Publications

Journal Publications

Includes peer-reviewed journal articles.

  1. Mustafa V. Nural, Michael E. Cotterell, Hao Peng, Rui Xie, Ping Ma, John A. Miller, “Automated Predictive Big Data Analytics Using Ontology Based Semantics” International Journal of Big Data (IJBD), Vol. 2, No. 2. October 2015. pp. 43-56. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda MD, USA. PMCID: PMC5898823 PMID: 29657954

Conference Publications

Includes peer-reviewed conference articles and extended abstracts. Note that in many areas within computer science, conferences are the primary publication venues.

  1. Michael E. Cotterell, Delaram Yazdansepas, Bradley J. Barnes. “Improving Student Sentiment of Active Learning in CS” Extended Abstract: Poster. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Computing Education Research (ICER’20). Virtual Event, Dunedin, New Zealand, August 12 - 13, 2020. pp. 308 - 308. ACM. DOI: 10.1145/3372782.3408120

  2. Michael E. Cotterell, Delaram Yazdansepas, Bradley J. Barnes. “Active Learning in CS2 and Discrete Mathematics” Extended Abstract: Poster. In Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’20). Portland, OR, USA, March 11 - 14, 2020. pp. 1318 - 1318. ACM. DOI: 10.1145/3328778.3372618

  3. Hao Peng, Santosh U. Bobade, Michael E. Cotterell, John A. Miller. “Forecasting Traffic Flow: Short Term, Long Term, and When It Rains” In Proceedings of the 2018 International Congress on Big Data (BigData’18), Seattle, WA, USA, June 25 – 30, 2018. pp. 57-71. Big Data – BigData 2018, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 10968. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-94301-5_5 Best Student Paper Award at BigData’18

  4. John A. Miller, Hao Peng, Michael E. Cotterell. “Adding Support for Theory in Open Science Big Data,” In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES’17), Honolulu, HI, USA, June 25 - 30, 2017. pp. 71-75. IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/SERVICES.2017.20

  5. Mustafa V. Nural, Michael E. Cotterell, John A. Miller. “Using Semantics in Predictive Big Data Analytics” In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData’15), New York, NY, USA, June 27 - July 2, 2015. pp. 254-261. IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/BigDataCongress.2015.43

  6. John A. Miller, Michael E. Cotterell, Stephen J. Buckley. “Supporting a Modeling Continuum in ScalaTion: From Predictive Analytics to Simulation Modeling” In Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC’13). Washington, DC, USA, December 8 - 11, 2013. pp. 1191-1202. IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2013.6721507

  7. Qin Sun, Michael E. Cotterell, Zhengkai Wu, Aaron Beach, Santiago Grijalva. “An Economic Model for Distributed Energy Prosumers” In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’13). Wailea, Maui, HI, USA, January 7 - 10, 2013. pp. 2103-2112. IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.81

  8. Zhengkai Wu, Michael E. Cotterell, Qin Sun, Aaron Beach, Santiago Grijalva. “Towards a Cloud Infrastructure for Energy Informatics” In Proceedings of the 2012 Energy Informatics Conference (EI’12) Atlanta, GA, USA, October 6, 2012. 16 pages. Sprouts: Working Papers on Information Systems, Vol. 12, Iss. 7. Association for Information Systems (AIS). SPROUTS: sprouts_all/494

  9. Michael E. Cotterell, Jie Zheng, Qin Sun, Zhengkai Wu, Craig Champlin, Aaron Beach. “Facilitating Knowledge Sharing and Analysis in Energy Informatics with the Ontology for Energy Investigations (OEI)” In Proceedings of the 2012 Energy Informatics Conference (EI’12) Atlanta, GA, USA, October 6, 2012. 18 pages. Sprouts: Working Papers on Information Systems, Vol. 12, Iss. 4. Association for Information Systems (AIS). SPROUTS: sprouts_all/491

  10. Qin Sun, Michael E. Cotterell, Aaron Beach, Santiago Grijalva. “The Fundamental Value of Information and Strategy in Stochastic Management of Distributed Energy Storage” In Proceedings of the 2012 North American Power Symposium (NAPS’12). Champaign, IL, USA, September 9 - 11, 2012. pp. 1-6. IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/NAPS.2012.6336385

  11. Alok Dhamanaskar, Michael E. Cotterell, Jie Zheng, John A. Miller, Jessica Kissinger, Christian Stoeckert. “Suggestions in Galaxy Workflow Design Based on Ontologically Annotated Services” In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS’12). Graz, Austria, July 24 - 27, 2012. pp. 29-42. Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Vol 239. IOS Press. DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-084-0-29

  12. Michael E. Cotterell, John A. Miller, Jun Han, Tom Horton. “SimOptDSL: Extending ScalaTion, a Domain-Specific Language for Modeling & Simulation, for Simulation Optimization” Extended Abstract. In Proceedings of the AlaSim International Modeling and Simulation Conference & Exhibition (AlaSim’12). Huntsville, AL, USA, May 1 - 3, 2012. pp. 1-1. Alabama Modeling & Simulation Council (AMSC).

Technical Reports

For technical reports, when there is a review process, it is often limited to within the originating organization.

  1. Michael E. Cotterell. “Supporting Open Science in Big Data Frameworks and Data Science Education” Doctoral Dissertation (Ph.D. in CS Degree), December 2017. pp. 1-147. Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. Advisor: John A. Miller. DOI: 10724/37663

  2. Michael E. Cotterell, Terrance Medina. “A Markov Model for Ontology Alignment” Term Paper, CSCI 8370 Advanced Database Systems, December 2012. pp. 1-12. Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. Instructor: John A. Miller. arXiv: 1304.5566 [cs.DB]

  3. Michael E. Cotterell, John A. Miller, Tom Horton. “Unicode in Domain-Specific Programming Languages for Modeling & Simulation: ScalaTion as a Case Study” Technical Report #UGA-CS-LSDIS-TR-11-011, May 2011. pp. 1-10. Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. arXiv: 1112.1751 [cs.PL]

Open Educational Resources

Freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessment.

  1. Michael E. Cotterell, Bradley J. Barnes. “CSCI 1302 Code Style Guide” 2019. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. GitHub. Zenodo. Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.

  2. Michael E. Cotterell, Bradley J. Barnes. “CSCI 1302 Tutorials” 2019. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. GitHub. Zenodo. Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.

  3. Michael E. Cotterell, Bradley J. Barnes. “CSCI 1302 Class Exercises” 2019. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. GitHub. Zenodo. Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.

Software

Software that I have helped author.

  1. Michael E. Cotterell, Sujeet Kulkarni, Kevin Bonanno, and Dat Le-Phan. 2019. ScalaTion Kernel. Version 1.2.1. MIT License. PyPI. GitHub. Zenodo. Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3581441 GitHub: v1.2.1 PyPI: 1.2.1

Other Publications

Other publications that I have helped author.

  1. Michael E. Cotterell. “Featured SoTL Article” In SoTL November 2019 Newsletter. Colleen M. Kuusinen, editor. December 17, 2019. pp. 1-1. Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Georgia, GA, USA. Newsletter