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Chris S. Coulston
Publications

Articles published in refereed journals

Coulston, C., “Electronic angle measurement,” Circuit Cellar, Issue 179, 4 pp., June 2005.

Coulston, C., “Steiner minimal trees in a hexagonally partitioned space,” International Journal of Smart Engineering System Design, vol. 5, pp. 341-346, 2003.

Hemminger, T. L., Coulston, C., and Pomalaza, C. A., “Routing strategies for multicase packet radio networks,” International Journal of Smart Engineering System Design, vol. 4, pp. 215-233, 2002.

Vitolo, T. M., and Coulston, C., “Taxonomy of information literacy competencies,” Journal of Information Technology Education, vol. 1, pp. 43-52, 2002.

Berman, P., and Coulston, C., “Speed is more powerful than clairvoyance,” Nordic Journal of Computing, vol. 6, pp. 181-193, 1999.

Pakzad, S., and Coulston, C., “A neural network model of leech reflexive behaviors,” The International Journal on Mini and Micro Computers, vol. 13, pp. 130-141, 1994.

Articles published in refereed proceedings

Vitolo, T. M., and Coulston, C., “Generational ethics,” Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Ethics and Technology Conference, St. Louis, MO, pp. 281-291, 2005.

Coulston, C., Hemminger, T., Scharf, S., and Vitolo, T.M., “Modeling the leech local bending reflex of the leech,” Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, pp. 803-808, 2004.

Coulston, C., and Ford, R., “Teaching functional decomposition for the design of electrical and computer systems,” IEEE Frontiers in Education, 6 pp., 2004.

Coulston, C., Hemminger, T., Scharf, S., and Vitolo, T. M., “Modeling behaviors of the leech,” Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, 2004.

Coulston, C., and Ford, R. M., “Teaching function decomposition for the design of electrical and computer systems,” Frontiers in Education, Session F4G, pp. 6-11, 2004.

Coulston, C., and Mitchell, L., “Emergent shortest paths,” Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, pp. 231-236, 2003.

Coulston, C., and Weissbach, R., “Routing transmission lines via Steiner Trees,” Power Engineering Society, 4 pp., 2003.

Coulston, C., “Constructing exact octagonal Steiner Minimal Trees,” Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, pp. 1-6, 2003.

Coulston, C., Smith, M., and Werger, K., “Ants and evolution: The non-uniform Steiner Minimal Tree problem,” Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering, pp. 213-218, 2002.

Coulston, C., and Ford, R., “The Technology Toolbox,” Frontiers in Education, pp. 197-198, 2002.

Coulston, C., and Vitolo, T. M., “A hypertext metric based on Huffman coding,” ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, pp. 243-244, 2001.

Coulston, C., “Sequential truncated multiplication,” IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 356-358, 2001.

Berman, P., and Coulston, C., “Speed is more powerful than clairvoyance,” Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithms and Theory, pp. 255-263, 1998.

Berman, P., and Coulston, C., “On-line algorithms for Steiner Tree problems,” Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computation, pp. 344-353, 1997.

Coulston, C., and Pakzad, S., “A biological-based model of the leech swimming response,” Engineering Systems Design and Analysis Conference, pp. 217-223, 1996.

Coulston, C., and Pakzad, S., “A biological-based neural network model of leech reflexive behaviors,” IEEE Conference on Managing Intelligent System Projects, pp. 32-39, 1993.

Books

Ford, R., and Coulston, C., Power Point Slides for Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers: Theory, Concepts and Practice. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2005.

Ford, R., and Coulston, C., Solution Manual for Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers: Theory, Concepts and Practice. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2005.

Ford, R., and Coulston, C., Design for Electrical and Computer Engineers: Theory, Concepts and Practice. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2005, 300 pp., ISBN 0-07-319599-5.

Parts of books 

Vitolo, T. M., and Coulston, C., “Simulation in information systems research,” Chapter in Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Hershey, PA: Idea Group, Inc., 2005, pp. 2508-2513.

Vitolo, T. M., and Coulston, C., “An overview of simulation in information systems research: Technique underrepresented in the field,” Chapter XIV in Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology I-V, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Hershey: Idea Group Publishing, 2005, pp. 250-260.

Vitolo, T. M., and Coulston, C., “Simulation in information systems research: Techniques underrepresented in the field,” chapter in The Handbook for Information Systems Research, M.E. Whitman and A.B. Wosczynski, (Eds.), Hershey: Idea Group Publishing, 2004, pp. 250-260.

Book reviews

Diaz-Herrera, J. L., Engineering Ubiquitous Systems: Analysis, Design and Construction of Embedded Computing Systems, New York: Addison Wesley, 2004.