Sudha Ram

McClelland Professor of MIS

Department of Management Information Systems,

Eller College of Management,

430J McClelland Hall, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721

E-mail: abqdzm@r.postjobfree.com

URL: http://vishnu.eller.arizona.edu/ram

ADRG URL: http://adrg.eller.arizona.edu

Education

1982-1985: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.

Ph.D., Management Information Systems

1979 1981: Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India

MBA, emphasis in Management Information Systems

1976-1979: University of Madras, India

BS, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics

Employment

August 2006-Present: McClelland Professor of MIS, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Eller Professor, Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management.

August 2001- 2006: Eller Professor of MIS, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Eller Professor, Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management.

Aug. 1996 2001: Professor, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Eller Professor, Department of Management Information Systems, College of BPA

Aug. 1991 Jul. 1996: The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Associate Professor, Department of Management Information Systems, College of BPA

Aug. 1985 Jul. 1991: The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Assistant Professor, Department of Management Information Systems, College of BPA

1984 1985: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science

1984 1985: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Research Assistant, Department of Natural History

1982 1984: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Research Assistant, Department of Planning and Budgeting

1983 1985: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Teaching Assistant, College of Commerce and Business Administration

1981 1982: Tata Consultancy Services, Bombay, India

Assistant Systems Analyst

Research Interests

Enterprise Data Management

Semantic Interoperability among Heterogeneous Data Sources

Bioinformatics and Spatio-Temporal Semantic Modeling

Business Rules Modeling and Implementation

Automation of Database Design

Web Services Discovery and Selection

Honors and Awards

IBM faculty Development Award, July 2007.

UA Leading Edge Innovator in Research Award, March 2007.

Received Advisor of the Year Award from the University of Arizona, Graduate and

Professional Students Council, March 2006.

Best Paper Nomination, WITS 2005

Science Direct: Top 25 Hottest Papers, 2005 for Information Systems Paper

MISQ paper by ISI Essential Science Indicators as the October 2005 Fast Breaking Paper in the

field of Economics and Business

Received Eller Professorship, 2001.

Nominated for University of Arizona graduate Education and Mentoring Award in 2001-

Honorable Mention Awarded.

Andersen Consulting Professor of the Year Award, March 2000.

Nominated, University of Arizona Graduate Education and Mentoring Award, Spring and Fall

2000

Recipient, Joseph Peggs and Margie Peggs Kault Award for Mentoring and Doctoral Placement,

1999.

Nominated, MBA Faculty of the Year, 1998.

Recipient, Joseph Peggs and Margie Peggs Kault Award for Mentoring and Doctoral Placement,

1998.

General Chair for 1997 ACM SIGMOD Conference, Tucson.

General Chair for 1996 DKSME Conference, Phoenix.

Appeared numerous times on the Dean's list of Excellent Teachers.

Nominated for Best Paper Award at the 1995 Hawaii International Conference on System

Sciences - HICSS95.

Recipient of International Travel Grant from the Office for International Programs, University of

Arizona, March 1992, 1995.

Appointed Guest Editor for a special issue on Heterogeneous Distributed Database Systems", of

the Journal IEEE Computer, Dec. 1991.

Finalist in award for Best Paper at the International Conference on Systems Sciences, Kona, HI,

Jan,. 1990.

Appointed member of editorial board for Journal of Database Administration, 1990.

Recipient of the International Travel Grant from the Office of International Programs, University

of Arizona, Dec. 1990.

Recipient of the Stella Maris medal awarded by the University of Madras for obtaining first

position in the university in the B.S. Degree, 1979.

Recipient of the National Science Talent Scholarship from the National Science and Technology

Division of the Indian Government, 1976-1979.

Publications

Books and Chapters In Books

1. "Understanding the Semantics of Data Provenance to Support Active Conceptual Modeling",

forthcoming, in P. P. Chen and L. Y. Wong, (Eds): Proc. of the 1st International Workshop

on Active Conceptual Modeling of Learning, LNCS 4512. Springer-Verlag, 2007 (with J.

Liu).

2. David W. Embley, Antoni Oliv, Sudha Ram (Eds.): Conceptual Modeling - ER 2006, 25th

International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Tucson, AZ, USA, November 6-9, 2006,

Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4215 Springer 2006, ISBN 3-540-47224-X,

588 pages.

3. Clustering Similar Schema Elements across Heterogeneous Databases-a First Step in

Database Integration" Advanced Topics in Database Research -- Vol. 5, Edited by K. Siau,

Idea Group Publishing, PA, ISBN: 1537-9299 Idea Group Publishing, PA, 2006, pp. 227-

248.

4. Enabling Information Sharing Across Government Agencies, in Advanced Topics in

Database Research, Edited by Keng Siau, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, ISBN: 1-

59140-471-1, 2005, pp. 341-366 (with A. Bajaj).

5. Towards Semantic Interoperability of Heterogeneous Biological Data Sources, in Oscar

Pastor, Jo o Falc o e Cunha (Eds.): Advanced Information Systems Engineering, 17th

International Conference, CAiSE 2005, Porto, Portugal, June 13-17, 2005, Proceedings.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3520 Springer 2005, ISBN 3-540-26095-1.

6. Modeling the Semantics of 3D Protein Structures, in Lecture Notes on Computer Science

3288, P. Atzeni, W. Chu, H. Lu, S. Zhou, and T.K. Ling (eds.) 2004, pp. 696-708 ( with W.

Wei).

7. DISTIL: A Design Support Environment for Conceptual Modeling of Spatio Temporal

Requirements, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2224, Hideko S. Kunii, Sushil Jajodia,

and Arne Solvberg (eds.), 2001, pp. 70-83 ( with V. Khatri, R. Snodgrass, and Y. Hwang).

8. GeoCosm: A Semantics Based Approach for Information Integration of GeoSpatial Data, in

Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2465, Hiroshi Arisawa, Yahiko Kambayashi, Vijay

Kumar, Heinrich C. Mayr, and Ingrid Hunt ( Eds.), 2002, pp. 152-165 ( with V. Khatri, L

Zhang, and D. Zeng).

9. Schema Integration: Methodology and Tools, in Heterogeneous Distributed Databases,

Sheth, Rusinkiewicz, and Elmagarmid (eds.), Morgan Kaufman, 1999, pp. 119-155. (with R.

Venkataraman).

10. Modeling Organizations as a Social Network of Distributed Knowledge Based Systems", in

Artificial Intelligence in Organizational Design, Modeling and Control, edited by R.W.

Blanning and D.R. King, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995 (with D. Carlson).

11. An Object Oriented Design for Distributed Knowledge Based Systems", in Object-Oriented

Databases, edited by Ez Nahouraii and Fred Petry, IEEE Computer Society Press, March, 1991

(with D. Carlson).

