Associate Professor

Office: 704 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9404
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. Moscow State University

Research Interests:
Adaptive Web systems; adaptive hypermedia; intelligent tutoring systems; user modeling; Web-based education; adaptive information systems; information visualization; digital libraries; human-computer interaction.

Recent publications:

Brusilovsky, P., Kobsa, A., Nejdl, W.(eds). 2007. The Adaptive Web: Methods and Strategies of Web Personalization. In Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.

Brusilovsky, P., Sosnovsky, S., and Yudelson, M. 2005. Ontology-based Framework For User Model Interoperabilty in Distributed Learning Environments. Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning, Ed. G. Richards.  Vancouver, Canada. AACE 2851-2855.

Brusilovsky, P., Sosnovsky, S., and Shcherbinina, O. 2005. User Modeling in a Distributed E-Learning Architecture. Proceedings of 10th International User Modeling Conference, Eds. L. Ardissono, P. Brna and A. Mitrovic. Berlin: Springer Verlag. 387-391.

Brusilovsky, P., and S. Sosnovsky. 2005. Engaging Students to Work With Self-Assessment Questions: A Study of Two Approaches. Proceedings of 10th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Monte de Caparica, Portugal: ACM Press. 251-255.

Brusilovsky, P., Farzan, R., and Ahn, J. 2005. Comprehensive Personalized Information Acess in an Educational Digital Library. Proceedings of The 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Denver, CO: ACM Press. 9-18.

Professor

Office: 602 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9310
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. Drexel University

Research Interests:
National and international information policies; measurement and use of information; education for the information professions; information ethics.

Recent publications:

Carbo, Toni and Martha M. Smith. 2008. (Guest Editors) “Global Information Ethics” Perspectives Section of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 1109-1183.

Carbo, Toni and Martha M. Smith. (May 2008). Global Information Ethics: Intercultural Perspectives on Past and Future Research. JASIST.  Vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 1111-1115.

Carbo, Toni, David Perrotta, Jeffrey Neher and Martha M. Smith. Bibliography on Information Ethics. (May 2008). JASIST.  Vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 1116-1123

Carbo, Toni. 2008. Ethics Education for Information Professionals. Journal of Library Administration. Vol. 47, no.3-4, pp. 5-25.

Carbo, Toni. (March 2008). Editorial: Them and Us, Or a Bigger and Better Us? The Journal of Academic Librarianship. Vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 99-100.

“Information Rights: Trust and Human Dignity in e-Government” International Review of Information Ethics. vol. 7(September 2007)

With James G. Williams. Foundations of Information Science: A Collection of Papers and Tributes in Honor of Anthony Debons. School of Information Sciences University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA. 2007.

“Information Ethics and Policy Issues for Information Professionals.” In: Carbo, Toni and James G. Williams. Foundations of Information Science: A Collection of Papers and Tributes in Honor of Anthony Debons. School of Information Sciences University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA. 2007. pp. 5-19.

“Information Ethics Education.” Presentation on a panel at the 2007 Annual Conference of the American Library Association.  June 23, 2007.  Washington, D.C.

“Reflecting on LIS and William Sullivan’s Three Apprenticeships in Professional Education: A Reflection on Ethical Values in LIS Education.”  Presentation at the 2007 Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education.” Plenary Session.  January 17, 2007.  Seattle, Washington.

“Trust, Including Trust in Individuals, Content, Systems, and the Importance of Different Cultural Perspectives.”  Presentation at the 2007 Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education.  Information Ethics Special Interest Group Panel.  January 16, 2007.  Seattle, Washington.

Participant on panel on “Undergraduate Programs in LIS Schools: Reflections, Challenges & Opportunities.  2007 Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education.  January 17, 2007.  Seattle, Washington.

Editor, The International Information and Library Review – quarterly research journal. 
“Relationship Marketing,” an annotated bibliography.  Library Connect (pamphlet #8, 2005), pp. 16-17.

Co-editor with Martha Smith, “Perspectives on Global Information Ethics,” to be published in JASIT&T. 2006

Associate Professor

Office: 2B13 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9432
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests:
Decision support systems; strategic business planning; decision making under uncertainty; decision-theoretic methods in intelligent information systems.

