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This page contains technical reports from the Parasol lab.

This page will soon contain a more comprehensive list of publications, but in the meantime, more technical papers from the Parasol lab can be found on the pages of the Parasol faculty: Nancy Amato, Lawrence Rauchwerger, Bjarne Stroustrup, Jennifer Welch.

Parasol members: If you would like to make a tech report, please contact Roger Pearce or Sam Rodriguez for a number and submission instructions.


TECHNICAL REPORTS: 2007

Xinyu Tang, Shawna Thomas, Lydia Tapia, Nancy M. Amato, "Tools for Simulating and Analyzing RNA Folding Kinetics," Technical Report, TR07-007, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Oct 2007.
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Xinyu Tang, Shawna Thomas, Lydia Tapia, David Giedroc, Nancy M. Amato, "Simulating RNA Folding Kinetics on Approximated Energy Landscapes," Technical Report, TR07-008, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Oct 2007.
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Samuel Rodriguez, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, "A Framework for Planning Motion in Environments with Moving Obstacles," Technical Report, TR06-010, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2007.
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Samuel Rodriguez, Robert Salazar, Troy McMahon, Nancy M. Amato, "Roadmap-Based Group Behaviors: Generation and Evaluation," Technical Report, TR07-004, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2007.
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Alin Jula, Lawrence Rauchwerger, "How to Focus on Memory Allocation Strategies," Technical Report, TR07-003, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112, Jun 2007.
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Lydia Tapia, Xinyu Tang, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato, "Kinetics Analysis Methods For Approximate Folding Landscapes," Technical Report, TR07-002, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Feb 2007.
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Xinyu Tang, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato, "Efficient Planning of Spatially Constrained Robots Using Reachable Distances," Technical Report, TR07-001, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Jan 2007.
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TECHNICAL REPORTS: 2006

Silvius Rus, Marinus Pennings, Lawrence Rauchwerger, "Sensitivity Analysis for Migrating Programs to Multi-Cores," Technical Report, TR06-015, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Dec 2006.
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Lydia Tapia, Xinyu Tang, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato, "Roadmap-Based Methods for Studying Protein Folding Kinetics," Technical Report, TR06-011, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Oct 2006.
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Roger Pearce, Bryan Boyd, Xinyu Tang, Darla Haigler, Akhil Patel, Nancy M. Amato, "Supporting Path Planning Queries Incorporating Multiple Modes of Transportation using Layered Roadmaps," Technical Report, TR06-014, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Oct 2006.


Xinyu Tang, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato, "Planning with Reachable Distances: Fast Enforcement of Closure Constraints," Technical Report, TR06-008, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2006.
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Shawna Thomas, Marco Morales, Nancy M. Amato, "Biasing Samplers to Improve Performance," Technical Report, TR06-009, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2006.
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Marco Morales, Roger Pearce, Nancy Amato, "Analysis of the Evolution of C-Space Models built through Incremental Exploration," Technical Report, TR06-013, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, U.S.A., Sep 2006.
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Silvius Rus, Guobin He, Lawrence Rauchwerger, "Region Array SSA," Technical Report, TR06-007, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, May 2006.
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Silvius Rus, Lawrence Rauchwerger, "Compiler Technology for Migrating Sequential Code to Multi-threaded Architectures," Technical Report, TR06-006, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Apr 2006.
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Samuel Rodriguez, Shawna Thomas, Roger Pearce, Nancy M. Amato, "RESAMPL: A Region-Sensitive Adaptive Motion Planner," Technical Report, TR06-004, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Mar 2006.
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Dawen Xie, Marco A. Morales A., Roger Pearce, Shawna Thomas, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, "Incremental Map Generation (IMG)," Technical Report, TR06-005, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Mar 2006.
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Alin Jula, Lawrence Rauchwerger, "Defero - a Semantic Driven Memory Allocator," Technical Report, TR06-001, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Parasol Lab, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112, Jan 2006.
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Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, "Approximate Convex Decomposition of Polyhedra," Technical Report, TR06-002, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Jan 2006.
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TECHNICAL REPORTS: 2005

