Ethan Frome

Donald H. Kraft

1117 Glengary Place

Colorado Springs, CO 80921

Phone: (719) 481-4843 E-mail: kraft@bit.csc.lsu.edu

Web: http://www.csc.lsu.edu/~kraft

Academic Employment Experience:

2011 Present

Adjunct professor, Doctoral Computer Science and Department of

Computer Science, Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, CO

2015 Present

Volunteer Instructor, Department of Computer Science, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO

2008 - 2010

Instructor, Department of Computer Science, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO

Fall, 2008

Instructor, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO

2008 - Present

Professor Emeritus, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

1982 - 2008

Professor, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University

1983 - 2008

Adjunct Professor of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University

2005 2007

Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, United States Air Force Academy

Spring, 2007

Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, Colorado Technical

University, Colorado Springs, CO

Spring, 1994

Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of California, Los Angeles

1985 - 1991

Chairman, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University

1976 - 1982

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State

University

1975 - 1976

Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Librarianship, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Summer, 1972

Visiting Assistant Professor, Graduate Library School, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

1970 - 1975

Assistant Professor, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

1968 - 1970

Graduate Teaching Instructor, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue

University

1965 - 1968

Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue

University

Education:

Ph.D. in industrial engineering (operations research), January 1971, Purdue

University, West Lafayette, IN

M.S. in industrial engineering, June 1966, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

B.S. in industrial engineering, June 1965, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Publications:

Books:

Kraft, D.H. and Colvin, E., Fuzzy Information Retrieval, Morgan Claypool, 2017

Meadow, C.T., Barry, C., Boyce, B.R., and Kraft, D.H., Text Information Retrieval Systems, third edition, San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2007

Meadow, C.T., Boyce, B.R., and Kraft, D.H., Text Information Retrieval Systems, second edition, San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2000

Boyce, B.R., Meadow, C.T., and Kraft, D.H., Measurement in Information Science, San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1994

Kraft, D.H. and Boyce, B.R., Operations Research for Libraries and Information Agencies: Techniques for the Evaluation of Management Decision Alternatives, San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1991

Book Chapters:

Kraft, D.H., Colvin, E., Bordogna, G., and Pasi, G. Fuzzy Information Retrieval Systems: A Historical Perspective, in Tamir, D.E., Rishe, D., and Kandel, A. (Eds.), Fifty Years of Fuzzy Logic and Its Applications, Springer, 2015

Kraft, D.H., Bordogna, G., and Pasi, G., Fuzzy Set Theory, in Bates, M.J. and Maack, M.N. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Third Edition, CRC Press, 2009, pp. 1897-1914

Borgogna, G., Kraft, D.H., and Pasi, G., Soft Approaches to Information Access and Retrieval, in Pedrycz, W., Skowron, A., and Kreinovich, V. (Eds.), Handbook of Granular Computing, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007

Chen, J., Kraft, D.H., Martin-Bautista, M.J., and Vila, M.-A., Chapter 18: Induction and Inference with Fuzzy Rules for Textual Information Retrieval, in Triantaphyllou, E. and Felici, G. (Eds.), Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Approaches based on Rule Induction Techniques, Massive Computing Series, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, 2006, pp. 629-654

Kraft, D.H., Some Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Textual Information Retrieval, in Kacprzyk, J., Krawczak, M., and Zadrozny, S. (eds.), Issues in Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland: Akademicka Oficyna Wydawnicza, 2002

Kraft, D.H., Chen, J., Martin-Bautista, M.J., and Vila, M.A., "Textual Information Retrieval with User Profiles Using Fuzzy Clustering and Inferencing," in Szczepaniak, S., Segovia, J., Kacprzyk, J., and Zadeh, L.A. (eds.), Intelligent Exploration of the Web, Heidelberg, Germany: Physica-Verlag, 2002

Srinivasan, P., Kraft, D., and Chen, J., "Rough and Fuzzy Sets for Data Mining of a Controlled Vocabulary for Textual Retrieval," in Crestani, F. and Pasi, G. (eds.), Soft Computing in Information Retrieval: Techniques and Applications, Heidelberg, Germany, Physica-Verlag, 2000

Chen, J., Mikulcic, A., and Kraft, D.H., "An Integrated Approach to Information Retrieval with Fuzzy Clustering and Fuzzy Inferencing," in Pons, O., Vila, M.A., and Kacprzyk, J. (eds.), Knowledge Management in Fuzzy Databases, Heidelberg, Germany: Physica-Verlag, 2000

Kraft, D.H., Bordogna, G., and Pasi, G., "Fuzzy Set Techniques in Information Retrieval," in Bezdek, J.C., Didier, D. and Prade, H. (eds.), Fuzzy Sets in Approximate Reasoning and Information Systems, vol. 3, The Handbook of Fuzzy Sets Series, Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999

Kraft, D.H. and Monk, D., "Applications of Fuzzy Computation - Information Retrieval: A Case Study with the CASHE:PVS System," in Ruspini, E., Bonissone, P., and Pedrycz, W. (eds.), Handbook of Fuzzy Computation, Part G: Fuzzy Computation in Practice, G14.2: Information Science, New York, NY: Oxford University Press and Institute of Physics Publishing, 1998

Kraft, D.H., Petry, F.E., Buckles, B.P., and Sadasivan, T., "Genetic Algorithms for Query Optimization in Information Retrieval: Relevance Feedback," in Sanchez, E., Shibata, T., and Zadeh, L.A. (eds.), Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Logic Systems, Singapore: World Scientific, 1997

Petry, F.E., Buckles, B.P., Kraft, D.H., Prabhu, D., and Sadasivan, T., "The Use of Genetic Programming to Build Queries for Information Retrieval," Section G2.1, in Baeck, T., Fogel, D., and Michalewicz, Z. (eds.), Handbook of Evolutionary Computation, New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 1-6

Kraft, D.H., Petry, F.E., Buckles, B.P., and Sadasivan, T, "Applying Genetic Algorithms to Information Retrieval Systems Via Relevance Feedback," in Bosc, P. and Kacprzyk, J. (eds.), Fuzziness in Database Management Systems, Studies in Fuzziness Series, Heidelberg, Germany: Physica-Verlag, 1995, pp. 330-344

Kraft, D.H. and Boyce, B.R., "Approaches to Intelligent Information Retrieval," in Petry, F.E. and Delcambre, M.L. (eds.), Advances in Databases and Artificial Intelligence, volume 1: Intelligent Database Technology: Approaches and Applications, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1995, pp. 243-261