Recent publications:

Druzdzel, Marek and Changhe Yuan. 2005. Importance Sampling in Bayesian Networks: An Influence-Based Approximation Strategy for Importance Functions. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-05). Corvallis, OR: AUAI Press. 650-657.

Druzdzel, Marek. February 2005. Intelligent Decision Support Systems Based on SMILE. Software 2.0 2: 12-33.

Druzdzel, Marek and Changhe Yuan. 2005. How Heavy Should the Tails Be?Proceedings of the 18th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-2005), eds. Ingrid Russell and Zdrawko Markov. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. 799-804.

Druzdzel, Marek and Changhe Yuan. October 2004. A Comparison on the Effectiveness of Two Heuristics for Importance Sampling. Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM-04), ed. Peter Lucas. Leiden, The Netherlands. 225-232.

Associate Professor

Office: 701A IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9428
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests:
Education in information science; knowledge representation and inference; database design; artificial intelligence; systems analysis and design; data structures; humancomputer interaction; database management systems.

Recent publications:

Flynn, Roger R. 1987. An Introduction to Information Science. New York: Marcel Dekker.

Assistant Professor

Office: 618 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-2477
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of Edinburgh

Research Interests:
Information retrieval and interactive retrieval system design; computational linguistics and natural language processing; machine learning, user modeling and adaptive web search system design and analysis.

Recent publications:

He, Daqing, Ritchie, Graeme, and Lee, John. 2006. Reference to Graphics Objects in Intelligent Multimodal Systems. Natural Language Engineering.

He, Daqing, and Ahn Jae-wook. November 2005. A Study of Three Relevance Feedback Techniques. Proceedings of Text Retrieval Conference TREC 2005. Gaithersburg, MD.

He, Daqing, and Ahn Jae-wook. September 2005. Pitt at CLEF 05: Data Fusion for Spoken Document Retrieval. Proceedings of Cross-Language Evaluation Forum CLEF 2005. 21-23.

He, Daqing, Demner-Fushman, Dina, Karakos, Damianos, Oard, Douglas W., and Khudanpur, Sanjeev. 2004. Improving Passage Retrieval via Interactive Elicitation and Language Modeling. Proceedings of Text Retrieval Conference (TREC).

Professor

Office: 2B01 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9434
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of Michigan

Research Interests:
Spatial information; classification; cognitive science; geographic information systems; hypertext and multimedia systems; visualization; neural networks.

Recent publications:

Hirtle, S.C. 2006. Landmarks for Navigation in Humans and Robots. In Spatial Mapping Approaches in Robotic and Natural Mapping Systems, eds. M.E. Jefferies and W.K. Yeap. New York: Springer.

Hirtle, S.C. Forthcoming 2006. Navigation in Electronic Environments. In Applied Spatial Cognition, ed. G. Allen. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Hirtle, S.C. Forthcoming 2006. Information Design for the Support of Navigation. In Complex Artificial Environments, ed. J. Portugali. Berlin: Springer.

Hirtle, S.C., Mark, D.M., and Egenhofer, M. 2004. Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science. In Research Challenges in Geographic Sciences, eds. R.B. McMaster and L. Usery. Boca Roton, FL: CRC Press.

Assistant Professor

Office: 706A IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9982
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. Purdue University

Research Interests:
Information System Security; role-based Access Control; XML Security; Distributed Systems; multimedia systems; systems survivability.

Recent publications:

Joshi, B.D., Du, Siqing, and Joshi, Saubhagya R. 2006. A Trust Based Access Control Management Framework for a Secure Grid Environment. In Security in Distributed, Grid, and Pervasive Computing, ed. Yang Xiao. CRC Press.

Joshi, B.D., Bhatti, Rafae, Shafiq, Basit, Bertino, Elisa, and Ghafoor, Arif. November 2005. X-GTRBAC Administration: A Decentralized Administration Model for Enterprise Wide Access Control. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 8(4): 388-423.

Joshi, B.D., Bertino, Elisa, and Ghafoor, Arif. April-June 2005. Analysis of Expressiveness and Design Issues for a Temporal Role Based Access Control Model. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.

Joshi, B.D., Bertino, Elisa, Latif, Usman, and Ghafoor, Arif. January 2005. Generalized Temporal Role Based Access Control Model. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 7 (1).

