Address:
Department of Computer Engineering
College of Engineering American University of Sharjah
P.O. Box 26666
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Room: EL 103
Office: (971) 6 515-2953
Fax: (971) 6 515-2979
E-mail: izualkernan@aus.edu

Research Interests

Dr. Zualkernan is currently interested in development and deployment of Reusable Learning Objects:

• Enhancing standards for e-learning including SCORM, QTI and SIF to better support Reusable Learning Objects
• Implementation issues in Reusable Learning Objects
• Methodologies for development of Reusable Learning Objects
• Software architectures to support Reusable Learning Objects
• Peer-to-peer architectures for Reusable Learning Objects
• Adaptive architectures for e-learning
• Validation and verification of Reusable Learning Objects
• Pedagogical foundations for Reusable Learning Objects
• Reusable Learning Objects for the design task
  

Biography

Dr. Zualkernan has a demonstrated research and consulting experience in management and implementation of software solutions with a special emphasis on software engineering and Internet-based e-learning applications. He has diverse research and development exposure in auditing, statistical experimental design, hardware and VLSI manufacturing and in knowledge-based systems. He has done knowledge management work for multiple divisions of IBM including Owego, York Town, Rochester and East Fishkill, USA. He has taught at the University of Minnesota and at Penn State University and has research publications that span cognitive science, management science and computer science and engineering. Dr. Zualkernan also has been the principal design engineer for the development and deployment of compilers and interface products for high-end robotic applications. Most recently, Dr. Zualkernan has been involved in startup technology companies doing offshore software development and developing software engineering environments and products for the e-learning marketplace.

Publications

Journal Articles

1. Evaluation of Expert System Testing Methods, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 37, No. 11, pp. 71-81, November 1994 (with W. T. Tsai and S. Shekar).
2. Types of Expertise: An Invariant of Problem Solving, International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 39(4), pp. 641-665, October 1993 (with P. E. Johnson and D. Tukey).
3. Object-Oriented Analysis as Design: A Case Study, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, December 1992 (with W. T. Tsai et. al).
4. Success and Failure in Expert Reasoning, Journal of Organizational Behavior and Human Processes, Vol. 53, No. 2, November 1992 (with P.E. Johnson, S. Grazioli, K. Jamal).
5. Metaphors of Reasoning as Problem Solving Tools, Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 7 (3 & 4), pp. 157-184, 1992 (with P. E. Johnson).
6. Specification of Expertise, International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 26, 1987, pp. 161-181 (with P. E. Johnson and S. Garber).
7. Consultant Expertise, Expert Systems, Vol. 4, No. 3, August 1987, pp. 180-188 (with P. E. Johnson and C. J. Nachtsheim).
8. Expert Systems and Software Engineering: Ready for Marriage?, IEEE Expert, Vol. 1, No. 4, Winter 1986, pp. 24-31 (with W. T. Tsai and D. Volovik).

Book Chapters

1. Designing Better Expert System Development Methodologies, in Development of Knowledge-Based Shells, N. Bourbakis (ed.), World Scientific Press (with W. T. Tsai), 1991.
   
   Expertise and Fit: Aspects of Cognition, in Cognition: Conceptual and Methodological Issues, H. Pick, P. Broek and D. Knill (eds.), American Psychological Association Publishers, 1992, pp. 305-331 (with P.E. Johnson and Laura K. Kochevar).
2. Expert Systems and the Design of Experiments, in Design and Analysis of Experiments with Applications to Engineering and Physical Sciences, S. Gosh (ed.), Marcel Dekker Inc. Publishers, 1990 (with P. E. Johnson, C. J. Nachtsheim, R. K. Meyer and Kenneth D. Kotnour).
3. AI and Software Engineering: A Clash of Cultures? in Architectures for Intelligence, C. V. Ramamoorthy (ed.) 1990 (with W. T. Tsai, D. Volovik and K.G. Heisler).

