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42 Years of Experience; Computer Science; Information Retrieval; Research in Applying Artificial Intelligence Methods such as Fuzzy Set Theory, Rough Sets, and Genetic Algorithms to Modeling Text Information Retrieval Systems |
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ACM IEEE American Society for Information Science and Technology ASIST Editor, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology JASIST, 1985-2008 Editor Emeritus, JASIST, 2008-Present Past member, Committee on Inter-Society Cooperation CISCO ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval SIGIR Chairman, ACMSIGIR and SIGMIS International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM, New Orleans 2003 Chairman, Twenty-fourth International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2001 - awarded ACM Recognition of Service Certificate Chairman, Tenth International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 1987 - awarded ACM Recognition of Service Certificate Program Committee for several ACMSIGIR International Conferences on Research and Development in Information Retrieval ICRDIR North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences INFORMS Editorial Board Member, Journal of Informetrics Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research IJCIR Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems Editorial Board Member, Journal of Digital Information Management JDIM Editorial Review Board, International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management IJOQM Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Computational Science IJCS Editorial Board Member, Journal of Advanced Research in Fuzzy and Uncertain Systems Editorial Board Member, International Journal on Soft Computing, Modeling and Simulation Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Scienc Past Member, Advisory Committee for the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology ARIST Association for Library and Information Science Education ALISE |
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Summers, 1993, 1994- U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research AFOSR Summer Faculty 1990- National Science Foundation 1989- Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board 1989- State Attorney General's Office, New Orleans 1987- New Jersey State Department of Higher Education 1987- Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 1986- School of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 1984- U.S. Army Summer Faculty Research and Engineering Program, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 1983- Summer Faculty Intern, Administrative Information Services AIS, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 1980- Member of a project team, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 1978 - 1979- Project leader, Louisiana Legislative Council, Baton Rouge, LA 1978- Consultant, Criminal Justice Institute, Baton Rouge, LA 1976- Visiting Assistant Research Librarian, Institute of Library Research, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1975-1977- Consultant, Welch Medical Library, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 1975 - 1976-Consultant, Texas Education Agency, Austin, TX 1973-1975- Helped run tutorials on library budgeting and planning in several states, including Florida and Colorado, which were sponsored by the state departments of education, and Maryland 1973- Consultant, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 1972- NASA ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship in Engineering Systems Design, NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 1972- Research consultant, Division of Library Development and Services, Maryland State Department of Education 1971- Statistical consultant, Division of Library Development and Services, Maryland State Department of Education 1968- Graduate Summer Program, IBM, Inc., White Plains, NY |
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Married, with two adult daughters, two grandsons. |
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Ph.D., Industrial Engineering- Purdue University M.S., Industrial Engineering- Purdue University B.S., Industrial Engineering- Purdue University |
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Meadow, C.T., Barry, C., Boyce, B.R., and Kraft, D.H., Text Information Retrieval Systems, third edition, San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2007 Meadow, C.T., Boyce, B.R., and Kraft, D.H., Text Information Retrieval Systems, second edition, San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2000 Boyce, B.R., Meadow, C.T., and Kraft, D.H., Measurement in Information Science, San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1994 Kraft, D.H. and Boyce, B.R., Operations Research for Libraries and Information Agencies: Techniques for the Evaluation of Management Decision Alternatives, San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1991 Kraft, D.H., Bordogna, G., and Pasi, G., Fuzzy Set Theory, in Bates, M.J. and Maack, M.N. Eds., Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Third Edition, CRC Press, 2009, pp. 1897-1914 Borgogna, G., Kraft, D.H., and Pasi, G., Soft Approaches to Information Access and Retrieval, in Pedrycz, W., Skowron, A., and Kreinovich, V. Eds., Handbook of Granular Computing, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley Sons, Inc., 2007 Chen, J., Kraft, D.H., Martin-Bautista, M.J., and Vila, M.