FIKRET ERCAL

PERSONAL DATA

Business Address:

Computer Science Department

Missouri University of Science & Technology, Rolla, MO, 65401

E-mail: abqsmj@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 573-***-****

URL: http://web.mst.edu/ ercal/

EDUCATION

June 1988 Ph.D., Computer and Information Science Dept., The Ohio State Univ., Cols, OH

Dissertation: Heuristic Approaches to Task Allocation For Parallel Computing.

(Advisor: P. Sadayappan)

Mar. 1985 M.S. in Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University.

July 1981 M.S. in EE, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

June 1979 B.S. in EE, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey (graduated with rst-class honors)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Aug. 2005 - Jan. 2008: Interim Chairman, Computer Science Department, Missouri University of Science

& Technology.

Jan 2004 - Aug. 2005: Associate Chairman, Computer Science Department, Missouri University of Science

& Technology.

June 1999 - present: Professor, Computer Science Department, Missouri University of Science & Technology.

July 1995 - June 1999: Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Missouri University of Science

& Technology.

Dec. 1996 - 2002: Founder and Director, Computer Vision Laboratory, MST

August 1990 - 2001: Research Investigator, Intelligent Systems Center, MST

August 1990 - July 1995: Assistant Professor, MST

November 1989 - July 1990: Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Engineering & Information Sciences,

Bilkent University, Ankara.

July 1988 - October 1989: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Engineering & Information Sciences,

Bilkent University, Ankara.

Jan. 1983 - June 1988: Graduate Research Associate, Teaching and Administrative Assistant, Departments

of Computer and Information Science and Electrical Eng., The Ohio State Univ.

Sept. 1979 - July 1982: Graduate Research Assistant, and Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical

Engineering, Istanbul Technical University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Parallel and distributed processing, bioinformatics, image processing, computer vision and neural networks.

AWARDS / HONORS / SCHOLARSHIPS

Meritorious Service Award; IEEE Computer Society, February 2002.

MST Faculty Excellence Awards; 1995-96, 1997-98, and 1998-99 ($2500 each, 1995-96 award is sponsored

by McDonnell Douglas Co.)

IEEE Golden Core Member: awarded in March 2002

Distinguished Service Award; Istanbul Technical Univ. Alumni Association, 1997 and 2000.

Best Paper Award; November 1994, International Conf. on Arti cial Neural Networks in Engineering (se-

lected among 160 papers).

1982 - 1988: Received scholarship from Turkish Scienti c and Technical Research Council (TUBITAK) for

Ph.D. studies in the U.S. (only two students from Turkey in EE eld were chosen for this award)

July 1981: Selected as a Fulbright Scholar for Ph.D. studies in the U.S. (Since two scholarships could not be

used at the same time, did not use Fulbright scholarship)

June 1979: Recipient of the Ord. Prof. Bedri Karafakioglu Award for obtaining the rst rank in the B.S.

program in Electrical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University.

August 1974: Recipient of Work Bank s money award for obtaining the 24th place among the 250,000 students

taking the University Entrance Exams nationwide. Quali ed to be the top scorer among all the students

attending Istanbul Technical University in 1974.

FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS AND GRANTS

Total Research Grants: $6 Million ($1 Million F. Ercal s part)

NVIDIA Professor Partnership Program, NVIDIA Co., Donation of 8 NVIDIA GPU Boards worth

$12,500, 12/2008, (PI, Co-investigators D. Tauritz and A. Hurson)

NSF REU, Training and Research Experience for Undergraduates in the Area of Sensor Networking and

Applications, $300,000, 2008-2011, (PI:Sanjay Madria, co-PIs: Fikret Ercal, and J. Sarangapani).

Department of Education (GAANN), Secure and Adaptable Energy-e cient Sensor Networks for Infras-

tructure Monitoring, $384K, 2007-2011, (PI: Sanjay Madria, Co-PIs F. Ercal, M. Cheng, J. Sarangapani,

and G. Chen)

NSF, Wireless Test-bed for Mobile Computing Research, $100,000, 9/2003-8/2005, (Co-PI with S.

Madria, B.McMillin, J. Sarangapani, and S.R. Subramanya)

NASA, Turbofan Noise Propogation and Radiation at High Frequencies, $136,052, 9/1/01-8/31/03,

(Co-investigator with W. Eversman)

UM-Research Board, Video Data Transfer in 2-D Meshes Using Wormhole Routing, $28,952, 2/2001-

5/2002 (Co-investigator with S.R. Subramanya)

Department of Education (GAANN), Fellowship Program in Multidisciplinary Research and Training

in the Area of Embedded Real-Time Computer Systems, $669,750 (including MST match of $213,000),

8/15/2000-8/14/2003, (Co-investigator with Ann Miller, V. S. Rao, H. Pottinger, R. Davis)

NSF, IGERT, Variable Speed Electromechanical Drive Systems, $2,698,142, 1/1999-1/2004, (Co-investigator)

UM-Research Board Award, Systolic architectures to process RLE-compressed images, $33,355, 2/99-

2/2000, (PI)

NSF, Research Experiences in Parallel Linear Algebra, $150,000, 3/1/1997-2/28/2000, (Co-investigator

with Daniel Okunbor)

DARPA/ETO (Subcontract to AEI), Development of Fast and Scalable Automated Inspection Systems

for Multi-Layer Printed Circuit Boards, $440,101 ($40K, MST Match), 12/1/96-12/1/99, (Principal

Investigator)

NSF, Parallel Processing: Design, Analysis, and Implementation of Parallel Algorithms, $56,819, 6/1/1994-

5/31/1995, (Principal Investigator).

UM-Research Board Award, A Hierarchical Approach to Skin Tumor Diagnosis, $20,000, 6/1/93-

5/31/94 (Principal Investigator).

