Simeon Ntafos

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, ECS

Director, Office of Student Services, ECS

Professor, Dept. of Computer Science

 
   E-mail: ntafos@utdallas.edu
   Office: (972) 883-2809
   FAX: (972) 883-2349
 
   Mailing Address:  Computer Science Program, EC3.1
                    The University of Texas at Dallas
                    P.O. Box 0688
                    Richardson, TX 75083-0688

Degrees

 
   Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1979 
   M.S. (Electrical Engineering), Northwestern University, 1977 
   B.S. (Electrical Engineering), Wilkes College, 1974 

Research Interests

Computational Geometry, Program Testing, Software Reliability Estimation.

Selected Publications

  1. "A Comparison of Some Structural Testing Strategies", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 868-874, June 1988.
  2. "Path Planning in the Presence of Vertical Obstacles", IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 31-41, June 1990 (with L. Gewali and I. Tollis).
  3. "Path Planning in 0/1 Weighted Regions with Applications", ORSA Journal of Computing, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 153-172, Summer 1990 (with L. Gewali, A. Meng, J. Mitchell).
  4. "Watchman Routes in Simple Polygons", Discrete and Computational Geometry, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 9-31, Jan. 1991 (with W. Chin).
  5. "On Partitioning Rectilinear Polygons into Star-Shaped Polygons", Algorithmica, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 771-800, 1991 (with R. Liu).
  6. "Watchman Routes with Limited Visibility", Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications", Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 149-170, March 1992.
  7. "On Some Reliability Estimation Problems in Random and Partition Testing", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 7, pp. 687-697, July 1993 (with J. Duran and M. Tsoukalas).
  8. "Optimum Guard Covers and m-Watchman Routes for Histograms", Int'l Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications", Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 85-105, 1993 (with S. Carlsson, J. Nilsson).
  9. "On Random and Partition Testing", Proc. ISSTA-98 in ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 42-48, March 1998.
  10. "A Greedy Over-the-Cell Channel Router", VLSI Design, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 23-36, 1996 (with G. Gudmundsson)
  11. "On Comparisons of Random, Uniform, and Proportional Partition Testing", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 27, No. 10, pp. 949-960, October 2001.
  12. "Guarding a Terrain with Two Watchtowers", 21st Symp. on Computational Geometry, June 2005 (with Agarwal, Bereg, Daescu, Kaplan, Zhu).