Charles K. Nicholas

Professor
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Office: ITE 356
410-455-2594, -3969 fax
nicholas@umbc.edu

I received my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan - Flint in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Ohio State University in 1982 and 1988, respectively. I joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 1988.

My research interests include electronic document processing, intelligent information systems, and software engineering. In recent years I have focused on the problems of storing and retrieving information from large collections of documents. Intelligent software agents are an important aspect of this work.

Here is a list of various publications available on-line. I do need to add some of my more recent work.

• A somewhat expanded version of the paper Randy Dahlberg and I presented at PODDP'98 Spotting Topics with the Singular Value Decomposition. The copyright for this paper is held by Springer-Verlag
• The paper Meta-data for Distributed Text Retrieval that Grace Crowder and I presented at the SIGIR'97 Workshop on Network Information Retrieval, Philadelphia, August 1997.
• The paper TKQML: A Scripting Tool for Building Agents presented at the conference Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages (ATAL'97), Providence, RI, July 1997.
• The poster session paper Agent Development Support for Tcl presented at the Fifth Tcl/Tk Workshop, Boston, July 1997.
• The paper Resource Selection in CAFE: An Architecture for Networked Information Retrieval that Grace Crowder and I presented at the SIGIR'96 Workshop on Network Information Retrieval, Zurich, August 1996.
• The paper Using Statistical Properties of Text to Create Metadata that Grace Crowder and I presented at the First IEEE Metadata Conference, April 1996.
• My SIGIR 95 Trip Report.
• Kenneth E. Rowe and Charles K. Nicholas, "Reliability of WWW Name Servers", presented at WWW'95, Darmstadt, Germany, April 1995. You can also see the HTML presentation I gave at WWW 95, and my WWW 95 Trip Report
• Intelligent Web Servers and the Automatic Construction of HTML Documents (with Jim Mayfield, UMBC Computer Science Technical Report 94-01, January 1994.)
• SNITCH: Augmenting Hypertext Documents with a Semantic Net (with Jim Mayfield, International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, June 1993.)
• Canto: A Hypertext Data Model (with Linda Rosenberg, Electronic Publishing, June 1993.) (Authors' page proof - send e-mail for an offprint.)
• Category Theory as a Foundation for Document Processing (with Jim Mayfield and Jim Sasaki)
• On the Interchangeability of SGML and ODA (with L. Welsch, Electronic Publishing - Origination, Dissemination and Design, September 1992. )

I teach a variety of courses, including CS 201 Computer Science I, CS 331 Principles of Programming Languages, and topics courses.

I am involved in the ACM's International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)

I volunteer my time as system administrator at New Hope Lutheran Church, in Columbia, MD. I am also involved in the Via de Cristo.