Cliff Joslyn

Personal Information

Research

• Systems Science and Cybernetics
• Knowledge Discovery in Databases: OLAP in relational databases
• Knowledge Representation: Ontologies and semantic hierarchies
• Applied order theory: lattice and hierarchy theory
• Generalized Information Theory and Uncertainty Quantification: Possibility Theory, Fuzzy Systems, Imprecise Probabilities, etc.
• Computational Semiotics and Semiotic Modeling
• Computational Biology and Biological Semiotics
• Computer-Aided Systems Theory (CAST)
• Cybernetic Philosophy

Publications

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Software Systems

POSet Ontology Categorizer

Categorization algorithm for large taxonomic databases like the Gene Ontology (GO), available at http://www.c3.lanl.gov/posoc

Teaching 

• Computer Science
• Information Science
• Systems Science
• Mathematics
• Mathematical Theories of Uncertainty
• Software Development

Education

PhD 1994 in Systems Science, SUNY at Binghamton: 
Dissertation: Possibilistic Processes for Complex Systems Modeling
Advisor: George Klir

Possibility measures based on consistent random sets; possibilistic processes and finite automata models; objective semantics and empirical measurement methods for possibilistic states; application to qualitative modeling and model-based diagnosis of spacecraft systems; object-oriented architecture for software implementation in a C++ CAST environment.

MS 1989 in Systems Science, SUNY at Binghamton:

Theory, architecture, and design of information systems: General Information Theory, General Systems, Fuzzy Systems; Systems Optimization; Dynamic Systems; Self-Organizing Systems; Artificial Intelligence; Reconstructibility Analysis; Inductive Modeling Methodologies; Uncertainty in Expert Systems; Stochastic Modeling and Queuing Theory.

BA 1985 in Mathematics and Cognitive Science, Oberlin College:
High Honors: Cybernetics and Cognitive Science.

Studies in Systems Theory, Semiotics, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Artificial Intelligence; minor in Religion.

Current Positions

Team Leader, Knowledge and Information Systems Sciences
Modeling, Algorithms and Informatics Group (CCS-3)
Computer and Computational Sciences Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico

Technical, supervisory, and budgetary managerial responsibility for team of research scientists, postdocs, and students; technical and programmatic leadership and liaison with multiple laboratory, academic, government, and corporate partners and customers; research in knowledge systems and computational linguistics; applications in computational biology, homeland defense, defense transformation, intelligence analysis, and digital libraries.

Visiting Professor, Civil Engineering
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Research Positions

Acting Team Leader, Distributed Knowledge Systems and Modeling Team, Computer Research and Applications Group (CIC-3)
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 2000-2002

Leadership in research projects in distributed knowledge systems, bioinformatics, data mining, and agent-based modeling of sociotechnical systems.

Member of the Technical Staff, Computer Research and Applications Group (CIC-3)
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1998-1999

Research and development in distributed knowledge systems, data mining applications, and agent-based modeling of sociotechnical systems.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Computer Research and Applications Group (CIC-3)
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1996-1998

Data mining for fraud detection; guided multidimensional discovery in relational databases; generalized information measures.

NSF Postdoctoral Research Associate
So ftware and Automation Systems Branch, NASAGoddard Space Flight Center, 1994-1996 
Possibilistic Qualitative Model-Based Diagnosis and Trend Analysis of Spacecraft Systems

Design and development of qualitative modeling CAST systems: CAST-GIT software system for possibilistic and fuzzy modeling; support for qualitative spacecraft diagnostics and tre nd analysis; Data Analysis and Systems Modeling Environment (DASME) for mixed Discrete EVent (DEVS) and discrete-time modeling.

Graduate Fellow, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 1991-1994
Possibilistic Processes for Complex Systems Modeling

Graduate Fellowship in support of dissertation research: possibilistic qualitative modeling, model-based diagnosis of spacecraft systems.

Teaching Appointments

Adjunct Instructor, Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Los Alamos, 1997

Instructor for ``Introduction to UNIX'' and ``Advanced UNIX''.

Instructor, Southern Maine Technical College, South Portland, Maine, Spring 1993

Designed and taught ``Programming in ANSI C''.

