Nabil R. Adam
180 University
Avenue
Newark, New
Jersey 07102
adam@adam.rutgers.edu
(973) 353-5239/1014, Fax: (973) 353-5808
http://cimic.rutgers.edu/
Education
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Ph.D.,
Engineering - Columbia University
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M.Phil.,
Engineering - Columbia University
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M.S.,
Engineering - Columbia University
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B.S.,
Engineering - Cairo University
Academic Experience
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Rutgers
University 1975 - present.
(1991-present)
Professor of Computer & Information Systems
(1992-1996)
Chair of the MS/CIS Department
(1996-present)
Director of the Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity
(CIMIC)
(1998-present) Director of the
Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute (MERI)
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Columbia
University, 9/96 - 1/97. Visiting Scholar at the Computer Science Department.
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Technical
University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 3/84 - 7/84.
Visiting Professor at the Industrial
Engineering Department
Editorial Appointments and
Election
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Editor,
Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal, Springer Verlag,
1998-present
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Co-founder
and chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Digital
Libraries, 1997-present
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Member
of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Electronic Commerce, 1996-present.
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Co-founder
and Co-editor-in-chief, the International Journal of Digital Libraries,
Springer Verlag, 1995-present.
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Member
of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management Information Systems,
1982-present.
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Selected
as a distinguished speaker (on Digital Libraries/Electronic Commerce) in the
IEEE Computer Society's Distinguished Visitors Program (DVP), 1997-2000.
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General
co-chair of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Advances in Digital
Libraries (IEEE ADL'99), May 1999.
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Co-Chair,
Advisory Board of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society,
Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB '98).
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Member
of the Program Committee of the First International Conference on Information
and Computational Economies 1998.
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Member
of the Program Committee of the Third International Conference on Cooperative
Information Systems (CoopIS'98).
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Member
of the Program Committee on Data Engineering and Information Super Highways,
the IEEE 14th International Conference on Data Engineering, 1998
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Member
of the Program Committee of Eighth International Workshop on Research Issues in
Data Engineering: Continuous-Media Databases and Applications (RIDE'98), February 1998.
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General
chair of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Advances in Digital
Libraries (IEEE ADL'97), May 1997.
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Member
of the Program Committee of the International Symposium on Research,
Development & Practice in Digital
Libraries: ISDL'97, Japan.
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Co-Chair
Working Group on Electronic Commerce/Digital Libraries, part of the Workshop on
Strategic Directions in Computing Research, MIT, June 1996
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Program
chair of the 1996 Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital
Libraries (ADL'96), May 1996.
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Member
of the Program Committee on Data Engineering and Information Super Highways,
the IEEE 12th International Conference on Data Engineering, 1996
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Member
of the Program Committee on Multimedia: Full-Service Impact on Business,
Education, and Home, SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering,
October 23-24, 1995.
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Program
co-chair of the 1995 Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital
Libraries (ADL'95), May 1995.
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Program-Chair
of the Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management,
November 1994.
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Program
co-chair of the 1994 Workshop on Digital Libraries: Current Issues, May 1994.
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Program
Committee Member of the Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing in the
Process Industries, May 1994.
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Vice-Chair
of the Second International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management,
1993.
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Program
Committee Member of the International Conference on ER Approach, 1993.
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Member
of the Program Committee on Object-Oriented Systems, the IEEE Ninth
International Conference on Data Engineering, 1993.
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Editor,
Journal of Productivity Analysis, 1987-1992
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Conference
Committee Member of the 12th Annual International Conference on Information
Systems, 1991.
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Program
Committee Member of the International Conference on Databases, Parallel
Architectures, and their Applications, 1990.
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Elected
as Vice Chairman for the National Special Interest Group on Simulation of the
ACM, 1981-1983.
Awards
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Listed
in Who's Who in America in Science and Engineering, 1996
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Horace
DePodwin Research Award: 1992
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Out-of-cycle:
1987, 1995 Merit: 1981, 1989, 1990, and 1991, 1994.