12. Crisis Support Systems: Recognizing and Managing Crisis", in Readings in Decision Support and

Executive Information Systems, edited by Paul Gray, Prentice Hall, 1991 (with S. Weber and

C.A.P. Smith).

Journals

1. Conceptually Modeling Windows and Bounds for Space and Time in Database

Constraints, Communications of the ACM, Vol 55, No. 11, pp. 125-129, November 2008

(with F. Currim).

2. Linking Biological Databases Semantically for Knowledge Discovery, Lecture Notes in

Computer Science 5232 Springer 2008, pp. 22-32. (with W. Wei and KP Zhang).

3. Entity matching across heterogeneous data sources: An approach based on constrained

cascade generalization, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 66, No. 3, September,

2008, pp. 368-381 (with H.Zhao).

4. A Semiotics Framework for Analyzing Data Provenance Research, Journal of Computing

Science and Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 3, September 2008, pp. 221-248. (with Jun Liu)

5. Survey of Cardinality Constraints for Snapshot, Temporal and Spatio-temporal Semantic

Models, in Systems Analysis and Design for Advanced Modeling Methods: Best Practices,

forthcoming, April 2009. (with F. Currim).

6. Database design and querying within the fuzzy semantic model, Information Sciences, .

Volume 177, No. 21, 2007, pp. 4598-4620. (with Rafik Bouaziz, Salem Chakhar, Vincent

Mousseau, and Abdelkader Telmo)

7. Conceptual Modeling: a 25 Year history, Springer Verlag, LNCS 4215, November 2006

(with D. Embley, and A. Olive), pp. V-VI.

8. Defining, Eliciting and Using Data Semantics for Emerging Domains, forthcoming,

Journal of Database Management, pp. 1-3 2008 (with V. Khatri).

9. A Comprehensive Framework Towards Information Sharing Among Government

Agencies, International Journal of E-Government Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, April-June

2007, pp. 29-44 (with A. Bajaj)

10. Advances in Data Modeling Research, Communications of the AIS, Vol 17, Article 30,

April 2006 (with A. Bajaj, G. Allen, V. Khatri, and K. Siau).

11. On augmenting database design-support environments to capture the geo-spatio-temporal

data semantics, Information Systems, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2006, pp. 98-133 (with V. Khatri and

R. Snodgrass).

12. Combining Schema and Instance Information for combining Heterogeneous Data Sources,

Data and Knowledge Engineering, 61, No. 2, 2007, pp. 281-303. ( with H. Zhao).

13. Elitist and Ansemble Strategies for Cascade Generalization, Journal of Database

Management, Vol. 17, Issue 3, 2006, pp. 92-107 (with H. Zhao, and A. Sinha).

14. Cognitive Fit between Conceptual Schema and Internal Problem Representation: The case

of geospatio temporal conceptual schema comprehension, IEEE Transactions on

Professional Communication, Vol. 49, No. 2, June 2006, pp. 109-127 (with V. Khatri, I.

Vessey, and V. Ramesh).

15. A Fuzzy Measure-Theoretical Framework for Screening Product Innovations, IEEE

Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, Vol. 36, No. 3,

May 2006, pp. 577-591 ( with D. Liginlal and L. Duckstein).

16. "A Comprehensive Framework for Modeling Set-Based Business Rules during Conceptual

Design", Information Systems, Vol. 30, No. 2, April 2005, pp. 89-118 (with V. Khatri).

(This paper is in the Science Direct Top 25- list of Hottest papers).

17. "Entity Identification for Heterogeneous Database Integration - A Multiple Classifier System

Approach and Empirical Evaluation", Information Systems, Vol. 30, No. 2, April 2005, pp.

119-132 (with Huimin Zhao).

18. An Agent Based Approach for Sourcing Business Rules in Supply Chain Management,

Vol. 1, No. 1, International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies, January-March

2005, pp. 1-16 (with J.Liu).

19. "Constrained Cascade Generalization of Decision Trees: How deep to go?", IEEE

Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol 16, No. 6, June 2004, pp. 727-739

(with H. Zhao).

20. Information Systems Interoperability: What Lies Beneath?, ACM Transactions on Information

Systems, Vol. 22, No. 4, October 2004, pp. 595-632 (with Jinsoo Park).

21. "Augmenting a Conceptual Model with Spatio-Temporal Annotations", IEEE Transactions

on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 11, November 2004, pp. 1324-1338

(with V. Khatri, and R. Snodgrass).

22. Clustering Schema Elements for Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Data Sources.

Journal of Database Management, 15(4), October December 2004, pp. 88-106 (with H.

Zhao).

23. "Design Science in Information Systems Research", MIS Quarterly, Volume 28, No. 1,

March 2004, pp. 75-105, (with A. Hevner, S. March, J. Park). Selected by ISI Essential

Science Indicators as the October 2005 Fast Breaking Paper in the field of Economics

and Business. See http://www.esi-topics.com/fbp/2005/october05-AlanRHevner.html

24. Semantic Conflict Resolution Ontology (SCROL): An Ontology for Detecting and

Resolving Data- and Schema-Level Semantic Conflicts", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge

and Data Engineering, Volume 16, No. 2, February 2004, pp. 189-203 (with J. Park).

25. "Using XML Repositories to Support EGovernment",, Journal of Database Management,

Vol.14, No.4, Oct-Dec 2003, pp.59-80, (with A. Bajaj).

26. SEAM: A State Entity Activity Model for a Well defined Workflow Development

Methodology, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 2,

March/April 2002, pp. 415-431 (with A. Bajaj),

27. Supporting User-Defined Granularities and Indeterminacy in a Spatiotemporal Conceptual

Model, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 36, 2002, pp. 195-232

(with V. Khatri, R. Snodgrass)

28. Semantic Modeling and Decision Support in Hydrology, Special issue on Remote Sensing

and Decision Support Systems of Journal of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote,

Vol. 66, No.10, October 2000 (with V. Khatri, Y. Hwang, and S. Yool).

29. An Agenda for Information Technology Research in Heterogeneous and Distributed

Environments, Information Systems Research, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 2000, pp. 327-34,

(with S. March and A. Hevner).

30. Managing Information Products for the BioActive Agents from Drylands Biodiversity of

Latin America Project, (with B. Hutchinson, J. Henzel and B. Timmermann), IAALD

Quarterly Bulletin, Vol. XLIV, No., 2000, pp. 163-172.

31. Intelligent Agents and the World Wide Web: Fact or Fiction", Vol. 12, No. 1, Jan- Mar

2001, Journal of Database Management, pp. 46-47.

32. Research Directions in Conceptual Modeling, (Guest Editorial), Data and Knowledge

Engineering, Vol. 31, No. 3, Nov. 1999, pp. 225-227 (with T. W. Ling).