Kraft, D.H., Wallace, D.P., Van Fleet, C., and Franklin, M., "A Modern Refereed Science Journal Editor's Responsibility in Insuring Citation Correctness," in Weeks, R.A. and Kinser, D.L. (eds.), Editing the Refereed Scientific Journal: Practical, Political, and Ethical Issues, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 1994, pp. 76-83

Nagelberg, K.M. and Kraft, D.H., News Story Generation with Hard Copy and Magnetic Media Information Sources: The Impact of Information Technology," Information and Behavior, IV, Special Issue on "Studies in the Relationships Between Communication and Information," 1993

Boyce, B.R. and Kraft, D.H., "Principles and Theories in Information Science," in Williams, M. (ed.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, v. 20, Knowledge Industry Publications, Inc., White Plains, NY, 1985, pp. 153-178

Kraft, D.H., "Advances in Information Retrieval: Where is That /#*%@^ Record, in Yovits, M. (ed.), Advances in Computers, v. 24, Academic Press, New York, 1985, pp. 277-318

Kraft, D.H. and Buell, D.A., "Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Boolean Retrieval Systems," In Dubois, D., Prade, H, and Yager, R. (eds.), Readings in Fuzzy Sets for Intelligent Systems, San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1992 (reprint)

Kraft, D.H. and McDonald, D., "Library Operations Research: Its Past and Our Future," in Hammer, D. (ed.), The Information Age: Its Development, Its Impact, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ, 1976

Buckland, M.K. and Kraft, D.H., "A Bibliography of Operations Research in Libraries," in Brophy, P., Buckland, M.K., and Hindle, A. (eds.), Reader in Operations Research for Libraries, Information Handling Services, Englewood, CO, 1976

Refereed Journal Articles:

Colvin, E. and Kraft, D.H., Fuzzy Retrieval for Software Reuse, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, v. 67, n. 10, 2016, pp. 2454-2463

Zins, C., Debons, A., Beghtol, C., Buckland, M., Davis, C.H., Dodig-Crnkovic, G., Dragulanescu, N., Harmon, G., Kraft, D.H., Poli, R., and Smiraglia, R., Knowledge Map of Information Science: Implications for the Future of the Field, Brazilian Journal of Information Science (BJIS), v. 1, n. 1, 2007, pp. 3-29

Kraft, D.H., Martin-Bautista, M.J., Chen, J., and Sanchez, D., "Rules and Fuzzy Rules in Text: Concept, Extraction and Usage, Special Issue on Soft Computing Applications to Intelligent Information Retrieval on the Internet, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, v. 34, n. 2-3, 2003, pp. 145-162

Martin-Bautista, M.J., Kraft, D.H., Vila, M.A., Chen, J., and Cruz, J., "User Profiles and Fuzzy Logic for Web Retrieval," Journal of Soft Computing, v. 6, n. 5, 2002, pp. 365-372

Sanchez, S.N., Triantaphyllou, E., and Kraft, D.H., "A Feature mining Based Approach for the Classification of Text Documents into Disjoint Classes," Information Processing and Management, v. 38, n. 4, 2002, pp. 583-604

Srinivasan, P., Kraft, Ruiz, M., Kraft D.H., and Chen, J., "Vocabulary Mining for Information Retrieval: Rough Sets and Fuzzy Sets," Information Processing and Management, 37, 2001, pp. 15-38

Petry, F.E. and Kraft, D.H., "Managing Uncertainty in Databases and Information Retrieval Systems," Fuzzy Sets and Systems, v. 90, 1998, pp. 183-191

Kraft, D.H., Bordogna, G. and Pasi, G., "An Extended Fuzzy Linguistic Approach to Generalize Boolean Information Retrieval," Journal of Information Sciences, v. 2, n. 3, November, 1994, pp. 119-134

Cater, Steven C. and Kraft, D.H., "TIRS: A Topological Information Retrieval System Satisfying the Requirements of the Waller-Kraft Wish List," Information Processing and Management, v. 25, 1989, pp. 15-25

Wallace, D.P., Boyce, B.R., and Kraft, D.H., "Estimating Effective Display Size in Online Retrieval Systems," Information Processing and Management, v. 24, 1988, pp. 331-337

Haas, D.F. and Kraft, D.H., "Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research in Information Science," Information Processing and Management, v. 20, 1984, pp. 229-237

Kraft, D.H. and Buell, D.A., "Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Boolean Retrieval Systems," International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, v. 19, 1983, pp. 45-56

Waller, W.G. and Kraft, D.H., "A Bayesian Approach to User Stopping Rules for Information Retrieval Systems," Information Processing and Management, v. 17, 1981, pp. 349-361

Buell, D.A. and Kraft, D.H., "Threshold Values and Boolean Retrieval Systems," Information Processing and Management, v. 17, 1981, pp. 127-136

Buell, D.A. and Kraft, D.H., "A Model for a Weighted Retrieval System," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 32, 1981, pp. 211-216

Kraft, D.H., "Journal Selection Models: Past and Present," Collection Management, v. 3, 1980, pp. 163-186

Kraft, D.H. and Lee, T., "Stopping Rules and Their Effect on Expected Search Length," Information Processing and Management, v. 15, 1979, pp. 47-58

Kraft, D.H. and Liesener, J.W., "Planning and Budgeting for School Media Programs at the Building, District, and Regional Levels: O.R. in the Little Red Schoolhouse," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 30, 1979, pp. 41-50

Waller, W.G. and Kraft, D.H., "A Mathematical Model of a Weighted Boolean Retrieval System," Information Processing and Management, v. 15, 1979, pp. 235-245

Kraft, D.H. and Bookstein, A., "Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems: A Decision Theory Approach," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 29, 1978, pp. 31-40

Kraft, D.H. and Polacsek, R.A., "A Journal Worth Measure for a Journal Selection Model," Collection Management, v. 2, 1978, pp. 129-140

Kraft, D.H., "A Comment on a Threshold Rule Applied to the Retrieval Decision Model," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 29, 1978, pp. 77-80

Bookstein, A. and Kraft, D.H., "Operations Research Applied to Document Indexing and Retrieval Decisions," Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, v. 24, 1977, pp. 418-427

Kraft, D.H. and McDonald, D., "Library Operations Research: A Bibliography and Commentary on the Literature," Information Reports and Bibliographies, v. 6, 1977, pp. 2-10

Greenberg, H.J. and Kraft, D.H., "On Computing a Buy/Copy Policy Using the Pitt-Kraft Model," Information Processing and Management, v. 13, 1977, pp. 125-134

