PUBLICATIONS of Akhil Kumar

PUBLICATIONS of Akhil Kumar

Some Recent Papers

R. Liu and A. Kumar, "An Analysis and Taxonomy of Unstructured Workflows," Third International Conference on Business Process Management
(BPM 2005) Nancy, France, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, September 2005. (PDF)

J. Wang and A. Kumar , "A Framework for Document-Driven Workflow Systems," Third International Conference on Business Process Management
(BPM 2005) , Nancy, France, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, September 2005. (PDF)

J. Wainer and A. Kumar, "A fine grained, controllable user-to-user delegation method in RBAC," Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Access Control
Models and Technologies , Stockholm , June 2005, 59-66 (ACM Press). (PDF)

R. Liu, A. Kumar and W. v.d. Aalst , "A formal modeling approach for supply chain management," Proceedings of 14th Annual Workshop on Information
Technologies and Systems (WITS 2004) , Washington , D.C. , December 11-12, 2004 , 110-115.(PDF)

R. Liu and A. Kumar, " Leveraging Information Sharing to Increase Supply Chain Configurability," Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth

International Conference on Information Systems, December 2003, Seattle (PDF).

List of Journal Papers

S. Sun, A. Kumar, J. Yen, " Merging workflows: A new perspective on connecting business Processes," Decision Support Systems (forthcoming).

Kumar, A. and J. Wainer, " Meta workflows as a Control and Coordination Mechanism for Exception Handling in Workflow Systems," Decision Support Systems ,
40 (July 2005) 89– 105.(PDF)

H.M.W. Verbeek, W.M.P. van der Aalst and A. Kumar, XRL/Woflan, "Verification and Extensibility of an XML/Petri-net-based language for inter-

organizational workflows," Information Technology and Management, 5 (1-2): 65-110, January - April, 2004. (PDF)

J. Wainer, P. Barthelmess and A. Kumar, “W-RBAC - A workflow security model incorporating controlled overriding of constraints,” International

Journal on Cooperative Information Systems, Vol. 12, No. 4 (2003) 455-485.

W.M.P. van der Aalst and A. Kumar, “XML Based Schema Definition for Support of Inter-organizational Workflow,” Information Systems

Research, Vol. 14, No. 1, 23-47, March 2003.

A. Basu and A. Kumar, “Research Commentary: Workflow Management Systems in e-Business,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 13, No. 1,

March 2002, 1-14.

Kumar, A., W.M.P. van der Aalstand H.M.W. Verbeek, “Dynamic Work Distribution in Workflow Management Systems: How to balance quality

and performance?” Journal of MIS, Winter 2001-2002, Vol. 18, No. 3, 157-193.

Kumar, A., and Zhao, L., “Workflow Support for Electronic Commerce Applications,” Decision Support Systems 32 (2002) 265-278, January

2002.

W.M.P. van der Aalst and A. Kumar, “A Reference Model for Team-Enabled Workflow Management Systems,” Data and Knowledge

Engineering 38 (2001) 335-363, September 2001.

Kumar, A., “An Efficient Algorithm for Solving the Partial Sum Query Problem,” Information Sciences, 137 (2001) 245-258, Vol. 137, No. 1-4, September 2001.

Zhao, L., Kumar, A., and Stohr, E. A., “Workflow-centric Information Distribution through Email,” Journal of Management Information Systems, Winter 2000-2001, Vol. 17, No. 3, 45-72.

Kumar, A., “An Efficient SuperGrid Protocol for High Availability and Load Balancing” IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 49, No. 10, October 2000, 1126-1133.

Kumar, A., and Zhao, L., " Dynamic Routing and Operational Controls in a Workflow Management System," Management Science, Volume 45, No. 2, February 1999, 253-272.

Kumar, A. and Olmeda, I., "A Study of Composite classifiers for knowledge discovery," INFORMS Journal on Computing, Volume 11, No. 3, Summer 1999, 267-277.

Kumar, A., "A New algorithm for Distributed Consensus," Distributed and Parallel Databases, 7(4), 415-427 (1999).

Zhao, L., and Kumar, A., " Data Management Issues for Large Scale, Distributed Workflow

Systems on the Internet," DATA BASE (invited paper), Vol. 29, No. 4, Fall 1998.

Kumar, A. and N. Adly, "HPP: A Reliable Causal Broadcast Protocol for Large Scale Replication in Wide Area Networks," Computer Journal,

Volume 41, No. 2, 1998.

Kumar, A., "New Techniques for data reduction in database systems for knowledge discovery applications," Journal of Intelligent Information

Systems, 10:1, 31-48 (1998).

Kumar, A., W. Muhanna and R. Patterson, " Mean-Variance Analysis of

the Performance of Spatial Clustering Methods," International Journal of Geographical Information Sciences, Vol. 12, No. 3, 269-289, 1998.