33. Digital Libraries in the Next Millennium: State of the Art and Research Directions, Information

Systems Frontiers, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 75-94 ( with J. Park, and D. Lee).

34. Evaluating Completeness of Conceptual Business Process Models: A Metric Based on

Case Studies, Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications, Vol. 1, No. 4,

1999, pp. 5-30, (with A. Bajaj).

35. "Semantic Model Support for Geographic Information Systems", IEEE Computer, Vol. 32, No. 5,

May 1999, pp. 74-81 (with J. Park and G. Ball).

36. "Transaction Processing Mechanisms for Active and Real-Time Databases: A Comprehensive

Protocol and a Performance Study", Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 42, No. 3, Sept. 1998,

pp. 288-305 (with P. Konana).

37. "An Empirical Analysis of the Object-Oriented Database Concurrency Control Mechnism O2C2",

Journal of Database Management, April-June 1999, pp. 14-26 (with D. Olsen).

38. "The latin American ICBG: The First Five Years", Vol. 37, Supplement, Journal of

Pharmaceutical Biology, 2000 (with B. Timmermann, B.Hutchinson, J. Henzel, and F. Currim),

pp. 35-54.

39. "Integrity Constraint Integration in Heterogeneous Databases: An Enhanced Methodology for

Schema Integration", Information Systems, Vol.22, No. 8, pp. 423-446, 1997 (with V. Ramesh).

40. "Database Fragmentation and Allocation: An Integrated Methodology and Case Study", IEEE

Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 28, No. 3, May 1998, pp. 288-305 (with A.

Tamhankar).

41. "Collaborative Conceptual Schema Design: A Process Model and a Prototype Systems", ACM

Transactions on Information Systems, Vol. 16, No. 4, Oct. 1998, pp. 347-371 (with V. Ramesh).

42. Semantics based transaction processing for real-time databases: A case of Automated Stock

Trading, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1999, pp. 299-315 (with P.

Konana).

43. "Updating Timestamp Interval for Dynamic Adjustment of Serialization Order in Optimistic

Concurrency Control-Time Interval (OCCTI) protocol", Information Processing Letters, Vol. 63,

1997, pp. 54-65 (with P. Konana and J. Lee).

44. "A Content Specifications for Business Process Models", Australian Journal of Information

Systems, Vol. 4, No. 1, Sept 1996, pp. 22-31 (with A. Bajaj).

45. "Practical Aspects of Teaching and Applied database Course", Database, Vol. 27, No. 3, Summer

1996, 15-33 (with J. Choobineh).

46. "Deriving Functional Dependencies from the Entity Relationship Model", Communications of the

ACM, Vol. 38, No. 9, Sept 1995, pp. 95-107.

47. Incorporating the Majority Consensus Concurrency Control Mechanism into the Database

Allocation Problem", Orsa Journal on Computing, Vol. 7, No. 3, Summer 1995, pp. 244-256

(with S. Narasimhan).

48. "A Blackboard Architecture for Schema Integration", IEEE Expert, Vol. 10, No. 3, June 1995, pp.

56-62 (with V. Ramesh).

49. "Design and Validation of a Knowledge Based System for Screening Product Innovations", IEEE

Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol.26, No.2, March 1996, pp. 213-221 ( with S.

Ram).

50. "Database Allocation in a Distributed Environment: Incorporating Concurrency Control and

Queuing Costs", Management Science, Vol. 40, No. 8, August 1994, pp. 969-983 (with S.

Narasimhan).

51. "Understanding Database Design Expertise", Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol.16, 1995,

97-124 (with V. Storey, C. Thompson).

52. "Towards a Comprehensive Concurrency Control Mechanism for Object Oriented Databases",

Journal of Database Management, Vol.6, No.4, 1995, pp. 24-34 (with Dave Olsen).

53. "Screening Products for International Markets: An Expert Systems Application", forthcoming,

New Review of Applied Expert Systems, 1996, 45-57 (with Sundaresan Ram).

54. "Information Technologies and Systems", Decision Support Systems, Vol. 13, 1995, pp. 4-7 (with

R. Blanning and R. Wang)

55. "Validation of Expert Systems for Innovation Management: Issues, Methodology and Empirical

Assessment", Journal of Product Innovation Management, Vol. 13, No.1, Jan. 1996, pp. 89-98

(with Sundaresan Ram).

56. "Intelligent Database Design Using the Unifying Semantic Model", Information & Management,

Vol. 42, No. 8, 1995, pp. 191-206.

57. "Group Database Design: View Modeling and Integration", Journal of Systems and Software, Vol.

28, No. 2, Feb. 1995, pp. 97-116 (with S. Hayne).

58. "Integrating Information Systems Technologies to Support Consultation in an Information

Center", Information and Management, Vol. 23, 1992, pp. 331-343 (with S. Hayne, and D. Carlso

n).

59. "A Knowledge Representation for Modeling Organizational Productivity", Journal of

Organizational Computing, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1992, pp. 155-180 (with D. Carlson).

60. "Heterogeneous Distributed Database Systems", IEEE Computer, Vol. 24, No. 12, pp 7-12, Dec.

1991.

61. "A Model for Database Allocation Incorporating A Concurrency Control Mechanism", IEEE

Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Sept. 1991, pp. 389-395 (with R. Marsten).

62. "The Synthesis Approach for Relational Database Design", Information Sciences, Vol. 52, No. 3,

Oct. 1990, pp. 134-149 (with S. M. Curran).

63. "HyperIntelligence: The Next Frontier", Nikkei Artificial Intelligence Journal, Nikkei Business

Publications, 1990, pp. 51-67 (with D. Carlson).

64. "An Architecture for Distributed Knowledge Based Systems", Database, Vol. 22, No. 1/2,

Winter/Spring 1991, pp. 11-21 (with D. Carlson).

65. "Communication Requirements and Network Evaluation within a GDSS Environment", Journal

of Decision Support Systems, Vol. 7, 1991, pp. 13-31 (with A. Dennis, T. Abens, and J.F. Nun

amaker).

66. "Screening Financial Innovations: An Expert Systems Approach", IEEE Expert, Vol. 5, No. 4,

Aug. 1990, pp. 20-28 (with S. Ram).

67. "Architecture of Distributed Data Base Systems", Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 10, No.

2, Sept. 1989, pp. 77-95 (with C. Chastain).

68. "A Model for Designing Distributed Database Systems", Information & Management, Vol. 17,

1989.

69. "An Automated Tool for Relational Database Design", Information Systems, Vol. 14, No. 3, 1989,

pp. 247-259 (with S. M. Curran).

