| Name: | Ram Pakath |
| Position Type: | Professorship |
| Appointment Start Date: | 07/01/03 |
| Appointment End Date: | 06/30/05 |
| Area of Specialty: | Intelligent and multimedia-based decision support systems |
| Summary Vita: | Ram is a University of Kentucky Research Challenge Trust Fund-supported Gatton Endowed Research Professor and Associate Professor of Decision Science and Information Systems, School of Management, at the C. M. Gatton College of Business & Economics. He holds a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Banagalore University (India), a masters degree in Business Adminsitration from University of Madras (India), a masters degree in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and a doctorate in Management (MIS) from Purdue University. Ram's teaching interests are in the areas of Business Data Communications, Business Data Base Design, Business Support Systems, Applied Artificial Intelligence, and in exploring new territory. He was twice nominated for the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Teaching at the graduate level. His research focuses on (a) Designing and evaluating adaptive problem processors, (b) Asessing information source characteristics on system user performance, and (c) asessing system interface designs for the disabled. Ram's research articles have appeared in such refereed forums as Behaviour and Information Technology, Computer Science in Economics and Management, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Information and Management, Information Systems Research, and Journal of Computer Information Systems. He is author of the book Business Support Systems: An Introduction published by Copley. Ram has contributed refereed material to the following books: Decision Support Systems: A Knowledge-based Approach, Handbook of Industrial Engineering, Management Impacts of Information Technology: Perspectives on Organizational Change and Growth, Multimedia Technology and Applications, Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence, and Cases on Information Technology Management in Modern Organizations. He also has several invited and contributed conference presentations and refereed conference proceedings to his credit. Ram served as Director of the MIS Research Lab of the college from 1993-1997. He is an Associate Editor of Decision Support Systems and an Editorial Board Member of Journal of End User Computing and Management. His research has been funded by IBM, Ashland Oil, the Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation, the C. M. Gatton College of Business and Economics, and the University of Kentucky. He is currently a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the Association for Information Systems, and the Information Resources Management Association. |
| Highest Degree: | Ph.D. |
| Professional Affiliations: | "The Evolutionary Behaviors of Alternate Learning Classifier System Architectures: An Assessment,"R. Pakath and D. Gaines, Research Abstracts of the Third Annual Kentucky Innovation and Enterprise Conference, March 30, 2005, pp. 36. · "Evaluating and Refining Web Interface Design Guideline's for AZlzheimer's Patients,"C. W. Holsapple, R. Pakath, and S. Sasidharan, Research Abstracts of the Third Annual Kentucky Innovation and Enterprise Conference, March 30, 2005, pp. 37. · "Alzheimer's Patients and Web Accessibility," C. W. Holsapple, R. Pakath, and S. Sasidharan, Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2004), August 6-8, 2004 · "Alternate Learning Classifier System Architectures: Behavioral Consequences of Architectural Differences," D. Gaines and R. Pakath, Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2004), August 6-8, 2004 |
| Primary Research Focus: | Assessing system-user interface designs for the disabled. Designing and evaluating hybrid, adaptive problem processors. Assessing information source impacts on system user performance |
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| Publications: | "The Evolutionary Behaviors of Alternate Learning Classifier System Architectures: An Assessment,"R. Pakath and D. Gaines, The Third Annual Kentucky Innovation and Enterprise Conference, March 30, 2005, Louisville, KY. · "Evaluating and Refining Web Interface Design Guideline's for Alzheimer's Patients,"C. W. Holsapple, R. Pakath, and S. Sasidharan, The Third Annual Kentucky Innovation and Enterprise Conference, March 30, 2005, Louisville, KY. · "Alternate Adaptive Agent Architectures and Behavioral Consequences," D. Gaines and R. Pakath, Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2004, August 5-8, 2004, New York. · "Alzheimer's Patients and Web Accessibility," C. Holsapple, R. Pakath, and S. Sasidharan, Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2004, August 5-8, 2004, New York. · "Alzheimer's Patients and Web Accessibility," C. Holsapple, R. Pakath, and S. Sasidharan, Information Technology in Healthcare: Sociotechnical Approaches, Second International Conference, September 13-14, 2004, Portland, OR. (accepted; opted not to present) |