and V. Vittal)

10. [Co-PI] Procter and Gamble. “Bioinformatic Tools for Extraction and Modeling of Signal Transduction Pathways.” 2000-2003. Responsible for approx. $51,508 out of $221,551 total. (PI: D. Ashlock)

11. [PI] Microsoft Corp. “Software for the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program.” 2000. $24,465 in software.

12. [PI] Iowa State University. “Using Software Engineering Concepts and Techniques to Enhance Learning: a Novel Approach.” 2000-2001. $14,816. (Co-PI: S. F. Russell; collaborators: C. Cruz-Neira, J. Dickerson, D. Jacobson, J. Lamont, A. Somani, and C. Wright)

13. [Co-PI] Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC), competitively awarded. “Market Interactions and Market Power.” 2000-2002. Responsible for $40,000 out of $140,000 total. (PI: G. B. Sheblé)

14. [Co-PI] Arkansas Highways and Transportation Department and Mack-Blackwell Transportation Center. “Automated Traffic Accident Data Entry.” 1996-1998. Responsible for approx. $30,000 out of $161,226 total. (PI: S. Johnson) 

15. [PI] Booze, Allen, & Hamilton Inc. “Demographic Extensions to IMAP2, An Interactive Model for AIDS Prediction to Determine the Impact of Proposed Improvements in the Use and Production of Certain Medical Devices.” 1995-1996. $44,300.

16. [PI] Food and Drug Administration. “An Extension of  'An Interactive Model for HIV/AIDS Prediction (IMAP2) to Determine the Impact of Proposed Improvements in the Use and Production of Certain Medical Devices' to Model Geography and Transit in HIV Epidemiology.” 1994-1995. $24,900.

17. [PI] Computer Based Systems, Inc. “An Interactive Model for HIV/AIDS Prediction to Determine the Impact of Proposed Improvements in the Use and Production of Certain Medical Devices: Phase 3 Maintenance.” 1993-1995. $27,450.

18. [PI] Arkansas Science and Technology Authority. “Learn a Foreign Language in (Almost) Zero Minutes a Day: A Computer Assisted Instruction System.” 1993-1994. $24,470.

19. [Co-PI] Computer Based Systems, Inc. “An Interactive Model for HIV/AIDS Prediction to Determine the Impact of Proposed Improvements in the Use or Production of Certain Medical Devices.” 1991-1992. Responsible for approx. $15,000 out of  $45,132 total. (PI: R. Goforth)

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2000 - 2001. Miller Fellow, Center for Teaching Excellence.
• 2000. Warren B. Boast Undergraduate Teaching Award in Computer Engineering, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• 1995 - 1996. Texas Instruments Outstanding Researcher, Dept. of Computer Systems Engineering.
• 1993 - 1994. Outstanding Researcher, Dept. of Computer Systems Engineering.

COURSES TAUGHT

CPRE 308 Operating Systems, Princ. and Practice Lab Taught Fall 2005	CPRE 486 Object-Oriented Software Eng. New course 2000, new preparation 2003 Taught Fall 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
CPRE 485 Java and Internet Programming New preparation of existing course Taught Spring 2000-2003, & shared 2004 Enrollment of 175+ in 2003 & 2004	CPRE 587 Text Mining, Processing, & Internet New course Taught spring 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
ENGR 161 Eng. Prob. with Comp. Lab New preparation of existing course Taught Fall 1999	CSEG 4533 Object-Oriented Prog. & Design New preparation of existing course Taught until 1999
CSEG 3543 Data Structures New preparation of existing course Taught until 1999	CSEG 5023 Software Engineering I New preparation of existing course Taught until 1998
CSEG 510 Computing: Future and Now Taught until 1998, new course	CSEG 457 Senior Design Taught until 1998
CSEG 5033 Software Engineering II Taught until 1997	CSEG 5003 Intro. to Artificial Intelligence New preparation of existing course Taught until 1996
CSEG 4933 Computer Systems Analysis New preparation of existing course Taught until 1996	CSEG 3933 C Programming New preparation of existing course Taught until 1996
CSEG 5323 Text Processing New course Taught until 1995	CSEG 5333 Knowledge Based Systems New course Taught until 1994
CSEG 5801 Graduate Seminar Taught until 1994	CSEG 5063 Computer Systems Optimization New preparation of existing course Taught until 1993
CSEG 5093 Fault-Tolerant Computing New preparation of existing course Taught until 1992	CSEG 4513 Operating Systems New preparation of existing course Taught 1991

ADVISING

Visiting scholar sponsorship:

Won-Jung Kim, Ph.D. (12/99-12/00).

