Publications

last updated: 21 July 2017

Journal Articles

• Kulkarni, S., Klassner, F., Gehlot, V., Dougherty, E. J., Metzger, S., Wagner, W. P., "Mobile App Development: A Cross-Discipline Team-Based Approach to Student and Faculty Learning." Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship, 2015. Honorable Mention - Best Teaching Strategies Paper at American Society for Engineering Education
• Klassner, F. "Mindstorms as an Electronic Tangible Across the Computing Curriculum." Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 27(3), 2012, pp. 52-64.
• Klassner, F., "Launching into AI's 'October Sky' with Robotics and Lisp" AI Magazine, AAAI Press, Spring 2006. pp. 51-65.
• Klassner, F., and Anderson, S., "Lego MindStorms: Not Just for K-12 Anymore" IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, vol. 10, no. 2, June 2003. pp. 12-18.
• Lesser, V. Horling, B., Klassner, F., Raja, A., Wagner, T., and Zhang, S., "BIG: An Agent for Resource-Bounded Information Gathering and Decision Making." Artificial Intelligence Journal, vol. 118, (1-2) 2000. pp 197-244.
• Lesser, V., Nawab, S. H., and Klassner, F., "IPUS: An Architecture for the Integrated Processing and Understanding of Signals," Artificial Intelligence Journal, vol. 77, (1-2) 1995. pp 129-171.

New Media and Significant Software

• Backofen, C., Klassner, F. I., Krasnopolsky, A., Hines, B., Kenny, B., Kari, S.-S., "Augustine's Confessions App." Dolan, N. E., Fitzgerald, A. D., Grapin, S. (Eds.), Villanova University, Villanova, PA, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/augustines-confessions/id1031371222, International. November 13, 2015.
• Fahs, C., Klassner, F. I., Wilson, P., Carpenter, T., Doerfler, G., Priece, D. (2010). Vatican Virtual Reality Tour of Sacred Places. www.vatican.va, Vatican City.

