Steven Orla Kimbrough

Papers & Projects

FLBC: Formal Languages for Business Communication

Indicative publications: "The normative aspect of signalling and the distinction between performative and constative" (Andrew J.I. Jones and Steven O. Kimbrough), Journal of Applied Logic.

"A Note on Interpretations for Federated Languages and the Use of Disquotation" (Steven O. Kimbrough), Proceedings of the International Conference on AI and Law, 2005.

Knowledge Discovery in Text

Indicative publications: "On Pattern-Directed Search of Archives and Collections" (Garett O. Dworman, Steven O. Kimbrough, and Chuck Patch), Journal of the American Society for Information Science.

"Exemplary documents: a foundation for information retrieval design" (David C. Blair and Steven O. Kimbrough), Information Processing & Management.

Vaim: Value-Added Information Mash

Patent applications: Process and system for matching products and markets (number 20030093421) and Categorized Document Bases (number 20070106662).

Algorithmic Game Theory

Indicative publication: "Simple reinforcement learning agents: Pareto beats Nash in an algorithmic game theory study" (Steven O. Kimbrough and Ming Lu), Information Systems and e-Business Management.

Heuristics for Management

Indicative publications: "On a Feasible-Infeasible Two-Populatin (FI-2Pop) genetic algorithm for constrained optimization: Distance tracing and no free lunch" (Steven Orla Kimbrough, Gary J. Koehler, Ming Lu, and David Harlan Wood), European Journal of Operational Research.

"On Heuristic Mapping of Decision Surfaces for Post-Evaluation Analysis" (Branley, Fradin, Kimbrough and Shafer), 1997.

Teaching, Spring 2008

• Office hours: 9-12 Thuesdays (and by appointment).
• OPIM 101.
• OPIM 319, "Agents, Games and Evolution," Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:00-4:20, in JMHH G88.
• OPIM 325, "Metaheuristics and Management Science," Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:30-5:50, JMHH F94.
• Official listing of OPIM courses.
• Course Web, Blackboard, at Penn.
• Getting a Wharton account so you can get into webCafe. Please remember that you cannot get into webCaf until you obtain a Wharton account. I suggest doing this at your earliest convenience since it takes a day or so to get entered into the system.

  You can also go to F35 to have one created for you. Please let me know if you have any trouble.

Current CV

• CV in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) form, April 11, 2007 version.

Recent Presentations

• "Foraging for Trust: Exploring Rationality and the Stag Hunt Game," Steve Kimbrough, INFORMS, San Francisco, 16 November 2005. Foils in PDF.
• "A Look at Simple, Learnable Pricing Policies in Electricity Markets," Steve Kimbrough and Fred Murphy, INFORMS, San Francisco, 13 November 2005. Foils in PDF.
• "Introducing the Fair and Logical Trade Project," CoAla 2005, David Eyers, Alan Abrahams, Steven Kimbrough, Jean Bacon, and Andrew Jones. Foils in PDF. Paper in PDF. Workshop on Contract Architectures and Languages (CoALa2005) 20 September 2005, Enschede, The Netherlands Workshop.
• "Foraging for Trust: Exploring Rationality and the Stag Hunt Game," Steve Kimbrough, keynote talk at the Third International Conference on Trust Management, 25 May 2005, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France. Conference homepage. Foils in PDF.
• "One Thing at a Time: Evaluating Profit and Legality, or On the Contributions of Losers: Exploring the Benefits of Retaining Infeasiblegeneticalgorithmforconstrainedoptimization: Distancetracingandno Solutions During Search for a Constrained Optimum," GA Tech and CIST, October 2004. Foils in PDF.

Photos: Wisconsin State Historical Society. Chuck Patch's favorite from the Wisconsin State Historical Society Web Site is Three Rennebohm Waitresses .

Useful Links

1. U@Penn website or alt.
2. Wired story on Hemingway's six words.
3. PubMed, www.pubmed.gov.
4. Billie Holliday and some jazz all stars.