Kraft, D.H., Polacsek, R.A., Burns, K., Klair, A., and Soergel, L., "Journal Selection Decisions: A Biomedical Library Operations Research Model I. The Framework," Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, v. 64, 1976, pp. 255-264

Kraft, D.H. and Polacsek, R.A., "Biomedical Literature Dynamics," Methods of Information in Medicine, v. 13, 1974, pp. 242-248

Kraft, D.H., Rush, B., and Steinberg, S., "Journal Disposition Decision Policies," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 25, 1974, pp. 213-217

Pitt W.B., Heilprin, L.B., and Kraft, D.H., "Buy or Copy A Library Operations Research Model," Information Processing and Management, v. 10, 1974, pp. 331-341

Kraft, D.H. and Hill, T.W., Jr., "A Journal Selection Model and Its Implications for Librarians," Information Processing and Management, v. 9, 1973, pp. 1-11

Kraft, D.H., "A Decision Theory View of the Information Retrieval Situation: An Operations Research Approach," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v. 24, 1973, pp. 368-376

Kraft, D.H. and Hill, T.W., Jr., "The Journal Selection Problem in a University Library System," Management Science, v. 19, 1973, pp. 613-626

Olson, E.E., Liesener, J.W., and Kraft, D.H., "An Educational Model for Library Problem-Solving: Teaming Librarians, Students, and Faculty," Special Libraries, v. 63, 1972, pp. 231-234

Kraft, D.H., "A Comment on the Morse-Elston Model of Probabilistic Obsolescence," Operations Research, v. 18, 1970, pp. 1228-1233

Refereed Conference Presentations:

Colvin, E. and Kraft, D.H., Fuzzy Retrieval for Software Reuse, refereed poster paper, Association for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting, St. Louis, October, 2015

Poddar, A. and Kraft, D.H., Linear Time Computation of Non-redundant Ngrams in Genomes, in Proceedings of ICC 2010, International Conference on Computing, (New Delhi, India, December 27-28, 2010)

Baird, L. and Kraft, D.H., A New Approach for Boolean Query Processing in Text Information Retrieval, Special Session 3SS: The Application of Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing in Flexible Querying, IFSA 2007 World Congress, Cancun, Mexico, June 2007

Balasubramanian, M., Perkins, L.A., Iyengar, S.S., Dua, S., and Kraft, D.H., Evidence Combination for Traffic Adaptive Routing, 18^th International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSEng05), Special Track on Data Fusion, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, August 2005

Martin-Bautista, M.J., Kraft, D.H., Vila, M.A., and Chen, J., "User Profiles and Fuzzy Logic for Web Retrieval," BISC International Workshop in Fuzzy Logic and the Internet - FLINT 2001 - New Directions in Enhancing the Power of the Internet, Berkeley, CA, August 2001

Kraft, D.H., Chen, J., and Mikulcic, A., "Combining Fuzzy Clustering and Fuzzy Inferencing in Information Retrieval," FUZZ-IEEE 2000, San Antonio, TX, May 2000

Kraft, D.H. and Chen, J., "Integrating and Extending Fuzzy Clustering and Inferencing to Improve Text Retrieval Performance," invited paper, Larsen, H.L., Kacprzyk, J., Zadrozny, S., Andreasen, T., and Christiansen, H. (eds.), Flexible Query Answering Systems: Recent Advances, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS'2000, Warsaw, Poland, October 2000, Advances in Soft Computing, Heidelberg, Germany: Physica-Verlag

Srinivasan, P. and Kraft, D.H., "Data Mining Via Rough Sets and Fuzzy Sets of a Controlled Vocabulary for Information Retrieval," invited paper, EUROFUSE-SIC'99, Budapest, Hungary, May, 1999

Kraft, D.H., Bordogna, G., and Pasi, G., "Information Retrieval Systems: Where is the Fuzz," presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Anchorage, Alaska, May 1998

Fanduiz, G., Krishnan, M., Prada, Y., Buckles, B., Kraft, D., and Petry, F., "Niching Genetic Algorithm Approach to Query Improvement for Information Retrieval," presentation at the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, June, 1997

Biron, P.V. and Kraft, D.H., "Sub-Symbolic Approaches to Information Retrieval," invited presentation, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October, 1995, Proceedings

Biron, P.V. and Kraft, D.H., "New Methods for Relevance Feedback," ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Nashville, TN, February, 1995, Proceedings, pp. 482-487

Kraft, D.H. and Barry, C., "Relevance in Textual Retrieval," American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), AAAI-94 Fall Symposium - Relevance, New Orleans, LA, November, 1994, Working Notes

Kraft, D.H., Petry, F.E., Buckles, B.P., and Sadasivan, T., "The Use of Genetic Programming to Build Queries for Information Retrieval," IEEE Symposium on Evolutionary Computation, Orlando, FL, 1994, Proceedings

Buckles, B.P., Kraft, D.H., Petry, F.E., Sadasivan, T., and Prabhu, D., "Die Konstruktion unscharfer Abragen mittels genetischer Agorithmen," 2. Beckmannkolloquium, Wismar, Germany, June 1994, Proceedings

Kraft, D.H., Petry, F.E., Buckles, B.P., and Sadasivan, T., "Automatic Construction of Fuzzy Queries for Information Retrieval," lecture given at University of Ghent, Belgium, DeCaluwe, R. (ed.), 1994

Kraft, D.H., Petry, F.E., Buckles, B.P., Sadasivan, T., and Prabhu, D., "Construction of Boolean Queries for Document Retrieval Via Genetic Programming," AISB Workshop on Evolutionary Computing, Leeds, England, 1994

Petry, F.E., Buckles, B.P., and Kraft, D.H., "Optimizing Boolean Queries with Relevance," presented at the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) annual meeting, Columbus, OH, October, 1993, Proceedings

Petry, F.E., Buckles, B.P., Kraft, D.H., and Prabhu, D., "Genetic Algorithms for Fuzzy Boolean Information Retrieval," presented at the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS) meeting, Allentown, PA, August, 1993, Proceedings

Kraft, D.H., Bordogna, G. and Pasi, G., "An Extended Fuzzy Linguistic Approach to Generalize Boolean Information Retrieval," invited paper, First International Institute on Fuzzy Theory and Technology, Durham, NC, October 1992

Kraft, D.H., Wallace, D.P., Van Fleet, C., and Franklin, M., "A Modern Refereed Science Journal Editor's Responsibility in Insuring Citation Correctness," presented at the Conference of Refereed Science Journals, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, March, 1992

