Clare Bates Congdon: Select Publications

• Clare Bates Congdon, Joseph Aman, Gerardo Nava, H. Rex Gaskins, Carolyn Mattingly, "An Evaluation of Information Content as a Metric for the Inference of Putative Conserved Noncoding Regions in DNA Sequences Using a Genetic Algorithms Approach," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 13 June 2007. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2007.1059

• Congdon CB, Fizer CW*, Smith NW*, Gaskins HR, Aman J*, Nava G, Mattingly C (2005). "Preliminary Results for GAMI: A Genetic Algorithms Approach to Motif Inference" Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB-2005), La Jolla, California, November 2005.

• Clare Bates Congdon, "Phylogenetic Inference Using Evolutionary Algorithms", in Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics, Gary B. Fogel, David W. Corne, Yi Pan, Wiley-IEEE Press, December 2007.

• C. B. Congdon and K. J. Septor*, "Phylogenetic Trees Using Evolutionary Search: Initial Progress in Extending Gaphyl to Work with Genetic Data", Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2003), Canberra, Australia, December 2003. pdf

• C. B. Congdon, "Gaphyl: An Evolutionary Algorithms Approach for the Study of Natural Evolution", Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2002), New York, NY, July 2002. (Best paper award, Real-World Applications track.) postscript pdf

• C. B. Congdon, "Gaphyl: A Genetic Algorithms Approach to Cladistics", Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD 2001), Freiburg, Germany, September, 2001. In L. DeRaedt, A. Siebes (eds.), Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2168, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp 67-78.
  
  
• C. B. Congdon, "An Evolutionary Algorithms Approach to Phylogenetic Tree Construction", in Information Processing with Evolutionary Algorithms: From Industrial Applications to Academic Speculations, Grana, M.; Duro, R.; d'Anjou, A.; Wang, P.P. (Eds.), Springer, p 99-116, 2005.

• C. C. Sotzing*, W. M. Htay*, C. B. Congdon, ``GENCEM: A Genetic Algorithms Approach to Coordinated Autonomous Multi-Robot Exploration and Mapping'', Proceedings of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2005), Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2005.
  
  
• N. W. Smith*, C. B. Congdon, ``RCS: A Learning Classifier System for Evolutionary Robotics'', Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS-2005), Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005), Washington, DC June 2005.

• Thomas Cook and Clare Bates Congdon, "Preliminary Results with GAUGUIN, an Evolutionary Computation Approach to Creating Art in the Suprematist Style", Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2007), Singapore, 2007.

• C. B. Congdon and R. H. Mazza III*, "GenTree: An Interactive Genetic Algorithms System for Designing 3D Polygonal Tree Models" Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2003), Chicago, IL, July 2003. (Nominated for best-paper award, Real-World Applications track.) postscript pdf
  
  
• R. H. Mazza III* and C. B. Congdon, "Towards a Genetic Algorithms Approach to Designing 3D Polygonal Tree Models", Proceedings of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2002), Honolulu, HI, 2002 postscript

• Thomas Goth, Chia-Ti Tsai, Fu-Tien Chiang and Clare Bates Congdon, "Initial Results with EpiSwarm, A Swarm-based System for Investigating Genetic Epistasis", Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2007), Singapore, 2007.

• C. B. Congdon, "Classification of Epidemiological Data: A Comparison of Genetic Algorithm and Decision Tree Approaches", Proceedings of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2000), San Diego, CA, July 2000. postscript.

• Tymann, P., Congdon, C.B., Dougherty, J., Evans, D., LeBlanc, M., Little, J.C., Prey, J.C., and Stojkovic, V. "Computer Science and Bioinformatics" in Math & Bio 2010: Linking Undergraduate Disciplines, L.A. Steen, Editor. The Mathematical Association of America, pp. 75-82, 2005.

• C. B. Congdon, "Machine Learning for the Masses", Curriculum Descant column for Intelligence magazine, Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence, v12, n2, Summer 2001.
• C. B. Congdon, "Robots Don't Rule: Some Thoughts on Using Robots for Introductory CS", the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium Series, March 26-28, 2001, Stanford University.
• C. B. Congdon, "Machine Learning in the Liberal Arts Curriculum", Proceedings of the Thirty-First SIGCSE Technical Symposium in Computer Science Education, Austin, TX, March, 2000, pp 100-104.

Machine Learning / Classification
• "A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms and Other Machine Learning Systems on a Complex Classification Task from Common Disease Research", Ph.D. thesis, University of Michigan, Computer Science and Engineering Division, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 1995. postscript
• "Genetic Algorithms for Identifying Combinations of Genes and Other Risk Factors Associated with Coronary Artery Disease", C. B. Congdon, C. F. Sing, S. L. Reilly, Proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and the Genome, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 1993.

  Robotics

• "Integrating High-Speed Obstacle Avoidance, Global Path Planning, and Vision Sensing on a Mobile Robot", D. Kortenkamp, M. Huber, C. Cohen, U. Raschke, F. Koss, and C. Congdon. In Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robots: Case Studies of Successful Robot Systems, Ed. D. Kortenkamp, P. Bonasso, and R. Murphy, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998.
• "Integrated Mobile Robot Design: Winning the AAAI-92 Robot Competition", D. Kortenkamp, M. Huber, C. Cohen, U. Raschke, C. Bidlack, C. Congdon, F. Koss, and T. Weymouth. IEEE Expert 8(4) (August, 1993), 61-73.
• "Carmel vs. Flakey: A Comparison of Two Winners", C. B. Congdon, M. Huber, D. Kortenkamp, K. Konolige, K. Meyers, A Saffioti. AI Magazine, v. 14, n. 1, Spring 1993. (A longer version of this paper is also available as AAAI Press Tech Report #RC-92-01.)
• "Integrating Obstacle Avoidance, Global Path Planning, Visual Cue Detection and Landmark Triangulation in a Mobile Robot", D. Kortenkamp, M. Huber, C. B. Congdon, S. Huffman, C. Bidlack, C. Cohen, F. Koss, U. Raschke, T. Weymouth, SPIE Mobile Robots VII, Boston MA, November 1992.

  Soar

• "The Soar User's Manual: Version 8.0", J. E. Laird, C. B. Congdon, and K. J. Coulter. May, 1999. (Tech report, University of Michigan EECS Department)
• "Learning Control Knowledge in an Unsupervised Planning Domain", C. B. Congdon, in The Soar Papers: Research on Integrated Intelligence, volume 2, Ed. P. S. Rosenbloom, J. E. Laird, A. Newell, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993.