William D. Shoaff
- Associate Professor and Chair
- Computer Science Program
- Division of Electrical and Computer Science and Engineering
- The Florida Institute of Technology
Teaching Experience and Interests
Frequently taught courses:
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CSE 4255/5255 Introduction to Computer Graphics
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CSE 5256 Advanced Computer Graphics
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CSE 4081/5081 Analysis of Algorithms
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CSE 4083/5083 Formal Languages and Automata Theory
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CSE 5085 Computational Complexity
Areas:
- Computer Graphics
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Algorithms
Interests:
- Applications of Graphics in Science and Engineering
- Parallel Algorithms
- Architectures for Parallel Processing
- Literate Programming
Research Interests
- Parallel Numerical Algorithms
- Computational Genetics
- Computer Graphics and Its Application in Science and Engineering
Current Research Projects
- A Graphical User Interface for the Florida Solar Energy Center
- The Florida TeX DNA Base
- Computer Graphics and Its Applications in Mechanics (A Network-Based Curriculum)
Selected Publications
- Shoaff, William D. and Chan, C. David,
"A Parallel Algorithm for the Singular Value Decomposition of
Rectangular Matrices",
in Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing,
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA,
Gary Rodrigue, (editor), pages 72-76, 1989.
- Fulton, Charles and Pruess, Steven and Shoaff, William,
"Parallel Computation of Sturm-Liouville Spectral Density Functions",
Parallel Algorithms and Applications,
Gordon and Breach Science Publishers S. A.,
4, pages 41-51, 1994.
- Shoaff, William D. and Newman, Henry S. and Nuttall, Ted R. and
Hozier, John C.,
"Supercomputer Simulation of Chromosomes",
Proceedings of the First International Conference on
Electrophoresis, Supercomputing and the Human Genome,
World Scientific Publishing Co.,
Lim, Hwa A. and Cantor, Charles R. (editors),
pages 235-244, 1990.
- Shoaff, William and Davis, Lisa and Hozier, John and Schneider, Moti,
"The Detection of Fuzzy Repetitive Patterns in Long Strings
with Application to Microsatellite Mapping",
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on
Bioinformatics and Genome Research, 1994.
- Morris, Robert and Shoaff, William and Al-Khatib, Lina,
"Path Consistency in a Network of Non-Convex Intervals",
13th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., pages 655-660, 1993.
- William D. Shoaff,
"Tchebycheff Approximation of Continuous Functions by
Harmonic Polynomials on Conic Sections",
Journal of Approximation Theory,
vol. 44 (3), pages 277-288, 1985.
- Schneider, M. and Lim, H. and Shoaff, W.,
"Utilization of Fuzzy Sets in the Recognition of Imperfect Strings",
International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems,
vol. 49 (3), pages 331-338, 1992.
- Inui, M. and Shoaff, W. and Fausett, L. and Schneider, M.,
"The Recognition of Imperfect Strings Generated by Fuzzy
Context Sensitive Grammars",
International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems,
vol. 62 (1), pages 21-29, 1994.
- Thiebaux, Sylvie and Hertzberg, Joachim and Shoaff,
William and Schneider, Mordechay,
"A Stochastic Model of Actions and Plans for Anytime Planning
under Uncertainty",
International Journal for Intelligent Systems, (to appear).
Personal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Web Sites
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- Florida Institute of Technology
Computer Science Program
150 West University Boulevard, Melbourne, FL 32901-6988
(407) 768-8000, ext. 8066
wds@cs.fit.edu