3. Scholarly and Creative Activities

3.1  Refereed Journal Publications

"Knowledge Acquisition from an incomplete Domain Theory - An Application on Stock Market," with Melody Y. Kiang, Published in the Journal of Computer Science in Economics and Management, Vol. 4, 1991.

"Inducing Stock Screening Rules for Portfolio Construction," with Kar Yan Tam and Melody Kiang, Published in The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 42, No. 9, 1991.

"MEDSS: A Multi-Agent Environmental Decision Support System Framework for Model Management," with Patricia Carando and Professor Andrew B. Whinston, Published in the Annuals of Operations Research, Vol. 12, No. 4, 1993.

"A Generalized Case-Based Reasoning System for Portfolio Management," with Minder Chen and Melody Kiang, Published in the Journal of Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 6, No. 1, Dec. 1992.

"Using An Integrated Model Learning System to Construct the Model Base of a Decision Support System", Published in the International Journal of Intelligence Systems, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 373-389, June 1992.

"An Early Warning System for Banks -- An Application of An Integrated Machine Learning Approach," with Melody Kiang, Published in the Heuristics: Journal of Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 32-46, Winter 1992.

"Reasoning by Coordination - An Integration of Case Based and Rule Based Reasoning Systems," with Melody Y. Kiang, Published in the Journal of Knowledge Based Systems, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 103-113, 1993.

"DKAS: A Distributed Knowledge Acquisition System in a DSS," with Melody Y. Kiang, and Kar Yan Tam, Published in the Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 59-82 Spring 1993.

"Distributed Intelligent Executive Information Systems," with Efraim Turban, Published in the Journal of Decision Support Systems Vol. 14, page 117-130, 1995.

3.2  Books, Book Chapters and Other Publications

"Distributed Intelligent Executive Information Systems," with Efraim Turban, Forthcoming in the Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, 1997.

"A Proposed Framework for Decentralized Intelligent Agents in Decentralized Organizations," with Efraim Turban and Melody Kiang, published in Organizational Intelligence, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 172-182, 1995.

"Vest Pocket of MIS," with Jae Shim and Joe Siegle, Pretice Hall Inc., July, 1997.

"Student Guidebook for IS240," with IS faculty

"IS240 Teaching Notes," with Steve Gramme

3.3  Conference Proceedings

"Automated Construction of Knowledge Base from Examples - CHIPS," with Kar Yan Tam, Proceedings of the 9th Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, Houston, May, 1989.

"Technology Transfer and Organization Cooperation: The Expanded Roles of Information Management," with Francis Wu, Proceedings of the 10th Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, Houston, July, 1990.

"Automated Construction of Knowledge Base - A Machine Learning Approach," Proceedings of the 10th Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, with Francis Wu, Houston, July, 1990.

"Long Term and Short Term Strategic Planning in a Business Environment - A Qualitative Reasoning Approach," with Yihwa Kiang, Proceedings of the Annual Conference Special Interest Group on Business Data Processing of the ACM, Orlando, Florida, Oct., 1990.

"Using Explanation Based Learning Method to Construct the Model Base of a Decision Support System," with Yihwa Kiang, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Academy of Information Systems, Chicago, December, 1990.

"AMOLS: An Adaptive Model Learning System in a Decision Support System Environment," with Wei-Min Shen and Andrew B. Whinston, Task Force on "DSS Development Workbenches" Proceedings of the 24th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Koloa, Jan., 1991.

"A System of Tree Topology in Computer Communications Networks," Proceedings of the 11th Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, Houston, May, 1991.

"An Integrated Approach of Rule Based and Case Based Reasoning for Decision Support" with Yihwa Kiang, Proceedings of the 19th ACM/CSC 1991 Conference, San Antonio, March, 1991.

"A Generalized Case Based Reasoning for Personnel Performance Evaluation," with Minder Chen and Melody Kiang, Proceedings of the 24th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Koloa, Jan., 1991.

"A Framework For Building Distributed Decision Support Systems," with Sukumar Rathnam and Andrew B. Whinston, Proceedings of the 25th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Koloa, Jan., 1992.

"Global Competition and Strategic Alliance," with Dee Bruce Sun, Proceedings of the 1992 International Conference of Pacific Region Management, Washington D. C., August 7-9, 1992.

"Distributed Expert Systems (DES) - A Multiagent design," with Melody Yihwa Kiang and Efraim Turban, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Comparative Management, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C., June 7 - 9, 1992.
 
"An Intelligent Choice-making System for GDSS: A Machine Learning Approach," with Melody Y. Kiang, Proceedings of the 3rd National Conference on Information Management, Hsin-chu, Taiwan, R.O.C., May  29-30, 1992.

"Theory Revision with a New Mathematical Modeling Approach," with Bruce Sun, on the Proceedings of the 1992 Association of Management (AM) Conference , Las Vegas, NV, Aug., 1992.

"DDBS: Distributed Data Base Systems," with Melody Y. Kiang and Bruce Sun, on the Proceedings of the 1992 Association of Management (AM) Conference , Las Vegas, NV, Aug., 1992.