70. "Expert Systems: An Emerging Technology for Selecting New Product Winners, Journal of

Product Innovation Management, Vol. 6, No. 2, June 1989, pp. 89-98 (with S. Ram).

71. "Innovator: An Expert System for New Product Launch Decisions", Applied Artificial

Intelligence, Vol. 2, No . 2, 1988, pp. 129-148 (with S. Ram).

Conference Proceedings

1. BioSem: Biological Data Integration, Proceedings of the CMLSA workshop, Barcelona,

November 2008. (with W.Wei and KP Zhang).

2. RFID Tagging at the Aggregate level: Implications for Using Groupings", SIGSAND

proceedings, May 2008 (with F. Currim).

3. "RFID Data: A case for and of Types and Instances", proceedings of Workshop on

Information Technology and Systems, December 2007 (with F. Currim).

4. BIO-LINK: Using Semantics to Link Heterogeneous Biological Databases for Knowledge

Discovery, Proceedings of 16th Workshop in Information Technology and Systems,

Milwaukee, Dec. 2006 (with W. Wei).

PROMS: A System for Harvesting and Managing Data Provenance, Proceedings of 16th

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Workshop in Information Technology and Systems, Milwaukee, Dec. 2006 ( with J. Liu).

6. A Non invasive Software Architecture Style for RFID Data Provisioning, Proceedings of

16th Workshop in Information Technology and Systems, Milwaukee, Dec. 2006 (With Y.

Liu).

7. Understanding the concept of Completeness in Frameworks for Modeling Cardinality

Consraints, Proceedings of 16th Workshop in Information Technology and Systems,

Milwaukee, Dec. 2006 ( with F. Currim).

8. Making the Case for New Semantic Constructs to Model RFID Data, in Proceedings of

SIGSAND, May 12, 2006, Vancouver, British Columbia.

9. S. Ram, Y Hwang and H. Zhao. A Clustering Based Approach for Semantic Web Service

Discovery, Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems

(WITS 2005), Las Vegas, Nevada, December 9-10, 2005.

10. L. Zhang, S. Ram and D. Zeng. Contextual Web Search Based on Semantic Relationships,

Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS 2005),

Las Vegas, Nevada, December 9-10, 2005.

11. S. Ram and W. Wei. Understanding Semantic Links between Heterogeneous Biological

Data Sources, Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems

(WITS 2005), Las Vegas, Nevada, December 9-10, 2005 ( with W. Wei).

12. Ying Liu, S. Ram and R. Lusch. A Unified Market Segmentation Method for Generating

Pareto Optimal Sets, Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Information Technology and

Systems (WITS 2005), Las Vegas, Nevada, December 9-10, 2005 (Nominated for Best

Paper Award).

13. Y. Liu, S. Ram and R. Lusch. Multicriterion Market Segmentation Using Evolutionary

Algorithms, Proceedings of the 2005 NYU International Workshop on Customer

Relationship Management: Data Mining Meets Marketing, Nov. 18-19, 2005.

14. S. Ram. Towards Semantic Interoperability of Heterogeneous Biological Data Sources, in

Oscar Pastor, Jo o Falc o e Cunha (Eds.): Advanced Information Systems Engineering, 17th

International Conference, CAiSE 2005, Porto, Portugal, June 13-17, 2005, Proceedings.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3520 Springer 2005, ISBN 3-540-26095-1.

15. S. Ram and S. Currim, Why do novices make errors in database conceptual modeling,

Proceedings of SIGSAND, May 2005.

16. Toward Automated Integration of Heterogeneous Biological data Sources to discover new

Biological Knowledge, WITS 2004, Washington DC, December 2004 ( With W. Wei).

17. Modeling the Semantics of Protein Structures, Proceedings of the 23rd International

Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2004), Shanghai, China, November 2004 ( with W.

Wei).

18. Can expressiveness and simplicity be simultaneously achieved in conceptual modeling?

Exploring the role of supplementary level of abstraction for spatio-temporal conceptual

modeling, Proceedings of SIGSAND, June 2004. (with Khatri, V. Ramesh and I. Vessey)

19. "Semantic Modeling of Biological Sequences'', Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on

Information Technologies and Systems", Seattle, December 12-13, 2003, pp. 183-188 (With

W. Wei).

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20. Zeng, D., Wang, F.-Y., and Ram, S. (2003). ``Storage Allocation in Prefetching Techniques of

Web Caches (extended abstract)'' Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

(EC'03), San Diego, June 9--12.

21. Efficient and Scalable Query Planning in Distributed Open Environments, Proceedings of the

Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2001, pp. 187-192 (with V. Khatri, D.

Zeng and L. Zhang).

22. Detecting both Schema-Level and Instance Level Correspondences for the Integration of E-

Catalogs, Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2001,

pp. 193-198, 2001 ( W. H. Zhao).

23. GeoCosm: A Semantics Based Approach for Information Integration of GeoSpatial Data,

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Semantics in Web Information Systems (

DASWIS), Nov. 2001, (with V. Khatri, L. Zhang, D. Zeng).

24. DISTIL: A Design Support Environment for Conceptual Modeling of Spatiotemporal

Requirements", Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling,

Yokohama, Japan, November, 2001 (with V. Khatri, R. Snodgrass).

25. Infomediation for E-business enabled Supply Chains: A Semantics Based Approach", Proceedings

of DS-9 Semantic Issues in Ecommerce Systems, Hong Kong, April 23-28, 2001 (with Yousub

Hwang and Vijay Khatri).

26. A Framework for Classifying Semantic Conflicts in Geographic Databases, Proceedings of the

Ninth International Workshop on information Technology and Systems, North Carolina, Dec. 1999.

27. Improvement Research Methods in MIS, Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on

information Technology and Systems, North Carolina, Dec. 1999.

28. "An Intelligent Agent based toolkit Discovering and Accessing Distributed Earth Observing Data",

in Proceedings of EOGEO98, Salzburg, Austria, Feb. 1998 (with S. Venkatasubramanyan, S. Yool,

S. Marsh, and J. Park).

29. "A Semantic Based Approach for Managing Remote Sensing Data in a Distributed Heterogeneous

Environment", in Proceedings of the ISPRS Workshop, Boulder, CO, Oct 1997.

30. "Modeling Spatial and Temporal Semantic in a Large Heterogeneous GIS Database Environment",

in Proceedings of the 2nd Americas Conference on Informat ion Systems(AIS`96), Pheonix,

Arizona, Aug. 16-18, 1996 (with J. Park).

31. "Semantic Based Transaction Processing for Real Time Databases: A Protocol and Performance

Evaluation", in Proceedings of the INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Tec

hnology, Washington DC, May 1996 (with P. Konana).

32. "A Graph Theoretic Approach for Schema Evolution", in Proceedings of the INFORMS

Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Washington DC, May 1996 (with G. Shankar

).