-A., Chapter 18: Induction and Inference with Fuzzy Rules for Textual Information Retrieval, in Triantaphyllou, E. and Felici, G. Eds., Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Approaches based on Rule Induction Techniques, Massive Computing Series, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, 2006, pp. 629-654 Kraft, D.H., Some Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Textual Information Retrieval, in Kacprzyk, J., Krawczak, M., and Zadrozny, S. eds., Issues in Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland: Akademicka Oficyna Wydawnicza, 2002 Kraft, D.H., Chen, J., Martin-Bautista, M.J., and Vila, M.A., Textual Information Retrieval with User Profiles Using Fuzzy Clustering and Inferencing, in Szczepaniak, S., Segovia, J., Kacprzyk, J., and Zadeh, L.A. eds., Intelligent Exploration of the Web, Heidelberg, Germany: Physica-Verlag, 2002 Srinivasan, P., Kraft, D., and Chen, J., Rough and Fuzzy Sets for Data Mining of a Controlled Vocabulary for Textual Retrieval, in Crestani, F. and Pasi, G. eds., Soft Computing in Information Retrieval: Techniques and Applications, Heidelberg, Germany, Physica-Verlag, 2000 Chen, J., Mikulcic, A., and Kraft, D.H., An Integrated Approach to Information Retrieval with Fuzzy Clustering and Fuzzy Inferencing, in Pons, O., Vila, M.A., and Kacprzyk, J. eds., Knowledge Management in Fuzzy Databases, Heidelberg, Germany: Physica-Verlag, 2000 Kraft, D.H., Bordogna, G., and Pasi, G., Fuzzy Set Techniques in Information Retrieval, in Bezdek, J.C., Didier, D. and Prade, H. eds., Fuzzy Sets in Approximate Reasoning and Information Systems, vol. 3, The Handbook of Fuzzy Sets Series, Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999 Kraft, D.H. and Monk, D., Applications of Fuzzy Computation - Information Retrieval: A Case Study with the CASHE:PVS System, in Ruspini, E., Bonissone, P., and Pedrycz, W. eds., Handbook of Fuzzy Computation, Part G: Fuzzy Computation in Practice, G14.2: Information Science, New York, NY: Oxford University Press and Institute of Physics Publishing, 1998 Kraft, D.H., Petry, F.E., Buckles, B.P., and Sadasivan, T., Genetic Algorithms for Query Optimization in Information Retrieval: Relevance Feedback, in Sanchez, E., Shibata, T., and Zadeh, L.A. eds., Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Logic Systems, Singapore: World Scientific, 1997 Petry, F.E., Buckles, B.P., Kraft, D.H., Prabhu, D., and Sadasivan, T., The Use of Genetic Programming to Build Queries for Information Retrieval, Section G2.1, in Baeck, T., Fogel, D., and Michalewicz, Z. eds., Handbook of Evolutionary Computation, New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 1-6 Kraft, D.H., Petry, F.E., Buckles, B.P., and Sadasivan, T, Applying Genetic Algorithms to Information Retrieval Systems Via Relevance Feedback, in Bosc, P. and Kacprzyk, J. eds., Fuzziness in Database Management Systems, Studies in Fuzziness Series, Heidelberg, Germany: Physica-Verlag, 1995, pp. 330-344 Kraft, D.H. and Boyce, B.R., Approaches to Intelligent Information Retrieval, in Petry, F.E. and Delcambre, M.L. eds., Advances in Databases and Artificial Intelligence, volume 1: Intelligent Database Technology: Approaches and Applications, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1995, pp. 243-261 Kraft, D.H., Wallace, D.P., Van Fleet, C., and Franklin, M., A Modern Refereed Science Journal Editor's Responsibility in Insuring Citation Correctness, in Weeks, R.A. and Kinser, D.L. eds., Editing the Refereed Scientific Journal: Practical, Political, and Ethical Issues, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 1994, pp. 76-83 Nagelberg, K.M. and Kraft, D.H., ?News Story Generation with Hard Copy and Magnetic Media Information Sources: The Impact of Information Technology, Information and Behavior, IV, Special Issue on Studies in the Relationships Between Communication and Information, 1993 Boyce, B.R. and Kraft, D.H., Principles and Theories in Information Science, in Williams, M. ed., Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, v. 20, Knowledge Industry Publications, Inc., White Plains, NY, 1985, pp. 153-178 Kraft, D.H., Advances in Information Retrieval: Where is That #*%@^ Record?,? in Yovits, M. ed., Advances in Computers, v. 24, Academic Press, New York, 1985, pp. 277-318 Kraft, D.H. and Buell, D.A., Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Boolean Retrieval Systems, In Dubois, D., Prade, H, and Yager, R. eds., Readings in Fuzzy Sets for Intelligent Systems, San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1992 reprint Kraft, D.H. and McDonald, D., Library Operations Research: Its Past and Our Future, in Hammer, D. ed., The Information Age: Its Development, Its Impact, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ, 1976 Buckland, M.K. and Kraft, D.H., A Bibliography of Operations Research in Libraries, in Brophy, P., Buckland, M.K., and Hindle, A. eds., Reader in Operations Research for Libraries, Information Handling Services, Englewood, CO, 1976 |
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Association for Computing Machinery ACM Distinguished Scientist, 2008 Louisiana State University Distinguished Faculty Award, 2004 American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS Fellow, 2003 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE Fellow, 2002 Louisiana State University Community Volunteer Award, 2002 North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS K.S. Fu Award for distinguished service to NAFIPS, 1986 American Society for Information Science and Technology ASIST Best Information Science Book Award for Meadow, C.T., Boyce, B.R., and Kraft, D.H., Text Information Retrieval Systems, second edition, San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2000 Research Award Recognizing an individual or organization for Outstanding research contributions to the field of information science, 1999 Watson Davis Award, commemorating the founder of the society ASIST and given to members for outstanding continuous contributions and dedicated service to the society, 1995 Certificate of Recognition, 1990 Sigma Xi, Alpha Pi Mu, Upsilon Pi Epsilon |
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