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"RFID Tagging at the Aggregate level: Implications for Using Groupings", forthcoming, SIGSAND proceedings, May 2008 (with F. Currim).
"RFID Data: A case for and of Types and Instances", proceedings of Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, December 2007 (with F. Currim).
"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 Workshop in Information Technology and Systems, Milwaukee, Dec. 2006 ( with J. Liu).
"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).
"Making the Case for New Semantic Constructs to Model RFID Data", Proceedings of SIGSAND, May 12, 2006, Vancouver, British Columbia.
"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 (with Y. Hwang and H. Zhao).
"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 (with L. Zhang and D. Zeng).
"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).
"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 (with Y. Liu and R. Lusch) (Nominated for Best Paper Award).
"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 (with Y. Liu and R. Lusch).
"Towards Semantic Interoperability of Heterogeneous Biological Data Sources", Advanced Information Systems Engineering, 17th International Conference, CAiSE 2005, Porto, Portugal, June 13-17, 2005, Proceedings.
"Why do novices make errors in database conceptual modeling", Proceedings of SIGSAND, May 2005 (With S. Currim)
"Modeling the Semantics of Protein Structures'', forthcoming, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling" (ER 2004), Shanghai, China, November 2004 (With W. Wei)
"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)
"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).
"Storage Allocation in Web Prefetching Techniques'', ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, June 2003 ( with D. Zeng, and F.Y Wang).
"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).
"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 (with H. Zhao).
"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).
DISTIL: A Design Support Environment for Conceptual Modeling of Spatiotemporal Requirement", Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Yokohama, Japan, Nov. 2001 (with V. Khatri, R. Snodgrass).
"Infomediation for E-business enabled Supply Chanins: A Semantics Based Approach", Proceedings of DS-9-Semantic Issues in Ecommerce Systems, Hong Kong, April 23-28 2001, (with Y. Hwang, V. Khatri).
"A Framework for Classifying Semantic Conflicts in Geographic Databases", Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, North Carolina, Dec. 1999.
"Improvement Research Methods in MIS", Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, North Carolina, Dec. 1999.
"An Intelligent Agent based toolkit Discovering and Accessing Distributed Earth Observing Data", Proceedings of EOGEO98, Salzburg, Austria, Feb. 1998 (with S. Venkatasubramanyan, S. Yool, S. Marsh, and J. Park).

"A Semantic Based Approach for Managing Remote Sensing Data in a Distributed Heterogeneous Environment", Proceedings of the ISPRS Workshop, Boulder, CO, Oct 1997.

"Modeling Spatial and Temporal Semantic in a Large Heterogeneous GIS Database Environment", Proceedings of the 2nd Americas Conference on Informat ion Systems(AIS`96), Pheonix, Arizona, Aug. 16-18, 1996 (with J. Park).

"Semantic Based Transaction Processing for Real Time Databases: A Protocol and Performance Evaluation", Proceedings of the INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Tec hnology, Washington DC, May 1996 (with P. Konana).

"A Graph Theoretic Approach for Schema Evolution", Proceedings of the INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Washington DC, May 1996 (with G. Shankar ).

"A Methodology for Interschema Relationship Identification in Heterogeneous Databases", Proceedings of the Twenty Eight Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - HICSS-28, Maui, HI, Jan. 1995 (with V. Ramesh).

"Integrity Constraint Integration in Heterogeneous Databases: An Enhanced Methodology for Schema Integration", Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Technology and Sys tems - WITS'95, Vancouver, Canada, Dec.

"Screening Products for International Markets", Proceedings of the 23rd EMAC Conference, Maastricht, The Netherlands, May 1994 (with S. Ram).

"Semantic Query Processing in large Scientific databases", Massive Digital data Systems Workshop, Reston, VA, Feb 1, 1994.

"Composite and Grouping: Extending the Realm of Semantic Modeling", forthcoming, Proceedings of the 26th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan 1993, M auii, HI, (with V.C. Storey).

"Heterogeneous Distributed Databases for Concurrent Engineering", Proceedings of the First Workshop on Enabling Technologies for Concurrent Engineering, Morgantown, W. Virginia, March 1992.

"Schema Integration and Semantic Query Processing in a Heterogeneous Distributed Database System", Proceedings of the NSF Workshop on Heterogeneous Databases and Semantic I nteroperability Boulder, CO, Feb 1992.

"A Unifying Semantic Model for Accessing Multiple Heterogeneous Databases in a Manufacturing Environment", Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Interoperabili ty Among Databases - IMS91, April 1991, Kyoto, Japan (with E. Barkmeyer), pp. 212-215.

"Allocation of Databases in a Distributed Database Systems", Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Information Systems , Copenhagen, Dec. 1990 (with S . Narasimhan).

"Distributed Knowledge Based Systems to Support Computer Integrated Manufacturing", Proceedings of CIMCON'90 , Gaithersburg, Washington DC., May 1990. (with D. Carl son and A. Jones).

"Using a Social Network to Integrate Distributed Knowledge Based Systems", Proceedings of the 23rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences , Jan 1990 (with D . Carlson).

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

"Multi-User View Integration System (MUVIS): An Expert System for View Integration", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering , Feb. 1990 (w ith S. Hayne).

"Integration of Information Systems Technologies to Support Consultation in an Information Center", Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems , Dec. 1989 (with S. Hayne, D. Carlson, and J.F. Nunamaker).

"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).

"An Object-Oriented Design for Distributed Knowledge Based Systems", Proceedings, Twenty Second Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences , Jan. 1989 (with D. Carlson).

"An Architecture for Distributed Knowledge Based Systems", Proceedings, AAAI Workshop on Databases in Large AI Systems , Minneapolis, Aug.1988 (with D. Carlson).

"An Expert System for Screening Innovations in the Financial Services Industry", Proceedings, XV International Research Seminar in Marketing, La Londe L es Maures, Fran ce, May, 1988 (with S. Ram).

"The Synthesis Approach to Relational Database Design: An Expanded Perspective", Proceedings, 21st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences , Jan. 1988 (with S.M. Curran).
"Innovator: An Expert System for Screening New Products", presented at the ORSA/TIMS Marketing Science Conference , March 1988, Seattle (with S. Ram).

"Design of Distributed Databases for An Automated Manufacturing Facility", Proceedings, ASME International Computers in Engineering Conference , Aug. 1987 (with W. Davi s).

"Crisis Support Systems: Tools for Action", Proceedings, DSS-87, Seventh International Conference on Decision Support Systems , June 1987 (with S. Weber and C. Smith).< /li>
"The File Allocation Problem - An Expanded Perspective", Proceedings, Twentieth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences , Hawaii, Jan 6-9, 1987.
"The Entity Relationship Model versus the Relational Model", Proceedings, Sixth International Conference on the Entity Relationship Approach , New York, November, 1987.

"Report Generation Facility: A High Level Interface for Coherent Access to Heterogeneous Database Systems", Proceedings, International Conference on Data Engineering , Feb. 1986 (with G. Belford and J. Liu et. al.).