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Director Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory Office: Research Building XV |
Biography:
Chris Barrett received his Ph.D. in bioinformation systems from the California Institute of Technology in 1985. Prior to joining VBI, he worked for 17 years at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). During that time, he was Leader of the Basic and Applied Simulation Science Group and built up a research group active in theoretical and applied research in intelligent systems, distributed systems, and advanced computer simulation. He has scientific experience in simulation, scientific computation, algorithm theory and development, system science and control, engineering science, biosystems analysis, decision science, cognitive human factors, testing and training. His achievements include development of large-scale, high performance simulation systems, and development of a distributed computing approach for detailed simulation-based study of mobile, packet-switched digital communications systems. Dr. Barrett has received Distinguished Service Awards from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Alliance for Transportation Research, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita University, Japan.
Research Areas:
- Simulation of very large systems
- Theoretical foundations of simulation
- Interaction-based systems, computing, and dynamical systems
- Computational and systems biology
- Computational problems in epidemiology
- Cognitive science and computationally aided reasoning
- Computational economics
- Infrastructure simulation
Selected Publications:
- C. Barrett, H. Hunt III, M. Marathe, S. Ravi, D. Rosenkrantz, R. Stearns, Dichotomy Resutls for Reachability Problems in Sequential Dynamical Systems, to appear in Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences, 2006.
- C. Barrett, S. Eidenbenz, L. Kroc, M. Marathe and J. Smith Parametric Probabilistic Routing in Sensor Networks,”, in special issue of ACM/Baltzer J. Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), 2004. Preliminary version appeared as in 2nd ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNA’03), pp.122-131, San Deigo, 2003.
- H. Balakrishnan, C. Barrett, Anil Kumar, M. Marathe, S. Thite, The Distance 2-Matching Problem and Its Relationship to the MAC Layer Capacity of Ad-hoc Wireless Networks, in special issue of IEEE J. Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), 22(6), pp. 1069-1079, 2004.
- K. Atkins, C. Barrett, R. Beckman, K. Bisset, M. Drozda, S. Eubank, C. Engelhart, N. Hengartner, G. Istrate, Anil Kumar, M.V. Marathe, M. Morin, C. Reidys, S. Ravi, P. Romero, R. Pistone, S. Pathak, J. Smith, P. Stretz, S. Zust, AdHopNET: Integrated Tool for End-to-End Analysis of Extremely Large Next Generation Communication Networks”, Volume I and II, Technical Report No. LA-UR-03- 2076, and LA-UR-03-2077, Los Alamos National Laboratory, March 2003.
- C. Barrett, M. Drozda A. Marathe and M. Marathe, Characterizing the Interaction Between Routing and MAC Protocols in Ad-hoc Networksin 3rd ACM international Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (Mobihoc), Lausanne, Switzerland, pp. 92-103, June 2002.
- C. Barrett, and M Donnell, "Real Time Expert Advisory Systems: Considerations and Imperatives," Information and Design Technology, Andrew Sage, ed. "Intelligent MultiSensor Integration," JJM Systems, Inc., report #A921116-U-2200, Sept. 92.
- C. Barrett and C. Aldrich, Final Report, KOALAS Test Planning Tool Concept Demonstration: Users Manual, Sept. 28, 1990, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM.
- C. L. Barrett, M. V. Marathe, D. C. Engelhart, and A. Sivasubramaniam, Analyzing the short-term fairness of IEEE 802.11 in wireless multi-hop radio networks, MASCOTS, 2002, pp. 137–144.
- C. L. Barrett, R. Jacob, and M. V. Marathe, Formal-language-constrained path problems, SIAM J. Computing, 30 (2000), pp. 809–837.
- C. L. Barrett, M. Drozda, M. V. Marathe, S. S. Ravi, and J. P. Smith, A mobility and traffic generation framework for modeling and simulating ad hoc communication networks, Scientific Programming, 12 (2004), pp. 1–23.