Stoecker & Associates, Algorithms for Pigmented Lesion Screening and Detection, $9,402, 8/1/93-

1/31/94 (Principal Investigator)

[subcontract to NIH-SBIR, Algorithms for Pigmented Lesion Screening and Detection, $50,000, 8/1/93-

1/30/94 (Investigators V.W. Stoecker, F. Ercal, R. Moss and S. E. Umbaugh)]

NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), Univ. of Illinois, Robust and E cient Al-

gorithms for Solving Sti PDEs on Massively Parallel Comp., $300,000 (200 hrs. of computing time on

CM-5), 3/1/94-2/28/95 (Co-investigator with D. Okunbor and R. Batra)

NSF-CISE Research Instrumentation, $100,000, 3/1/1993-2/28/1994 (Co-investigator)

University Partner in Computer Science Education, Intel Scienti c Computers, $29,725, 1/1/1991-1/1/1992,

(Principal Investigator)

University Partners in Computer Science Research, Intel Scienti c Computers, $60,220, 4/1/1991-3/31/1992,

(Co-investigator)

MST, Opportunities For Undergrad. Research Experiences, $1,200, 5/1/93-5/1/94.

NATO, Advanced Study Institute (ASI), $62,640, 1991-92. (Co-Director with F. Ozguner)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member: University of Missouri Research Board (2002-06)

Editorial Board: Selcuk Journal of Applied Mathematics (2003-present)

Area Editor: IEEE Distributed Systems Online (2000-2002).

Associate Editor: Intl. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networks (1998-2003).

Associate Editor: Science Letters (online journal)(2000-2004).

Program Committee co-Chair: (1998-2004) International Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Com-

puting (NIDISC)

General co-Chair: (2005-2007) International Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing (NIDISC)

Editor: IEEE TCPP Newsletter (1997 - 2002)

co-Guest Editor: Special Issue of the J. of Future Computer Systems on Bio-Inspired Solutions to Parallel

Processing Problems, 1998, 2001.

Program Committee Membership: Intl. Conf. on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2008-2012),

IASTED ISC 2011, 2nd World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE 2011), IADIS

Intl. Conf. Intelligent Sys. and Agents (2008-2010), IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Infor-

mation Systems (MCCIS 2008-2009), ISA 2008, 23rd Intl. Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences

(ISCIS 2008), 1st IEEE International Workshop on Service Oriented Technologies for Biological Databases and

Tools (SOBDAT 2007), 2005 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-05), 2003

ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Tunisia, The Sixth Intl. Sym. on

Parallel Algorithms, Architectures and Networks (I-SPAN 02), IEEE Intl. Sym. on Cluster Computing and the

Grid (CCGrid2001), 2001 IEEE International Sym. on Cluster and (global) Network Computing (CNC 2001),

10th International Conference on Computing and Information (ICCI 2000), 2000 Parallel and Distributed Meth-

ods for Image Processing IV, 2000 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2000), 1999 Intl. Conf.

on High Perf. Comp (HiPC 99), 1999 Parallel and Distributed Methods for Image Proc. III, 1999 Intl. Sym.

on Parallel Algorithms, Architectures and Networks (I-SPAN 99), 11th Intl. Conf. on Parl. & Dist. Comp.

Sys. (PDCS 98), PDCS 97, 4th Intl. Conf. on High Perf. Computing (1997), 7th IEEE Symposium on Parallel

and Distributed Proc. (1995), Intel Supercomputer Users Group Conference (ISUG-1996), 3rd Workshop on

Recon gurable Arch. & Algorithms (April 1996).

Organizing Committee: NATO - Advanced Study Institute, Ankara, July 1-12, 1991

Session Chair: Intl. Parl. & Distr. Proc. Symposium (Session 2, 2001, San Francisco), 4th BioSP3 Workshop

(2001), 1st BioSP3 Workshop (1998), 1997 International Parallel Processing Symposium, 7th IEEE Symposium

on Parallel and Distributed Processing (1995), 1994 International Conference on Arti cial Neural Networks in

Engineering, 1990 International Conference on Communication, Control, and Signal Processing, 1990 Interna-

tional Symposium on Computer and Information Systems

IEEE Service: Vice-Chair for Rolla-Subsection (1994-97), one of the ve members who initiated the IEEE

Turkey Branch in 1989

IEEE Senior Member: since June 1994

Executive Committee Member: IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (1997-2002)

Board of Directors and founding member, ITU Alumni Assoc. - Intl. Branch, 1996-present

Honorary member: Phi Eta Sigma (1998-present)

Member of Scienti c Council: National Institute for Turkish Language, 1989-1995.

Referee: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Trans. on Computers, Journal of

Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE Computer, Parallel Computing Journal, and many international

conferences including IPPS, ICPP and IEEE-PDP.

Consulting: CITATION Inc. (software company), St.Louis (1994-95), National Institute for Turkish Lan-

guage, established the rst computer network for the institute (1989-1992)

Book Review Hypercube Algorithms For Image Processing and Pattern Recog., Springer-Verlag, 1990

NSF Review Panel: ITR Proposals (2000)

Reviewer proposals for NASA and UM-Research Board

Judge: 35th International Science and Eng. Fair (represented IEEE Computer Society, May 1984)

INVITED TALKS

Konya Selcuk University, Turkey, Bioinformatics Applications in Parallel EST Clustering and Gene Family

Identi cation, July 10, 2006.

Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey, Bioinformatics Applications in Parallel EST Clustering and Gene Family

Identi cation, June 21, 2006.

Biological Sciences Department, MST, Gene and EST Clustering in Soybean, March 7, 2005.

