Dr. Amar Gupta
Thomas R. Brown Chair in Management and Technology;
Professor of Entrepreneurship and MIS; and
Senior Director for Research and Business Development;
Eller College of Management
McClelland Hall 417H
University of Arizona
P. O. Box 210108
Tucson, AZ 85721-0108
Telephone: 520-***-****
Fax: 520-***-****
Email: *****@*****.*******.***
Date of Birth: July 16, 1953
Citizenship: US
Place of Birth: Nadiad
I. EDUCATION
Place Year
I.I.T., Kanpur B. Tech (Electrical Engineering) 1969-1974
M.I.T., Cambridge S.M. (Management) 1979-1980
I.I.T., Delhi Ph.D. (Computer Science) 1977-1980
II. TITLE OF DOCTORAL THESIS:
Relevance of Decision Support System Methodologies in Developing Environments
III. PRINCIPAL FIELD OF INTEREST:
Information Technology; Knowledge Based Systems; Data Mining; Outsourcing
IV. CURRENT APPOINTMENT:
After 25-year association with MIT, moved in summer of 2004 to University of Arizona in Tucson as
Thomas R. Brown Chair of Management and Technology; Professor of Entrepreneurship and MIS; and
Senior Director for Research and Business Development.
V. OTHER NON-M.I.T
EXPERIENCE
Employer Position Period
IBM World Trade Summer Intern May 1973 - July 1973
Corp., Bombay
DCM Data Products, Assistant Electronics Engineer May 1974 -Nov. 1974
New Delhi
Dept. of Electronics, Junior Scientific Officer Dec. 1974 -Aug. 1977
New Delhi
High Commission of Systems Designer Aug. 1977 - Feb. 1978
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India, London
Dept. of Electronics, Scientific Officer & in charge, Central Evaluation Feb. 1978 -May 1979
New Delhi and Procurement Agency for Computers
(CEPAC)
VI. HISTORY OF M.I.T. APPOINTMENTS
Rank Period
Research Assistant Oct. 1979 - May 1980
Research Fellow June 1980 - Aug. 1981
Post Doctoral Associate Sept. 1981 - June 1985
Principal Research Associate July 1985 - May 1991
Senior Research Scientist June 1991 - July 2004
Associate Director, IFSRC July 1991 - June 1992
Director, Research Program on Communication Policy Aug. 1995 - July 1996
Co-Director, PROFIT Initiative Sept. 1992 - July 2004
First person to hold the title of a Senior Research Scientist at the Sloan School; this is equal to Full
Research Professor at other leading universities. Individuals holding this title must go through the same
process at MIT as that for other senior academic appointments that are on the conventional track.
VII. SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE COMMITTEES; OTHER ASSIGNED DUTIES:
Position From To
1. Associate Director, International Financial Service Research Center July 1991 June 1992
2. Co-Director, Productivity from Information Technology
(PROFIT) Initiative Sept. 1992 Present
3. Member, Diversity and Community Committee Fall 1993 Summer 1996
4. Member, Rich Wang promotion case (to Associate Professor) Sept. 1993 Dec. 1993
5. Member, Sloan India Committee (Chair: Jim Orlin) Oct. 1994 1997
6. Co-chair, Leaders For Manufacturing (LFM) Research Track 2 Oct. 1994 1998
7. Member, Advisory Committee, Sangam MIT Indian Students Association Oct. 1994 Present
8. Member, Stan Finkelstein promotion case (to Senior Research Scientist) Feb. 1995 May 1995
9. Director, Research Program on Communication Policy Aug. 1995 July 1996
11. Member, MIT India Committee (Chair: Ken Keniston) 1998 July 2004
10. Member, Diversity and Community Committee (Chair: Gabriel Bitran/Paul Osterman)
Fall 1998 July 2004
VIII. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
1. Principal Investigator: Research on Creation of Content Data Model; Sponsored by U.S. Air Force
and U.S. Department of Transportation; MIT Account #73317 and 74133; Total Amount =
$461,000.
2. Principal Investigator: Research relating to Management of Large Scale Distributed Pictorial,
Textual, and Numerical Information; Sponsored by Federal Aviation Administration and U.S.
Department of Transportation; MIT Account #73029; Total Amount = $1,019,999.
3. Principal Investigator: Research in the Use of KBIISE Approach for Management of
Telecommunication Information; Sponsored by Federal Aviation Administration and U.S.
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Department of Transportation; MIT Account #72369; Total Amount = $100,000.
4. Principal Investigator: Research in Hypermedia and Expert Systems; Sponsored by Draper Labs;
MIT Account #72691; Total Amount = $50,000.
5. Principal Investigator: Integration of Diverse Information Systems of TRANSCOM; Sponsored by
U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Transportation; MIT Account #72594; Total
Amount = $98,000.
6. Principal Investigator: Integration of Information from AVI Devices into Existing Database
Systems; Sponsored by Burlington Northern Railroad; MIT Account #72298; Total Amount =
$50,000.
7. Principal Investigator: Automated Scanning and Processing of Insurance Documents; Sponsored by
American International Group; MIT Account #75057 and via IFSRC; Total Amount = $100,000.
8. Principal Investigator: Automated Scanning and Processing of Documents; Sponsored by a
consortium of leading financial institutions through International Financial Services Research
Center; MIT Account #25099; Total Amount = $459,500.
9. Principal Investigator: Research in Information Technologies to Support Computer Integrated
Manufacturing (CIM); Sponsored by U.S. Air Force and U.S. Department of Transportation; MIT
Account #70577; Total Amount = $50,000.
10. Principal Investigator: Assessment of Database Technology for Modernizing Logistics Systems
Analysis (LSA) Applications, Sponsored by U.S. Air Force and U.S. Department of Transportation;
MIT Account #99938; Total Amount = $85,000.
11. Principal Investigator: Implementation of Intelligent Updates; Sponsored by Transportation
Systems Center of U.S. Department of Transportation; MIT Account #99200 and 99763; Total
Amount = $192,000.
12. Principal Investigator: Research in Pictorial Image Systems and Knowledge Representation for Use
in Developing Environments; Sponsored by Government of India; MIT Account #28880; Total
Amount = $45,400.
