Journal and conference papers by ITSC member and graduate students accepted

ITSC Senior Scientist for Modeling and Simulation Dr. Mikel D. Petty and his graduate students had eight journal and conference papers accepted for publication in February 2019. The conference papers will be presented at the 2019 ACM Southeast Conference (Kennesaw GA) and the 2019 IEEE SoutheastCon (Huntsville AL), both to occur in April 2019.

• D. A. O’Neil and M. D. Petty, “Heuristic Methods for Synthesizing Realistic Social Networks Based on Personality Compatibility”, Applied Network Science, DOI: 10.1007/s41109-019-0117-4.
• W. T. Garrison and M. D. Petty, “A Technique to Enable Online Machine Learning Applications for Simulation Optimization”, Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE SoutheastCon, Huntsville AL, April 11-14 2019.
• D. A. O’Neil and M. D. Petty, “A Monte Carlo Algorithm for Generating Synthetic Social Networks Based on Personality Compatibility”, Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE SoutheastCon, Huntsville AL, April 11-14 2019.
• K. L. Foster and M. D. Petty, “A Case Study of the Use of Design of Experiments Methods to Calibrate a Semi-Automated Forces System” Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Southeast Conference, Kennesaw GA, April 18-20 2019.
• S. Govindaiah and M. D. Petty, “Applying Reinforcement Learning to Plan Manufacturing Material Handling, Part 1: Background and Formal Problem Specification” Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Southeast Conference, Kennesaw GA, April 18-20 2019.
• S. Govindaiah and M. D. Petty, “Applying Reinforcement Learning to Plan Manufacturing Material Handling, Part 2: Experimentation and Results” Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Southeast Conference, Kennesaw GA, April 18-20 2019.
• K. P. Mayfield, M. D. Petty, T. S. Whitaker, J. A. Bland, and W. A. Cantrell, “Component-based Implementation of Cyberattack Simulation Models”, Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Southeast Conference, Kennesaw GA, April 18-20 2019.
• S. Govindaiah and M. D. Petty, “A discrete event simulation-based multi-objective reinforcement learning reward function for optimizing manufacturing material handling”, Proceedings of the 2019 Simulation Innovation Workshop, Orlando FL, February 11-15 2019.