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Computer Science Program Faculty
Professor Frederick B. Buoni
- Ph.D. Nuclear Engineering - The Ohio State University
- M.S. Nuclear Engineering - The Ohio State University
- A.B. Physics - Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey
Teaching Experience and Interests
Frequently taught courses:
- Decision Analysis
- Discrete System Simulation
- Applied Expert Systems
- Reliability
Areas:
- Decision Analysis
- Expert Systems
- Discrete Event Simulation
- Reliability
- Operations Research
Interests:
- Computer-based decision support
- Decision-making under uncertainty
- Representing uncertainty in expert systems
- Using participatory learning in OR and CS classes
Research Interests
- Computer-based decision support
- Decision-making under uncertainty
- Representing uncertainty in expert systems
- Functional testing for highly reliable standby systems
Current Research Projects
- Myopic Utility Theory, an asset dependent utility theory
- An Expert System for a laboratory course on soil testing
- A framework for computer-aided tactical decision-making
- Uncertainty representation in expert systems
Selected Publications
- F. B. Buoni & A. B. Vafaie, ÒThe Transitory Failure
Model and its Effect of
- Reliability Testing,Ó TIMS/ORSA
Joint National Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts,
- April
24-27, 1994.
- F. B. Buoni, K. Rekab, & A. B. Vafaie, ÒOptimal Periodic
Testing for a Transitory
- Model, submitted to IEEE
Transactions on Reliability, October, 1993.
- F. B. Buoni & P. Lopes Da Silva, ÒMyopic Utility and
Asset Streams,Ó TIMS
- XXX-SOBRAPO XXIII Joint
International Meeting, July 15-17, 1991, Rio de
- Janeiro,
Brazil.
- F. B. Buoni & P. Lopes da Silva, "A New Type of Utility
Function with
- Parameters Based upon Initial Asset
Positions," CORS/TIMS/ORSA Joint
- National Meeting,
Vancouver, Canada, May 8-10, 1989.
- F. B. Buoni, M. Schneider & B. B. Cornett, "Comparison
of Performance for
- Fuzzy Expert System Shell
Implementations in Pascal and in ADA,"
- Proceedings of
AIDA-89, Fifth Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence
&
- Ada, November 16-17, 1989, George Mason University.
- F. B. Buoni, "A Decision Analytic Context for
Representing Uncertainty in
- Expert Systems," Proceedings
of The 1st Florida Artificial Intelligence
- Research
Symposium, Orlando, FL, May 4-6, 1988.
- F. B. Buoni, "Simulation of Expert System Decision
Aids," TIMS/ORSA 1987
- Joint National Meeting, New
Orleans, LA, May 4-6, 1987.
- F. B. Buoni, J. K. Park, "A Unified Basis for
Representations of Uncertainty in
- Decision Making,"
ORSA/TIMS 1987 Joint National Meeting, St. Louis, MO,
- October 25-28, 1987.
- F. B. Buoni, "The Simulation of Fluid Flow from
Knowledge of Structure and
- Function," in Research
Reports, 1987 NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty
- Fellowship
Program, Kennedy Space Center, The University of Alabama in
- Huntsville, and the University of Alabama.
- F. B. Buoni, "A Process Architecture for Computer-Based
Decision Support,"
- unpublished report, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, August, 1983.
- F. B. Buoni, "The Reactor Safety Impact of Functional
Test Intervals: An
- Application of Bayesian Decision
Theory," Proceedings of the American
- Nuclear Society,
Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Analysis of Nuclear Reactor
- Safety, May 8-10, 1978.
- F. B. Buoni, "The Application of Bayesian Decision
Theory to the Selection of
- Functional Test Intervals for
Engineered Safety Systems," Doctoral
- Dissertation, The
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, June 1971.
- University Microfilms.
Prof. Frederick B. Buoni
Computer Science Program
150 West University Boulevard, Melbourne, FL 32901-69
88
(407) 768-8000, ext. 7390.
buoni@zach.fit.edu