13. Principal Investigator: Organization of Two Symposia on Knowledge Based Integrated Information
Systems Engineering, Sponsored by U.S. Air Force and U.S. Department of Transportation; MIT
Account #22111; Total Amount = $78,500.
14. Principal Co-Investigator: (with S. E. Madnick): Integration of Heterogeneous Databases;
Sponsored by U.S. Air Force and U.S. Department of Transportation; MIT Account #98474; Total
Amount = $400,000.
15. Principal Investigator: Design and Implementation of Expert Systems; Sponsored by IBM; MIT
Account #96613; Total Amount = $160,000.
16. Principal Investigator (with Stuart E. Madnick): Productivity from Information Technology;
Sponsored by a group of international corporations; MIT Account # 77740; Total Amount =
$380,000.
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17. Principal Investigator (with Stuart E. Madnick): Context Interchange: Using knowledge about Data
to Integrate Disparate Sources; Sponsored by Advanced Research Projects Agency and Rome Labs;
MIT Account #60468; Total Amount = $2,096,853.79.
18. Principal Investigator: TIMS Advanced Design and Development; Sponsored by Federal Aviation
Administration and Volpe National Transportation Systems Center; MIT Account # 77880; Total
Amount = $550,000.
19. Principal Investigator (with Ichiro Masaki): Smart Vision Sensors National Science Foundation;
MIT Account #60955; Total Amount = $125,000
20. Principal Investigator (with Ichiro Masaki): Image Information Technology; Sponsored by
Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co; MIT Account #61516.
21. Principal Investigator: Networked Multimedia Information Services (NMIS); Sponsored by
Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation; MIT Account # 61903;
Total Amount = $650,000.
22. Principal Investigator: Interface Technology for Networked Computing; Sponsored by Advanced
Research Projects Agency; MIT Account #78075; Total Amount = $3,928,524.
23. Principal Investigator: DUET Server Deployment Additions; Sponsored by National Science
Foundation; MIT Account #63823; Total Amount = $800,000.
24. Principal Investigator: Progressive Scan Camera; Sponsored by NASA; MIT Account #62530;
Total Amount = $268,989.
25. Principal Investigator: Progressive Scan Camera; Sponsored by NASA; MIT Account #64198;
Total Amount = $1,189,250.
26. Principal Investigator (with Stuart E. Madnick): Using Emerging Information Technologies to
Facilitate Material Procurement in Department of Defense; MIT Account #64913; Total Amount =
$321,766.
27. Principal Investigator: Multiplying Information Technology in Brazil; Sponsored by Instituto
UNIEMP; MIT Account #65791; Total Amount = $100,000.
28. Principal Investigator: Research on Knowledge Acquisition "Knowledge Management and
Knowledge Applications in Advance Systems"; Sponsored by US Department of Transportation;
MIT Account #66577; Total Amount = $120,000.
29. Principal Investigator: Data Library at the Federal Aviation Administration; Sponsored via the
University of California at Berkeley; MIT Account #66648; Total Amount = $30,000.
30. Principal Investigator: Intelligent Character Recognition; Sponsored by Integris S.A., Sao Paulo,
Brazil; MIT Account #67303; Total Amount = $100,000.
31. Principal Investigator: A Multi-Faceted Information Technology Based Approach to Handle Very
Large Systems and Applications; Sponsored by MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA; MIT Account
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#67616; Total Amount = $99,933.
32. Principal Investigator: Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Dissemination in Advanced Systems;
Sponsored by US Department of Transportation; MIT Account #67771; Total Amount =
$129,852.73.
33. A Multi-Faceted Information Technology Based Approach to Handle Very Large Systems and
Applications; Sponsored by MITRE Corporation; MIT Account #6828700; Total Amount =
$1,406,864.
34. Principal Investigator: Enhancing Productivity Using Neural Networks (Principal Investigator);
Sponsored by Tata Iron & Steel Company, Limited (TISCO), Jamshedpur, India; MIT Account
#67870; Total Amount = $100,000.
35. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration via
VOLPE National Transportations Center; MIT Account #6892248; Total Amount = $316,000.
36. Principal Investigator: Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Management Tasks related to Design
and Development of Spacecrafts; Sponsored by National Reconnaissance Office via MIT Aero
Department; MIT Account #6890963; Approximately $125,000 per year for 2 years.
37. Principal Investigator: Virtual Markets in Wireless Grids; Sponsored by the National Science
Foundation (via Tufts University); MIT account #6894341; Total Amount = $111,250.
38. Knowledge Based Approach to Next Generation; Sponsored by MITRE Corporation; MIT account
#6895753; Total Amount = $70,000.
Previous Research Projects at M.I.T.
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Dates Topic of Research Project and Name of Sponsor
Oct.1979 -
Evaluation of Microprocessor Architecture IBM, Kingston
Aug.1980
Sep.1980 -
Design of Interconnection Bus IBM, Kingston
Aug.1982
Sep.1981 - Increasing Computational Bandwidth of IBM, Kingston
Aug.1982 Multimicroprocessor Configurations
Nov.1982 - Executive Workstations and Common General Motors
Aug.1983 End-User Interfaces
May 1983 - Architectures for High Speed U.S. Navy
Feb.1987 Large-Capacity Database Systems
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IX. GOVERNMENT COMMITTEES, SERVICE, ETC.
