Matthew P. Evett
Position:
Professor,
Dept. of Computer Science,
Eastern Michigan University
E-mail:
mevett@emich.edu
Address/Phone:
Dept. of Computer Science
(Pray Harrold, rm 512E)
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI 48197 USA
Phone: (734) 487-1227, Fax: (734) 487-6824
Office Hours:
-
MW 10:15-12:15, TTh 12:30-2:30
You can drop by at other times and I usually will be able, and happy, to talk.
Still, if you come during times other than my office hours, I may not be able
to see you. Always feel free to contact me to make an appointment (preferably
via e-mail).
Courses:
Research Interests:
Applications of evolutionary computation, especially genetic programming. Domains
of particular interest include software reliability and financial market analysis.
Applications of massive parallelism to paradigms of artificial intelligence, knowledge
representation, case-based design, search. Applications of distributed computing
to environmental simulations.
Recent funded research:
Parallelization of the Canal Subsystem of the Everglades
Landscape Model.
Education:
Ph.D.,
Computer Science, University of Maryland, 1994.
Sc.B., Computer Science, Brown University,
1984.
Dissertation Research:
PARKA: A System
for Massively Parallel Knowledge Representation
Some Recent Publications:
T. Fernandez and M. Evett, "Improving
the Discovery of Numeric Constants in GP", Genetic Programming 1998: Proceedings
of the Third Annual Conference, Koza et al, editors, Morgan Kaufmann,
1998.
M.Evett, T.Khoshgoftar, P.Chien and E.Allen,
"GP-based software quality prediction",Genetic Programming 1998: Proceedings
of the Third Annual Conference, Koza et al, editors, Morgan Kaufmann,
1998.
R. France, M. Evett and E. Grant, "Towards Semantic-Based Object-Oriented
CASE Tools", Proceedings Automated Software Engineering --- ASE'97, 12th
IEEE International Conference, IEEE, 1997.
Y. Xu and M. Evett, "Parallelization of the canal subsystem of the Everglades
Landscape Model", technical report TR-CSE-97-42, Dept. Computer Science &
Engineering, Florida Atlantic Univ., 1997.
Evett, M.P., Hendler, J.A., Mahanti,
A. and Nau, D. "PRA*: Massively Parallel Heuristic Search," J. Parallel
and Distributed Computing, 25, No.2 (March), pp. 133-143, 1995. [Figures
for that paper.]
Evett, M.P., Hendler, J.A. and Spector, L. "Knowledge Representation on
the Connection Machine," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
(JPDC) Vol. 22(2), Aug. 1994, pp 168-184.
Professional Memberships:
American Association for Artificial Intelligence;
ACM; IEEE;
Upsilon Pi Epsilon.
Outside Interests:
Fly-fishing (see
also the
Virtual Fly Shop), baseball (fantasy
& Real), camping, strategic
board-games, tournament contract bridge, Macintosh computing, cooking., kitties.
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