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  • Abhijit Deshmukh, Timothy Middelkoop, Anjaneyulu Krothapalli and Charles Smith, “Emergent Aerospace Designs Using Negotiating Autonomous Agents,” In Aerodynamic Design and Optimization of Flight Vehicles in a Concurrent Multi-Disciplinary Environment (RTO MP-35), 25-1 - 25-9, Ottawa Canada, June 2000. ISBN: 9283710401
  • Tim Middelkoop and Abhi Deshmukh, “Mobile Agents for Collaborative Design and Analysis,” In 1997 International CIRP Design Seminar, October 1997.
  • Tim Middelkoop, Naga Krothapalli, Abhi Deshmukh and Jim Solberg, “Rapid Deployment of Agents to Facilitate Collaborative Engineering,” In International CIRP Design Seminar - Multimedia and Virtual Reality Technologies for Collaborative Design and Manufacturing, 208-213, October 1997.

Technical Reports

  • Patrick Schmitz, Claire Mizumoto, Timothy Middelkoop and Daphne Siefert McCanse, “RCD Nexus Day 2023 Final Report,” Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC), November 2023. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10160680
  • Abhi Deshmukh, Tim Middelkoop and Naga Krothapalli, “Integration of Intelligent Process Management Agents and the Information Power Grid,” NASA Ames Research Center, (NCC2-1353), May 2005.
  • Timothy Middelkoop and Abhijit Deshmukh, “DARPA ANT Progress Report: Analysis of Multi-Agent Negotiations,” University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, February 2002.

Presentations

  • Timothy Middelkoop, Claire Mizumoto, Scotty Strachan, D Balamurugan, Scott Delinger, Jacob Fosso Tande, Deb McCaffrey, Ann Myatt James, David Reddy and Patrick Schmitz, “Career Phases in Research Computing and Data,” Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC '23), Portland, OR, July 2023.
  • Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Torey Battelle, Dana Brunson, Thomas Cheatham, Jacob Fosso Tande, Douglas Jennewein, Julie Ma, Lauren A. Michael, Timothy Middelkoop, Henry Neeman and Patrick Schmitz, “Professionalization of Research Computing and Data: An Expanded Agenda,” Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC '23), Portland, OR, July 2023.
  • Dana Brunson, John Hicks and Timothy Middelkoop, “Facilitating RCD Community Success,” Internet2 Technology Exchange (TechEX23), Minneapolis, MN, September 2023. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10027861
  • Timothy Middelkoop, “Facilitating RCD Community Success,” Great Plains Network (GPN) 2023 Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO, June 2023.
  • Dana Brunson, Lauren Michael, Timothy Middelkoop, Patrick Schmitz and Forough Ghahramani, “Research IT Strategic Planning,” Internet2 Community Exchange, Atlanta, GA, May 2023.
  • Timothy Middelkoop, Dana Brunson and Lauren Michael, “How Can We Advance the RCD Profession?,” Internet2 Technology Exchange, Denver, CO, December 2022. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7504841
  • Dana Brunson and Timothy Middelkoop, “The Cyberinfrastructure Landscape: Organizations,” Virtual Residency Introductory Workshop 2022, June 2022.
  • Timothy Middelkoop, “How the University of Missouri reports and utilizes Research Facing/CI-Engineering metrics,” CaRCC Researcher-Facing Call (2019-12-12), December 2019.
  • Timothy Middelkoop, “The Impact of Multi-Core Computing on Computational Optimization,” Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference 2012, Orlando, FL, May 2012.
  • Timothy Middelkoop, “Industrial Energy Efficiency,” Florida College Energy Workshop, Gainesville FL, September 2011.
  • Timothy Middelkoop, “University of Florida Industrial Assessment Center,” Capital Region Manufacturers (CRM) Renewable Energy & the Environment Roundtable Meeting, Tallahassee FL, April 2011.
  • Timothy Middelkoop, “Computational Systems Design and Implementation,” Gainesville FL, March 2010.
  • Timothy Middelkoop, Herbert Ingley and Cristián Cárdenas, “Clean Energy Optimization, Control, and Integration,” Energy, Sustainability and Climate Change 2010, (SU2.1), Gainesville FL, February 2010.
  • Timothy Middelkoop, Cristián Cárdenas-Lailhacar and Elif Akçalı, “Optimization and Control of Clean Technologies with COIN-OR,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, (MD13.1), San Diego CA, October 2009.
  • Timothy Middelkoop, “Clean Energy Optimization Control and Integration,” University of Florida ISE Graduate Seminar, Gainesville FL, October 2009.
  • Timothy Middelkoop, “The Impact of Multi-Core Computing on Global Optimization,” 11th INFORMS Computing Society Conference (ICS 2009), Charleston SC, January 2009.
  • Timothy Middelkoop, “The Impact of Multi-Core Computing on Algorithm Design and Implementation,” University of Florida ISE Graduate Seminar, Gainesville FL, November 2008.
  • Timothy Middelkoop, “A Parallel Open Software and Hardware Reference Platform for the Operations Research Community,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington DC, October 2008.
  • Timothy Middelkoop, “Large Scale Distributed Optimization,” University of Florida ISE Graduate Seminar, Gainesville FL, February 2008.
  • Timothy Middelkoop and Abhijit Deshmukh, “Bargaining for Resources in Large-scale Wireless Sensor Networks,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, (MD57.2), Seattle Washington, November 2007.
  • Timothy Middelkoop, “Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Sensor Networks: Applications, Models and Cyberinfrastructure,” Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Seminar, University of Florida, Gainesville Florida, September 2007.
  • Timothy Middelkoop, “Decision Making in Large-Scale Distributed Systems,” University of Florida Job Talk, Gainesville Florida, February 2007.
  • Timothy Middelkoop and Abhijit Deshmukh, “Coordination of Emergency Response Actions Using an Integrated Decision Framework,” 20th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments and Water, Amherst Massachusetts, October 2004.
  • Timothy Middelkoop, “Analysis of Negotiation in Distributed Decision Making Systems,” Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC) 2002, Orlando Florida, May 2002.
  • Timothy Middelkoop, “Agents and Electronic Commerce,” Digital Commerce Society of Boston, Boston Massachusetts, July 1999.
  • Timothy Middelkoop and Abhijit Deshmukh, “Agents for Electronic Commerce,” eFlorida Conference on Electronic Government, Tallahassee Florida, January 1999.

