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Tom Altman

University of Colorado at Denver

Department: Computer Science and Engineering

Phone: (303) 315-1401

E-mail: Tom.Altman@ucdenver.edu

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EDUCATION

- Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1984.

- M.S. Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1981.

- B.S. Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1979.

(Member of the 1976 National Championship Football Team).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

- 2008-present: ABET Program Evaluator (Computing Accreditation Commission).

- 2005-2015: Director of Computer Science Undergraduate Program, UCD.

- 2002-2004: co-Director of Computer Science CSIS Ph.D. Program, UCD.

- 2000-2004: Director of Computer Science Graduate Program, UCD.

- 1999-2001: Director of Curriculum, Retraining Engineers for Information Technology, UCD.

- 1997-present: Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCD.

- 1993 Associate Professor: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCD.

- 1990 Assistant Professor: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCD.

- 1984 Assistant Professor: Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky.

- 1979 Teaching Fellow: Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh.

BOOK

Computing: A Historical and Technical Perspective.

Yoshihide Igarashi, Tom Altman, Mariko Funada, Barbara Kamiyama
2014 by Chapman and Hall/CRC. Reference - 350 Pages - 30 B/W Illustrations. ISBN 9781482227413

SELECTED REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1. Altman, T., A Fast Parallel Closure Algorithm, Congressus Numerantium, 47, pp. 29-32, 1985.

2. Wala, A., Altman, T., Canonical Diagram as a Graph Representation of a Mine Ventilation Network, Mining Engineering, 39:8, pp. 796-800, 1987.

3. Altman, T., Chrobak, M., Truszczynski, M., Generating k - combinations from a family of sets, Congressus Numerantium, 61, pp. 211-220, 1988.

4. Altman, T., Hughes, T., Wala, A., Mine Ventilation Expert System, Applied Artificial Intelligence: An International Journal, 2, pp. 265-276, 1988.

5. Altman, T., Igarashi, Y., Roughly Sorting: Sequential and Parallel Approach, Journal of Information Processing, 12:2, pp. 154-158, 1989.

6. Altman, T., Solving the Jigsaw Puzzle Problem in Linear Time, Applied Artificial Intelligence: An International Journal, 3, pp. 453-462, 1989.

7. Altman, T., A Gradient Driven Transportation Algorithm, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 32, pp. 85-95, 1990.

8. Altman, T., Application of Contractor Directions for Solving Systems of Nonlinear Equations, Computers & Mathematics with Applications: An International Journal, 19:6, pp. 9-14, 1990.

9. Altman, T., A Method of Inexact Steepest Descent for Systems of Linear Equations, Computers & Mathematics with Applications: An International Journal, 19:12, pp. 65-69, 1990.

10. Altman, T., A Hypo-quadratic Convergence Method for Systems of Nonlinear Equations, Computers & Mathematics with Applications: An International Journal, 20:1, pp. 57-60, 1990.

11. Altman, T., Chlebus, B., Sorting Roughly Sorted Sequences in Parallel, Information Processing Letters, 33:6, pp. 297-300, 1990.

12. Altman, T., Logothetis, G., A Note on Ambiguity in Context-Free Grammars, Information Processing Letters, 35:3, pp. 111-114, 1990.

13. Boulos, P., Altman, T., A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Explicit Nonlinear Pipe Network Optimization, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 15, pp. 459-466, 1991.

14. Boulos, P., Altman, T., Sadhal, K., Computer Modelling of Water Quality in Large Multiple-Source Networks, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 16, pp. 439-445, 1992.

15. Rossman, L., Boulos, P., Altman, T., Discrete Volume-Element Method for Network Water-Quality Models, J. Water Resources Planning and Management. ASCE, 119:5, pp. 505-517, 1993.

16. Boulos, P., Altman, T., Liou, J., On the Solvability of Water Distribution Networks with Unknown Pipe Characteristics, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 17, pp. 380-387, 1993.

17. Boulos, P., Altman, T., An Explicit Approach for Modelling Closed Pipes in Water Networks, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 17, pp. 437-443, 1993.

18. Boulos, P., Altman, T., Explicit Calculation of Water Quality Parameters in Pipe Distribution Systems, Journal of Civil Engineering Systems, 10, pp. 187-206, 1993.

