Roger L. Wainwright

Associate Professor and Associate Chairman of Computer Sciences

Department of Mathematical & Computer Sciences
The University of Tulsa

The Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a combination of Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics. The department is in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences located in Keplinger Hall, which is one of five Academic Colleges at the university.

Biography

B.S., Mathematics, Iowa State University, 1969

B.S., Computer Science, Iowa State University, 1969

Secondary Education Teaching Certificate, Mathematics, State of Iowa, 1969

M.S., Computer Science, Iowa State University, 1971

Ph.D., Computer Science, Iowa State University, 1974

University of Tulsa Faculty Member since September, 1974

Research Interests

Combinatorial Optimization

Evolutionary Computation (Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming)

Parallel Algorithms

Analysis of Algorithms

Course Responsibilities

CS2003, "Fundamentals of Algorithm and Computer Application"

CS3013, "Discrete Mathematics"

CS3123, "Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis"

CS7253, "Advanced Information Structures"

CS7353, "Analysis of Algorithms"

CS7553, "Parallel Algorithms"

Recent Publications Available in Postscript

Arthur L. Corcoran and Roger L. Wainwright,
"LibGA: A User-Friendly Workbench for Order-Based Genetic Algorithm Research", Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Compurting, February 14-16, 1993, pages 562-569, ACM Press.
Arthur L. Corcoran and Roger L. Wainwright,
"The Performance of a Genetic Algorithm on a Chaotic Objective Function", Proceedings of the Seventh Oklahoma Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 200-206, November, 1993.
Faris N. Abuali, Dale A. Schoenefeld and Roger L. Wainwright
"Terminal Assignment in a Communications Network Using Genetic Algorithms", ACM Computer Science Conference (CSC'94), Phoenix, Arizona, March 1994, pages 74-81, ACM Press.
Faris N. Abuali, Dale A. Schoenefeld and Roger L. Wainwright
"Designing Telecommunications Networks Using Genetic Algorithms and Probabilistic Minimum Spanning Trees", Proceedings of the 1994 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, March 6-8, 1994, pages 242-246, ACM Press.
Arthur L. Corcoran and Roger L. Wainwright,
"A Parallel Island Model Genetic Algorithm for the Multiprocessor Scheduling Problem", Proceedings of the 1994 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, March 6-8, 1994, pages 483-487, ACM Press.
Carlos Gonzalez and Roger L. Wainwright,
"Dynamic Scheduling of Computer Tasks Using Genetic Algorithms", Proceedings of the First IEEE Conference on Evolutional Computing - IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence June 26-July 2, 1994, Orlando Florida, pages 829-833.
Arthur L. Corcoran and Roger L. Wainwright,
"A Parallel Island Model Genetic Algorithm for the Multiproces "Using LibGA to Develop Genetic Algorithms for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems", to appear as a book chapter, (CRC Press)
Faris N. Abuali, Roger L. Wainwright and Dale A. Schoenefeld
"Determinant Factorization and Cycle Basis: Encoding Scheme for the Representation of Spanning Trees on Incomplete Graphs", Proceedings of the 1995 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, February 26-28, 1995, Nashville, TN, pages 305-312, ACM Press.
Faris N. Abuali, Roger L. Wainwright and Dale A. Schoenefeld
"Solving the Three-Star Tree Isomorphism Problem Using Genetic Algorithms", Proceedings of the 1995 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, February 26-28, 1995, Nashville, TN, pages 337-343, ACM Press.
Thomas D. Haynes and Roger L. Wainwright,
"A Simulation of Adaptive Agents in a Hostile Environment", Proceedings of the 1995 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, February 26-28, 1995, Nashville, TN, pages 319-323, ACM Press.
Kelly D. Crawford, Roger L. Wainwright and Dan J. Vasicek,
"Detecting Multiple Outliers in Multidimensional Data Using Genetic Algorithms", Proceedings of the 1995 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, February 26-28, 1995, Nashville, TN, pages 351-356, ACM Press.
Faris N. Abuali, Roger L. Wainwright and Dale A. Schoenefeld,
"Determinant Factorization: A New Encoding Scheme for Spanning Trees Applied to the Probabilistic Minimum Spanning Tree Problem", To appear in the Proceedings of The Sixth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-95), Pittsburgh, PA., July, 1995, Larry Eshelman, Editor, Morgan Kaufmann Publisher, pages xxx-xxx.
Kelly D. Crawford and Roger L. Wainwright,
"Applying Genetic Algorithms to Outlier Detection", To appear in the Proceedings of The Sixth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-95), Pittsburgh, PA., July, 1995, Larry Eshelman, Editor, Morgan Kaufmann Publisher, pages xxx-xxx.
Thomas D. Haynes, Roger L. Wainwright and Dale A. Schoenefeld,
"Strongly Typed Genetic Programming in Evolving Cooperative Strategies", To appear in the Proceedings of The Sixth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-95), Pittsburgh, PA., July, 1995, Larry Eshelman, Editor, Morgan Kaufmann Publisher, pages xxx-xxx.

Technical Reports

Arthur L. Corcoran and Roger L. Wainwright,
"A Heuristic for Improved Genetic Bin Packing" Technical Report UTULSA-MCS-93-8, May, 1993.
Arthur L. Corcoran and Roger L. Wainwright,
"Chromosome Reduction in Genetic Algorithms" Technical Report UTULSA-MCS-94-1, January, 1994

Genetic Algorithm Software Available From TU

Hypergen -- A Parallel Genetic Algorithm package written for a Hypercube

LibGA -- A Genetic Algorithm Software Package

GATutor -- A GA Tutorial Package for new users

Recent and Current Ph.D. Students

Arthur L. Corcoran (Graduated May, 1994)

Faris N. Abuali (Graduated May, 1995)

Thomas D. Haynes

Kelly D. Crawford

Conferences / Call for Papers

Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization (CO96)

Sixth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms

SAC '96 Front Page

Local Links

Roger Wainwright Research Projects

The University of Tulsa

Tulsa Home Page

The Tulsa Home Page

TU Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty

State of Oklahoma

Address

Roger L. Wainwright
Professor and Chairman of Computer Science
Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
University of Tulsa
600 South College Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74104-3189
Ph: (918) 631-3143
Fax: (918) 631-3077
rogerw@penguin.mcs.utulsa.edu
http://euler.mcs.utulsa.edu/faculty/wainwright.html

rogerw@penguin.mcs.utulsa.edu