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I received my PhD in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2003. My doctoral work entailed the development of both a spatial data meta-model approach and prototype evolutionary multi-objective optimization application using real-world geographic information science (GIS) data sets and a non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm to solve a spatial multi-objective combinatorial optimization problem.
Prior to joining Laurier, I worked for 11 years as a regional planner at the Region of Peel, Ontario. While there I was part of a team that introduced GIS technology to the Official Plan creation process, drafted environmental policy and worked on many geo-computational and other land-use planning analysis projects.
I am interested in the design and development of GIS-based tools for use in understanding landscape structure and in decision-support applications for environmental land use planning. Specific fields of interest include: spatial data models and data structures; combinatorial optimization; genetic algorithms (evolutionary multi-objective optimization); applied graph, matroid and category theory; landscape ecology; and parallel and shared memory computing.
- PhD, Systems Design Engineering, September 2003. Recommended for nomination for Gold Medal (academic distinction).
- University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship 1998, 2000.
I am willing to supervise technically adept graduate students in the areas of spatial analysis, spatial data modelling and spatial decision support.
- S. A. Roberts, Nareli Cruz-Cortes and G. B. Hall, "Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization Design for Peri-urban Greenlands Systems: metric implementations". Conference Proceedings, Interdisciplinary Conference Series: Applied Mathematics, Modelling and Computer Science (AMMCS 2013), Waterloo, ON, Aug 28, 2013. - Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics (in press, 2014)
- C. Robertson and S.A. Roberts, "Bivariate spatial clustering analysis of point patterns: A Graph-based approach", Eighth International Conference on Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics, The 2013 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2013), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 24-27 June 2013, in B. Margante et al. ICCSA, Part IV, LNCS 7974, Springer-Verlag, pp. 403-418, 2013.
- S.A. Roberts, P. H. Calamai and G. B. Hall, "Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization for Landscape System Design". Journal of Geographical Systems, 13(3), pp. 299-326, 2011.
- C.M. Moulton, S.A. Roberts and P.H. Calamai, "Hierarchical Clustering of Multiobjective Optimization Results to Inform Land Use Decision Making". Urban and Regional Information Systems Journal, 21(2), pp. 25-37, 2009.
- S. A. Roberts, G. B. Hall and P. H. Calamai, "A Pre-categoric Spatial Data Meta-model", Environment and Planning B, 33(6), pp. 881-901, 2006 (Nov-Dec).
Contact Info:
Office location: Arts Building - 3C11
Office hours:
Tuesdays, 3 to 5 p.m.
Languages spoken: English