33. "A Methodology for Interschema Relationship Identification in Heterogeneous Databases", in

Proceedings of the Twenty Eight Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - HICSS-28,

Maui, HI, Jan. 1995 (with V. Ramesh).

34. "Integrity Constraint Integration in Heterogeneous Databases: An Enhanced Methodology for

Schema Integration", in Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Technology and Sys tems -

WITS'95, Vancouver, Canada, Dec.

35. "Screening Products for International Markets", in Proceedings of the 23rd EMAC Conference,

Maastricht, The Netherlands, May 1994 (with S. Ram).

36. "Semantic Query Processing in large Scientific databases", Massive Digital data Systems

Workshop, Reston, VA, Feb 1, 1994.

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37. "Composite and Grouping: Extending the Realm of Semantic Modeling", in Proceedings of the

26th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan 1993, M auii, HI, (with V.C.

Storey).

38. "Heterogeneous Distributed Databases for Concurrent Engineering", in Proceedings of the First

Workshop on Enabling Technologies for Concurrent Engineering, Morgantown, W. Virginia,

March 1992.

39. "Schema Integration and Semantic Query Processing in a Heterogeneous Distributed Database

System", in Proceedings of the NSF Workshop on Heterogeneous Databases and Semantic

Interoperability, Boulder, CO, Feb 1992.

40. "A Unifying Semantic Model for Accessing Multiple Heterogeneous Databases in a Manufacturing

Environment", in Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Interoperabili ty Among

Databases - IMS91, April 1991, Kyoto, Japan (with E. Barkmeyer), pp. 212-215.

41. "Allocation of Databases in a Distributed Database Systems", in Proceedings of the Eleventh

International Conference on Information Systems, Copenhagen, Dec. 1990 (with S. Narasimhan).

42. "Distributed Knowledge Based Systems to Support Computer Integrated Manufacturing", in

Proceedings of CIMCON'90, Gaithersburg, Washington DC., May 1990. (with D. Carl son and A.

Jones).

43. "Using a Social Network to Integrate Distributed Knowledge Based Systems", in Proceedings of

the 23rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan 1990 (with D . Carlson).

44. "Screening Innovations in the Telecommunications Industry: An Expert Systems Approach", in

Proceedings of the 23rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan . 1990 (with S.

Ram) {This paper was nominated for the Best Paper Award in the Expert Systems minitrack at the

conference}.

45. "Multi-User View Integration System (MUVIS): An Expert System for View Integration", in

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Feb. 1990 (w ith S.

Hayne).

46. "Integration of Information Systems Technologies to Support Consultation in an Information

Center", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Dec. 1989 (with

S. Hayne, D. Carlson, and J.F. Nunamaker).

47. "Using Group Decision Support Tools for Knowledge Acquisition: An Information Center

Application", Transactions of DSS-89, June 1989 (with I.Liou, S. Hayne, D. Carlson, and J.F.

Nunamaker).

48. "An Object-Oriented Design for Distributed Knowledge Based Systems", in Proceedings of Twenty

Second Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan. 1989 (with D. Carlson).

49. "An Architecture for Distributed Knowledge Based Systems", in Proceedings of AAAI Workshop

on Databases in Large AI Systems, Minneapolis, Aug.1988 (with D. Carlson).

50. "An Expert System for Screening Innovations in the Financial Services Industry", in Proceedings

of XV International Research Seminar in Marketing, La Londe Les Maures, Fran ce, May, 1988

(with S. Ram).

51. "The Synthesis Approach to Relational Database Design: An Expanded Perspective", in

Proceedings of 21st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan. 1988 (with S.M.

Curran).

52. "Design of Distributed Databases for An Automated Manufacturing Facility", in Proceedings of

ASME International Computers in Engineering Conference, Aug. 1987 (with W. Davis).

53. "Crisis Support Systems: Tools for Action", in Proceedings of the Seventh International

Conference on Decision Support Systems, June 1987 (with S. Weber and C. Smith).

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54. "The File Allocation Problem - An Expanded Perspective", in Proceedings of the Twentieth Hawaii

International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, Jan 6-9, 1987.

55. "Report Generation Facility: A High Level Interface for Coherent Access to Heterogeneous

Database Systems", in Proceedings of International Conference on Data Engineering, Feb. 1986

(with G. Belford and J. Liu et. al.).

56. "Innovator: An Expert System for Screening New Products", presented at the ORSA/TIMS

Marketing Science Conference, March 1988, Seattle (with S. Ram).

57. "The Entity Relationship Model versus the Relational Model", in Proceedings of the Sixth

International Conference on the Entity Relationship Approach, New York, November, 1987.

Miscellaneous

1. Introduction to Conceptual Modeling, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 31, No. 3, Nov. 1999

pp. 225-226 ( with T.W. Ling)

2. Data Management and Knowledge Discovery in Large Scientific Databases", in Proceedings of the

27th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Jan. 1994.

3. A Knowledge-Based Approach for Screening Product Innovations", Report No. 93-106, Marketing

Science Institute, 1993, Boston, MA, 25 pp.

4. Current Areas in Database Research", in Proceedings of the 26th Hawaii International Conference on

System Sciences, Maui, Jan 1993.

5. Integration of Heterogenous Databases Using the Unifying Semantic Model", Technical Report,

National Institute of Standards and Technology, July 1991.

6. A Unifying Semantic Model", Technical Report, National Institute of Standards and Technology,

Sept. 1989.

7. Emerging Areas in Database Research", an Introduction to the Software minitrack on Database

Formalisms, Software and Systems", in Proceedings of the 22nd Hawaii International Conference on

System Sciences", Hawaii, Jan 1989.

8. A Practical Approach to Database Design", Journal of the Tucson Computer Societies, Oct. 1987.

9. Data Integration Strategies for Computer Integrated Manufacturing", Technical report, NIST IR-88-

4002, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 1988 (with A. Jones,

and W. Davis).

Manuscripts under Review

1. An Empirical Analysis of Principal Components analysis on Symbiotic Classifiers,

submitted to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, October 2007 (With H.

Zhao and A. Sinha).

2. Differentiating Telic-Atelic Data Semantics in Conceptual Design, revision under review,

Information Systems Research, October 2008. (with V. Khatri, R. Snodgrass, and P Terenziani).

2. Modeling Spatial and Temporal Set-Based Constraints during Conceptual Database Design,

revision under review with Information Systems Research, October 2008 ( With F. Currim)

3. Improving Web search using Context relationships, under review with MIS Quarterly,

January 2008 (with D. Zeng and L. Zhang).

4. MultiCriterion Market Segmentation Using Evolutionary Techniques, under revision,

Marketing Science, 2008.