Chem.Eng.Dept., MST, Parallel Hash-Based EST Clustering For Gene Sequencing, April 20, 2004.

SSGRR 2000 Conference: Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education on the

Internet, L Aquila, Italy, August 4, 2000.

Arizona State University, Computer Science & Engineering Department, Phoenix AZ,

Fast Image Operations in RLE Domain: Software/Hardware Approach, February, 1999.

Yuan-Ze Institute of Technology, College of Informatics, Taiwan, Segmentation and Processing of PCB Images

In Compressed Mode, December 19, 1997.

Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Pattern-Oriented Inspection of PCB Images In Compressed Mode,

July 16, 1998.

Poltechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, A Fast Modular RLE-based Inspection Scheme for PCBs, October

17, 1997.

Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey, New Trends in Parallel Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, Languages,

July 2, 1998.

Selcuk U., Turkey, Pattern-Oriented Inspection of PCB Images in Compressed Mode, July 1, 1998.

ACM, MST Student Chapter, Parallel Programming Using MPI,, Feb. 19, 1998

IEEE-ITU Branch, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, E cient Parallel Algorithms For Recon gurable

Mesh Arhitectures, June 26, 1996.

IEEE-ITU Branch, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Parallel Graph Partitioning on a Hypercube, June

1993.

ACM, MST Student Chapter, Parallel Computing on Hypercubes,, March 26, 1991

IEEE Turkey Section, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Introduction to Parallel Computing, July

11, 1991

Konya College Alumni Association, Ankara Recent Advances in Computer Communications and Networks,

July 1991

Wright State University, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Dayton, OH, April 1, 1988 Task Parti-

tioning and Load Balancing For Parallel Computing

SUNY-Bu alo, Dept. of Computer Science, Bu alo, NY, March 24, 1988, Nearest-Neighbor Mapping of Finite

Element Graphs Onto Processor Meshes,

Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Information and Computer Science, Atlanta, GA, March 9-10, 1988.

Heuristic Approaches to Task Allocation For Parallel Computing

TEACHING and STUDENT SUPERVISION

Courses Taught at MST

CSc 487 - Advanced Parallel Computation (Graduate)

CSc 485 - Distributed Computing (Graduate)

CSc 387 - Parallel Programming with MPI (Graduate/Undergraduate)

CSc 385 - Computer Communications and Networks (Graduate/Undergraduate)

CSc 355 - Intro to Algorithms (Graduate/Undergraduate)

CSc 284 - Introduction to Operating Systems (Undergraduate)

CSc 253 - Data Structures II (Undergraduate)

CSc 234 - Intro. to Computer Organization & Assembly Language (Undergraduate)

CSc 235 - Computer Organization (Undergraduate)

CSc 228 - Intro. to Numerical Methods (Undergraduate)

c) Dissertations/Theses Supervised

1. Madhav Moganti (Ph.D., May 1996), An Automated Modular Approach to the Segmentation and In-

spection of Printed Circuit Boards

2. Hsi-Chieh Lee (Ph.D., Dec. 1996), E cient Parallel Algorithms on Recon gurable Mesh Architectures

3. Sinar Pait (M.S., May 1992), A Parallel Solution Method for Large Sparse Linear Systems of Equations

on Multicomputers

4. Anurag Chawla (M.S., May 1993), Diagnosing Malignant Melanoma Using Arti cial Neural Networks .

5. Angela Lammers (co-advisor, M.S., May 1993), Cartographic Pattern Recognition Using Template

Matching .

6. Matthias Mayer (M.S., May 1993), Parallel Genetic Algorithms for the DAG Vertex Splitting Problem

7. Mihai Sirbu (M.S., Summer 1993), X.500 Directory Service Support For Electronic Mail

8. Chiung-Kuang Chou (M.S., Dec. 1993), Predictive Classi ed Vector Quantizer For Image Coding in the

DCT Domain

9. Hsi-Chieh Lee (M.S., May 1994), Skin Cancer Diagnosis Using Hierarchical Neural Networks And Fuzzy

Logic

10. Madhav Moganti (co-advisor, M.S., May 1994) PCB Inspection Using Di erential Competitive Learning

And Fuzzy Associated Memories

11. Mustafa Keskin (M.S., Summer 1994), Parallel Adaptive Mesh Re nement Algorithms For Unstructured

2D Meshes

12. Nariman M. Abdelbaky (co-advisor, M.S., Dec. 1994), Performance Monitoring of Hybrid Intelligent

System

13. Ramkumar Swaminathan (M.S., Dec. 1995), Development of a Motif-based User Interface and the

Simulation of Parallel Multi-Terminal Maze Routing Algorithms

14. Vinay Anneboina (co-advisor, M.S., May 1996), Comparison of Finite Element Analysis and Finite

Di erence Methods For PDEs

15. Olga Shumsky (co-advisor, M.S., May 1996), New Methods in Finite First-Order Model Search

16. Venkat Yellepedy (M.S., May 1997), Segmentation of Printed Circuit Board Images

17. John Stone (M.S., May 1998), An E cient Library For Parallel Ray Tracing and Animation

18. Ozer Ozdemir (M.S., Dec. 2000), An E cient and Inexpensive Method For Real-Time Panaromic Video

Processing

19. Qiang Niu, (M.S., May 2002), Automated Mobile Highway Sign Retrore ectivity Measurement,

20. Pramodh Narayanan (M.S., May 2003), Processor Allocation in 2D Mesh-Connected Multicomputer

21. Ramesh Mudhireddy (M.S., Dec. 2003), Parallel EST Clustering For Gene Sequencing

22. Matthew Ryan Buechler (co-advisor, M.S., May 2005), The Metrics and Logistics of Instructing Software

Systems Development: Balancing Professional Development, Communication, and Engineering

