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  • "Database design and querying within the fuzzy semantic model" , Information Sciences, Volume 177, No. 21, 2007, pp. 4598-4620. (with R. Bouaziz, S. Chakhar, V. Mousseau, and A. Telmoudi).

  • Special Issue on "Semantic Web: Opportunities and Challenges", Information Technology and Management, 8(3), September 2007, pp. 203-204. (with H. Zhao).

  • "Conceptually Modeling Windows and Bounds for Space and Time in Database Constraints" , forthcoming, Communications of the ACM, 2007 (with F. Currim).

  • "Defining, Eliciting and Using Data Semantics for Emerging Domains", Journal of Database Management , Jan-March 2007, pp 1-13. (with V. Khatri).

  • "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).

  • "Understanding the Semantics of Data Provenance to Support Active Conceptual Modeling" , LNCS 4512. Springer-Verlag, 2007, pp. 17-29 (with J. Liu).

  • "Conceptual Modeling: a 25 Year history" , Springer Verlag, LNCS 4215, November 2006 (with D. Embley, and A. Olive), pp. V-VI.

  • "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).

  • "Combining Schema and Instance information for Combining Heterogeneous Data Sources" Data and Knowledge Engineering, 61, No. 2, 2007, pp. 281-303. (with H. Zhao).

  • "Elitist and Ensemble Strategies for Cascade generalization" , Journal of Database Management, Vol. 17, Issue 3, pp. 92-107, 2006 ( H. Zhao and A. Sinha).

  • "Augmenting Database Design-Support Environments to Capture the Spatio-Temporal Data Semantics" , Information Systems, Volume 31, Issue 2  (April 2006), Pages: 98 - 133 (with V. Khatri, and R. Snodgrass).

  • "Cognitive Fit between Conceptual Schema and Internal Problem Representation: The case of geospatio temporal conceptual schema comprehension" , IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, June 2006, Volume: 49,  Issue: 2, On page(s): 109- 127 (with V. Khatri, V. Ramesh and I. Vessey).

  • "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. ( with D. Liginlal and L. Duckstein).

  • "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).

  • "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, 2005, (with Huimin Zhao).

  • "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).

  • "Information Systems Interoperability: What Lies Beneath?", ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Vol. 22, No. 4, October 2004, pp.595-632 (with Jinsoo Park).

  • "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).

  • "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).

  • "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).

  • "Design Science in Information Systems Research", MIS Quarterly, Volume 28, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 75-105, (with A. Hevner, S. March, J. Park).  Abstract 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

  • "Semantic Conflict  Resolution Ontology (SCROL): An Ontology for Detecting and Resolving Data and Schema Level Conflicts", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Volume 16, No. 2, February 2004, pp. 189-202 (with J. Park).

  • "IAIS: A Methodology to Enable InterAgency Information Sharing in E-Government", Journal of Database Management, Vol.14, No.4, Oct-Dec 2003, pp.59-80, (with A. Bajaj).

  • "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).

  • "Informediation for Ebusiness Supply Chains: A Semantics Based Approach", in Semantic Issues in Ecommerce Systems (R. Meersman, K. Aberer, T Dillon eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 205-220 (with V. Khatri, and Y, Hwang).

  • "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).

  • "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).

  • "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).

  • "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).

  • "An Agenda for Information Technology Research in Heterogeneous and Distributed Environment", Information Systems Research, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 2000, pp. 327-334, (with S. March and A. Hevner).

  • "Managing Information Products for the BioActive Agents from Drylands Biodiversity of Latin America Project", IAALD Quarterly Bulletin, Vol.XLIV, No. 3/4, 2000, pp. 163-172, (with B. Hutchinson, J. Henzel and B. Timmermann).

  • "Intelligent Agents and the World Wide Web: Fact or Fiction", Vol. 12 No 1, Jan-Mar 2001, Journal of Database Management, pp. 46-47.

  • "Developing Information Products for an International Biodiversity Project", forthcoming, Agricultural Information Specialists Quarterly, 2000 (with B. Hutchinson, J. Henzel, F. Currim, and B. Timmermann).

  • "The Latin America ICBG: The First Five Years", Vol. 37, Supplement, Journal of Pharmaceutical Biology, 2000, pp. 35-54 (with B. Timmermann, B. Hutchinson, J. Henzel, and F. Currim)

  • "Digital Libraries in the Next Millennium: State of the Art and Research Directions", Information Systems Frontiers, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1999, pp. 75-94 (with J. Park and D. Lee).