Iyengar, S.S., Rao, S.V.N., and Kraft, D.H., The Multiple Attribute Tree as an Index Structure for Large Bibliographic Files," presented at the Third International Conference on Informetrics, Bangalore, India, August 1991

Carver, D.L. and Kraft, D.H., "Size and Complexity of Information Retrieval Issues," presented at the Workshop on Size and Complexity Problems in Information Worlds, ACM/SIGCHI CHI'91 Conference, New Orleans, LA, April, 1991

Zou, Zhen B. and Kraft, D.H., "Phrase-Based Indexing and Document Ranks for Retrieval Systems," presented at the NAFIPS '90 Conference (A Quarter Century of Fuzziness), Toronto, Ontario, June, 1990, Proceedings

Cater, Steven C. and Kraft, D.H., "TIRS: A Topological Information Retrieval System Satisfying the Requirements of the Waller-Kraft Wish List," presented at the ACM/SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, New Orleans, LA, June, 1987, Proceedings

Wallace, D.P., Boyce, B.R., and Kraft, D.H., "Estimating Effective Display Size in Online Retrieval Systems," presented at the ACM/SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, New Orleans, LA, June 1987, Proceedings

Kraft, D.H., Boyce, B.R., Wallace, D.P., and Howden, N., "A Multi-Level Approach to Library Automation Education," paper presented at the Association for Library and Information Science Education meeting, Chicago, IL, January, 1987

Radecki, T. and Kraft, D.H., "Incorporation of System-User Adaptation Mechanisms into Fuzzy Information Retrieval Procedures," in Bandler, W. and Kandel, A. (eds.), Recent Developments in the Theory and Applications of Fuzzy Sets, Proceedings of NAFIPS '86 Conference, New Orleans, LA, 1986

Kundu, S., Radecki, T., and Kraft, D.H., "A Method for Incorporating User Viewpoints in Information Retrieval Systems," paper presented at the First IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association) Congress, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, July, 1985, Proceedings

Radecki, T. and Kraft, D.H., "Incorporating Relevance Feedback into Fuzzy Information Retrieval Procedures," paper presented at the First IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association) Congress, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, July 1985, Proceedings

Kraft, D.H., "Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Boolean Retrieval Systems: A Brief Review," paper presented at a panel session, ACM/SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June, 1985, Proceedings

Kraft, D.H. and Buell, D.A., "Advances in a Bayesian Decision Model of User Stopping Behavior for Scanning the Output of an Information Retrieval System," paper presented at the International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, in van Rijsbergen, C.J. (ed.), Research and Development in Information Retrieval: Proceedings of the third joint BCS and ACM symposium, King's College, Cambridge 2-6 July, 1984, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 1984

Haas, D.F. and Kraft, D.H., "Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research in Information Science," invited paper presented at the Symposium on Empirical Foundations of Information and Software Science, Preprints, Atlanta, GA, 1982

Kraft, D.H. and Buell, D.A., "Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Boolean Retrieval Systems," invited paper presented at the NAFIPS Conference, Logan, UT, 1982

Buell, D.A. and Kraft, D.H., "LIARS: A Software Environment for Testing Query Processing Strategies," paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, West Berlin, Germany, 1982, in Salton, G. and Schneider, H.-J. (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 146: Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings, Berlin, May, 1982, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1982

Kraft, D.H. and Buell, D.A., "Generalizations of Boolean Query Processing," paper presented at a panel session, ACM Conference, Proceedings of the ACM '82 Conference, Dallas, TX, 1982

Kraft, D.H. and Buell, D.A., "Evaluation of Fuzzy Retrieval Systems," paper presented at the ASIS Meeting, Washington, DC, 1981, Proceedings

Buell, D.A. and Kraft, D.H., "Threshold Values and Boolean Retrieval Systems," paper presented at the ACM Computer Science Conference, Kansas City, MO, 1980, Proceedings

Biles, W.E., Hoffman, R.O., Estes, C.B., Talavage, J.J., and Kraft, D.H., "The Industrial Engineer in Environmental Information Systems," paper presented at the American Institute of Industrial Engineers (AIIE) First Annual Systems Engineering Conference, New York, NY, 1973, Proceedings

Kraft, D.H. and Liesener, J.W., "An Application of a Cost Benefit Approach to Program Planning: School Media Programs," paper presented at the ASIS Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 1973, Proceedings

Albert, D. and Kraft, D.H., "A Dynamic Search Stopping Rule for an Information Storage and Retrieval System," paper presented at the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, Houston, TX, 1978, Proceedings, Management of Information

Other Conference Presentations and Technical Reports:

Kraft, D.H., Fuzzy Information Retrieval: One Mans Journey, invited paper presented at the IFSA Meeting, Edmonton Canada, June 2013

Feldman, Y.A., Kraft, D., and Kuflik, T. (eds.), Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, 7^th International Conference, NGITS 2009, Haifa, Israel, June 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Germany, 2009

Kraft, D.H., "Fuzzy Information Retrieval," presentation, Department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel, June 2009

Kraft, D.H., "Fuzzy Information Retrieval," presentation, Graduate School of Management, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, June, 2009

Kraft, D.H., "Fuzzy Information Retrieval," presentation, Department of Management Information Systems, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, June 2009

Kraft, D.H., Fuzzy Information Retrieval, presentation, Department of Information Science, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, June 2009

Kraft, D.H., Evolutionary Algorithms for Query Optimization in Text Information Retrieval Systems, invited keynote lecture, 1^st International Workshop on Evolutionary Techniques in Data Processing (ETID), 18^th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Regensburg, Germany, 2007

Bensman, S.J. and Kraft, D.H., Tibor Braun, the Journal Scientometrics, and the International Development of a New Discipline, invited paper, in Glanzel, W., Shubert, A., and Schlemmer, B. (eds.), The Multidimensional World of Tibor Braun, ISSI Newsletter (e-zine of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics), 2007

Kraft, D.H., Pasi, G., and Bordogna, G., Vagueness and Uncertainty in Information Retrieval: How Can Fuzzy Sets Help, invited paper, International Workshop on Research Issues in Digital Libraries, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, December, 2006

Kraft, D.H., Scholarly Journal Publishing, invited panel presentation, Competing Information Realities: Digital Libraries, Repositories, and the Commons, ASIST Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, November 2006

Kraft, D.H., Intelligent Methods in Models of Text Information Retrieval: Implications for Society, invited plenary paper, International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies (InSciT 2006), Merida, Spain, October 2006

