Kendall E. Nygard

Department of Computer Science and Operations Research

North Dakota State University

Fargo, ND 58105

(701) 231-8203

Kendall.nygard@ndsu.nodak.edu

Education:

 

Ph.D. 1978, Operations Research, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

M.A. 1973, Mathematics, Mankato State University

B.S. 1969, Mathematics and Physics, Moorhead State University

 

Experience:

 

1992-present:  Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, North Dakota State University (on leave from 1/94 - 6/95)

 

1996-2005:  Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, North Dakota State University. 

 

2000: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, IPA Visiting Research Scientist, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Vehicles Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio (Summer Appointment)

 

1994-1995:  Director of the Scientific Computing Center and Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of North Dakota (on leave from NDSU). 

 

1983-1992:  Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, NDSU

 

1977-1983: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, NDSU

 

1986-1987: Adjunct Professor, Department of Operations Research, The Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Ca (on developmental leave from NDSU)

 

1984: Air Force Office of Scientific Research Summer Research Fellow, Logistics Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, Summer Appointment

 

1975-1977: National Science Foundation Energy Research Grant Fellow, Virginia Tech University

 

Organizations and Honors:

 

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society

Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)

INFORMS Computing Society

American Mathematical Society (AMS), institutional nominee

Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities

Alpha Pi Mu Honor Society

 

NDSU and State University System Service: 

 

North Dakota University System faculty representative to ConnectND (North Dakota Enterprise Resource Planning system), 2002 – 2004

Departmental Chair, 1996 – 2005

College Promotion Tenure and Evaluation Committee, 1990 - 1991.  1991

Departmental faculty recruiting committees

Faculty Advisor, Bangladeshi Student Association

Faculty Advisor, Pakistani Student Association

Faculty Advisor, NDSU Cricket Club

Departmental Curriculum committee

University Computer and Information Technology Planning and Goals Committee (CITPG)

MIS program management committee

MIS faculty recruiting committee

Faculty representative, North Dakota State Board of Higher Education, 1991-93 (founding representative)

President, North Dakota University System Council of College Faculties, 1992-93

Presiding Officer, NDSU University Senate, 1990-91

NDSU Steering Committee for Total Quality Management, 1991-93

NDSU committee on English proficiency, Chair, 1993

Search committee, NDSU Vice-president for Academic Affairs, 1996-97

Search committee, NDSU president, 1998-99

Approximately 20 other College and Departmental Committees since 1978

 

Professional Activities and Service: 

 

Program Chair, 16th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-03), Las Vegas, November, 2003

Program Committee, International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia and Distance Education, 2002

Advisory Editor, Journal of Heuristics, 1994-date

Editorial Advisory Board, Book Series on Operations Research and Computer Science,

            Kluwer Publishers, 1993-date

External evaluator of NASA EPSCoR proposals, 2001

Founding Associate Editor, ORSA Journal on Computing, 1990-91

Editor, Computer Science Technical Section News (National Newsletter of the Operations

Research Society Computer Science Technical Section), 1990-93

Member of the Search Committee, 1992-96 Editor of ORSA Journal on Computing, 1991

Chair of the Selection Committee, National Annual Prize for the best paper in Computer Science

            And Operations Research, 1991-92

Member of the Selection Committee, National Annual Prize for the best paper in Computer Science

            And Operations Research, 1990-91

Program Committee, INFORMS National Conference on Computers and Operations Research,

            1992, 1994, 1996, 1998

Presenter of approximately 35 papers at national and international meetings since 1978

 

Major Advising of McNair Students:

 

Joseph Schlecht

2002-2003

 

Major Advising of Completed Master of Science Students:

 

