Developed numerous commercial systems: online travel agents, school bus company payroll system (see original version), college registration system, professional society membership system, and teaching and learning support system (ecourse.org)
network administration
Developed Linear Model Operating System (LMOS) (for both Windows and Excel platforms) , an expert system shell for coding knowledge as linear belief functions and making inferences via Dempster's rule of combination
network administration
Developed and offered training courses on Oracle Database, Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Object-Oriented Systems Analysis, Web Design to professionals in businesses, governments, and educational institutions
Developed two college campus networks including server setup, client connections, network layout, logical infrastructure design, system policy and security enforcement
Provided consulting to one county government, six colleges, five Fortune 500 corporations, and numerous small businesses and organizations on Oracle databases, systems design methodology, e-commerce, data networking, and energy planning
Re-designed the undergraduate MIS Program at Southern Illinois University, and acted as the MIS Area Coordinator in the Department of Management, 1999-2001; Re-engineered all the MIS courses for the Information Systems Program at Susquehanna University, 1997-1999; Proposed the MIS Program and developed the curriculum for the School of Business, Albany State University, 1995-1997.
Co-Editor with Dempster, A. P., Glenn Shafer, Yager, R. R., “Classic Works on Theory of Evidence,” A Volume of Best Papers on the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Belief Functions, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, 2004.
Guest Editor, Special Issue on the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 22(1), 1-148, 2003.
Associate Editor, Journal of Information Analysis, 2023-Date
Co-Editor with Borislav Roussev “Management of the Object-Oriented Development Process,” to be published by Idea Group Publishers, October 2004.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEES
Co-Chair, IAENG International Conference on Operations Research, 2007-2013
Chair: Invited Cluster on Belief Functions: Applications and Advances, 2001 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, November 2001.
The 3rd International Conference on Belief Functions, Oxford, England, September 26-28, 2014
The Fifth International Conference on Advances in Future Internet (AFIN 2013), August 25 - 31, 2013 - Barcelona, Spain
The 2nd International Conference on Belief Functions, Compiègne, France, May 9-11, 2012
International Conference on e-Business 2012, July 24-27, 2012, Rome, Italy.
IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2012, Madrid, Spain, 18-21 October, 2012
28th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, August 15-17, 2012, California, USA
Workshop on the Theory of Belief Functions, Brest, France, March 31-April 1, 2010.
International Conference on e-Business 2010
Annual Pre-ICIS Workshop on HCI Research in MIS, 2004-2014.
Annual International Conference on Operational Research and Statistics (ORS). February 28 - March 1, 2011
Annual IADIS International Conference on WWW/Internet, 2006-2010
IAENG International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 2006-2011
Mobile Life Conferences and Exhibitions, Antalya, Turkey, 15-19 September, 2008
Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)—IT in Health Care Track, New York City, NY, August 5-8, 2004.
International Research Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT), Dubai, UAE, 2004-2005
Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference, San Diego, California, May 15-18, 2005
Track Chair: Invited Cluster on Belief Functions: Applications and Advances, 2001 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, November 2001
Session Chair: Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences Annual Meeting, 1996
Session Chair: Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, 1996, 1997, 1998
Reviewer: International Conference on Information Systems
Reviewer: Hawaii International Conferences on Systems Sciences
Reviewer: International Conferences on Computing and Information
JOURNAL REVIEWER
Advances in Management Information Systems Monographs
Behaviour & Information Technology
Computers & Operations Research
Decision Sciences Journal
European Journal of Operational Research
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
IEEE Sensors Journal
IEEE Transaction on Human-Machine Systems
IEEE Transaction on System, Man, and Cybernetics-Part A, B, C
Information Science
Information Systems Frontier
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
International Journal of Intelligent Systems
International Journal of Automatic Reasoning
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
International Journal of Information Management
International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems
IT and People
Journal of ACM
Journal of Broadcastig and Electronic Media
Journal of End User Computing
Journal of Information Systems
Journal of Optimization Theory and Application
Law, Probability and Risk
Omega: The International Journal of Management Science
Operations Research
Operations Research Letters
Statistic Sciences
Transactions on Rough Sets
BUSINESS AND CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
05/06-06/06: Eaton Corporation—Requirements Analysis and Modeling (professional training)
09/00-Date: Beck Bus Transportation Corporation—Architect, design, and develop a web-based payroll system
06/00-Date: ecourse.org, Carbondale, Illinois—Chief Architect and Developer, web application services for universities and colleges to manage online and onsite classes
08/99-12/00: Trailmobile Corporation, Chicago, Illinois—Consultant and Instructor, Oracle Database Administration, Performance Tuning, and Systems Development
08/99-12/00: Borgsmiller Travel Services—Project Chief Architect and Director, Web Commerce Development and Architecture Design for online resort reservation and airline ticketing
08/97-1998: EMNES Systems, Albany, Georgia—Web Commerce Development and Architecture Design for Easy Chinese (a multimedia software product for Chinese Learning)
11/96-1998: ROA Software Labs, Albany, Georgia—Web Commerce Development, Local Area Networking, and Software Design for MedNotes (a client/server software product to manage medical records)
05/96-08/97: Albany State University President's Office, Albany, Georgia—Administrative System Reengineering and Migration, Policies and Strategies of Computer and Internet Education for Adults and K-16 Students
11/94-08/96: University of Kansas Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Center, Kansas—Preferential Analysis of Energy Reduction Investment in Industrial Buildings
06/86-07/89: Anlu City Government, Hubei Province, China—Long Range Planning of Energy Consumption and Production
07/87-12/89: Changlin Petrochemical Company, Hunan Province, China—Industrial Energy Efficiency of China, a survey for European Economic Commission; Energy System Analysis and Renovation
1986-1988: Wuhan Fertilizer Plant, Wuhan, China-—Industrial Energy Efficiency of China, a survey for European Economic Commission; Energy System Analysis and Renovation
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE
Database Management--Extensive teaching and consulting experience with Oracle Database administration, performance tuning, and PL/SQL programming; extensive teaching and advising experience with Microsoft Access development; some teaching experience with Microsoft SQL Server administration.
Systems Design and Development--extensive teaching and consulting experience with Oracle Designer; extensive teaching experience with UML based CASE tools; extensive teaching, consulting, and development experience with Oracle Developer and Visual Studio; Some teaching and hands-on experience with Microsoft Visual C++ (Foundation Classes), Boland JBuilder, Oracle JDeveloper, and Borland C++ Builder
Programming Languages--Extensive teaching, consulting, and development experience in Visual Basic, C#, and PL/SQL; Some development experience in C++ and Java; Familiar with COBOL, Prolog, Pascal, and Fortran.
Web Applications Development--Extensive development, consulting, and teaching experience in developing e-commerce applications using Active Server Pages and ASP.NET web services. Some teaching and hands-on experience in developing COM components using Visual Basic and Visual C++ ATL.
Network Administration--Extensive experience in NT and LINUX systems administration; Extensive teaching experience in telecommunications management, data network design, and Cisco switches, Cisco routers, and Cisco IOS; extensive hands-on experience in designing and building local area networks; extensive experience in setting up and managing Internet Services and Protocols: DNS, FTP, HTTP, USENET NEWS, POP3, SMTP, and Streaming Media.