19. Altman, T., Boulos, P., A Hypoquadratic Convergence Method for Lagrange Multipliers, Computers & Mathematics with Applications: An International Journal, 27:1, pp. 25-31, 1994.

20. Boulos, P., Altman, T., Collevati, F., Jarrige, P., An Event-driven Method for Modelling Contaminant Propagation in Water Networks, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 18, pp. 84-92, 1994.

21. Boulos, P., Altman, T., Collevati, F., Jarrige, P., Discrete Simulation Approach for Network-Water-Quality Models, J. Water Resources Planning and Management. ASCE, 121:1, pp. 49-60, 1995.

22. Altman, T., Boulos, P., Solving Flow-Constrained Networks: Inverse Problem, J. Hydraulic Engineering. ASCE, 121:5, pp. 427-431, 1995.

23. Altman, T., Boulos, P., Convergence of Newton Method in Nonlinear Network Analysis, J. Math. & Computer Modelling, 21, pp. 35-41, 1995.

24. Altman, T., Igarashi, Y., Obokata, K., Hyper-ring Connection Machines, Parallel Computing, 21, pp. 1327-1338, 1995.

25. Altman, T., Boulos, P., Closure Discussion: On Solving Flow Constrained Networks: The Inverse Problem, J. Hydraulic Engineering. ASCE, 123:3, pp. 252-253, 1997.

26. Takamura, M., Altman, T., Igarashi, Y., Speedup of Vidyasankar's Algorithm for The Group k-exclusion Problem, Information Processing Letters, 91:2, pp. 85-91, 2004.

27. Le, T., Altman, T., Gardiner, K., HIGEDA: a Hierarchical Gene-set Genetics based Algorithm for Finding Subtle Motifs in Biological Sequences, Bioinformatics, 26:3, pp. 302-309, 2010.

28. Jung, B., Boulos, P., Altman, T., Optimal Transient Network Design: a Multi-objective Approach, Journal of AWWA, 103:4, pp. 118-127, 2011.

29. Aly, A.A., Altman, T., An Efficient Algorithm to Calculate The Connectivity of Hyper-rings Distributed Networks, International Journal of Information Technology Convergence and Services, 6:2-3, pp. 1-12, 2016.

30. Radenkovic, M.S., Altman, T., Stochastic Adaptive Stabilization via Extremum Seeking in Case of Unknown Control Directions, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 61:11, pp. 3681-3686, 2016.

SELECTED REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1. Wala, A., Altman, T., Computer Aided Generation of Mine Ventilation Network Canonical Diagrams, Proc. 2nd International Symposium on Underground Methods and Techniques, Nottingham, England, pp. 55-64, 1986.

2. Wala, A., Altman, T., Knowledge Based Expert System for Mine Ventilation Management, Proc. 3rd Canadian Symposiumon Mining Automation, Montreal, Canada, pp. 67-73, 1988.

3. Wala, A., Altman, T., Simulation of Flow Behavior in Mine Ventilation Networks as a Tool for a Knowledge-based Decision System, Proc. Southeastern Simulation Conference, Orlando, Florida, pp. 133-138, 1988.

4. Wala, A.,Altman, T., Hughes, T., Smart Mine Ventilation Manager, Proc. 2nd Annual Symposium on Advanced Manufacturing, Lexington, Kentucky, pp. 63-66, 1988.

5. Wala, A., Altman, T., Hughes, T., University of Kentucky Mine Ventilation Manager, Proc. 4th U.S. Mine Ventilation Symposium, Berkeley, California, pp. 307-316, 1989.

6. Boulos, P., Altman, T., Bowcock, R., Dhingra, A., An Explicit Algorithm for Modeling Distribution System Water Quality with Applications, Proc. International Symposium on Water, Edinborough, Scotland, pp. 405-423, 1994

7. Boulos, P., Altman, T., Sadhal, K., Vasconcelos, J., The Event-Driven Method: Water Quality Modeling Algorithm of the Future, AWWA 1994 Engineering for Tomorrow's Water Systems, Cincinnati, Ohio, pp. 48-55, 1994.

