Srinivasan Ramaswamy


Professor and Chairperson
Department of Computer Science
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Little Rock, AR 72204
501-569-8130 - Phone
501-569-8144 - Fax
srini@acm.org or srini@ieee.org

Professional Summary

Dr. Ramaswamy's research interests are on intelligent and flexible control systems, behavior modeling, analysis and simulation, software stability and scalability; particularly in the design and development of better software systems for real-time control issues in manufacturing and other distributed, real-time applications. His work is motivated by his desire to understand the various requirements for building scalable, intelligent software systems with the inherent ability to successfully respond to observed and reported behavioral changes in their operating environment. His efforts have been focused on building a comprehensive agent-based design framework, called Intelligent Coordinated Entities (ICE). It is based upon the hypothesis that individual software elements need to exhibit simple, yet well-defined underlying patterns, thereby aiding the development of scalable, complex software systems capable of demonstrating domain-specific intelligence. His work derives extensively from research efforts in engineering, decision theory, software engineering, control theory and systems analysis and design. Srini has developed and used Petri nets and other state based techniques to help designers identify such critical informational pieces from state based software models. He has actively consulted on the design, development and implementation of a knowledge capture, classification and mining project with eFutureKnowledge, Inc. and worked on a document mining application on a NIST sponsored ATP project with InRAD, LLC.

Since August 2005, he serves as the Chairperson of the Department of Computer Science at UALR. Previously he was the Chairperson of the Computer Science Department at Tennessee Tech University, where he had set up a new MS degree program in Internet Based Computing. At TTU, he also established the Software Automation and Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) - an academic research and development facility with a focus on team-based software research and development to serve local and regional industries.

During the summers of 2003 and 2004, he was a visiting research professor of Computer Science in the Institute of Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) at Vanderbilt University developing courses in modeling and simulation and Embedded Software Systems as part of a NSF ITR project - Foundations of Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems, in association with University of California-Berkeley's Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems (CHESS). In 1994-1995, and subsequently during the summer months of 1996 and 1998, he was a post-doctoral research fellow / visiting scientist in the Laboratory for Intelligent Processes and Systems (LIPS) at the University of Texas at Austin where he helped with research efforts on Sensible Agents. Between 1995 and 1998, he was a faculty member in the School of Computer and Applied Sciences at Georgia Southwestern State University, where he established the SOftware and DAta Engineering (SODA) laboratory with Dr. Tsz Cheng (currently with IBM, Dallas). At GSW, he also helped in the initiation of a graduate program in Computer Science and served as the advisor for the graduate (M.S.) program. Dr. Ramaswamy earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1994 from the Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, USA (now University of Louisiana at Lafayette). He is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery, Society for Computer Simulation International, Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility and a senior member of the IEEE.

Workshops Attended / Sessions Organized

  1. Workshop attendee, “Formal Security Modeling”, TCS Excellence in Computer Science (TECS) Week 2005, (Speakers: Dr. Butler Lampson (Microsoft Research), Dr. Xavier Leroy (INRIA), Professor John Mitchell (Stanford) and Dr. J R Rao (IBM Research), Distinguished Lecture, Prof. Amir Pnueli), January 4th – 8th 2005, TRDDC, Pune, India
  2. Participant, Workshop on Algorithms for Dynamic Data, Inst. of Math Sciences, Chennai, India. December 13th-14th, 2004.
  3. "Software Engineering Education - Best Practices", 2004 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, Las Vegas, NV, June 21-24, 2004.
  4. "Internet Applications, Databases, Web Protocols and Algorithms", 2004 International Conference on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, NV, June 21-24, 2004.
  5. "Intelligent Software Engineering", 1999 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, NV, June-July 1999.
  6. "Semiotic Modeling of Sensible Agents", Intelligent Systems: A Semiotic Perspective, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersberg, MD, Oct. 1996. (with Prof. Suzanne Barber, University of Texas at Austin)
  7. "Innovative Tools and Techniques for Intelligent Control", 10th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Systems, Monterey, CA, Aug. 1995. (With Prof. Maria Gini, University of Minnesota)

