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Srinivasan Ramaswamy


Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science
Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, TN 38505.
srini@ieee.org or srini@acm.org
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Current as of March 2005

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 currently works on a NIST sponsored ATP project.

He is currently the Chairperson of the Computer Science Department at Tennessee Tech University, where he has set up a new MS degree program in Internet Based Computing. Earlier at TTU, in 1998, he established the Software Automation and Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL). SAIL is 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 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 / Sessions Organized

  1. "Software Engineering Education - Best Practices", 2004 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, Las Vegas, NV, June 21-24, 2004.

  2. "Internet Applications, Databases, Web Protocols and Algorithms", 2004 International Conference on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, NV, June 21-24, 2004.

  3. "Intelligent Software Engineering", 1999 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, NV, June-July 1999.

  4. "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)

  5. "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)

Invited Talks / Guest Lectures

  1. "Simulation Principles and Applications", S.R.M Engineering College, Chennai, India, January 2004.

  2. "ICE: Intelligent Coordinating Entities", Bharat Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India, Dec 2003.

  3. "E-Commerce: An Introduction and its Applications in Industry", Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India, March 2000.

  4. "Emerging Trends in Computer Science Education", Tamilnadu Foundation & Indira Gandhi National Open University, Chennai, India, March 2000.

  5. "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)

  6. "Modeling and Analysis of Automated Manufacturing Systems", Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. March 1995.

  7. "Tools for Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Control Software", Indian Institute of Production Engineers, Bangalore, India. March 1995.

Significant Publications
  1. * 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
    2. pdf version.

  2. 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.

  3. * 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.

  4. * 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.

  5. * 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.

  6. * 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.

  7. * 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

  8. * 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.

  9. * 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.

  10. * 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.

  11. * 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.

  12. * 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.

  13. * 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.

  14. 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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