Dale Summers

1980

Zhe Li

1988

Ashok Iyengar

1980

Hongjun Liu

1989

Michael Frank

1980

Yuan Ching Liu

1990

Dale Summers

1981

Lan Chen

1990

Michael Poepping

1981

Tung Lin

1990

Bubusankar Ranganathan

1983

Yingying Li

1991

Marvin Nelson

1983

Gang Li

1991

Sebah Salih

1983

Doug Schesvold

1991

Robert Westland

1984

Ganapathy Prabhukumar

1993

Peter Westby

1984

Madhavi Melachuri

1993

Gary Kranz

1985

Venkata Ravindra Vellanki

1994

Shen-Min Shi

1985

Tong Xie

1994

Terry Schmidt

1985

Shanmugaval Palanivelu

1995

Waverly Bolkan

1986

Michael Hennebry

1995

Paulette Armstrong

1986

Douglas Benson

1996

Timothy Downes

1986

Ravi Rai

1996

Elizabeth Swenson

1986

Michael Haugrud

1997

Daniel Durick

1986

Yan Hu

1999

Richard Jacobsen

1986

Jochen Layher

1999

Wayne Haga

1987

Gregory Kilwein

2000

Kadaba Nagesh

1987

Mohammad Haque

2002

Richard Walker

1988

Mohd Anwar

2003

 

 

Wenge Guo

2004

 

Major Advising of Completed Doctor of Philosophy Students

 

Nagesh Kadaba

1990

Rhonda Ficek

1993

Cheng-Hong Yang

1991

Richard Walker

1994

Sam Thangiah

1991

Huan Choi

1998

Taesik Kim

1992

Kuo-di Jian

2001

Youxuan Jin

1992

Hassan Najadat

2005

 

Research Grants and Contracts:

 

Smart Sensing and Decision Making for NASA Sensor Webs, NASA EPSCoR, 8/06 – 7/07, $85,000

 

Swarm Intelligence for Cooperative Control in Spacecraft Constellations, NASA EPSCoR,

4/1/04 – 7/15/04, $8,500

 

Near-real Time Mission Planning for Autonomous Air Vehicles, Office of Naval Research (DOD DEPSCoR), 4/1/02 – 3/30/05, $351,944

 

Cooperative Control of Multiple Autonomous Vehicles, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (DOD DESPCoR), 5/31/01 – 10/30/04, $345,000

 

Architectures for Coordinating Multiple Agents, NASA EPSCoR Supplemental funding program, 12/01/00 – 4/30/01, $11,697

 

Mission Planning for Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, 5/15/00 - 7/7/00,  $22,185

 

Agent Architectures for Autonomous Combat Air Vehicles, Office of Naval Research, 4/01/00 - 3/31/03, $343,993

 

Deriving Specificiation from Informal Object-Oriented Specifications, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (DOD DESPCoR), (PI, grant formerly held by Dr. Xudong He), 5/01/98 – 4/30/01, $326,629

 

11/14/97 – 11/13/00, Network Optimization and Semantic Control for Path Planning, Office of Naval Research, (DOD DEPSCoR), $304,471

 

School District Efficiency Measures using Data Envelopment Analysis, North Dakota State Department of Public Instruction, 1997-98,  $50,000

 

Automated Aircraft Route Planning, Naval Surface Warfare Center through Intelligent Logisitcs Inc, 1995-96,  $79,953

 

Methods for Remote Autonomous Vehicle Routing, Naval Surface Warfare Center through Intelligent Logisitcs Inc, 1996-97, $73,733

 

Authoring Tools for Intelligent Tutoring Systems, with an application in Polymers and Coatings Formulation Tasks, NDSU PPRC fund, 1996-97, $11,250 

 

Instructional Multimedia Equipment for IACC 104, NDSU Technology Fee, 1996-97, $17,316

 

School District Mapping Updates, North Dakota Department of Public Instruction, 1997, $1,700

 

Distributed Optimization for Aircraft Fleet Scheduling, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 1994-95, $166,243

 

Geographic Decision Support Systems for School Transportation Analysis, North Dakota State Department of Public Instruction, 1994-95, $100,000

 

Computer-based School Bus Routing Study C/H/DPI, North Dakota State Department of Public Instruction, 1991, $12,000

 

