HEATHER DAY PFEIFFER

Computer Science Department
New Mexico State University
Box 30001/MSC CS
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
email: hdp@cs.nmsu.edu
work: (575) 646-4054; home: (575) 525-2764; cell: (575) 496-3502

Personal

 
 		 Born: 		         February 11, 1955
 		 		         Dallas, Texas

 		 Hobbies: 		 New Horizon's Band and Quintet,
					     Mesilla Valley Concert Band,
 		 		         Theatre Lights, Sound,
 		                            Props and Treasurer

 		 Security Clearance: 	 Secret (DOD)

EDUCATION

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, December 2007.

Degree: Doctorate of Philosophy in Computer Science.
Dissertation: The Effect of Data Structures Modifications On Algorithms for Reasoning Operations Using a Conceptual Graphs Knowledge Base
Advisor: Dr. Roger T. Hartley

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, May 1988

Degree: Master of Science in Computer Science.

University of Washington, Seattle, March 1979 - December 1983

Post-graduate curriculum emphasizing mathematics, computer graphics, and computer data structures.

University of Washington, Seattle, September 1973 - June 1977

Degree: Bachelor of Science in Microbiology/Biology.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Part-time Faculty and Staff: Dona Ana Community College and Faculty Senate in Provost Office, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, August 2007 - Present.

Senior Computer Scientist: Horton Technical Associates, Inc., Las Cruces, New Mexico, June 2005 - December 2006.

Graduate Programmer Analyst: Biology Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, November 2002 - December 2003, February 2005 - May 2005.

Teaching and Research Assistant: Computer Science Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, August 1985 - May 1987, January 1994 - December 1996, August 1997 - June 1998, August 2001 - December 2001.

Consultant: Archeological Research Laboratories, Las Cruces, New Mexico, August 1986 - April 1987;

Science Applications International Corporation, Joppa, Maryland, January 1994 - July 1994, September 1995 - October 1996, June 1997 - September 1997;

OptiMetrics, Forest Hill, Maryland, October 1996 - December 1997;

Data Fusion Technologies, Inc., Las Cruces, New Mexico, May 1999 - June 2001.

Graduate Research Assistant: Los Alamos National Laboratories, Los Alamos, New Mexico, June 1998 - November 1998.

Computer Specialist: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, May 1987 - November 1993.

Intern: Las Cruces Police Department, Las Cruces, New Mexico, February 1992 - May 1993.

Systems Analyst: Boeing Computer Services, The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington, May 1980 - August 1984.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Software development emphasizing fast data structures, modelling systems, knowledge base and data base management systems, parallel processing, graphics, user interfaces and/or XML Schema/DTD application development.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Association for Computing Machinery

IEEE Computer Society

The American Society for Information Sciences and Technology (ASIS\&T)

New Mexico Network for Women in Science and Engineering

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Program Chair for the Seventh Annual Workshop on Conceptual Graphs, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, July 1992.

Received a 235 dollars Graduate Research Grant for Using Conceptual Structures to Store Data in Database Records, NMSU, January 1994.

Received a 11,000 dollars AWU Graduate Fellowship out of PNL-AES for Automated Message Thread Analysis, Ft. Lewis, WA, April 1994 - December 1994.

Co-Program Chair for the CGTools Workshop in conjuntion with the 9th International Conference On Conceptual Structures, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, July 2001.

Co-Program Chair for the 12th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2004, University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, July 1994.

BOOK EDITOR

Pfeiffer, H.D. and T.E. Nagle (eds.) Conceptual Structures: Theory and Implementation, LNAI 754, Heidelberg, W. Germany: Springer-Verlag (1993).

Wolff, K.E., H.D. Pfeiffer and H.S. Delugach (eds.) Conceptual Structures at Work, 12th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Proceedings of ICCS 2004, LNAI 3127, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer (2004).

Pfeiffer, H.D., K.E. Wolff and H.S. Delugach (eds.) Conceptual Structures at Work, Contributions to ICCS 2004, Aachen, Germany: Shaker Verlag (2004).

PUBLICATIONS

Hamed, L.B. and H.D. Pfeiffer: ``Engineering/Manufacturing Data Base Management - The IPAD Approach,'' in Proceedings of European Control Data Users - 36, pp. 2.198-2.203 (1983).

