William D. Shoaff

Associate Professor and Department Head

Department of Computer Sciences

The Florida Institute of Technology

Office Hours

Teaching Experience and Interests

Computing Disciplines and Careers

Applied Discrete Mathematics

Senior Projects

Graphics Programming

Computer Graphics

Advanced Computer Graphics

Analysis of Algorithms

Parallel Processing

Computer Science Seminar

Computational Complexity

Computer Graphics

Theoretical Computer Science

Algorithms

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

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

"Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to feel interested.

"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little vexed. "That's what the name is called. The name really is `The Aged Aged Man.'"

"Then I ought to have said 'That's what the song is called'?" Alice corrected herself.

"No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is called 'Ways and Means': but that is only what it's called, you know!"

"Well, what is the song, then?" said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.

"I was coming to that," the Knight said. "The song really is 'A-sitting On A Gate': and the tune's my own invention."

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