Associate Professor
Juan E. Vargas

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CONTACT INFORMATION

vargasje@engr.sc.edu
Phone: (803) 777-5099

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Professor Vargas is interested in applied artificial intelligence, reasoning
under uncertainty, biomedical engineering, object-oriented methods, and developing
computer applications in Windows.

Current or recent projects include:

  • Rule-based schedulers developed for the world's largest appliance manufacturer.
  • Research into case-based schedulers to improve maintenance of rule-base scheduling systems.
  • Bayesian Networks: Graph-based Bayesian models describing conditional dependencies among
    parameters stored in large databases. Uses include prediction of defects in a superconductor
    manufacturing environment.
  • Estimation of facial features using Bayesian Networks.
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    BIOGRAPHY

    J. E. Vargas received a Ph.D. in electrical and biomedical engineering from Vanderbilt
    University in 1988 and joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina in the same year.
    Prior to this, he spent eight years as Head of Computer Services for Research for the largest
    institution for medical research in Latin America. During the same period he served as an
    advisor to the Secretary of Health and the National Council of Technology of the Mexican
    Government.
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    PUBLICATIONS

    Expert system scheduling
    Expert systems with applications
    vol. 5, pp. 79--85, 1992.
    by Dr. J. E. Vargas, R. Pishori, R. Natu and C. J. Kee

    Detecting device failures through scale-driven object matching
    accepted for publication: Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, 1992.
    by Dr. J. E. Vargas and J. R. Bourne

    Detecting Device Failures through Scale-Driven Object Matching
    Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence,
    Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 165-171, 1993
    by Dr. J. E. Vargas, and J. R. Bourne

    Scale-guided object matching for case-based reasoning
    Journal of Intelligent and Robotics Systems
    vol. 7, 1993, pp. 15--30.
    by Dr. J. E. Vargas and J. R. Bourne

    Developing Maintainable Expert Systems Using Case-Based
    Expert Systems 1993
    Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 219-226
    by Dr. J. E. Vargas and S. Raj

    Improving the Scope of Intelligent Tutoring by Adapting a Case-Based Methodology
    Applied Artificial Intelligence
    8:413 - 424, 1994
    by Dr. J. E. Vargas and J. C. Kee

    Building a Case-Based Reasoner for Quality Assessment from a Bayesian Belief Network of a Manufacturing Process
    Proc. of the Second World Congress of Expert Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, January 1994
    by Dr. J. E. Vargas, R. Natu. V. Marur, and A. Vadlamani
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    COURSE INFORMATION

    Spring 1997 Courses

    EECE 352 | EECE 517

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