Recent Initiatives
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Co-founder
of the Regional Drinking Water Safety and Security Consortium (RDWSSC),
Consortium members: Rutgers CIMIC, USEPA, USGS, Passaic Valley Water
Commission, American Water Works Company, The North Jersey District Water Supply
Commission, and NJDEP.
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Co-founder
and Director of the Rutgers CIMIC Laboratory for Water Security.
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Co-founder
and Director of the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute (MERI),
Rutgers University and the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission.
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Co-founder
and co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Digital Libraries
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Founder
and director of the Rutgers Graduate Certificate Program in Electronic
Commerce.
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Co-founder
and chair of the IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Digital Libraries
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Co-founder
and program co-chair of the Forum on Research and Technology Advances in
Digital Libraries (ADL).
·
Founder
and Director of the Center for Information Management, Integration and
Connectivity (CIMIC), Rutgers University.
·
Helped
establish a Science Summer Camp to provide training to teachers and education
for inner-city youths (elementary through high school levels) as part of the
Rutgers CIMIC and MERI’s service to the local community, 1996-present
Research Fellowships and
Grants
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PI,
“Secure Agency Interoperation for Effective Data Mining in Border Control and
Homeland Security Applications,” National Science Foundation, $1,050,000,
2003–2006.
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Co-Principal
Investigator, “Spatially Integrated Coastal Permitting System,” National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
$87,750, 2002 – 2003.
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Principal
Investigator, “Workshop on Advanced Technologies in Real-Time Monitoring and
Modeling for Drinking Water Safety and security”, The US Environmental
Protection Agency (USEPA) ($75,000), 2002-2003.
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Principal
Investigator, “The Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute”, The New
Jersey meadowlands Commission (NJMC) ($8,000,000), 2002-2007.
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Principal
Investigator, "E-Government: Human-Centered Systems for Business
Services," National Science Foundation, ($915,271), 2000-2004.
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Principal
Investigator, "Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute,"
Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission, ($3,000,000), 1998-2002.
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Principal
Investigator, "NASA Regional Validation Center," Hackensack
Meadowlands Development Commission, ($600,000), 1997-2001.
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Co-Principal
Investigator, “Exploratory Research on Reconfigurable and Scalable Enterprise
Planning Systems,” National Science Foundation, $111,977, July 2000 - June
2001.
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Co-Principal
Investigator, "Trader In Distributed Computing Environment,"
Sponsored by National Security Agency, ($50,000), 1998.
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Principal
Investigator, "Comparative study of Commercial- Off- The - Shelf client
query tools to support the CCS Data Warehouse," Sponsored by the The NASA
Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences, ($33,249),
1998-1999.
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Principal
Investigator, "Beyond Traditional Data Warehousing for EOSDIS,"
Sponsored by the The NASA Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information
Sciences, ($16,625), 1998.
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Co-Principal
Investigator, "Quality Data Management System," Sponsored by the
Defense Logistics Agency/DoD, ($347,450), 1996-1998.
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Principal
Investigator, "Information Extraction Applications for GLIN,"
Sponsored by Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences,
($30,027), 1996-1997.
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Co-Principal
Investigator, "Vendor Evaluation System," Sponsored by the Defense
Logistics Agency/DoD, ($130,000), 1995-1996.
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Principal
Investigator, "Geodata Modeling and Query in Geographic Information
Systems," Sponsored by The NASA Center of Excellence in Space Data and
Information Sciences, ($55,582), 1995-1996.
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Principal
Investigator, "Evaluation of Database Technologies for Information
Networking Applications," Sponsored by Bellcore, ($50,000), 1995.
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Principal
Investigator, "EDI/CIM Model and Demonstration," Sponsored by the
Defense Logistics Agency, ($283,340), 1994-1995.
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Principal
Investigator, "Computer Proficiency Assessment for Effective MIS
Undergraduate Education," Sponsored by the Rutgers Dialogues Grants, ($
6,100), 1994-1995.
