Faculty and Researchers' Publications
Solving global two dimensional routing problems using Snell's law and A* search
(IEEE, 1987)
Long-range route planning is an important component in the intelligent control system of an autonomous agent. Most attempts to solve it with map data rely on applying simple search strategies to high-resolution, node-and-link ...
Artificial Intelligence through Prolog by Neil C. Rowe
(Prentice-Hall, 1988)
Vehicle path-planning in three dimensions using optics analogs for optimizing visibility and energy cost
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989-01)
Path planning is an important issue for space robotics. Finding safe and energy-efficient paths in the presence of obstacles and other
constraints can be complex although important. We have been investigating high-level ...
Steps towards parsing of query sequences to a database / Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Expert Database Systems, October 1984
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1984-10)
Sequences of queries to a database system can have structure. Recognizing this structure is a kind of "parsing", analogous to the parsing of
sentences. We present two rather different approaches to recognition for exploitation. ...
Some links between turtle geometry and analytic geometry / International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 1985
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1985)
The computer language Logo facilitates the teaching of analytic geometry and calculus from the notion of
curvature, through its "turtle geometry" facility. We provide some theoretical basis for finding turtle
geometry ...
Rotating Cubes: A Trigonometry Project Using Logo
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1985)
Trigonometry can be a difficult subject for which to motivate students. Sines and tangents have many
applications in science and engineering, but it is hard to find situations in the students' own experiences where
they ...
Naming in Programming
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1985)
Good names are important in programming. Names do not affect program performance, but can make
program text clearer. In particular, they can bring out family relationships between similar procedures. We
discuss common ...
Inference-security analysis using resolution theorem-proving
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989-02)
Indirect logical inferences can provide a significant security threat to information processing systems, but
they have not been much studied. Classification of data can reduce the threat, but classification decisions ...
Antisampling for estimation: An Overview
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1985-10)
We survey a new way to get quick estimates of the values of simple statistics (like count, mean, standard
deviation, maximum, median, and mode frequency) on a large data set. This approach is a comprehensive
attempt ...
Absolute bounds on the mean and standard deviation of transformed data for constant-sign-derivative transformations
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1988-11)
Absolute bounds (or inequalities) on statistical quantities are often a desirable feature of statistical packages since, as contrasted with estimates of those same quantities,
they can avoid distributional assumptions and ...