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Publications

Probably the most prized, tangible outcome of the AMALTHEA Program are the publications that were produced through its direct or indirect support by the undergraduate participants, the graduate students and the faculty mentors. These publications are Technical Reports (TRs), Theses & Dissertations, Conference Papers, Journal Papers and Program Proceedings. Undegraduate student authors are indicated in orange color.

Technical Reports

So far, AMALTHEA has supported the compilation of 4 Technical Reports (TR), which were authored by the undergraduate student participants, while obtaining feedback from their assigned mentors. The finalized versions of these TRs were then presented to the AB members during the Program's Symposium at the end of the summer experience. These TRs are:

	Beck, J.R., Garcia, M.E., Zhong, M. Georgiopoulos, M., and Anagnostopoulos G.C. (2007) A Backward Adjusting Strategy for the C4.5 Decision Tree Classifier, Technical Report TR-2007-01, The AMALTHEA Program, Summer 2007. [PDF]
	Cardona, K., Secretan, J., Georgiopoulos, M. and Anagnostopoulos G.C. (2007) A Grid Based System for Data Mining Using MapReduce, Technical Report TR-2007-02, The AMALTHEA Program, Summer 2007. [PDF]
	Hoover, A.K., and Stanley, K.O. (2007) NEAT Drummer: Interactive Evolutionary Computation for Drum Pattern Generation, Technical Report TR-2007-03, The AMALTHEA Program, Summer 2007. [PDF]
	Stiles, A., Schmitt, B., Gertz, F., Klein, T., and Kepuska, V. (2007) Testing and Improvement of the Triple Scoring Method for Applications of Wake-up Word Technology, Technical Report TR-2007-04, The AMALTHEA Program, Summer 2007. [PDF]

Theses & Dissertations

On balance, the AMALTHEA Program has directly supported 2 Honors in the Major theses of 2007 student participants (Hoover and Beck) and 1 Masters thesis produced by one of the graduate mentors (Klein). Additionally, it has partially/indirectly supported an additional Masters thesis and a doctoral dissertation, all of which are listed below:

	Hoover, A.K., (2008) Interactively Evolving Drum Tracks with Neural Networks, Honors in the Major Thesis, School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA, Spring 2008 (estimated).
	Beck, J.R. (2007) Implementation and Experimentation with C4.5 Decision Trees, Honors in the Major Thesis, School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA, Fall 2007.
	Nicoli, L.P. (2007) Automatic Target Recognition of Synthetic Aperture Radar Images using Elliptical Fourier Descriptors, Master's Thesis, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, USA, Summer 2007. [PDF]
	Klein, T.B. (2007) Triple scoring of hidden Markov models in wake-up-word speech recognition, Master's Thesis, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, USA, Summer 2007.
	Zhong, M. (2007) An analysis of misclassification rates for decision trees, Doctoral Dissertation, School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA, Summer 2007. [URL]

Conference Papers

Overall, 14 conference papers, all of which have already been published or accepted, claim support from the AMALTHEA Program. 3 submitted conference papers feature undergraduate participants as co-authors. All these conference papers are listed below:

