PhD Students

Only listing those who have passed at least one research exam under my supervision.

Amit K. Chopra

Contextualizing Business Protocols, proposed August 2005

Yonghong Wang

Trust Management in Distributed Agent Systems, proposed December 2006

PhD Graduates

[11] Yathiraj B. Udupi

Modeling Service Engagements in Dynamic Organizations: Multiagent Model and Architecture for Policy-Based Governance, defended March 2008

[10] Qing Zhang
(coadvisor: Ting Yu)

Microdata Privacy Protection Through Permutation-Based Approaches, defended March 2008

[9] A. Soydan Bilgin
(coadvisor: Rada Y. Chirkova)

Deriving Efficient SQL Sequences Via Prefetching, defended December 2007

[8] Nirmit Desai

Interorganizational Business Interactions: Contracts, Processes, Evolution, defended November 2007

[7] Zhengang Cheng
(coadvisor: Mladen A. Vouk)

Verifying Commitment Based Business Protocols and their Compositions: Model Checking using Promela and Spin, defended August 2006

[6] Ashok U. Mallya

Modeling and Enacting Business Processes via Commitment Protocols Among Agents, defended November 2005

[5] E. Michael Maximilien

Toward Autonomic Web Services Trust and Selection, defended December 2004

[4] Feng Wan

Commitment-Based Business Process Modelling and Enactment, defended November 2004

[3] pInar Yolum

Properties of Referral Networks: Emergence of Authority and Trust, defended June 2003

[2] Bin Yu

Emergence and Evolution of Agent-Based Referral Networks, defended December 2001

[1] Jie Xing

Commitment-Based Interoperation for E-Commerce, defended May 2001

MS Graduates

[21] Narendran Ranjit

Multiagent Referral Systems: Maintaining and Applying Trust and Expertise Models, defended May 2007

[20] Arvind Batalagundu Viswanathan

Bootstrapping Referral Systems with Social Network Information, defended May 2007

[19] Payal Chakravarty

An Event-Driven Approach to Agent-Based Business Process Enactment, defended February 2007

[18] Yathiraj B. Udupi

Trust in Knowledge Sharing, based on PhD written prelim, (defended October 2003), graduated December 2005

[17] Leena V. Wagle

Incorporating Business Policies into Business Protocols, defended August 2005

[16] Amit K. Chopra

Nonmonotonic Commitment Machines, defended October 2003

[15] A. Soydan Bilgin

Semantic Web Services Query and Manipulation Language for Quality Attributes of Web Services, defended August 2003

[14] Srivatsa V. Chivukula

Evolution of Trust in Anonymous Interactions, defended May 2003

[13] Ashok U. Mallya

Specifying and Resolving Temporal Commitments, defended November 2002

[12] Raghuram M. Sreenath

A Community-Based Rating System for Selecting among Web Services, defended November 2002

[11] Subhayu S. Chatterjee

Instant Messaging Interface and Transport for the Multiagent Referral System, defended November 2002

[10] Paul J. Palathingal

Integrating Information Retrieval in a Referral System for Knowledge Management, defended May 2002

[9] E. Michael Maximilien

Web services reputation, based on PhD written prelim, defended April 2002

[8] Wentao Mo

A Referral-Based Recommender System for E-Commerce, defended May 2001

[7] Mahmoud S. Elhaddad

Adaptive Multipath Traffic Allocation in TCP/IP Networks, defended August 2001

[6] pInar Yolum

Flexible Execution of E-Commerce Protocols: A Commitment-Based Approach, defended June 2000

[5] Mahadevan Venkatraman

Specifying and Verifying Compliance with Commitment Protocols Among Autonomous Agents, defended September 1999

[4] Sudhir K. Rustogi

Empirical Studies of Coordination in Decentralized Multiagent Systems, defended August 1999

[3] Jiejun Kong

Constructing Multiagent Systems: The MEP Project, defended August 1998

[2] Anuj K. Jain

Maintaining Process Coherence in Heterogeneous Information Environments, defended May 1998

[1] Chubin Lin

Design and Implementation of a Distributed Workflow Scheduler, defended April 1998

Other Past Students

Yu Lei

Chris L. Grove

Hong Han

Upendra Padmonkar

Joel Rucker

Neerja Bhatt