Coombs, M.J., R.T. Hartley and H.D. Pfeiffer: ``Conceptual Reasoning in Mobile Intelligent Robots,'' in Report 1. to Sandia Mobile Robot Project, CRL, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM (1986).

Pfeiffer, H.D.: ``Graph Definition System,'' in Proceedings of the Second New Mexico Computer Science Conference, pp.97-103 (1986).

Pfeiffer, H.D. and C.A. Fields: ``A local circuit simulation tool,'' in Neural Networks 1(Suppl. 1), pp. 269 (1988).

Fields, C., C. Cavendish, M. Coombs, T. Eskridge, R. Hartley, H. Pfeiffer, C. Soderlund, S. Kirby and G. McWilliams: ``Architecture of the MERCURY mesoscale meteorological data fusion system,'' in Preprints of the Fifth International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Boston: American Meteorological Society, pp. 334-338 (1989).

McWilliams, G., S. Kirby, C. Fields, M. Coombs, T. Eskridge, R. Hartley, H. Pfeiffer and C. Soderlund: ``Army requirements for an intelligent interface to a real-time meteorological database,'' in Preprints of the Fifth International Conference on Interactive and Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Boston: American Meteorological Society, pp. 1-2 (1989).

Pfeiffer, H.D. and R.T. Hartley: ``Semantic Additions to Conceptual Programming,'' in Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Conceptual Graphs, Detroit, MI, 6.0.7-1 - 8 (1989).

Coombs, M.J., H.D. Pfeiffer, W.B. Kilgore and R.T. Hartley: ``How to Become Immune to Facts,'' in Fifth Rocky Mountain Conference On Artificial Intelligence (RMCAI-90), Las Cruces, NM, 207-212 (1990).

Coombs, M.J., R.T. Hartley and H.D. Pfeiffer: ``Developing Computing Technology for Modeling Enemy Intentions using Environmental and Doctrinal Information,'' in Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, MCCS-90-184, Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM (1990).

Eshner, D.P. and H.D. Pfeiffer: ``A Graph Theoretic Basis For Problem Solving,'' in Fifth Rocky Mountain Conference On Artificial Intelligence (RMCAI-90), Las Cruces, NM, 161-166 (1990).

Pfeiffer, H.D. and R.T. Hartley: ``Set Representation and Processing Additions to Conceptual Programming,'' in Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Workshop on Conceptual Graphs, Boston, MA, A.15-1 - 10 (1990).

Coombs, M.J. and H.D. Pfeiffer: ``Robust Symbolic Problem Solving for Behavioral Information Fusion,'' in Working notes of Symposium on Knowledge and Action at Social & Organizational Levels, Asilomar, CA, 29-31 (1991).

Fields, C.A., H.D. Pfeiffer and T.C. Eskridge: ``Knowledge representation and control in gm1, and automated DNA sequence analysis system based on the MGR architecture,'' in International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 34, pp. 549-573 (1991).

Pfeiffer, H.D. and R.T. Hartley: ``The Conceptual Programming Environment, CP: Time, Space and Heuristic Constraints,'' in Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Workshop on Conceptual Graphs, Binghamton, NY (1991).

Pfeiffer, H.D. and R.T. Hartley: ``The Conceptual Programming Environment, CP: Reasoning Representation using Graph Structures and Operations,'' in Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages, Kobe, Japan (1991).

Coombs, M.J., H.D. Pfeiffer and R.T. Hartley: ``e-MGR: an Architecture for Symbolic Plasticity,'' in the special issue of International Journal of Man-Machine Studies on ``Symbolic Problem Solving in Noisy, Novel, and Uncertain Task Environments'' 36, pp.1-17 (1992).

Fields, C.A., J.E. Newberry, H.D. Pfeiffer, C.A. Soderlund, S.F. Kirby and G.B.
McWilliams: ``Mercury: A heterogeneous system for spatial extrapolation of mesoscale meterological data,'' in International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 36, pp.309-326
(1992).

Hartley, R.T., H.D. Pfeiffer and Dihong Qui: ``Representation for ViewGen: Structures and Reasoning,'' in Workshop on Propositional Knowledge Representation, Stanford, CA
(1992).

Pfeiffer, H.D. and R.T. Hartley: ``Temporal, Spatial, and Constraint Handling in the Conceptual Programming Environment, CP,'' in Journal for Experimental and Theoretical AI 4:2, pp.167-182 (1992).