Instructor, AGS Information Services, Endwell, New York, 1990

Instructed corporate programming staff in the ANSI C programming language. 

Instructor and Teaching Assistant, SUNY at Binghamton, 1987-1991

• Continuing Education, Course Design and Instruction

ANSI C Programming.
 
• Systems Science Department, Course Design and Instruction

Fundamentals of Mathematics, Introduction to Systems Science.
 
• Systems Science Department, Teaching Assistance

Artificial Intelligence; Information Systems Design; Inductive Modelling Methodologies (Systems Problem Solving); Systems Optimization; Discrete Structures; microcomputer support.

Advising

Student Supervision, Los Alamos National Laboratory 1996-present:

Instructed, supervised, and advised graduate and undergraduate students for software systems development in research projects

Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Postdoctoral Fellowship:

The proposal ``Semantic Interoperability Technologies in Security Organizations'' succesfully secured funding for researcher within the Trusted Information Sharing Research Program Area, 2005-present.

PhD Committee:

Margaret Heath, Department of Psychology, Free University of Brussels, 2004-present.

PhD Committee:

Sunil Donald, The Development of Empirical Possibility Distributions in Risk Analysis, Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico, 2003

PhD Committee:

Kari Sentz, Department of Systems Science and Industriral Engineering, Binghamton University, 2002-2003.

MS Committee:

Gregory Chavez, Optimization of Possibility Distribution Algorithms, Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico, 2002.

PhD Committee:

Johan Bollen, A Cognitive Model of Adaptive Web Design and Navigation, Department of Psychology, Free University of Brussels, 2001.

MS Committee:

Thomas Prang, Unsupervised Data Mining in Nominally Supported Databases, Department of Systems Science and Industriral Engineering, Binghamton University, 1998.

Funding History

Los Alamos National Laboratory Directed Research and Development:

Host-Pathogen Interactions (Pathomics) in Avian Influenza, 2006 to present.

Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology:

Generalized Data-Driven Analysis and Integration, 2005 to present

Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology:

Knowledge extraction, ontology management, and machine learning technology for semantic networks, 2005-present.

Los Alamos National Laboratory Directed Research and Development:

Protein Function Inference, 2002 to present.

Sandia National Laboratory, ASCI Program:

Epistemic Uncertainty Modeling, September, 2000 to present

Los Alamos National Laboratory, ASCI Verification and Validation:

Generalized Uncertainty Quantification for Engineering Modeling, 2003-2005

USS STRATCOM:

Integrated  Knowledge Engine (IKE), 2004-200

Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology:

Critical Infrastructure Protection/Decision Support System (CIP/DSS), 2003-2004.

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA):

Program development for bio-ontologies, principal investigator, 2004.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Great Britain:

LSI Study Group for Discovery, REAsoning and Modelling of Knowledge Applied to GEnomics (DREAMKAGE), 2003-2004.

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Industrial Business Development:

Cooperative Research And Development Agreement on Knowledge Systems for Bioinformatics, Proctor & Gamble Corp., Principle Investigator for Knowledge Systems, 2002-2004.

Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library:

Active Recommendation Systems for a Library Without Walls, 1999-2003.

Los Alamos National Laboratory Directed Research and Development

Advanced Knowledge Integration In Assessing Terrorist Threats, 2002.

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Industrial Business Development:

Cooperative Research And Development Agreement on Knowledge Management, Xerox Corporation, Principle Investigator, January, 2000 to 2001

Physical Science Laboratory, New Mexico State University:

Decision Structures Of Socio-Technical Organizations, Principle Investigator, March, 1999.

National Academy of Sciences Postdoctoral Research Awards:

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Possibilistic Qualitative Model-Based Diagnosis and Trend Analysis of Spacecraft Systems, Contract # NASW 4352, 1994-1996.

NIST Statistical Engineering Laboratory

Possibilistic Representations of Measurement Combination Problems, awarded simultaneously, declined.

Honors and Awards

Nomination, Best Paper Award:

2004 Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Conference (ISMB 04), ``The Gene Ontology Categorizer'', with SM Mniszewski, AG Fulmer, and GH Heaton

Distinguished Performance Award:

 Large Team Award for IRS Fraud Detection Projects, Los Alamos National Laboratory, September, 1997.