Kraft, D.H., Applications of Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Text Information Retrieval: Future Directions, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, May-June 2005

Kraft, D.H., Logical and Models of Text Information Retrieval: Social Implications, Universidad de Granada, Spain, June 2005

Kraft, D.H., Logical and Models of Text Information Retrieval: Social Implications, Universidad de Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, June 2005

Kraft, D.H., Bringing It All Together: An Academic Viewpoint (What is Needed and What Is Likely to Come Next),

Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) Conference, New Orleans, March 2005

Kraft, D.H., Applications of Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Modern Information Retrieval, invited plenary presentation, Information and Knowledge Engineering, International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering 03, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2003

Kraft, D.H., What is the Difference Between Information Science and Computer Science, panelist, Consortium of Computing Sciences in Colleges, First CCSC Mid South Conference, Proceedings, v. 18, n. 6, Memphis, TN, March 2003

Kraft, D.H., "Artificial Intelligence Techniques Applied to Information Retrieval Models," invited talk, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, Granada, Spain, April 2001

Kraft, D.H., "A Personal View of Information Science in Today's World: Its Past and Our Future," invited talk, School of Library Science and Documentation, University of Granada, Granada, Spain, April 2001

Kraft, D.H. "Some Artificial Intelligence Techniques Applied to Information Retrieval Models," invited talks as part of a short course, Department of Computer Science, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, March 2001

Kraft, D.H., "A Personal View of Information Science in Today's World: Its Past and Our Future," invited talk to Beta Phi Mu Chapter, School of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, February 2001

Kraft, D.H., "Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Textual Information Retrieval," invited presentation, Lectures on Developments in Information Technology and Managerial Decision Support, University of Information Technology and Management, under the auspices of the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, October 2000

Kraft, D.H. (ed.), Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), v. 37, Chicago, IL, 2000

Kraft, D.H., "Optimizing Textual Retrieval: Weights, Boolean Queries and Machine Learning," invited presentation, INFORMS conference, Cincinnati, OH, May, 1999

Kraft, D.H., invited panelist, "Spreading the Wealth: Getting Youth Services Research into General Refereed Journals," Young Adult Library Services Association, American Library Association meeting, New Orleans, June, 1999

Kraft, D.H., "Information Retrieval Models: A Survey," invited talk, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain, November, 1998

Kraft, D.H., "Optimizing Textual Retrieval: Weights, Boolean Queries, and Machine Learning," invited talk, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain, November, 1998

Karadimitriou, K. and Kraft, D.H., "Genetic Algorithms and the Multiple Sequence Alignment Problem in Biology," presentation, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, February, 1996

Kraft, D.H., "Fuzzy Information Systems: A Retrieval Focus," invited plenary presentation, International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA), Sao Paulo, Brazil, July, 1995

Kraft, D.H., "Relevance in Information Retrieval," panel on challenge problems for relevance reasoning, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), AAAI-94 Fall Symposium - Relevance, New Orleans, LA, November, 1994

Kraft, D.H., "Fuzzy Sets: Fundamentals, and Applications for Retrieval, Control, and Managerial Decision-Making," panel on the impact of fuzzy-thinking machines on the economics of information systems, American Society for Information Science (ASIS) annual meeting, Alexandria, VA, 1994

Kraft, D.H., Buckles, B.P., Petry, F.E., and Prabhu, D., "Genetic Algorithms for Optimal Fuzzy Boolean Information Retrieval," TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, Boston, MA, April, 1994

Kraft, Donald H., "The Future of Information Access Technology: Especially as It Pertains to Developing Countries," invited presidential address, Infotex'93, Bangalore, India, November, 1993

Kraft, D.H., "Information Science and Computer Science Educational Interfaces: A Two-Edged Sword, panel presentation, American Society for Information Science (ASIS) annual meeting, Columbus, OH, October, 1993

Kraft, D.H., "Research Directions in Information Storage and Retrieval: Academic Research Trends in Information Storage and Retrieval," panel presentation, American Society for Information Science (ASIS) annual meeting, Columbus, OH, October, 1993

Kraft, D.H., "Information Science," section for World Book Encyclopedia, 1993

Kraft, D.H., Bordogna, G. and Pasi, G., "An Extended Fuzzy Linguistic Approach to Generalize Boolean Information Retrieval," Technical Report 92-018, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1992

Nagelberg, K.M. and Kraft, D.H., "News Story Generation with Hard Copy and Magnetic Media Information Sources: The Impact of Information Technology," Technical Report 91-021, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1991

Kraft, D.H. and Boyce, B.R., "Approaches to Intelligent Information Retrieval," Technical Report 91-020, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1991

Wallace, D.P., Boyce, B.R., Heim, K.M., McLain, J.P., and Kraft, D.H., "Age Analysis of Public Library Collections: Final Report, USDE Grant #R039A90006," School of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1991

Zou, Zhen B. and Kraft, D.H., "An Intelligent Ranking Model for Document Retrieval Systems," Technical Report 89-003, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1989

Zou, Zhen B. and Kraft, D.H., "A New Methodology for Phrase-Based Indexing," Technical Report 89-002, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1989

Karukunda, S.K. and Kraft, D.H., "A Survey on Natural Language Processing Methods and Their Use in Information Retrieval," Technical Report 87-036, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1987

Bellardo, T. and Kraft, D.H., "Online Search Formulation and Reformulation: An Analysis of Searcher Behavior and Its Effect on Retrieval," Technical Report 87-003, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1987

Wallace, D.P., Boyce, B.R., and Kraft, D.H., "Estimating Effective Display Size in Online Retrieval Systems," Technical Report 86-022, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1986

Cater, Steven C. and Kraft, D.H., "TIRS: A Topological Information Retrieval System Satisfying the Requirements of the Waller-Kraft Wish List," Technical Report 86-035, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1986

Zvieli, A. and Kraft, D.H., "An Expressive Query Language for Information Retrieval: A Tool for an Information Retrieval Expert System," Technical Report 86-006, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1986

Kraft, D.H., "Foundations for Adoption of Adaptation in Fuzzy Boolean Retrieval Systems," invited paper presented at the Adaptive Retrieval Systems Workshop, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, June 1985

Kraft, D.H. and Buell, D.A., "Advances in a Bayesian Decision Model of User Stopping Behavior for Scanning the Output of an Information Retrieval System," Computer Science Technical Report 84-007, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1984

Haas, D. and Kraft, D.H., "Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research in Information Science," Computer Science Technical Report 82-020, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1982

