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Dr.Nicholas Flann

Associate Professor   
Department of Computer Science   
Utah State University   
Logan UT 84322-4205   

Office: 402D Old Main Hall   
Office Hours FALL 2007: 12:30pm to 2:30pm MWF   
   
Voice: (435) 797-2432   
Fax: (435) 797-3265   
Email:nick.flann@usu.edu   

Curriculum vitae   

    Selected Research Papers
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Podgorski, G., Bansal, M. Flann, N, (2007).Regular Mosaic Pattern Formation: A Study of the Interplay between Lateral Inhibition, Apoptosis, and Differential AdhesionIn Journal of Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, 2007, Volume 4:43
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Winward G. and Flann N. S. (2007). Coordination of Multiple Vehicles for Area Coverage Tasks In IEEE/RSJ 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS 2007).
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Dhanasekaran R. A., Podgorski G. J. and Flann N. S. (2007). Co-option and Irreducibility in Regulatory Networks for Cellular Pattern Development In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (CI-ALife 2007).
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Kim, Y., Flann, N., Wei, Q., Ko, Y. & Alla, S. (2006). MathGirls: Motivating Girls to Learn Math through Pedagogical Agents. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2006 (pp. 2025-2032). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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Flann N. S., Hu J., Bansal M., Patel V. and Podgorski G. (2005). Biological Development of Cell Patterns: Characterizing the Space of Cell Chemistry Genetic Regulatory Networks, Eighth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent, UK, September 2005

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Sasaki Y., Flann N. S., and Box P.W. (2005). The Multi-agent games by Reinforcement Learning Applied to on-line Optimization of Traffic Policy. In Computational Economics: A Perspective from Computational Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Chen S. H. (Ed).
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Lewis P. J., Flann N. S., Torrie M. R., Poulson E. A., Petroff T. (2005). Chaos an Intelligent Ultra-Mobile SUGV: Combining the Mobility of Wheels, Tracks, and Legs. SPIE Conference on Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology VI , Defense and Security Symposium. , Orlando, FL, April 2005.
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Dietterich T. G. and Flann N. S. (1997). Explanation-based Learning and Reinforcement Learning: A Unified View. Machine Learning, 28, 169-210.
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Hooper D. and Flann N. S. Improving the Accuracy and Robustness of Genetic Programming through Expression Simplification. In John R. Koza et al., editors, Genetic Programming 1996: Proceedings of the First Annual Conference, page 428, Stanford University, CA, USA, 1996. MIT Press.
    Research Projects

Suplementary Information for Regular mosaic pattern development: A study of the interplay between lateral inhibition, apoptosis and differential adhesion by Gregory J. Podgorski, Mayank Bansal and Nicholas S. Flann

    Current Courses Taught (Summer 2008)

CS 5890/6890 Biological Modeling Projects

    Personal Interests
Wilderness Exploring Tai Chi Chuan Space Exploration Philosophy of Science and Religion