"Distributed Expert Systems (DES) in a Blackboard Architecture," with Melody Y. Kiang and Efraim Turban, on the Proceedings of the 1992 Annual Decision Science Institute Conference, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 1992.

"Case Based Reasoning to Model Building," with Andrew B. Whinston and Melody Y. Kiang, on the Proceeding of the 26th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Koloa, Jan., 1993.

"Distributed Intelligent Agents in Decentralized Organizations," with Melody Y. Kiang and Efraim Turban, on the Proceeding of the 26th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Koloa, Jan., 1993.

"Distributed Executive Information Systems," with Efraim Turban on the Proceedings of the 1st Pan Pacific International Conference on Information Systems at National Sun Yat Sen University, Republic of China, June 1993.

"A Proposed Framework for Distributed Intelligent Agents in Decentralized Organizations," with Efraim Turban and Melody Y. Kiang, on the Proceedings of the Pacific-Asian Conference on Expert Systems 1995 (PACES'95), Huangshan, China, May 15-18, 1995.

"Using A Mathematical Approach to Update the Domain Theory of a Learning Mechanism," with Richard Wollmer and Melody Kiang at 1995 INFORMS (ORSA/TIMS) conference in Singapore, June 25-28, 1995.

"Development in Rural China Measured with DEA," with Bruce Sun and Jason Chen at 1995 INFORMS (ORSA/TIMS) conference in Singapore, June 25-28, 1995.

"An Integration of Inductive & Deductive Learning Methods for Portfolio Management," with Melody Kiang at 1995 INFORMS (ORSA/TIMS) conference in Los Angeles, April 23, 1995.

"Case Based Model Base Management Systems" with Melody Kiang and Bruce Sun at 1995 The International Society for Decision Support System (ISDAA' 95), Hong Kong, June 22-23, 1995.

"Using Neural Networks to Identify Structures of Market Segments," with Melody Kiang at 1996 ORSA/TIMS Conference in Washington DC, May, 1996.

"Improving the Effectiveness of Self Organizing Map Networks Using a Circular Kohonen Method" with M. Goal, A. Philippakis, Melody Kiang, E. Turban at Proceeding of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Maoi, Jan., 1997.

"Case Based EIS with Deductive Facilities," with Steve Gramme at The International Association of Science and Technology for Development, Hawaii, August, 1996

"A network Learning Model for Problem Solving by Multiple Intelligent Agents," with Samuel Kim at 1997 ACME conference, Las Vegua, August, 1997

3.4 Conference Chairs and Journal Reviewers

Session Chair, Data Base Management Systems Track, the 1992 Association of Management  Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Aug. 1992.

Session Chair, Decision Support System/Artificial Intelligence/Expert Systems track, 1992 Annual Decision Science Institute Conference, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 1992.

Session Chair, AI/Neural Networks Track at the 1996 ORSA/TIMS Conference in Washington DC, May, 1996.

Session Chair, International Coparative Management Conference in Kaoshon, Taiwan, May, 1997

Reviewer, Journal Of Management Information Systems

Reviewer, Journal Of Decision Support Systems

Reviewer, Journal Of Expert Systems With Applications

3.5 Master and Doctoral Dissertation Committees

Committee member, Doctoral dissertation titled "Evaluation of the Effects of Multiple Communication Channels on Distributed Group Interaction and Decision Making Process," Claremont Graduate School of Management, 1995.

Committee Chair, Master dissertation titled "Intelligent Executive Information Systems (IEIS) with Data Warehouse Support -- An Application on Internet Resources Allocation," CSULB, 1996.

3.6 Invited Presentations

"DKAS: A Distributed Knowledge Acquisition System in a DSS," Invited presentation, Nan Yang Technological University in Singapore, June, 1993.

"Distributed AI and Machine Learning," invited presentation, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, 1992.

"DKAS: A Distributed Knowledge Acquisition System in a DSS," Invited presentation, at Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaoshung, Taiwan, May 30, 1993.

3.7 Research Projects Underway

"AMOLS: An Adaptive Model Learning System in a Decision Support System Environment,"

"Continuous Process Improvement by a Machine Learning Approach: An Application in Manufacturing Systems,

"An Integrated Rule-based and Case-based Reasoning Approach for Decision Support,

"Case Based Reasoning for Student Modeling,

"Data Warehousing in a Distributed AI environment"

"Network Learning Model (NLM) with Multiple Intelligent Agents for Internet Resources Allocation".

3.8  Research Grants Awarded

CSULB Fall 1991 University Assigned Time Award
CSULB Spring 1992 University Assigned Time Award
CSULB 1992 Mini Grant Winner
CSULB Fall 1992 College Assigned Time Award
CSULB 1993 Mini Grant Winner
CSULB Spring 1993 College Assigned Time Award
CSULB 1995 Mini Grant Winner
CSULB Fall 1994 College Assigned Time Award
CSULB 1994 Departmental Incentive Award
CSULB Spring 1996 Departmental Assigned Time Award
CSULB Fall 1996 Departmental Assigned Time Award
SCAC Conference Grant
Special non-recurring Travel Fund Award 1996
1995 Travel Grant