Buell, D.A. and Kraft, D.H., "LIARS: A Software Environment for Testing Query Processing Strategies," Computer Science Technical Report 82-011, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1982

Kraft, D.H. and Buell, D.A., "Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Boolean Retrieval Systems," Computer Science Technical Report 82-007, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1982

Kraft, D.H., "Generalized Fuzzy Boolean Retrieval," presented at a panel session entitled "Research Advances in Information Science," ASIS Meeting, Washington, DC, 1981

Cross, G. and Kraft, D.H., "Stopping Rules, Relevance Distributions, and Retrieval Performance," paper presented at the ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Houston, TX, 1981

Buell, D.A. and Kraft, D.H., "Performance Measurement in a Fuzzy Retrieval Environment," paper presented at the ACM/SIGIR Conference, Proceedings, Berkeley, CA, 1981

Buell, D.A. and Kraft, D.H., "Threshold Values and Boolean Retrieval Systems," paper presented at the Louisiana Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Hammond, LA, 1980

Kraft, D.H., "Journal Selection Models: Past and Present," invited paper presented at the TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 1979

Kraft, D.H. and Waller, W.G., "Problems in Modeling a Weighted Boolean Retrieval System," paper presented at the ASIS Meeting, Proceedings, Minneapolis, MN, 1979

Kraft, D.H. and Waller, W.G., "Information Retrieval Systems: A Bayesian Approach to User Search Stopping Rules," paper presented at the ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, 1979

Kraft, D.H. and Waller, W.G., "Minimization in Boolean Weighted Retrieval Searches," invited paper presented at the ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 1978

Kraft, D.H. and Lee, T., "Stopping Rules and Their Effect on Expected Search Length," invited paper presented at the ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 1977

Kraft, D.H. and Liesener, J.W., "Planning and Budgeting for School Media Programs at the Building, District, and Regional Levels: O.R. in the Little Red Schoolhouse," invited paper presented at the ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Miami, FL, 1976

Greenberg, H.J. and Kraft, D.H., "On Computing a Buy/Copy Policy Using the Pitt-Kraft Model," Technical Report No. CS75026-R, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 1975

Bookstein, A. and Kraft, D.H., "Operations Research Applied to Document Indexing and Retrieval Decisions," invited paper presented at the ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, 1975

Deutsch, D. and Kraft, D.H., "A Study of an Information Retrieval Performance Measure: Expected Search Length as a Function of File Size and Organization," paper presented at the ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Boston, MA, 1974

Pitt W.B., Heilprin, L.B., and Kraft, D.H., "Buy or Copy A Library Operations Research Model," paper presented at the TIMS International Meeting, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1973

Kraft, D.H. and McDonald, D., "Library Operations Research: A Tutorial," Proceedings of the LARC Institute on Library Operations Research, Washington, DC, 1973

Kraft, D.H. and Hill, T.W., Jr., "A Lagrangian Formulation of the Journal Selection Model," paper presented at the ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Dallas, TX, 1971

Kraft, D.H., "The Journal Selection Problem in a University Library System," unpublished doctoral dissertation, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1971

Kraft, D.H. and Hill, T.W., Jr., "The Journal Selection Problem in a University Library System," invited paper presented at the ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Detroit, MI, 1970

Kraft, D.H., "Differences of Perception in the Professional Organizational Interaction," Research Memorandum No. 70-3, School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1970

Grants Held:

"Support for the Editor of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., $4,500/year, 19852008

"Support for the Editorial Assistant of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., $15,000/year, 20042008

"Recruitment of Superior Students in Areas of High-End Computation and Visualization at Louisiana State University," Louisiana State Board of Regents LEQSF - superior graduate students grant, $88,000, Fall 2005 - Summer 2009 (co-principal investigator)

"Recruitment of Superior Students to the Doctoral Program in Computer Science at LSU," Louisiana State Board of Regents LEQSF - superior graduate students grant, $72,000, Fall 2004 - Summer 2008 (co-principal investigator)

"The UMLS for Text Retrieval - A Rough Set Approach", National Library of Medicine, Grant 1 R01 LM06909-01, May 1, 2000 - April 2002, $103,773 (consultant)

"Creating and Housing a Repository for Information Retrieval Systems", Louisiana State Board of Regents LEQSF - enhancement, Fall 2000, $68,200 (co-principal investigator)

"Travel to the ACM/SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval: Copenhagen, Denmark, June 21-24, 1992," National Science Foundation, Grant IRI-9106560, March 15, 1992 - September 15, 1992, $10,500

"Recruitment of Superior Doctoral Students in Computer Science," Louisiana State Board of Regents LEQSF - superior graduate students grant, $120,000, Fall 1990 - Summer 1994 (co-principal investigator)

"Age Analysis of Public Library Collections," U.S. Department of Education, Library Research and Demonstration, Grant 84.039A (R039A90006), October 1, 1989 - September 30, 1990, $66,875 (co-investigator)

"Travel to the ACM/SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval: Brussels, Belgium, September, 1990," National Science Foundation, Grant IRI-8907858, August 1, 1989 - March 31, 1991, $18,300

"Recruitment of Superior Doctoral Students in Computer Science and Computer-Related Mathematics," Louisiana State Board of Regents LEQSF - superior graduate students grant, $180,000, Fall 1989 - Summer 1993 (co-principal investigator)

"Computer Science Access to Multiprocessing Facilities," Louisiana State Board of Regents, Louisiana Educational Quality Support Fund (LEQSF) - enhancement grant, $260,125, June 1, 1988 - June 30, 1989 (co-principal investigator)

"Recruitment of Superior Doctoral Students in Computer Science and Computer-Related Mathematics," Louisiana State Board of Regents LEQSF - superior graduate students grant, $360,000, Fall 1988 - Summer 1992 (co-principal investigator)

"An Interactive Graphics Workstation and Networking Facility Development Project," Louisiana State Board of Regents LEQSF - enhancement grant, $2,262,000, June, 1988 - December, 1990 (co-principal investigator; DEC match of $1,119,000 plus software licenses)

"Retrieval Software for Use in Testing the Efficacy of Gateways in Online Retrieval Training, Personal Bibliographic Systems," Personal Bibliographic Software, Inc. (PBS), $8,000 (in software, including copies of Pro-Cite, Pro-Search, and Biblio-Links), 1988

"Travel to the ACM/SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval: Grenoble, France, June 13-15, 1988," National Science Foundation, Grant IRI-8711597, August 1, 1987 - April 30, 1988, $20,000

