Department of Management Science & Systems 82 Prestonwood Lane School of Management, SUNY at Buffalo East Amherst, NY 14051 Buffalo, New York 14260 Ph: (716) 688-6360 Ph: (716) 645-3258 Fax: (716)645-6117 E-Mail: rramesh@acsu.buffalo.edu Web: http://mgt.buffalo.edu/faculty/academic/systems/faculty/rramesh
Education
Ph.D. Industrial Engineering (Operations Research) (1985) State University of New York at Buffalo (GPA: 4.0. Awarded Ph.D with Distinction) Advisors: Mark H. Karwan and Stanley Zionts M.Tech. Industrial Engineering (1977) Indian Institute of Technology, Madras B.Tech. Chemical Engineering (1975) Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Research Streams
• • • • Economics of IT – MSP and Cloud Computing Markets Conceptual Modeling and Ontologies Database Systems and Distributed Computing Supply Chains & Decision Analysis
Employment
Professor Department of Management Science & Systems School of Management State University of New York at Buffalo (September 1998 - ) Associate Professor Department of Management Science & Systems State University of New York at Buffalo (September, 1990 – September 1998) Assistant Professor Department of Management Science & Systems State University of New York at Buffalo (September, 1984 - September, 1990)
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Research and Teaching Assistant Doctoral Program in Operations Research Department of Industrial Engineering State University of New York at Buffalo (January, 1981 - September, 1984) Entrepreneur SYMBIOSIS Consulting Madras, India (September, 1977 - January, 1981)
Appointments
Chairman Department of Management Science & Systems School of Management State University of New York at Buffalo (September, 2005 - ) Program Director Dual Degree MS Program in Management of IT Services (MITS) Collaborative Venture among SUNY at Buffalo, HP (India) and Amrita University at Bangalore, India (January 2007 - ) Adjunct Professor School of Informatics State University of New York at Buffalo (September, 2004 - 2006) Associate Dean for Research School of Management State University of New York at Buffalo (January 2001 - 2006) Associate Director Center for Global Enterprise Management Systems (GEMS) School of Engineering & School of Management State University of New York at Buffalo (January, 1999 - 2002)
Grants and Awards
Co-PI on the research project “Disaster Resilience and Availability Prediction (DRAP) for Clouds”, funded by Google (Google Research Awards, Award # 2011_R2_549 (2012-13)). Award Amount: $102,000 Established a dual degree MS program in Management of IT Services (MITS) in Bangalore, India in collaboration with HP (India) and Amrita University. Initial revenue generation (2007 – 09): $1.4M Organization Committee of Indo-US Workshop on Cyber Security, Cyber Crime and Cyber Forensics, Kochi, India, August, 2009. Funded by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum
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(IUSSTF) and sponsored by Defense Research Development Organization, India (DRDO) and Department of Information Technology, Government of India (DIT) and US NSF. IUSSTF funding: $50,000. Corporate Grants (Bell Atlantic Foundation, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Empire State
Development Corporation, EDS, i2 Technologies, Microsoft, Cisco, Nortel, Student Online, Delaware North Companies, Adelphia Business Solutions, Powerware, Oracle, Pharmaceuticals Outcomes Research, Combined Financial Services and IBM (Canada)), SUNY Buffalo Grants and Registration Income for
AIWoRC'00 (1999-2000). Total Amount: $125,000
Conference in the disciplines award for a three-day conference entitled AIWORC’00: Virtual Enterprises and Pervasive/Mobile Technologies: An Academia/Industry Workshop on Research Challenges, held at SUNY, Buffalo, in cooperation with ACM, IEEE, INFORMS and AIS on April 27 – 29, 2000, State University of New York at Buffalo (1998-99). Award Amount: $7,500 Corporate Research Grants to the Center for Global Enterprise Management Systems, School of Engineering & School of Management, SUNY at Buffalo (1999 – 2000). Total Amount: $260,000 Research Grant from Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), (1999-2000). Award Amount: $25,000 Research Grant from Air Force Research Laboratories, Mesa, AZ & Hughes Training Systems/Raytheon Systems Company, (1997-1998). Award Amount: $40,000 Research Grant from Air Force Armstrong Research Laboratory, Mesa & Air Education and Training Command (AETC) of U.S. Air Force, (1995-1996). Award Amount: $40, 000 Faculty Associate at the Air Force Research Laboratories, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), (1998). Award Amount: $15,000 Interdisciplinary Research Award, State University of New York at Buffalo (1994-95). Award Amount: $20,000 Faculty Associate at the Armstrong Research Laboratory (AL/HRA), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), (1994). Award Amount: $15,000 Faculty Associate at the Armstrong Research Laboratory (AL/HRA), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), (1993). Award Amount: $15,000 Faculty Co-PI in the Executive Information Technology Education Program (EITEP) for Samsung executives (conducted at the School of Management, SUNY at Buffalo), Samsung Corporation, Seoul, South Korea (1996-1997). Total Project Outlay: $750,000 Summer Research Fellowships, School of Management, State University of New York at Buffalo (1987-2012). Joseph T. J. Stewart Research Scholar, School of Management, State University of New York at Buffalo (1990). Research Grant from the U.S. Army Research Institute (ARI), The Department of the Army, Orlando (1987-1989). Award Amount: $60,000
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Workshop Organization Grant, University of Laval, Quebec, Canada (1988). Award Amount: $1000 Workshop Organization Grant, University of Laval, Quebec, Canada (1987). Award Amount: $1000 Travel Grant to Portugal, Luso-American Educational Commission, Lisbon, Portugal (1986). Award Amount: $1000 Travel Grant to Germany, University of Passau, West Germany (1986). Award Amount $1000 Travel Grant to Japan, National Science Foundation (1986). Award Amount: $500 Research Fellowship, NYS/UUP Professional Development and Quality of Worklife Committee, State of New York, (1985). Award Amount: $650 Research Grant from the U.S. Naval Training Systems Center (NTSC), The Department of the Navy, Orlando (1981-1983). Award Amount: $10,000 Research Grant from the Westinghouse Electric Company, Buffalo (1981). Award Amount: $ 10,000 Rotary Foundation Fellowship (1981-1982).
