Conference Papers

15 February 2004

Don McGregor, Andrzej Kapolka, Michael Zyda and Don Brutzman “Requirements for Large-Scale Networked Virtual Environments,” Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Telecommunications ConTel 2003, Zagreb, Croatia, 11-13 June 2003, pp. 353-358.

Russ Shilling, Michael Zyda and E. Casey Wardynski, "Introducing Emotion into Military Simulation and Videogame Design: America's Army Operations and VIRTE," in the Proceedings of the GameOn Conference, London, 30 November 2002, pp. 151-154.

Helmuth Trefftz, Ivan Marsic, and Michael Zyda "Handling Heterogeneity in Networked Virtual Environments," Proceedings of IEEE VR, Orlando, Florida, 25 - 27 March 2002, pp.7-14.

Eric R. Bachmann, Robert B. McGhee, Xiaoping Yun, and Michael J. Zyda "Inertial and Magnetic Posture Tracking for Inserting Humans Into Networked Virtual Environments," Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software & Technology (VRST 2001), Banff, Alberta, Canada, 15 - 17 November 2001, pp.9-16.

João Luís Marins, Xiaoping Yun, Eric R. Bachmann, Robert B. McGhee, and Michael J. Zyda "An Extended Kalman Filter for Quaternion-Based Orientation Estimation Using MARG Sensors," Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Maui, Hawaii, USA, Oct. 29 - Nov. 03, 2001, pp.2003-2011.

Katherine Morse and Michael Zyda “Multicast Grouping for Data Distribution Management,” Proceedings of the Computer Simulation Methods and Applications Conference, October 2000.

Katherine Morse and Michael Zyda “Online Multicast Grouping for Dynamic Data Distribution Management,” Proceedings of the Fall 2000 Simulation Interoperability Workshop, September 2000.

Bachmann, E.R., Duman, I., Usta, U.Y., McGhee, R.B., Yun, X.P., and Zyda, M.J., "Orientation Tracking for Humans and Robots Using Inertial Sensors", Proc. of 1999 International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, Monterey, CA, December, 1999, pp. 187-194.

Abrams, H., Watsen, K. and Zyda, M. "Three Tiered Interest Management for Large-Scale Virtual Environments," in the Proceedings of VRST 98, November 1998, Taipei.

Liles, S., Watsen, K. and Zyda, M. "Dynamic Discovery of Simulation Entities Using Bamboo and HLA," in the Proceedings of the 1998 Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Orlando, Florida, September 1998.

Watsen, K. and Zyda, M. "Bamboo - Supporting Dynamic Protocols For Virtual Environments," in the Proceedings of the IMAGE 98 Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2-7 August 1998, KA-1-9.

Watsen, Kent and Zyda, Michael "Bamboo - A Portable System for Dynamically Extensible, Networked, Real-Time, Virtual Environments," in the Proceedings of VRAIS 98, 16 - 19 March 1998, Atlanta, GA, pp. 252-259.

Yun, X., Bachmann, E., McGhee, R.B., Whalen, R.H., Roberts, R.L., Knapp, R.G., Healey, A.J., and Zyda, M.J. "Testing and Evaluation of an Integrated GPS/INS System for Samll AUV Navigation," Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST), Durham, NH, September 7-10, 1997.

Brutzman, Don, Zyda, Michael, Watsen, Kent, Macedonia, Michael "virtual reality transfer protocol (vrtp) Design Rationale," Proceedings of the IEEE Sixth International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE '97), Distributed System Aspects of Sharing a Virtual Reality workshop, June 18-20, 1997, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, pp.179-186.

Brutzman, Don and Zyda, Michael "Cyberspace Backbone (CBone) Design Rationale," Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Standards for DIS, Orlando, Florida.

Storms, Russell, Biggs, Lloyd, Cockayne, William, Barham, Paul, Falby, John, Brutzman, Don and Zyda, Michael, "The Auralization and Acoustics Laboratory," Proceedings of ICAD '96, International Conference on Auditory Display, Palo Alto, California, November 4-6, 1996, pp..

Cockayne, W., Zyda, M., Barham, P., Brutzman, D., and Falby, J. "The Laboratory for Human Interaction in the Virtual Environment," Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology '96, Hong Kong, July 1-4, 1996, ACM Press, New York, NY, pp 157-160.

Stone, Steve, Zyda, Michael , Brutzman, Don and Falby, John S. "Mobile Agents and Smart Networks for Distributed Simulations," in the Proceedings of the 14th DIS Workshop, 11 - 15 March 1996, Orlando, Florida, pp.

Bible, Steven R., Brutzman, Don and Zyda. Michael "Using Spread-Spectrum Ranging Techniques for Position Tracking in a Virtual Environment," in the Proceedings of Network Realities '95, 26 - 28 October 1995, Boston, Massachusetts, pp.

Zyda, Michael , Pratt, David R., Pratt, Shirley, Barham, Paul and Falby, John S. "NPSNET-HUMAN: Inserting the Human into the Networked Synthetic Environment," in the Proceedings of the 13th DIS Workshop, 18 - 22 September 1995, Orlando, Florida, pp.103-106.

Lentz, Fred C., Shaffer, Alan B., Pratt, David R., Falby, John S. and Zyda, Michael "NPSNET: Naval Training Integration," in the Proceedings of the 13th DIS Workshop, 18 - 22 September 1995, Orlando, Florida, pp. 107-112.

Waldroup, Marianne S., Pratt, Shirley M., Pratt, David R., McGhee, Robert B., Falby, John S. and Zyda, Michael J. "Real-time Upper Body Articulation of Humans in a Networked Interactive Virtual Environment," in Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Simulation and Interaction in Virtual Environments, University of Iowa, 13 - 15 July 1995, pp. 210-214.