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5. Differentiating Telic and Atelic Data Semantics in Conceptual Design, under review with

Information Systems Research, October 2008 (With V. Khatri, R. Snodgrass and

P.Terenziani).

6. Using a Knowledge Learning Framework to predict errors in Database design, under review,

Journal of MIS, March 2009 (with S. Currim and F. Currim)

Work In Progress

1. Faiz Currim, Sudha Ram, Toward Completeness in Rule Frameworks for Modeling

Cardinality Constraints, in progress, 2009

2. Yousub Hwang, Sudha Ram. Semantic Search and Retrieval of Web Services, 2009

3. Ying Liu, Tao Lin, Sudha Ram. A Non-invasive Software Architecture Style for RFID Data

Provisioning, 2009

4. Sudha Ram, Jun Liu. Developing and Validating an Ontology for Provenance, 2009.

5. Sudha Ram, Jun Liu. Understanding the connection between Data Quality and Data

Provenance, 2009.

6. Chang Heon Lee, Sudha Ram. Assessing the Value of Conceptual Modeling: Case Study at

Ford Motors, 2009

Invited Presentations

1. Conceptual Modeling Value Assessment, invited talk at Ford Motor, September 2008

2. Keynote Address on the iPlant Collaborative at the Enterprise Integration Conference,

Sydney, Australia, August, 2008.

3. Invited presentation, MIS Research issues in the iPlant Collaborative, University of

Sydney, August 2008.

4. Faculty Mentor at Young Faculty and Doctoral Consortium on Enterprise Information

Integration, August 2008

5. Invited Presentation, Data Provenance: What is it, why is it necessary, and how do we deal

with it, Enterprise Information Integration Workshop, Kioloa, Australia, August 2008.

6. Understanding Semantics of Data Provenance, Tsinghua University Research Seminar,

Beijing, China, June 21, 2006.

7. Data Provenance Semantics and Research Issues, University of British Columbia Research

Seminar, April 7, 2006

8. Data Provenance in the Context of New Product Development", Information Technology

Industry Research Council, Tucson AZ, November 16, 2005.

9. Understanding and Representing Data Provenance, National Digital Information

Preservation Partners Meeting, Berkeley, CA, January 9-12, 2006.

10. "Understanding Data Provenance", Ford Motor Co Seminar, Tucson, AZ 85721, November 2,

2005

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11. "Using Semantics for Database Interoperability", National Institute of Standards and

Technology, SIMA Technical Seminar, November 14 2005.

12. Toward Semantic Interoperability of Heterogeneous Biological Data Sources, Keynote

Address, CAISE 2005 Conference, Oporto, Portugal, June 2005.

13. Data Provenance in the Context of New Product Development, NSF Workshop on Digital

Archiving and Preservation, Atlanta, Georgia, May 17-18, 2005.

14. Semantic Modeling and Enterprise Data Management, presented at Sanofi Aventis, October

2004.

15. Data Management: Issues and Challenges, keynote address in Partners in Business Program, Utah State

University, December 2, 2004.

16. Dynamic Business Rule Sourcing, Presented at Intel Corp, July 2004.

17. Security in databases, Arizona Health Sciences Seminar Series, University of Arizona, May

2003.

18. A Semantics based Approach for Modeling Business Rules, Applied Technology in

Business Workshop, Oakland Unviersity, October 2002.

19. What is new about the New Economy, Tucson Link Forum, October 2000.

20. Semantic Inter-operability and Data Warehouse Design, October 2000, Oakland University,

Fall ATIB Conference.

21. Evaluation of Agent Based Systems, Raytheon Corp., February 2000.

22. The Saguaro Digital Library: Challenges for Research and Development, School of

Renewable Natural Resources, Feb. 2000.

23. Metrics for Evaluating Data Warehouse Implementations, Intel Corporation, April 1999.

24. Technology for Intelligent Agents, Raytheon Corp, Dallas, October 1999.

25. A Virtual Enterprise Model for Collaborating Intelligent Agents, Office of Advanced

Analytical Tools, CIA, May 1999.

26. Semantic Interoperability in Geographic Database Systems, Seminar, MIS department,

University of Arizona, October 1999.

27. Intelligent Agents: Myth or Reality, Office of Research and Development, CIA, May 1998

28. Role of Cognition in Conceptual Modeling", Workshop on Cognition and Conceptual

Modeling (ER'97), UCLA, Los Angeles, November 1997.

29. Intelligent Agents: Myth or Reality", Office of Research and Development, CIA, VA, May

1997.

30. Intelligent Multimedia Data Management", Office of Research and Development of the CIA,

October 1997.

31. A New Paradigm for File Access", critique, presented at International Conference on

Information Systems, Vancouver, Canada, Dec. 1994.

32. The Role of Databases in Knowledge Discovery", presented at Workshop in Information

Technology and Systems - WITS'94, Vancouver, Canada, Dec. 1994.

33. Domain Knowledge in CASE Tools", presented at Workshop on Information Technology

and Systems - WITS-93, Orlando, Dec. 1993.

34. Database Tools and Techniques", presented at ISECON - Information Systems Education

Conference, Phoenix, Nov 7, 1993.

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35. Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Databases", presented at ORSA/TIMS Meeting,

Phoenix, Nov 1-3, 1993.

36. Extracting Information from Large Scientific Databases", presented at ORSA/TIMS Meeting,

Phoneix, Nov. 1-3, 1993.

37. Managing Heterogeneous Databases", presented at Workshop on Management of Advanced

Information Technologies, Syracuse, Oct. 1993.

38. Screening New Products: A methodology and system", presented at Marketing Science

Workshop, Dallas, TX., Dec. 3, 1992.

39. Heterogeneous Distributed Database Integration in a Manufacturing Environment",

presented at Honeywell Inc., Glendale, AZ., Nov. 12, 1992.

40. A Framework for Conflict Identification and Resolution in a Heterogeneous Database

Environment", presented at American Express Information Systems Division, Phoenix, AZ.

Nov. 13, 1992.

41. Object Oriented Information Engineering Systems", presented at ORSA/TIMS Joint National

Meeting, Philadelphia, Oct. 1990.

42. Integrating AI and Databases", presented at the Advanced Technologies Division of A.C.

Nielsen, Chicago, August 20, 1990.

43. An Object-Oriented Model for Distributed Database in Manufacturing", presented at the

TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Las Vegas, May 1990.

44. Communication among Distributed Knowledge Based Systems", presented at the

TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Las Vegas, May 1990.

45. Allocation of Databases in a Distributed Database System", presented at the TIMS/ORSA

Joint National Meeting, Las Vegas, May 1990.

46. Allocation of Databases in a Distributed Database System", presented at the Information

Systems Colloquium, University of California, Los Angeles, April 5, 1990.