Research Funding

  • NSF, “CC* Compute: GP-ARGO: The Great Plains Augmented Regional Gateway to the Open Science Grid,” 2020-2023, $378,599, (CoPI), NSF Award #2018766.
  • NSF, “CC* Team: Great Plains Regional CyberTeam,” 2019-2022, $1,399,479, (PI), NSF Award #1925681.
  • FDACS/UF, “Self-running buildings: An autonomous system for reducing energy consumption and increasing demand flexibility of commercial buildings in hot-humid climates,” 2017-2020, $21,500, (CoPI, subcontract, 100% effort), FDACS/UF Award #UFDSP000012115.
  • NSF, “CICI: RSARC: End-to-End Performance and Security Driven Federated Data-Intensive Workflow Management,” 2018-2020, $500,000, (CoPI, 5% effort), NSF Award #1827177.
  • NSF, “MRI: Acquisition of Instrument for Data-Intensive Applications with Hybrid Cloud Computing Needs.,” 2014-2017, $600,408, (CoPI, 15% effort), NSF Award #1429294.
  • Mizzou Advantage, “Acquisition of Biocomputing nodes for Analysis of Bioinformatics and Genomics Data,” 2016, $100,000, (PI, 20% effort).
  • NIH, “Massive and Complex Data Analytics: Pre-doctoral Training in One Health,” 2016-2021, $1,427,216, (CoPI, 6% effort), NIH Award #5T32LM012410-03.
  • NSF, “CC*IIE Engineer: Exploration of Roles and Tools to Fulfill Diverse Researcher Needs in Collaborative Environments,” 2014-2016, $399,775, (CoPI, 5% effort), NSF Award #1440582.
  • Integrated Product and Process Design Program (Siemens Energy), “Permanent Vibration Monitor for Air Cooled Condenser Fans,” 2012, $16,500).
  • Integrated Product and Process Design Program (Siemens Energy), “Temperature Monitoring System for High Voltage/High Current Electrical Equipment,” 2011, $16,500).
  • New Hope Power, “Industrial Assessment Center Energy Audit Report for Florida Crystals Co-gen Facility,” 2011, $9,253, (PI).
  • Integrated Product and Process Design Program (Siemens Energy Sector), “Portable Stack Bulk Temperature Measurement Device,” 2010, $15,000).
  • Solarsa Inc., “A Web Based Integrated Modeling, Control and Optimization Framework for Clean Technologies,” 2009-2011, $220,552, (PI, 90% effort).
  • Integrated Product and Process Design Program (Siemens Energy Sector), “Optical Roughness Probe for Steam Turbines,” 2008, $15,000).
  • Integrated Product and Process Design Program (Siemens Power Generation), “Blade Monitoring System for Synchronized Real Time Image Acquisition,” 2007, $15,000).