Honors
Elected to the Board of Directors of Infotech Niagara, a society of CIOs in the Western New York corporate community (2000 – 2002) Founding Board Member, AIS SIG on Ontology Driven Information Systems (SIG-ODIS) Board Member, AIS SIG on semantic Web and Information Systems (SIG-SEMIS) Tau Beta Pi ( National Engineering Honor Society) Omega Rho ( National Operations Research Honor Society) Rotary Foundation Fellow (1981-1982) Selected by the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) as a member of the EURO (IFORS) sponsored International Program on Multicriteria Analysis, Brussels, Belgium (1985) Included in the Who is Who Among the Distinguished Computer Professionals of India, The Institute of Chartered Computer Professionals of India, Government of India, 1990.
Editorships
Associate Editor, INFORMS Journal on Computing (2003 -) Associate Editor, Communications of the AIS (2003 -2005) Editorial Advisory Board, Information Technology & Systems Network of Social Science Research Network (SSRN), http://www.SSRN.Com (2005 - )
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Guest Editor of the Journal of AIS for a special issue on the theme: Ontologies in the Context of Information Systems. Editorial Board Member of Information Systems Research for a special issue on the theme: Digital Systems and Competition. Guest Editor of a special issue of the Communications of the ACM on the theme: Distributed Mission Training Technologies (DMT): Emerging Frontiers in Training Systems, Vol.42, No. 9, September 1999. Guest Editor of two volumes of the Annals of Operations Research on the themes: Interface between Operations Research and Information Systems: Models of Systems (I) and Systems for Models (II) (1997). Co-Editor-in-Chief, Information Systems Frontiers: A Journal of Research and Innovations (1998 - ) Associate Editor, International Journal of Industrial Engineering (1996 -). Associate Editor, International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems (AIS – SIGSEMIS) (2003 - ) Associate Editor, International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (AIS – SIGABIS) (2003 - ) Editorial Board Member, Enterprise Information Systems (2006 - ) Faculty Advisor, OR/MS Tomorrow, the student newsletter of INFORMS (1994 - 2000). Designer, Developer and Administrator of the INFORMS Student Union: Research Center on the World Wide Web (1997 - 2000). Member, INFORMS Task Force on the creation and maintenance of OR/MS community-wide Internet services (1996 - 2001)
Patents
Geng, X., Gopal, R. D.., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., `` Systems and Methods for Cache Capacity Trading Across A Network,’’ US Serial No. 60/424,939, 60/449,255, 60/487,367 (Pending)
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles Economics of IT and Cloud Computing Markets
Yaraghi, N., Du, A. Y., Sharman, R., Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., “Network Effects in Health Information Exchange Growth”, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, Vol. 4, No. 1, April 2013, pp. 1-26.
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Du, A.Y., Das, S. and Ramesh, R., “Efficient Risk Hedging by Dynamic Forward Pricing: A Study in Cloud Computing,” forthcoming in the INFORMS Journal on Computing. Du, A.Y., Das, S., Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., “Risk Hedging in Storage Grid Markets: Do Options Add Value to Forwards?” ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, Vol. 2, No. 2, June 2011. Das, S., Du, A.Y., Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., “Risk Management and Optimal Pricing in Online Storage Grids,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 756 - 773, December 2011. Du, A. Y., Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., ``Topographically Discounted Internet Infrastructure Resources: A Panel Study and Econometric Analysis,’’ Information Technology and Management, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 135 – 146, June 2008. Du, A.Y., Geng, X., Gopal, R. D.., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., ``Capacity Provision Networks: Foundations of Markets for Sharable Resources in Distributed Computational Economies,’’ Information Systems Research, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp.144 – 160, 2008. Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., ``Microproducts in a Digital Economy: Trading Small, Gaining Large,” International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 9-30, 2004. Geng, X., Gopal, R. D.., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., ``Scaling Web Services with Capacity Provision Networks,’’ Research Paper in IEEE Computer, Vol. 36, No. 11, pp. 64-72, Nov. 2003. Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., ``Trading Caches: Capacity Provision Networks,’’ IEEE IT Professional, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 30-36, July/Aug, 2003. Chandra, J., March, S., Mukherjee, S., Pape, W., Ramesh, R., Rao, H. R. and Waddoups, R., ``Information Systems Frontiers: Potentials, Barriers and Opportunities’’, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 42, No. 11, pp. 71-79, November 1999. Kumara, S., Ham, I., Ohsuga, S., Tsatsoulis, C., Ramesh, R., Frost, V., and Kashyap, R. L., ``Intelligent Computer Integrated Manufacturing: Research Perspectives,'' Special Issue Focus Paper in Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 6, No. 4, 1992.
Conceptual Modeling and Ontologies
Kishore, R., Ramesh, R., ``Ontologies in the Context of Information Systems’’Journal of AIS, 8, 2007. Zhang, H., Kishore, R., Sharman and Ramesh, R., ``Agile Integration Modeling Language (AIML): A Conceptual Modeling Grammar for Agile Integrative Business Information Systems’’ Decision Support Systems, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 266-284, 2007. Zhang, H. Kishore, R. and Ramesh, R., ``Semantics of the MibML Conceptual Modeling Grammar: An Ontological Analysis Using the Bunge-Wand-Weber Framework,” Journal of Database Management, Vol. 18, N0. 1, pp. 1–19, Jan – Mar, 2007. Kishore, R., Zhang, H. and Ramesh, R., ``Enterprise Integration Using the Agent Paradigm: Foundations of Multi-agent-based Integrative Business Information Systems,” Decision Support Systems, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 48–78, 2006.