Jyh-Ming Lien, John Keyser, Nancy M. Amato, "Simultaneous Shape Decomposition and Skeletonization," Technical Report, TR05-015, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Dec 2005.
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Silvius Rus, Lawrence Rauchwerger, "Hybrid Dependence Analysis for Automatic Parallelization," Technical Report, TR05-013, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Nov 2005.
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Mark M. Mathis, Darren J. Kerbyson, "Dynamic Performance Modeling of an Adaptive Mesh Application," Technical Report, LA-UR-05-8672, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Nov 2005.
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Samuel Rodriguez, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, "Planning Motion in Completely Deformable Environments," Technical Report, TR05-010, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2005.
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Aimée Vargas E., Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, "VIZMO++: a Visualization, Authoring, and Educational Tool for Motion Planning," Technical Report, TR05-014, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2005.
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Aimée Vargas, Jyh-Ming Lien, Marco A. Morales A., Samuel Rodriguez, Nancy M. Amato, "User-Guided Path Planning," Technical Report, TR05-011, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2005.
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Jyh-Ming Lien, Samuel Rodriguez, Xinyu Tang, John Maffei, Arnaud Masciotra, "Composable Group Behaviors," Technical Report, TR05-006, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2005.
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Dawen Xie, Shawna L. Thomas, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, "Incremental Map Generation (IMG)," Technical Report, TR05-007, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2005.
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Shawna Thomas, Xinyu Tang, Lydia Tapia, Nancy M. Amato, "Simulating Protein Motions with Rigidity Analysis," Technical Report, TR05-008, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2005.
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Samuel Rodriguez, Xinyu Tang, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, "An Obstacle-Based Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree," Technical Report, TR05-009, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2005.
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Marco A. Morales A., Roger Pearce, Aimée Vargas E., Nancy M. Amato, "Metrics for Comparing C-space Roadmaps," Technical Report, TR05-012, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, U.S.A., Sep 2005.
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TECHNICAL REPORTS: 2004

Jyh-Ming Lien, Samuel Rodriguez, Jean-Philippe Malric, Nancy M. Amato, "Shepherding Behaviors with Multiple Shepherds," Technical Report, TR04-003, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Sep 2004.
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Marco A. Morales A., Lydia Tapia, Roger Pearce, Samuel Rodriguez, Nancy M. Amato, "C-Space Subdivision and Integration in Feature-Sensitive Motion Planning," Technical Report, TR04-004, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, U.S.A., Sep 2004.
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Hao Yu, Dongmin Zhang, Francis Dang, Lawrence Rauchwerger, "An Adaptive Algorithm Selection Framework," Technical Report, TR04-002, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Mar 2004.
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Marco Morales, Lydia Tapia, Roger Pearce, Samuel Rodriguez, Nancy M. Amato, "A Machine Learning Approach for Feature-Sensitive Motion Planning," Technical Report, TR04-001, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, U.S.A., Feb 2004.
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TECHNICAL REPORTS: 2003

Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, "Approximate Convex Decomposition of Polygons," Technical Report, TR03-008, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Dec 2003. Also, Technical Report, TR03-008, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Texas, Jun 2003.
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Jyh-Ming Lien, O. Burchan Bayazit, Ross T. Sowell, Samuel Rodriguez, Nancy M. Amato, "Shepherding Behaviors," Technical Report, TR03-006, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Nov 2003.
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Dawen Xie, Nancy M. Amato, "A Kinematics-Based Probabilistic Roadmap Method for High DOF Closed Chain Systems," Technical Report, TR03-007, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Nov 2003.
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Ross T. Sowell, O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, "Better Shepherding Behaviors Using Improved Shepherd Locomotion," Technical Report, TR03-009, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Aug 2003.
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Mary E. Brooks, "Algorithms for Filling Obstacle Pockets with Hexagonal Metamorphic Robots," Technical Report, TR03-002, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Aug 2003.
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Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, "Approximate Convex Decomposition," Technical Report, TR03-001, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Jan 2003.
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TECHNICAL REPORTS: 2002

O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, "Roadmap-Based Flocking for Complex Environments," Technical Report, TR02-003, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Apr 2002.
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Silvius Rus, Lawrence Rauchwerger, Jay Hoeflinger, "Hybrid Analysis: Static & Dynamic Memory Reference Analysis," Technical Report, TR02-002, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Jan 2002.
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Francis Dang, Hao Yu, Lawrence Rauchwerger, "The R-LRPD Test: Speculative Parallelization of Partially Parallel Loops," Technical Report, TR02-001, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Jan 2002.
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TECHNICAL REPORTS: 2001

Steven Saunders, Nathan Thomas, Nancy Amato, Lawrence Rauchwerger, "Adaptive Parallel Sorting in the STAPL library," Technical Report, TR01-005, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Nov 2001.
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O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, "Probabilistic Roadmap Motion Planning for Deformable Objects," Technical Report, TR01-003, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Oct 2001.
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Jinsuck Kim, Roger A. Pearce, Nancy M. Amato, "Multiple Robot Navigation and Localization Using Sonar Sensors in an Indoor Environment," Technical Report, TR01-004, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Oct 2001.
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Nancy M. Amato, Guang Song, "Using Motion Planning to Map Protein Folding Landscapes and Analyze Folding Kinetics of Known Native Structures," Technical Report, TR01-001, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Oct 2001.
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Jyh-Ming Lien, Marco Morales, Nancy M. Amato, "Neuron PRM: A Framework for Constructing Cortical Networks," Technical Report, TR01-002, Parasol Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Oct 2001.
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Silvius Rus, Lawrence Rauchwerger, J Hoeflinger, "Run-time Assisted Interprocedural Analysis of Memory Access Patterns," Technical Report, TR01-001, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2001.
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Guang Song, Nancy M. Amato, "Randomized Motion Planning for Car-like Robots with C-PRM," Technical Report, TR01-002, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, Mar 2001.
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