NC-LAB CIP Group

Natural Computation Laboratory - Department of Computer Science - Missouri University of Science and Technology

The Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Group

The goal of this research group is to solve a variety of complex CIP problems. The current project is to employ coevolutionary armsraces to simultaneously find infrastructure hardenings and faults.

Current Members

Former Members

Dr. William "Bill" M. Siever - Department of Computer Science
Dr. Ekaterina Holdener née Smorodkina - Department of Computer Science
Dr. Kalyani Radha
Travis Service - Department of Computer Science

Publications

Travis Service and Daniel R. Tauritz. Increasing Infrastructure Resilience through Competitive Coevolution. New Mathematics and Natural Computation. In Press
Travis Service and Daniel R. Tauritz. A No-Free-Lunch Framework for Coevolution. In Proceedings of GECCO 2008 - the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pages 371-378, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., July 12-16, 2008.
Travis Service and Daniel R. Tauritz. Co-Optimization Algorithms. In Proceedings of GECCO 2008 - the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pages 387-388, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., July 12-16, 2008 (two-page poster abstract).
William M. Siever, Daniel R. Tauritz, Ann Miller, Mariesa L. Crow, Bruce M. McMillin, and Stanley Atcitty. Symbolic Reduction for High-Speed Power System Simulation. Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 84(6):297-309, June 2008.
Travis Service. Co-Optimization: A Generalization of Coevolution. M.S. thesis, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2008.
Travis Service, Daniel R. Tauritz and William M. Siever. Infrastructure Hardening: A Competitive Coevolutionary Methodology Inspired by Neo-Darwinian Arms Races. In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007), pages 101-104, Beijing, China, July 23-27, 2007.
William M. Siever, Ann Miller and Daniel R. Tauritz. Improving Grid Fault Tolerance by Optimal Control of FACTS Devices. International Journal of Innovations in Energy Systems and Power, 2(1):44-49, June 2007.
Ekaterina A. Smorodkina, Mayur Thakur and Daniel R. Tauritz. Algorithms for the Balanced Edge Partitioning Problem. In Proceedings of WEA 2007 - the 6th Workshop on Experimental Algorithms, pages 311-323, Rome, Italy, June 6-9, 2007.
William M. Siever, Ann Miller and Daniel R. Tauritz. Blueprint for Iteratively Hardening Power Grids employing Unified Power Flow Controllers. In Proceedings of IEEE SoSE 2007 - the 2nd International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, San Antonio, Texas, April 16-18, 2007.
Radha P. Kalyani and Mariesa L. Crow and Daniel R. Tauritz. Optimal Placement and Control of Unified Power Flow Control devices using Evolutionary Computing and Sequential Quadratic Programming. In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE PES Power Systems Conference & Exposition - PSCE2006, pages 959 - 964, Atlanta, Georgia, October 29 - November 1, 2006.
Ekaterina A. Smorodkina and Daniel R. Tauritz. Power Grid Protection Through Rapid Response Control of FACTS Devices, In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Complex Network and Infrastructure Protection - CNIP 2006, pages 441-450, Rome, Italy, March 28-29, 2006.
William M. Siever, Daniel R. Tauritz and A. Miller. Improving grid fault tolerance by optimal control of FACTS devices. In Proceedings of First International ICSC Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Energy Systems and Power - AIESP 2006, Madeira, Portugal, February 7-10, 2006.
William M. Siever, R.P. Kalyani, M.L. Crow and Daniel R. Tauritz. UPFC control employing Gradient Descent Search. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual North American Power Symposium, pages 379-382, Ames, Iowa, October 23-25, 2005.
John Chaloupek, Daniel R. Tauritz, B. McMillin and M.L. Crow. Evolutionary Optimization of Flexible AC Transmission System Device Placement for Increasing Power Grid Reliability. In Proceedings of FEA 2005, the 6th International Workshop on Frontiers in Evolutionary Algorithms, pages 516-519, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 21-26, 2005.