Marcelo O. Sztainberg

Computer Science Department

Northeastern Illinois University

5500 N.St.Louis Ave.

Chicago, IL 60625

 

e-mail: M-Sztainberg@neiu.edu

office: CLS 3060

phone: (773) 442-5946

fax: (773) 442-4900



Education


Teaching

Fall 2005

  • CS 325 Theory of Computation (Fall 03-04-05 / Spring 04 / Summer 04)
  • CS 319 Fundamentals of Software Engineering (Fall 04-05)
  • CS 401 Software Engineering (Fall 05 / Summer 04)

 

Other:

  • CS 302 Systems Programming (Fall 2003)
  • CS 335 Artificial Intelligence (Fall 2004 / Spring 2004)
  • CS 404 Analysis of Algorithms (Fall 2003)
  • CS 410R SPTC: Research on Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2004)

Research

  • Robotics - Multiagent systems
    • The Freeze Tag Problem - How to wake-up a swarm of robots in the shortest amount of time
    • Disperse and Fill - Algorithms for filling and unknown environment
    • Hiding Robots - Minimizing visibility for a swarm in a given domain
    • Algorithms for Nanorobots (powerpoint presentation - send me an e-mail if you want the movies associated with it)
  • Computational Geometry
    • Terrain Simplification - Heuristics to simplify a 1.5 dimensional terrain preserving visibility of a given set of points
    • Shortest Path Map - Java implementation
    • Watchman Route - A visibility search on a set of polygonal obstacles

Industrial Experience


Publications

  1. M. Sztainberg, E. M. Arkin, M. A. Bender, and J. S. B. Mitchell. "Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Heuristics for the 'Freeze-Tag' Robot Awakening Problem." IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Volume 20, number 4, pages 691-701, Aug 2004.  ps   pdf
  2. M. Sztainberg, E. M. Arkin, M. A. Bender, and J. S. B. Mitchell. "Analysis of Heuristics for the Freeze-Tag Problem." Proceedings of the 8th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory (SWAT), pages 270-279, 2002. ps   pdf