8. Altman, T., Igarashi, Y., Obokata, K., Hyper-Ring Connection Machines, Proc. IEEE 9th International Conf.: Frontiers of Computer Technology,Singapore, pp. 290-294, 1994.

9. Altman, T., Heath, E., Boulos, P., Orr, S., Automated Calculation and Distribution of Water Demands in Network Models, Proc. AWWA Computer Conference, Austin, Texas, pp. 124-129, 1997.

10. Altman, T., Igarashi, Y., Motegi, K., Semi hyper-rings and enriched semi hyper-rings, COMP2002, 102:396, pp. 17-22, 2002.

11. Altman, T., Igarashi, Y., Motegi, K., Fast and Dependable Communication in Hyper-rings, Proc. 8th International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, Singapore, 2002, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 2387, pp. 350-359, 2002.

12. Altman, T., Igarashi, Y., Omori, M., A Turn Function Scheme Realized in the Asynchronous Single-Writer/Multi-Reader Shared Memory Model, Proc. 14thInternational Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS2906, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 454-463, 2003.

13. Supphachai, T., Altman, T., Cios, K., Structure-Based Document Model with Discrete Wavelet Transforms and Its Application to Document Classification, AusDM 2008, pp. 209-217, 2008.

14. Supphachai, T., Altman,T., Cios, K., Gardiner, K., Discovering Relational Knowledge from Two Disjoint Sets of Literatures Using Inductive Logic Programming, IEEE CIDM2009, pp. 283-290, 2009.

15. Le, T., Altman, T., A New Initialization Method for the Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm using Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering, Proc. 10th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, IKE'11, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 144-150, 2011.

16. Le, T., Altman, T., Gardiner, K., Density-based Imputation Method for Fuzzy Cluster Analysis of Gene Expression Microarray Data, Proc. International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BIOCOMP'12, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 190-195, 2012.

17. Le, T., Altman, T., Gardiner, K., Probability-based Imputation Method for Fuzzy Cluster Analysis of Gene Expression Microarray Data, Proc. International Conference on Information Technology -- New Generations, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 42-47, 2012.

18. Mokharrak, W., Khalaf, N. A., Altman, T., Application of Bioinformatics and Data Mining in Cancer Prediction, Proc. 11th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, IKE'12, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 115-121, 2012.

19. Le, T., Altman, T., Gardiner, K., A Fuzzy Clustering Method using Genetic Algorithm and Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering, Proc. 11th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, IKE'12, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 426-432, 2012.

20. Le, T., Altman, T., Gardiner, K., A Probability based Defuzzification Method for Fuzzy Cluster Partition, Proc. 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI'12, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 1038-1043, 2012.

21. Senser, R., Altman, T., DEF-G: Declarative Framework for GPU Environment, Proc. Parallel & Dirstibuted Processing Technologies and Applications, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 490-496, 2013.

22. Senser, R., Altman, T., DEF-G: Declarative Framework for GPUs, Poster presentation, GTC Technology Conf., San Jose, CA, pp. 1-1, 2014.

23. Senser, R., Altman, T., A Second Generation of DEFG: Declarative Framework for GPUs, Proc. Parallel & Dirstibuted Processing, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 1-6, 2014.

24. Alqurashi, R., Altman, T., Finding and Displaying the Shortest Paths in Hyper-Rings, Proc. ICIPCS'2015, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 89-96, 2015.

SELECTED INVITED REVIEW PAPERS

Yoshihide Igarashi and Tom Altman, Temporal orders of objects in the shared memory model, Annual Report of Information Processing and Education Research Center, Hakuoh University, 1, pp. 1-15, 2008.

SELECTED REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

1. Altman, T., A Gradient Directed Primal-Dual Algorithm for the Transportation Problem, 11th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Bonn, W. Germany, Aug., 1982.

2. Altman, T., A Parallel Closure and Cycle Detection Algorithm, 16th International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, Boca Raton, Florida, Feb., 1985.

3. Altman, T., A Parallel Gradient-Driven Transportation Algorithm, 3rd SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, Clemson, SC, May, 1986.

4. Altman, T., Chrobak, M., Truszczynski, M., Generating k-combinations from a family of sets, 18th International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, Boca Raton, Florida, Feb., 1987.