Associate Professor

Office: 713 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-4449
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of Calgary

Research Interests:
Geomatics (geographic information systems, Global Positioning System, remote sensing); computational geometry; parallel/distributed computing; spatial analysis algorithms; uncertainty measurement, modeling and management in geographic information systems.

Recent publications:

Karimi, H.A., Khan, M.N., and Odman, M.T. 2005. Evaluation of Algorithms Developed for Adaptive Grid Air Quality Modeling Using Surface Elevation Data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 29 (6): 718-734.

Karimi, H.A., Yang, L.W., Liu, X., Jursa, C.J., Holliman, H., Rader, A.J., and Bahar, I. 2005. iGNM: A Database of Protein Functional Motions Based on Gaussian Network Model. Bioinformatics 21 (13): 2978-2987.

Karimi, H.A., and R. Peachavanish. 2005. Interoperability in Geospatial Information Systems. Information Science and Technology.

Karimi, H.A., and D. Grejner-Brzezinska. 2004. GQMAP: Improving Performance and Productivity of Mobile Mapping Systems Through GPS QoS. Special Issue on Mobile Computing in Cartography and Geospatial Information Systems 31 (3): 167-177.

Karimi, H.A., Durcik, M., and Rasdorf, W. 2004. Evaluation of Uncertainties Associated With Geocoding Techniques. Journal of Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering 19 (3).

Dean & Professor

Office: 514 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-5139
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of Maryland College Park

Research Interests:
Digital libraries. interoperability. scalability. cross-lingual information retrieval. location-aware computing. mobile computing. computer and network performance analysis. performance metrics for distributed digital libraries.

Recent publications:

Larsen, Ronald, and Wactlar, Howard. June, 2003. Knowledge Lost in Information. Report of the NSF workshop on future research direction for digital libraries. www.sis.pitt.edu/~dlwkshop.

Larsen, Ronald, and Jean Scholtz. 2002. Book Chapter. In Cancer Informatics: An Essential Technology for Clinical Trials, eds. J. Silva, M. Ball, et al. Springer Verlag.

Larsen, Ronald, (multiple authors). October, 2002. Rover: Scalable Location-Aware Computing. IEEE Computer 46-53.

Professor

Office: 2A00 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9426
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. Georgia Institute of Technology

Research Interests:
Human Factors. Human Computer Interaction. Visualization. CSCW. Virtual Environments. Software Agents. Human Error. Negotiation and E-Commerce.

Recent publications:

Lewis, M., and S. Hughes. 2005. Partially Guided Viewpoint Control in Virtual Environments. Human Factors 47 (3): 630-643.

Lewis, M., and S. Hughes. 2005. Task-Driven Camera Operations for Robotic Exploration. Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part A, IEEE 35 (4): 513-522.

Lewis, M., and J. Jacobson. 2005. Game Engine Virtual Reality with CaveUT. IEEE Computer 38 (4): 79-82.

Lewis, M., Nourbakhsh, I., Sycara, K., Koes, M., Young, M., and Burion, S. 2005. Human-Robot Teaming for Search and Rescue. Pervasive Computing, IEEE 72-78.

Associate Professor

Office: 711 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9414
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of California. Davis

Research Interests:
Knowledge representation and reasoning; natural language and communication; intelligent tutoring systems; human and machine learning and datamining; problem solving. reasoning and expert systems.

Recent publications:

Metzler, D.M., and V. Payne. June 23-24, 2005. Hospital Care Watch (HCW): An Ontology and Rule-Based Intelligent Patient Management Assistant. Proceedings of The 18thIEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE CBMS 2005). Trinity College: Dublin, Ireland.

Metzler, D.M. and C. Martincic. April 22-23, 2005. An Expert System Development Environment For Introductory AI Course Projects. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Proceedings of the 10th Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeastern Conference. Providence, RI.

Metzler, D.M., Kolluri, V., Provost, F., and Buchanan, B. December 4-6, 2004.Knowledge Discovery Using Concept-Class Taxonomies. Proceedings of 17th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, eds. Geoffrey I. Webb and Xinghou Yu. Cairns, Australia.

Chair, Information Science Program & Associate Professor

Office: 721 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9427
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. Brown University

Research Interests:
Connectionist systems; neural information processing; image processing; modeling and simulation; cognitive science; models of learning; visualization; genetic algorithms/artificial life.