Committee Dates
1. Life Member, Indian Institute of Public Administration 1976-
present
2. Technical Expert, First International Conference on Health Informatics, World Health December,
Organization, Geneva, Switzerland 1985
3. Session Chairman, Symposium on Artificial Intelligence Applications for Military March
Logistics Organized by Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Department of Defense, Williamsburg, 1988
Virginia
4. Member of the Board, Telecom City, a joint effort by the cities of Malden, Everett, and 2000-
Medford present
X. CONSULTING ACTIVITIES (Partial List)
Organization Years
Chevron 1980
Digital Systems Associates 1980 - 1984
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration 1981
IBM 1981 - 1984
Visual Communications Network 1983 - 1990
World Health Organization (United Nations) 1985 - 1986
SRI International and NSF 1985 - 1986
TDS Healthcare Systems Corporation 1988
Dynatrand Inc. 1988
Citibank 1989
Burlington Northern Railroad 1989
American International Group 1990
Mitre Corporation 1990 and 1994
U.S. Department of Transportation 1991 - 1992
United Nations Development Programme 1992 - 1995
U.S. Air Force 1993
World Bank 1996
XI. OTHER ACTIVITIES
Activity Dates
1. Founder-Member, International Financial Services Research Center Summer
1988-1994
2. Organized two meetings of Technical Advisory Panel of Knowledge Based Integrated Feb. and
Information Systems Engineering Project at MIT. More than 25 top experts participated in May, 1987
these meetings. Participation was by invitation only
3. Organized a one-day symposium on Critical Needs, and Approaches to Integration of Nov. 10,
Heterogeneous Information Systems in Logistics at MIT. 1988
4. IFSRC/ILP Seminar on Imaging Technologies, New York. April 6,
1990
5. Organized a one-day seminar on Emerging Information Technologies for Productivity. December
13, 1991
6. Co-organized Enterprise '93 "Profit through Information Access" at World Trade Center in June 16-
Boston. Over 5,000 persons participated in this international event. 18, 1993
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7. Organized a workshop on "IT Issues in Supply Chain Management" for member- December
companies of the MIT Leaders for Manufacturing (LFM) Program. 5, 1994
8. Presentation on "Transportation Information Infrastructure," at Workshop on Logistics Anchordesk February
organized by Advanced Research Projects Agency, Tucson, Arizona. 1994
9. "IT Issues in Supply Chain Management" as part of the MIT Center for Transportation Studies March 15,
Conference. 1995
10. Organized Workshop on "IT Issues in Supply Chain Management" as co-chair of LFM Research October 18-
Track #2, MIT Leaders for Manufacturing (LFM) Program Research Assault. 19, 1995
Co-organized First Internet Telephony Initiative Workshop, MIT, and delivered a presentation on May 1996
11.
"Motivations for Consortium on Internet Telephony".
Presented "Using Context Interchange Technology to Deal with Diversity Across Data Sources for May 30,
12.
Material Procurement," DARPA Advanced Logistics Workshop, Dulles Airport Complex, Virginia. 1996
Presented "Using Knowledge About Data to Integrate Disparate Sources," DPSC Virtual July 31,
13.
Corporation Workshop, Cambridge, Mass., 1996
Presented "Information Practices in the Medical Drug Industry: A Case Study," DPSC VirtualOctober 9,
14.
Corporation Workshop, Philadelphia, PA. 1996
Presented "Using Emerging Information Technologies to Facilitate Material Procurement in DoD," November
15.
DARPA-DLA Joint Logistics Workshop, Philadelphia, PA. 12-13, 1996
Presented "Using Emerging Information Technologies to Facilitate Procurement of Medical December
16.
Supplies for DoD," DARPA Advanced Logistics Workshop, San Diego, CA. 1996
Presented "High Payoff Information Technologies: A Knowledge-Based Approach", Epoch October 30,
17.
Foundation Workshop organized by MIT ILP, Cambridge, MA, 1998
Panel Member for "What is Different with Information Technology Implementation in Less- December
18.
Developed Countries and Why Should We Care?" International Conference on Information 16, 1997
Systems, Atlanta, Georgia.
Keynote Speaker, "Impact of Internet and Internet2," Symposium for Science & Technology October 28,
19.
Attach s from a number of Embassies in Washington, D.C, at MIT (organized by MIT Industrial 1997
Liason Program).
Invited Panelist at "Workshop on Opportunities in Federal Information Systems", organized by the May 13-15,
20.
National Science Foundation. Arlington, Virginia. 1998
Invited Keynote Speech High Payoff Emerging Information Technologies, presented to 50 June 1999.
21.
officials of U.S. Department of Defense, organized by TRW.
Invited Speech: Integrated Command and Control: A Collaborative Effort Involving Industry, June 1999.
22.
Government, and Academia, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington.
Invited Panel Member: New Design Paradigms, National Reconnaissance Office. August
23.
1999
Co-organized ACM knowledge and Data Discovery Conference, World Trade Center, Boston, August
24.
(920 persons attended this conference). 2000
Co-organized IEEE 10th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for 2001.
25.
Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Presented Knowledge Based Paradigms for SSPARC, Caltech. August
26.
2001
Presented Knowledge Based Paradigms for SSPARC, Stanford University. January
27.
2002.
XII. AWARDS, PRIZES, AND OUTSIDE PUBLICITY
1. Rotary Award for International Understanding, 1979 - 1980.
2. Brooks Prize - Honorable Mention - 1980.
3. U.S. Department of Transportation Achievement Award for outstanding work on the
"Telecommunications Information Management Systems" initiative, -1992
4. U.S. Patent on "System and Method for Character Recognition with Normalization", (Patent
#5633954, dated May 1997).
5. Sole person from MIT to be featured in November 1996 issue of "Boston" magazine in article
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entitled, "The New Brahmins."
6. Selected as one of three key professors at Sloan School by Business 2.0 in their December 2001
survey of Tech Savvy MBA Schools and prominent persons at each school.
XIII. PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP
Rank and Organization Dates
1. Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 1985 -
present
2. Chairman, IEEE Technical Committee on Microprocessor Applications 1984 -1992
3. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 1984 - 1992
4. Assistant Chairman, Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON '85), San Francisco, 1985
CA
5. National Publicity Chairman, Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON '86), 1986
Milwaukee, WI
6. Executive Member, Organizing Committee, Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON 1987
'87), Boston, MA
7. Assistant Chairman, Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON '88), Singapore 1988
8. Reviewer for ACM Computing Reviews, Performance Evaluation Journal, IEEE 1983
Spectrum, various transactions of IEEE, and for International Conference on Parallel present
Processing (IEEE) and IECON (IEEE) and other prestigious journals
9. Registration Chair and Executive Member of the Program Committee, ACM 2000
International Knowledge and Data Discovery Conference (KDD)
Chair, IEEE 10th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for 2001.
10.
Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE)
11. Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Association for 2000-
Computing Machinery, (ACM) present
12. Associate Editor, Journal of Information Resources and Management Association 1999 -
(IRMA) present
XIV. RESEARCH AND THESIS SUPERVISION
The following list consists of students whose research and/or thesis work was directly supervised by me.
Instances in which I served only as a thesis reader are not reflected below. Also, the names of research
papers and dissertations which were later published as papers or as technical reports are included in
Section XI, and excluded from the following list.
