Bob Kohout

Position:

Former Graduate Student & Research Assistant,
Parallel Understanding Systems Group
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Maryland at College Park

Personal E-mail:

Address/Phone:

I am currently a Research Scientist at
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
(formerly)Veridian/Pacific-Sierra Research

Robert.Kohout@gd-ais.com
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
1400 Key Blvd
Suite 100
Rosslyn, Va 22209
(703) 807-5686

Research Interests:

Education:

MS in Computer Science , University of Arizona, 1984

PhD in Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park 1998

Dissertation Research:

Guaranteeing Safety in the Presence of Moving Obstacles, Ph.D. Disseration [Compressed Postscript] (Advisor :Prof. James Hendler.)

Publications:

Kohout,R. and Erol,K., "In-Time Agent-Based Vehicle Routing with a Stochastic Improvement Heuristic," [Postscript]   [MS Word]  Eleventh Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Orlando, FL, 1999.

Kohout,R. and Erol,K., "Achieving High Quality Solutions in Distributed Agent-Based Control Systems," [Postscript]   [MS Word]  Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, August 9-12 Honolulu, Hawaii, 1999.

Kohout,R., "Guaranteeing Safety in the Presence of Moving Obstacles," University of Maryland, College Park, Technical Report CS-TR 3984, UMIACS-TR 99-06, 1999. (published dissertation)

Erol,K. and Kohout,R., "Fine-Grained Demand Models for Satellite Antenna Network Scheduling." [Postscript]   [MS Word]  International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space Exploration and Science, Oxnard, CA, 1997.

R. C. Kohout, J. A. Hendler, and D. J. Musliner "Guaranteeing Safety in Spatially Situated Agents" [Postscript]  Proceedings of the AAAI , 1996.

Kohout,R.; Musliner,D.J.; and Hendler,J.A., "Supporting Intelligent Real-Time Control: Dynamic Reaction on the Maruti Operating System,"  [Postscript]  Israeli Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, January 1995.

Kohout,R.; Musliner,D.J.; and Hendler,J.A., "Composition of Real-Time Reactive Systems," 11th Annual Washington SIGADA Symposium AI Working Group Report, Washington, DC, 1994.

R. C. Kohout, David J. Musliner and James A. Hendler "Dynamic Reaction on the Maruti Hard Real-time Operating System" [Postscript]  CS-TR-3231, UMIACS-TR-94-24, December 1994. Kohout,R., "Considerations for the Transformation of STEP Physical Files," Technical Report NISTIR 4793, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md., March 1992.