Publications

Under Preparation/Review

1. B. A. Butler, C. H. Leung, and P. E. Paré, “Collaborative Safe Formation Control for Coupled Multi-Agent Systems,” European Control Conference, 2024. (accepted)

2. B. A. Butler and P. E. Paré, "Distributed Collaborative Safety-Critical Control for Networked Dynamic Systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, (under review)

3. B. A. Butler, R. Stern, and P. E. Paré, “Analysis and Applications of Population Flows in a Networked SEIRS Epidemic Process,” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2022. (under revision)

Journals:

1. B. A. Butler and P. E. Paré, "Optimal Safety-Critical Control of Epidemics," IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 1819-1824, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2023.3280116.

2. M. DeBuse, D. Clayton, B. A. Butler, and S. Warnick, “A Toolbox for Understanding the Dynamics of Small Group Discussions,” International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2023, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-023-00360-3 

3. C. Zhang, C. H. Leung, B. A. Butler, and P. E. Paré, “Estimation and distributed eradication of SIR epidemics over networks,” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2022.

4. D. Vrabac, M. Shang, B. A. Butler, J. Pham, R. Stern, P. E. Paré, “Capturing the effects of transportation on the spread of COVID-19 with a networked SEIR Model,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 103-108, 2021.

Conference Proceedings (peer-reviewed):

1. B. A. Butler, C. Zhang, I. Walter, N. Nair, R. Stern, and P. E. Paré, “The effect of population flow on epidemic spread: Analysis and control,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2021.

2. B. A. Butler, P. E. Paré, M. K. Transtrum, and S. Warnick, “Modeling live crowd emotion dynamics for state estimation and prediction,” in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), 2021.

3. B. A. Butler, K. Pedersen, M. R. Cook, S. Wadsworth, E. Todd, D. Stark, K. L. Gee, M. K. Transtrum, S. Warnick, "Classifying crowd behavior at collegiate basketball games using acoustic data." In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Victoria, 2018.

4. K. Pedersen, M. K. Transtrum, K. L. Gee, B. A. Butler, M. M. James, and A. R. Salton, "Machine learning-based ensemble model predictions of outdoor ambient sound levels." In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Victoria, 2018.

5. B. A. Butler, K. Pedersen, C. Maekawa, K. L. Gee, M. K. Transtrum, M. M. James, and A. R. Salton. "K-Means clustering of inputs to a geospatial model for optimizing acoustic data collection." In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 176ASA, vol. 35, no. 1, p. 055008. Acoustical Society of America, 2018.