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Name: Alex Pelin, Associate Professor
Office Info: ECS 383, 305-348-3386
E-mail: pelincis.fiu.edu
Office Hours: N/A

Research and Instructional Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Logic
  • Computer Aided Instruction
  • Programming Languages
Background Education
1977 - Ph.D., Computer & Information Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
1974 - M.S., Computer & Information Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
1973 - B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania


Professional Experience
1985 - present
  Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
1979 - 1985
  Assistant Professor, Computer Sciences, Temple University
1978 - 1979
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Sciences, Temple University
1977 - 1978
  Instructor, Computer Sciences, Temple University
1977
  Consultant, the Automatic Program Generation Project, University of Pennsylvania


Professional Services
  • Chairs
    • Chairman of the Tutorial Committee for FLAIRS 1991 Conference
    • Co-chairman of the Tutorial Committee for FLAIRS 1990 Conference.
    • Co-chairman of the Publicity Committee for the PARBASE-90 conference.

  • Member
    • 1988-present: Member of the Executive Committee of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS) .
    • Member in the program committee for the for The Seventh IEEE Conference on Artificial intelligence Applications (CAIA) to be held in Miami Beach, in February 1991
    • Member of the panel on Artificial Intelligence in the computer science curriculum at Florida universities at the FLAIRS 88 conference.
    • Member, Ph. D. Examination Committee for William Dowling and Madjid Naini.
    • Member, Ph. D. Examination Committee for Margaret Christensen.
    • Member of the Program Committee for THE 1984 ACM National Computer Science Conference.

  • Referee
    • Referee for CAIA 91.
    • Referee for the the book Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. III.
    • Referee for Advances in Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol. 1, which appeared in 1989.

  • Reviewer
    • Reviewer for Various Manuscripts.
    • Reviewer for Tenure Applications
    • Reviewer for RAIRO Theoretical Informatics a theoretical computer science journal.

  • Judge for THE 1989 ACM Programming; Competition for the South-East Region which took place in November 1989.


Selected Publications
(or see the Full Listings)
  1. A. Pelin: "Exact Computation Sequences," to appear in Congressus Numerantium , 1990.

  2. A. Pelin and R. Ege: "Transforming Data Type Specifications into Programs," Advances in Artificial Intelligence , Vol. 1, Jai Press, 1989, pp. 361-383.

  3. A. Pelin and W. Kraynek :"The Knuth-Bendix Algorithm in Parallel Architecture," Proceedings of IEEE Southeast Con " 89 , April 1989, pp. 645-648.

  4. R. Ege and A. Pelin: "Type Abstractions for Expert Systems," Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on System Research, Informatics and Cybernetics , 1989.

  5. M. Weiss, R. Sedgewick, E. Hentschel, and A. Pelin: "Shellsort and The Frobenius Problem," Congressus Numerantium , Vol. 65, December 1988, pp. 253-260.

  6. A. Pelin : "Computing with Conditional Rewrite Rules," Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes On Computer Science, Vol. 308, December 1988, pp. 197-211.