Papers

Here is a list of selected publications.  These span computer music and art, human computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and computer science education.  They are arranged chronologically.

(Also, see thematic lists in ACM Digital Library, and in Google Scholar.  List below is more complete, with PDF preprints.)

B. Manaris, and A. Forgette, “Meta-Xenakis: Developing Style-Agnostic, Stochastic Algorithmic Music“, Proceedings of the 49th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2023), Shenzhen, China, Oct. 2023.

A. Forgette, B. Manaris, M. Gillikin, and S. Ramdsen, “Speakers, More Speakers!!! – Developing Interactive, Distributed, Smartphone-Based, Immersive Experiences for Music and Art“, Proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2022), Barcelona, Spain, Jun. 2022.

K. Stewart, B. Manaris, and T. Kohn, “K-Multiscope: Combining Multiple Kinect Sensors into a Common 3D Coordinate System“, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO 2019), Tempe, AZ, Oct. 2019.

W. Bares, B. Manaris, R. McCauley, C. Moore, “Achieving Gender Balance through Creative Expression“, Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’19), Minneapolis, MN, pp. 293-299, Feb. 2019.

W. Bares, B. Manaris, R. McCauley, “Gender Equity in Computer Science through Computing in the Arts – A Six-Year Longitudinal Study“, Computer Science Education Journal 28(3), pp. 191-210, Sep. 2018.

B. Manaris, P. Brougham-Cook, D. Hughes, A.R. Brown, “JythonMusic: An Environment for Developing Interactive Music Systems“, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2018), Blacksburg, VA, Jun. 2018.

B. Manaris, B. Stevens, “Connecting Music and Computer Science: An Interdisciplinary Learning Community for First-Year University Students“, in M. Hayford and S. Kattwinkel (eds.), Performing Arts As High-Impact Practice, pp. 68–82, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2018.

C. Benson, B. Manaris, S. Stoudenmier, and T. Ward, “SoundMorpheus: A Myoelectric-Sensor Based Interface for Sound Spatialization and Shaping“, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2016), Brisbane, Australia, Jul. 2016.

B. Manaris, B. Stevens, and A.R. Brown, “JythonMusic: An Environment for Teaching Algorithmic Music Composition, Dynamic Coding, and Musical Performativity“, Journal of Music, Technology & Education 9(1), pp. 55-78, May 2016.

B. Manaris, and S. Stoudenmier, “Specter: Combining Music Information Retrieval with Sound Spatialization“, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2015), Malaga, Spain, Oct. 2015.

B. Manaris, D. Johnson, and M. Rourk, “Diving into Infinity: A Motion-Based, Immersive Interface for M.C. Escher’s Works“, Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2015), Vancouver, Canada, Aug. 2015.

B. Manaris, D. Hughes, Y. Vassilandonakis, “Monterey Mirror: an experiment in interactive music performance combining evolutionary computation and Zipf’s law“, Evolutionary Intelligence 8(1), Springer-Verlag, pp 23-35, Mar. 2015.

D. Johnson, B. Manaris, Y. Vassilandonakis, and S. Stoudenmier, “Kuatro: A Motion-Based Framework for Interactive Music Installations“, Proceedings of the 40th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2014), Athens, Greece, Sep. 2014.

D. Johnson, B. Manaris, and Y. Vassilandonakis, “Harmonic Navigator: An Innovative, Gesture-Driven User Interface for Exploring Harmonic Spaces in Musical Corpora“, 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2014), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Human-Computer Interaction, Advanced Interaction Modalities and Techniques, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 8511, Springer-Verlag, pp. 58-68, Jun. 2014.

B. Manaris and A.R. Brown, Making Music with Computers: Creative Programming in Python, Chapman & Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing, pp. 502, May 2014.

D. Johnson, B. Manaris, and Y. Vassilandonakis, “A Novelty Search and Power-Law-Based Genetic Algorithm for Exploring Harmonic Spaces in J.S. Bach Chorales“, EvoMUSART 2014 – 3rd International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design, Granada, Spain, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 8601, Springer-Verlag, pp. 95–106, Apr. 2014.

B. Manaris, R. McCauley, M. Mazzone, and W. Bares, “Computing in the Arts: A Model Curriculum“, Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’14), Atlanta, GA, pp. 451-456, Mar. 2014.

B. Manaris, D. Johnson, and Y. Vassilandonakis, “Harmonic Navigator: A Gesture-Driven, Corpus-Based Approach to Music Analysis, Composition, and Performance“, 2nd International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (MUME 2013), Proceedings of AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE’13), Boston, MA, pp. 67-74, Oct. 2013.

D. Hughes and B. Manaris, “Fractal Dimensions of Music and Automatic Playlist Generation – Similarity Search via MP3 Song Uploads“, Proceedings of 8th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIHMSP 2012), Piraeus-Athens, Greece, pp. 436-440, Jul. 2012.