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Co-Principal
Investigator, "Implementation of Integrated Manufacturing - Phase II of
the CRAMTD (Combat Rations Advanced Manufacturing Technology Demonstration)
program," Sponsored by the Defense Logistics Agency, ($800,000),
1992-1995.
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Co-Principal
Investigator, "The CIM-System Informational Architecture and Database
Design," Sponsored by the Defense Logistics Agency, ($459,000), 1990-1992.
·
The
GSM Research Resources Committee: received fellowship in Fall 1982, Spring
1986. Also received several grants during the period 1981-1992.
·
The
Rutgers University Research Council: received a research grant for the period
June 1987-May 1988.
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Rutgers
Local Allocation Committee for Supercomputer Time: received a computer time
grant during 1986 through 1991.
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The
Beverly Johnson Research Funds: received a research grant ($10,000) for the
period 1988/89 (with J. Surkis).
Publications
1. Edited Special Issues
of Refereed Journals/Proceedings
·
N.
Adam, Y. Yesha (Editors), Special Section on Digital Libraries, IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge
and Data Engineering, August
1996.
·
N.
Adam, M. Halem, and Y. Yesha (Editors), Proceedings of the 1996 Forum on
Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries (ADL'96), Computer
Society Press, May 1996.
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N.
Adam, B. Bhargava, and Y. Yesha (Editors), Proceedings of the Third
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, ACM
Press, November 1994.
·
N.
Adam (Editor), a special issue on Database Management Systems, of Journal of
Management Information Systems, Sept. 1987.
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Co-editor
of a special issue on Simulation, of Operations Research, Nov.-Dec.,
1983.
·
N.
Adam (Editor), a special issue on Simulation, of Communications of the ACM,
Apr. 1981.
2. Books
·
N.
R. Adam, O. Dogramaci, A. Gangopadhyay and Y. Yesha, Electronic
Commerce: Technical, Business, and
Legal Issues, Prentice-Hall, July 1998.
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N.
R. Adam and A. Gangopadhyay, Database Issues in Geographic Information
Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, June 1997
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N.
R. Adam, B. Bhargava, M. Halem, and Y. Yesha (Editors), Digital Libraries
Research and Technology Advances Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Springer-Verlag, October 1996.
·
N.
Adam and Y. Yesha (Editors), Electronic Commerce: Current Research Issues
and Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag,
January 1996.
·
N.
Adam, B. Bhargava, and Y. Yesha (Editors), Digital Libraries: Current
Issues, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, May 1995.
·
N.
Adam and B. Bhargava (Editors), Advanced Database Systems, Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, December 1993.
·
A.
Dogramaci and N. Adam (Editors), Managerial Issues in Productivity Analysis,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, June 1985
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N.
Adam and A. Dogramaci (Editors), Productivity Analysis at the Organizational
Level, Martinus Nijhoff Publishing, 1981.
·
A.
Dogramaci and N. Adam (Editors), Aggregate and Industry Level Productivity
Analysis, Martinus Nijhoff Publishing, 1981.
·
N.
Adam and A. Dogramaci (Editors), Current Issues in Computer Simulation,
Academic Press, Inc., 1979
3. Refereed Papers
·
E.
Ferrari, N.R. Adam, V. Atluri, E. Bertino and, U. Capuozzo, "An
Authorization Model for Digital Libraries'', The VLDB Journal, Vol. 11,
issue 1, 2002
·
R.
Holowczak, N. Adam, A. Artigas, and I. Bora, "Data Warehousing for
Environmental Digital Libraries," Communications of the ACM,
June 2002
·
N.
Adam, V. Atluri, Y. Yesha and S. Yu, "Efficient Storage and Management of
Environmental Information”, Proceedings of the Tenth NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies in
cooperation with the Nineteenth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems,
April 2002.
Study
on the Indexing of Satellite Images at NASA Regional Application
Center,''
a special track on "Image-Based Geospatial Databases" at
QPMIDS'200, September 2001.