23. Ajay Mane (co-advisor, M.S., May 2006), An Automated Method For Rapid Identi cation of Putative

Gene Family Members in Plants

24. Bhagyesh Babubhai Patel (co-advisor, M.S., August 2006), Identi cation of Character Non-Independence

in Phylogenetic Data Using Parallelized Rule Induction From Coverings

25. Cyriac Kandoth (co-Advisor, M.S., Dec. 2007), A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF GENE IDENTIFICA-

TION TECHNIQUES BASED ON EVOLUTIONARY RATIONALES

26. Mohammed Das (co-Advisor, M.S., Dec. 2007), IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR VERTEBRA

ANAMOLY DETECTION IN X-RAY IMAGES

27. Vikas Nahar (co-Advisor, M.S., Dec. 2009), CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL FOR BIO-

MEDICAL IMAGES

28. Cyriac Kandoth (Advisor, Ph.D., May 2010), COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR THE DISCOVERY

AND ANALYSIS OF GENES AND OTHER FUNCTIONAL DNA SEQUENCES

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Campus & College-wide Committees:

Recruitment Faculty Ambassador (2007-2009), International Student Recruitment Ambassador (2007-2009)

Professional Science Masters Committee (2007)

Faculty Advisor: MST Tennis Club, TSA, and UPE (2006-2012)

Faculty Senate (2009-2012), Global Studies Minor Advisory Committee (2009-2011)

Academic Freedom & Standards (2009-2011)

University of Missouri Research Board (2002-2006)

Campus Tenure and Promotion Committee (2003-04), Campus Third Year Review Committees (2003-04)

Tenure and Promotion Committee, School of Management & Information Systems (2003-04)

CAS Dean Search Committee (2001-02)

Search Committee for Schlumberger Chaired Professorship (2000)

Computer Engineering Steering Committee (1998-2001)

Manufacturing Mission Enhancement Committee (1997-98)

Academic Assessment (elected, 1997-99), CAS Promotion & Tenure (1997-98, 2001-02)

Program Planning Study (1997-2000), Computer Policy Committee (1994-97, 2000-2003)

Campus Tenure Committee (1996-98)

Bioinformatics Faculty Search Committee (2001-02)

Search Committee for Finley and Tang Professorships in ECE (1997)

Manufacturing Education Committee (1998-present), CAS Curriculum (1996-97)

Departmental Committees:

Peer Teaching Evaluations Committee (2009-2012), Undergraduate Curriculum (2010-2012), ABET Coordina-

tor for CS-284 (2009-2010), Graduate Policy & Procedures Committee (2007-2009), MST-Computer Science

Strategic Planning Committee (2008), Computer Science Awards Committee (2008), CS academy/advisory

board coordinator (2008), Tenure and Promotion Guidelines (1997-98), Tenure and Promotion (chair, 2001),

Three Year Review (chair, 1998,99), Computer Organization Coordination (chair, 1997-98), Parallel & Dis-

tributed Computing Lab. (chair, 1997-98) Faculty Search (1992-1998, 2001-2002, chair 1994-95, 1999-2000),

Teaching Evaluations (chair, 1993-94), Comps/Quals Examination (1991-96, coordinator 1994-96), Computer

Science Chair Search (1993-94), Graduate Faculty (1990-present), GTA Appointments (1991-96), Faculty Men-

toring (1993-94), Computer Policy (1992-97, 2000-2002), CS Laboratory Advisory Committee (chair, 2000-2001)

Computer Architecture Committee (2001-2002)

Faculty Advisor: ACM Student Chapter, MST (1999-2002)

Coach: ACM Programming Team, MST (2000-2002)

Founder & Director: Computer Vision Laboratory, (Dec. 1996-2003)

Co-Director: NSF-Research Experiences For Undergraduates Institute, Summer 1997-2000

Director: NSF-Research Experiences For Undergraduates Summer Institute, June-July 1994

Doctoral Faculty: Missouri University of Science & Technology (1990-present)

Departmental coordinator UMR Introduction to Engineering summer program, 1995-98.

Coordinator: Scienti c Computing Focus Area, Intelligent Sys. Center, MST, 1993-97

Coordinator and Founder: Graduate Seminar Series, Intelligent Systems Center, 1995-2001

Chair & Organizer: Computer Science Colloquium Series, 1992-97

Reviewer: UM-Research Board proposals, 1993-2002

Judge: UM-Columbia Ninth Annual Research and Creative Activities Forum (1992), Undergraduate Research

Symposium, (1992)

Service at Bilkent University (1988-90): Established and directed the Parallel Processing Laboratory

which owned the rst distributed-memory multicomputer in Turkey at the time. Developed an undergraduate

curriculum for the Computer Science Department. Created grad/undergrad courses.

Community Service:

- Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International (April, 2002)

- Board of Directors, Turkish-American Association of St. Louis (2001-2003);

- Board of Directors, Rolla Rotary Club (1994-95 and 1997-98);

- Faculty Advisor, Turkish Student Association, MST (1994-97; 2004-2012);

- Chair of various service committees at Rolla Rotary Club (1993-1999);

- Served as a judge in South Central Missouri Regional Science and Eng. Fair (Spring 1995 and 1996);

- Organized a Rotary Summer Project to introduce Internet and World Wide Web to High School Students in

the area (August 1995).

PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS

Books Edited

Solutions to Parallel and Distributed Computing Problems: Lessons from Biological Sciences, John Wiley, New

York, USA, 304pp., (ISBN 047*******), 2000, Guest Editors: A. Zomaya, F. Ercal, and S. Olariu.

Parallel and Distributed Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, J. Rolim et al. (Eds.), vol. 1800,

Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000.

