Richard G. Watson
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, May 1990
University of Texas at El Paso
Master of Science in Computer Science, May 1994
University of Texas at El Paso
Currently Ph.D. Candidate (all but dissertation) in
Computer Systems Engineering
University of Texas at El Paso
Advisor: Dr. Michael Gelfond
Research Interests
Logic programming, commonsense reasoning, and nonmonotonic logics.
Papers and Publications
- Richard Watson, "A Practical Application of Action Theory to the Space Shuttle," Proc. of Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages '99, to appear.
- Matthew Barry and Richard Watson, "Reasoning About Actions for Spacecraft Redundancy Management," Proc. of 1999 IEEE Aerospace Conference, to appear.
- Chitta Baral, Michael Gelfond, and Richard Watson.
"Reasoning About Actual and Hypothetical Occurrences of Concurrent and
Non-deterministic Actions," in Theoretical Approaches to
Dynamic Worlds, edited by Bertram Fronhofer and Remo Pareschi, to be published.
- Richard Watson, "An Inference Engine for Epistemic Specifications," Masters
Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, 1994.
- Vladik Kreinovich and Richard Watson, "How difficult is it to invent a nontrivial game," Cybernetics and Systems, vol 25(4), pp. 629-640, 1994.
Courses taught:
- CS 4201 - Programming and Algorithms
- CS 3202 - Data Structures
- CS 3330 - Problem Oriented Programming Languages (C Programming)
U.T.E.P. Organizations:
Courses previously T.A.ed:
- CS 4101 -- UG Introduction to Computer Science
- CS 4201 -- UG Programming and Algorithms
For a little comedy, due in part to your truly....
e-mail: rwatson@cs.utep.edu