Recent publications:

Munro, P., and Jianghua Bao. 2006. A Connectionist Implementation of Identical Elements. Twenty-third Annual Conference Cognitive Science Society Proceedings.

Munro, P., and Y. Peng. 2005. Learning Arbitrary Functions With Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity Learning Rule. Proceedings of 2005 International Conference on Neural Networks and Brain. Beijing, China.

Munro, P., Zheng, L., Gilbertson, J., and Becich, M.J. 2005. K-Means Color Quantization and Run-Length Feature for Image Content Imaging and Abstraction, CBMI-05.

Eds. Munro, P., Lovett, Marsha, Schunn, and Lebiere, Christian. 2004. Proceedings Of the 6th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Assistant Professor

Office: 710 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9470
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests:
Software engineering; Object and aspect-oriented analysis and design; Rule-based systems; Web services; Formal methods; Geographic information systems; Distance education

Recent publications:

VISC Director & Assistant Professor

Office: 707 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9416
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Institution of highest degree:
MBS and MSEE. University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests:
Information networks; simulation; databases; artificial intelligence; management information systems (MIS); systems analysis and design; software engineering; network design; microcomputer applications; graphics.

Recent publications:

Sochats, Ken, Ponas, Glenn, Temple, Chris, and Regan, Robert. July 26-31, 2005. The Pittsburgh Street Addressing Project. ESRI International Users’ Conference. San Diego, CA.

Sochats, Ken. August 9-13, 2004. Using GIS to Manage Urban Forests. Proceedings ESRI International Users’ Conference. San Diego, CA.

Associate Professor

Office: 701B IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9429
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests:
Distributed systems; client server systems; collaborative authoring;web services and e-business; information infrastructure and e-markets;interactive systems; secure systems; standards and standardization.

Recent publications:

Spring, M., Rotondi, A.J., Haas, G., Anderson, C., Ganguli, R., Keshavan, M., Newhill, C., and Rosenstock, J. November 2005. A Randomized Trial of a Telehealth Intervention to Provide In-home Psychoeducation to Persons with Schizophrenia and their Families: Intervention Design and Initial Findings. Journal of Rehabilitation Psychology 50 (4): 325-336.

Spring, M., Rotondi, A.J., and Sinkule, J. March-April 2005. An Interactive Web-Based Intervention for Persons with TBI and their families: Use and Evaluation by Female Significant Others. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 20 (2): 173-185.

Spring, M., Rotondi, A.J., Hass G., Anderson, C., Ganguli, R., Newhill, C., and Rosenstock J. April 2005. Clinical Trial of a Telehealth Psychoeducation Intervention for Persons with Schizophrenia and their Families: Intervention and Initial Findings. International Congress on Schizophrenia Research. Savannah,
Georgia.

Spring, M., and C.E. Grindle. January 3-6, 2005. A Dynamic Structure for Experiential Data in a Collaboration Marketplace to Manage Tacit and Contextual Knowledge for Reuse. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Big Island, HI.

Associate Professor

Office: 706B IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9411
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. Institute for Problems of Informatics. Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow

Research Interests:
Scalable architectures for wide-area environments with heterogeneous information servers. Web-based information systems. query optimization in distributed databases. semantic interoperability in heterogeneous network environments. distributed object systems and object metamodels.

Recent publications:

Zadorozhny, V., Sharma, D., Chrysanthis, P., and Labrinidis, A. 2005. Data Transmission Algebra for Collision-Aware Scheduling in Sensor Networks. In Formal Methods On Compositional Infrastructures of Heterogeneous Distributed Information Systems. Russian Academy of Science Publication.

Zadorozhny, V., Sharma, D., Krishnamurthy, P., and Labrinidis, A. 2005. Tuning Query Performance in Mobile Sensor Databases. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM). Ayia Napa, Cyprus.

Zadorozhny, V., Gal, a., Raschid, L., and Ye, Q. 2005. AReNA: Adaptive Distributed Catalog Infrastructure Based On Relevance Networks. Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB). Trondheim, Norway.

Zadorozhny, V., Sharma, D., and Chrysanthis, P. 2005. Timely Data Delivery in Sensor Networks using Whirlpool. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks. In conjunction with 31st International