V. Scott Gordon, refereed publications

• G. Shobaki, P. Muyan-Ozcelik, J. Hutton, B. Linck, V. Malyshenko, A. Kerbow, R. Ramirez-Ortega, V. Gordon (2024).
  Instruction Scheduling for the GPU on the GPU -- PDF
  IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO'24)
  

• V. Gordon and J. Clevenger (2024). Computer Graphics Programming in OpenGL with C++, 3rd Edition (textbook)
  published by Mercury Learning, available at Amazon.com.

• G. Shobaki, V. Gordon, P. McHugh, T. Dubois, and A. Kerbow (2022).
  Register-Pressure-Aware Instruction Scheduling Using Ant Colony Optimization -- PDF
  ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), vol. 19, Article 23, January 2022.
  

• V. Gordon and J. Clevenger (2021). Computer Graphics Programming in OpenGL with Java, 3rd Edition (textbook)
  published by Mercury Learning, available at Amazon.com.
• V. Gordon and J. Clevenger (2021). Computer Graphics Programming in OpenGL with C++, 2nd Edition (textbook)
  published by Mercury Learning, available at Amazon.com.
• V. Gordon and J. Clevenger (2019). Computer Graphics Programming in OpenGL with Java, 2nd Edition (textbook)
  published by Mercury Learning, available at Amazon.com.
• V. Gordon and J. Clevenger (2019). Computer Graphics Programming in OpenGL with C++ (textbook)
  published by Mercury Learning, available at Amazon.com.
• V. Gordon and J. Clevenger (2017). Computer Graphics Programming in OpenGL with Java (textbook)
  published by Mercury Learning, available at Amazon.com.

• V. Gordon, M. Vollmer, and C. Frayn (2014).
  Trappy Minimax in Chess, and the Elusive Meaning of "Best Move" -- PDF
  (unpublished).

• S. Ray, V. Gordon and L. Vaucher (2014).
  Evolving QWOP Gaits -- PDF (also a Humies finalist)
  2014 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2014), Vancouver, BC, pg. 823-829.

• K. Biddle, V. Gordon, J. Crowder, J. Raskauskas, S. Zarek, J. Escobedo, and C. Nevarez (2014).
  Motivating Underserved High School Students in Computer Science -- JPG
  2014 Association for Psychological Science - 26th Annual Convention (APS 2014), San Francisco, CA (poster).

• V. Gordon, M. Rodriguez, K. Biddle, and J. Crowder (2013).
  Socially Relevant Game Programming to Motivate and Advance STEM Education -- PDF
  2013 International Society for Technology in Education Conference (ISTE 2013), San Antonio, TX.

• K. Biddle, V. Gordon, J. Raskauskas, M. Rodriguez, and S. Zarek (2013).
  STEM Strategy: Mentoring Underserved 11th Graders in Computer Programming -- PDF
  2013 International Society for Technology in Education Conference (ISTE 2013), San Antonio, TX.

• C. Aranha, C. Azevedo, V. Gordon, and H. Iba (2011).
  Topological and Motion Strategies for Cellular Memetic Tree-Based Portfolio Optimization -- PDF
  2011 Brazilian Congress on Compuational Intelligence (CBIC'11), Fortaleza (Ceara), Brazil.

• R. Derickson, K. Long, V. Gordon, A. Tana, and W. Tremblay (2010).
  Coyotes, Jazz, and Creative Teams: Facing and Seeking Variance -- PDF
  The 20th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2010), Vienna, Austria.

• C. Azevedo and V. Gordon (2009).
  Adaptive Terrain-Based Memetic Algorithms -- PDF
  2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Montreal, Canada.

• T. Bender, V. Gordon, and M. Daniels (2009).
  Partitioning Strategies for Modular Neural Networks -- PDF
  2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2009), Atlanta GA.

• V. Gordon, M. Daniels, J. Boheman, M. Watstein, D. Goering, and B. Urban (2009).
  Visualization Tool for a Self-Splitting Modular Neural Network -- PDF
  2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2009), Atlanta GA.

• V. Gordon and J. Crouson (2008).
  Self-Splitting Modular Neural Network - Domain Partitioning at Boundaries of Trained Regions -- PDF
  2008 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2008), Hong Kong.

• V. Gordon (2008).
  Neighbor Annealing for Neural Network Training -- PDF
  2008 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2008), Hong Kong.

