Prof. Louis Steinberg

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Research

Due to health problems I have not been able to do much research in recent years. I do hope to get back to my research areas at some point.

My research interests include Artificial Intelligence, especially Utility-Guided Search, the application of AI to engineering design, including the generation and selection of analysis models, and Machine Learning.

I am also interested in digital halftoning; I am the Steinberg of Floyd-Steinberg error diffusion.

My most recent research focused mainly on methods that use estimates of utility to guide search. In particular I have looked at search in trees of alternatives generated by stochastic optimizers such as Genetic Algorithms. To learn more about this work, see:

Steinberg, Louis. "Searching stochastically generated multi-abstraction-level design spaces", Artificial Intelligence, 129 (1-2) (2001) pp. 63-90.
Abstract
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Louis Steinberg and Khaled Rasheed. "Optimization by Searching a Tree of Populations". Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO'99), 1999.
full paper (Postscript, 0.45 MB) (pdf, 0.23 MB)
A two-page overview of recent work.
(.pdf)

Other problems I have worked on include automatic model generation for thermal systems, e.g,

Ling, R., Steinberg, L., and Jaluria, Y., MSG: A Computer System for Automated Modeling of Heat Transfer", Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing V. 7 No. 4, 1993, pages 287-300.
full paper(Postscript, 146 KB)

The following describes the methodological approach behind much of my work.

Steinberg, L., "Research Methodology for AI and Design", Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing V. 8 No. 4, 1994, pages 283-287.
full paper(Postscript, 156 KB)

Teaching

I teach mainly CS 107, CS 111, CS 112, and CS 314. Web sites for these courses are on Sakai.

Contact Info

My email address
lou@cs.rutgers.edu
Postal address:: Louis Steinberg; Dept. of Computer Science, Hill Center; Rutgers University; 110 Frelinghuysen Road; Piscataway, NJ 08854
Voice: (732) 445-2001 X3581
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