47. Integration of Heterogeneous Distributed Databases for Computer Integrated

Manufacturing", presented at Computer Science Department, University of Arizona, Nov.

1989.

48. A Unifying Semantic Model", presented at the 14th Meeting of ANSI X3T2 Technical

Committee for Data Interchange, Albuquerque, Oct. 1989.

49. Design of An Expert System for Screening New Products", presented at ORSA/TIMS

Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, May 1989.

50. An Expert System for Designing Object-Oriented Distributed Databases", presented at,

ORSA/TIMS Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, May 1989 (with S. Hayne).

51. Design of Distributed Knowledge Based Systems for Computer Integrated Manufacturing",

to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, MD, January, 1989.

52. An Architecture for Distributed Knowledge Based Systems", presented at the TIMS/ORSA

conference, Denver, October, 1988 (with D. Carlson).

53. Models for File Allocation in Distributed Database Systems", presented at the Annual

TIMS/ORSA Meeting, Washington DC, May 1988.

54. Effect of the Distributed Concurrency control on the File Allocation Problem", presented at

the TIMS/ORSA meeting, New Orleans, May, 1987.

55. A critique of Adaptive User Interface Design", presented at the International Conference on

Information Systems, Pittsburgh, Dec. 1987

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56. Differences between the Entity Relationship Approach and the Relational Approach for

Database Systems", panel discussion at the Sixth International Conference on the Entity

Relationship Approach, New York, November, 1987.

57. A Model for the Design of Distributed Databases", presented at the ACM Computer Science

Conference, New Orleans, March 1985 (with G. Belford).

Research Grants Awarded

1. The iPlant Collaborative: Enabling a New Plant Biology, (Co-PI), National Science

Foundation, Feb 2008-2013.

2. Measuring Data Quality Using Provenance, Science Foundation of Arizona, $540,000,

October 2008-2010.

3. Exploring the Strategic Impact of Universally Unique Identifiers on Enterprise Data

Management and Semantic Interoperability, funded by SAP Global Research, $175,000,

(November 2006-2009).

4. Multicriterion Market Segmentation Using Genetic Algorithms, funded by Duke Teradeta

center for Customer Relationship management, $5000, August 2006-2008.

5. Semantics Interoperability in a Manufacturing Environment, funded by the National Institute

of Standards and Technology, $150,000 August 2005-2008.

6. Semantics and Provenance of Bill of Materials, funded by Ford Motor Company, $150,000,

2005- 2009.

7. Investigating Data Provenance in the Context of New Product Design and Development,

funded by NSF, May 2005 2008, $244,401.

8. Dynamic Storage Provisioning and Reclamation in support of Advanced Users, IBM

SURGrant, $1 million, July 2004-2005, (with M. Tanniru)

9. Process and Data Management for BioInformatics, Aventis Corporation, $50,000, (With M.

Tanniru), April 2004-2006.

10. "Dynamic Sourcing of Business Rules, funded by Intel Corporation, $30,000, October 2003-

2005.

11. "Workflow Management at your Fingertips", $5,000, funded by Proposition 301, ITCDI,

March 2003-July 2004 ( with Chris Impey)

12. Data Management for the Human Subjects Protection Program, $248,655, National

Institutes of Health (NIH), Sept 2002-2005, (Co-Pis: R. Dahl, and R. Powell).

13. INFOAGENTS: A Collaborative Intelligent Agent based Approach for Knowledge

Management, funded by CIA and Raytheon, $68500, May 1999-Dec 2000.

14. The NASA South West Earth Sciences Application Center", funded by NASA, $1,499,981,

February 1999-2002 ( Co-PIs: R. Bales, S. Yool, C. Adams, J. Zehnder, S. Marsh et. al.).

15. "Improved Management of Public Land Grazing Allotment: An Information Resource",

funded by the International Arid Lands Consortium, $74,821, May 1999-July 2001, (with B.

Hutchinson and G. Ruyle).

16. "HyDis: A Hydrology Data Distributed Information System", funded by NASA, $1,550,000,

July 1999-Aug 2003, (with S. Sorooshian, R. Bales and H. Gupta).

17. "The National Biological Information Infrastructure National Spatial Data Clearinghouse",

funded by US Department of Interior, $21,700, Sept 1998-Dec 2000.

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18. "Information Management for BioActive Agents from Dryland Biodiversity of Latin

America", funded by National Institutes of Health, $37,500, Oct 1998-Sept 2001.

19. Earth Observation Resources Infrastructure for Integrated Regional Assessments in the

Sonoran Desert region", funded by NASA, (with Co-Is R. Schowengerdt, L. Graumlich, C.

Hutchinson, and K. Thome), $321,000, Dec 1997-1998.

20. Integrating Geographic Information Systems with Databases", National Biological Survey,

(through NBS at U of A), $10,000, Sept 96-97.

21. Semantic Model Based Access to Global Climate Change Data", funded by NASA (through

Atmospheric Sciences, PI: Robert Dickinson), June 1996-open, $30,000 plus equipment and

software.

22. Intelligent Multimedia Data Management", funded by Office of Research and Development,

CIA, $100,000, Sept 1997-2000.

23. Intelligent Image Data Management", funded by Office of Research and Development, CIA,

$56,000, Sept 1996-1997.

24. Heterogeneous Data Management for Arizona-Sonora Economic Development", funded by

Arizona Department of Commerce, $10,000, July 1994-July 1995.

25. A Problem-Solving Environment for Simulation Based Ecological Systems- Analysis",

(with G. Ball, B. Zeigler, R. Schlichting), funded by NSF, $12,000, May 1995- July 1996.

26. Scientific Data Management for Massive Digital Databases", funded by NASA (through

Physics and Atm. Sciences and Hydrology), $50,000, May 1994 - open. (with R. Dickinson).

27. UNIBASE: A System for Accessing Heterogeneous Information Systems", funded by IBM

Corporation, Dallas, $237,000, Nov. 1991-Oct. 1993.

28. Semantic Modeling in Distributed Database Systems", funded by National Institute of

Standards and Technology, $15,000, 1990-92.

29. Telecommunication Strategy for Oro Valley", funded by The Town of Oro Valley, $6,475,

Oct. 1992-93.

30. Conceptual Modeling in Database Systems", funded by National Institute of Standards and

Technology, $12,000, 1989-90.

31. Distributed Databases for Administrative Computing: Strategic Directions for the Future",

Provost's Office, University of Arizona, $20,000, 1991.

32. A Knowledge Based Approach for Screening Product Innovations", funded by Marketing

Science Institute, $5,000, 1989-1992.

33. Allocation of Databases in a Distributed Database Systems", funded by Small Grants Award

Program, University of Arizona, $4,200, 1990-91.

34. Knowledge Representation in Distributed Systems", funded by State Farm Foundation for

Research, $500, 1990.