NRC Research Associateship:

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 1994-present. Advisor: Walter Truszkowski.

Graduate Fellowship:

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 1991 1994. Advisor: Walter Truszkowski.

Dissertation Year Fellowship:

SUNY at Binghamton, 1991, declined.

Vickers Memorial Award:

International Society for the Systems Sciences, 1991; Member, Vickers Memorial Honorary Society, Vickers Award Selection Committee

Conference Scholarship:

Gordon Research Conference on Control and Communications in Complex Systems, 1990.

Travel Scholarship:

Annual Conference of the American Society for Cybernetics, 1989.

Teaching Assistantship:

 Systems Science Department, SUNY at Binghamton, 1987-1991.

High Honors:

Studies in Systems Science and Cognitive Science, Oberlin College, 1985.

Independent Major:

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Peer Review

Journals

Editorial Board:

• International Journal of General Systems
• Journal of Biosemiotics
• Journal of Applied Systems Studies
• Advances in Complex Systems

Reviewer:

• Bioinformatics
• BMC Bioinformatics
• Biosystems
• Complexity International
• Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
• Foundations of Science
• IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
• Information Fusion
• Information Sciences
• International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems
• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
• International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness, and Knowledge-Based Systems
• Journal of Web Semantics
• Reliability Engineering and System Safety
• Society for Computer Simulation Transactions on Simulation
• Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Panels and Committees

National Science Foundation:

Science and Engineering Information Integration and Informatics (SEIII) Program, 2005-2006

Department of Homeland Security:

Institute for Discrete Sciences, University Affiliate Centers, 2006

Los Alamos National Laboratory:

Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Exploratory Research (ER) panels:

• Computer Science, Knowledge Discovery, and Software Engineering, 2005
• Theoretical Biology, 2003
• Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2001-2002

DARPA Workshop on Computable Semantics for Complex Biological Systems:

Participant, March, 2005.

Chair, February and June, 2004.

Grant reviewer, 2004.

Life Sciences and Information Technology Program, 2003.

External reviewer in Computational Science and Engineering Initiative, 2002.

Research Programme for the Cognitive Sciences, 2002.

Information Technology Research (ITR) Initiative, 2001.

Conferences

2007 Joint Conference on AI, Simulation and Planning in High Autonomy Systems (AIS) and Conceptual Modeling and
Simulation (CMS), Buenos Aires, February 8-10, 2007

2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Taipei, October, 2006.

Program Committee:

2006 Joint Biolink and 9th Bio-Ontologies Meeting (JBB), 2006 Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 06), Fortaleza, Brazil, August, 2006

Program Committee:

2006 Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 06), Fortaleza, Brazil, August, 2006

Organizing Committee:

Workshop on Machine Self-Replication, 10th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALife X), Bloomington, Indiana, June, 2006

Workshop on the Semantic Web for the Life Sciences, 2006 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 06), Hawaii, January, 2006.

Organizing Committee:

DHS Institute for Discrete Sciences (IDS) Workshop on Data Integration and Dissemination, Washington, DC,  November, 2005

Fourth European Conference on Computational Biolgoy (ECCB 05), Madrid, September, 2005.

2005 Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 05), Detroit, July, 2005.

2005 International Conference on Human-Computer Interface Advances for Modeling and Simulation (SIMCHI 05)

2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Hawaii, October, 2005.

2004 IEEE International Conference on Computational Cybernetics (ICCC 04), Vienna, September, 2004.

2004 Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PERMIS 04), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, August, 2004.

2004 Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 04), Glasgow, July, 2004.

2003 International Symposium of Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis (ISUMA 03), University of Maryland, September, 2003.

Workshop on ``Distributed Computing Architectures for Digital Libraries'',  31th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), August, 2002.

2002 Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, August, 2002.

Workshop on Epistemic Uncertainty, Sandia National Laboratory, August, 2002

2002 Conference on AI, Simulation and Planning, Lisbon, April, 2002

Program Committee:

Workshop on ``Theoretical Fundamentals of Intelligent Systems: Computational Semiotics'', Joint Conference on Information Systems, Duke University, March 2002

Workshop Chair:

Los Alamos Workshop on Novel Approaches to Uncertainty Quantification, February, 2002.