Conference and Workshop Papers

• Klassner, F. I., Kearney, S., "An Evaluation of Simulation in Lego Mindstorms Robot Programming Coursework", Proceedings of the 2016 Frontiers of Education Conference, Las Vegas, NV. July 25-26, 2016. pp 3-9.
• Klassner, F., Peyton-Jones, J. C., Lehmer, K., "Genetic Algorithms with Lego Mindstorms and Matlab." Proceedings of the 25th Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Society (FLAIRS-25), Marco Island, FL. May 23-25, 2012.
• Gehlot, V., Way, T. P., Klassner, F. Coexistence of Functional and Object-oriented Paradigms. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges - Eastern Conference (CCSC-E), Arlington, VA. Oct 15-16, 2011.
• Thomas Carpenter, Gregory Doerfler, Thomas Way and Frank Klassner. "An Approach to Maintaining Viewer Perspective in Interactive Virtual Tours." The 2011 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CVGR 2011), Las Vegas, Nevada, July 18-21, 2011.
• McNally, M., Klassner, F., and Continanza, C., "Exploiting Mindstorms NXT: Mapping and Localization Projects for the AI Course" Proceedings of FLAIRS-2007 (Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference), Key West, FL. May 7-9, 2007.
• Klassner, F., and McNally, M., "Demonstrating the Capabilities of Mindstorms NXT for the AI Curriculum" AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium Series Report, Stanford, CA. March 26-28, 2007.
• Klassner, F. and Continanza, C., "Mindstorms Without Robotics: An Alternative for Systems Courses" Proceedings of 38th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2007), Covington, KY. March 3-6, 2007.
• Jacobs, D., Jorgage, B., Klassner, F. "CLUC: A Common Lisp USB Communication Library", Proceedings of 2005 International Lisp Conference (ILC-2005), Stanford, CA. June 19-22, 2005. pp. 229-232.
• Klassner, F. "A Tool for Integrating Lisp and Robotics in AI Agents Courses," AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium Series Report, Stanford, CA. March 22-24, 2004. pp. 24-29.
• Klassner, F. "Enhancing Lisp Instruction with RCXLisp and Robotics," Proceedings of 35th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2004), Norfolk, VA. March 3-6, 2004. pp. 214-218.
• Klassner, F. Lego MindStorms and Lisp: Perfect Together?, Proceedings of 2002 International Lisp Conference (ILC-2002), San Francisco, CA. October 27-30, 2002.
• Klassner, F. "A Case Study of LEGO MindStorms' Suitability for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Courses at the College Level," Proceedings of 33rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2002), Northern KY, 2002, pp. 8-12.
• Klassner, F. "Can Web Development Courses Avoid Obsolescence?" Proceedings of 5th Int'l Conf. on Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2000), Helsinki. July 11-14, 2000. pp. 77-80.
• Lesser, V. Horling, B., Klassner, F., Raja, A., Wagner, T., and Zhang, S., "Recent Extensions to BIG: A Resource-Bounded Information Gathering Agent." Proceedings of AAAI 1999 Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems, Orlando, FL, July 18-22, 1999.
• J. Bergin, V. Proulx, A. Brady, S. Hartley, C. Kelemen, F. Klassner, A. Kumar, M. McNally, D. Mutchler, R. Rasala and R. Ross. "Resources for Next Generation Introductory CS Courses," SIGCSE Bulletin, (V. 31, N. 4) 1999.
• Klassner, F., Lesser, V., Nawab, H., "The Role of Data Reprocessing in Complex Acoustic Environments", Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), Madison, WI, July 26-30, 1998. pp. 997-1003.
• Lesser, V. Horling, B., Klassner, F., Raja, A., Wagner, T., and Zhang, S., "BIG: A Resource-Bounded Information Gathering Agent", Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), Madison, WI, July 26-30, 1998. pp. 539-546.
• Lesser, V. Horling, B., Klassner, F., Raja, A., Wagner, T., and Zhang, S., "A Next-Generation Information Gathering Agent", Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Information Systems, Analysis, and Synthesis; in conjunction with the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI-98), Orlando, FL, July 13-15, 1998.
• Victor Lesser, Bryan Horling, Frank Klassner, Anita Raja, Thomas Wagner, and Shelley XQ. Zhang. A Resource-Bounded Interpretation-Centric Approach to Information Gathering. AAAI-98 Workshop on Information Integration. January 1998.
• Klassner, F., Lesser, V., Nawab, H., "Combining Approximate Front End Signal Processing with Selective Reprocessing in Auditory Perception", Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97), Providence, RI, July 27-31, 1997. pp. 661-667.
• Klassner, F., Lesser, V., Nawab, S. H., "The IPUS Blackboard Architecture as a Framework for Computational Auditory Scene Analysis," Proceedings of IJCAI-95 Workshop on Auditory Scene Analysis, Montreal, Canada, August 19-20, 1995.
• Klassner, F., "Presenting AI to Non PhD-Bound Students," AAAI 1994 Fall Symposium Series Report, New Orleans, LA, November 1994. pp. 75-77.
• Klassner, F., Lesser, V., and Nawab, S. H., "Fusing Multiple Reprocessings of Signal Data," Proceedings of the SPIE Sensor Fusion VI Conference, Boston, MA, September 1993.
• Lesser, V. R., Nawab, S. H., Gallastegi, I. and Klassner, F., "IPUS: An Architecture for Integrated Signal Processing and Signal Understanding in Complex Environments," Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Washington, DC, July 1993.

Book Chapters

• Klassner, F., Lesser, V., Nawab, H., "The IPUS Blackboard Architecture as a Framework for Computational Auditory Scene Analysis," ch. 6, Computational Auditory Scene Analysis, Rosenthal, D. & Okuno, H. eds. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. 1998.

Technical Reports

• Lesser, V., Horling, B., Klassner, F., Raja, A., Wagner, T., and Zhang, S., "Information Gathering as a Resource-Bounded Interpretation Task" UMASS Computer Science Technical Report 97-34.
• Klassner, F., "Data Reprocessing in Signal Understanding Systems," PhD Thesis, Computer Science Dept., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1996. Also available as Technical Report 96-47. (A version of the thesis without appendices, which expands to only 45 MB as opposed to 72 MB with appendices, can be found here)
• Klassner, F., Venu, M., and Mani, R., "The IPUS C.2 Sound Understanding Testbed Acoustic Modeling Framework and Sound Library," UMASS Computer Science Technical Report 95-65.
• Klassner, F., "Data Reprocessing and Assumption Representation in Signal Understanding Systems," UMASS Computer Science Technical Report 92-52.
• Lesser, V. R., Nawab, S. H., Bhandaru, M. K., Cvetanovic, Z., Gallastegi, I., and Klassner, F., "Integrated Signal Processing and Signal Understanding," UMASS Computer Science Technical Report 91-34.