Dr. Stewart N. T. Shen's Home Page

Professor Emeritus, Old Dominon University,
from 2008

Professor , 1981-2008
Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529-0162 U.S.A.

Ph.D.
Northwestern University
1972
email: shen at departmental email server

Artificial Intelligence
Database Design
and Management
Digital Libraries
WWW & Semantic Web
Human Computer Interface

Professional Experience

Professor Emeritus, Old Dominion University

Professor, Computer Science Department, Old Dominion University; Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence, Old Dominion University; Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology; Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech. In Who's Who of American Scientists and Engineers, and Who's Who in American Education.

Consultant: Xerox Corp., Eastern Computers, Inc., NASA/ICASE, Arabian Data Systems, Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, Steria, World Bank, UNDP.

Panelist: NSF SBIR/STTR: Information Technology, Database Management, Knowledge Discovery

Member, Virginia State Joint Commission on Technology and Science Advisory Committee on Center for Innovative Technology

Research Grants: NSF, NASA, CIT, NAVMASSO, ECI, USACOM.

Samples of Research Projects

NCSTRL+: A digital library project in building multi-discipline, multi-genre digital libraries.
Entity Based Digital Information Library System A new approach for high precision and recall
A generic Internet database application system for your own databases at CS, ODU
An Intranet system for invited users only
A membership based digital library system An illustration for potential commercial application
A digital library for movies and books A pilot system
RUTIR: Report on Updates in Target Internet Resources.
SOLD: Search One Level Down.
E-Mosaic: An individual-user-centered WWW browser emphasizing convenient and efficient reuse of Internet resources while reducing Internet traffic. On ODU CS Unix, run under Xwindow: ~shen/emosaic26lab.

Selected Publications

"Personalizing On-line Trading Without Spoiling Its Intrinsic Advantages", (with Myron Sheu)
Journal of Business and Economics Research, Vol. 3, No. 9, Sept. 2005, pp. 25-34.

"A Case Study of a Stream-Based Digital Library: Medical Data", (w "ith Mohamed Kholief, Kurt Maly)
Proceedings, ICADL2003, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec 2003, pp.73-85

"Event-Based Retrieval from a Digital Library containing Medical Streams", (with Mohamed Kholief, Kurt Maly), proceedings, pp. 231-232, JCDL 03, Houston, May 2003

"A reasoning framework for optimal design decisions", (with Myron Sheu, Ravi Mukkamala), proceedings, pp.283-289, IKE’03, Las Vegas, Jun 2003

"An Entity-Based Digital Information Library System", (with Chen-Chang Fan, Yu-Chieh Chang, and May Ling Jaentschke), Information and Knowledge Sharing (IKS 2002), Nov. 2002, St. Thomas, Virgin Is., USA

"Architecture for Event-Based Retrieval from Data Streams in Digital Libraries", (with Mohamed Kholief and Kurt Maly), 5th European Conference on Research and advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2001, Darmstadt, Germany, September 2001, p. 300-311.

"Internet Databases - Development and Analysis", Proceedings of the 4th World Multiconference pm Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI2000 and the 6th International Conference on Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis ISAS 2000, Orlando, Florida, July, 2000.

"SODA: Smart Objects, Dumb Archives", (with M. L. Nelson, K. Maly, M. Zubair),
Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Paris, France, September 22-24, 1999, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1696, pp. 453-464.

"Buckets: Aggregative, Intelligent Agents for Publishing", (with M. L. Nelson, K. Maly, M. Zubair), WebNet Journal, vol.1, no. 1, Jan.-Mar., 1999, pp.58-66.

“NCSTRL+: Adding Multi-disciplinary and Multi-gene Support to the DIENST Protocol Using Clusters and Buckets”, (with K. Maly, M. Nelson, M. Zubair), IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries, 1998, April, 1998, pp.128-137

“An Interoperability Architecture for Multimedia Component Objects” (with A. Wadaa, R. Mukkamala, M. Eltowesissy), 4th Int. Conf. On Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis, July, 1998, pp. 129-135.

"Building a Multi-Discipline Digital Library Through Extending the Dienst Protocol" (with M. L. Nelson, K. Maly), Proceedings of the Second International ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, July 20-23, 1997, pp. 262-263.

"An Adaptive Accounting Paradigm for Multimedia Objects with Limited Lifetime", (with A. H. Wadaa and M.Y. Eltoweussy), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Boston, MA, June 11-14, 1997, pp. 89-92.

"Application of Knowledge-Based Systems to Kinematic Structural Synthesis of Mechanisms" (with M. Chew, G. Issa) Journal of Mechanisms, Transmissions, and Automation in Design, vol. 117, March 1995, pp. 96-103.

"An Interoperable Architecture for Digital Information Repositories", ( with R. Mukkamala, A. Wadaa, C. Zhang, H. Abdel-Wahab, K. Maly, A. Liu, and M. Yuan) Proceedings, Digital Libraries '94, College Station, TX, pp. 187-193.

"Using Analogical Reasoning for Mechanism Design", (with G. Issa, M. Chew) IEEE Expert Inteligent Systems & Their Applications, Vol. 9, No. 3, June, 1994, pp. 60-69.

Graduated Ph.D. Students

In order of time of graduation:

Dr. Shensheng Zhao, Governor's State University, Illinois.
Dr. Jingying Zhang, Lucent Technologies, Inc., Illinois.
Dr. Myron Xu, Hughes Space and Communications, California
Dr. Issa Gassan, Applied Science University, Jordan
Dr. Jihshih Hsu, National Yunlin University of Technology, Taiwan
Dr. Adel Elzogahabi, Alexandria University, Egypt
Dr. Mohamed Kholief, California University of Pennsylvania

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