Parallel and Distributed Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, J. Rolim et al. (Eds.), vol. 1586,

Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Feb 1999.

Proceedings of First Workshop on Biologically Inspired Solutions to Parallel Processing Problems, (Eds.) A.

Zomaya, F. Ercal, and S. Olariu (Published in volume Parallel and Distributed Processing, Lecture Notes in

Computer Science, J. Rolim (Ed 1388, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, March 1998.

Parallel Computing on Distributed Memory Multiprocessors

Eds: Fusun Ozguner and Fikret Ercal, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993.

Book Chapters and Magazine Articles

J. Stone and F. Ercal, Workstation Clusters for Parallel Computing, IEEE Potentials, pp.31-33, April/May

2001.

W. V. Stoecker, Z. Zhao, R. H. Moss, S. E Umbaugh, and F. Ercal, Boundary Detection Techniques in

Medical Image Processing, (invited chapter), Chapter 1, pp. 1-84 in Medical Imaging Systems, Techniques and

Applications:General Anatomy, Gordon & Breach, Newark, NJ, 1997.

M. Moganti and F. Ercal, Automatic PCB Inspection Systems, IEEE Potentials, Aug.1995, pp.6-10

F. Ercal, N.L. Book and S. Pait, Sparse LU-Decomposition for Chemical Process Flowsheeting on a Mul-

ticomputer, in Parallel Computing on Distributed Memory Multiprocessors, eds. F. Ozguner and F. Ercal,

Springer-Verlag, pp. 151-164, 1993.

W.V. Stoecker, R.H. Moss, D.A. Perednia, S.E. Umbaugh, and F. Ercal, Visible-Light Digital Imaging In

Dermatology, Chapter 10 in Computer Applications in Dermatology, ed: W. V. Stoecker, New York, Igaku-

Shoin Inc., pp. 85-116, 1993.

Journal Papers

C. Kandoth, F. Ercal, and R. Frank, A framework for automated enrichment of functionally signi cant inverted

repeats in whole genomes, BMC Bioinformatics. October 2010, 11(Suppl 6):S20

R. Frank, C. Kandoth, and F. Ercal, Validation of an NSP-based (Negative Selection Pattern) gene family

identi cation strategy, BMC Bioinformatics, 9(Suppl 9):S2 August 2008.

R. Frank, A.Mane, and F. Ercal, An Automated Method for Rapid Identi cation of Putative Gene Family

Members in Plants, BMC Bioinformatics, 2006, Volume 7, Suppl 2:S19

R. Frank and F. Ercal, Evaluation of Glycine max mRNA clusters, BMC Bioinformatics, 2005 Jul 15, Volume

6, Suppl 2:S7

R. Mudhireddy, F. Ercal, and R. Frank, Parallel Hash-Based EST Clustering Algorithm For Gene Sequencing,

DNA and Cell Biology, Oct 2004, Vol. 23, No. 10: 615-623.

J. Ramanujam, F. Ercal and P. Sadayappan, Mapping by Adaptive Simulated Annealing, Parallel Computing

(under review)

F. Ercal, M. Allen, and H. Feng, A Systolic Image Di erence Algorithm for RLE-Compressed Images, IEEE

Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, Vol. 11, no.5, pp.433-443, May 2000.

F. Ercal, H. C. Lee, W. V. Stoecker, and R. H. Moss, Skin Cancer Classi cation Using Hierarchical Neural

Networks and Fuzzy Systems, International Journal of Smart Eng. Systems Design, Vol. 1, pp. 273-289, 1999.

P. Sadayappan, F. Ercal, and J. Ramanujam, Partitioning graphs on message-passing machines by pairwise

mincut, Information Sciences, Elsevier, Vol. 111, pp. 223-237, Nov. 1998.

F. Ercal and H. C. Lee, Time-e cient maze routing algorithms on recon gurable mesh architectures, Journal

of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 44(2):133-140, August 1997

M. Moganti and F. Ercal, Sub-Pattern Level Inspection System for Printed Circuit Boards, Computer Vision

and Image Understanding, Vol. 70, No. 1, pp. 51-62, April 1998.

M. Moganti and F. Ercal, Segmentation of Printed Circuit Board Images into Basic Patterns Computer Vision

and Image Understanding, Vol. 70, No. 1, pp. 74-86, April 1998.

M. Moganti, F. Ercal, C. H. Dagli, and Shou Tsunekawa, Automatic PCB Inspection Algorithms: A Survey,

Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp. 287-313, March 1996.

W. V. Stoecker, R. H. Moss, F. Ercal, and S. E. Umbaugh, Nondermatoscopic digital imaging of pigmented

lesions, Skin Research and Technology, Vol.1, No.1, February 1995, pp.7-16.

F. Ercal, N. L. Book, S. Pait, and J. J. Fielding, An E cient Multicomputer Algorithm for the Solution of

Chemical Process Flowsheeting Equations, Computers and Chemical Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 91-104,

1995.

F. Ercal, A. Chawla, W. V. Stoecker, H. C. Lee, and R. H. Moss, Neural Network Diagnosis of Malignant

Melanoma From Color Images, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 41, No. 9, pp. 837-845,

September 1994.

F. Ercal, M. Moganti, W. V. Stoecker, and R. H. Moss, Detection of Skin Tumor Boundaries in Color Images,

IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 624-627, Sept. 1993.

F. Ercal, Distributed Evaluation of an Iterative Function for All Object Pairs on an SIMD Hypercube In-

formation Processing Letters, Vol. 40, pp. 341-345, Dec. 1991. (also presented at em The Fifth Distributed

Memory Computing Conference (DMCC5), Charleston, SC, pp. 364-369, April 1990)

F. Ercal, J. Ramanujam, and P. Sadayappan, Task Allocation onto a Hypercube by Recursive Mincut Bipar-

titioning, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 35-44, Sep. 1990.

