Research & Scholarship

The research and scholarly efforts of our faculty ensure that our students are educated in a vibrant and engaged environment. Recent research and scholarship projects are listed below.

Journal Articles

Calvo, A., Seitzer, J. (2011). "Council Undergraduate Research Highlights." Council Undergraduate Research Highlights, Winter (2011).

Eschen, E. M., Hoang, C. T., Spinrad, J. P., Sritharan, R. (2011). "On Graphs Without a C4 or a Diamond." Discrete Applied Mathematics, 159, 581-587.

Eschen, E. M., Hoang, C. T., Sritharan, R., Stewart, L. K. (2011). "On the Complexity of Deciding Whether the Distinguishing Chromatic Number of a Graph is at Most Two." Discrete Mathematics, 311, 431-434.

Heggernes, P., Mancini, F., Papodopoulos, C., Sritharan, R. (2011). "Strongly Chordal and Chordal Bipartite Graphs are Sandwich Monotone." Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 22, 438-456.

Yao, Z., Loguinov, D. (2011). "Analysis of Link Lifetimes and Neighbor Selection in Switching DHTs." IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 22(11), 1834-1841.

Yao, Z., Loguinov, D. (2011). "Understanding Disconnection and Stabilization of Chord." IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 22(4), 650-661.

Grants

Buckley, J. P. “Fostering Sustainability by Detecting Vulnerable, Cascaded Cycles in the Carbon Chain.” $5,000. (May 16, 2011-August 15, 2011).

Perugini, S. (Principal), Wright, D. J. (Co-Principal), Quill, L. L. (Co-Principal), Bowers, D. M. (Co-Principal), Cresencia, J. V. (Supporting), Mize, M. (Supporting). “Virtual Learning and Teaching Community.” Sponsored by Ohio Board of Regents and University of Dayton Research Institute, $20,000. (April 20, 2009-April 29, 2011).

Seitzer, J. (Principal). “A Study and Implementation of Hierarchical Genetic Algorithms.” Sponsored by University of Dayton Research Council, $5,000. (January 1, 2011-December 31, 2011).

Seitzer, J. (Principal). “Evolving Structure using Hierarchical Genetic Algorithms.” Sponsored by LEADER Consortium – National Science Foundation Sub-Award, $4,944. (October 29, 2010-December 31, 2011).

Sritharan, R. (Principal). “Problems on Structured Families of Graphs.” Sponsored by National Security Agency, $40,200. (January 2009-January 2011).

Yao, Z. (Principal). “Randomized Workload in Distributed Systems.” Sponsored by The LEADER Consortium, funded in part by the National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program, $4,947. (January 1, 2011-December 31, 2011).

Yao, Z. (Principal). “Scheduling Workload in Clouds.” Sponsored by The University of Dayton Research Council Seed Grants, $6,000. (May 16, 2011-August 15, 2011).

Other

Seitzer, J. “Women in Science: Challenges on the Tenure Track.” NSF LEADER Workshop: Challenges on the Tenure Track, LEADER Consortium-NSF, University of Dayton. (October 13, 2011).

Papers

Buckley, J. P. “A Framework for Detecting Vulnerable, Cascaded Fuzzy Cycles in the Carbon Chain.” International Conference on Data Mining, WorldComp, Las Vegas, Nevada. (July 15, 2011).

Eschen, E. M., Hoang, C. T., Spinrad, J. P., Sritharan, R. “Finding a sun in graphs.” Dagstuhl Seminar on exploiting graph structure to cope with hard problems, Leibniz-Zentrum for Informatik, Wadern, Germany. (May 4, 2011).

Hoang, C. T., Kaminski, M., Sawada, J., Sritharan, R. “Finding and listing induced paths.” DIMAP Workshop on Combinatorics and Graph theory, Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, University of Warwick, Warwick, England. (April 6, 2011).

Papers Published in Conference Proceedings

Buckley, J. P., Seitzer, J. (2011). "A Framework for Detecting Vulnerable, Cascaded Fuzzy Cycles in the Carbon Chain" (pp. 6). Las Vegas, NV: 2011 International Conference on Data Mining.

Buckley, J. P., Seitzer, J. (2011). "A Framework for Detecting Vulnerable, Cascaded Fuzzy Cycles in the Carbon Chain" (pp. 6). Las Vegas, NV: 2011 International Conference on Data Mining.

Presentations

Huang, X., Seitzer, J. “Copy Cat Agents: Teacher-Student Autonomous Agents.” Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing-2011, ACM-W Association for Computing Machinery, Perrysville, OH. (February 18, 2011).

Land, R., Seitzer, J. “The Wired Ceiling.” Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing-2011, ACM-W Association for Computing Machinery, Perrysville, OH. (February 18, 2011).

Seitzer, J. “Inner Processing.” Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing-2011, ACM-W Association for Computing Machinery, Perrysville, OH. (February 19, 2011).

Seitzer, J. “Hierarchical Genetic Algorithms.” Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing-2011, ACM-W Association for Computing Machinery, Perrysville, OH. (February 18, 2011).

Technical Reports

Perugini, S. "Staging mixed-initiative dialogs by program generation and transformation" (pp. 25). Los Alamos, NM: Computing Research Repository (CoRR) at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Workshops

Yao, Z. The Strategic Expansion Workshop on Cognitive Modeling, US Air Force, Dayton, OH. (January 19, 2011).