Communications of the ACM, June 2000.
·
N.
Adam, A. Gangopadhyay, "Content-based Image Retrieval in Digital
Libraries", ACM Journal of Multimedia Systems, To Appear.
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N.
Adam and Y. Yesha, "Electronic Commerce: Tutorial", Proceedings of
the ACM SIGMOD'98 Conference, June 1998.
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N.
Adam, V. Atluri, and W. Huang, "Modeling and Analysis of Workflows Using
Petri Nets", Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Vol. 10, No.
2, 1998.
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N.
Adam and R. Holowczak, "Concept Based Query of Digital Library
Objects", Proceedings of the IEEE Information Technology Applications
in Biomedicine Conference, May 1998
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N.
Adam, I. Adiwijaya, V. Atluri and Y. Yesha, "EDI As A Distributed
Information System", Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference
on System Sciences, January 1998.
·
N.
Adam and A. Gangopadhyay, "Content-Based Multimedia Information Retrieval
in Digital Libraries", IEEE Computer, January 1998.
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Holowczak,
R. D. and Adam, N. R. "Information Extraction based Multiple-Category
Document Classification for the Global Legal Information Network", Proceedings
of the Ninth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial
Intelligence (IAAI-97), July, 1997.
·
N.
Adam and A. Gangopadhyay, "A Forms-based Interface with A Natural Language
Front-end to a CIM Database" IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data
Engineering, April 1997.
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N.
Adam, Baruch Awerbuch, Jacob Slonim, Peter Wegner and Y. Yesha,
"Globalization and the Future of the Internet" The Communications
of The ACM, February 1997.
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N.
Adam and Y. Yesha, "Electronic Commerce and Digital Libraries: Towards a
Digital Agora", ACM Computing Surveys, December 1996.
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N.
Adam, B. Edelson, T. El-Ghazawi, M. Halem, K. Kalpakis, N. Kozura, R. Medina
and Y. Yesha, "The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)," The
American University Law Review, December 1996.
·
N.
Adam, M. Halem, R. Holowczak, N. Lal, Y. Yesha, "Digital Libraries Task
Force", IEEE Computer, August 1996.
·
N.
Adam, V. Atluri, and W. Li, "Toward High Performance Clinical Information
Systems", Proceedings of the 2nd Americas Conference on Information
Systems, August 1996.
·
N.
Adam, R. Holowczak, and W. Li, "Object Manifestations for Medical Imaging
Applications", Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, April 1996.
·
N.
R. Adam, M. Halem and S. Naqvi, "Promising Research Directions in Digital
Libraries", Digital Libraries: Current Issues, Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, and May 1995.
·
N
R. Adam, B. S. Fordham and Y. Yesha, "Some Key Issues in Database Systems
in a Digital Library Setting", Digital Libraries: Current Issues,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, and May 1995.
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N.
Adam and A. Gangopadhyay, "An N-aryl View Integration Method Using
Conceptual Dependencies," Proceedings of the Hawaii International
Conference on System Sciences, January 1995.
·
N.
Adam, A. Gangopadhyay and J. Clifford, "A Form-Based Approach to Natural
Language Query Processing" Journal of Management Information Systems,
December 1994.
·
N.
Adam, "A New Dynamic Voting Algorithm in Distributed Database
Systems", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, April
1994.
·
R.
Subramanian and N. Adam, "Applying OOAD in the Design and Implementation
of Intelligent Geographic Information Systems", Advanced Database
Systems, N. Adam and B. Bhargava (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, Springer-Verlag, December 1993.
·
R.
Subramanian and N. Adam, "The Design and Implementation of an Expert
Object-Oriented Spatial Database Model", Proceedings of the Second
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November
1993.
·
N.
Adam, J.W. Bertrand, D. Morehead, and J. Surkis, "Due Date Assignment
Procedures With Dynamically Updated Coefficients", European Journal of
Operational Research, July 1993.
·
N.
