Alan Sprague
Associate Professor
Homepage: http://www.cis.uab.edu/sprague/spragu...
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ohio State University, 1988
Ph.D. Mathematics, Ohio State University, 1973
Research Interests
Data Mining - Application to hospital infection control surveillance. A powerful motivator here is the increasing resistance by bacteria to antibiotics.
Theory which is inspired by applications- The work here so far has centered on algorithms for finding frequent sets.
Graph Algorithms (plus also other discrete algorithms)- Algorithms for special classes of graphs. The emphasis here is on efficiency. Often, this involves exploring the "border" between polynomial time problems and NP-complete problems.
- Disjoint paths in graphs.
Contact Information
E-Mail: sprague (at) cis.uab.edu Mailing and Other:
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