Brutzman, Donald P., Macedonia, Michael R., Zyda, Michael J. "Internetwork Infrastructure Requirements for Virtual Environments," in the Proceedings of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) Symposium, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), San Diego, CA, December 13-15, 1995.

Macedonia, Michael R., Brutzman, Donald P., Zyda, Michael J., Pratt, David R., Barham, Paul T., Falby, John and Locke, John "NPSNET:A Multi-Player 3D Virtual Environment Over the Internet," in the Proceedings of the 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, 9 - 12 April 1995, Monterey, California.

Macedonia, Michael R., Zyda, Michael J., Pratt, David R., Brutzman, Donald P. and Barham, Paul T. "Exploiting Reality with Multicast Groups: A Network Architecture for Large Scale Virtual Environments," Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Virtual Reality Annual Symposium, 11 - 15 March 1995, RTP, North Carolina, pp. 2-10.

Zyda, Michael J. "VRAIS Panel on Networked Virtual Environments" in the Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Virtual Reality Annual Symposium, 11-15 March, 1995, RTP, North Carolina.

Pratt, David R., Barham, Paul T., Locke, John, Zyda, Michael J., Eastman, Bryant, Moore, Timothy, Biggers, Klaus, Douglass, Robert, Jacobsen, Stephen, Hollick, Michael, Granieri, John, Ko, Hyeongseok, Badler, Norman I. "Insertion of an Articulated Human into a Networked Virtual Environment" Proceedings of the 1994 AI, Simulation, and Planning in High Autonomy Systems Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, 7-9 December, 1994.

Macedonia, Michael R., Pratt, David R. and Zyda, Michael J. "A Network Architecture for Large Scale Virtual Environments," Proceedings of the 19th Army Science Conference, Orlando, Florida, June 1994.

Pratt, David R., Walter, Jon C., Warren, Patrick T., and Zyda, Michael J. "NPSNET: JANUS-3D - Providing Three-Dimensional Displays for a Two-Dimensional Combat Model," in the Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference on AI, Simulation, and Planning in High-Autonomy Systems, 20-22 September 1993, pp. 31-37.

Zyda, Michael J. "The Software Required for the Computer Generation of Virtual Environments," abstract in Computer Graphics, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '93, Anaheim, August 1 - 6, 1993, under panel on Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics Programming, pp. 392.

Pratt, David R., Zyda, Michael J,. Falby, John S., Amburn, Philip, and Stytz, Marty "NPSNET and AFIT-HOTAS: Interconnecting Hetereogeneously Developed Virtual Environments," Computer Graphics Visual Proceedings, SIGGRAPH '93, Anaheim, 1 Aug - 6 Aug 1993, pp. 214-215.

Zyda, Michael J., Lombardo, Chuck, and Pratt, David R. "Hypermedia and Networking in the Development of Large-Scale Virtual Environments" in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Tele-Existence, Tokyo, Japan, 6-8 July 1993.

Wilson, Kalin P., Zyda, Michael J., and Pratt, David R. "NPSGDL: An Object Oriented Graphics Description Language for Virtual World Application Support" in the Proceedings of the Third Eurographics Workshop on Object-Oriented Graphics, Champery, Switzerland, 28-30 October 1992.

Pratt, David R., Zyda, Michael J., Mackey, Randy L., and Falby, John S. "NPSNET: A Networked Vehicle Simulator with Hierarchical Data Structures," in the Proceedings of the IMAGE VI Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, 14 - 17 July 1992.

Zyda, Michael J., Pratt, David R., Monahan, James G. and Wilson, Kalin P. "NPSNET: Constructing a 3D Virtual World," in Computer Graphics, Special Issue on the 1992 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, MIT Media Laboratory, 29 March - 1 April 1992, pp. 147-156.

Brutzman, Donald P., Kanayama, Yutaka and Zyda, Michael J. "Integrated Simulation for Rapid Development of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles," Proceedings of the 1992 Symposium on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology, Washington, DC, June 2-3, 1992, pp 3-10.

Zyda, Michael J. and Pratt, David R. "NPSNET: A 3D Visual Simulator for Virtual World Exploration and Experience," short paper in Tomorrow's Realities, July 1991, pp. 30 (Note: This is a short paper contained in the gallery catalog. This paper is different than the abstract below of the same title.)

Zyda, Michael J. and Pratt, David R. "NPSNET: A 3D Visual Simulator for Virtual World Exploration and Experience," abstract in Computer Graphics, Vol. 25, No. 4, July 1991, pp. 383.

Luqi, Barnes, Patrick D. and Zyda, Michael J. "Graphical Support for Reducing Information Overload in Rapid Prototyping," Proceedings of the 23rd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, December 1989.

Ross, Ron S., McGhee, Robert B., Zyda, Michael J. and Rowe, Neil C. "A Context-Dependent Classification Paradigm for Land Mobility Problems," Proceedings of the Third Annual Expert Systems in Government Conference, October 19-23, 1987, IEEE Computer Society Press, pg. 2.

Richbourg, R.F., Rowe, N. C., Zyda, M.J., and McGhee, R.B. "Solving Global Two-Dimensional Routing Problems Using Snell's Law and A* Search," Proceedings 1987 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, March 1987, pg. 1631.

Richbourg, Robert F., Rowe, Neil C. and Zyda, Michael J. "Exploiting Capability Constraints to Solve Global, Two-Dimensional Path Planning Problems," Proceedings of the 1986 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, April 1986, p 90.