• V. Gordon (2008).
  Experiences with Artificial Intelligence as an Undergraduate Creative Capstone Course -- PDF
  AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium, Stanford, CA. pp 32-37.

• V. Gordon and Ahmed Reda (2006).
  Trappy Minimax - using Iterative Deepening to Identify and Set Traps in Two-Player Games -- PDF
  IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG-2006), Reno, NV, pp 205-210.

• M. Olsen-Darter and V. Gordon (2005).
  Vehicle Steering Control Using Modular Neural Networks -- PDF
  IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI-2005), Las Vegas, NV, pp 374-379.

• S. Hwang, K. Cho, and V. Gordon (2005).
  The Behavior Evolving Model and Application of Virtual Robots -- PDF
  IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI-2005), Las Vegas, NV, pp 392-397.

• V. Gordon and J. Thein (2004).
  Visualization Tool for a Terrain-Based Genetic Algorithm -- PDF
  IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-2004), Boca Raton, FL, pp 401-406.

• V. Gordon and T. Slocum (2004).
  The Knight's Tour - Evolutionary vs. Depth-First Search -- PDF
  IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2004), Portland, OR, pp 1435-1440.

• V. Gordon and Z. Matley (2004).
  Evolving Sparse Direction Maps for Maze Pathfinding -- PDF
  IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2004), Portland, OR, pp 835-838.

• V. Gordon, R. Pirie, A. Wachter, and S. Sharp (1999).
  Terrain-Based Genetic Algorithm (TBGA): Modeling Parameter Space as Terrain -- PDF
  Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (ICGA-99), Orlando, Fl, pp 229-235.

• V. Gordon and J. Bieman (1995).
  Rapid Prototyping: Lessons Learned -- PDF
  IEEE Software, January 1995, Vol 12 No.1, pp 85-95.
  (Translated to Dutch as: Rapid Prototyping: Lessen uit de Praktijk. IT Management Select No. 2 (June 1996).
  Also reprinted in: C. Kemerer (1996) Software Project Management: Readings and Cases, published by IRWIN.

• V. Gordon and D. Whitley (1994).
  A Machine-Independent Analysis of Parallel Genetic Algorithms -- PDF
  Journal of Complex Systems 8 (1994), pp 181-214.

• V. Gordon (1994).
  Asynchronous Parallelism in Steady-State Genetic Algorithms -- PDF
  Neural And Stochastic Methods In Image And Signal Processing (SPIE'94), San Diego, Ca, pp 237-241.

• D. Whitley, V. Gordon, and K. Mathias (1994).
  Lamarckian Evolution, the Baldwin Effect and Function Optimization -- PDF
  Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 3), Israel, pp 6-15.

• V. Gordon (1994).
  Locality in Genetic Algorithms -- PDF
  IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation (WCCI'94), Orlando, Fl, pp 428-432.

• V. Gordon, K. Mathias, and D. Whitley (1994).
  Cellular Genetic Algorithms as Function Optimizers: Locality Effects -- PDF
  Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'94), Genetic Algorithms and Combinatorial Optimization. Phoenix, Az, pp 237-241.

• V. Gordon, A. Bohm, and D. Whitley (1994).
  A Note on the Performance of Genetic Algorithms on Zero-One Knapsack Problems -- PDF
  Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'94), Genetic Algorithms and Combinatorial Optimization. Phoenix, Az, pp 194-195.

• V. Gordon and J. Bieman (1993).
  Reported Effects of Rapid Prototyping on Industrial Software Quality -- PDF
  Software Quality Journal, June 1993, pp 93-108.

• V. Gordon and D. Whitley (1993).
  Serial and Parallel Genetic Algorithms as Function Optimizers -- PDF
  Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA5). Urbana-Champaign, Il, pp 177-183.

• V. Gordon, D. Whitley, and A. Bohm (1992).
  Dataflow Parallelism in Genetic Algorithms -- PDF
  Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2). Brussels, Belgium, pp 533-542. [1 of 8 selected for oral presentation from over 100 submissions].

• V. Gordon and J. Bieman (1991).
  Rapid Prototyping and Software Quality: Lessons From Industry -- PDF
  Proceedings of the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference. Portland, Or, pp 19-29.

Book Chapters

• D. Whitley, V. Gordon, and W. Bohm (1997).
  Knapsack Problems -- PDF
  Handbook of Evolutionary Computation, c.1997 Oxford University Press, pp G9.7:1-6.