2002 World Congress on Virtual Worlds and Simulation, San Antonio, January, 2002.

First International Conference on Intelligent Networks and Social Evolution (Global Brain 0), Brussels, July 2001

2000 Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems, National Instiute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, August, 2000

Program Committee:

2000 World Congress on the Systems Sciences, Toronto, July, 2000.

Program Committee:

2000 Conference on AI, Simulation, and Planning, University of Arizona, Tucson, March, 2000.

Program Committee:

1999 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, Monterery, California, 1999.

Program Committee, Workshop Co-Chair:

Workshop on "Semiotics of Autonomous Information Systems", 1998 Conference on Intelligent Systems and Semiotics, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, October, 1998. 

Workshop Organizer and Co-Chair:

Workshop on Emergent Semantic and Computational Processes in Distributed Information Systems, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, August, 1998.

International Program Committee, Workshop Chair:

Workshop on "Semiotic Methods of Information and Knowledge Processing", 1997 Conference on Intelligent Systems and Semiotics, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, September, 1997.

Program Committee, Workshop Chair:

Workshop on "Uncertainty Representation in Decision-Making Systems", conference on Intelligent Systems: A Semiotic Perspective, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, October, 1996. 

Program Committee:

Thirteenth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research; co-chair, Symposium on Systems Methodologies; Vienna, April 1996.

Program Committee:

Conference on AI, Simulation and Planning in High Autonomy Systems, San Diego, March, 1996.

Organizing and Scientific Committees:

International Workshop on the Foundations and Applications of Possibility Theory (FAPT '95), University of Ghent, December, 1995.

Organizing Committee:

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Research Projects

• Host-Pathogen Interactions (Pathomics) in Avian Influenza: Ontological protein function annotatoin, Los Alamos National
Laboratory Directed Research and Development, 2006-present
• Generalized Data-Driven Analysis and Integration: LANL PI: DHS Science and Technology, 2005-present.
• Semantic Networks for the Department of Homeland Security: LANL POC: Ontologically enabled semantic network databases, 2005--present
• Theoretical and Computational Pathomics: Knowledge systems technologies for analysis and management of host-pathogen interactions and social effects of infectious disease, 2004--present.
• Protein Function Inference: Research in metrics in spaces of biological functions, Los Alamos National Laboratory Directed Research and Development, 2002--present.
• Epistemic Uncertainty Modeling: Principle Investigator: Integrated Contractor Order with Sandia National Laboratory, September 2000--present.
• Principia Cybernetica Project: Founder and Member of the Editorial Board for this project in the collaborative development of a distributed hypertext corpus for evolutionary theory and cybernetic philosophy, http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be, 1989-present.
• Critical Infrastructure Protection/Decision Support System (CIP/DSS): Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology, 2003-2004.
• Integrated  Knowledge Engine (IKE): Bayseian networks and domain modeling for horizontal integration, 2004--2005.
• Significance and Generality in Ontologically Structured Lexical Databases: Los Alamos National Laboratory Directed Research and Development, 2002--2003.
• Cellular Pathway Discovery Through Natural Language Knowledge Systems: Principle Investigator for Knowledge Systems, Cooperative Research And Development Agreement on Knowledge Management, Proctor & Gamble Corporation. 2002--2004
• Knowledge Discovery and Dissemination (KDD): Principle Investigator for Computer Science Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2002--2003.
• Active Recommendation Systems for a Library Without Walls: Adaptive semantic information systems for recommendation in computer-human interactive library systems. 1999-2003
• Advanced Knowledge Integration In Assessing Terrorist Threats: Principle Investigator for Computer Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory Directed Research and Development, 2002.
• Knowledge Management CRADA: Principle Investigaor. Cooperative Research And Development Agreement on Knowledge Management, Xerox Corporation. Principle Investigator. 2000-2001.
• Decision Structures of Socio-Technical Organizations: Modeling of agent community interaction with socio-technical systems for a US Government cutsomer. Swarm. Project Leader. 1999-2000.
• Electronic Fraud Detection System (EFDS): Data mining algorithms for fraud detection in IRS electronically filed tax returns. UNIX/C, Matlab/S+, ProC/PL-SQL/Oracle, X/Motif, 1996 - 1999.
• Computer-Aided Systems Theory---General Information Theory (CAST-GIT): classes for random sets; possibilistic distributions and histograms; and both general and possibilistic processes. UNIX, Centerline C++, Booch Components, 1992-1996.
• Data Analysis and Systems Modeling Envrionment (DASME): possibilistic measurement and modeling. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. UNIX, X-Windows, Motif, Centerline C++, 1994-1996.
• CYBSYS-L@BINGVMB.CC.BINGHAMTON.EDU: Founder and Moderator, Electronic Mailing List for Systems Science and Cybernetics.
• Developed software toolkit for manipulation of fuzzy measures and distributions, for use in uncertainty representation in expert systems. UNIX, Sicstus Prolog, 1989.
• Modeled traffic flow in University health clinic. IBM 4381, VM-CMS, RESQ, SAS, 1988
• Prototyped forward-chaining knowledge representation system. SCHEME, VAX VMS, 1984
• Prototyped hierarchical, typed, object handling language. IBM PC-AT, Instant-C, 1984

