Networks and Sensor Networks

Du, Xiaojiang, M. Zhang, K. Nygard, M. Guizani, and H. H. Cen, “Self-Healing Sensor Networks with Distributed Decision Making,” Int. Journal of Sensor Networks, accepted, to appear, 2007

Zhang, M., Xiaojiang Du, Kendall Nygard, Improving Coverage Performance in sensor Networks by using Mobile Sensors, The IEEE Military Communication Conference (MILCOM), 2005

Ramaswamy, Sanjay, Fu, Huirong, Sreekantaradhya, Manohar, Dixon,John and Nygard, Kendall E. Prevention of Cooperative Black Hole Attack in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, June, 2003.

Unmanned Air Vehicles, Optimization Modeling for Cooperative Control

Nygard, Kendall E., Phillip R. Chandler, and Meir Pachter, Dynamic Network Flow Optimization Models for Air Vehicle Resource Allocation in Proceedings of the the American Control Conference, Arlington, 2001.

Dargar, Anup, Ahmed Kamel, Gordon Christensen and Kendall E. Nygard, An Agent Based Framework for UAV Collaboration in Proceedings of the ISCA 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, pp 54-59, Boston, MA, 2002

Altenburg, Karl, Joseph Schlecht, and Kendall E. Nygard, An Agent-based Simulation for Modeling Intelligent Munitions in Proceedings of the Second WSEAS Int. Conf. on Simulation, Modeling and Optimization, Skiathos, Greece, 2002.

Chandler, P. R.,Pachter, M.Swaroop, D., Fowler, J. Howlett, J., Rasmussen, S., Schumacher, C., and Nygard, K., Complexity in UAV Cooperative Control," in Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Anchorage, AK, pp. 1831 - 1836, 2002

Chandler, P. R., M. Pachter, Nygard, Kendall E., and Dharba Swaroop, Cooperative Control for Target Classification in Cooperative Control and Optimization, Robert Murphey and Panos M. Pardalos eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, May, 2002.

Hennebry, Michael J., Kamel, Ahmed, and Kendall E. Nygard, An Integer Programmng Model for Asssigning Unmanned Air Vehicles to Tasks, in Sergiy Butenko, Robert Murphey and Panos Pardalos, eds., Recent Developments in Cooperative Control and Optimization, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2003.

Unmanned Air Vehicles, Swarm Intelligence for Cooperative Control

Schlecht, Joseph, Altenburg, Karl, Ahmed Benzir. M, and Nygard Kendall. E. Decentralized Search by Unmanned Air Vehicles using Local Communication in Joshua R, Mun Y. eds.,Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Volume II, Las Vegas, NV. 757-762, 2003.

Lua, Chin A., Altenburg, Karl and Nygard, Kendall E. Synchronized Multi-Point Attack by Autonomous Reactive Vehicles with Simple Local Communication in Proceedings of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2003

Nygard, Kendall E., Altenburg, K., Tang, K. and D. Schesvold, A Decentralized Swarm Approach to Asset Patrolling with Unmanned Air Vehicles, in Theory and Algorithms for Coopertive Systems, Kluwer publishing, Series on Computers And Operations Research, Volume 4, Don Grundel, Robert Murphy, and Panos M. Pardalos, Eds, 2004.

Lua, Chin A., Altenburg, Karl, and Nygard, Kendall E., ANTS with Firefly Communication , in Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), Las Vegas, June, 2005

Schesvold, Doug., Tang, Jingpeng.,Ahmed, Benzir Md., Altenburg, Karl, and Nygard, Kendall E., POMDP Planning for High Level UAV Decisions: Search vs. Strike in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE_03), Las Vegas, November, 2003.

Mathematical Modeling and Simulation

Xu, Dianxiang, Priti Borse, Karl Altenburg, and Kendall E. Nygard, Distributed Control of Self-organizing Systems with Petri Nets, WSEAS Transactions on Systems, 5 (4), April, 2006

Juell, Paul, Perera, Amal, and Nygard, Kendall E., Application of a Genetic Algorithm to Improve an Existing Solution for the Generalized Assignment Problem, in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE_03), Las Vegas, November, 2003

Huff, Nathan, Kamel, Ahmed, and Kendall E. Nygard, An Agent Based Framework for Modeling UAVs in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE_03), Las Vegas, November, 2003.

Lundell, Martin, Jingpeng Tang, Thaddeus Hogan, and Kendall E. Nygard, Agent-oriented Simulation of Cooperative UAV Missions,WSEAS Transactions on Systems, 5(4), April, 2006

Software Engineering

Xu, Dianxiang, Vivek Goel, Kendall Nygard and Eric Wong, Aspect-Oriented Specification of Threat-Driven Security Requirements. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (IJCAT) Special Issue on: "Concern-Oriented Software Evolution," accepted, to appear, 2007

Xu, Dianxiang and Kendall E. Nygard, "Threat-Driven Modeling and Verification of Secure Software Using Aspect-Oriented Petri Nets," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 32(4), pp. 265-278, 2006

Education

Ray, Sisir, Anne Denton, Christopher Besemann, and Kendall E. Nygard, "Learning Theory and Styles in Online Computer Science Courses”, Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education 1(1) 2005

Data Envelopment Analysis

Najadat, Hassan, Nygard, Kendall E., and Schesvold, Doug, Clustering-Based Method for Data Envelopment Analysis in Proceedings of the The 2005 International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC"05), Las Vegas, June, 2005