Research Projects (Partial List)

• The Institute for Global Electronic Commerce, drawing upon expertise and input from the corporate and university communities, is designed to promote the electronic transmission of commercial transactions through the connection of companies and universities and through the creation of new entities. It is of necessity multidisciplinary and represents the leading-edge thinkers and performers in the paperless world of commerce. The scope of the Institute is to foster a multidisciplinary educational and research program that covers such areas as Computer and Information Sciences and Technology, Law, and Business.

• Development of a NASA Regional Validation Center in conjunction with the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission (HMDC).

• Development of a Water Quality Monitoring system with the Environmental Center at HMDC

• Development of a Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) system for CRAMTD (Combat Ration Advanced Manufacturing Technology Demonstration), sponsored by Rutgers CAFT and the Defense Logistics Agency. CIM supports several key manufacturing and management functions of small to medium businesses in manufacturing packaged food products for civilian and military customers.

• Development of the following projects, together with its affiliated institution St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Paterson, NJ (SJHMC), (the largest hospital in New Jersey): "Design and development of a Database System for Breast Cancer Patient Data,'' "Introduction of Networking Applications'', "Application of Neural Network Technology in Breast Cancer Research,'' and "Building an Integrated Clinical Information System.''

• Development of a Geodata Modeling System that aims to integrate the two existing systems of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), the Open Geodata Interoperability Specification (OGIS) and Computational Modeling Systems (CMS)

• Development of a Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), in collaboration with the Law Library of Congress, NASA Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences(CESDIS). Additional details and sample applications are available.

• The GIS Integration Project, is generated "on the fly" from information stored in a GIS and a relational database. Pre-Generated images may be viewed right away or new customized images can be generated from GIS.

• Virtual Patient Record Demonstration Site, this site presents a demonstration of the Virtual Patient Record - An integrated view of medical information.

• A Multi-layered Clinical Decision Support System, principally investigated by Vijay Atluri, is Sponsored by FOM, Rutgers University, 1997-1998. The focus of this project is to design and develop a Clinical Decision Support System that facilitates patient-oriented, time-oriented, event-oriented, and problem-oriented, type of analysis that help to conduct research studies or trend analysis.

• A Petri Net Based Approach to Enforcing Mandatory and Discretionary Security in Workflow Management Systems, Principally Investigated by Vijay Atluri is Sponsored by National Security Agency, 1996-1997. This project investigates how multilevel security and discretionary security can be incorporated into workflow management systems. This project also investigates how Petri Nets can be used to model and analyze workflows.

• Supporting Workflow, Long Duration and Nested Transaction Models in a Multilevel Secure Database Environment, Principally Investigated by Vijay Atluri, is sponsored by National Science Foundation, 1996-2000. The focus of this project is to develop models, techniques and algorithms for incorporating multilevel security into advanced application domains such as office information systems, CAD/CAM, software development and publication environment.