5. Altman, T., A New Algorithm for Solving Systems of Nonlinear Equations, SIAM Conference on Optimization, Houston, Texas, May, 1987.

6. Altman, T., Solving Nonlinear Systems of Equations - A New Approach, 1st International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Paris, France,June, 1987.

7. Altman, T., Linear-time Recognition of Similar Shapes, SIAM 35th Anniversary Meeting, Denver, Colorado, Oct., 1987.

8. Altman, T., Application of Contractor Directions to Linear Algebra, 3rd SIAM Conference on Linear Algebra, Madison, Wisconsin, May, 1988.

9. Altman, T., Igarashi, Y., Roughly Sorting: Sequential and Parallel Approach, Information Processing Society of Japan Seminar on Algorithms, Tokyo, Japan, Sept., 1988.

10. Altman, T., Boulos, P., A Semi-analytical Solution to Water Distribution Network Optimization, 2nd International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Washington, D.C., July, 1991.

11. Altman, T., Algebraic Algorithms for the Graph Isomorphism Problem, 24 th International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, Boca Raton, Florida, Feb., 1993.

12. Altman, T., Reliable Communication Schemes for Hyper-Rings, 28 th International Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, Boca Raton, Florida, Feb., 1997.

13. Altman, T., Connectivity and Reliable Communication for Replicating Graphs, 30 th International Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, Boca Raton, Florida, March, 1997.

14. Altman, T., Igarashi, Y., Omori, M., Temporal Orderings in Asynchronous Distributed Environments, 40 th International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, Boca Raton, Florida, March., 2009.

15. Altman, T., Journeys of a Mathematician: Mieczyslaw Altman's life story during and after World War II, and his quest to discover the methods that find the optimal solution, Joint Mathematics Meetings: AMS Special Session on Mathematics in Poland: Interbellum, World War II, and Immediate Post-War Developments, San Antonio, Texas, 2015.

RECOGNITIONS

- MWH-Soft Excellence in Engineering Education Award, 2002 and 2003.

- College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Teacher of the Year, 2001.

- Who's Who in Among American Teachers, 1997.

- American Society of Civil Engineers Water Resources Best Research Paper for 1996.

- The Marquis Who's Who in the World, 1996.

- University of Colorado at Denver Faculty Fellowship 1994-95.

- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Scientific Achievement Award, 1994.

ASSOCIATIONS

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1980-present.

SELECTED AWARDED GRANTS/CONTRACTS (approx. $6.3M total)

- 2009 STTR-2/US Army, with SAS $580K.

- 2005 STTR-1/US Army, with SAS $100K

- 2004 DARPA, LG-RAID, with SAS, $4.5M (for 3+2 years).

- 2004 Boeing, LG-Protector, with SAS, $120K.

- 2004 Navy/SBIR, LG-Seaguard, with SAS, $100K.

- 2003 MWH-Soft Educational Software Grant (for UCD C.E. Dept.), $48K.

- 2003 USMDA, LG Techniques for Advanced Engagement & Planning, with SAS, $70K.

- 2002 MWH-Soft Educational Software Grant (for UCD C.E. Dept.), $47K.

- 2002 US Missile Defense Agency, LG Techniques for Missile Defense, with SAS, $70K.

- 2001 Boeing, Integrated Defense Against Cruise Missile Attack, with SAS, $232K.

- 2001 Boeing, LG Algorithms for Effect Based Operations, with SAS, $170K.

- 2000 JFACC Experiment Commander, Rockwell Science Center/DARPA, SAS $160K.

- 1996 Montgomery Watson Educational Software Grant (for UCD C.E. Dept.), $33K.

- 1992 National Science Foundation Grant #CCR-9215731, Elimination of Certain Ambiguity Causing Constructs from

CFGs: An Algebraic Approach, $28K.

- 1987 SIAM/National Science Foundation Young Investigator Grant, $1K.

- 1985 Control Data Corp./University of Georgiasupercomputer usage grant, $12K.

REVIEWER FOR

- ACM Computing Reviews

- Journal of AWWA

- Applied Mathematical Modeling

- Information Processing Letters

- International Conference on Parallel Processing

- IEEE Journal on Distributed Computing

- IEEE SAHNS

- Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

- Parallel Processing Letters

- National Science Foundation