Computer-based School Bus Routing Study N/DPI, North Dakota State Department of Public Instruction, 1991, $12,000

 

Computer-based School Bus Routing Study K/DPI, North Dakota State Department of Public Instruction, 1991, $4,500

 

Computer-based School Bus Routing Study MR/GI, Middle River/Greenbush Minnesota school district, 1991, $4,500

Rural Transportation Geographical Decision Support System, year I study, U. S. Department of Transportation, 1991 – 1992, $40,00

    

Rural Transportation Geographical Decision Support System, year II study, U S. Department of Transportation, 1992 –1993, $52,000

 

Geographical Information Systems in Transportation, U S. Department of Transportation, 1993 – 1994, $54,000

 

Courseware for Quantitative Analyses in Transportation, U S. Department of Transportation, 1993 – 1994, $20,000

 

Distributed Optimization in Aircraft Mission Scheduling,DOD EPSCOR program, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 1993 1994, $115,772

 

Automatic Routing and Object Recognition Studies, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA , 1991-92, $8,000

 

Implementing Network Flow Algorithms in Database Systems, National Science Foundation, EPSCOR, 1986-87, $83,420

 

Network Modeling of Marine Corps Officer Scheduling, U. S. Marine Corps Headquarters, 1987, $5,000

 

Parallel Subsymbolic Algorithms for Routing Problems, Novell Inc, 1989, $15,000 (software grant)

 

Exact Solutions to Large Scale Routing Problems,National Science Foundation, University of Illinois NCSA supercomputer center, 1987-88, $17,000 (supercomputer time)

 

Mathematical Models and Software for LOGAIR Cargo Allocation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research through the Air Force Logistics Command, 1984-85, $37,000

 

Analysis of Newspaper Vehicle Routing Problems, Forum Publishing Company, 1985-86, $5,400

 

Computer-aided Instruction in Teaching Operations Research, National Science Foundation ISEP program, 1979-81, $40,000

 

Computer Graphics in Operations Research and Statistics Instruction, National Science Foundation LOCI program, 1981-83, $30,000

 

School Bus Routing in Rural Districts, NDSU Transportation Institute and the Experiment Station, 1980-81, $4,400

 

Grants and Contracts in Education and Curriculum Development

 

Development of the Virtual Archive Storage Terminal, VA-HUD, 11/20/01 – 11/19/06, $249,500

 

Support for Distance Education – Asynchronous, NDSU Technology Fee committee,  11/00 – 10/01, $11,790

 

4/1/01 – 8/15/02, E-commerce Education Program, U. S. Department of Education, FIPSE program, congressionally authorized grant,  $175,000

 

Spring, 2000, Distance Education award, NDSU Vice-President for Academic Affairs, $23,000

 

Publications:

 

Refereed Journal Articles

 

Knudson, Dean, Alan Braaten, Kenneth Magel and Kendall E. Nygard, Software Engineering in Computer Science Capstone Projects, International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-07), accepted, to appear, 2007.

 

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

 

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.

 

Dianxiang Xu, 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

 

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

 

Ray, Sisir, Chris Besemann, Anne Denton, and Kendall E.Nygard, Learning Theory and Styles in Online Computer Science Courses, Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education 1(1), ISSN:  1790-1979, 2005, pp. 83-87

Choi, Hyan M. Kendall E. Nygard and William Perrizo, A Measured Average Cell Rate-based Congestion Avoidance Scheme" International Journal of Communication Systems 14 (1), 2001.