"Facilitation of the Participation of Students in the ACM/SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval: New Orleans, LA; June 3-5, 1987," Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), June, 1987, $3,000; plus $100 from Lockheed Dialog

"Facilitation of the Participation of Distinguished Non-U.S. Scholars in the ACM/SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval: New Orleans, LA; June 3-5, 1987," System Development Foundation, SDF #G914, June 1, 1987 - July 1, 1987, $10,000

"Travel to the ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval: Pisa, Italy; September 8-10, 1986," National Science Foundation, Division of Information Science and Technology, Grant IST - 8518307, December, 1985 - November, 1986, $15,750

"Travel to the International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval," National Science Foundation, Division of Information Science and Technology, Grant IST - 8402152, June - September, 1984, $10,000

"Travel to the Fifth International Conference on Information Retrieval," National Science Foundation, Division of Information Science and Technology, Grant IST - 8122037, April - September, 1982, $10,000

"Modelling of Generalizations of Boolean Query Processing," National Science Foundation, Division of Information Science and Technology, Grant IST - 8115146, September, 1981 - September, 1982, $34,722

Support for travel to the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) triennial Congress '74, Stockholm, Sweden, National Research Council, August 1974

Awards:

International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) Fellow, 2013

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Scientist, 2008

Louisiana State University Distinguished Faculty Award, 2004

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, 2003

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, 2002

Louisiana State University Community Volunteer Award, 2002

North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS) K.S. Fu Award

for distinguished service to NAFIPS, 1986

American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST)

Award of Merit, recognizing an individual deemed to have made noteworthy contributions to the field of information science, which may include the expression of new ideas, the creation of new devices, the development of better techniques, or substantial research efforts which have led to further development of thought or devices or applications, or outstanding service to the profession of information science, as evidenced by successful efforts in the educational, social, or political processes affecting the profession it is the societys highest honor, 2007

Best Information Science Book Award for Meadow, C.T., Boyce, B.R., and Kraft, D.H., Text Information Retrieval Systems, second edition, San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2000

Research Award Recognizing an individual or organization for Outstanding research contributions to the field of information science, 1999

Watson Davis Award, commemorating the founder of the society (ASIST) and given to members for outstanding continuous contributions and dedicated service to the society, 1995

Certificate of Recognition, 1990

Sigma Xi

Alpha Pi Mu

Upsilon Pi Epsilon

Professional Associations:

American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST)

Editor, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and

Technology (JASIST), 1985-2008

Editor Emeritus, JASIST, 2008-Present

President, November 2001-November 2002

Past member, Publications Committee

Past member, Committee on Inter-Society Cooperation (CISCO)

Past member, Research Committee

Past member, Award of Merit and Research Award juries

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR)

Past secretary and treasurer

Past Candidate for Chair

Chairman, ACM/SIGIR and SIGMIS International Conference on

Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), New Orleans (2003) awarded

ACM Recognition of Service Certificate

Chairman, Twenty-fourth International Conference on Research

and Development in Information Retrieval (2001) - awarded ACM Recognition of Service Certificate

Chairman, Tenth International Conference on Research and

Development in Information Retrieval (1987) - awarded ACM Recognition of Service Certificate

Program Committee for several ACM/SIGIR International

Conferences on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ICRDIR)

National Lecturer, (1980-1982)

Spoke on the topics of "Information Retrieval: Where is that /#*%@^ Record" and "The Computer Science/Operations Research Interface."

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Associate Editor, Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (1998-2009)

IEEE Computer Society

Past Member, Educational Activities Board (EAB)

Program Committee Chair, FUZZ-IEEE '96 (1996)

Treasurer, FUZZ-IEEE '92 Conference (1992)

Treasurer, IEEE First International Conference on Office Automation

(1984)

North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS)

Council member (1986-1988, 1990-1992)

Conference co-chair (1986, 2002)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Area Editor - Database and Retrieval Systems - for the Journal on

Computing (JoC) (1988-1992) awarded JoC Appreciation of Service Certificate

Computer Science College

Past chair, vice chair/chair-elect, and secretary/treasurer

Past editor of the Newsletter

National meetings

Contributed papers chairman (1975), employment program chairman (1979), technical and software demonstration sessions chairman (1978, 1980), and arrangements chairman (1987)

Purdue University (Library) Deans Advisory Council, Presidents Council, 2015-

Present

Associate Editor, Libres

Editorial board Member, Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Informetrics

Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Computational Intelligence

Research (IJCIR)

Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough

Sets and Intelligent Systems

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM)

Editorial Review Board, International Journal of Operations and Quantitative

Management (IJOQM)

Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Computational Science (IJCS)

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Advanced Research in Fuzzy and Uncertain

Systems

Editorial Board Member, International Journal on Soft Computing, Modeling and

Simulation

Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Advanced Research in

Computer Science

Editorial Advisory Board Member, International Journal of Granular Computing,Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and

Information Sciences

Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Information and

Communication Technology Research (IJICT)

Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Advances in Engineering &

Technology (IJAET)

Board of Editors member, Institute of Advanced Scientific Research (IASR)

Former Editorial Advisory Board Member and Current Member of Distinguished

Reviews Board, Scientometrics

Former Editorial Board Member, Information Retrieval

Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)

Past Continuing Education Committee member

Program Co-Chair for the 7th Next Generation Information Technologies and

Systems Conference (NGITS), held at the IBM Research Center on the campus of the University of Haifa in Haifa, Israel June 2009

Program Committee Member, International Conferences on Bibliometrics,

Scientometrics, and Infometrics, London, Ontario, Canada, July 1989

Computer Science Accreditation Commission (CSAC)

Serve as part of a review team to evaluate computer science

baccalaureate programs for purposes of accreditation, 1988 - 1992, Team chairperson (1992 1995)

Serve on Nominating Committee (1996)

North American Regional Coordinator and Member of the Program Committee,

Third International Conference on Informetrics, Bangalore, India (1991)

Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Local Arrangements Chair, New Orleans,

LA (1990)

Reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF) - panelist

Reviewer for Computing Reviews

Referee for several computing and information science journals

Program committee member for several computing, information science, and

information retrieval conferences

Past Member, Advisory Committee for the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST)

Courses Taught and Academic and Other Administrative Duties:

LSU Department of Computer Science: former Graduate Advisor

LSU Master's Degree Program in Systems Science: former executive director and

former graduate program administrator

LSU Department of Computer Science: past chair and past member of the

departmental graduate admissions committee; chair and member of several graduate comprehensive and doctoral general examination subcommittees

Taught computer science courses in programming languages, database

management systems, information retrieval, data structures, computer-based information systems analysis, computing principles, discrete structures, numerical methods, computational techniques in linear programming, systems software, software engineering, software systems architecture, various programming languages, and introduction to computing.

