Nabil R. Adam

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

180 University Avenue

Newark, New Jersey 07102

adam@adam.rutgers.edu

(973) 353-5239/1014, Fax: (973) 353-5808

http://cimic.rutgers.edu/

 

 

Education

·            Ph.D., Engineering - Columbia University

·            M.Phil., Engineering - Columbia University

·            M.S., Engineering - Columbia University

·            B.S., Engineering - Cairo University

 

US Citizen

 

Academic Experience

·            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)

·            Columbia University, 9/96 - 1/97. Visiting Scholar at the Computer Science Department.

·            Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 3/84 - 7/84.

        Visiting Professor at the Industrial Engineering Department    

 

Editorial Appointments and Election

·            Editor, Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal, Springer Verlag, 1998-present

·            Co-founder and chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, 1997-present

·            Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Electronic Commerce, 1996-present.

·            Co-founder and Co-editor-in-chief, the International Journal of Digital Libraries, Springer Verlag, 1995-present.

·            Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management Information Systems, 1982-present.

·            Selected as a distinguished speaker (on Digital Libraries/Electronic Commerce) in the IEEE Computer Society's Distinguished Visitors Program (DVP), 1997-2000.

·            General co-chair of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Advances in Digital Libraries  (IEEE ADL'99), May 1999.

·            Co-Chair, Advisory Board of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine  (ITAB  '98).

·            Member of the Program Committee of the First International Conference on Information and Computational Economies 1998.

·            Member of the Program Committee of the Third International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'98).

·            Member of the Program Committee on Data Engineering and Information Super Highways, the IEEE 14th International Conference on Data Engineering, 1998

·            Member of the Program Committee of Eighth International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Continuous-Media Databases and Applications  (RIDE'98), February 1998.

·            General chair of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Advances in Digital Libraries  (IEEE ADL'97), May 1997.

·            Member of the Program Committee of the International Symposium on Research, Development  & Practice in Digital Libraries:  ISDL'97, Japan.

·            Co-Chair Working Group on Electronic Commerce/Digital Libraries, part of the Workshop on Strategic Directions in Computing Research, MIT, June 1996

·            Program chair of the 1996 Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries  (ADL'96), May 1996.

·            Member of the Program Committee on Data Engineering and Information Super Highways, the IEEE 12th International Conference on Data Engineering, 1996

·            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.

·            Program co-chair of the 1995 Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries  (ADL'95), May 1995.

·            Program-Chair of the Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November 1994.

·            Program co-chair of the 1994 Workshop on Digital Libraries: Current Issues, May 1994.

·            Program Committee Member of the Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing in the Process Industries, May 1994.

·            Vice-Chair of the Second International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 1993.

·            Program Committee Member of the International Conference on ER Approach, 1993.

·            Member of the Program Committee on Object-Oriented Systems, the IEEE Ninth International Conference on Data Engineering, 1993.

·            Editor, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 1987-1992

·            Conference Committee Member of the 12th Annual International Conference on Information Systems, 1991.

·            Program Committee Member of the International Conference on Databases, Parallel Architectures, and their Applications, 1990.

·            Elected as Vice Chairman for the National Special Interest Group on Simulation of the ACM, 1981-1983.

 

 

Awards

·            Listed in Who's Who in America in Science and Engineering, 1996

·            Horace DePodwin Research Award: 1992

·            Out-of-cycle: 1987, 1995 Merit: 1981, 1989, 1990, and 1991, 1994.

 

Recent Initiatives

·            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.

·            Co-founder and Director of the Rutgers CIMIC Laboratory for Water Security.

·            Co-founder and Director of the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute (MERI), Rutgers University and the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission.

·            Co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Digital Libraries

·            Founder and director of the Rutgers Graduate Certificate Program in Electronic Commerce.

·            Co-founder and chair of the IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Digital Libraries

·            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

·            PI, “Secure Agency Interoperation for Effective Data Mining in Border Control and Homeland Security Applications,” National Science Foundation, $1,050,000, 2003–2006.

·            Co-Principal Investigator, “Spatially Integrated Coastal Permitting System,” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),  $87,750, 2002 – 2003.

·            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.

·            Principal Investigator, “The Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute”, The New Jersey meadowlands Commission (NJMC) ($8,000,000), 2002-2007.

·            Principal Investigator, "E-Government: Human-Centered Systems for Business Services," National Science Foundation, ($915,271), 2000-2004.

·            Principal Investigator, "Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute," Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission, ($3,000,000), 1998-2002.

·            Principal Investigator, "NASA Regional Validation Center," Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission, ($600,000), 1997-2001.

·            Co-Principal Investigator, “Exploratory Research on Reconfigurable and Scalable Enterprise Planning Systems,” National Science Foundation, $111,977, July 2000 - June 2001.

·            Co-Principal Investigator, "Trader In Distributed Computing Environment," Sponsored by National Security Agency, ($50,000), 1998.

·            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.

·            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.

·            Co-Principal Investigator, "Quality Data Management System," Sponsored by the Defense Logistics Agency/DoD, ($347,450), 1996-1998.

·            Principal Investigator, "Information Extraction Applications for GLIN," Sponsored by Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences, ($30,027), 1996-1997.

·            Co-Principal Investigator, "Vendor Evaluation System," Sponsored by the Defense Logistics Agency/DoD, ($130,000), 1995-1996.

·            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.

·            Principal Investigator, "Evaluation of Database Technologies for Information Networking Applications," Sponsored by Bellcore, ($50,000), 1995.

·            Principal Investigator, "EDI/CIM Model and Demonstration," Sponsored by the Defense Logistics Agency, ($283,340), 1994-1995.

·            Principal Investigator, "Computer Proficiency Assessment for Effective MIS Undergraduate Education," Sponsored by the Rutgers Dialogues Grants, ($ 6,100), 1994-1995.

·            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.

·            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.

·            Rutgers Local Allocation Committee for Supercomputer Time: received a computer time grant during 1986 through 1991.

·            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.          

·            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.

·            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.

·            N. R. Adam and A. Gangopadhyay, Database Issues in Geographic Information Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, June 1997

·            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

·            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.

·            N. Adam and Y. Yesha, "Electronic Commerce: Tutorial", Proceedings of the ACM  SIGMOD'98  Conference, June 1998.

·            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.

·            N. Adam and R. Holowczak, "Concept Based Query of Digital Library Objects", Proceedings of the IEEE Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine Conference, May 1998

·            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.

·            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.

·            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.

·            N. Adam and Y. Yesha, "Electronic Commerce and Digital Libraries: Towards a Digital Agora", ACM Computing Surveys, December 1996.

·            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.

·            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.

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·            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.