Karl R. Altenburg

Department of Accounting and Information Systems

North Dakota State University

Fargo, ND 58105

(701) 231-6651

karl.altenburg@ndsu.edu

 

Research Interests

Investigations of the emergence of order in decentralized systems.  Exploring theories of the management of decentralized, autonomous, mobile information systems through agent-based computer simulations.

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting and Information Systems

North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota

August 2001-present

 

Company Commander, Headquarters Company, 136 CSS Battalion, North Dakota Army National Guard

June 2006-Present

 

Health Care Specialist, 814 Medical Detachment, North Dakota Army National Guard

February 2003-June 2006

 

Naval Officer (Lieutenant) in United States Navy

May 1989 to December 1990 (Active), January 1991 to April 2000 (Reserve)

 

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, 1999

North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota

 

Master of Science, 1995

North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota

 

Bachelor of Arts, 1989

Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota

 

United States Navy: Naval Flight Program and Aviation Officer Candidate School

 

United States Army: Basic Non-commissioned Officer Course, Trauma-AIMS – Basic Emergency Medicine (Distinguished Graduate), Primary Leadership Development Course

 

 

academic Service

·     Associated Reviewer. Electronic Markets – The International Journal. Special Issue on E-business in China. Fall 2006.

·     Chair. NDSU Computing and Information Technologies Planning & Goals (CITPG) Committee. Fall 2005-Spring 2006, Spring 2004-Spring 2005 (Member), Fall 2002 (Member).

·     Committee Member (Ex-officio).  Technology Fee Advisory Committee (TFAC).  Fall 2005-Spring 2006.

·     Chair. AIS Department Assessment Committee. Spring 2004-Present.

·     Committee Member. AIS Department Curriculum Committee. Spring 2004-Present.

·     Committee Member. NDSU Research and Consulting Committee. 2003-2006.

·     Program Committee Member. 16th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering. Las Vegas, NV.  Fall 2003.

·     Faculty Advisor. Local Area Networking Student Organization. NDSU. 2002-Present.

 

Community Service

·     Nation Board Member, Civil Air Patrol nonprofit corporation. 2000-Present.

·     Assistant Scout Master, Troop 214 Boy Scouts. 2003-Present.

·     Advancement Chair and Den Leader,  Pack 201Cub Scouts.  1999-2005.

·     President, Red River Boy Choir Board of Directors. 2000-2002

·     Chair, Friends and Advocates of Neighborhood Schools (Roosevelt Elementary Neighborhood Association). 2001

·     Parliamentarian, Roosevelt Elementary School PTA. 2000-Present.

 

Membership

Association for Information Systems (AIS), AIS SIG on Agent-based IS (SIGABIS), Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Computer Society, Reserve Officers Association, Air Force Association

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

NDSU President’s Faculty Development Grant, March 2003.

 

ND EPSCoR, Faculty Laboratory And Research Experiences (FLARE), Autonomous Agent Communication for Dynamic Organizational Development, Summer 2001.

 

Publications

Nygard KE, Altenburg K, Jingpeng T, Schesvold D, Pakalek J, Henebry M. 2006. Alternative Control Methodologies for Patrolling Assets with Unmanned Air Vehicles. In: Grundel D, Murphey R, Pardalos P, Prokopyev O (editors). Alternative Algorithms for Cooperative Systems. World Scientific Publishers. (in press)
Xu D, Borse P, Altenburg K, Nygard K. 2006. Distributed Control for Self-organizing Systems with Petri Nets.  WSEAS Transactions on Systems, 5:4 (April), 781-786.
Xu D, Borse P, Altenburg K, Nygard K. 2006. A Petri Net Simulator for Self-organizing Systems.  In: 5th WSEAS International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering, and Databases (AIKED ’06).
Lua CA, Altenburg K, Nygard KE. 2005. ANTS with Firefly Communication. The 2005 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, June 27-30, 2005, Las Vegas, NV. 90-96.
Nygard KE, Altenburg K, Jingpeng T, Schesvold D, Pakalek J. 2005. Alternative Control Methodologies for Patrolling Assets with Unmanned Air Vehicles. Fifth International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization. Gainesville, FL.
Nygard KE, Altenburg K, Jingpeng T, Schesvold D, Pakalek J. 2004. Heterogeneous swarm agents in hunter-killer teams. Presented at: 2nd Annual Swarming: Network Enabled C4ISR Conference. Arlington, VA, June 14-15, 2004.
Nygard KE, Altenburg K, Jingpeng Tang, Schesvold D. 2004. A Decentralized Swarm Approach to Asset Patrolling with Unmanned Air Vehicles. 227-239. In: Grundel D, Murphey R, Pardalos P (editors). Theory and Algorithms for Cooperative Systems. World Scientific Publishers. 604 p.
Schesvold D, Tang J, Ahmed BM, Altenburg K, Nygard KE. 2003. POMDP Planning for High Level UAV Decisions: Search vs. Strike. 16th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering. Las Vegas, NV. 145-148.
Nygard KE, Altenburg K, Schlecht J, Ahmed BM. 2003. Local Behaviors for Emergent Intelligence in UAV Mission Tactics. Poster presented at: The Second Annual Symposium on Autonomous Intelligent Networks and Systems. Melno Park, CA, June 30-July 1, 2003.
Schlecht J, Altenburg K, Ahmed BM, Nygard KE. 2003. Decentralized Search by Unmanned Air Vehicles using Local Communication. In: Arabnia HR, Joshua R, Mun Y (editors), Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2003 (Volume II). Las Vegas, NV. 757-762.
Lua CA, Altenburg K, Nygard KE. 2003. Synchronized Multi-Point Attack by Autonomous Reactive Vehicles with Simple Local Communication. In: 2003 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium Proceedings. Indianapolis, IN. 95-102.
Altenburg K, Schlecht J, Nygard KE. 2002. An Agent-based Simulation for Modeling Intelligent Munitions. In: Mastorakis NE, Kluev VV (editors), Advances in Communications and Software Technologies. WSEAS Press. 60-65.
Altenburg KR. 1999. Construction of yellowjacket wasp nests: internal models or collective reactive behavior? Ph.D. Dissertation, NDSU, Fargo, ND. 200 p.
Karsai I, Pénzes Z, Altenburg K. 1996. Working Autonomously: Searching and Piling: building compact structures by groups of robots. In: Drougal A (editor). 1996 International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems Workshop: Animal Societies as an Alternative Metaphorical Basis for Distributed Artificial Intelligence. 21-28.
Altenburg KR. 1995. COCOBOTS: Robots, Ants, and Randomness. MS Thesis, NDSU, Fargo, ND. 238 p.
Altenburg KR,  Pavicic M. 1993. Initial results of the use of inter-robot communication for a multiple, mobile robotics system. p 95-100. In: IJCAI 1993 Workshop on Dynamically Interacting Robots.