Invited Presentations:

• ``Semantic Hierarchies as Ordered Data Objects'', Extended MetaData Registry project (XMDR) project meeting, Lawrence Berkeley

National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, July, 2006.
• ``Reconstructibility Analysis as an Order Theoretical Knowledge Discovery Technique'', special session on Reconstructibility Analysis, 2006 International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston, July, 2006.
• ``Order Theoretical Knowledge Discovery for Homeland Defense'', Second Conference on Mathematical Methods for Counterterrorism, Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina, November, 2005
• ``Poset Metric Approaches to the Management of Large Semantic Hierarchies'', Computer Science Department, University of Manchester, July, 2005.
• ``Management of Quantified Semantic Taxonomies for Biothreat Response'', DIMACS Working Group on Order-Theoretic Aspects of Epidemiology, Rutgers University, March, 2005
• ``Order Theoretical Approaches to Automated Functional Annotation Using Bio-Ontologies'', Orion Integrated Biosciences Virtual Seminar on Genomics and Bioinformatics, November, 2004
• ``Order Theoretical Knowledge Discovery'', DIMACS Workshop on Applications of Order Theory to Homeland Defense and Computer Security, Rutgers University, September, 2004
• ``Combinatorial Knowledge Discovery for Bio-Ontology Management'', Stanford Medical Informatics Colloquium, May, 2004.
• ``Combinatorial and Lexical Approaches to Bio-Ontology Management'', Computer Science Department, Manchester University, February, 2004.
• ``Ontologies for Knowledge-Based Science: Building a Computational Semiotics'', Information Science and Technology Colloquium Series, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, November, 2003.
• ``Multi-Poset-Based Ontologies for Real-World Knowledge Discovery'', Computer Science Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, September, 2003.
• Autonomic Computing Summit, IBM Academy of Technology, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, May, 2002.
• ``Meta-System Transition Theory'' (with Valentin Turchin and Ben Goertzel)
• ``Semiotic Closures and Autonomic Systems'
• ``Semiotic Agent Systems and Second Order Cybernetics''
• ``Systems Science via Computational Semiotics and Generalized Information Theory'', Center for Intelligent Systems, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, May, 2002.
• ``Novel Uncertainty Quantification Methods Based on Generalized Information Theory'', Uncertainty Quantification Working Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, March, 2002.
• ``Network Worlds: From Link Analysis to Virtual Places'', 2002 Workshop on Virtual Worlds and Simulation (VWSim01), San Antonio, Texas, January, 2002.
• ``Systems Concepts for the Simulation of Ultra-Large Networks'', NSF Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Ultra-Large Networks, November, 2001.
• ``What Could We Mean By An `Intelligent Web' '', Second en.red.ando Conference on the Intelligent Web, Barcelona, October, 2001.
• ``How Distributed Knowledge Systems Facilitate Social Control in Semiotic Agent-Based Architectures'', Workshop on Intelligent Networks and Social Evolution (Global Brain 0), Free University of Brussels, July, 2001.
• "A Semiotic Systems Approach to Knowledge Integration Environments and Technologies'', National Security Agency, Fort Meade, MD, February, 2001.
• "A Semiotic Critique of the Limits of Formal Models'', 2001 Workshop on Virtual Worlds and Simulation (VWSim01), Phoenix, Arizona, January, 2001.
• "A Semiotic Systems Approach to Distributed Knowledge Environments", Working group on a Distributed Knowledge Reposiroty, SRI International AI Lab, Menlo Park, CA, July, 2000
• "Agent Modeling from a Semiotic Perspective", Dagstuhl Seminar on Agent-Oriented Software Approaches to Distribtued Modeling and Simulation: Challenges and Methodologies, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, July, 1999.
• "Beyond Classical Information Theory: Non-Probabilistic and Semiotic Approaches to Representing Information Systems", post-graduate course on Information Warfare, Independent University; National Defense Institute; Lisbon, May, 1999.
• "Levels of Control and Closure in Complex Semiotic Systems", 7th Annual Washington Evolutionary Systems Conference, Ghent, Belgium, May, 1999.
• "Semiotics in Systems Theory: What We've Been Missing", Washington Evolutionary Systems Society Microsymposium on Semiotics in Science and Engineering, Washington, DC, September, 1998.
• "Empirical Approaches to Fuzzy and General Information Theory", Department of Statistics, University of New Mexico, February 1997.
• "Semiotic Aspects of Control and Modeling Relations in Complex Systems", 1996 Workshop on Control Mechanisms for Complex Systems, New Mexico State University, December 1996.
• "Information Systems Applications from the Systems Scientific Perspective", Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, March 1996.
• "General Information Theory and Cybernetic Modeling", Computer Research and Applications Group, Los Alamos National Lab, New Mexico, Februarxy 1996.
• "The Systems Science Approach to Interdisciplinary Studies", Center Leo Apostel, Free University of Brussels, December 1995.
• "The Principia Cybernetica Project for Evolutionary and Cybernetic Theory", Washington Evolutionary Systems Society, Washington, DC, November 1995.
• "Two Concepts of Variety in Systems Descriptions", Center for Social and Organizational Learning, George Washington University, Washington, DC, September 1995.
• "Qualitative and Possibilistic Modeling", Center for Social and Organizational Learning, George Washington University, Washington, DC, March 1995. 
• "Possibilistic and Fuzzy Modeling", Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, November 1994.
• "Possibility Theory and Possibilistic Automata", Department of Systems Science, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, July 1991.