Choi, Hyun M. and Kendall E. Nygard, "Congestion Avoidance with Dynamic Rate Control for ABR Traffic in ATM Networks", the International Journal of Communication Systems, special issue on Performance Evaluation of ATM Systems, May/June, 1998 (Also in Proceedings of the IASTAD International Conference on Networks and Communication Systems, Pittsburgh, May 13-16, 1998)

 

Nygard, Kendall E., "Computing and Modeling Issues in Wide-Area Advanced Traveler Information Systems", Journal of Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 1995

 

Vetter, R., M. Ali, M. Daily, J. Gabrynowicz, S. Narumalani, K. Nygard, W. Perrizo, P. Ram, S. Reichenbach, G. A. Seielstad, W. White, "Accessing Earth System Science Data and Applications Through High-Bandwidth Networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on gigabit networks, 1995

 

Kadaba, Nagesh, Kendall E. Nygard, and Paul Juell,  "Integration of Adaptive Machine Learning and Knowledge-Based Systems for Routing and Scheduling Applications", Journal of Expert Systems with Applications, Spring, 1990.

 

Nygard, Kendall E., Paul Juell and Nagesh Kadaba,  "Neural Networks for Selecting Vehicle Routing Heuristics", The ORSA Journal on Computing 2(4), 1990

 

Nygard, Kendall E., and B. Ranganathan, “An Instructional Computer Graphics System”, Journal of Computer-based Instruction 9, May, 1983

 

Nygard, Kendall E., and A. Iyengar, “An Interative System for Analyzing and Generating Input Processes in Simulation”, Computers in Education Transactions 3, May/June, 1983 (also appears in AC/SIGCSE Bulletin (15), 1983

 

Nygard, Kendall E., Dale Summers and Rudy Wagner, “Computer-aided School Bus Routing and Rural Districts”, Association for Educational Data Systems Journal 15(4), 1982

 

Nygard, Kendall E., M. Nelson, W. Shreve and J. Griffin, “Implementation Techniques for the Vehicle Routing Problem”, Computers and Operations Research 12(3), 1985

 

Book Chapters

 

Hennebry, Michael, Ahmed Kamel, and Kendall E. Nygard, An Integer Programming Model for Assigning Unmanned Air Vehicles to Tasks, in Recent Developments in Cooperative Control and Optimization, Kluwer publishing, Sergei Butenko and Robert Murphy, Eds, 2004

 

Chandler, P. R., Pachter, M., Nygard, K. and Swaroop, D., “Cooperative Control for Target Classification,”  in Advances in Cooperative Control, Kluwer publishers, R. Murphy, Ed., May, 2002.

 

Nygard, Kendall E. and C. H. Yang, "Genetic Algorthms for the Travelling Salesman Problem with Time Windows", in Computer Science and Operations Research:  New Developments at their Interfaces, O. Balci, et al, eds, Pergamon Press, 1992

 

Nygard, Kendall E.,  P. Juell and N. Kadaba, “An Interactive Decision Support System for Vehicle Routing”, in Impact of Recent Computer Advances on Opreations Research, R. Sharda, B. Golden, E. Wasil, O. Balci and W. Stewart Eds, Elsevier Science Publishing, 1989

 

Nygard, Kendall E., P Greenberg, W. Bolkan and E. Swenson, “Generalized Assignment Models for the Deadline Vehicle Routing Problem”, in Advances in Vehicle Routing, B. Golden and A. Assad, Eds., North Holland, 1988

 

Fully Refereed Proceedings

Xu, Dianxiang, Vivek Goel, and Kendall Nygard. An Aspect-Oriented Approach to Security Requirements Analysis. In Proc. of the 30th IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'06), Chicago, Sept. 2006.

 

Xu, Dianxiang, and Kendall Nygard. A Threat-Driven Approach to Modeling and Verifying Secure Software. Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2005), California, November, 2005.

 

Lundell, Martin, Jingpeng Tang, Thaddeus Hogan, and Kendall E. Nygard, An Agent-based Heterogeneous UAV Simulator Design, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering, and Databases (AIKED), February, 2006.

 

Zhang, Ming, Xiaojiang Du, Hsiao-Hwa Chen and Kendall Nygard, Distributed Decision Making Algorithm for Self-Healing Sensor Networks, IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2006.

 

Zhang, Ming, Xiaojiang Du, Kendall Nygard, Improving Coverage Performance in sensor Networks by using Mobile Sensors, in Proceedings of the IEEE Military Communication Conference (MILCOM 2005), Atlantic City, 2005.