Doctoral & Masters Students
Neeraj Agarwal Neural Network based Modeling and Simulation for the Optimization of Safety
Logic, 2002.
Nassar Ahmad: "A Modular Neural Network Based System for the Recognition of Handwritten
Numerals", 1992.
Walter Aldana Data Mining Industry: Emerging Trends and New Opportunities, May 2000.
Dave Anderson
Clarence Applegate A Scheduling Analysis Tool for Real-Time Systems, 2000.
Shiu-chung Au Internet2 in Brazil: Strategic and Technical Issues, 1998.
Bradley Banks Neural Network Based Modeling and Data Mining of Blast Furnace
Operations, 1999.
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Pavan Bakeri
Adolfo Castellon Technologies for Connecting and Using Databases and Server Applications on
the World Wide Web, 1997.
Winston D. Chang A Knowledge Based Approach to Assisting Engineering Design in
Collaborative Environments, 2003.
Mark Chi-Hsun Chen Simulation and Optimization of Immediate Delivery Networks, May 2001.
Kelvin Cheung A Study of Improvements for the Winbank Courtesy Amount Recognition
System, 1998.
Timothy Chien A CASE Strategy Proposal for The Traffic Manager Workbench Project,
1999.
Geoffrey T. Cooney Optimizing Neural Networks for Enhancing Air Traffic Safety, 2004.
Bobornrat Darakananda Simulation of Manufacturing Process Under a Hierarchical Control
Algorithm", 1989.
Susan Dey Adding Feedback To Improve Segmentation and Recognition of Handwritten
Numerals, 1999.
Anjali Dhond Application of Neural Network Technique
s for Modeling of Blast Furnace Parameters, 2000.
Jeff Doering Evaluation of an Object-Based Data Interoperability Solution for Air Force
Systems, 2000.
Francine Ming Fang An Analytical Study on Image Databases, 1997.
Michael L. Feng A Self-Configuring and Self-Administering Name System, 2000.
Joseph Figueroa iCheck: An Architecture for Secure Transactions in the Processing of Bank
Checks, 1997.
Auroop Ganguly Distributed Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts Combining Information from
Radar and Numerical Weather Prediction Model Outputs, February 2002.
Jaideep Ganguly
Angela Ge A Neural Network Approach to the Modeling of Blast Furnace
Sanjay Hazarika
Daniel T. Hu Development of Part of Speech Tagging and Syntactic Analysis Software for
Chinese Text, May 2001.
Angus Huang PocketRemote: Integrating a Universal Remote Control with a Handheld
Computer, February 2002.
Paul Huck Jr Zero Configuration Name Services for IP Networks, June 2001.
Adrian Gonzalez Telecommunications in Mexico: History, Deregulation and Future, 1997.
Maher Kallel
Masatoshi Kano "International Multi-Company Collaborative Engineering: Strategies of
Japanese Engineering and Construction Firms", 1994.
Salman Khan Character Recognition Heuristics for Check Amount Verification, 1998.
Mark Ming-Hsun Lee Reengineering the Corporation, A Study At a Semiconductor Company, 1995.
Gerardo Lemus "Portfolio Optimization with quantile-based risk-measures", 1998.
Michael G. Leonida A Time-Delayed Neural Network Approach to the Prediction of the Hot Metal
Temperature in a Blast Furnace, 2000.
Alexis C. Liu
Patricia Liu "Towards the Reliable Automation of Courtesy Amount Recognition," 1996.
Raymond Louie Hybrid Intelligent Systems Integration Into Complex Multi-Source Information
Systems, 1999.
Tzer Hung Low A Self Healing Dynamically Distributed System for Hotel Management using
JavaSpaces, July 2001.
Yao Ma Data Warehousing, OLAP, and Data Mining: An Integrated Strategy for Use at
FAA, 1998.
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Vishal Mehta "Neural Network in Optimization of Safety Logic", 2002.
Ashish Mishra Using Structural Analysis to Automate Entity Correlation between Multiple
Data Schema, February 2002.
Pat Moy
Ronjon Nag
M.V. Nagendraprasad "Automated Recognition of Handwritten Numerals: Issues and Algorithms",
1991.
Sze Hwei Ong (Osh): "Grid Computing: Business and Policy Implications", 2003.
Jay Ongg An Architectural Comparison of Distributed Object Technologies, 1997.
Jibu Punoose An Improved Segmentation Module for the Recognition of Handwritten
Numerals, 1999.
Christopher Poulsen
Brian A. Purville Design of Information Chennels for Mission-Critical Systems, May 2001.
Manuel Quintana
Vijay Ruhela Effective use of Wire-less Technology (WT) to Enhance Productivity in
Information Technology (IT) Activity Management, 1999.
Wandy Sae-Tan The Design and Construction of a 3-D Scanner from Off the Shelf
Components, 1998.
Ravindra Sarma Neural Network Datamining for Prediction and Input Saliency Determination
in a Blast Furnace Environment, May 2000.
Viney Sawhney "Prospects for Privatization of Energy Sector in India", 1994.
Quincy Scott SSPARCy: A Software Integration Support and Design Rationale Capture
System, July 2001.
Satwik Seshasai A Knowledge Based Approach to Facilitate Enginering Design 2002.
Harshal Shah Reengineering of In-Transit Asset Visibility at Federal Express and UPS,
1995.
Farokh Shapooyee
Anshu Sinha An Improved Recognition Module for the Recognition of Handwritten Digits,
1999.
Madhav Srimadh Strategies for Providing Students and Researchers in Developing Environments
Access to Industry Standard Hardware and Software Technologies, 2003.
Allen Sun Design and Implementation of Fisheye Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc
Networks, 2000.
Yang Meng Tan
Hongfei Tian Grid Computing as an Integrated Force in Virtual Enterprises, 2003.
Ali Tobah
Michael Trupiano A Taxonomy for Assessing Fitness of Mobile Data Services in US Consumer
Markets, 2001.
Sanjeev Vadhavkar
David Wang Automated Semantic Correlation between Multiple Schema for Information
Exchange, 2000.
Brian T. Wong The Abstract Data Interface, May 2001.
Tony Wu Enhancements of Post Processing Step in Winbanks s Off-Line Character
Recognition System, 1998.
