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:
1996-present: Professor and Chair, Department of Computer
Science and Operations Research, North Dakota State University. Responsible for a department with fourteen
tenure-track faculty, three lecturers, a full-time systems administrator, and
four research associates. There are
approximately 300 undergraduate majors, 850 Masters students, and 50 Ph. D.
students, and a large service course component
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). Full member of the UND Aerospace Administrative
Council. Responsible for the staff and
computer systems that support Aviation Information Management and distance
education for all of UND Aerospace, including a Cray Research supercomputer and
a variety of other computer systems. Responsible for managing an annual budget
of approximately $1 million.
1992-present: Professor, Department of Computer Science
and Operations Research, North Dakota State University (on leave from NDSU,
1/94 - 6/95)
1983-1992: Associate Professor, same program
1977-1983:
Assistant Professor, same program
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
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, ICIMADE
conference, 2002
Editorial Advisory Board,
Book Series on Operations Research and Computer Science,
Kluwer Publishers, 1993-date
External evaluator of NASA
EPSCoR proposals, 2001
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 |
|
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:
Swarm Intelligence for
Cooperative Control in Spacecraft Constellations, NASA (EPSCoR seed grant),
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
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
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
Ming Zhang, Xiaojiang Du,
Kendall Nygard, Improving Coverage Performance in sensor Networks by using
Mobile Sensors, in Proceedings of the IEEE Military Communication Conference
(MILCOM 2005), forthcoming, 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,
accepted and forthcoming, 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
Joseph
Schlecht, 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.
Chin
A. Lua, 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 1987 ISMIS
Conference, 1987
Nygard,
Kendall E., and L. Frair, “Alternative Policy Goals in Energy Resource
Allocation”, Processings of the Southeastern Institute of Management Science,
October, 1977
Nygard,
Kendall E., and L. Frair, “Mathematical Models for Planning natural Gas Supply
of Geographical Regions”, in Proceedings of the First International Conference
on mathematical Modeling, October, 1977
Refereed
Abstracts, Expository Articles and Review Reports
Nygard, Kendall E., Karl Altenburg, Joseph
Schlecht, Chin Lua, Benzir Ahmed, Local Behaviors for Emergent Intelligence in UAV Mission
Tactics, extended abstract, Autonomous Intelligent Networks and Systems
Symposium, UCLA, June, 2003
Nygard,
Kendall E., “Mathematical Modleing and Computing Issues in Advanced Traveler
Information Systems, 5th CSTS Conference on Computer Science and
Operations Research, Recent Advnaces in the Interrface, January 7-10, 1996,
Dallas.
Nygard, Kendall E., Rhonda. K. Ficek and Ramesh
Sharda, "Genetic Algorithms:
Biologically Inspired Search Method Borrows Mechanisms of Inheritance to
find Solutions," OR/MS Today, August, 1992
Nygard, Kendall E., Paul Juell, and Nagesh Kadaba, “Vehicle Routing Model Management,” in the EURO/TIMS Joint International Conference, Paris, July 6-8, 1988.
Nygard,
Kendall E. and Wherly Pl. Hoffman, "The Gauss Mathematical and Statistical
System", OR/MS Today, December, 1987
Nygard,
Kendall E., D. Gill and M. Syamsun, “INTELREG:
An Interactive System for Linear Regression Analysis”, The American
Statitician, February, 1982
Emergent
Intelligence in mission planning for UAVs, U. S. Army Secretary for Science and
Technology briefing sessions, UCLA, April, 2003
Integer
Optimization Modeling multiple UAV task Sequencing, Air Force Research
Laboratory, Air Vehicles Directorate, January 27, 2003
Scholar’s
day luncheon speaker, College of Science and Mathematics, April 27, 2002
Research
and Development Showcase primary speaker, Bismarck, North Dakota, March 6, 2001