Selected Professional Activities

  1. IPC, Intnl. Conf. on Distributed Computing & Internet Technology (ICDCIT), Dec 2007, Bangalore, India
  2. Conference Chair, International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, Nov 2007.
  3. IPC, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, Nov 2-4, 2007
  4. IPC, The First International Workshop on Unified Data Mining Engine: Addressing Challenges (UDME 2007 - in conjunction with OOPSLA 2007), Montréal, Canada, October 21-22, 2007.
  5. IPC, The First International Workshop on Pattern Languages: Addressing Challenges (PLAC 2007 - in conjunction with OOPSLA 2007)”, Montréal, Canada, October 21-22, 2007.
  6. IPC, 2nd IFIP TC8 Intnl. Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems, Beijing, China, Oct 14-16, 2007
  7. IPC, 2nd IEEE Intnl Workshop Towards Stable and Adaptable Software Architectures (SASA 2007), IRI-07, Aug 2007
  8. IPC, 2nd IEEE Intnl Workshop on Software Stability at Work (SSW 2007), IRI-07, Aug 2007
  9. IPC, The First IEEE International Workshop on Software Patterns: Addressing Challenges (SPAC 2007) 31st Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, Beijing, July 23-27 2007
  10. IPC, Intnl. Conf on Software Engineering Research and Practice, June 25-28, 2007
  11. Keynote, "The Pervasive Role of Modeling and Simulation in a Globalized Business Economy”, Workshop on Modeling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Info. Systems (MSVVEIS’07), 9th Intnl. Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems, Funchal, Portugal. June 2007.
  12. Speaker, "Intelligent Coordination Design in Software Systems", Wayne State University, Sept 19 2006.
  13. Speaker, "Intelligent Coordination Design in Software Systems", Auburn University, Feb 24 2006.
  14. Speaker, "ICE: A nature inspired analogy for software development", Workshop on Parallel computation, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, January 7th - 14th 2005.
  15. Speaker, "Petri Nets", Bharat Electronics Ltd, Central Research Laboratory, Bangalore, India, December 29th 2004.
  16. Speaker, "Requirements Analysis for Software Systems", KIIT Engineering College, Bangalore, India, December 28th 2004.
  17. "Simulation Principles and Applications", S.R.M Engineering College, Chennai, India, January 2004.
  18. "ICE: Intelligent Coordinating Entities", Bharat Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India, Dec 2003.
  19. "E-Commerce: An Introduction and its Applications in Industry", Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India, March 2000.
  20. "Emerging Trends in Computer Science Education", Tamilnadu Foundation & Indira Gandhi National Open University, Chennai, India, March 2000.
  21. "Model-based Monitoring and Control of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems", Workshop on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Albuquerque, NM, April 1997. (Organizer: Prof. Tarek Sobh, University of Bridgeport, CT)
  22. "Modeling and Analysis of Automated Manufacturing Systems", Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. March 1995.
  23. "Tools for Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Control Software", Indian Institute of Production Engineers, Bangalore, India. March 1995.