 

Xu, Dianxiang; Weifeng Xu and Kendall E. Nygard, A State-Based Approach to Testing Aspect-Oriented Programs, in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'05), July, 2005.

 

Ramaswamy, Sanjay, Huirong Fu, and Kendall E. Nygard, Simulation Study of Multiple Black Holes Attack on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, in Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, June, 2005.

 

Lundell, Martin, Tang, Jingpeng, and Kendall E. Nygard, Fuzzy Petri Net for UAV Decision Making, in Proceedings of the 2005 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, May 15-20, 2005, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

 

Najadat, Hassan , Kendall E. Nygard, and Doug Schesvold, Clustering-Based Method for Data Envelopment Analysis, in Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods, Las Vegas, June, 2005

 

Ramaswamy, S.,  H. Fu, and K. Nygard, Effect of Cooperative Black Hole Attack on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, submitted to the 1st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, Florida, October, 2004

 

Nygard, Kendall E., K. Altenburg, J. Tang, D. Schesvold, and J. Pikalek, Alternative Control Methodologies for Patrolling Assets with Unmanned Air Vehicles, submitted to the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December, 2004

 

Xu, D., P. Borse, K. Grigsby, and K. Nygard, A Petri Net Based Software Architecture for UAV Simulation, 2004 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, June, 2004

 

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

 

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.

             

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

 

Schlecht, Joseph, Karl Altenburg, Benzir M. Ahmed, and Kendall E. Nygard, Decentralized Search by Unmanned Air Vehicles using Local Communication, 2003 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, June, 2003.

 

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

 

Lua, Chin A.,  Karl Altenburg, Kendall E. Nygard, Synchonized Multi-Point Attack by Autonomous Reactive Vehicles with Simple Local Communication, IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, April, 2003

 

Altenburg, Karl, Joseph Schlecht, and Kendall E. Nygard, An Agent-based Simulation for

Modeling Intelligent Munitions, Proceedings of the WSEAS conference, Skiathos, Greece, September, 2002

 

 Nygard, Kendall. E., Chandler, P. R., and Pachter, M., Dynamic Network Flow Optimization Model for Air Vehicle Resource Allocation, Proceedings of the 2001 American Control Conference, June 25 -  27, 2001, Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, VA, USA

 

Nygard, Kendall. E., Chandler, P. R., and Pachter, M., Dynamic Network Flow Optimization Model for Air Vehicle Resource Allocation, in Proceedings of the 2001 American Control Conference (ACC), June, 2001.

Nygard, Kendall E. Autonomous Agent Architectures for Cooperating Air Vehicles , Proceedings of the CAINE 2000 conference, October, 2000.

Marsh, R., and Kendall E. Nygard, A Computer Graphics Approach to UAV Flight Path Determination, Proceedings of the IASTAD International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging 2000 (CGIM 200), November 19-23, Las Vegas

Jian, Kuo-Di and Kendall E. Nygard, “Utility Model for a Goal-Directed Planner”, In Advances in Intelligent Computation and Multimedia Systems, Syed Mahbubur Rahman and George E. Lasker, eds, the International Institute for Advanced Studies, Baden-Baden, Germany, August, 1999.

Nygard, Kendall E., and K. Jian, "Alternative Mobile Agent Systems and Software Environments," in the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, November, 1998.

Jian, K., and Kendall E. Nygard, "A Distributed Agent Architecture," in the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, 1998.

Choi, Hyun M., Kendall E. Nygard, and Ron Vetter, "The Counter-Based Congestion Avoidance for ABR Traffic in ATM Networks,"  Proceedings of the IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, Tempe AZ 1998.