Doctoral students advising (graduation date)  

Lifeng Zhang, Bioinformatics Text Empirics (began August 2004).

Mei-Peng Cheong (co-advisor), Use of Limited Information for Decision-Making in Electric Power (in progress).

Jing Ding, Improving Text Clustering for Functional Analysis of Genes (May 2006).

Jianzhong Zhang, Partial Information Usage in Uncertainty Quantification (May 2006).

Jinghao Miao, Implementation and Analysis of Direct Multidisplay Repositories (May 2004).

Master's degree theses advised (graduation date)  

1. Mei-Peng Cheong, Electric Power Commodity Trading under 2nd-Order Uncertainty (co-advisor, December 2004).
2. Dong-Ping Xu, Mutation Analysis and Weather Simulation Systems (August 2004).
3. Jing Ding, Mining Protein Interactions from Biomedical Abstracts (August 2003).
4. Wenxin Qi, PathBinder: Mining MEDLINE for Protein-Protein Interactions PubMed (May 2003).
5. Jianzhong Zhang, Uncertainty Operations with Statool (August 2002).
6. Shoba Selvarajan, Implementation of MPICH on Top of MP_Lite (May 2002).
7. Zhong Gu, Direct Multidisplay for Web Document Repositories (August 2001).
8. Ullas Soans, Algorithms for Information Extraction from Text (December 1998).
9. Shuxuan Yan, Study Guide Authoring System (May 1998).
10. Jinping Huang, A Server Based Search Engine-Like Interface for Individual Web Documents (May 1998).
11. Lizhi Xie, A Software Tool for Automatically Verified Operations on Distributions of Dependent Random Variables (May 1998).
12. Ji Mu, Http Client that Browses: a Stand-Alone MultiBrowser for the Web (December 1997).
13. Xidan Zhou, Web-Based Document Browser (WBDB): A MultiBrowser for the Web (August 1997).
14. Liang Qiu, Development of LEARN for Windows: A Computer Assisted Language Learning System (December 1996).
15. Nikhat Fatima, Hyperbrowser: Information Customization with Automatic Generation of Hyperlinks (December 1996).
16. Byron Liu, A Mutation Based Approach to Software Fault Tolerance Assessment (May 1996).
17. Rajesh Potti, MultiBrowser: A Multiway Lookahead Based Information Customizer for Documents (May 1996).
18. Daniel Tappan, A Russian to English Translation System for Scientific Abstracts (May 1996).
19. Lingyun Shi, Development and Enhancement of LEARN: A Computer Assisted Language Learning System (May 1995).
20. Cristopher R. Jansson, An Implementation of Isolated Word Speech Recognition (May 1995).
21. Srinivas Kolluru, Software for MCM Design Testing with a Comprehensive Survey of the MCM Testing Field (August 1994).
22. Hang Cheng, A Software Tool for Automatically Verified Reasoning with Intervals and Cumulative Distribution Functions (May 1994).
23. Xinxin Wei, Chinese Character Display and Sound Storage in the LEARN System (August 1994).
24. Jun-Ping Zhang, Ph.D., Extension and Maintenance of the Interactive Model for AIDS Prediction (IMAP2) With Emphasis on Automated Sensitivity Analysis (May 1994). 