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Raghu, T. S., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., ``Addressing the Homeland Security Problem: A Collaborative Decision Making Framework,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 310 – 324, Feb, 2005. Kishore, R., Sharman, R. and Ramesh, R., `` Computational Ontologies and Information Systems: I. Foundations,” Communications of the AIS, Vol. 14, Article 8, August 2004. Sharman, R., Kishore and Ramesh, R., `` Computational Ontologies And Information Systems: II. Formal Specifications,” Communications of The AIS, Vol. 14, Article 9, August 2004. Kishore, R., Zhang, H. and Ramesh, R., “A Helix-Spindle Model for Ontological Engineering,” Communications of the ACM, Vol. 47, No. 2 pp. 69-75, Feb. 2004. Raghu, T. S., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., ``Next Steps for Mobile Entertainment Portals,'' IEEE Computer, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 63-70, May 2002. Raghu, T. S., Ramesh, R., Chang, A. M. and Whinston, A. B., ``Collaborative Decision-Making: A Connectionist Paradigm for Dialectical Support,'' Information Systems Research, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 363-383, 2001. Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., ``Claims, Arguments and Decisions: Formalisms for Representation, Gaming and Coordination,'' Information Systems Research, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 294 - 325, 1994.
Database Systems and Distributed Computing
Sharman, R., Ramanna, S. S., Ramesh, R. and Gopal, R. D., ``Cache Architecture for On-Demand Streaming on the Web”, ACM Transactions on the Web, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 23 – 49, September 2007. Wang, J., Sharman, R. and Ramesh, R., ``Shared Content management in Replicated Web Systems: A Feedback Learning Design Framework Using Problem Decomposition and Controlled Simulation,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C, Vol. 38, No.1, pp. 110 – 124, January 2008. Bhattacharjee, S., Zhang, H., Ramesh, R. and Andrews, D. H., `` A Decomposition and Guided Simulation Framework for Large-Scale System Design: A Study in QoS-capable Intranets with Fixed and Mobile Components,” INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 429 – 442, 2007. Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R. and Zionts, S., `` Criss-Cross Hash Joins: Design and Analysis,'' IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 637 - 653, July/Aug. 2001. Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R. and Zionts, S., ``Cascade Graphs: Design and Analysis of Algorithms for Relational Joins,'' INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 2-28, 2001. Bhattacharjee, S. and Ramesh, R., ``A Design Framework for e-Business Infrastructure Integration and Resource Management,’’ IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 304 – 319, 2001. Ramesh, R., ``IS Relevance: Myth or Reality'', Communications of AIS, Vol. 6, Article 21, March, 2001.
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Bhattacharjee, S. and Ramesh, R., ``Enterprise Computing Environments and Cost Assessment: An Object Oriented Framework,’’ Communications of the ACM, Vol. 43, No. 10, pp. 74-82, October 2000. Ramesh, R., Rao, H. R. and Silberman, G., ``Next Generation Enterprises: Virtual Organizations and Pervasive/Mobile Technologies,’’ ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, ACM SIGMOBILE, 2000. Ramesh, R. and Andrews, D. H., ``Distributed Mission Training: Teams, Virtual Reality and Realtime Networking,'' Communications of the ACM, Vol.42, No. 9, pp. 64-68, September 1999. Aldakhilallah, K. A. and Ramesh, R., ``Computer-Integrated Process Planning and Scheduling (CIPPS): Intelligent Support for Product Design, Process Planning and Control,’’ International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 481 - 500, 1999. Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., ``The Query Clustering Problem: A Set Partitioning Approach,’’ IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 885 - 899, 1995. Gopal, R. D. Ramesh, R. and Zionts, S., ``Access Path Optimization in Relational Joins,’’ ORSA Journal on Computing, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 257-268, 1995. Ramesh, R. and Ryan, B., ``Optimal File Allocation and Report Assignment in Distributed Information Networks: Theory and Experimental Results,’’ Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 165-181, 1990. Ramesh, R. Babu, A. J. G. and Kincaid, J.P., `` Variable-depth Trie Index Optimization: Theory and Experimental Results,'' ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 41-74, 1989. Ramesh, R. and Drury, C. G., ``EARS: An Online Bibliographic Search and Retrieval System Based on Ordered Explosion,’’ Information Processing and Management, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 225-238, 1987.
Operations & Logistics
Vroblefski, M., Ramesh, R. and Zionts, S., ``A Unified Framework for the Approximation of General Telecommunication Networks,’’ European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 163, No. 2, pp. 482-502, June 2005. Aldakhilallah, K. A. and Ramesh, R., ``Cyclic Scheduling heuristics for a Re-entrant Job shop Manufacturing Environment,'' International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 39, No. 12, pp. 2635 - 2657, 2001. Vroblefski, M., Ramesh, R. and Zionts, S., ``General Open and Closed Queuing Networks with Blocking: A Unified Framework for Approximation,'' INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 299-316, 2000. Vroblefski, M., Ramesh, R. and Zionts, S., ``Efficient Lot-Sizing Under a Differential Transportation Cost Structure for Serially Distributed Warehouses,'' European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 127, No. 3, pp. 574-593, 2000.
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Bhattacharjee, S. and Ramesh, R., ``A Multi-Period Profit Maximizing Model for Retail Supply Chain Management: An Integration of Demand and Supply Side Mechanisms’’, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 122, No. 3, pp. 584-601, 2000. Aldakhilallah, K. A. and Ramesh, R., ``An Integrated Framework for Automated Process Planning: Design and Analysis,’’ International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 939-956, 1998. Ramesh, R., Prasad, S. Y. and Thirumurthy, M., ``Flow Control in Kanban Based Multicell Manufacturing: I. A Structural Analysis of General Blocking Design Space,'' International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 35, No. 8, pp. 2327-2343, 1997. Ramesh, R., Prasad, S. Y. and Thirumurthy, M., ``Flow Control in Kanban Based Multicell Manufacturing: II. Design of Control Systems and Experimental Results,'' International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 35, No. 9, pp. 2413-2427, 1997. Aldakhilallah, K. A. and Ramesh, R., ``Recognition of Minimal Feature Covers of Prismatic Objects: A Prelude to Automated Process Planning,'' International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 635-650, 1997. Diaby, M. and Ramesh, R, ``The Distribution Problem with Carrier Service: A Dual Based Penalty Approach,’’ ORSA Journal on Computing, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 24-35, 1995. Ramesh, R., Yoon, Y. S. and Karwan, M. H.,``An Optimal Algorithm for the Orienteering Tour Problem,'' ORSA Journal on Computing, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 155-165, 1992. Rao, H. R., Thirumurthy, M. and Ramesh, R., ``A Dynamic Learning Model for On-Line Quality Control Using the Taguchi Approach,’’ Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 457-482, 1992. Ramesh, R., and Brown, K., ``An Efficient Four-Phase Heuristic for the Generalized Orienteering Problem,’’ Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 151-165, 1991. Ramesh, R. and Cary, J. M., ``An Efficient Approach to Stochastic Jobshop Scheduling: Algorithms and Empirical Investigations,’’ Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 181-190, 1990. Ramesh, R. and Sylla, C., ``A Model for Instructor Training Analysis in Simulation Based Flight Training,’’ IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 1070-1080, 1990. Ramesh, R. and Sylla, C., ``A Framework for Optimal Design of Instructor/Operator Stations in Flight Simulators, ‘‘ IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 571581, 1990.