Business Experience

Software Consultant: ABB Environmental, Portland, Maine, Summer 1994.

Design, maintenance, and project management of leading air quality industrial emissions tracking system. FoxPro, DOS

Computer Consultant: Binghamton, New York and Portland, Maine, 1987-present.

Small business information systems design and development.

Computer Manager: Pryme-Line Distributors, Binghamton, New York, 1988-1991.

Software Engineer: Computer Consoles Inc., Reston, Virginia, 1986-1987.

Systems Analyst: Contractors Managment Systems, Reston, Virginia, 1985-1986.

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Affiliations

• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
• North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society
• IEEE Society for Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
• Association for Computing Machinery
• Society for Computer Simulation
• International Society for the Systems Sciences
• Washington Evolutionary Systems Society
• Control Systems Group
• American Society for Cybernetics 
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

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Skills

Languages:

ANSI C, C++; Prolog, LISP, SCHEME; XML; Perl 5, awk, UNIX shells; SQL, Oracle, XBase dialects; HTML, SGML; BASIC; assemblers.

Database and Knowledge Representation Environments:

Protege; OWL-DL; Proclarity Analysis Services; ProC/PL-SQL, Developer 2000 (Oracle Browser); FoxPro

Mathematica; RiskCalc; Matlab 5.0; S+; MathCad; Macsyma.

Development Environments:

X-Windows, MacX; Rogue Wave, Booch Components.

Operating Systems:

Other Software:

TeX, LaTeX 2e; Visio; MKS Toolkit; CVS, SCCS, RCS; numerous X-Windows, Microsoft Windows, and Macintosh application programs.