Akbar Zaheer
Undergraduate Students
Aparna Agarwal
George Apostle
Tyrome Brown "Application of Imaging Technology: A Case Study", 1990.
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Jim Buonora "Fault-Tolerance in a Hierarchical Storage System", 1987.
Rolando Cabrera "MS-Windows User Interface for OCR", 1993.
Emily Candell
Winnie Chan Improving the Automatic Processing of Handwritten Bank Checks, 2002.
Winston Chang Relationship Analysis Tool for Stakeholders in a Knowledge-Based
Engineering Design System, 2002
Shane Cruz SSPARCY:A Software Integration Support System for Satellite Simulation,
2001.
Gregory A. Dancer
Anuja Doshi Neural Network Optimization for Airport Movement Area Safety System, 2003.
Ashima Dua Inversion of Neural Networks: A Solution to the Problems Encountered by a
Steel Corporation, 2000.
Mark G. Duggan "Enhancing Accuracy of Automated Numerical Recognition", 1992.
Benjamin Fang Datamining Application in Steel Production Neural Network Analysis of the
Sinter Making Prediction, 2000.
Vanessa C. Feliberti "A New Algorithm for Slant Correction of Handwritten Characters", 1991.
Anne M. Francomano "Intelligent Preprocessing and Postprocessing for Recognizing Numbers", 1992.
Adam Garner Contemporary Bank Check Alternatives, 2003.
Daniel Gonzalez Improvement of the Recognition Module of WinBank, 2002
Lenny Granowetter "Machine Recognition of the Courtesy Amount Box on Checks", 1993.
Christine Guarino "A Segmentation-Recognition Method for Handwritten Numeral Strings", 1993.
Suman Gupta
William Habeck "An Expert System for Accessing and Integrating Design Analysis Knowledge",
1987.
Scott Hirayama "Optimization of Query Facilities for a Telecommunications Database", 1992.
Felicia Hu A Syntax Verification Module for the Winbank System", 1999.
Daniel Kennedy "Achieving a Single Model for Integrating Heterogenous Databases", 1987.
Lowell Kim "Storage and Retrieval of Pictorial Information in Heterogeneous Computing
Systems", 1987.
Jennifer Koo Optical Character Recognition, 1999.
Danny Lai Using Genetic Algorithms as a Controller for Hot Metal Temperature in Blast
Furnace Processes, 2000.
Douglas Lee "Computer-Aided Software Engineering",
Mark Levine
Andrew Luan "System Integration of Optical Scanners to Improve Administrative Operations:
A Case Study of the US Postal Service", 1993.
Yoshitaka Nakanishi Training of Optimized Neural Network for Airport Movement Area Safety
System 2002
Carolyn Ng Creating a Web Interface for WinBank, 2003.
Brian Purville Data Mining Using Time-Delay Neural-Networks Applied to Steel
Production, 2000.
Mu'taz Qubbaj Using Decision Trees to Create a Control Mechanism for regulation of the Hot
Metal Temperature of the "G" Blast Furnace at Steelcorp, 2000.
Suneeta Ramaswami
Knute Ream
John Riordan
James Rutherford "An Evolution of Standards for Data Exchanges in an Integrated Environment",
1988.
Harshal Shah "Reengineering of In-Transit Asset Visibility at Federal Express and UPS",
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1993.
Peter L. Sparks "A Hybrid Method of Segmenting Numeric Character Strings", 1991
Pankaj Srivastava "A Study of Optical Scanners and their Application to Office Automation",
1990.
Tameez Sunderji Locating the Courtesy Amount Block in Bank Cheque Images, 1999.
Rui Tang Electronic Checking System, 2004.
NattavudeThirathon Extension and Alarm Analysis of Neural Network Prediction of Separation
Distance in AMASS Safety Logic, 2003.
Stella Tsoi "Implementing Logical Compound Query in a Pictorial Database", 1988.
Richard Wong
David Yuen
XV. PUBLICATIONS
A. Books
1. Integration of Information Systems: Bridging Heterogeneous Databases (editor), IEEE
Press: New York, NY, 1989.
2. Principles of Expert Systems (editor - with B.E. Prasad), IEEE Press: New York, NY, 1988.
3. Microcomputer Based Expert Systems (editor - with B.E. Prasad), IEEE Press: New York,
NY, 1988.
4. Advanced Microprocessors - Volume II (editor), IEEE Press: New York, NY, 1987.
5. Multi-Microprocessors (editor), IEEE Press: New York, NY, 1988.
6. Insights into Personal Computers (editor - with H.D. Toong), IEEE Press: New York, NY,
1985.
7. Personal Computers (with H.D. Toong) South Bend, IN, 1983.
8. Advanced Microprocessors (editor - with H.D. Toong), IEEE Press: New York, NY, 1983.
B. Refereed Articles
1. "Sistema de reconocimiento de caracteres para la lectura autom tica de cheques" (with R.
Palacios), Anales de Mecanica y Electricidad, 2003.
2. A Knowledge Based Approach To Facilitate Engineering Design (with S. Seshasai),
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2003.
3. Selective and Authentic Third-party Distribution of XML Documents (with E. Bertino, B.
Carminati, E. Ferrari, and B. Thuraisingham), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data
Engineering, Forthcoming.
4. Feedback based architecture for reading courtesy amounts on checks (with R. Palacios and
P. Wang), The Journal of Electronic Imaging, 12(1), Jan 2003, pp 194-202.
5. Handwritten Bank Check Recognition of Courtesy Amounts (with R. Palacios and P.
Wang), Accepted for publication in International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG),
2003.
6. An Integrated and Collaborative Framework for Business Design: A Knowledge
Engineering Approach (with S. Seshasai and A. Kumar), Data and Knowledge
Engineering, Special Issue on Business Process Technologies, Accepted on December 1,
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2003.
7. The Critical Role of Trusted Agents, Sloan Management Review, Volume 43, No. 4,
Summer 2002, pp. 94-95.
8. Collaborative Commerce and Knowledge Management (with E. Bertino, E. Ferrari, and B.
Thuraisingham), The Journal of Knowledge and Process Management, Volume 9, Issue 1,
2002.
