Application of Agents and Intelligent Information Technologies

• #1. OABIS: An Ontology-Based Approach to Business Rules Sourcing in Supply Chain Management Systems
• #2. Evolution and Mutation in Push Technologies: Social Concerns Resulting from the Effects of Memes on Intelligent Agents
• #3. Approaches and Tools to Optimize and Manage Clinical Processes
• #4. Combating Malaria: A Complex System and Agent-Based Approach
• #5. An Intelligent Multi-Robot System Using Higher-Order Mobile Agents
• #6. Instrument Validation for Strategic Business Simulation
• #7. Challenges of the "Global Understanding Environment" Based on Agent Mobility
• #8. Building Sound Semantic Web Frameworks for Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Systems
• #9. Information Parallax
• #10. ADAM: An Autonomic Approach to Database Management
• #11. Towards Distributed Association Rule Mining Privacy
• #12. A Generic Internet Trading Framework for Online Auctions
• #13. Monitoring and Enforcing Online Auction Ethics
• #14. Mail Server Management with Intelligent Agents
• #15. Predicting Protein Secondary Structure Using Artificial Neural Networks and Information Theory

Vijayan Sugumaran is Distinguished Professor of Management Information Systems and Chair of the Decision and Information Sciences department at Oakland University. He is also Co-Director of the Center for Data Science and Big Data Analytics at Oakland University. He received his Ph.D. in Information Technology from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Over the years he has taught courses at the Graduate and Undergraduate level in Object-Oriented Systems Development, C++, Java, Javascript, Database Management Systems and Data Warehouses, Advanced Databases and Big Data Management, Deep Learning and Text Analytics, Systems Analysis and Design, Electronic Commerce, and Introduction to MIS. His research interests are in the areas of Big Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Ontologies and Semantic Web, Intelligent Agent and Multi-Agent Systems, Component Based Software Development, Knowledge-Based Systems, and Data & Information Modeling. He has published over 275 peer-reviewed articles in Journals, Conferences, and Books. He has edited twenty books. His recent publications have appeared in Information Systems Research, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Education, IEEE software, Communications of the ACM, Healthcare Management Science, Data and Knowledge Engineering, The DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, and Journal of Information Systems and E-Business Management. He is also the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies and also serves on the editorial board of eight other journals. He was the Program Co-Chair for the International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2008, NLDB 2013, NLDB 2016, NLDB 2019, and NLDB 2023). He was also the Chair of Intelligent Information Systems track for the Information Resources Management Association International Conference (IRMA 2001, 2002, 2005 - 2007) and the Intelligent Agent and Multi-Agent Systems in Business mini-track for Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 1999 - 2023). He served as Program Co-Chair for the 14th Workshop on E-Business (WeB2015), 29th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2018), 14th Annual Conference of Midwest Association for Information Systems (MWAIS 2019), 5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Service and Applications (BDS 2019), and 2022 Midwest Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference (MWDSI 2022). He also served as Chair of the E-Commerce track for Decision Science Institute’s Annual Conference, 2004. He was the Information Technology Coordinator for the Decision Sciences Institute from 2007 to 2010. He also regularly serves as a program committee member for numerous national and international conferences.