EDUCATION University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Engineering, Software Track December 2002 Master of Science in Computer Engineering, Software Track May 2001 Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Cumme Laude May 1999 Valencia Community College Orlando, Florida Associate in Arts, Honors May 1996 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION Application of Intelligent Methods For Improved Testing and Evaluation of Military Simulation Software - Developed a framework and software tools to support system-level testing, test automation, and analysis of test data. The framework and tools were demonstrated by performing system-level testing of the OneSAF Testbed Baseline (OTB) simulation system provided by the U.S. Army STRICOM. This research was funded by NAWCTSD Contract N61339-01-D-002. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN 4/03 to present Research Associate, under the supervision of Dr. T.E. Potok Research and development of agent technologies and evolutionary algorithms as they apply to information processing and fusion University of Central Florida Orlando, FL 8/99 to 5/00, 8/00 to 12/02 Research Assistant, under the supervision of Dr. G.H. Walton - From 8/00 - 12/02, Developed and tested software testing tools for the U.S. Army STRICOM in Orlando, FL. These tools were developed in Java and were used to support test planning, automated execution of test cases, automated scenario generation, statistical analysis of test results, and visualization of test results of the OneSAF Testbed Baseline (OTB) simulation system provided by the U.S. Army STRICOM. From 8/99 - 5/00, Managed, developed, and tested a software testing tool based on a client / server architecture for the U.S. Army Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. The client application was developed using Visual C++ (MFC) on Windows NT, while the server application was developed using C running on Solaris. This tool was developed to support statistical usage testing at Picatinny Arsenal. PUBLICATIONS P. Palathingal, T. E. Potok, and R.M. Patton, "Agent Based Approach for Searching, Mining, and Managing Enormous Amounts of Spatial Image Data," Proc. of the 18th International FLAIRS Conference, May 2005. J.W. Reed, T.E. Potok, and R.M. Patton, "A Multi-Agent System for Distributed Cluster Analysis," Proceedings of the Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS), May 2004. R.M. Patton, and T.E. Potok, "Adaptive Sampling of Text Documents," Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent and Adaptive Systems and Software Engineering, July 2004. R.M. Patton, G.H. Walton, S.L. Weisberg, W. Sherer, and D.J. Parsons, "Environment-Model-Based Testing," accepted for publication at 2003 Software Technology Conference. R.M. Patton, A.S. Wu, and G.H. Walton, "A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Focused Software Usage Testing," accepted for publication by Kluwer as a book chapter. G.H. Walton, R.M. Patton, and D.J. Parsons, "Usage Testing of Military Simulation Systems," 2001 Winter Simulation Conference. R.M. Patton, G.H. Walton, and D.J. Parsons, "The Application of Statistical Usage Testing to Improve Validation of Simulation Systems," 2001 Interservice / Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference. R.M. Patton, and G.H. Walton, "Applying Statistical Usage Testing to Military Simulation Systems," 2001 Summer Computer Simulation Conference.