	John Reeder, Miguez, R., Sparks, J., and Georgiopoulos, M. (2008). ``Interactively Evolved Modular Neural Networks for Game Agent Control,'' to appear in the Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (IEEE-CIG 2008), Perth, Australia, December 15-18, 2008.
	Nicoli, L.P., and Anagnostopoulos, G.C. (2008). ``Shape-based recognition of targets in synthetic aperture radar images using elliptical Fourier descriptors,'' Proceedings of the SPIE: Automatic Target Recognition XVIII (Defense+Security 2008), Firooz A. Sadjadi; Abhijit Mahalanobis, Editors, Vol. 6967, (pp. 69670G), Orlando, Florida, March 16-20, 2008. [DOI]
	Hoover, A.K., Rosario, P.M., and Stanley, K.O. (2008) ``Scaffolding for Interactively Evolving Novel Drum Tracks for Existing Songs,'' Proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2008), in Applications of Evolutionary Computing, Mario Giacobini et al., Eds., Vol. 4974, (pp. 412-422), Napoli, Italy, March 26-28, 2008. [DOI] Winner of the Best Paper Award (out of 31 submissions)
	Kaylani, A., Georgiopoulos, M., Mollaghasemi, M., and Anagnostopoulos, G.C., (2008). ``Efficient Evolution of ART Neural Networks,'' to appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2008), part of the 5th World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), (pp. ?-?), Hong Kong, China, June 1-6, 2008.
	Beck, J., Garcia, M., Zhong, M., Georgiopoulos, M., Anagnostopoulos, G.C. (2008). ``A Backward Adjusting Strategy and Optimization of the C4.5 Parameters to Improve C4.5's Performance'', Proceedings of the 21st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS) Conference (FLAIRS 2008), David Wilson and H. Chad Lane, Eds., (pp. 35-40), Coconut Grove, Florida, USA, May 15-17, 2008. [URL]
	Kaylani, A., Georgiopoulos, M., Mollaghasemi, M., and Anagnostopoulos, G.C., (2008). ``MO-GART: Multiobjective Genetic ART Architectures,'' to appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2008), part of the 5th World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), (pp. ?-?), Hong Kong, China, June 1-6, 2008.
	Koufakou, A., Secretan, J., Reeder, J., Cardona, K., Georgiopoulos, M. (2008). ``Fast Parallel Outlier Detection for Categorical Datasets using MapReduce'', to appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2008), part of the 5th World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), (pp. ?-?), Hong Kong, China, June 1-6, 2008.
	Secretan, J., Lawson, M., Boloni, L. (2007). ``Brokering Algorithms for Composing Low Cost Distributed Storage Resources,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA 2007), Vol. 2, (pp. 669-675), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 25-28, 2007.
	Secretan, J., Georgiopoulos, M., Castro, J. (2007). ``A Privacy Preserving Probabilistic Neural Network for Horizontally Partitioned Databases,'' Proceedings of the IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2007), (pp. 1554-1559), Orlando, Florida, August 12-17, 2007. [DOI]
	Castro, J., Georgiopoulos, M., Secretan, J. (2007). ``Analyzing the Fuzzy ARTMAP Matchtracking mechanism with co-objetive Optimization Theory,'' Proceedings of the IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2007), (pp. 743-748), Orlando, Florida, August 12-17, 2007. [DOI]
	Kaylani, A., Georgiopoulos, M., Mollaghasemi, M., and Anagnostopoulos, G.C., (2007). ``M-GFAM: An elegant approach to genetically optimize Fuzzy ARTMAP Neural Network architectures,'' Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Natural Computing (ICNC 2007), part of the 10th Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS 2007), (pp. 1617-1623), Salt Lake City, Utah, July 18-24, 2007. [DOI]
	Kaylani, A., Al-Daraiseh, A., Georgiopoulos, M., Mollaghasemi, M., Anagnostopoulos, G.C., and A. S. Wu, (2007). ``Genetic optimization of ART neural network architectures,'' Proceedings of the IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2007), (pp. 379-384), Orlando, Florida, August 12-17, 2007. [DOI]
	Kaylani, A., Georgiopoulos, M., Mollaghasemi, M., and Anagnostopoulos, G.C., (2007). ``Genetic Optimization of Art Neural Network Architectures,'' Proceedings of the 11th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2007), A.P. del Pobil, Ed., (pp. 225-230), Palma De Mallorca, Spain, August 29-31, 2007. [URL]
	Koufakou, A. Ortiz, E.G., Georgiopoulos, M., Anagnostopoulos, G.C. and Reynolds, K.M. (2007). ``A Scalable and Efficient Outlier Detection Strategy for Categorical Data,'' Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2007), Vol. 2, (pp. 210-217), Patras, Greece, October 29-31, 2007. [DOI]

Journal Papers

The following 3 journal papers claim partial support by the AMALTHEA REU Program:

	Secretan, J., Lawson M. and Boloni, L. (2008) Efficient Allocation and Composition of Distributed Storage, to appear in the Journal of Supercomputing. [DOI]
	Zhong, M., Georgiopoulos, M. and Anagnostopoulos, G.C. (2007). A k-Norm Pruning Algorithm for Decision Tree Classifiers Based on Error Rate Estimation, Machine Learning, 71(1), 55-88. [DOI]
	Al-Daraiseh, A., Kaylani, A., Georgiopoulos, M., Mollaghasemi, M., Wu, A.S. and Anagnostopoulos, G. (2007). GFAM: Evolving Fuzzy ARTMAP Neural Networks, Neural Networks, 20(8), 874-892, October 2007. [DOI]

Program Proceedings

Each year's proceedings constitute a documented account of all activities and outcomes of the Program. Additionally, they contain all technical reports and posters created by the student participants, as well as photos from the Symposium, etc. Finally, the proceedings are made public on this web site typically during late fall, after each year's experience.

Anagnostopoulos, G.C., Georgiopoulos, M., Kepuska, V., Stanley, K.O., Morrison-Shetlar, A. (2007) Proceedings of the 2007 AMALTHEA Program, Florida Institute of Technology & University of Central Florida, December 2007. [PDF]