9. The Evolution of the High-End Computing Market in the United States (with S.
Deshpande, and R. Foster), The International Journal of Technology Management (IJTM),
Volume 23, No. 8, Spring, 2002.
10. A Four-Faceted Knowledge Based Approach to Surmounting National and Other Borders
The Journal of Knowledge Management, Volume 5, No. 4, 2001.
11. A Self-Configuring and Self-Administering Name System with Dynamic Address
Assignment, (with P. Huck, M. Butler, and M. Feng), Transactions on Internet Technology
(ACM-TOIT), Volume 1, No. 4, 2001.
12. Data Mining for Electronic Commerce" (with Sanjeev Vadhavkar and Shiu-chung Au)
Electronic Commerce Advisor, Volume 4, Number 2, September/October 1999, pp. 24-30.
13. "A Knowledge Based Segmentation Algorithm for Enhanced Recognition of Handwritten
Courtesy Amounts" (with Karim Hussein, Arun Agrawal, and Patrick Shen-Pei Wang),
Journal of Pattern Recognition, in Volume 32, No 2, 1999, pp. 305.
14. "A Hybrid Model Based on Dynamic Programming, Neural Networks, and Surrogate Value
for Inventory Optimization Applications" (with Carlos Reyes, Auroop Ganguly and Gerardo
Lemus), Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 49, 1998, pp. 1-10.
15. "Neural Networks Based Data Mining Applications for Medical Inventory Problems" (with
Kanti Bansal, and Sanjeev Vadhavkar, International Journal of Agile Manufacturing,
Volume 1 Issue 2, 1998, pp. 187-200.
16. "Telecommunications in Mexico" (with Adrian Gonzalez and Sawan Deshpande),
Telecommunications Policy, Volume 22, Issue 4-5,1998, pp. 341-357.
17. "Neural Networks Based Forecasting Techniques for Inventory Control Applications" (with
Kanti Bansal and Sanjeev Vadhavkar), Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Vol. 2,
1998, pp. 97-102.
18. "Query Optimization in Heterogeneous Distributed Information Environment" (with M.P.
Reddy and B. Uma), Heuristics: The Journal of Intelligent Technologies, Vol. 10, No. 2,
1998, pp. 67-90.
19. "Detection of Courtesy Amount Block on Bank Checks" (with Arun Agarwal, Karim
Hussein and Patrick Wang), Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 5(2), April 1996, pp. 214-
224.
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20. "Incremental Loading in the Persistent C++ Language E" (with Murali Vemulapati and D.
Sriram), Journal of Object Oriented Programming, Vol. 8, No. 4, July-August 1995.
21. "Correction of Slant in Handwritten Numerals for Automated Document Processing" (with
M.V. Nagendraprasad and V. Feliberti), Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence,
Vol. 8, No.4, 1995, pp. 469-472.
22. "Formulating Global Integrity Constraints During Derivation of Global Schema" (with M.P.
Reddy and B.E. Prasad), Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 16, 1995, pp. 241-268.
23. "Context Interchange: A Lattice Based Approach", (with M.P. Reddy), Knowledge-Based
Systems, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, England, 1995.
24. "A Methodology for Integration of Heterogeneous Databases" (with M. P. Reddy, B. E.
Prasad, and P. G. Reddy), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 6,
No. 6, 1994.
25. "An Adaptive Modular Neural Network with Application to Unconstrained Character
Recognition" (with Lik Mui, Arun Agarwal, and P.S.P. Wang), International Journal of
Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific Press, Singapore. Special
Issue on Document Image Analysis, 1994, pp. 1189-1204.
26. "A Heuristic Multi-stage Algorithm for Segmenting Simply Connected Handwritten
Numerals" (with M.V. Nagendraprasad and Peter L. Sparks), Heuristics: The Journal of
Knowledge Engineering & Technology, Vol. 6, No. 4, 1993, pp 16-26.
27. "Algorithms for Thinning and Rethickening Digital Patterns" (with M. V. Nagendraprasad,
and P. S. P. Wang), Journal of Digital Signal Processing, Academic Press, Vol. 3, No. 2,
1993, pp 97-102.
28. "An Integrated Architecture for Recognition of Totally Unconstrained Handwritten
Numerals", (with M.V. Nagendraprasad, A. Liu, P.S.P Wang, and A. Ayyadurai),
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1993,
pp. 757-773.
29. "An Improved Structural Approach for Automated Recognition of Handprinted Characters"
(with P.S.P. Wang), International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence,
Vol. 5, 1 and 2, 1991, pp. 97-121.
30. A Microcomputer-Based Image Database Management System (with B.E. Prasad, Hoo-min
Toong, and Stuart Madnick), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. IE-24, No. 1,
February 1987, pp. 83-88.
31. "Increasing Throughput of Multiprocessor Systems" (with H.D. Toong), IEEE Transactions
on Industrial Electronics, Vol. IE-32, No. 3, August 1985, pp. 260-267.
32. "Microcomputers in Industrial Control Applications" (with H.D. Toong), IEEE Transactions
on Industrial Electronics, Vol. IE-31, No. 2, May 1984, pp. 109-119.
33. "A New Direction in Personal Computer Software" (with H.D. Toong), Proceedings of the
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IEEE, Vol. 72, No. 3, March 1984, pp. 337-388.
34. "The First Decade of Personal Computers" (with H.D. Toong), Proceedings of the IEEE,
Vol. 72, No. 3, March 1984.
35. "Microprocessors -- The First Twelve Years" (with H.D. Toong), Proceedings of the IEEE,
Vol. 71, No. 11, November 1983, pp. 1236-1256.
36. "An Architectural Comparison of 32-Bit Microprocessors" (with H.D. Toong), IEEE Micro,
Vol. 3, No. 1, Feb. 1983, pp. 9-22.
37. "An Overview of Office Technology," Behavior and Information Technology, London,
England, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1982, pp. 217-236.
38. "Evaluation Kernels for Microprocessor Analyses" (with H.D. Toong), Performance
Evaluation, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1-8, 1982.
39. "An Architectural Comparison of Contemporary 16-Bit Microprocessors," IEEE Micro
(with H.D. Toong), Vol. 1, No. 2, May 1981, pp. 26-37.
40. "Want to Buy a Computer System?" (with P.G. Reddy), Communications of the Computer
Society of India, August 1977.
