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:

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:

COSC457 Computer Game Programming

COSC179 Computer Animation Programming, COSC 211 Programming Data Structures, COSC 436/592 Web Programming, COSC101 Computer Science Concepts and Practical Applications, COSC 111 Introduction to Programming, COSC311 Algorithms and Data Structures, COSC423 Operating Systems, COSC 456/556 Computer Graphics/Advanced Computer Graphics, COSC 576 Tools for Bioinformatics, COSC 461/561 Heuristic Programming and Artificial Intelligence, COSC556 Advanced Computer Graphics,COSC 623 Advanced Operating Systems, COSC 631 E-Commerce, COSC661 Automated Reasoning,COSC 379 Java Programming, COSC479 and COSC592 Evolutionary Computation, COSC 341 Programming Languages, Introduction to Java GUIs

Old Courses: COT4930 (was CAP4700), Computer Graphics Methods CAP6635 Artificial Intelligence, COT6930 Parallel and Distributed Aritificial Intelligence, CAP4630 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, COP2212 Introduction to Programming, in C

Research Interests:

Computer game design and implementation, User-Interface Design in web applications, 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.

A Fuller List of Publications

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, Clare

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