Decision Analysis
Ramesh, R., Karwan, M. H. and Zionts, S.,``An Interactive Method for Bicriteria Integer Programming,'' IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 395-403, 1990.
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Ramesh, R., Karwan, M. H. and Zionts, S., `` Interactive Multicriteria Linear Programming: An Extension of Method of Zionts and Wallenius,'' Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 321335, 1989. Ramesh, R., Karwan, M. H. and Zionts, S., ``Preference Structure Representation Using Convex Cones in Multicriteria Integer Programming,'' Management Science, Vol. 35, No. 9, pp. 10921105, 1989. Ramesh, R., Karwan, M. H. and Zionts, S., ``Theory of Convex Cones on Multicriteria Decision Making,’’ Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 16, pp. 131-148, 1988. Ramesh R. and Chandra Sekar, G., ``An Integrated framework for Decision Support in Corporate Planning,’’ Decision Support Systems, Vol. 4, pp. 365-375, 1987. Chandra Sekar, G. and Ramesh, R., ``Microcomputer Based Multiple Criteria Decision Support Systems for Strategic Planning,’’ Information and Management, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 163-172, 1987. Ramesh, R., Karwan, M. H. and Zionts, S., ``A Class of Practical Interactive Branch and Bound Algorithms for Multicriteria Integer Programming,’’ European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 26, No.1, pp. 161-172, 1986.
Papers under Review
Du, A.Y., Das, S., Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., “Optimal Management of Digital Content on Tiered Infrastructure Platforms,” under first review in Information Systems Research. Yaraghi, N., Du, A. Y., Sharman, R., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., Singh, R. and Singh, S., “Professional and Geographical Network Effects on Healthcare Information Exchange Growth: Does Proximity Really Matter?” under third review in Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). Yaraghi, N., Du, A. Y., Sharman, R., Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., titled "Health Information Exchange as a Multi-sided Platform: Adoption, Usage and Practice Involvement in Service CoProduction, " under first review in Information Systems Research.
Journal Volumes, Books and Chapters
Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., (Editors), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Paris, France, December 13-14, 2008. Sharman, R., Kishore, R., and Ramesh, R., (Eds.) ``Ontologies – A Handbook of Principles, Concepts and Applications in Information Systems’’, Springer, Boston, MA, 2007. Chen, H, Raghu, T. S., Ramesh, R., Vinze, A. and Zeng, D., (Eds.) “National Security”, Handbook in Information Systems, Volume 2, Elsevier, Netherlands, 2007. Ramesh, R. and Kishore, R., (Eds.) “Ontologies in the Context of Information Systems,” special issue of the Journal of AIS, Vol. 8, Issue, 2007.
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Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., `` Topographical Leveraging of Sharable Services: The Concept of Capacity Provision Networks,” in Electronic Commerce and the Digital Economy, Michael Shaw (Ed.), M.E. Sharpe Publishers, 2006. Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., ``Capacity Provision Networks: A Technology Framework and Economic Analysis of Web Cache Trading Hubs,” in Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks, Anna Nagurney (Ed.), Edward Elgar Publishers, 2003. Aldakhilallah, K. A. and Ramesh, R., ``Computer Techniques and Applications of Automated Process Planning in Manufacturing Systems,’’ in Computer-aided and Integrated Manufacturing Systems - a five volume MRW (Major Reference Work) – C.Leondes (Ed.), World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, 2003. Choi, B., Raghu, T. S., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., “Collaborative Decision Making,” in Advances in Electronic Business: Vol. I - Collaborative Commerce, (Timon C. Du and Eldon Y. Li – Eds.) Idea Group Publishing, 2004. Shin, S. K., Ramesh, R. and Rao, H. R., "Organizational and Economic Mechanisms For BuyerSupplier Contracts", chapter in Business Modeling: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach - Essays in honor of Andrew B. Whinston, C. Holsapple, V. Jacob, H. R. Rao (Editors), Kluwer Academic, 2001. Ramesh, R., Rao, H.R. and Silberman, G., “Next Generation Enterprises: Virtual Organizations and Pervasive/Mobile Technologies”, (Editors), Proceedings of IEEE Academia/ Industry Working Conference on Research Challenges (AIWoRC’00), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, April 2000 (370 pages). Ramesh, R. and Andrews, D. H., `` Distributed Mission Training Technologies (DMT): Emerging Frontiers in Training Systems of the Next Millennium’’, (Editors), special issue of the Communications of the ACM, Vol.42, No. 9, September 1999. Ramesh, R. and Rao, H. R., ``Interface Between Information Systems and Operations Research: I. Models of Systems’’, (Editors), Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 71, 1997 (376 pages) Ramesh, R. and Rao, H. R., ``Interface between Information Systems and Operations Research: II. Systems for Models’’, (Editors), Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 72, 1997 (318 pages) Agrawal, M. and Ramesh, R., ``Information Management’’ Chapter in Encyclopedia of Industrial Engineering, A. Mital (Ed.), IJIE, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1998. Ramesh, R. and Zionts, S., ``Multicriteria Decision Making,'' Chapter in Encyclopedia of Operations Research, Gass, S. and Harris, C., (Eds.), Operations Research Society of America (1997). Ramesh, R. and Zionts, S, ``Mathematical Programming,'' Chapter in Encyclopedia of Computer Science, Ralston, A. and Reilly, E. D., (Eds.), Third Edition, Van Nostrand, New York, pp. 820 - 826, 1993. Ramesh, R., ``Principles of Knowledge-based Systems," Chapter in Applications of Artificial Intelligence - Manufacturing Theory and Practice, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), Atlanta, Georgia, 1989. Ramesh, R., ``Multicriteria Integer Programming,'' Ph.D Dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1985.