C. Journal Articles (Non-refereed)
1. "The Magic New World of Computers" (with H.D. Toong), Span, Vol. 24, No. 3, July 1983,
pp. 5 -15.
2. "The Computer Age Gets Personal" (with H.D. Toong), Technology Review, MIT,
Cambridge MA, Vol. 86, No. 1, January 1983, pp. 26 - 37.
3. Amar Gupta, "Personal Computers" (with H.D. Toong), Scientific American, Vol. 247, No.
6, December 1982, pp. 88-99.
--Italian edition, Feb. 1983, p. 96
--French edition, Feb. 1983, p. 46
--Spanish edition, Feb. 1983, 46
--German edition, Feb. 1983, p. 96
--Chinese edition, 1983, p. 30
--Japanese edition, Feb. 1983, p. 42
--Russian edition, Mar. 1984, p. 168
4. "Automating Air Traffic Control" (with H.D. Toong), Technology Review, MIT,
Cambridge, MA, Vol. 85, No. 3, April, 1982, pp. 40 - 49 and 54.
D. Chapters in Edited Volumes
1. Neural Network-Based Data Mining Techniques for Steel Making (with R.K. Sarma, and
S. Vadhavkar), in Statistical Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, edited by H.
Bozdogan, CRC Press 2004, Chapter 24, pp. 401-414.
2. Knowledge Management for Integrating Heterogeneous Databases (with Bhavani
Thuraisingham, Elisa Bertino and Elena Ferari) in Heterogeneous Information Exchange and
Organizational Hubs, edited by Bestougeff, Dubois and Thuraisingham, Kluwer, Academic
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Publishers, 2002.
3. Data Mining for Diverse E-Commerce Applications (with Sanjeev Vadhavkar and Jason
Yeung), in E-Commerce and Intelligent Methods, published by the Springer-Verlag Group
(Physica-Verlag) in the series "Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing", Series Editor
J.Kacprzyk, 2002.
4. "Bank Check Analysis and Recognition by Computers" (with Arun Agarwal, Karim
Hussein, M.V. Nagendraprasad and Patrick Wang), in the Handbook of Optical Character
Recognition and Document Image Analysis, edited by Bunke and Wang, World Scientific
Publishing Company, 1997. Chapter 24, pp. 623-652.
5. "Detection of Courtesy Amount Block on Bank Checks" (with Arun Agarwal, Len M.
Granowetter, and P.S.P. Wang), in the Handbook of Document Image Analysis, edited by
Bunke and Wang, 1997.
6. "An Integrated Architecture for Recognition of Totally Unconstrained Handwritten
Numerals", (with M.V. Nagendraprasad, A. Liu, P.S.P Wang, and A. Ayyadurai), Advances
in Pattern Recognition Systems Using Neural Network Technologies, World Scientific
Press, 1993, pp. 113-129.
7. "A Neural Net Based 'Hybrid' Approach to Handwritten Numeral Recognition", (with P.S.P.
Wang, and M.V. Nagendraprasad), in From Pixels to Features III: Frontiers in Handwriting
Recognition (eds) S. Impedova and J.C. Somon, North - Holland, edited by S. Impadaro and
J.C. Simon, Elsevier Publishers, 1992, pp 145-154.
8. An Improved Structural Appraoch for Automated Recognition of Hand Printed
Characters, (with P.S.P. Wang). Character and Handwriting Recognition, World Scientific,
1991, pp. 97-121.
9. "An Architectural Comparison of 32-Bit Microprocessors" (with H.D. Toong), Computer
Architecture, edited by D. D. Gajski, V. M. Milutinovic, M. J. Siegel and B. P. Furht, IEEE
Computer Society Press, Washington D.C., 1987, pp. 177-190.
10. "An Architectural Comparison of 16-Bit Microprocessors" (with H.D. Toong),
Microcomputer Control of Power Electronics and Drives, edited by Bimal K. Bose, IEEE
Press, New York, 1987, pp. 25-36.
11. "Informatics in India", National Policies for Developing High Technology Industries -
International Comparisons, edited by Francis W. Rushing and Carole Ganz Brown,
Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, and London (U.K.), 1986, pp. 89-110.
12. "An Architectural Comparison of 32-Bit Microprocessors" (with H.D. Toong), Advanced
Microprocessors and High-Level Language Computer Architecture, edited by Veljka
Milutinovic, IEEE Computer Society Press, Washington, D.C., 1986, pp. 344-357.
13. "New Developments and Applications of Microcomputer Hardware and Software",
Handbook of Information Technology and Office Systems, edited by A. E. Cawkell,
published by North-Holland Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1986, pp. 651-676.
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14. "Personal Computers" (with H.D. Toong), The Information Technology Revolution, edited
by Tom Forester, published by Basil Blackwell Publisher Ltd., (U.K.), 1985 and by MIT
Press, Cambridge, MA, 1985, pp. 169-181.
15. "An Architectural Comparison of 32-Bit Microprocessors" (with H.D. Toong),
Microprocessors and Microcomputers, edited by J.T. Cain, IEEE Computer Society Press:
New York, NY, 1984, pp. 129-142.
16. "An Architectural Comparison of Contemporary 16-Bit Microprocessors" (with H.D.
Toong), Microprocessors and Microcomputers, edited by J.T. Cain, IEEE Computer Society
Press: New York, NY, 1984, pp. 105-116.
17. "Adapting the Informational Revolution", The Infrastructure of Information Society, North-
Holland Publishing Company: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1984, pp. 105-110.
18. "An Architectural Comparison of Contemporary 16-Bit Microprocessors" (with H.D.
Toong) Microcomputer Networks, H. A. Freeman and K. J. Thurber (eds.), IEEE Computer
Society Press: New York, NY, 1983.
19. "Emerging Trends in Office Technology", Office Information Systems, N. Naffah (ed.),
North-Holland Publishing Company: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1982, pp. 599-626.
E. Conference Proceedings: Refereed Papers Only
1. Training Neural Networks for Reading Handwritten Amounts on Checks (with R.
Palacios), IEEE International Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing, 2003.
Reducing Impediments to Collaboration in A Virtual Design World (with S. Seshasai, and
2.