Master's degree non-thesis projects advised:

1. Safiullah Saad, Tight Binding Molecular Dynamics (expected December 2005)
2. Wenyu Ye, Ph.D., Hashing N-Grams and Applications in Information Retrieval (August 2003)
3. David Radack, Structural Coverage Analysis of a Dynamic Device Driver (Co-advisor, December 2001).
4. Travis VanDerKamp, Conversion of Java2D Graphics API to an OpenGL Graphics API (August 2001).
5. Nishad Karekar, Sentence Matching Algorithms for Text Retrieval (December 1998).
6. Fengrui Zhang, Investigation of A Mutation Based Software Dependability Metric (December 1998).
7. Ali Agha, An Enterprise-Wide Solution for Network Management and Communication (August 1998).
8. Richard Albers, Design and Implementation of a Web Page Indexer and Search Engine (May 1998).
9. Yujiang Qu, Computer Assisted Physics Learning System for Mechanics (December 1995).
10. Chinlin Chai, Porting and Perfective Maintenance of MATHTOOL with Visual Basic (December 1995).
11. Venkateswara P. Sunkara, Investigations into Word Experts (Co-advisor, August 1994).
12. Syed Jamil, Report on Approximate String Matching (May 1994).

Senior design students (co-)advised:

9/99-5/00:	Michael Arvold, Jeff Brown, Ryan DeVries, Kian-How Lim
1/00-12/00:	Travis Drucker, Laura Elkin, Carrie Gofron, Josh Tenges, Ryan Deblieck, Tong-Soon Park, Shawn Mari Peck, Adriane Van Auken
9/00-5/01:	Harry Aller, Ngai-Hua Cho, Eric Oh, Sharizan Ramli, Meng-Piew Teoh, Woon Lee, Carrie Beyer, Boone Oshel, Cuong Nguyen, Ben Wiuff
1/01-12/01:	Jerry Abogunrin, Matt Graham, Tim Hennemann, Hyouk-Il Kwoen, Elizabeth Lair, Kevin Sanusi, Michael Tunink, Deanna Weir
9/01-5/02:	Andrew Garnett, Clint Ibeling, Jeff Orasky, Joe Hansen, Mei-Peng Cheong, Mei-Teng Lee, Joe Archer, Hoang Pham
1/02-12/02:	Harry Soetardjo, Ben Roling, Andy Rink, Tong-Siang Chua, Chrissie Rakes, Park-Khuan Hong, Eric Banwart, Chee-Heng Chin, Hasan Ijaz, Daniel Siang
9/02-5/03:	Henry Angkasa, Cody Kirk, Hai Khean Ng, Scott Rittscher, Stanley Setiawan, Minh Tran
1/03-12/03:	Carrie Baseler, Aaron Bonfig, Brian Fiscus, Usman Ghani, Mucktar, Tuan Nguyen, Emily Vereen
9/03-5/04	Ali Cheema, Dalila Nguyen, Paul Simon, Harsh Taneja

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Member, Task Force on the Relation Between Interval and Fuzzy Techniques, organized by the Fuzzy Technical Committee of the IEEE Neural Networks Society (IEEE-NNS), 2004-present.
• Committee Member, NSF Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing, Savannah, Georgia, Sept. 15-17, 2004. http://www.gtsav.gatech.edu/rec/recworkshop/.
• Co-Web master, Interval Computations Web site, http://www.cs.utep.edu/interval-comp/ (2002-present).
• Guest co-editor, Reliable Computing, Vol. 10, Issue 2, 2004.
• Guest editor, Reliable Computing, Vol. 9, Issue 6, 2003.
• Program Committee memberships:
1. 5^th International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA ’07).
2. 4^th International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities and Their Applications (ISIPTA ’05), Pittsburgh, July 20-23.
3. Validated Computing 2002, Toronto, May 23-25.
• Session Chair: INFORMS 2004, Denver, Oct. 24-27; Validated Computing 2002, Toronto, May 23-25; and others.
• Consultant to Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc., http://www.idtdna.com (2002-2003)
• Consultant to Beta-Rubicon, LLC, http://beta-rubicon.com (1999-present).
• Consultant on grant to Applied Biomathematics. ``Quality Assurance for Environmental Risks,'' funded by Public Health Service, 1998-2000. $699,431. (PI: S. Ferson)
• Professional Organizations: ACM; IEEE (Senior Member); Int. Soc. for Computational Biology (ICSB)
• Reviewing activities include: critiquing drafts for individuals, my preferred reviewing activity (inquiries always welcome, and I don’t need to know you); Addison Wesley Longman Publishers; Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing; Bioinformatics (2/06); Communications of the ACM; Computer; Energy: The International Journal; Heuristics: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering Technology; IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2006; IEEE Transactions on CPMT; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; Information Sciences (3/04); The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence; Interval Computations; Journal of Natural Language Engineering; Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (2/03); Microprocessor and Microsystem Journal; NSF; Reliability Engineering and System Safety (12/02, 3/03, 10/04); Reliable Computing (most recently 8/04, 7/05, 7/06); South Carolina EPSCoR Board; Theoretical Computer Science. 