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Technical Reports
Geng, X., Gopal, R. D. Ramesh, R. and A. B. Whinston, A. B., ``Capacity Provision Networks: An Implementation Framework for Web Cache Trading Hubs” Working paper, Center for Research in Electronic Commerce, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2002. Ramesh, R., “Modeling and Analysis of Distributed Mission Training Systems: Training Effectiveness, Flight Tradeoffs, Costs, Resource Allocations and an Approach to Distributed Training Program Development”, Airforce Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) final research report, Bolling Airforce base, Washington DC, 2000. Ramesh, R., ``Distributed Mission Training Systems and Technologies: Cost Benefit Models, Analytical Tools and Solutions,’’ Airforce Research Laboratories/ Raytheon Systems Research Report, Mesa, AZ, 1998. Ramesh, R., ``Client/Server Infrastructure Planning for Air Education Training Management Systems: Models and Design Solutions,’’ Armstrong Research Laboratory/ University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) Research Report, Dayton, OH, 1996. Braby, R., Charles, J., Sylla, C., Ramesh, R., Willis, R. and Hunter, D., ``Instructor Considerations in the Design of Optimal Training Devices,’’ U.S. Army Research Institute (ARI) Research Report N61339-86-D-0009-0003, Orlando Field Unit, Orlando, FL, 1988.
Refereed Proceedings
Yaraghi, N., Du, A. Y., Sharman, R., Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., “Modeling Practice Efficiencies due to Healthcare Information Exchanges and Implications for HIE Network Growth.” Proceedings of the Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Orlando, Florida, December 2012. Yaraghi, N., Du, A. Y., Sharman, R., Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., Singh, R., Singh, G. 2012. "Professional and Geographical Network Effects on HIE growth". Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Health Information and Economics (WHITE), Washington, DC, October 2012. Du, A. Y., Das, S., Qiao, C., Ramesh, R. and Yang, Z., “Downtime Predictions for Virtual Servers: A Study under Two Check-pointing Scenarios”, Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST 2012), Phoenix, AZ. Yaraghi, N., Du, A. Y., Sharman, R. Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., Singh, R. and Singh, G., “Clustering Physicians Based on Professional Proximity Using SAS”, Proceedings of the SAS Global Forum 2012 conference, SAS Institute, Inc., Paper 184-2012, April 22-25, 2012; Orlando, Florida. Yaraghi, N., Du, A. Y., Sharman, R., Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., “Interlinked Network Effects in Healthcare Information Exchange Growth”, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Shanghai, China, December 2011 (Nominated for the Best paper Award) Du, A. Y., Das, S., Jie Hu, Chunming Qiao, Ramesh, R. and Zhouhan Yang, “Reliability in Cloud Computing: Downtime Predictions for Virtual Servers”, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Shanghai, China, December 2011. Du, A.Y., Das, S. And Ramesh, R., “Pricing Volatile IT Resources in Cloud Computing”, CIST/INFORMS Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, November 2010 (Nominated For the Best
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Paper and Best Student Paper Awards) Du, A.Y., Das, S., Gopal, R. D. And Ramesh, R., “Data and Revenue Management Using Tiered Storage”, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Phoenix, Arizona, December 2009. Du, A.Y., Das, S., Gopal, R. D. And Ramesh, R., “Are Options a Better Option? A Study of Risk Hedging In the Storage Grid Market”, CIST/INFORMS Annual Conference, San Diego, California, October, 2009. Du, A.Y., Das, S., Gopal, R. D. And Ramesh, R., “Resource Pricing and Risk Mitigation for Businesses in Online Storage Grids”, CIST/INFORMS Annual Conference, Washington D.C., October 2008. Du, A. Y., Li, J.P., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Tayi, G. K., ``Risk Management in Globally Distributed Call Center Networks – A Real Options Approach” Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), Milwaukee, WI, December 2006. Du, A.Y., Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., ``Analysis of Risk Management in Capacity Provision Networks (CPN) – A Financial Engineering Approach” International Symposium on Information Systems (ISIS), Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India, December 16 – 18, 2006. Du, A.Y., Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., ``Value Chains in IT-Enabled Services: Towards a Reference Model”, Conference on Globally Distributed Work (GDW), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, India, December 2005. Du, A.Y., Geng, X., Gopal, R. D. Ramesh, R. and A. B. Whinston, A. B., ``Share Auctions, PreCommunications and Simulation with Petri-Nets” Workshop on Information Systems Economics (WISE), Irvine, CA, December 2005. Du, A.Y., Geng, X., Gopal, R. D. Ramesh, R. and A. B. Whinston, A. B., ``Analysis of Topographical Leverage-driven Capacity Trading in Internet Storage Infrastructures” Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), Las Vegas, NV, December 2005. Nominated for the Best paper Award. Achieved SSRN's Top Ten download lists for “ISN Conferences & Meetings", "ISN Meetings" and "Workshop on Information Technologies & Systems Meetings (WITS)" in 2007. Geng, X., Gopal, R. D. Ramesh, R. and A. B. Whinston, A. B., ``Capacity Provision Networks: Foundations of Markets for Internet Storage Infrastructures,” CIST/INFORMS Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 2005. Zhang, H., Kishore, R., and Ramesh, R., “Ontological analysis of MibML grammar using the BungeWand-Weber model,” Proceedings of 2004 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2003), New York, NY, August 2004. Zhang, H., Kishore, R., Sharman, R., and Ramesh, R. “The GRITIKA ontology for modeling e-service th applications: formal specification and illustration,” Proceedings of 37 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37), Big Island, Hawaii, January 2004. Zhang, H., Kishore, R., Ramesh, R. and Sharman, R., “The GRITIKA ontology for modeling multiagent-based integrative business information systems,” Proceedings of the 2003 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2003), Tampa, FL, August 2003, pp.1885-1891. Nominated for the Best Paper Award. Kishore, R, Ramesh, R. and Sharman, R., “A Tutorial on Computational Ontologies: Foundations, Representations and Methods,” in the Proceedings of the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Conference, Tampa, FL, August 2003.
