@article{20d17ca336dd42a3bddf3b4a4bc0eaa5,
title = "Information technologies and systems",
keywords = "Analysis and design, Computer science, Data management, Information systems, Information technology, Logic-based systems",
author = "Blanning, \{Robert W.\} and Sudha Ram and Wang, \{Richard Y.\}",
note = "Funding Information: {"} Sudha Ram is Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona. She re-ceived a B. Sc. degree in mathemat-ics, physics and chemistry from the University of Madras in 1979, PGDM from the Indian Institute of Manage-\textasciitilde{} ment, Calcutta in 1981 and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Ur-41 bana-Champaign, in 1985. Dr. Ram has published articles in such jour-nals as: Communications of the ACM, IEEE Expert, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information Systems, Information Science, IEEE Expert, and Management Science. She has also presented her research at several conferences such as International Conference on Information Systems, International Conference on Data Engineering and other IEEE and ACM conferences. She was the guest-editor for the December 1991 issue of IEEE Computer {"}Heterogeneous Distributed Database Systems{"}. Dr. Ram has served on the program committees of the Workshop on Interoperability among Databases (IMS-91), IMS-93, International Conference on Data Engineering 1993, International Conference on Information Systems, International Conference on Data and Knowledge Systems in Manufacturing and Engineering 1992, etc. She was a chairperson for the 1991 Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS-91) and is program chair for the 1994 International Conference on Data and Knowledge Systems in Manufacturing and Engineering. Her research deals with modeling and analysis of database and knowledge-based systems for manufacturing, scientific and business applications. Her research on distributed databases has been funded by IBM, NCR, US ARMY, and NIST. Specifically, the research deals with Semantic Modeling, Data Allocation, Schema and View Integration, and Tools for Database Design. Dr. Ram is the Director of the Graduate Program in MIS at the University of Arizona. She serves as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Database Management, and is an editor for the IEEE Computer Society Press. She is a member of ACM, IEEE Computer Society and TIMS.",
year = "1995",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1016/0167-9236(93)E0043-D",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "13",
pages = "219--221",
journal = "Decision Support Systems",
issn = "0167-9236",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "3-4",
}