PAUL B. KANTOR

School of Communication, Information and Library Studies; Rutgers University

4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Phone: (732) 932-7500x8216

Email: Fax: (732) 932-1504

  1. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

AB, 1959 (Summa cum laude). Columbia University. Physics and Mathematics.

PhD, 1963. Princeton University. Theoretical Physics.

  1. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Director, Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries. 1998-present.

Professor II, Rutgers University School of Communication, Information and Library Studies. 1991-present.

Director, Alexandria Project Laboratory . 1991-present.

President and Chief Scientist, Tantalus Inc. 1976-present.

Associate Professor, School of Library and Information, Case-Western Reserve University (1972-1976).

Assistant-Associate Prof. Physics (CWRU (1967-1972).

Visiting Asst. Prof. Physics, SUNY Stony Brook (1965-1967).

Research Associate, Brookhaven Nat. Labs (1963-1965).

Significant Professional and/or University Affiliations: Fellow-American Association for the Advancement of Science (2001). Editor-in-chief-Information Retrieval, Kluwer Academic Press (1998). Member, Editorial Board-JASIS, Information Processing and Management. Member-Rutgers Center for Operations Research (RUTCOR). Member-DIMACS Center for Discrete Mathematics and Computer Sciences. Member-Am. Stat Assn; IEEE; ASIS; Am Phys Soc; SPIE; ACM and numerous scientific and professional organizations. Director-Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries. Biographical listings-Who’s Who in America; Who’s Who in the World.

C. PUBLICATIONS

(i) Five Most Closely Related

“Using the Information Structure Model to Compare Profile-Based Information Filtering Systems”. Elovici, Yuval and Kantor, Paul B. Information Retrieval, vol .6, no.1, p. 75-97 (2003).

"An experimental Evaluation of Task Scheduling on Reconfigurable Multicomputer Architectures" with Woods, WA, Moser, HD, and Frieder, O. Journal of Computer Science and Engineering 10(4)244-254. (Oct. 1995).

"Counterexamples in distributed detection" Cherikh, M.; Kantor, P.B. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory vol.38, no.1 p. 162­5 ( Jan. 1992).

“Pheromonic Representations of User Quests by Digital Structures”. Endre Boros, Paul B. Kantor, David Neu (1999). To appear in Proceedings of the 1999 Annual conference of the American Society for Information Science.

“The Information Quest: A Dynamic Model of User's Information Needs”. Paul B. Kantor, Benjamin Melamed, Endre Boros, Vladimir Menkov (1999). To appear in Proceedings of the 1999 Annual conference of the American Society for Information Science.

(ii) Five Other Significant

(1994). "Information Retrieval Techniques."Annual Review of Information Science. M. Williams (ed.), pp. 53-90. (chapter in book)

(1993). "The adaptive network library interface: A historical overview and interim report." Library Hi-Tech, vol. 11(3), issue 43, pp. 81-92.

(1986) "Information retrieval in the design of expert systems." In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, pp109-118,

(1986) "Three studies of cost and services at academic libraries," Advances in Library Administration and Organization, V5p221-285, 1986.

(1986) "Is hilbert space too large?" Physical Review Letters V56(14)pp1437-1440,

D. SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

Special Areas of Interest: The networked information environment and the value of information. Distributed decision systems; economics of information. Especially effectiveness, performance measurement, planning and decision tools for information systems.

Honors Received: Fulbright Research Fellowship, Oslo Norway (Spring 2000).

Best Paper Award, Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (1995). American Society of Information Science, Best JASIS paper award with A. Chamis, T. Saracevic and D. Trivisson (1989). Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar, Online Center for Library Computing (OCLC) (1987 July­December). Distinguished Service Award, Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota (1986).

Total Number of Graduate Students advised as Thesis Director: 8.

  1. COLLABORATORS & OTHER AFFILIATIONS

(i)Collaborators in Last Four Years

Stephen Jose Hanson-Rutgers, Stephen R. Baker-UMDNJ, Jonathan Cohen-Princeton, Sven Dickinson-Rutgers, Benjamin Martin Bly-Rutgers, Lawrence A. Shepp-Rutgers, Endre Boros-Rutgers, Benjamin Melamed-Rutgers, Ben Bracha Shapira-Gurion University, Willard Zangwill-University of Chicago, Nancy Kranich-New York University, Carol Mandel-New York University, Mary Summerfield-University of Chicago Press, Ellen Vorhees-NIST, Ragnar Nordlie-Oslo University College, Jung Jin Lee-Soong Sil University, Korea, Tefko Saracevic-Rutgers, Nicholas Belkin-Rutgers, Kwong-Bor Ng-Queens College (CUNY), Tomek Strzalkowski-SUNY Albany, Fred Roberts-Rutgers, David Madigan-Rutgers, Ilya Muchnik-Rutgers, David Lewis-Independent Consultant

(ii) Dissertation Adviser: Sam B. Treiman-Princeton University (deceased).

Post-Doctoral Supervisor: Gian-Carlo Wick (deceased).

(iii)Students supervised or directed (Last 5 years)

D. Neu-Rutgers, Vladimir Menkov-Rutgers, Qin Shi-Rutgers, Insuk Oh-Rutgers, Ying Sun-Rutgers, Ulukbek Ibraev-Rutgers, Andrei Anghelescu-Rutgers, Dmitriy Fradkin-Rutgers, Peng Song-Rutgers, Robert Rittman-Rutgers, Diane Kelly-Rutgers University.

(iv) Postdocs supervised

Vladimir Menkov-Myung Ho Kim-Bracha Shapira

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