Journals:

 

Paul R. Cohen, Niall Adams, and Brent Heeringa. Voting Experts: An Unsupervised Algorithm for Segmenting Sequences, 2007. [ bib ]

Peer-Reviewed Conferences:

 

Micah Adler and Brent Heeeringa. Approximating Optimal Binary Decision Trees. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX), pages 1-9, 2008. [ bib ]

 

Micah Adler and Brent Heeringa. Search Space Reductions for Nearest-Neighbor Queries. In Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference on the Theory and Application of Models of Computation (TAMC), pages 554-567, 2008. [ bib ]

 

Brent Heeringa and Micah Adler. Optimal Website Design with the Constrained Subtree Selection Problem. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), 2004. [ bib ]

A complete version of this paper is available as University of Massachusetts Technical Report 04-09

 

Paul R. Cohen, Brent Heeringa, and Niall Adams. An Unsupervised Algorithm for Segmenting Categorical Time Series into Episodes. In Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2002), pages 99-106, 2002. [ bib ]

An earlier version is available in the Working Notes of the 2002 ESF Exploratory Workshop on Pattern Detection and Discovery in Data Mining

 

Tim Oates and Brent Heeringa. Estimating Grammar Parameters using Bounded Memory. In P. Adriaans, H. Fernau, and M. van Zaanen, editors, Proceedings of the Sixth International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI), pages 185-198. Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 2002. [ bib ]

 

Gary W. King, Brent Heeringa, Joe Catalano David L. Westbrook, and Paul Cohen. Models of Defeat. In Proceedings of the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference, pages 928-934, 2002. [ bib ]

An earlier version appears in the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations. Pages 85-90

 

Marc Atkin, Gary W. King, David Westbrook, Brent Heeringa, Andrew Hannon, and Paul Cohen. Hierarchical Agent Control: A Framework for Defining Agent Behavior. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 452-432, 2001. [ bib ]

 

Brent Heeringa and Paul R. Cohen. An Underlying Model for Defeat Mechanisms. In Proceedings of 2000 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 2000), pages 933-939, 2002. [ bib ]

An earlier version appears in Working Notes of the 2000 AAAI Fall Symposium on Simulating Human Agents. Pages 39-45.

Peer Reviewed Workshops and Symposia:

 

Brent Heeringa and Tim Oates. Two Algorithms for Learning the Parameters of Stochastic Context-Free Grammars. In Working Notes of the 2001 AAAI Fall Symposium on Using Uncertainty within Computation, pages 58-62, 2001. [ bib ]

Another version of this paper is available as University of Massachusetts Technical Report 01-21

 

Brent Heeringa and Scott Lewandowski. A Study of Techniques for Introducing Concurrency into Library Routines of Modern Functional Programming Languages. In Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Small College Computing Symposium, pages 141-152, 1998. [ bib ]

Winner of the Best Student Paper award.

Technical Reports and Unpublished Documents:

 

Glencora Borradaile, Brent Heeringa, and Gordon Wilfong. Approximation Algorithms for Constrained Knapsack Problems, 2010. [ bib | http ]

 

Brent Heeringa. Improving Access to Organized Information. Ph.D. thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2006. [ bib ]

 

Brent Heeringa and Micah Adler. Optimal Website Design with the Constrained Subtree Selection Problem. tr 04-09, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004. [ bib ]

 

Brent Heeringa and Tim Oates. Incrementally Learning the Parameters of Stochastic Context-Free Grammars using Summary Statistics and Repeated Sampling. tr 01-21, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2001. [ bib ]