P. Sadayappan, F. Ercal, and J. Ramanujam, Cluster partitioning approaches to mapping parallel programs

onto a hypercube, Parallel Computing, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1-16, 1990.

C. Aykanat, F. Ozguner, F. Ercal, and P. Sadayappan, Iterative Algorithms for Solution of Large Sparse

Systems of Linear Equations on Hypercubes, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. C-37, No. 12, pp. 1554

- 1568, Dec. 1988.

P. Sadayappan and F. Ercal, Nearest-Neighbor Mapping of Finite Element Graphs Onto Processor Meshes,

IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. C-36, No. 12, pp. 1408 - 1424, Dec. 1987.

Edited Volumes

Special Issue of the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science on Advances in Parallel and

Distributed Computational Models, Vol. 16, No. 2, April 2005, Guest Editors: E. Alba, F. Ercal, E. Talbi, and

A. Zomaya.

Special Issue of the journal Parallel Computing: Theory & Applications on Parallel and Nature-Inspired Com-

putational Paradigms and Applications, Vol. 30, Issues 5-6, May/June 2004, Guest Editors: A. Zomaya, F.

Ercal, and E. Talbi.

Special Issue of the J. of Future Generation Computer Systems on Bio-Inspired Solutions to Parallel Processing

Problems, Vol. 17, No. 4, (2001), Guest Editors: A. Zomaya, F. Ercal, and S. Olariu,

Special Issue of the J. of Future Generation Computer Systems on Bio-Inspired Solutions to Parallel Processing

Problems, Vol. 14, No. 5-6 December 1998, Guest Editors: A. Zomaya, F. Ercal, and S. Olariu,

Newsletter of the Parallel Processing Technical Committee, IEEE Computer Society Press, Volume 6, No. 2,

January 1999.

Newsletter of the Parallel Processing Technical Committee, IEEE Computer Society Press, Volume 6, No. 1,

June 1998.

Newsletter of the Parallel Processing Technical Committee, IEEE Computer Society Press, Volume 5, No. 1,

Oct. 1997.

Newsletter of the Parallel Processing Technical Committee, IEEE Computer Society Press, Volume 4, No. 2,

Feb. 1997.

Conference Publications

Dylan McDonald, Sanjay Madria, Fikret Ercal, Ryan Birmingham, Thomas Lake, CTOD: collaborative tree-

based outlier detection in wireless sensor networks, MobiWac 12: Proceedings of the 10th ACM international

symposium, October 2012.

D. McDonald, S. Sanchez, S. Madria, F. Ercal, A Communication E cient Framework for Finding Outliers in

Wireless Sensor Networks, Eleventh Intl. Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), pp.301-302, May

2010.

C. Kandoth, F. Ercal, and R. Frank, Fast Automated Identi cation Of Functionally Signi cant Inverted

Repeats In Whole Genomes, The 7th Annual Conference of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioin-

formatics Society (MCBIOS 2010), Arkansas, Feb. 2010

C. Kandoth, R. Frank, and Fikret Ercal, Automation of an NSP-based (Negative Selection Pattern) Gene

Family Identi cation Strategy, Proc. of 18th Intl. Smart Engineering System Design Conference (ANNIE

2008), Nov. 9-12, 2008.

J. Leopold, A. Maglia, M. Thakur, B. Patel, and F. Ercal, Identifying Character Non-Independence in Phy-

logenetic Data Using Parallelized Rule Induction From Coverings, Data Mining VIII: Data, Text, and Web

Mining and Their Business Applications, vol. 38, (2007).

S.R. Subramanya, P. Narayanan, and F. Ercal, An Improved Submesh Allocation Scheme Using Dominant

Free Submeshes, Proceedings of ISCA 18th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

Systems (PDCS-2005), Las Vegas, September 12-14, 2005.

C. Oz, F. Ercal, and M. Leu, Computer Vision and HCI System for Robotic Arm Control, Proceedings of

35th International computer and Industrial Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, pp.1457-1462, June 2005

C. Oz and F. Ercal, A Pratical License Plate Recognition System for Real-Time Environments, Proceedings

of 8th International Work-Conference on Arti cial Neural Networks (IWANN 2005), Barcelona, Spain, June,

2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol.3512, Springer Verlag, ISBN 3-540-26208-3, pp.881-888, 2005

Cemil Oz, F. Ercal, and Z. Demir, Signature Recognition and Veri cation with ANN in Proc. of Third In-

ternational Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, (ELECO 03), December 2003, Bursa, Turkey

(http://eleco.emo.org.tr/index.htm)

Cemil Oz and F. Ercal, Signature Recognition And Veri cation With ANN Using Moment Invariant Method,

Proc. of Intl. Smart Engineering System Design Conference, (ANNIE 2003), ASME, Nov. 2003, pp.643-649.

Cemil Oz and F. Ercal, Automatic Vehicle License Plate Recognition Using Arti cial Neural Networks,

Proc. of 3rd Intl. Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2003), Advances in Soft

Computing, Springer Verlag, pp. 23-32.

Q. Niu, N. H. Maerz, and F. Ercal, Automated Mobile Highway Sign Retrore ectivity Measurement, In Proc.

of Intl. Smart Engineering System Design Conference, (ANNIE 2002), ASME, Nov. 2002, pp. 861-869.

M. Mayer and F. Ercal, A Parallel Genetic Algorithm for Vertex Splitting Problem, Proc. of 4th BioSP3

Workshop, Intl. Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, April, 2001, San Francisco.

