Recent Publications

Huey Ling, Toh and R.C. Lacher, Computerized Adaptive Student Help: Experiments in Low-Cost Artificially Intelligent Automation of Student-Tutor Interaction, WSEAS Transactions on Computer 3(5) (2004) 1576--1581. [ISSN 1109-2750] [pdf]

R. C. Lacher, P. K. Coats, S. C. Sharma, and L. F. Fant, A neural network tool for classifying the financial health of a firm, European Journal of Operational Research 85 (1) (1995) 53--65.

R. C. Lacher and K. D. Nguyen, Hierarchical architectures for reasoning, Chapter 4 of Computational Architectures for Integrating Neural and Symbolic Processes (R. Sun and L. Bookman, eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994, pp 117--150. [pdf]

K. D. McCroan and R. C. Lacher, Region coloring, edge coloring, and scan-conversion of maps, Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications 4 (4) (1994) 423--455.

R. C. Lacher, Expert networks: Paradigmatic conflict, technological rapprochement, Minds and Machines 3 (1993) 53--71. [pdf]

R. C. Lacher, Node error assignment in expert networks, Chapter 2 of Hybrid Architectures For Intelligent Systems (A. Kandel and G. Langholz, ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton and London, 1992, pp 29--48.

R. C. Lacher, S. I. Hruska, and D. C. Kuncicky, Backpropagation learning in expert networks, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 3 (1) (1992) 62--71.

D. C. Kuncicky, S. I. Hruska, and R. C. Lacher, The equivalence of expert system and neural network inference, International Journal of Expert Systems 4 (3) (1992) 281--297.

Selected Recent Conference Proceedings

Huey Ling, Toh* and R.C. Lacher, Computerized Adaptive Student Help: Experiments in Low-Cost Artificially Intelligent Automation of Student-Tutor Interaction, Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS International Conference on Information Science, Communications and Applications (ISA 2004).

R.S. Renner*, B.A. Juliano, and R.C. Lacher, A simulation tool for managing intelligent ensembles, Proceedings International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CREA Press, Las Vegas, 1999, pp 578-584.

Cristi Gale*, R.C. Lacher, Ernest L. McDuffie, Constance A. Buenafe, and Chris W. Baumgart, The adaptive multi-sensor security system, AMISS, Proceedings International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CREA Press, Las Vegas, 1999, pp 574-577.

Allan Egbert, Jr*, and R.C. Lacher, Building EMYCIN expert systems from raw data sources, Proceedings International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CREA Press, Las Vegas, 1999, pp 571-573.

K.D. Nguyen* and R.C. Lacher, Self-organization of hierarchical architectures, Proceedings IASTED Conference of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Banff, July 1997.

Lili Yuan* and R.C. Lacher, Repetition induced incompetence in a reinforcement learning based control system, Proceedings Joint Conference of Information Sciences, vol 2:Computational Intelligence (Paul P. Wang, ed.), Duke University, Durham, NC, March, 1997, pp 106--109.

R.C. Lacher* and D.A. Klotter, Reverbaprop: Simultaneous learning of credit and weight, Proceedings SPIE Conference on the Science and Applications of Neural Networks, April, 1995. SPIE Vol. 2492, 1995, pp 550--559.

B. Yoon and R. C. Lacher*, Extracting rules by destructive learning, Proceedings World Congress on Computational Intelligence, International Conference on Neural Networks 94 -- Orlando, IEEE 94CH3429-8, June, 1994, pp 1766--1771.

F. W. Fang* and R. C. Lacher, Network complexity and learning efficiency of constructive learning algorithms, Proceedings World Congress on Computational Intelligence, International Conference on Neural Networks 94 -- Orlando, IEEE 94CH3429-8, June, 1994, pp 366--369.

K. Narita* and R. C. Lacher, The FEN learning architecture, Proceedings IJCNN 93 - Nagoya, IEEE, October, 1993, pp 1901--1905.

R. C. Lacher* The symbolic/sub-symbolic interface: hierarchical network organizations for reasoning, AAAI 92 Workshop on Integrating Neural and Symbolic Processes, San Jose, CA, AAAI, 1992, pp 17--22.

M. E. Manausa and R. C. Lacher*, Parameter sensitivity in the backpropagation learning algorithm, Proceedings IJCNN 91 - Singapore, IEEE 91CH3065-0, November, 1991, pp 390--395.

(*presenting author)


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