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Raghu, T. S., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., “Addressing the Homeland Security Problem: A Collaborative Decision Making Framework,” in the Proceedings of the First NSF/NIJ Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2003), Springer-Verlag, 2003. Voit, J., Kishore, R., Akella, R. and Ramesh, R., “Triggered learning Process from Production to Product Development”, PICMET’03, Portland, Oregon, 2003. Gopal, R. D., Hariharan, G., Ramesh, R. and Whinston, A. B., ``Multi-agent Contracts: Protocols and Design of Mechanisms'', in the proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education on the Internet, SSGRR 2001 L'Aquila, Italy, Aug, 2001. Zhang, H, Kim, D. J. and Ramesh, R., ``Ontological Foundations for the Design of Integrated Multiagent Architectures", in the Proceedings of the Third International Bi-Conference Workshop th on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS-2001), 5 International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Montreal, Canada, May 28 - June 1, 2001. Zhang, H, Kim, D. J. and Ramesh, R., `` Multiagent Systems: An Ontological Meta-model", in the Proceedings of the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Conference, Boston, MA August 2001. Aldakhilallah, K. A. and Ramesh, R., ``Cyclic Scheduling in Reentrant Jobshops: Algorithms and Analysis," in the proceedings of INFORMS & KORMS, pp. 240 - 249, Seoul, Korea, 2000. Ramesh, R. and Andrews, D. H., `` Distributed Mission Training: Modeling and Analysis of Training Effectiveness, Costs and Resource Allocations,’’ in the Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orlando, Florida, December 1999. Bhattacharjee, S. and Ramesh, R., ``An Object oriented Modeling Framework for an Enterprisewide Distributed Computing System'', in the Proceedings of the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Conference, Baltimore, MD, August 1998. Raghu, T.S., Ramesh, R., Chang, A.M. and Whinston, A.B., ``Defeasible Arguments in Collaborative Processes: A Connectionist Framework for Assessment'', in the Proceedings of the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Conference, Baltimore, MD, August 1998. Bhattacharjee, S. and Ramesh, R., ``Client/Server based Enterprise Computing: Research Issues and a Framework for Infrastructure & Resource Planning'', in the Proceedings of the Third INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, College on Information Systems, INFORMS Conference, Montreal, 1998. Chandra, J., Gasser, L, March, S., Mukherjee, S., Pape, W., Ramesh, R., Rao, H. R. and Waddoups, th R., ``Information Systems Frontiers: Emerging Vistas’’, in the Proceedings of the 18 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Atlanta, GA, 1997. Ramesh, R., “Modeling and Analysis of Distributed Mission Training Systems,” Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR): Research Archives, 2000. Ramesh, R., ``Aircraft and DMT: Modeling and Analysis of training Effectiveness, Flight Tradeoffs, Costs and Resource Allocations”, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR): Research Archives, 1998.
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Ramesh, R., ``AETMS: Analysis, Design and Development”, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR): Research Archives, 1994. Ramesh, R., ``A Client-Server Architecture for Aircrew Training Management Systems: A Blueprint for Design and Development”, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR): Research Archives, 1993. Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., ``Multiple Query Optimization,'' in the Proceedings of the Annual DSI Conference, Miami, Florida, 1991. Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R. and Zionts, S., ``A Methodology for Join Processing in Relational Databases,'' in the Proceedings of the Annual DSI Conference, Miami, Florida, 1991. Ramesh, R., Karwan, M. H. and Zionts, S.,``Interactive Bicriteria Integer Programming: A Performance Analysis,'' in Interactive Fuzzy Optimization and Mathematical Programming, (Eds.) M. Fedrizzi, J. Kacprzyk and M. Roubens, Springer-Verlag, 1991. Sylla, C. and Ramesh, R.,``Modeling Instructor Training Preparation in a Simulation Flight Training Program,'' in the Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 19, Nos. 1-4, 1990. Ramesh, R. and Cary, J. M.,``Multicriteria Jobshop Scheduling,'' in the Proceedings of the 11th Annuaternational Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Orlando, Florida, 1989. Ramesh, R., Karwan, M. H. and Zionts, S.,``Performance Characteristics of Three Interactive Solution Strategies for Bicriteria Integer Programming,'' in the Proceedings of the VIIth International Conference on MCDM, Manchester, England, 1989. Shambu, G., Ramesh, R. and Rao, H. R., ``A Rule-Based System for Scheduling in a Hybrid Group Technology Environment,'' in the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Expert Systems and the Leading Edge in Production and Operations Management, Hilton Head, South Carolina, 1989. Ramesh, R. and Sylla, C.,``A Decision Support System for Design Optimization of Multiphase Trainer Instructor/Operator Stations in Flight Simulators,'' in the Proceedings of the 9th Annuaternational Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1988. Ramesh, R. and Sylla, C., ``Optimal Design of Instructor/Operator Stations in Flight Simulators,'' in the Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Dallas, Texas, 1988. Sylla, C.,and Ramesh, R. ``A Structural Framework for an Expert Authoring System,'' in the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Robotics and Factories of the Future, San Diego, California, 1987. Ramesh. R. and Sylla,C.,``A Graphic Identification Procedure for an Expert Authoring System,'' in the Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, 1987. Volonino,L.,Chandra Sekar,G. and Ramesh, R.,``Decision Quality and Information Load,'' in the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Honolulu, Hawaii, 1987.