Kumar, A. and Malik, K., "Optimizing the Costs of Hierarchical Quorum Consensus," Acta Informatica, Vol. 33, No. 3, May 1996, 255-275.

Kumar, A., V. Rao and H. Soni, "An Empirical Comparison of Neural Networks and Logistic Regression Methods, " Marketing Letters 6:4 (1995): 251-263.

Kumar, A., "G-Tree: A New Data Structure for Organizing Multi-dimensional Data," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 2, April 1994, 341-347.

Kumar, A. and Segev, A., "Cost and Availability Tradeoffs in Replicated Data Concurrency Control," ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 18, No. 1, March 1993, 102-131.

Kumar, A., "Hierarchical Quorum Consensus: A New Algorithm for Managing Replicated Data," IEEE Transaction on Computers, September 1991, 996-1004.

Kumar, A. and Cheung, S.Y., "A High Availability Sqrt(N) Hierarchical Grid Algorithm for Replicated Data," Information Processing Letters, December 1991, 311-316.

Kumar, A. and Malik, K., "Voting Mechanisms in Distributed Systems," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, December 1991, 593-600.

Kumar, A. and Stonebraker, M., "Performance Considerations for an Operating System Transaction Manager," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 6, June 1989, 705-714.

International Conference Proceedings

R. Liu and A. Kumar, "An Analysis and Taxonomy of Unstructured Workflows," Third International Conference on Business Process Management
(BPM 2005), Nancy, France, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, September 2005.

R. Liu, A. Kumar and W. v.d. Aalst , "A formal modeling approach for supply chain management," Proceedings of 14th Annual Workshop on Information
Technologies and Systems (WITS 2004) , Washington , D.C. , December 11-12, 2004 , 110-115.

H.H.Bi and A. Kumar, 2004. "A canonical form for the definition, querying, and manipulation of Workflows," Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on
Information Technology and Systems (WITS 2004) , Washington , D.C. , December 11-12, 2004 , 26-31.

S. Sarnikar, J. L. Zhao, and A. Kumar, "Organizational Knowledge Distribution: An Experimental Evaluation," Proceedings of the Tenth Americas

Conference on Information Systems, New York City, August 2004. (Best paper nominee)

R. Liu and A. Kumar, " Leveraging Information Sharing to Increase Supply Chain Configurability," Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth

International Conference on Information Systems, Seattle, December 2003.

A. Kumar, J. Wainer, Z. Zhang, " Meta-workflows and ESP: A Framework for Coordination, Exception Handling, and Adaptability in Workflow

Systems," CAiSE'03 Workshop on Web Services, e-Business, and the Semantic Web (WES), Austria, June 2003. (Proceedings to be

published by Springer-Verlag publishers).

W.M.P. van der Aalst, A. Kumar, H.M.W. Verbeek, "Organizational Modeling in UML and XML in the context of Workflow Systems," ACM Symposium

on Applied Computing, Melbourne, Fl, March 2003.

Kumar, A., "Organizing an Optimal Hierarchy of Web Pages Based on Access Frequency," Workshop on Information Technology and Systems

(WITS), 181-186, Barcelona, Spain, December 2002.

Kumar, A., and Zhao, L., " EROICA: A Rule-based Approach to Organizational Policy Management in Workflow Systems," Proceedings of WAIM'02 Conference,
Beijing, August 2002. (Published by Springer-Verlag: X. Meng, J. Su, and Y. Wang (Eds.), LNCS 2419,201−212, 2002, Berlin Heidelberg 2002).

W.M.P. van der Aalst, H.M.W. Verbeek, and A. Kumar, "XRL/Woflan: Verification and extensibility of an XML/Petri-net based language for inter-

organizational workflows," Proceedings of the 6th Informs Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST 2001), Miami

Beach, Fl, 30-45, November 2001. (This paper received the best paper award at the conference.)

V. Christophides, R. Hull, G. Karvounarakis, A. Kumar, G. Tong, M. Xiong: Beyond Discrete E-Services: Composing Session-Oriented Services in

Telecommunications. TES 2001: 58-73.

V. Christophides, R. Hull, A. Kumar, "Querying and Splicing of Workflows," Sixth International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems

(CoopIS 2001), In Cooperation with VLDB 2001, Trento, Italy, September 2001, 386-402.

W.M.P. van der Aalst, H. M. W. Verbeek and A. Kumar, “Verification of XRL: An XML-based Workflow Language,” Proceedings of the Sixth

International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design,” 427-432, London, Ontario, Canada, July 2001.

Zhao, L., Kumar, A., and E. Stohr, “A Dynamic Grouping Technique for Distributing Codified-

Knowledge in Large Organizations,” Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), Sydney, Australia, December 2000.

