Professor Information    
William Hurst, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Department of Applied Mathematics and Technology
Division of Natural and Physical Sciences
Philander Smith College
900 Daisy Bates Drive
Little Rock, AR  72202

Mabee-Kresge Science Building
Office: #110
Phone: 501-370-5334
Email: whurst@philander.edu

Bio
Curriculum Vitae
Teaching Philosophy
Research Statement
 
Education
Ph.D. Integrated Computing with an Emphasis on Computer Science, May 2011
M.S. Computer Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, June 2008
B.A. Physics, MacMurray College, May 1976

Professional Organizations
 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Knights of Columbus

Research Interests
High Performance Computing (HPC) systems, parallel processing, distributed systems, operating systems, modeling and simulations, data mining, performance analysis, telecommunications, networking

Selected Publications

W.B. Hurst, “Modeling and Simulation of HPC Systems Through Job Scheduling Analysis,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Integrated Computing With an Emphasis on Computer Science, May, 2011

C. Zhang, W.B. Hurst, R.B. Lenin, S. Ramaswamy, “Analyzing Organizational Structures Using Socal Network Analysis: A Case Study,” International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 104-127, 2011

W.B. Hurst, S. Ramaswamy, R.B. Lenin, D. Hoffman, “Modeling and Simulation of HPC Systems Through Job Scheduling Analysis,” In. Proc. of Acxiom Laboratory for Applied Research, 2010, pp. 1-8; HuRaLeHo2010_2.pdf

W.B.Hurst, S. Ramaswamy, R.B. Lenin, D. Hoffman, “Development of Generalized HPC Simulator,” Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010, Vol 5966/2010, 176-179, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11659-9_18 (Accepted in ICDCIT 2010 Conference), 2010

C. Zhang, W.B. Hurst, R.B.Lenin, N. Yuruk, S.Ramaswamy, “Analyzing Organizational Structures Using Social Network Analysis,” Advances Enterprise Engineering III, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 2009, Vol. 34, Part 3, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01915-9_11. (Accepted in EOMAS 2010 Conference); ZhHuLeRa2009.pdf, pp. 143-156, 2009

W.B.Hurst, H. Joshi, S.D.Sudarsan, R.B.Lenin, S.Ramaswamy, “UALR at TREC2008: Enterprise Track”, 2008 Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) competition; HuJoSuLeRa2008.pdf, Nov. 2008

W.B.Hurst, C. Zhang, S. Ramaswamy, R.B. Lenin, “Eclipse Bug Count Cycle Analysis,”Masters Thesis, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, June, 2008.

C. Zhang, W. B. Hurst, R. B. Lenin, S. Ramaswamy, R. B. Govindan, “Predicting Bugs in Open Source Software Systems: An in-depth, Comparative Case Study on Eclipse,” Technical Report, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Computer Science Department, Little Rock, AR, 72204, USA, 2008.









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