T. Sainath) Virtual Worlds Conference, San Antonio, 2002.
3. SSPARCy: A System for Automated Design Data and Rationale Capture (with S.
Seshasai, J. Yeung, and T. Sainath) Virtual Worlds Conference, San Antonio, 2002.
4. Neural Networks Based Data Mining Techniques For Steel Making (with R.K. Sarma, and
S. Vadhavkar) Knoxville, Warren Neel Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge
Discovery, June 22-25, 2002
5. Neural Networks in Optimization of Safety Logic, (with N. Agarwal, A. Ferriere, and B.
English), Warren Neel Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Knoxville,
June 22-25, 2002.
6. The Introduction of Neural Networks in the Optimization of Runway Safety Logic, (with
B. English and V. Mehta), Presented at the Integrated CNS Technologies Conference,
Washington D.C., 2002.
7. Why the Information Explosion Can Be Bad for Data Mining, and How Data Fusion
Provides a Way Out, (with P. Van der Putten, and J. Kok), Second SIAM International
Conference on Data Mining, Arlington, April 11-13, 2002.
8. Directions for Web and E-Commerce Applications Security, (with B. Thuraisingham, C.
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Clifton, E. Bertino, and E. Ferrari), Tenth IEEE International Workshops on Enabling
Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), Cambridge, June
2001.
9. Integrated Framework to Support Distributed CAD over the Internet, (with S. Vadhavkar,
F. Pena-Mora, and J.Yeung), Tenth IEEE International Workshops on Enabling
Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), Cambridge, June
2001.
10. Data Mining Techniques for Optimizing Inventories for Electronic Commerce, (with A.
Dhond and S. Vadhavkar), ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) Industrial Track, Boston, August 2000.
11. Use of Recurrent Neural Networks for Strategic Data Mining of Sales Information (with
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram and M.V. Negendra Prasad), IRMA Conference, 1999.
12. "Detection of Courtesy Amount Block on Bank Checks" (with Arun Agarwal, Len M.
Granowetter, and P.S.P. Wang), Third International Conference on Document Analysis and
Recognition, edited by Bunke and Wang, Singapore 1995.
13. "A Knowledge Based Segmentation Algorithm for Enhanced Recognition of Handwritten
Courtesy Amounts" (with Karim Hussein, Arun Agarwal, and Patrick Shen-Pei Wang),
Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition, World Scientific Press, Singapore, Oct. 1994.
14. "Towards an Active Schema Integration Architecture for Heterogeneous Database Systems",
(with M. P. Reddy and Michael Siegel), Research Issues on Data Engineering:
Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems, Vienna, Austria, 1993.
15. "An Improved Algorithm for Thinning Binary Digital Patterns", (with M.V.
Nangendraprasad and P.S.P. Wang), Eleventh IAPR International Conference on Pattern
Recognition, The Hague, The Netherlands, Aug 30 - Sept 3, 1992.
16. "An Algorithm for Segmenting Handwritten Numerals" (with P.L. Sparks and M.V.
Nagendraprasad), Second International Conference on Automation, Robotics, and Computer
Vision, Singapore, 1992.
17. "A System for Automatic Recognition of Totally Unconstrained Handwritten Numerals"
(with M.V. Nagendraprasad and Alexis Liu), Second International Conference on
Automation, Robotics, and Computer Vision, Singapore, 1992.
18. "Knowledge Based Integrated Information Systems Engineering for Logistics Applications"
(with S.E. Madnick), Symposium on Artificial Intelligence Applications for Military
Logistics, Williamsburg, VA, March 29-31, 1988, pp. 247-251.
19. "Expert Systems for Transportation and Distribution" (with R. Giangrande), Symposium on
Artificial Intelligence Applications for Military Logistics, Williamsburg, VA, March 29-31,
1988, pp. 211-213.
20. "Adapting the Informational Revolution," First International Conference on Infrastructure of
on Information Society, Cairo, Egypt, December 1982.
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21. "Enhanced Concurrency in m-n Multiprocessor Systems" (with H.D. Toong), IEEE Third
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale,
October 1982.
22. "Performance Modeling of Multimicroprocessor Systems", Southeast Asia Regional
Computer Conference, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, September 1982.
23. "Personal Computers -- An Overview", Ninth Australian Computer Conference, Hobart,
Australia, August 1982.
24. "Emerging Trends in Office Technology", International Conference on Office Information
Systems, INRIA, France, October 1981.
25. "Relevance of Decision Support Systems in Developing Environments", Southeast Asia
Regional Computer Conference, Jakartha, Indonesia, September 1980.
26. "Computers in India - State of the Art", CSI Annual Convention, Bangalore, January 1979.
27. "Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems", Indo-British Seminar on Digital Systems,
Delhi, September 1978.
28. "Benchmarking - Case Study", Seminar on Performance Monitoring, Bombay, August 1978.
F. Technical Reports and Working Papers
Several working papers and technical reports were subsequently published as articles listed above. In
such cases, they have been omitted from the list that follows. Working papers with an NTIS number
are disseminated by NTIS, 5282 Port Royal Rd., Springfield, Virginia 22161.
1. Self-configuration and Self-Administration of Wirelss Grids (with A. Agarwal and D.
Norman), MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4460-04, 2004.
2. Wireless Grids: Approaches, Architectures and Technical Challenges (with A. Agarwal and
D. Norman), MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4459-04, 2004.
3. Toward the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory (with S. Seshasai), MIT Sloan Working Paper No.
4455-04, 2004.
4. Global Outsourcing of Professional Services (with S. Seshasai), MIT Sloan Working Paper
No. 4456-04, 2004.
5. Training Neural Networks for Reading Handwritten Amounts on Checks (with R. Palacios),
MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4365-02, 2002.
6. A Knowledge Based Approach to Facilitate Enginering Design (with Satwik Seshasai), MIT
Sloan Working Paper No. 4381-02, 2002.
7. Using Structural Analysis to Mediate XML Semantic Interoperability (with A. Mishra and
M. Ripley), MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4345-02, 2002.
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8. Use of Recurrent Neural Networks for Strategic Data Mining of Sales (with J.
Shanmugasundarum, M.V. Nagendra-Prasad, and S. Vadhavkar), MIT Sloan Working Paper
No. 4347-02, 2002.
9. Selective and Authenic third Party Distributi