Adam and R. Tewari, "Regeneration with Virtual Copies for Distributed
Computing Systems", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, July
1993.
·
N.
Adam, T. Boucher, and R. Holowczak, "A Generic CIM Architecture for Raw
Materials Control in FDA Regulated Industries", Proceedings of the
Third International Flexible Automation and Integrated Manufacturing
Conference, June 1993.
·
N.
Adam and A. Gangopadhyay, "Integrating Functional and Data Modeling in a
Computer Integrated Manufacturing System", Proceedings of the Ninth
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, April 1993.
·
N.
Adam, A. Gangopadhyay, and J. Geller, "Design and Implementation of a
Knowledge Base Query Processor", International Journal of Intelligent
and Cooperative Information Systems, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1993.
·
R.
Tewari and N. Adam, "Using Semantic Knowledge of Transactions to Improve
Recovery and Availability of Replicated Data", Information Systems,
January 1993.
·
N.
Adam, A. Gangopadhyay and J. Geller, "Knowledge Base Query Processing
Using Preoptimized Queries", Proceedings of The First International
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November 1992.
·
N.
Adam, T. Boucher, and A. Gangopadhyay, "A Method for Natural Language
Query Processing in a Computer Integrated Manufacturing System", Proceedings
of the 20th Annual North American Conference of the IBSCUG, July 1992.
Received the best research paper award.
·
R.
Tewari and N. Adam, "Distributed File Allocation with Consistency
Constraints", Proceedings of the International Conference on
Distributed Computing Systems, June 1992.
·
N.
Adam and R. Subramanian, "An Object-Oriented Model for Intelligent Query
Processing in Geographic Databases", Proceedings of the Third
Australian Database Conference, February 1992.
·
N.
Adam and R. Tewari, "Regeneration with Virtual Copies for Replicated
Databases", Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed
Computing Systems, May 1991.
·
N.
Adam and J. Wortmann, "Security Control Methods for Statistical Databases:
A Comparative Study", ACM Computing Surveys, December 1989.
·
N.
Adam and D.H. Jones, "Statistical Databases: Output Perturbation Using
Jackknifing and Other Re-Sampling Schemes", Journal of Management
Information Systems, September 1989.
·
N.
Adam and S. Klein, "On Coverage Probability, Independence and Normality in
Batch Means Algorithms", European Journal of Operational Research,
September 1989.
·
D.H.
Jones and N. Adam, "Disclosure Avoidance Using the Bootstrap and Other
Re-Sampling Schemes", Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Research
Conference, Us Dept of Commerce, Bureau of Census, March 1989.
·
N.
Adam, J.W. Bertrand, and J. Surkis, "Priority Assignment Procedures in
Multi-Level Assembly Job Shops", IIE Transactions, September 1987.
·
N.
Adam, "Achieving A Confidence Interval For Parameters Estimated by
Simulation", Management Science, July 1983.
·
A.
Dogramaci and J. Panayiotopoulos, and N. Adam, "The Dynamic Lot Sizing
Problem for Multiple Items Under Limited Capacity", AIIE Transactions,
December 1981.
·
N.
Adam and E. Ignall, "Production and Inventory Policies for an Integrated
Manufacturing Firm", International Journal of Production Research,
December 1980.
·
N.
Adam and J. Surkis, "Priority Update Interval and Anomalies in Dynamic
Ratio Type Job Shop Scheduling Rules", Management Science, December
1980.
·
N.
Adam and J. Surkis, "Priority Updating Procedures in Dynamic Job
Simulation Studies: The Impact on Measures of Performance under Different Due
Date Assignment Rules", Disaggregation Problems in Manufacturing and
Service Organizations, Ritzman et al. (Eds.), Martinus Nijhoff, The
Netherlands, 1979.
·
N.
Adam and A. Dogramaci, "Issues in Simulation Languages: A Brief Overview",
Current Issues in Computer Simulation, Academic Press, Inc., 1979.
·
A.