35. Design of Distributed Knowledge Based Systems", funded by Center for the Management of

Information (CMI), University of Arizona, $10,400, 1989.

36. Object-Oriented Design for Knowledge Based Systems", funded by AIRMICS (US Army),

$44,750, 1989 (with J. Nunamaker).

37. Knowledge Based Support for Information Centers", funded by IBM Corporation,

Gaithersburg, $98,980, 1987-89 (with J.F. Nunamaker).

38. The Synthesis Algorithm for Relational Database Design", funded by CMI, University of

Arizona, $9,529, 1987.

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Teaching

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Courses taught at the Undergraduate Level:

Database Systems

Systems Analysis and Design

University of Arizona

Courses taught at the Undergraduate Level:

Database Systems

Courses taught at the Graduate Level:

Business Intelligence

Enterprise Data Management

Database Design and Development for Managers ( Executive MBA)

Quantitative Research Methods in MIS

Data Structures

Introduction to Database Systems

Data and Computer Communications

Operating Systems and Computer Architecture

Office Automation

Advanced Topics in Database Systems

Database Development for Managers

Global Electronic Commerce ( Executive MBA Telesuites)

Appeared more than 25 times on the Dean's List of Excellent Teachers

Doctoral Dissertation Committees

Dissertation Advisor for MIS Doctoral Students

Ying Liu (California State University, Long Beach)

Yousub Hwang (University of Seoul, South Korea)

Sabah Currim (Florida State University)

Limin Zhang (North Dakota State University)

Faiz Currim ( University of Iowa)

Vijay Khatri (Indiana University)

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Huimin Zhao ( University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

A. Bajaj (Carnegie Mellon University).

G. Shankar (Boston University)

V. Shailaja (Tulane University)

Divakaran Liginlal (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Jinsoo Park (University of Minnesota)

Prabuhdev Konana (University of Texas at Austin)

Ramesh Venkataraman (Indiana University)

David Olsen (Utah State University)

Stephen Hayne (Arizona State University - West)

David Carlson (formerly at University of Colorado- Boulder)

Current MIS Doctoral Students

Jun Liu

Wei Wei

Michael Edwards

Chang Heon Lee

Kun Peng Zhang

Soo Mi Cheong

In addition, served on more than 25 doctoral committees.

MIS Minor doctoral students Partial List

Meng Lin (Physics and Atm. Sciences)

Michael Soo (Computer Science)

Chao-Yen Wu (Systems Engineering)

Jianyi Tao (Electrical Engineering)

Jene Hendrickson (Hydrology)

Eric Christensen (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Yung-Hsin Wang (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Chilgee Lee (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Mousa Mitwassi (Systems Engineering)

Hans Demmel (Systems Engineering)

Master s Thesis Advising

Have chaired the Master's thesis committee for more than 70 students.

All theses topics have been in the area of database and knowledge base systems. Have also supervised

more than 30 independent studies in the same areas.

Service

Departmental

Chair, Recruiting Committee (2006-present)

Chair of Graduate Studies Committee and Director of Doctoral program (1992-1996, 2000- 2001)

Graduate Committee (1996-present)

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Promotion and Tenure Committee (1991-1996, 1999, 2000,2001-03, 2005-present)

Annual Performance Evaluation Committee (1991-1996, 1999, 2000,2001-03, 2005-present)

Recruiting Committee (1994-1996)

College

MIS Department Head Search Committee (2001, 2007)

Faculty Status Committee (2004)

Dean Search Committee (2003-04)

Graduate Research and Doctoral Studies Committee (2000-2004)

College Advisory Committee (2000-2002)

Economics Department Head Search Committee (2001)

UA Enterpreneurship Program Business Plans Evaluation Team.

Economics Department Review Committee (1998)

Economics Department Head Search Committee (1997-1998)

Business Plans Evaluation Team (1995, 2000)

Research and Doctoral Program Committee (1994-1996)

College Advisory Committee (1994-1996)

Business Information Center Committee (1993-1997).

University

Network Advisory Committee ( 2004)

Graduate Council, 1995-2003

Evaluation Committee, Small Grants Program (1999,2000).

Information Technology Council (2000-2002)

Chair, Graduate College Fellowships Committee (1998)

Graduate College Fellowships Committee (1996, 1997)

Search Committee Member for Metatdata Librarian (1998)

Faculty Search Committee, School of Renewable Natural Resources (1998)

Graduate Council Executive Committee (1997-2000)

Evaluation Committee for International Travel Grant (1992)

Administrative Computing Advisory Committee (1992)

Arizona-Sonora Technical Advisory Committee (1994-present)

Tucson Economic Development Information Systems Committee (1992-present)

BPA representive to the Graduate Council (1995 - present)

Professional Memberships

ACM (SIGMOD, SIGMIS)

IEEE Computer Society

INFORMS

AIS

Editorial Boards and Steering Committees

Senior Editor, Information Systems Research (2007-present)

Chair, ER Steering Committee ( 2007-2009)

Vice Chair, ER Conference Steering Committee 2005-2007

Senior Standing Advisor, WITS steering Committee, 2005-2007

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Associate Editor, Decision Sciences 2004- present

Associate Editor, International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies

Associate Editor, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

Associate Editor: Information Systems Research 2000-2006

Associate Editor, Journal of Database Management, 1998-present.

Associate Editor, Journal of Information Technology Management, 1998-present.

Associate Editor, Information Systems Frontiers, 1997-present.

Associate Editor, Decision Support Systems Journal, 1999-present.

Associate Editor, INFORMS Journal on Computing, 1995- 2000.

Guest Editor, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Nov. 1999.

Editor, IEEE Computer Society Press - Advances in Computer Science and Engineering, March

1993-present.

Associate Editor, Journal of Systems and Software, 1993-present.

Guest-Editor for special issue of Decision Support Systems, 1993.

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Database Management 1989-1998.

Guest Editor for special issue of IEEE Computer on Heterogeneous Distributed Database

Systems", published in December 1991.

Conferences Chaired and Program Committees

Doctoral Consortium co-Chair, ICIS, 2009

Served as Faculty mentor at the ER doctoral Consortium, November 2008.

Faculty Mentor at Young Faculty and Doctoral Consortium on Enterprise Information

Integration, August 2008,

Program Co-Chair, AMCIS 2007.

General Co-Chair, 25th International conference on Conceptual Modeling, Tucson, Nov. 2006.

WITS program committee, 2004-present.

Panels Chair, International Conference on Conceptual Modeling and the ER Approach, 2001,

Japan

Program Committee member MetaModeling conference 2001

Program Committee member CODAS - 2001

Program Committee member RIDE 2002

Program Committee member INFORMS IST c

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