O. Ozdemir, and F. Ercal, An Economical and E cient Image Capturing Technique Using Spherical Mirrors,

Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education on the Internet (SSGRR 2000),

L Aquila, Italy, July 31 - August 6, 2000. (http://www.ssgrr.it/en/conferenza/index.htm)

R.H. Hall, S.E. Watkins, and F. Ercal, The horse and the cart in webbased instruction: Prevalence and

e cacy, Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orelans, LA, April, 2000.

V.S. Balakrishnan, H.J. Pottinger, F. Ercal, and M. Agarwal, Design and Implementation of an FPGA-based

Processor for Compressed Images, in Proceedings of SPIE Intl. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Methods

for Image Processing IV, Vol. 4118, pp. 108-118, San Diego, CA, July 2000.

F. Ercal, M. Allen, and H. Feng, A Systolic Algorithm to Process Compressed Binary Images, Proceedings

of 13th Intl. Parallel Processing Symp. & 10th Symp. on Parallel and Distributed Processing, April 12-16, San

Juan, Puerto Rico, 1999, pp. 477-484.

I.Ersoy, F. Ercal, and M. Gokmen, A model-based approach for compression of ngerprint images, Proceedings

of International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 99), vol.2, Japan, 1999, pp. 973-977

F. Ercal, F. Bunyak, and H. Feng, Context-Sensitive Filtering in RLE for PCB Inspection, Proc. of SPIE -

Intelligent Systems in Design and Manufacturing, Boston, Nov. 1998, vol. 3517, pp. 286-293.

F. Bunyak and F. Ercal, Inspection of Power and Ground Layers in PCBs, Proc. of SPIE - Machine Vision

Systems for Inspection and Metrology VII, Boston, Nov. 1998, Vol. 3521, pp. 190-197

H. Feng, F. Ercal, and F. Bunyak, Systolic Algorithms for Processing RLE Images, in Proc. IEEE Southwest

Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, pp. 127-131, April 5-7, 1998, Tucson, Arizona.

H. J. Burch and F. Ercal, A Fast Algorithm For Complete Subcube Recognition, Proc. 1997 International

Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks, pp. 85-90, Dec. 1997, Taipei, Taiwan.

F. Ercal and H. C. Lee, RMESH Algorithms for Parallel String Matching, Proc. 1997 International Symposium

on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks, pp. 223-226, Dec. 1997, Taipei, Taiwan.

F. Ercal, F. Bunyak, F. Hao, and L. Zheng, A fast modular RLE-based inspection scheme for PCBs, Proc. of

SPIE - Architectures, Networks, and Intelligent Systems for Manufacturing Integration, Pittsburgh, Oct. 1997,

Vol. 3203, pp. 49-59.

N. Nemer-Preece, F. Ercal, and R. Wilkerson, Hybrid Genetic Algorithm to Solve the Stability Problem,

Smart Engineering System Design: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, and Evolutionary Programming, ASME

press, November 1997.

O. Shumsky, R. Wilkerson, F. Ercal, and William McCune, Direct Finite First-Order Model Generation with

Negative Constraint Propagation Heuristic, Proc. of the Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 97), San

Jose, CA, March 1-2, 1997, pp. 25-28.

F. Ercal and H. C. Lee, Time-e cient Algorithms For Maze Routing on Recon gurable Meshes, Proc. of 3nd

Recon gurable Architectures Workshop (10th International Parallel Processing Symposium), April 15-19, 1996,

Honolulu.

M. Moganti, F. Ercal, and V. Yellepeddy, A Modular Approach to Automatic Printed Circuit Board Inspec-

tion, Proceedings of Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection IV, SPIE, San Jose, Vol. 2665-22,

Jan. 1996.

M. Moganti, F. Ercal, and C. H. Dagli, Printed Circuit Board Inspection: A Novel Approach, Proceedings of

the World Congress on Neural Networks, (WCNN 95), Vol. II, pp. 563-566, July, 1995.

F. Ercal and H. C. Lee, O(1) Maze Routing Algorithms on an RMESH, in Proc. of 2nd Recon gurable

Architectures Workshop (9th International Parallel Processing Symposium), 25-29 April, 1995, Santa Barbara,

CA.

H. C. Lee, F. Ercal, and R. Wilkerson, A Fast Maze Routing Algorithm on Recon gurable Meshes, The Proc.

of the Intrl. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA 95), Nov.

1995, Georgia, pp. 465-472.

A. M. Ozbayoglu, H. C. Lee, D. Denke, C. H. Dagli, and F. Ercal, SimNet: An Unsupervised Neural Net-

work Model For Clustering, Proc. of the XVII National Conference on Operations Research and Industrial

Engineering, Ankara, Turkey, 1995.

H. C. Lee, C. H. Dagli, F. Ercal, and A. M. Ozbayoglu, SimNet: A Parallel Neuro-Fuzzy Paradigm for Data

Clustering, OAI Neural Networks Symposium and Workshop (OAINN 95), Athens, Ohio, August 21-22, 1995.

F. Ercal, H. C. Lee, W. V. Stoecker, and R. H. Moss, Skin Cancer Diagnosis Using Hierarchical Neural Networks

and Fuzzy Systems Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Arti cial Neural Networks, Vol. 4, ASME press,

pp. 613-618, Nov. 1994 (Best Paper Award).

M. Moganti, F. Ercal, and C. H. Dagli, PCB Inspection Using Competitive Learning And Fuzzy Associative

Memories, Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Arti cial Neural Networks, Vol. 4, ASME press, pp.

421-426, Nov. 1994.

Angela Lammers, R. Wilkerson, and F. Ercal, Cartographic Pattern Recognition Using Template Matching,

Proc. 1994 Mid-America Conference on Intelligent Systems, Kansas City, Oct. 1994.

