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Sudha Ram

Sudha Ram

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McClelland Professor of MIS
Director, Advanced Database Research Group

  • Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1985
Courses
  • MIS 531 Enterprise Data Management
  • MIS 587 Business Intelligence
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
Publications and Working Papers

  • Currim, F., and Ram, S.,  “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

  • Ram S., Liu J., "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
  • Ram S., Khatri V., "A Comprehensive Framework for Modeling Set-Based Business Rules during Conceptual Design", Information Systems, Vol. 30, No. 2, April 2005, pp. 89-118
  • Khatri V., Ram S., Snodgrass R., "Augmenting a Conceptual Model with Spatio-Temporal Annotations", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol 16, No. 11, November 2004, pp. 1324-1338
  • Hevner A., March S., Park J., Ram S., "Design Science in Information Systems Research", MIS Quarterly, Volume 28, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 75-105
  • Bajaj A., Allen G., Khatri V., Ram S., Siau K., “Advances in Data Modeling Research”, Communications of the AIS, Vol 17, Article 30, April 2006
  • Liginlal D., Ram S., Duckstein L., “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
  • Zhao H., Ram S., "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
  • Wei, W,  Zhang, KP, and Ram, S., “BioSem: Biological Data Integration”, Proceedings of the CMLSA workshop, Barcelona, November 2008
  • Currim, F, and Ram, S., RFID Tagging at the Aggregate level: Implications for Using Groupings", SIGSAND proceedings, May 2008
  • Ram S., Wei W., “BIO-LINK: Using Semantics to Link Heterogeneous Biological Databases for Knowledge Discovery”, Proceedings of 16th Workshop in Information Technology and Systems”, Milwaukee, Dec. 2006
  • Ram S., Liu J.,“PROMS: A System for Harvesting and Managing Data Provenance”, Proceedings of 16th Workshop in Information Technology and Systems”, Milwaukee, Dec. 2006
  • Liu Y., Ram S.,“ A Non invasive Software Architecture Style for RFID Data Provisioning”, Proceedings of 16th Workshop in Information Technology and Systems”, Milwaukee, Dec. 2006
  • Ram S., Sinha A., Zhao H., “An Empirical Analysis of Principal Components analysis on Symbiotic Classifers”, under review at IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • Khatri V., Ram S., “Strong Vs. Weak Semantics for Temporal Data”, under review, Communications of the ACM
  • Y. Liu Y., Lusch R., Ram, S,, "MultiCriterion Market Segmentation Using Evolutionary Techniques”, under review, IEEE TKDE
Professional Associations
  • ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
  • IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
  • AIS (Association for Information Systems)
Awards and Honors
  • IBM Faculty Development Award, 2007
  • UA Leading Edge Innovator in Research Award, 2007
  • UA GPSC “Advisor of the Year”, 2006
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