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Ramesh, R., Karwan,M. H. and Zionts, S.,``An Empirical Assessment and Insights on Two Multicriteria Integer Programming Algorithms,''in Multiple Criteria Decision Making - Towards Interactive and Intelligent Decision Support Systems (Eds.Y. Sawaragi, K. Inoue and H. Nakayama), Springer-Verlag, 1987. Ramesh, R., Karwan,M. H. and Zionts, S.,``Degeneracy in Efficiency Testing in Bicriteria Integer Programming,'' in the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Methodology and Software for Interactive Decision Support, Albena, Bulgaria, published by the Internationastitute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, 1987. Karwan, M. H., Zionts,S., Villarreal, B. and Ramesh, R.,` `An improved Interactive Multicriteria Integer Programming Algorithm," in Decision Making with Multiple Objectives (Eds. Y.Y. Haimes and V. Chankong), Springer-Verlag, 1985.
Teaching
Taught the following graduate level courses at the School of Management, State University of New York at Buffalo (1984- ) Information Systems MGS 602: Information Technology and Communication Systems MGS 607: Information Technology and e-business MGS 616: DSS: Supply Chains and B2B systems MGS 655: Distributed Computing MGS 603: Analytical Methods of Planning and Control MGQ 603: Computers and Mathematical Models Management Science MGQ 605: Mathematical Analysis for Management MGQ 606: Probability and Statistics MGQ 302: Production and Operations Management MGQ 602: Regression Analysis and Multivariate Statistics MGQ 614: Applied Probability Theory MGQ 611: Deterministic Models of Operations Research MGQ 616: Stochastic Models of Operations Research Ph.D. Seminars (MGS 695) Developed and conducted the following doctoral seminar courses: Multisided Platforms (developed in 2010) Design Science in Information Systems (developed in 2007) Information Management and Systems Control (developed in 1994) Scheduling Theory (developed in 1993) Knowledge Engineering and Expert Systems (developed in 1986) Special Topics in Integer Programming (developed in 1986) Combinatorial Optimization and Computational Complexity (developed in 1985) International EMBA Courses
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Taught the following courses at the SUNY Buffalo - Renmin University joint EMBA program, Beijing, China ( 2001 - ), SUNY, Buffalo – Motorola University joint EMBA program, Beijing, China (2003 - ), SUNY, Buffalo – Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) joint EMBA program, Singapore (2003 - ) and Undergraduate program (2005 -) MGQ 603: Computers and Mathematical Models MGS 607: Information Technology and e-business MGQ 301: Probability and statistics Instructor in Engineering Economics and Teaching Assistant in Introduction to Operations Research, Department of Industrial Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo (19811984)
Research Supervision
Doctoral Committees
Member of the doctoral dissertation committees of the following students in Management Science & Systems: Niam Yaraghi, Anna Ye Du, Jingguo Wang, Linda Volonino, Jeffrey Teich, Ram Gopal, M. Thirumurthy, Yong Seok Yoon, Kichan Nam, Eleazar Puente, Mark Vroblefski, Khalid Aldakhilallah, Sudip Bhattacharjee and Hong Zhang. Member of the doctoral dissertation committees of the following students in other departments: Arindam Bannerjee (Marketing), Gautam Vemuganti (Industrial Engineering), Peiwu Zhao (Industrial Engineering), Lizhi Ma (Industrial Engineering), Muhammad Anwar (Industrial Engineering) and Itiakorit Osele (Electrical and Computer Engineering). Outside reader of the dissertations at the department of Industrial Engineering: Mannur Reddy, Srinivas Y. Prasad, J. Lin and Carol Romanowski. Chairman of the doctoral dissertation committees: Niam Yaraghi, Anna Ye Du, Ram D. Gopal, M. Thirumurthy, Mark Vroblefski, Sudip Bhattacharjee, Khalid Aldakhilallah and Hong Zhang. Chairman of the second year paper research committees: Niam Yaraghi, Anna Ye Du, Girish Shambu, Jeffrey Teich, Joe Sarkis, M. Thirumurthy, Ram Gopal, Sudip Bhattacharjee, Khalid Aldakhilallah, Eleazar Puente, Mark Vroblefski and Hong Zhang. Supervised independent studies of over thirty graduate students.
Masters Committees
Chairman of the Masters Thesis Committees of the following students at the Department of Industrial Engineering: James Cary, Barbara Hartman, Kathleen Brown and Anand Srinivasan. Chairman of the Masters Thesis Committees of the following students in the MS in MIS program, School of Management: Enrico Reidel and Greg Howland. Chairman of the Masters Thesis Committee of the following student in the Computer Science Department: Shiva Ramanna.
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Professional Services
Invited Session/Conference Chairman/Organizer/Speaker
Co-Chair of Minitrack “Technical, Social and Economic Issues in Health Information Exchanges”, AMCIS - 2011, 2012. Member of the Program Committee of IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI), 2005-2012. Member of the Program Committee of Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2004-2012. Board member, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2008 -11. General Co-Chair, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), Paris, France, December 13-14, 2008. Member of the Program Committee of the International Symposium on Information Systems (ISIS) Conference, Indian School of Business (ISB), 2006 - 2012. Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Globally Distributed Work (GDW), Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India, 2005-2008. Member of the Program Committee on the DSS Conference, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta, January 2007. Member of the Program Committee of the Workshop on Electronic Business (WEB), 2004-2012. Member of the Program Committee of CABIT Security Symposium “Information Security in the Knowledge Economy” Tempe, AZ, 2006. Co-Chair of the track on ‘Ontological Analysis in Systems Analysis and Design,” AMCIS, Acapulco, Mexico, August, 2006. Co-Chair of the track on ‘Ontological Analysis in Systems Analysis and Design,” AMCIS, Nebraska, Omaha August 2005. Member of the Program Committee of the CABIT Security Symposium “Information Security in the Knowledge Economy”, CABIT’05, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, September 8-9, 2005. Co-Chair of the track on ‘Ontology-driven Information Systems,” AMCIS, New York City, New York, August 2004. Co-Chair of the track on ‘Ontology-driven Information Systems,” AMCIS, Tampa, Florida, August 2003. Conducted a tutorial on “Computational Ontologies: Foundations, Representations and Methods”, AMCIS, Tampa, Florida, August 2003. Member of the Program Committee of the 2003 Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference, New Orleans, LA, May 23-26, 2003.