Colin O. Benjamin, Nariman Baky, F. Ercal, and V. A. Samaranyake, Performance Monitoring of Expert

Networks, Proc. of 7th Oklahoma Symposium on Arti cial Intelligence, The Univ. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Nov.

1993.

F. Ercal, M. Moganti, W. V. Stoecker, and R. H. Moss, Boundary detection and color segmentation in skin

tumor images, Proc. of Biomedical Image Processing and Biomedical Visualization, SPIE, San Jose, Vol. II,

pp. 900-910, Jan. 1993.

F. Ercal, A. Chawla, W. V. Stoecker, and R. H. Moss, Diagnosing Malignant Melanoma Using a Neural

Network, Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Arti cial Neural Networks, Vol. 2, ASME press, pp. 553-

558, 1992.

C. Aykanat, T. Kur, and F. Ercal, Parallelization of Lee s Routing Algorithm on a Hypercube Multicomputer,

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2nd European Distributed Memory Computing Conf. (EDMCC2), Munich, April 1991, Lecture Notes in Comp.

Sci., Vol. 487, Springer Verlag, pp. 244 - 253.

T. Kur, C. Aykanat, and F. Ercal, Maze Routing on an iPSC/2 Hypercube Multicomputer, Proc. of 5th

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Intl. Symp. on Comp. & Info. Sci.(ISCIS V), pp.327-336, Nov. 1990.

F. Ercal, A. Dervi, and C. Aykanat, Experimenting with FFT on an iPSC/2 Hypercube, Communication,

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Control, and Signal Processing, ed: E. Arikan, Elsevier, pp. 1691-1697, 1990.

O. Tunali, U. Halici, C. Aykanat, and F. Ercal, Neural Network Simulation on an iPSC/2 Hypercube Mul-

ticomputer Proc. of The IASTED International Conference, Arti cial Intelligence Applications and Neural

Networks, Zurich, pp. 176-179, June 1990.

A. Dervi, K. O azer, and F. Ercal, Experiments with Parallel Sorting on iPSC/2 Multicomputer, Proc. of

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The Fifth Intrl. Symp. on Comp. and Info. Sciences (ISCIS V), pp. 319-325, Nov. 1990.

C. Aydin, C. Aykanat, and F. Ercal, A New Type of Hypercube Labeling For E cient SIMD Algorithms

Proc. of 5th Intl. Symp. on Comp. & Info. Sci.(ISCIS V), pp.337-346, Nov. 1990.

V. Isler, C. Aykanat, F. Ercal, and B. Ozguc, Exploiting Parallelism in Ray Tracing, Proc. of 5th Intl. Symp.

on Comp. & Info. Sci.(ISCIS V), pp. 905-912, Nov. 1990.

P. Sadayappan, F. Ercal, and J. Ramanujam, Distributed Generation of Pairwise Combinations on a Hyper-

cube, In Parallel Computing 89, D. Evans, G. Joubert and F. Peters, Eds., Amsterdam, The Netherlands:

North-Holland, pages 299-304, 1990.

F. Ercal and P. Sadayappan, One-to-one Mapping of Process Graphs Onto a Hypercube, Proc. of 1989 ACM

Intrl. Conf. on Supercomputing, Crete, pp. 91-98, June 1989.

P. Sadayappan, F. Ercal, and J. Ramanujam, Parallel Graph Partitioning on a Hypercube, Proc. of Fourth

Conf. on Hypercube Concurrent Comp. and Appl., pp. 67-70, March, 1989.

K. Erol, F. Ercal, and C. Aykanat, A Modular Simulator-Debugger for Microprogramming on a Vector Hard-

ware, Proc. 4th Intl. Symp. on Comp. & Info. Sci., Vol. II, pp.1181-1190, Nov. 1989.

M.A. Eyler, F. Ercal, and C. Aykanat, Parallel Algorithms for the Simulation of Tandem Queueing Networks

with Blocking, Proc. of 4th Intl. Symp. on Computer and Information Sci., Vol. II, pp. 1307-1317, Nov.

1989.

J. Ramanujam, F. Ercal and P. Sadayappan, Task Allocation by Simulated Annealing, Proc. of the Third

Intrl. Conf. on Supercomputing, Boston, pp. 471-480, May 1988.

F. Ercal, P. Sadayappan, and J. Ramanujam, Task Allocation onto a Hypercube by Recursive Mincut Bipar-

titioning, Proc. of Third Conf. on Hypercube Concurrent Computers and Applications, ACM, G. Fox editor,

Vol. 1, pp. 210 - 221, 1988.

P. Sadayappan, F. Ercal, and S. Martin, Mapping Finite Element Graphs Onto Processor Meshes, Proc. of

Intrl. Conf. on Parallel Processing (ICCP 87), St.Charles, pp. 192-195, August 1987.

P. Sadayappan, F. Ercal, and J. Ramanujam, Cluster-Partitioning Approaches to Mapping Parallel Programs

Onto a Hypercube, Proceedings of Intrl. Conf. on Supercomputing, Athens, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes,

pp. 475-497, June 1987.

K.Schwan, W.Bo, N.Bauman, P. Sadayappan, and F. Ercal, Mapping Parallel Applications to a Hypercube,

Hypercube Multiprocessors 1987, M. Heath editor, SIAM, pp. 141-151.

F. Ercal, P. Sadayappan, K. Schwan, B. Weide, C. Aykanat, and S. Doraivelu, Parallel Computers for Finite

Element Analysis, 1986 ASME International Conference on Computers in Engineering, Chicago, ASME, Vol.

2, pp. 43-50, Aug. 1986.

F. Ercal and Kyungsook Lee, Determination of Critical Faults in Beta-Networks, Proceedings of the First

Intrl. Conf.on Supercomputing Systems, IEEE, pp. 423-428, Dec. 1985.

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