Hull, R., Kumar, A., and Simeon, J., “Smart Supply Web: An application of Web-based data and workflow mediation, Workshop on Technologies for E-Services (VLDB-TES Workshop), Cairo, September 2000.

Kumar, A., and T. Camp, "A New Matching Algorithm for Managing Location Information in Mobile Computing," Proceedings of the19th IEEE International Conference on Performance, Computing, and Communications (IPCCC 2000), Phoenix, Arizona, February 2000.

Kumar, A., " A Framework for handling delegation in Workflow Management Systems," Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), Charlotte, December 1999.

Zhao, L., Kumar, A., and E. Stohr, “A Workflow-centric Study of Organizational Knowledge Distribution,” 33rd Hawaii International Conference

on Systems Sciences, January 2000

Kumar, A., and Zhao, L., “XRL: An Extensible Routing Language for Electronic Commerce Applications,” International Conference on

Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce (ICTEC), Nashville, TN, November 1998.

Kumar, A., "A randomized algorithm for distributed consensus," IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Purdue University, W.

Lafayette, IN, October 1998.

Kumar, A., and Zhao, L., "Architectures and Techniques for Large-Scale, Distributed Workflow Management on the Internet," Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, Atlanta, December 1997.

Kumar, A., and I. Olmeda, "Hybrid Classifiers for Knowledge Discovery," Proceedings INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, San Diego, May 1997.

Kumar, A., and Zhao, L., "A Framework for Dynamic Routing and Operational Integrity

Controls in a Workflow Management System," 29th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, January 1996, 492-501.

Adly, N., and Kumar, A., " HPP: A Hierarchical Propagation Protocol for Large Scale Replication in Wide Area Networks," Seventh International

Conference on Computing and Information, Peterborough, ON, Canada, July 1995.

Kumar, A., "A Study of Spatial Clustering Techniques, " Lecture notes in Computer Science 856, Springer-Verlag, September 1994, 57-71. (Proceedings of the Fifth International DEXA conference, Athens, Greece.)

Cheung, S.Y. and Kumar, A., "Efficient Solution Techniques for the Quorumcast Problem," Proceedings of IEEE Infocom ’94, Toronto, Canada, 840-847.

Kumar, A., M. Rabinovich and R. Sinha, "A Performance Study of General Grid Structures for Replicated Data, " IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, " Pittsburgh, May 1993, 178-185.

Kumar, A., "Techniques for Indexing Large Numbers of Rules and Constraints in a Database System," Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Database and Expert System Applications (DEXA), Valencia, Spain, September 1992, 65-71 (Springer-Verlag Publishers).

Kumar, A., "A Randomized Voting Algorithm," Proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Distributed Systems, Arlington, TX, May 1991, 412-419.

Kumar, A., "A New Approach for Conflict Resolution and Rule Processing in a Knowledge-Based System," Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Information Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 1990, 15-23.

Kumar, A., "Performance Analysis of a Hierarchical Quorum Consensus Algorithm for Replicated Objects," Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Paris, France, June 1990, 378-385.

Kumar, A., "An Analysis of Borrowing Policies for Escrow Transactions in a Replicated Data Environment," Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, February 1990, 446-454.

Kumar, A., "A Crash Recovery Algorithm Based on Multiple Logs that Exploits Parallelism," Proceedings of the Second IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Dallas, TX, December 1990, 156-159.

Kumar, A. and Segev, A., "Optimizing and Evaluating Algorithms for Replicated Data Concurrency Control," Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Newport Beach, CA, June 1989, 101-109.

Kumar, A. and Segev, A., "Optimizing Voting-Type Algorithms for Replicated Data," Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 303, J.W. Schmidt, S. Ceri, and M. Misekoff (eds.), Springer-Verlag, March 1988, 428-442.

(Proceedings of the First International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Venice, Italy.)

Kumar, A. and Stonebraker, M., "Semantics Based Transaction Management Techniques for Replicated Data," Proceedings 1988 ACM SIGMOD (Special Interest Group on Management of Data) Conference, Chicago, Il June 1988, 117-125.

Kumar, A. and Stonebraker, M., "Performance Evaluation of an Operating System Transaction Manager," Proceedings of the Thirteenth International VLDB (Very Large Databases) Conference, Brighton, U.K., September 1987, 473-481.

Newsletters/Other Publications

V. Christophides, R. Hull, A. Kumar, J. Simeon, “Workflow mediation using VorteXML,” IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 24(1), March 2001, 40-45.

Kumar, A. and Stonebraker, M., "The Effect of Join Selectivity on Optimal Nesting Order," ACM SIGMOD (Special Interest Group on Management of Data) Record, Vol. 16, No. 1, March 1987, 28-41.

Kumar, A. and Stonebraker, M., "Operating System Support for Data Management," IEEE Data Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 3, September 1986, 43-50.

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