Pfeiffer, H.D. and R.T. Hartley: ``The Conceptual Programming Environment, CP,'' in T. Nagle, J. Nagle, L. Gerholz, and P. Eklund (Eds) Conceptual Structures: Current Research and Practice. West Sussex, England: Ellis Horwood Limited (1992).

Pfeiffer, H.D. and E.J. Burlbaw: ``The Use Of An Intelligent Interface For The Predictive Technology Database,'' in Proceedings of Predictive Technology Symposium, 1993, Orlando, FR, pp. 31-37 (1993).

Matthew, W.T., R.E. McNally, G.B. McWilliams, S.F. Kirby and H.D. Pfeiffer, ``Integration of a Heat Strain Prediction Model with Army Weather Data Resources,'' in Proceedings of 1993 Battlefield Atmospherics Conference, Las Cruces, NM, pp. 479-486 (1993).

Pfeiffer, H.D.: ``TWIST: Reasoning Within The Combined Mercury and WADIF Systems,'' in Proceedings of 1993 Battlefield Atmospherics Conference, Las Cruces, NM, pp. 557-568 (1993).

Pfeiffer, H.D.: ``Research in Automating Weather Templating Procedures of Aerial Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (AIPB): Final Report,'' in Department of Computer Science, Tech Report, NMSU-CSTR-9418, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM (1994).

Stewart, T.S., B.J. Waltar, H.D. Pfeiffer, D.A. Gellert and J.S. Wilson: ``Research Support to Warrior Pull: Final Report,'' in Army Experimentation Site, Task Order 94-10, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Ft. Lewis, WA (1994).

Pfeiffer, H.D. and B.J. Waltar: ``Automated Message Analysis Using the Conceptual Programming Environment, CP,'' in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference On Conceptual Structures, Santa Cruz, CA (1995).

Matthew, W.T., W.R. Santee, R.W. Hoyt, P. Tikuisis, E.S. Barnes, G.B. McWilliams, H.D. Pfeiffer and J. Furlong, ``Automated Thermal Injury Risk Assessment In The Dismounted Infantry Battlespace,'' in Proceedings of 1996 Battlefield Atmospherics Conference, San Diego, CA (1996).

Pfeiffer, H.D. and R.T. Hartley: ``Visual CP Representation of Knowledge,'' in Supplimental Proceedings of the 8th International Conference On Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2000, Darmstadt, Germany (2000).

Pfeiffer, H.D. and R.T. Hartley: ``ARCEdit- CGEditor,'' in CGTools Workshop Proceedings in connection with ICCS 2001, Stanford, CA. [Access Online: July 2001], URL: http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~hdp/CGTools/proceedings/papers/ARCEdit.pdf (2001).

Hartley, R.T. and H.D. Pfeiffer: ``Data Models for Conceptual Structures,'' in Foundations and Applications of Conceptual Structures, Contributions to ICCS 2002, Borovets, Bulgaria (2002).

Pfeiffer, H.D.: ``An Exportable CGIF Module from the CP Environment: A Pragmatic Approach,'' in Conceptual Structures at Work, 12th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Proceedings of ICCS 2004, LNAI 3127, Huntsville, Alabama, USA, pp.319-332 (2004).

Keeler, M.A. and H.D. Pfeiffer:``Games of Inquiry for Collaborative Concept Structuring,'' in 13th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Proceedings of ICCS 2005, LNAI 3596, Kassel, Germany, pp.396-410 (2005).

Keeler, M.A. and H.D. Pfeiffer: ``Collaboratory testbed partnerships as a knowledge capture challenge'' (poster), in P. Clark and G. Schreiber, editors, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture, KCAP'05, ACM Press, pp. 203-204 (2005).

Keeler, M.A. and H.D. Pfeiffer:``Building a Pragmatic Methodology for KR Tool Research and Development,'' in Conceptual Structures: Inspiration and Application, LNAI 4068, 14th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2006, Aalborg, Denmark, pp. 314-330 (2006).

Pfeiffer, H.D.: ``Games for Co-Evolution of Digital Resources and Knowledge Tools'' (poster), in Information Realities: Shaping the Digital Future for All, Proceedings of ASIS&T'06, Austin, TX (2006).