List of Publications for Nestor Rychtyckyj

· Rychtyckyj, N., (2002), "Standard Language at Ford Motor Company: Using a Controlled Language for Vehicle Assembly Process Planning ", Ford Technical Journal, vol. 5, no. 6, November 14, 2002.

· Rychtyckyj, N., (2002), "An Assessment of Machine Translation for Vehicle Assembly Process Planning at Ford Motor Company", Machine Translation: From Research to Real Users, 5^th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA 2002 Tiburon, CA, USA, October 2002 Proceedings, pp. 207-215, Springer-Verlag.

· Rychtyckyj, N., and Reynolds, R.G. (2002), "Knowledge Base Maintenance Using Cultural Algorithms: Applications to the DLMS Manufacturing Process Planning System at Ford Motor Company", Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, May 12-17, 2002, Honolulu, HI, pp. 855-860, IEEE Press.

· Rychtyckyj, N. and Reynolds, R.G., (2001), "Using Cultural Algorithms to Improve Knowledge Base Maintainability", Proceedings of the 2001 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO-2001, L. Spector, E. Goodman, A. Wu, W.B. Langdon, H.-M. Voigt, M. Gen, S. Sen, M. Dorigo, S. Pezeshk, M. Garzon, and E. Burke, editors. San Francisco, CA, pp. 1405-1412, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

· Rychtyckyj, N., (2001), "Using Cultural Algorithms to Re-Engineer Semantic Networks", PhD. Dissertation, Wayne State University.

· Rychtyckyj, N., (2000), “An Assessment of Machine Translation for Vehicle Assembly Process Planning”, Ford Technical Journal, vol. 3, no. 4, July 14, 2000

· Rychtyckyj, N., and Reynolds, R., (2000), “Assessing the Performance of Cultural Algorithms for Semantic Network Re-Engineering”, Proceedings of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, July 16-19, 2000, La Jolla, CA, pp. 1482-1491, IEEE Press.

· Rychtyckyj, N., and Reynolds, R., (2000), “Long-Term Maintenance of Deployed Knowledge Representation Systems”, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, April 12-17, 2000, Breckenridge, CO, pp. 494-504, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

· Rychtyckyj, N., (1999), “DLMS: An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Vehicle Assembly Process Planning”, 1^st Ford Information and Knowledge Engineering Conference, September 24, 1999, Fairlane Training and Development Center, Dearborn, MI., pg. 24.

· Rychtyckyj, N., (1999), “DLMS: Ten Years of AI for Vehicle Assembly Process Planning”, AAAI-99/IAAI-99 Proceedings, Orlando, FL, July 18-22, 1999, pp. 821-828, AAAI Press.

· Rychtyckyj, N., and Reynolds, R., (1999), “Using Cultural Algorithms to Improve Performance in Semantic Networks”, Proceedings of the 1999 Congress of Evolutionary Computation, Washington D.C, July 6-9, vol. 3, pp. 1651-1656, IEEE Press.

· Rychtyckyj, N., (1999), “DLMS: An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Vehicle Assembly Process Planning”, Ford Technical Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, January 15, 1999.

· Rychtyckyj, N. and Reynolds, R., (1998), "Learning to Re-Engineer Semantic Networks Using Cultural Algorithms", Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming", San Diego, CA, Mar 25-27, 1998, pp. 181-190, Springer-Verlag.

· Rychtyckyj, N., (1996), "DLMS: An Evaluation of KL-ONE in the Automobile Industry", Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Cambridge, MA, Nov 4-8, 1996, pp. 588-596, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

· Rychtyckyj, N., (1996), "DLMS: An Evaluation of KL-ONE in the Automotive Industry", Collected Papers from the 1996 Workshop on Description Logics, AAAI-96 Technical Report - WS-96-05, pp. 60-68, AAAI Press.

· Rychtyckyj, N., (1995), "Measuring Knowledge Base Consistency", IJCAI-95 Workshop on Validation and Verification of Knowledge-Based Systems, Workshop Notes, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 20-25, 1995, pp. 107-109.

· Rychtyckyj, N., (1994), "The Problem of Long-Term Knowledge Base Maintenance", AAAI-94 Workshop on Validation and Verification of Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop Notes, Seattle, Washington, July 31-Aug 4, 1994, pp. 98-104.

· Rychtyckyj, N., (1994), "Classification in DLMS Utilizing a KL-ONE Representation Language", Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, New Orleans, LA, Nov 6-9, 1994, pp. 339-345.

· Rychtyckyj, N., (1993), "DLMS: A Case Study in the Development and Deployment of a Knowledge-Based System at Ford Motor Company", AAAI-93 Workshop on AI in Business Workshop Notes, Washington D.C., July 11-15, 1993, pp. 39-43.

· Rychtyckyj, N. and Amirfathi, M., (1989), "Intelligent Scheduling Module (ISM)", Proceedings of the 1989 Artificial Intelligence Technical Interchange Group at McDonnell Douglas Corporation, St. Louis, MO, September 27-28, 1989.

· Rychtyckyj, N., (1987), "Expert Systems Without Experts - Using Heuristics to Automate the Creation of a Knowledge Base", Master's Thesis, Computer Science, Dr. Robert G. Reynolds - Advisor, Wayne State University.

Presentations:

"An Assessment of Machine Translation for Vehicle Assembly Process Planning at Ford Motor Company", Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Multilingual Communication for the Automotive Industry TOPTEC Symposium, Nashville, TN, October 3-4, 2002.

Other:

Served as reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (1999 – present)
Served as reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (1999 – present)
Served as reviewer for the International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (2001- present)
Served on program committee for Congress for Evolutionary Computation – 2002 (CEC-2002).
Co-chair of Special Session on Evolutionary Approaches to Multi-Agent Design (CEC-2002).
Served on panel "Who's making/saving money with MT and how are they doing it?" at AMTA-2002, Tiburon, CA, October 12, 2002.