DAVID C. BROGAN Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

Publications

Journals

• Brogan, D. C., Metoyer, R. A., and Hodgins, J. K.,  Dynamically Simulated Characters in Virtual Environments. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. September/October 1998, Volume 15 Number 5, p. 58-69

• Waters, R., Anderson, D., Barrus, J., Brogan, D., Casey, M., McKeown, S., Nitta, T., Sterns, I., and Yerazunis, W., "Diamond Park and Spline: Social Virtual Reality with 3D Animation, Spoken Interaction, and Runtime Extendability," Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 6:4, August, 1997, 461-481.

• Brogan, D.C., Hodgins, J. K., 1997. Group Behaviors for Systems with Significant Dynamics . Autonomous Robots 4(1), pp137-153.

Refereed Conferences and Workshops

2006

Liu, X., Reynolds, P., and Brogan, D.  Using Abstraction in the Verification of Simulation Coercion.  To appear in the 20^th ACM/IEEE Workshop on The Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS), May 2006.

2005

Spiegel, M., Reynolds, P., and Brogan, D.  A Case Study of Context Assumptions for Simulation Composability and Reusability.  To appear in the Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), pp. 437-444, 2005.

Brogan, D., Reynolds, P., Bartholet, R., Carnahan, J., and Loitiere, Y.  Semi-Automated Simulation Transformation for DDDAS.  Workshop on DDDAS in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, pp. 721-728, 2005.

White, C. and Brogan, D.  Reinforcement Learning in Simulated Soccer with Kohonen Networks.  Presented as a poster at 9th INFORMS Computing Society Conference, 2005.

Bartholet, R., Brogan, D., and Reynolds, P.  The Computational Complexity of Component Selection in Simulation Reuse.  To appear as a poster and printed as full article in Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 2472-2481, 2005.

Carnahan, J., Brogan, D. and Reynolds, P.  Simulation-Specific Characteristics and Software Reuse.  To appear as a poster and printed as full article in Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), pp. 2492-2499, 2005.

Ratner, O. and Brogan, D.  Simulating Crowds with Balance Dynamics.  To appear as poster at ACM SIGGRAPH 2005.

2004

Fox, M., Brogan, D., and Reynolds, P.  Approximating Component Selection.  In Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), pp. 429-435, 2004.

Carnahan, P., Reynolds, P, and Brogan, D.  Visualizing Coercible Simulations.  In Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), pp. 411-420, 2004.

Giordano, J., Reynolds, P., and Brogan, D.  Synthetic Worlds, Authentic Bounds: Exploring the Characteristics and Constraints of Human Behavior Representation.  In Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), pp. 912-921, 2004.

Loitiere, Y., Brogan, D, and Reynolds, P.  Simulation Coercion Applied to Multiagent DDDAS.   Workshop on DDDAS in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), pp. 789-796, 2004.

Carnahan, J., Reynolds, P., and Brogan, D.  Language Support for Identifying Flexible Points in Coercible Simulations.   In Proceedings of the Simulation Interoperability Workshop (SIW), 2004.

Bartholet, R., Reynolds, P., and Brogan, D.  Semantics, Scope, or Scale: Simulation Composability Versus Component-Based Software Design.  In Proceedings of the Simulation Interoperability Workshop (SIW), 2004.

Waziruddin, S., Brogan, D., and Reynolds, P.  Selecting Optimization Techniques in Support of Simulation Transformation.  In Proceedings of the Simulation Interoperability Workshop (SIW), 2004.

2003

Waziruddin, S., Brogan, D., and Reynolds, P.  The Process for Coercing Simulations.  In Proceedings of the Simulation Interoperability Workshop (SIW), 2003.

Carnahan, J, Reynolds, P., and Brogan, D.  An Experiment in Simulation Coercion.  In Proceedings of the Interservice / Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), 2003.

Brogan, D. and Johnson, N.  Realistic Human Walking Paths.   In Proceedings of Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA), pp. 94–101, 2003.

2002

Brogan, D., Granata, K., and Sheth, P.  Spacetime Constraints for Biomechanical Movements.  In Proceedings of Applied Modeling and Simulation, 2002.

Brogan, D. and Loitiere, Y.  Building Multiagent Behaviors from Observation.  In Workshop on Intelligent Human Augmentation and Virtual Environments, 2002.

Brogan, D. and Hodgins, J.  Simulation Level of Detail for Multiagent Control.  In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pp. 199-206, 2002.

Brogan, D. and Loitiere, Y.  Data-Driven Generation of Simulated Soccer Behaviors.  In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pp. 1391-1392, 2002.

Granata, K., Brogan, D., and Sheth, P.  Stable Forward Dynamic Simulation of Bipedal Gait Using Space-Time Analysis.  In American Society of Biomechanics Proceedings of IV World Congress of Biomechanics, 2002.

Ventura, D. and Brogan, D.  Digital Storytelling with DINAH: Dynamic, Interactive, Narrative Authoring Heuristic.  In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Entertainment Computing (IWEC), pp. 91-99, 2002.

2001

Brogan, D.  Control of Complex, Physically Simulated Robot Groups.  In Proceedings of Complex Adaptive Stuctures, pp 172 – 184, 2001.

Browne, K., McCune, J., Trost, A., Evans, D., and Brogan, D.  Behavior Combination and Swarm Programming.  In RoboCup International Symposium 2001, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, pp. 499-502, 2001.

Pre-2000

Brogan, D., Metoyer, R., and Hodgins, J.  Dynamically Simulated Characters in Virtual Environments.  Animation Sketch in SIGGRAPH 1997.

Brogan, D. and Hodgins, J.  Group Behaviors for Systems with Significant Dynamics.  In Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp 528-534, 1995.

Hodgins, J., Wooten, W., Brogan, D., O'Brien, J.  Animating Human Athletics.  In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 1995, pp 71-78, 1995.

Hodgins, J., Brogan, D., and Wooten, W.  Realistic Motion for Animated Figures.  Abstract published in Proceedings of Lifelike Computer Characters, 55, 1994

Hodgins, J. and Brogan, D.  Robot Herds: Group Behaviors for Systems with Significant Dynamics.  In Proceedings of Artificial Life IV, 319-324, 1994.

 Videos  

• Group bicycle scene: "An Alien Occurence"

• Group bicycle scene: "Atlanta in Motion" SIGGRAPH 1996 Electronic Theater

Commercial Demonstrations

Invited Talks