Ross Gore, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center
Old Dominion University
1030 University Blvd.
Suffolk, VA 23435

Office:  1223
Sampson

Other Information

Research Group: M&S Interoperability Lab
Jobs: Curriculum Vitae

Current Research

I recently completed my Ph.D. at the Unviersity of Virginia and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate working in the Modeling and Simulation Interoperability Research Group (MSI) Lab at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC). I am currently working on developing concepts, theories and tools to validate simulations and computational models.

Other Research

Tutorial Generation Toolkit
I have worked on the development of the Tutorial Generation Toolkit (TGT). The TGT is a Java library that supports the construction of interactive tutorial applications. It allows incorporation of sprite-based animation, voice-overs, and interactive exercises as well as multiple choice self tests with result logging to a database. Most recently Dr. Lewis Barnett presented a paper he and I co-authored at CCSE 2006.

Pseudorandom Number Generation
I DO NOT do pseudorandom number generation research; however, I have always been very interested in it. During my undergraduate years at University of Richmond I wrote an annotated bibliography on pseudorandom number generation. My fear is it may be a bit out of date.

AggPro : Aggregate Projection System
I have become interested in the projection systems offered to predict the performance of Major League Baseball players for the upcoming 2009 MLB season. These projection systems include: PECOTA, Marcel, Zips, Oliver, CHONE, Bill James Handbook and ESPN. For the upcoming 2009 MLB season I have created the projection system called AggPro. AggPro forms an aggregate projection for each MLB player by weighting and then summing the projections from the existing projection systems to form a projection that is more accurate than any of the existing systems. More information on AggPro, is available here. The full writeup of the AggPro methodology complete with evaluation for the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 MLB seasons is available here.
Honors & Awards

Graduate - University of Virginia Undergraduate - University of Richmond
Research Publications
  1. K. Dutton, R. Gore and P. F. Reynolds. Investigating Unexpected Outcomes Through the Application of Statistical DebuggersProceedings of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference Berlin, Germany December 9-12, 2012.
  2. R. Gore and P. F. Reynolds. Modifying Test Suite Composition to Enable Effective Predicate-level Statistical Debugging. Proceedings of the 2012 NASA Formal Methods Symposium Norfolk, VA April 3-5, 2012.
  3. R. Gore and P. F. Reynolds. Reducing Confounding Bias in Predicate-level Statistical Debugging Metrics. Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Software Engineering Zurich, Switzerland June 2-9, 2012.
  4. R. Gore, P. F. Reynolds, D. Kamensky. Statistical Debugging with Elastic Predicates. Proceedings of the 2011 Automated Software Engineering Conference Lawrence, KS November 7-12, 2011.
  5. D. Kamensky, R. Gore, P. F. Reynolds. Applying Enhanced Fault Localization Technology to Monte Carlo Simulations. Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference Phoenix, AZ December 11-14, 2011.
  6. R. Gore, P. F. Reynolds. INSIGHT: Understanding unexpected behaviors in agent-based simulations. Journal of Simulation, Volume 4, Issue 1, pg. 170. September 2010.
  7. R. Gore, C. Snapp. A Major League Baseball (MLB) Swing Quality Metric. Proceedings of the 5th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Boston, MA March 4-5, 2011.
  8. R. Gore, P. F. Reynolds. Improved Methods and Measures for Computing Dynamic Program Slices in Stochastic Simulations. Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference Baltimore, MD December 5-8, 2010.
  9. T. J. Highley, R. Gore, C. Snapp. Granularity of Weighted Averages and Use of Rate Statistics in AggPro. Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference Baltimore, MD December 5-8, 2010.
  10. R. Gore, C. Snapp, T. J. Highley. AggPro: The Aggregate Projection System. Baseball Research Journal , Volume 38, Issue 2, pg. 20. Fall 2009.
  11. R. Gore, P. F. Reynolds. Program Slice Distribution Functions. Proceedings of the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference Austin, TX December 10-14, 2009.
  12. R. Gore, P. F. Reynolds. Causal Program Slicing. Proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS) Lake Placid, NY June 22-25, 2009.
  13. R. Gore, P. F. Reynolds. Applying Causal Inference to Understand Emergent Behavior. Proceedings of the 2008 Winter Simulation Conference Miami, FL December 7-10, 2008.
  14. R. Gore, P. F. Reynolds. An Exploration-based Taxonomy for Emergent Behavior Analysis in Simulations. Proceedings of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference Washington, D.C. December 9-12, 2007.
  15. R. Gore, P. F. Reynolds, L. Tang, D. Brogan. Explanation Exploration: Exploring Emergent Behavior. Proceedings of 21st International Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS) San Diego, CA June 12 -15, 2007.
  16. P. F. Reynolds, M. Spiegel, X. Liu, R. Gore. Validating Evolving Simulations in COERCE. Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) Beijing, China May 27-30, 2007.
  17. L. Barnett, R. Gore. Design and Implementation of Interactive Tutorials for Data Structures. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 22, Issue 3, pg. 128. January 2007.
  18. R. Gore, L. Barnett. Design and Implementation of Interactive Tutorials focused on Sorting. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 18, Issue 5, pg. 271. May 2003.