B. Manaris, P. Roos, D. Krehbiel, T. Zalonis, and J.R. Armstrong, “Zipf’s Law, Power Laws and Music Aesthetics“, in T. Li, M. Ogihara, G. Tzanetakis (eds.), Music Data Mining, pp. 169-216, CRC Press – Taylor & Francis, Jul. 2011.

B. Manaris, D. Hughes, and Y. Vassilandonakis, “Monterey Mirror: Combining Markov Models, Genetic Algorithms, and Power Laws“, Proceedings of 1st Workshop in Evolutionary Music, 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2011), New Orleans, LA, USA, pp. 33-40, Jun. 2011.

B. Manaris, J.R. Armstrong, T. Zalonis, and D. Krehbiel, “Armonique: a framework for Web audio archiving, searching, and metadata extraction“, International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal, vol. 35, pp. 57-68, June 2010. Based on a presentation at the 40th Annual Conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA 2009), Athens, Greece, Sep. 2009 (video).

B. Manaris, D. Krehbiel, P. Roos, and T. Zalonis, “Armonique: Experiments in Content-Based Similarity Retrieval Using Power-Law Melodic and Timbre Metrics“, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2008), Philadelphia, PA, pp. 343-348, Sep. 2008.

C.W. Starr, B. Manaris, and R.H. Stalvey, “Bloom’s Taxonomy Revisited: Specifying Assessable Learning Objectives in Computer Science“, Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’08), Portland, OR, pp. 261-265, Feb. 2008.

P. Machado, J. Romero, and B. Manaris, “Experiments in Computational Aesthetics – An Iterative Approach to Stylistic Change in Evolutionary Art“, in The Art of Artificial Evolution, pp. 381-416, Springer-Verlag, Dec. 2007.

B. Manaris, (invited editorial) “Dropping CS Enrollments: or The Emperor’s New Clothes?“, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 6-10, Dec. 2007 (also PDF).

P. Roos and B. Manaris, “A Music Information Retrieval Approach Based on Power Laws“, Proceedings of 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-07), Patras, Greece, vol. 2, pp. 27-31, Oct. 2007.

B. Manaris, P. Roos, P. Machado, D. Krehbiel, L. Pellicoro, and J. Romero, “A Corpus-Based Hybrid Approach to Music Analysis and Composition“, Proceedings of 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), Vancouver, BC, pp. 839-845, Jul. 2007.

B. Manaris, M. Wainer, A.E. Kirkpatrick, R.H. Stalvey, C. Shannon, L. Leventhal, J. Barnes, J. Wright, J. B. Schafer, D. Sanders, “Implementations of the CC’01 Human-Computer Interaction Guidelines using Bloom’s Taxonomy“, Computer Science Education Journal 17(1), pp. 21-57, Mar. 2007.

B. Manaris and P. Machado (eds.), International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools 15(4), special issue on “Artificial Intelligence in Music and Art”, Aug. 2006.

B. Manaris, L. Pellicoro, G. Pothering, and H. Hodges, “Investigating Esperanto’s Statistical Proportions Relative to Other Languages Using Neural Networks and Zipf’s Law“, Proceedings of the 2006 IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence And Applications (AIA 2006), Innsbruck, Austria, Feb. 2006.

D. Lyle and B. Manaris, “SUITEDasher – A Multilingual Keyboard and Mouse Interface for Motor-Impaired Users“, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI 2005), Las Vegas, NV, CD-ROM, Jul. 2005.

B. Manaris, J. Romero, P. Machado, D. Krehbiel, T. Hirzel, W. Pharr, and R.B. Davis, “Zipf’s Law, Music Classification and Aesthetics“, Computer Music Journal 29(1), MIT Press, pp. 55-69, Spring 2005.

B. Manaris, P. Machado, C. McCauley, J. Romero, and D. Krehbiel, “Developing Fitness Functions for Pleasant Music: Zipf’s Law and Interactive Evolution Systems“, EvoMUSART2005 – 3rd European Workshop on Evolutionary Music and Art, Lausanne, Switzerland, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Applications of Evolutionary Computing, LNCS 3449, Springer-Verlag, pp. 498-507, Mar. 2005.

B. Manaris and R. McCauley, “Incorporating HCI into the Undergraduate Curriculum: Bloom’s Taxonomy Meets the CC’01 Curricular Guidelines“, Proceedings of 34th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2004), Savannah, GA, pp. T2H10 – T2H15, Oct. 2004.

P. Machado, J. Romero, M.L. Santos, A. Cardoso, and B. Manaris, “Adaptive Critics for Evolutionary Artists“, EvoMUSART2004 – 2nd European Workshop on Evolutionary Music and Art, Coimbra, Portugal, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Applications of Evolutionary Computing, LNCS 3005, Springer-Verlag, pp. 437-446, Apr. 2004.