Also taught library and information science courses in information science,

library data processing, library operations research, on-line retrieval systems, evaluation of retrieval systems, information systems administration, library systems analysis, research methods, mathematics for library effectiveness, advanced information retrieval seminar, development and operations of libraries and information services, and analysis of the library service process.

In addition, taught industrial engineering courses in linear programming, work analysis (laboratory instructor), and cost estimation, plus introduction to systems analysis (operations research)

District and State Louisiana Science and Engineering Fairs: Coordinator for

Judges, 1990-2008

Science and Engineering Fairs Coordinating Committee: Chair, 1992

College Policy Committee: Member 1994-1995, 2001-2003; Chair, 1995-1996,

2002-2003

LSU Faculty Senate: Member 2001-2004

Data Processing Management Association (DPMA) student chapter: former

faculty advisor

Capital Area United Way (CAUW), Baton Rouge

Member, Community Partnership Division/Providing Health Services and Education Committee; Alternate Member, Planning Council; Past Member, Ad Hoc Computer Committee; Member, Funding Committee; Chair, Technology 2000 Committee; member of Technology Committee in 2001; Past Chair, Vice Chair, Agency Services Division/Family and Institutional Services Committee

Pikes Peak United Way (PPUW), Colorado Springs, CO

Member, Quality of Life Indicators Education

Member, Safety Net Services volunteer

Temple Shalom, Colorado Springs, CO

Nominating Committee Chair, 2009

Religious Practice Committee member 2008, chair 2009-

LSU Hillel: past faculty advisor for over fifteen years

Jewish Federation of Greater Baton Rouge

Past President (twice), Past Vice President/President-Elect, Past Vice President for Campaign, Past Secretary

Beth Shalom Synagogue, Baton Rouge, LA

Past President, Past First Vice President, Past Second Vice President, Secretary, Past Ritual Committee Co-Chair, and Past Religious School Principal, honored with Yearbook dedication, 1990

Past Member, Louisiana Council of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs

Committee)

Past Member, LASPAC (Louisianans for American Security Political Action

Committee)

Other Professional Activities:

2003-

University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS

Serve as part of the external advisory board to evaluate their accredited baccalaureate degree program in computer science

Summers, 1993, 1994

U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Summer Faculty

Research Associate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

Worked on a project, contracted through Research and Development Laboratories (RDL), to do an exploratory study of weighted fuzzy keyword retrieval and automatic generation of hypertext links for CASHE:PVS, a hypermedia system of human engineering documents and standards for use in design

1990

National Science Foundation

Served as panelist reviewing proposals for the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program

1989

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Served as an external reviewer to evaluate a computer science program and an interdisciplinary information science doctoral program at a state university in Texas

1989

State Attorney General's Office, New Orleans

Served as a team to evaluate video bingo machines to insure legality of the hardware and software

1987

New Jersey State Department of Higher Education

Served as the external consultant to review and evaluate the proposal for a new masters degree program in communications in the Rutgers University School of Communication, Information and Library Studies

1987

Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

Served as part of a team of external consultants to evaluate a proposed doctoral program in computer science

1986

School of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Headed a team to investigate the instructional benefits of Sci-Mate, an online bibliographic database retrieval gateway product, sponsored by the Institute for Scientific Information

Summer, 1986

School of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Worked on a team to develop and implement curricula to train library automation specialists in certificate and joint systems science and library and information science masters degree programs, and develop library and science minors for computer science doctoral students, all under the auspices of a Council for Library Resources (CLR) grant

Summer, 1984

U.S. Army Summer Faculty Research and Engineering Program, Fort Belvoir, Virginia

Worked on a project, contracted through Battelle, to study the use of a network of computers to provide better management information and decision support to the top management of the Belvoir R&D Center

Summer, 1983

Summer Faculty Intern, Administrative Information Services (AIS), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Worked on projects to analyze a skills inventory of AIS personnel in conjunction with educational and project planning for a university administrative data processing center

Summer, 1980

Member of a project team, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Worked on the development of an information storage and retrieval system for oil well data

1978 - 1979

Project leader, Louisiana Legislative Council, Baton Rouge, LA

Led a team in the production of a feasibility study for a cooperative network for science and reference materials in state agencies in Louisiana

1978

Consultant, Criminal Justice Institute, Baton Rouge, LA

Aided in a study of automating record handling for the City Police Department of Amarillo, TX

Summer, 1976

Visiting Assistant Research Librarian, Institute of Library Research, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Worked on a project to implement a computerized management simulation game

1975 - 1977

Consultant, Welch Medical Library, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Conducted a study to develop a practical journal selection process for a biomedical library, including a study of the dynamics of biomedical literature, with the study funded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM-EMP 1 G08 LM 02445-01)

1975 - 1976

Consultant, Texas Education Agency, Austin, TX

Assisted on a study to develop a planning process for learning resource (media) centers at the school, district, and regional levels

1973 - 1975

Helped run tutorials on library budgeting and planning in several states, including Florida and Colorado, which were sponsored by the state departments of education, and Maryland

Summer, 1973

Consultant, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Conducted a study of the feasibility of computerizing the cataloging database, extending it to other library functions (possibly on-line) and to the state university library network (MALCAP)

Summer, 1972

NASA & ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship in Engineering Systems Design, NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL

Worked with a team, in conjunction with Auburn University, on a project to develop a complete systems design of a user oriented Earth Resources Information Management System, including the storage, acquisition, transfer, and retrieval of the tremendous volume of data associated with earth resources, and produced final report ERISTAR, NASA Report No. CR-61392

1972

Research consultant, Division of Library Development and Services, Maryland State Department of Education

Worked on a project to define service outputs, determine resource and operational requirements, and estimate program costs in the process of planning school media programs

1971

Statistical consultant, Division of Library Development and Services, Maryland State Department of Education

Worked on a library user study in a rural county

Summer, 1968

Graduate Summer Program, IBM, Inc., White Plains, NY

Produced a cost analysis study of the Columbia University Library system

Personal:

Born 1943 U.S. citizen Married, with two adult daughters, two grandsons, one granddaughter

Computing Interests:

Information Retrieval Fuzzy Set Theory Genetic Algorithms

Rough Sets Operations Research Information Science