· Development 

• 1998, July 24-28. "1998 Faculty Teaching Retreat," Ozark Folk Center, AR, sponsored by the Teaching and Faculty Support Center, U. of Arkansas.
• 1998, Spring semester. Participated in Teaching and Faculty Support Center book club (book was Becoming a Critically Effective Teacher by S. Brookfield).
• 1997, Dec. 5-6. Attended "Effective Teaching Workshop," taught by Drs. Richard Felder and Rebecca Brent.
• 1995, Jul. 30-Aug. 3. "1995 Faculty Teaching Retreat," Waggoner, Oklahoma, sponsored by the Teaching and Faculty Support Center, U. of Arkansas.
• 1995. Professional registration: Certified Computer Professional #950459, Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals.

UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES

• Chair, Bioinformatics Curriculum Committee, 2006-present.
• Member, Bioinformatics Steering Committee, 2006-present.
• Member, Bioinformatics Executive Committee, 2006-present.
• Member, Faculty Search Committee, Dept. of English, 2005.
• Member, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering ad hoc Graduate Admission Committee, 2003-2005
• Member, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Curriculum Committee, 2002-2004.
• Member, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering HCI faculty search committee, 2003.
• Chair, Peer Evaluation Committee for Teaching, 2001 and 2002.
• Member, I-Cubed interdisciplinary initiative subcommittee to study a new degree program, 2002.
• Member, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Election and Oversight Committee, 2002-2003.
• Member, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Usage Committee, 2001-2002.
• Member, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum Committee, 2000-2002.
• Member, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Recruitment Committee, 1999-2000.
• Consultant on grant ''Development of Interactive, Multimedia Educational Software for Studying Native American Cultural History and Foreign Language Learning,'' funded by National Endowment for the Humanities, 1996-1999. $200,000 + match. (PD: T. Green)
• Member, College of Engineering Distance Education Center Committee, 1998-1999.
• Member, College of Engineering Coop Committee, 1998-1999.
• Member, Campus Committee on Appointments, Promotion & Tenure, 1998-1999.
• Member, Department of Computer Science and Engineering P & T Committee, 1998-1999; member, Department of Computer Systems Engineering P & T Committee, 1997-1998.
• Chair, Department of Computer Systems Engineering Student Office Space Committee, 1995, 1997-1998.
• Chair, Department of Computer Systems Engineering Objectives Documenting Committee, 1997-1998.
• Chair, Department of Computer Systems Engineering Graduate Studies Committee, 1997-1998; member 1991-1998.
• Member, Department of Computer Sciences Faculty Recruitment Committee, 1998.
• Member, Department of Computer Systems Engineering Academic and Professional Issues Committee, 1997-1998.
• Member, Department of Computer Sciences Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1997-1998.
• Member, Department of Computer Systems Engineering Faculty Recruitment Committee, 1997-1998.
• Member, Computer Systems Engineering/Computer Sciences Software Track Cooperation Group, 1997-1998.
• Member, College of Engineering Curriculum Committee, 1994-1996.
• Member, Vice-Chancellor's Ad Hoc Committee for a PhD in Computing, 1994-1995.
• Member, College of Engineering Teaching Innovation Committee, 1991-1993.

REFERENCES

On request