B. Manaris (ed.), Computer Science Education Journal 13(3), special issue on “Human-Computer Interaction“, Sep. 2003.

P. Machado, J. Romero, B. Manaris, A. Santos, and A. Cardoso, “Power to the Critics – A Framework for the Development of Artificial Critics“, Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Creative Systems, 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2003), Acapulco, Mexico, pp. 55-64, Aug. 2003.

B. Manaris, D. Vaughan, C. Wagner, J. Romero, and R.B. Davis, “Evolutionary Music and the Zipf–Mandelbrot Law: Progress towards Developing Fitness Functions for Pleasant Music“, EvoMUSART2003 – 1st European Workshop on Evolutionary Music and Art, Essex, UK, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Applications of Evolutionary Computing, LNCS 2611, Springer-Verlag, pp. 522-534, Apr. 2003.

B. Manaris, V. MacGyvers, and M. Lagoudakis, “A Listening Keyboard for Users with Motor Impairments—A Usability Study“, International Journal of Speech Technology 5(4), pp. 371-388, Dec. 2002.

R. McCauley and B. Manaris, “Computer Science Education at the Start of the 21st Century – A Survey of Accredited Programs“, Proceedings of the 2002 Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2002), Boston, MA, pp. F2G10-F2G15, Nov. 2002.

B. Manaris, T. Purewal, and C. McCormick, “Progress Towards Recognizing and Classifying Beautiful Music with Computers – MIDI-Encoded Music and the Zipf-Mandelbrot Law“, Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2002 Conference, Columbia, SC, pp. 52-57, Apr. 2002.

B. Manaris, R. McCauley, and V. MacGyvers, “An Intelligent Interface for Keyboard and Mouse Control—Providing Full Access to PC Functionality via Speech“, Proceedings of 14th International Florida AI Research Symposium (FLAIRS ’01), Key West, FL, pp. 182-188, May 2001.

R. McCauley and B. Manaris. “Computer Science Education: An Information Resource for Curriculum Development and Program Enhancement“, Proceedings of the 30th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2000), Kansas City, MO, pp. T4A19- T4A24, Oct. 2000.

R. McCauley, U. Jackson, and B. Manaris. “Establishing an Early Foundation in Software Engineering – Framework, Experiences and Results“, Journal of Software Engineering Education88(4), pp. 403-408, Oct. 1999.

B. Manaris, V. MacGyvers, and M. Lagoudakis, “Speech Input for Mobile Computing Devices“, Proceedings of 12th International Florida AI Research Symposium (FLAIRS ’99), Orlando, FL, pp. 286-292, May 1999.

B. Manaris, “Natural Language Processing: A Human-Computer Interaction Perspective“, In Advances in Computers (Marvin V. Zelkowitz, ed.), vol. 47, pp. 1-66, Academic Press, New York, 1998.

B. Manaris and A. Harkreader, “SUITEKeys: A Speech Understanding Interface for the Motor-Control Challenged“, Proceedings of The Third International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (ASSETS ’98), Marina del Ray, pp. 108-115, Apr. 1998.

B. Manaris and B. Slator, “Interactive Natural Language Processing – Building on Success“, IEEE Computer 29(7), pp. 28-32, Jul. 1996.

B. Manaris and I. Russell, “Pedagogic Resources for Artificial Intelligence in the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum”, Florida AI Research Symposium (FLAIRS ’96), Key West, FL, pp. 468-472, May 1996.

R. McCauley, U. Jackson and B. Manaris, “Documentation Standards in the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum”, Proceedings of the 27th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’96), Philadelphia, PA, pp. 242-246, Feb. 1996.

B. Manaris, R. Glanville, and T.E. Gillis, “Developing Natural Language Interfaces through NALIGE“, Proceedings of IEEE 6th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI ’94), New Orleans, LA, pp. 260-266, Nov. 1994.

B. Manaris and C. Jones, “Internet Navigation and Resource Location: The Future is Here“, Proceedings of ASCUE Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC, pp. 128-137, Jun. 12-16, 1994.  (NOTE: This is, by far, the paper I am most proud of… and the most short-lived one in terms of relevance… It predicted the coming of the Internet era, a few months ahead…  And then, it became obsolete… 🙂 )

B. Manaris and W. Dominick, “NALIGE: A User Interface Management System for the Development of Natural Language Interfaces“, International Journal of Man–Machine Studies 38(6), pp. 891-921, Jun. 1993.

B. Manaris and J. Pritchard, “Constructing Natural Language Interface Applications to Operating Systems“, Proceedings of the 1993 ACM conference on Computer Science (CSC ’93), Indianapolis, IN, pp. 425-432, Feb. 1993.

G. Rambally and B. Manaris, “A Natural Language Interface for the VAX/VMS Operating System,” Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon Conference, Tampa, FL, pp. 511-515, Apr. 1987.

Other publications

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