Dogramaci and N. Adam, "Applications of Simulation", Current
Issues in Computer Simulation, Academic Press, Inc., 1979.
·
N.
Adam, R. Oppenheim and J. Surkis, "Time Series Analysis in Determining Due
Date in Job Shop Studies", Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference
of the American Institute of Decision Sciences, October 1978.
·
N.
Adam and J. Surkis, "Implementation of Endogenous Due-Date Assignment
Methods in Dynamic Job Shop Environments", Proceedings of the Ninth
Annual Conference of the American Conference of the American Institute of
Decision Sciences, October 1977.
·
N.
Adam and J. Surkis, "A Comparison of Capacity Planning Techniques in a
Job-Shop Control System", Management Science, May 1977.
·
N.
Adam and J. Surkis, "Interaction of Job Shop Due Date Determination and
Priority Dispatching Rules in Continuous Job Shops", Proceedings of the
Eighth Annual Conference of the American Institute of Decision Sciences,
November 1976.
4. Recent Invited Talks
National Research Council’s Workshop on Coping with Increasing Demands on Government Data Centers, April 2002.
The IEEE/ARL/NASA Workshop on Information Assurance, December 2001.
·
·
The International Symposium on Government and E-commerce Development, Ningbo, China, April 2001
(Keynote speaker). Co-sponsored by the United Nations Department of Economic
and Social Affairs, the Ningbo Municipality, the Chinese Academy of Science,
the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Ministry of Information Industry of
China, and Zhejiang University of China.
·
The Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for
Digital Libraries,
Crete, Greece, September 1998.
·
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Information
Technology Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB '98), Washington, D.C., May 1998,
(Keynote speaker).
·
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, April 1998.
·
EUROSTAT (The Statistical Office of the European Union),
"Statistical Data Protection", Lisbon, Portugal, March 1998, (Keynote speaker).
·
The 97 Korean Management Information Systems International Conference, Seoul, Korea, December
1997, (Keynote speaker).
·
C&C
Research Laboratories, NEC USA, Inc., San Jose, California,
November 1997.
·
Baruch
College, City University of New York, November 1997.
·
Department
of Computer Science, SUNY at Buffalo, April 1997.
·
The International Conference on the Digital Libraries and Information
Services for the 21st Century (KOLISS DL'96), Seoul, Korea, September 1996, (Keynote
speaker). .
·
Matsushita
Information Technology Laboratory, Panasonic Technologies, Inc.,
Princeton, NJ. September 1996.
·
The Development and Practice of Law in the Age of the Internet, Washington College of Law
Centennial Week Symposium, Washington, D.C., April 1996.
·
The
Bilkent University-sponsored Symposium on Environment, Space, and
Communications, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey, February 1996.
·
The
Computer Science and Industrial Engineering Departments, Ben-Gurion
University in Beer-Sheva, Israel, February 1996.
·
2nd International Workshop on Next Generation Info. Technologies &
Systems,
The Technion and Neaman Institute, Israel, June 1995.
·
American
Association for Clinical Chemistry, April 1995.
·
Center
for Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences, NASA, February 1994
·
University
of Waterloo, December 1993.
·
U.S.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, December 1993.
·
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November 1993.
·
Baruch
College, City University of New-York, March 1993.
·
New
Jersey Institute of Technology, May 1992.
Ph.D. Dissertations
Dissertation Advisor
·
Dr.
June-Suh Cho
(With Professor Vijay
Atluri)
Topic: Recognition of
Partially Occluded Objects in Content-based Image Retrieval, Jan. 2002.
·
Dr.
Igg Adiwijaya
(With Professor Vijay Atluri)
Topic: Detecting and
managing changes to data and schema in scientific documents, May 2000.
·
Dr.
Wei-Kuang Huang
(With
Professor Vijay Atluri)
University
of Connecticut
Topic:
Incorporating Security into Workflow Management Systems, May 1998.
·
Dr.