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  • "Research Direction in Conceptual Modeling", (Guest Editional), Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 31, No. 3, Nov. 1999, pp. 225-227 (with T. W. Ling)

  • "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).

  • "Semantic Model Support for Geographic Information Systems", IEEE Computer, Vol. 32, No. 5, May 1999, pp. 74-81 (with J. Park and G. Ball).

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  • "Semantics Based Transaction Processing for real-Time Databases: The Case of Automated Stock Trading", INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1999,
    pp. 299-315 (with P. Konana).

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  • "An Empirical Analysis of the Object-Oriented Database Concurrency Control Mechanism O2C2", Journal of Database Management, April-June 1999, pp. 14-26 (with D. Olsen).

  • "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).


  • "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).


  • "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 (wiht V. Ramesh).

  • "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).


  • "Updating Timestamp Interval for Dynamic Adjustment of Serialization Order in Optimistic Concurrency Control-Time Interval (OCCTI) protocol", Information Processing Letters , 1997, Vol. 63, pp. 54-65 (with P. Konana and J. Lee).

  • "Allocation of Databases in a Distributed Database Environment", forthcoming, Journal of Database Management, 1997 (with S. Narasimhan).


  • "A Content Specifications for Business Process Models", Australian Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 4, No. 1, Sept 1996, pp. 22-31 (with A. Bajaj).


  • "Practical Aspects of Teaching and Applied database Course", Database, Vol. 27, No. 3, Summer 1996, pp. 15-33 (with J. Choobineh).


  • "Screening Products for International Markets: An Expert Systems Application", forthcoming, New Review of Applied Expert Systems, 1996, 45-57 (with Sundaresan Ram).

  • "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).

  • "Deriving Functional Dependencies from the Entity Relationship Model", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 38, No. 9, Sept 1995 pp. 95-107.

  • "Incorporating the Majority Consensus Concurrency Control Mechnism into the Database Allocation Problem", Orsa Journal on Computing, Vol. 7, No. 3, Summer 1995, pp. 244-256 (with S. Narasimhan)

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  • "A Blackboard Architecture for Schema Integration", IEEE Expert, Vol. 10, No. 3, June 1995, pp. 56-62 (with V. Ramesh).

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  • "Understanding Database Design Expertise", Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol.16, 1995, pp. 97-124 (with V. Storey, C. Thompson).

  • "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).


  • "Validation of Expert Systems for Innovation Management: Issues, Methodology and Empirical Assessment", Journal of Product Innovation Management, Vol. 13, No.1, Jan. 1996 (with Sundaresan Ram).


  • "Information Technologies and Systems", Decision Support Systems, Vol. 13, 1995 (with R. Blanning and R. Wang).

  • "Group Database Design: View Modeling and Integration", Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 28, No. 2, Feb. 1995, pp. 97-116 (with S. Hayne).

  • "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). 


  • "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. Carlson).


  • "A Knowledge Representation for Modeling Organizational Productivity", Journal of Organizational Computing, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1992, pp. 155-180  (with D. Carlson).


  • "Heterogeneous Distributed Database Systems", IEEE Computer, Vol. 24, No. 12, Dec. 1991, pp. 7-12.


  • "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).


  • "An Architecture for Distributed Knowledge Based Systems", Database, Vol. 22, No. 1/2, Winter/Spring 1991, pp. 11-21 (with D. Carlson).


  • "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. Nunamaker).


  • "The Synthesis Approach for Relational Database Design", Information Sciences, Vol. 52, No. 3,Oct. 1990, pp. 134-149 (with S. M. Curran).


  • "HyperIntelligence: The Next Frontier", Nikkei Artificial Intelligence Journal , Nikkei Business Publications, 1990, pp. 51-67  (with D. Carlson).

  • "Screening Financial Innovations: An Expert Systems Approach", IEEE Expert , Vol. 5, No. 4, Aug. 1990, pp. 20-28 (with S. Ram).


  • "Architecture of Distributed Data Base Systems", Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 10, No. 2, Sept. 1989, pp. 77-95 (with C. Chastain).


  • "A Model for Designing Distributed Database Systems", Information & Management, Vol. 17, 1989.


  • "An Automated Tool for Relational Database Design", Information Systems, Vol. 14, No. 3, 1989, pp. 247-259 (with S. M. Curran).


  • "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).


  • "Innovator: An Expert System for New Product Launch Decisions", Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1988, pp. 129-148 (with S. Ram).


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