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Member of the Program Committee of the 2002 Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference, Seattle, Washington, May 19-22, 2002. Invited Plenary Speaker at the conference on “IT and Supply Chain streamlining”, China Business Forum and ITNewPower, Shanghai, China (April, 2003). Invited Speaker, International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education on the Internet, SSGRR 2001 L'Aquila, Italy, August 2001. General Chair of the conference entitled Virtual Enterprises and Pervasive/ Mobile Technologies: An Academia/Industry Workshop on Research Challenges and Frontiers (AIWoRC), conducted in cooperation with ACM, IEEE, INFORMS and AIS at SUNY at Buffalo, April 2000. Organized and chaired a session on ``Metaheuristics for location and routing problems,’’ at INFORMS, Montreal, 1998. Organized and moderated a panel discussion on ``Information Systems Frontiers: Emerging th Vistas,’’ 18 Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Atlanta, Georgia, 1997. Member, International Program Advisory Committee, 2 Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering Applications and Practice, San Diego, California, November 12 - 15, 1997. Organized and Chaired a session and served as a Panel Discussant in another session at DSI, Miami, Florida, 1991. Organized and Chaired a one-day workshop on the theme ``Variants of the Traveling Salesman Problem'' at the Operations Research Colloquium Series, Laval University, Quebec, Canada, 1988. Speaker at the Meeting of Social Scientists, Indian Society for Individual and Social Development (ISISD), Madras, India. Addressed the topic ``Optimization in Social Sciences'', 1988. Speaker at the MBA Student Congregation, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India. Addressed the topic ``Opportunities in Operations Research'', 1988. Orgainized and Chaired a one-day workshop on the theme ``Designing Efficient Data Structures: Theory and Implementation'' at the Operations Research Colloquium Series, Laval University, Quebec, Canada, 1987. Organized and Chaired a session on the theme ``Multicriteria Optimization'' at ORSA/TIMS, St. Louis, 1987. Organized and Chaired a session on the theme ``Multiple Criteria Optimization'' at ORSA/TIMS, Los Angeles, 1986. Organized and Chaired a session on the theme ``Interactive Multicriteria Programming'' at ESIGMA, Lisbon, Portugal, 1986. Principal discussant in an analysis and review forum in ESIGMA, Lisbon, Portugal, 1986. Principal discussant in the program summary and review session at the International Conference on Multi-Attribute Decision Making via O. R. - Based Expert Systems, University of Passau, West Germany, 1986. nd 19
Organized and Coordinated a symposium on `Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems', for middle-level managers and executives of Western New York industrial community at the State University of New York at Buffalo, 1985. Organized and Chaired a session on the theme ``Data Structures'' at ORSA/TIMS, Orlando, Florida, 1983.
Reviewing Activities
Reviewer of articles on a regular basis for following journals: Management Science, Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics, Networks, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Information Systems Research, European Journal of Operations Research, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Computers and Chemical Engineering, International Journal on Production Economics, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Automatica, Large-Scale Systems, IIE Transactions, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Operations Research Letters, Opsearch, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of ManMachine Studies, Optimization, Journal of Information Systems Research, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Omega Reviewer of articles for the Special AI volume of SIGAI of ORSA, and several proceedings. Book reviewer for PWS-Kent Publishing Company, John Wiley & Sons, Addison-Wesley, Harper Collins and Duxbury Press. Member of the National Science Foundation SBIR/STTR review panel, September, 2001, September 2002, September 2003. Regular Proposal Reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Membership
Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Association for Information Systems (AIS) European Summer Institute Group on Multicriteria Analysis (ESIGMA) International Special Interest Group on MCDM
University Service
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University Committees
Committee of Associate Deans for Research (2001 - 2006) University Faculty Senate (1994 - 00) University Faculty Senate Executive Committee (1996 - 98)
School Committees
Director, MS in Information Systems Program (2001 - 2005) Chair, Personnel Actions Committee (2001 - 2003) Member, School Policy Committee (2005 - ) Member, Personnel Actions Committee (2000 – 03) Member, Research Committee (2000 - 2005) Member, M.B.A. Program Committee (1991 - 94) Member, M.B.A. Program Subcommittee on Curr. Development (1991 - 94) Member, M.B.A. Program Subcommittee on Admissions (1992 - 94) Member, M.B.A. Program Subcommittee on Core and Options (1993 - 94) Member, Ph. D. Program Committee (1986 - 91) Member, Graduate School Committee for Ph.D. programs at the School of Management (1986 - 91) Member, Computer Planning and Allocations Committee (1986 - 87) Member, Library Resources Committee (1986 - 87) Member, CEP207 Course Reorganization Committee (1990)
Department Committees
Member, MIS Curriculum Committee (1992 -) Member, Organizing Committee for the Conference on World Class Manufacturing (with APICS) (1991) Coordinator, Ph.D. Programs and Ph.D. Students' Advisement (1986 - 91) Chairman, Committee for the review of the Ph.D. Programs (1987 - 90) Chairman, Faculty Search Committee (1990 - 91) Chairman, Course Upgrade Committee (MGQ 603) (1988 - 89) Member, Committee on Mgmt. Science graduate curriculum development (1986 - 87) Member, Committee on MIS undergraduate curriculum development (1986 - 87) Member, Committee for the development of a decision Support Systems option at the graduate level (1985 - 86) Coordinator and member of the organizing committee for the symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (1985 - 86) Course Coordinator for the graduate course MGQ 603 (1985 -1987, 1988 -)
Other Significant Pedagogical Contributions
Substantially upgraded and developed a new MIS curriculum (1997 - 99) Key member of the core faculty team that designed, developed and delivered three executive IT training programs to executives from the Samsung Corporation. The programs involved an outlay of about $750,000 (1996-97). Designed and developed seven doctoral seminars that led to several doctoral dissertations and second year papers.
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Was instrumental in initiating, planning and organizing a $10000 donation of equipment (two NT servers and three SUN workstations) from Mr. Cherif Sleiman. Designed and developed the dual-degree MS/MBA program at Bangalore, India, in collaboration with MSS faculty, Amrita faculty and HP executives. Established a tripartite agreement between UB, Amrita and HP.