Significant Publications

  1. * N. Liu, M. A. Abdelrahman, S. Ramaswamy, "A Complete Multiagent Framework for Robust and Adaptable Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling" IEEE Trans. of Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part C-Applications and Reviews, 37(5), Sept 07. pdf version.
  2. * L. Yu, S. Ramaswamy, "Component Dependency in Object-Oriented Software"Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 22(3), May 2007, pp. 379-386. pdf version.
  3. * L. Yu, S. Ramaswamy, "A Configuration Management Model for Software Product Lines"INFOCOMP Journal of Computer Sciencepp 1-8, Dec 2006. pdf version.
  4. * S. Ramaswamy, M. Rogers, April Dean Crockett, David Feaker, Monty Carter, "WHISPER - Service Integrated Incident Management System" International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems pp 114-123, June 2006. pdf version.
  5. * K. S. Barber, T. H. Liu, S. Ramaswamy "Conflict Detection During Plan-Integration for Multi-Agent Systems", IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, August 2001. pp.616-628 pdf version.
  6. S. Ramaswamy , K. Srinivasan , P. K. Rajan , R. MacFadzean , S. Krishnamurthy, "A Distributed Agent-based Simulation Environment for Interference Detection and Resolution", Special Issue on Software Agents and Simulation, SIMULATION, June 2001. pdf version.
  7. * Jeong-Soo Ahn, S. Ramaswamy, R. H. Crawford, "A Formalism for Modeling Engineering Design Processes", Accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, July 1996. pdf version.
  8. * S. Ramaswamy, Yi Yan, "Interactive Modeling and Simulation of Virtual Manufacturing Assemblies: An Agent-Based Approach", Special Issue on "Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems: Recent Developments and Applications", Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Vol. 10, No. 6, December 1999. pp.503-518. pdf version.
  9. * K. S. Barber, T. H. Liu, A. Goel, S. Ramaswamy "Flexible Reasoning Using Sensible Agent-based Systems: A Case Study in Job Flow Scheduling", Special issue on Agile, Intelligent, and Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Journal of Production Planning and Control, Vol. 10, No. 7, 1999, pp. 606-615. pdf version.
  10. * S. Ramaswamy, K. S. Barber "A Design Architecture for the Modeling, Analysis and Design of Manufacturing Control Software", International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1998, pp. 485-510. pdf version.
  11. * S. R. Jernigan, S. Ramaswamy, K. S. Barber, "A Distributed Search and Simulation Method for Job Flow Scheduling", Simulation, Vol. 68, No. 6, June 1997. pp. 377-401. html version
  12. * S. Ramaswamy, K. P. Valavanis, K. S. Barber, "Petri Net Extensions for the Development of MIMO Net Models of Automated Manufacturing Systems", Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 16, No. 3, May/June 1997, pp. 175-191. pdf version.
  13. * A.Suraj, S.Ramaswamy, K.S.Barber, "Extended Statecharts for the Modeling and Specification of Manufacturing Control Software Systems" International Journal of Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Special issue on "Design and Implementation of Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Systems: Integration and Adaptability Issues", Vol. 10, No. 1-4, Jan 1997, pp. 160-171. pdf version.
  14. * B. T. Barcio, S. Ramaswamy, K. S. Barber, "An Object-Oriented Modeling and Simulation Environment for Reactive Systems Development", International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Volume 9, No. 1, Jan 1997, pp. 51-80. pdf version.
  15. * S. Ramaswamy, K. P. Valavanis, "Hierarchical Time-Extended Petri Nets (H-EPNs) Based Error Ideitification and Recovery for Multilevel Systems", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 26, No. 1, Feb 1996, pp. 164-175. pdf version.
  16. * B. T. Barcio, S. Ramaswamy, R. Macfadzean, K. S. Barber, "Object-Oriented Modeling and Simulation of a Notional Airdefense System" , SIMULATION, Vol. 66, No. 1, Jan 1996, pp. 5-21. pdf version.
  17. * S. Ramaswamy, K. P. Valavanis, "Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Failures in a Materials Handling System Using Extended Petri Nets", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 24, No. 9, Sept. 1994, pp. 1358-1373. pdf version.
  18. K. P. Valavanis, S. Ramaswamy, S. P. Landry, "Extended Petri Net Based Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of an Intelligent Materials Handling System", Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Vol. 10, No. 1, May 1994, pp. 79-108.

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Teaching Summary

My teaching interests are in the areas of Software Engineering, Modeling and Simulation, Systems Modeling, Analysis and Design, Object Oriented Programming, Programming Languages and Discrete Mathematics. My students and I have developed a web based tutorial for the discrete structures class at Georgia Southwestern. These pages are currently located at the Software Intelligence and Automation Laboratory (SAIL), a teaching / research laboratory established at Tennessee Tech. Here are the links to my other class materials on the web:

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