Thomas Reichherzer
Assistant Professor
Education
Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, 2009.
M.S., Computer Science, University of West Florida, 1996
Informatic, Diplom, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany 1996
Contact
Phone: (850) 474-2612
Office Location: Bldg 4, Room 225
Email: treichherzer@uwf.edu
Research Interests
I am interested in artificial intelligence and cognitive science methods and their applications to build a wide range of decision support systems and tools. I am also interested in systems and networks and related security issues. My broad research interests include machine learning, natural-language processing, information retrieval, knowledge representation, human computer interaction, and, more recently, sensor networks and simulation of networks.
Current and Previous Projects
Wearable Devices Security: In this project, hardware and software security aspects of different kinds of wearable devices and their communication protocols will be studied. Various attack vectors and different kind of attacks will be investigated. Specifically, attacks on the integrity, confidentiality and the privacy of the data will be examined. Finally, solutions and patches for security against the attack vectors and vulnerabilities will be proposed. The project is ongoing.
Smart Home Technology: This project aims to build smart home systems consisting of sensor networks and smart software systems integrated into homes to monitor human activities in the home for the purpose of improving the safety and the quality of life of all people living in the home by suggesting corrective actions or advising people at the appropriate time. Several methods have been developed to capture and analyze sensor data for recognizing human activities and to monitor individuals and suggest corrective actions in situation where activities may cause harm. Different methods of human-machine interaction are being investigated and applied to provide just-in-time support. A prototype sensor network is currently being deployed into a home for experimentation and an evaluation of the entire system by end users will be conducted next. The project is ongoing.
Knowledge Modeling in Health Care: This project aims to build a knowledge model on health care provider knowledge to promote a better understanding of provider information and collaboration among stake holders. It also pursues capturing semantic information on health care data models to support software development & maintenance activities. In collaboration with domain experts an initial knowledge model was built using concept mapping and published for collaboration with users of provider information within the organization. Furthermore, semantic information of a complex health care data model was captured via concept mapping and used in subsequent case studies to examine how semantic information can facilitate software development and foster greater understanding of a domain. Work on the project has ended.
Links to Projects
https://smarthome.cs.uwf.edu/
Selected Publications
Coffey, J. W., Baskin, A., Reichherzer, T., Wilde, N. (2016). A Semi-Automated Approach to the Recovery of SOA System Structure From Low-Level Artifacts. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 26(1), January. (to appear)
Gray, J., Reichherzer, T., Sutton, A. M., Touma, J., Bennett, W. (2015). An Automated Approach to the Initialization of the Snakes Algorithm for the Detection of Swimbladder Regions in X-ray Image Data. Proceedings of the 28th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS), May 18-20, Hollywood, FL, pp. 111-114.
Lorenzetti, C., Maguitman, A., Leake, D., Menczer, F., and Reichherzer, T. (2015). Mining for Topics to Suggest Knowledge Model Extensions. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data. (in press)
Soles, L. R., Reichherzer, T., Snider, D. (2015). Creating a Cost Effective Air to Ground Network Simulation Environment. Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Southeast Conference, April 9-12, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Reichherzer, T., Coffey, J., Gonen, B., and Gillett, I. (2015). Knowledge Modeling in the Health Care Domain to Support Software Development & Maintenance. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD 2015), Angers, France, pp. 470-476.
Reichherzer, T., Coffey, J., Gonen, B., Gillett, I. (2015). Knowledge Modeling in the Health Care Domain: Capturing Semantics to Bridge the Gap between Complex Data Models and Object Models, In Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer Verlag. (in press)
Leake, D., Maguitman, A., Reichherzer, T. (2014). Experienced-Based Support for Human-Centered Knowledge Modeling. Knowledge-Based Systems. Vol. 68, pp. 77-87.
Terry, C., Castellano A., Harrod, J., Luke, J., and Reichherzer, T. (2014). The UWF Cyber Battle Lab: A Hands-on Computer Lab for Teaching and Research in Cyber Security. Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM '14), Las Vegas, pp. 11-16. ISBN 1-60132-285-2.
Coffey, J. W., Snider, D., Reichherzer, T., and Wilde, N. (2014). Concept Mapping for the Efficient Generation and Communication of Security Assurance Cases. Proceedings of IMCIC'14, Orlando, FL. March 4-7, 2014, pp. 173-177. ISBN-978-1-936338-97-9.
Snider, D., Coffey, J., Reichherzer, T., Wilde, N., Terry, C., Vandeville, J., Heinen, A., and Pramanik, S. (2014). Using Concept Maps to Introduce Software Security Assurance Cases. CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering. Vol. 27, no. 5.