Management Information Systems Faculty : Sudha Ram

	McClelland Professor of MIS, Faculty Member BIO5, and, Director of Advanced Database Research Group
	PhD,  University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL
	Phone:	520.621.4113
	Fax:	520.621.2433
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	Website:	http://www.mis.eller.arizona.edu/faculty/sram
	Office:	McClelland Hall, Room 430J

Curriculum Vitae

http://adrg.eller.arizona.edu/

Current Courses

• MIS 531 Enterprise Data Management
• MIS 587 Business Intelligence

Areas of Expertise

• Enterprise Data Management
• Semantic Interoperability among Heterogeneous Data Sources
• Biological Data Modeling and Integration
• Business Rules Modeling and Implementation
• Web Services Discovery and Selection

Publications and Working Papers

• Ram S., Liu J., "Understanding the Semantics of Data Provenance to Support Active Conceptual Modeling", forthcoming, in P. P. Chen and L. Y. Wong, (Eds): Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on Active Conceptual Modeling of Learning, LNCS 4512. Springer-Verlag, 2007
• Ram S., Khatri V., "A Comprehensive Framework for Modeling Set-Based Business Rules during Conceptual Design", Information Systems, Vol. 30, No. 2, April 2005, pp. 89-118
• Currim F., Ram R., "Conceptually Modeling Windows and Bounds for Space and Time in Database Constraints" , forthcoming, Communications of the ACM, 2007
• Khatri V., Ram S., Snodgrass R., "Augmenting a Conceptual Model with Spatio-Temporal Annotations", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol 16, No. 11, November 2004, pp. 1324-1338
• Hevner A., March S., Park J., Ram S., "Design Science in Information Systems Research", MIS Quarterly, Volume 28, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 75-105
• Bajaj A., Allen G., Khatri V., Ram S., Siau K., “Advances in Data Modeling Research”, Communications of the AIS, Vol 17, Article 30, April 2006
• Liginlal D., Ram S., Duckstein L., “A Fuzzy Measure-Theoretical Framework for Screening Product Innovations”, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, Vol. 36, No. 3, May 2006, pp. 577-591
• Zhao H., Ram S., "Entity Identification for Heterogeneous Database Integration - A Multiple Classifier System Approach and Empirical Evaluation", Information Systems, Vol. 30, No. 2, April 2005, pp. 119-132
• Ram S., Wei W., “BIO-LINK: Using Semantics to Link Heterogeneous Biological Databases for Knowledge Discovery”, Proceedings of 16th Workshop in Information Technology and Systems”, Milwaukee, Dec. 2006
• Ram S., Liu J.,“PROMS: A System for Harvesting and Managing Data Provenance”, Proceedings of 16th Workshop in Information Technology and Systems”, Milwaukee, Dec. 2006
• Liu Y., Ram S.,“ A Non invasive Software Architecture Style for RFID Data Provisioning”, Proceedings of 16th Workshop in Information Technology and Systems”, Milwaukee, Dec. 2006
• Ram S., Sinha A., Zhao H., “An Empirical Analysis of Principal Components analysis on Symbiotic Classifers”, under review at IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• Ram S., Shao H., "Entity Matching Across Heterogeneous Databases”, under review, Management Science
• Khatri V., Ram S., “Strong Vs. Weak Semantics for Temporal Data”, under review, Communications of the ACM
• Y. Liu Y., Lusch R., Ram, S, "MultiCriterion Market Segmentation Using Evolutionary Techniques”, under review, IEEE TKDE

Professional Associations

• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
• AIS (Association for Information Systems)

Awards

• IBM Faculty Development Award, 2007
• UA Leading Edge Innovator in Research Award, 2007
• UA GPSC “Advisor of the Year”, 2006