Brendan Burns
Publications
Conference Articles Journal Articles Other Writing

Books

2007
Brendan Burns
Darkstar: The Java Game Server
O'Reilly Publishing

Proceedings

2007
Brendan Burns
Teaching the computer science of computer games
CCSC-Eastern 2007, Patchogue, New York

Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock
Single-Query Motion Planning with Utility-Guided Random Trees
ICRA 2007, Rome, Italy

Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock
Sampling-Based Motion Planning With Sensing Uncertainty
ICRA 2007, Rome, Italy

2006
Brendan Burns, Kevin Grimaldi, Alexander Kostadinov, Emery Berger and Mark Corner
Flux: A Language for Programming High-Performance Servers
Usenix 2006, Boston, Massachusetts

Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock and Brian Neil Levine
Autonomous Enhancement of Disruption Tolerant Networks
ICRA 2006, Orlando, Florida

2005
Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock
Toward Optimal Configuration Space Sampling
Robotics: Science and Systems, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Brendan Burns,
A New Approach to Computer Science in the Liberal Arts
CCSCNE 2005, Providence, Rhode Island

Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock,
Sampling-Based Motion Planning Using Predictive Models
ICRA 2005, Barcelona, Spain

Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock,
Single-Query Entropy-Guided Motion Planning
ICRA 2005, Barcelona, Spain

Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock and Brian Neil Levine
MV Routing and Capacity Building in Disruption Tolerant Networks
IEEE Infocom 2005, Miami, Florida

2003
Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock
Information Theoretic Construction of Probabilistic Roadmaps
IROS 2003 Las Vegas, Nevada

Sutton, Charles; Burns, Brendan; Morrison, Clayton; and Cohen, Paul
Guided Incremental Construction of Belief Networks 5th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, Berlin

2002
Brendan Burns and Paul Cohen.
A Probabilistic Approach to Real Time Construction of Memories
Seventh International Autonomous Systems Conference Marina del Rey, California

Cohen, Paul, Sutton, Charles; and Burns, Brendan.
Learning Effects of Robot Actions Using Temporal Associations.
2nd International Conference on Development and Learning, Cambridge, Massachusetts


Journals

2008
Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock and Brian Neil Levine
MORA Routing and Capacity Building in Disruption-Tolerant Networks
Ad-Hoc Networks Journal, In Press

2000
Brendan Burns and Andrea Danyluk.
Feature Selection vs. Theory Reformulation: a Study of Genetic Refinement of Knowledge-Based Neural Networks
Machine Learning, 38:1/2. pp. 89-108. 2000


Workshops

2008
Brendan Burns and Fernando Orellana,
Anthropomorphic Considerations in the Design of Interactive Furniture
Workshop on Interactive and Adaptive Furniture, Aarhus, Denmark

2003
Brendan Burns, Charles Sutton, Clayton Morrison and Paul Cohen,
Information Theory and Representation in Associative Word Learning
Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Boston, Massachusetts

Brendan Burns and Clayton Morrison
Temporal abstraction in Bayesian networks
AAAI Spring Symposium 2003, Palo Alto, California

1998
Brendan Burns and Andrea Danyluk.
Theory refinement through knowledge-based feature set selection
Fourth International Workshop on Multistrategy Learningi, Esposito, Michalski, & Saitta (eds), pp. 53-63 1998


Technical Reports

2004
Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock,
Model-Based Motion Planning
Technical Report 04-32, University of Massachusetts 2004

Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock,
Single-Query Entropy-Guided Motion Planning
Technical Report 04-76, University of Massachusetts 2004

Other

1998
Brendan Burns.
INDiGENT: Genetically Refining Knowledge Based Neural Networks
Undergraduate Thesis, Williams College 1998

1991
Gunsmoke Pizza Advertisment Autoduel Quaterly, Steve Jackson Games September 1991