Research Experience

  • Cyberinfrastructure Capability and Workforce Development; University of Missouri, 2019-present.

    The development of a regional Cyber Team to enhance and grow institutional infrastructure capability, encourage adoption, and to promote workforce development as a model for national growth.

  • Living Laboratory for Energy Management Research; University of Florida, 2010-present.

    The instrumentation and analysis of energy usage and occupation of a campus building to serve as a living laboratory for research on energy optimization and control.

  • A Web Based Integrated Modeling, Control and Optimization Framework for Clean Technologies; University of Florida, funded by Solarsa Inc., 2009-2011.

    Principal investigator for a multi-disciplinary team working with industrial partners to develop performance and optimization models along with an integrated monitoring and control framework for HVAC systems that utilize clean energy technologies. Research lead for the integration framework, optimization formulation and computation.

  • Context Aware Performance Models for Multi-Core Algorithms; University of Florida, 2009-present.

    Development of tools for the collection and analysis of performance data for multi-core algorithms. This work associates performance counter data with algorithm context that generated it giving detailed insight into the impact of multi-core computing on algorithm design. This work enables the creation of algorithms that scale on multi-core systems.

  • A Hardware and Software Reference Platform for the Operations Research Community; University of Florida, 2008-2010.

    Developed a self-replicating Linux distribution for the PlayStation 3 for the operations research community to be used as a reference platform for the publication of numerical results and algorithm implementations. The goal of this research is to promote the open dissemination and review of numerical implementations and provide a low-cost, next generation, instructional tool for parallel computation.

  • Continuous State Space Modeling for Real Time Performance Prediction in Manufacturing Systems; Oklahoma State University, funded by GM, 2006.

    Investigated a data-driven modeling approach based on continuous-time nonlinear dynamic systems principles for modeling assembly operations for the accurate prediction of aggregate performance.

  • Distributed Resource Allocation for Supply Chain Networks; University of Massachusetts Amherst, funded by IBM, 2005.

    Developed and analyzed multi-agent negotiation protocols for resource allocation in distributed decision making systems with applications in military and civilian supply chain management and distributed sensor networks.

  • Scientific Computational Grid Management; University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004-2006.

    Developed and managed multiple computational clusters and grid middleware for shared scientific computing for multiple research projects.

  • Design and Analysis Information Management System; University of Massachusetts Amherst, funded by NASA, 1998-2004.

    “The Design and Analysis Information Management System is a distributed decision making platform for dynamically integrating and executing engineering analysis tools that are deployed in computational and data grids.”

  • Autonomous Negotiating Teams (ANT); University of Massachusetts Amherst, funded by DARPA, 1999-2001.

    “The goal of Autonomous Negotiating Teams is to autonomously negotiate the assignment and customization of resources, such as weapons, to tasks, such as moving targets. To do this we must enable designers to build systems that operate effectively in highly decentralized environments, making maximum use of local information, providing solutions that are both good enough, and soon enough.”

  • Multi-Agent Design Architecture (MADA); Florida State University, funded by NASA, 1997-1998.

    “Integrated Design system (IDS) is an integration of broad range of high fidelity knowledge from expert sources in near real time to synthesize and refine design and product realization.”

  • Rapid Design Exploration and Optimization, Interactive Gimbal Design (RaDEO-IGD); Florida State University, funded by DARPA, 1996.

    “The IGD system will offer the user the ability to interrupt the automated design process, access a specific application product, potentially make changes to both the design variables and the design intent, capture the knowledge associated with those changes, and then continue in the design process under the control of the IGD system.”

  • Internet Traffic Analysis; Florida State University, 1994.

    An early informal work group to collect and analyze data produced by Internet browsing activity used for the development of techniques for web site process improvement.

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