Conference Papers

1. Approach and Case Study of Requirement Analysis Where End Users Take an Active Role, in 15th International Conference on Software Engineering, Baltimore, Maryland, May 17-21, 1993.
2. Comparative Evaluation of Expert System Testing Methods, Fourth International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, November 10-13, 1992, pp. 334-341 (with W.T. Tsai and S. Shekar).
3. Reuse of Existing Knowledge for Decision Support, in 12th International Conference on Decision Support Systems, Chicago, July 1992 (with A. Das and P. E. Johnson).
4. Testing Expert Systems Using Conventional Techniques, 16th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference, Chicago, 1992, pp. 320-325 (with W. T. Tsai and S. Kirani).
5. Preserving the Effects of Organizational Learning, in the INSEAD Conference on Organizational Learning and Strategic Renewal, Fountainebleau, France, December 16-17, 1991 (with P. E. Johnson).
6. Towards a Unified Framework for Testing Expert Systems, in Proceedings of Second Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering Conference, 1990 (with W. T. Tsai).
7. A Design Based Approach to Constructing Computational Solutions to Diagnostic Problems, in Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-90), Boston, Massachusetts, 1990 (with P.E. Johnson, D. Volovik and C.E. Matthews).
8. Towards a Framework for Normative Software Engineering Research, in Proceedings of Tools for AI Conference, Washington D.C., 1989 (with W. T. Tsai).
9. An Analysis of Expert System Life Cycle, in Proceedings of the New Generation Computer Systems Conference, Beijing, China, 1989 (with W.T. Tsai, K.G. Heisler, and D. Volovik).
10. Design Knowledge for Discovering Troubleshooting Heuristics, in Proceedings of the Expert System Theory and Applications Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, 1989 (with P.E. Johnson,D. Volovik and C.E. Matthews).
11. Are Knowledge Representations the Answer to Requirement Analysis? in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Programming Languages, October 9-13, 1988, pp. 437-442 (with W. T. Tsai).
12. Expert Systems for Software Engineering? in Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC-88), October 5-7, 1988, pp. 496 (with W. T. Tsai).
13. Object-Oriented Paradigm and Software Engineering, in Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC-88), October 5-7, 1988, pp. 435 (with W. T. Tsai).
14. A Critical Look at the Relationship between AI and Software Engineering, in Proceedings of IEEE Language for Automation Workshop, 1988, pp. 2-18 (with W. T. Tsai, K. Heisler and D. Volovik).
15. Utility of Knowledge Level Specifications, in Proceedings of the Fourth Annual AI and Advanced Computer Technology Conference (AI/WEST 88), May 1988 (with P.E. Johnson and J.H. Moller).
16. Strategies in Experimental Design, in Proceedings of the Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Society, 1987, pp. 76-82 (with P. E. Johnson, C. J. Nachtsheim and R. K. Meyer).
17. Building Expert Troubleshooting Systems from Knowledge of the Design Process, in Proceedings of International Association of Science and Technology for Development Conference, June 16, 1987, Geneva (with P. E. Johnson).
18. The Role of Knowledge in the Architecture of a Robust Robot Control, in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1985 (with Maria Gini, Rajkumar Doshi, Marc Gluch and Richard Smith).

Workshop Papers

1. Partition Testing Strategies for Heuristic Classification Expert Systems, to AAAI workshop on Validation and Verification of Expert Systems, March 26, 1993 (with Y. Lin).
2. Artificial Intelligence is More than Programming Techniques, in Workshop on Computer Software Systems Integrating AI/KBS in Process Control, Bergen, Norway, May 29-30, 1991 (with W. T. Tsai).
3. Computational Models of Strategies for Design of Experiments presented at the Second International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, January 4-7, 1989 (with P. E. Johnson, C. J. Nachtsheim and R. K. Meyer).
4. Method as a Source of Expertise in Audit Judgment presented at First International Symposium of Expert Systems in Business, Finance and Accounting, New Port Beach, California, September 29, 1988 (with P. E. Johnson and K. Jamal).
5. Comments on the Generic Task Approach in Knowledge Engineering Review, Vol. 3, No. 3, Cambridge University Press, 1989 (with P. E. Johnson).