Richard Holowczak
Baruch
College, City University of New York
Topic:
Extractors for Digital Libraries, May 1997.
·
Dr.
Aryya Gangopadhyay
University
of Maryland Baltimore County
Topic:
Using Conceptual Dependencies for Database Design and Query Processing, May
1993.
·
Dr.
Ramesh Subramanian
University
of Alaska
Topic:
Object-Oriented Modeling and Intelligent Query Processing in Spatial Databases,
May 1992.
·
Dr.
Rajiv Tewari
Temple
University.
Topic:
Robustness in Replicated Databases, May 1990.
·
Dr.
Diane Morehead
(With
Professor Julius Surkis)
AT&T
Bell Laboratories
Topic:
Priority Rules, Due-Date Assignment Procedures, and Shop Loading Problems in
Job Shops Processing Multi-Level Assemblies, October 1989.
Committee Member
·
Dr.
Wenhua Wu, University of Waterloo,
Topic:
A Knowledge-Based System for the Integration of Computer Integrated
Manufacturing Databases, December 1993.
·
Dr.
Fortune S. Mhlanga, Department of Computer Science, NJIT
Topic: D_Model and D_Algebra: A Data Model and Algebra for Office
Documents, May 1993.
·
Dr.
Apostolos N. Burnetas, Rutgers University.
Topic:
On Adaptive Estimation and Control for Markovian Decision Processes, July 1993.
·
Dr.
Chang Han Lee, Rutgers University.
Topic:
Deterministic Models for Inventory Control Under Continuous Time-Varying
Demand, October 1993.
Refereeing
NSF.
IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering
IEEE
Transactions on Software Engineering
Knowledge
& Data Engineering Journal
Journal
of Management Information Systems
Management
Science.
Operations
Research.
IIE
Transactions.
European
Journal of Operational Research
Professional Activities
·
Member
of the Science Council of the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science,
NASA Ames, 2000-present.
·
Served
on a two-members panel to conduct a site visit for the NSF
CISE
program at the Department of Computer Science at the
University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 1995.
·
Working
with the Law Library of Congress on developing a "Global
Legal
Information Network", 1995
·
Co-Chairman
of the Workshop on Current Issues in Databases and Applications, October 22-23,
1992, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. Sponsored by Rutgers Graduate
School of Management.
·
Vice-Chairman
of the Conference on Current Issues in Productivity, 1985, 1987, 1989, and
1991, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey.
·
Co-Chairman
of the Fourth Conference on Current Issues in Simulation, May 18-19, 1987,
Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. Sponsored by the New York Chapter of
the ACM, The Institute of Management Science and Rutgers Graduate School of
Management.
·
Chairman
of the Conference on Current Issues in Database Systems, May 27, 1986, Rutgers
University, Newark, New Jersey. Sponsored by Rutgers Graduate School of
Management.
·
Vice-Chairman
of the Current Issues in Productivity, November 30-December 2, 1982, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York.
·
Co-Chairman
of the Conference on Computer Simulation:
A Research Focus, May 4-5, 1982, Rutgers University, New Jersey. Sponsored by the New York Chapter of the
ACM, the Operations Research Society of America, and the Rutgers Business
Research Center.
·
Chairman
of the Conference on Computers in Small Business, November 6-7, 1980, Rutgers
University, Newark, New Jersey.
Sponsored by Rutgers Business Research Center and the U.S. Small Business
Administration.
·
Chairman
of the Conference on Computer Simulation, April 21-22, 1980, Columbia
University, New York. Sponsored by the New York Chapter of the ACM.
·
Vice-Chairman
of the Conference on Current Issues in Productivity, April 18-20, 1979, Columbia
University, New York.
·
Chairman
of the Conference on Simulation, May 3-5, 1978, Columbia University, New York,
sponsored by the New York Chapter of the ACM.
·
Invited
to conduct several seminars on Systems Simulation as part of the Professional
Development Seminars of the New York Chapter of the ACM.