 

Choi, Hyun M., and Kendall E. Nygard, "Congestion Avoidance with Feedback Latency Control in ATM Networks", in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modeling and Analysis" March 5-8, 1998, Nashville

 

 Choi, Hyun M. and Kendall E. Nygard, "Congestion Avoidance with Dynamic Rate Control for ABR Traffic in ATM Networks", IASTAD International Conference on Networks and Communication Systems, Pittsburgh, May 13-16, 1998

 

Choi, Hyun M. and Kendall E. Nygard, "Simulation of Congestion Control Schemes for ABR Traffic in ATM Networks," 1998 SCS/IEEE Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication System, Reno, July, 1998

Jian, Kuo-Di, and Kendall E. Nygard, Agent-Java: An Integration of Java and KQML, Mid-continent Information and Database Systems Conference, Augst 6-7,1996

 

Nygard, Kendall E., and Sam R. Thangiah, "MICAH:  A Genetic Algorithm System for Multi-Commodity Transshipment Problems," IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, Monterey, 1992

 

Thangiah, Sam R. and Kendall E. Nygard, "School Bus Routing Using Genetic Algorithms",

Applications of Artifical Intelligence:  Knowledge-Based Systems, Orlando, 1992.

 

Thangiah, Sam R. and Kendall E. Nygard, "Dyammic Trajectory Routing using an Adaptive Search Strategy," Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on Applied Computing, Indianapolis, February, 1993

 

Yang, C. H. and Kendall E. Nygard, "The Effects of Initial Population in Geneteic Search

for Time-Constrained Travelling Salesman Problems", Proceedings of the National Conference of the Association for Computing Machinery, 1993.

 

Yang, C. H. and Kendall E. Nygard, "The Effects of Initial Population in Geneteic Search for Time-Constrained  Travelling Salesman Problems", Proceedings of the ACM conference, 1993.

 

Nygard, Kendall E., and Sam R. Thangiah, "MICAH:  A Genetic Algorithm System for Multi-Commodity Transshipment Problems," IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, Monterey, 1992

 

Nygard, Kendall E. and Cheng-Hong Yang, "Genetic Algorithms for the Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows", in "Computer Science and Operations Research:  New Developments in their Interfaces", O. Balci et al, Eds., Pergamon Press, July, 1992

 

Nygard, Kendall E., R. Magel and C. H. Yang, "The SCRAS System for Algorithm Comparison",

Proceedings of the National ACM conference, 1991

Nygard, Kendall E. and Susan Schilling, "Metastrategies for Heuristics Search", Proceedings of

the Small College Computing Symposium, April, 1991

 

Nygard, Kendall E. and Nagesh Kadaba, "Algorithm Management using Genetic Search for Computer-aided Vehicle Routing", Proceedings of the 24th Hawaii Conference on System Sciences, Kauai,

January, 1991

Nygard, Kendall E., and Nagesh Kadaba, "Modular Neural Networks and Distributed Adaptive

Search for Traveling Salesman Algorithms", Proceedings of the 1990 Technical Symposium on Aerospace Sensing, Orlando, April, 1990

Kadaba, N., Kendall E. Nygard, Paul Juell, and Lars Kangas, Modular Back-Propagation Neural

Networks for Large Domain Pattern Classification", Proceedings of the International Neural Networks Conference, Washington D. C., January, 1990.

 

Thangiah, Sam, Kendall E. Nygard and Paul Juell, "Gideon:  A Genetic Algorithm System for Vehicle Routing with Time Windows", Proceedings of the  Annual IEEE Conference on Applications of Artificial Intelligence", Miami, February, 1991

 

Kadaba, Nagesh and Kendall E. Nygard, "Improving the Performance of Genetic Algorithms in Automated Discovery of Parameters", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, Summer, 1990

 

Nygard, Kendall E., Paul Juell and Nagesh Kadaba, "Artificial Intelligence in Routing and Scheduling Applications", Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence in Aerospace Applications, Dayton, Ohio, 1989

 

Nygard, Kendall E., Paul Juell, and Timothy Downes, "An Expert System for Assisting in Air Cargo Allocation", in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, October, 1987, pp 349-357