·
Chairman
of the Special Interest Group on Simulation of the New York Chapter of the ACM,
1977-1987.
·
Project
Manager of the Simulation Project of SHARE INC., 1976-77.
·
Conducted
a Systems Simulation and Languages Seminar as part of the Columbia University
Computer Center Education Program for the University Community, March 1974.
Courses Taught
·
Research
Seminar in Computer Applications (Ph.D.).
·
Applications
of Database Systems (Ph.D.).
·
Seminar
in Object-Oriented Database Systems (Ph.D.)
·
Statistical
Aspects of Stochastic Simulation (Ph.D.).
·
Planning
Models in Operations Management (Ph.D.).
·
Control
Models in Operations Management (Ph.D.).
·
Databases:
Theory and Applications (Dept. of Comp. Science, New
·
Brunswick)
·
Database
Systems (MBA).
·
Computers
and Information Systems (MBA).
·
AI
& Expert Systems: Concepts and Applications (MBA).
·
Data
Structures and Databases (MBA).
·
Seminar
in Object-Oriented Systems: Concepts & Applications (MBA)
·
Database
Processing (MBA).
·
Theory
and Practice of Simulation (MBA).
·
Computer
Technology (MBA).
·
Deterministic
Optimization Models (MBA).
·
Operations
Management (MBA).
University and School Activities
·
Elected
by the Newark Faculty Council to serve on the nine-faculty university-wide
President Advisory Council, 1996, 2001.
·
Elected
by the FoM faculty to serve on the Newark Faculty Council, 1992-1994,
1994-1997, 1999-2002.
·
Appointed
by the President to serve as a member of a university-wide committee on
"Information Sciences and Related Fields," 1995 - 1996.
·
Appointed
by the Provost to serve as a member of the Newark Campus Environment Committee,
1995.
·
Appointed
by the Vice President for Computing to serve as a member of the University
Computing and Information Policy Advisory Committee, 1993-1996.
·
Appointed
by the Provost to serve as the chairman of the Newark Campus Computer Planning
Committee, 1983-present. In addition, I
was appointed by the Provost to serve as a member of that committee during the
period 1978-83.
·
Appointed
by the Vice President for Computing to serve as the chair of the search
committee for the Director of the Newark Computing Services, 1994.
·
Appointed
by the Provost to serve on the Resources and Facilities Task Force as part of
the Newark Business Education Reorganization efforts, 1992.
·
Appointed
by the Dean to serve on the Appointments and Promotions Committee, 1992.
·
Appointed
by the Dean to serve on the GSM Planning Committee, 1987-1989, 1992.
·
Appointed
by the Dean to serve on the GSM Computer Policy Committee, 1991-1994.
·
Appointed
by the Assoc. Vice President for Information Services to serve on the search
committee for the Director of the University Centers for Computers and
Information Services, 1990.
·
Appointed by the Vice President for
Information Services to serve on the university-wide "Academic Computing
Advisory Committee," 1990-1992.
·
Appointed
by the Vice President for Research to serve on the university-wide
"Supercomputer Faculty Support Committee," 1988-89.
·
Appointed
by the Provost to serve as a member of the "Middle States Association
Newark Campus Subcommittee on Instructional Resources and Equipment,"
1986-1988.
·
Appointed
by the Dean to serve as the chairman of the GSM "Research Resources
Committee," 1986-1992. (In addition, I was repeatedly elected by GSM faculty
to serve as a member of that committee during the period 1980-1986.)
·
Appointed
by the Dean to serve as a member of the GSM "Ph.D. Policy Committee,"
1984-1988.
·
Chaired
a departmental committee for developing an MBA major in Computer and
Information Systems, 1986-1987.
·
Developed
the following Ph.D. courses: 198:680 Applications of Database Systems, 711:676
Statistical Aspects of Stochastic Simulation.
Service to New Jersey State
Government
Appointed
by the Executive Director of the New Jersey Commission of Science and
Technology to serve as a member of the "Working Group of Logistics,"
1986-1989.