Guest Editorial Special Issue Of Infor On Intelligence Integration

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsTamer ÖzsuM. Tamer OÖzsu received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in industrial engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1974 and 1978 respectively, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer and information science from Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He joined the Department of Computing Science of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 1984, where he is now an Assistant Professor of computing sceince. He also has six years of industrial experience, working for various public and private enterprises and UNIDO projects in Turkey as well as U.S. Dr Ozsu has consulted and conducted seminars in Canada, U.S., Turkey and Mexico for various provincial and federal governments, universities and professional societies. He has organized sessions on distributed databases at international conferences and has served as the Program Committee Chairman of the CIPS Edmonton '87 computer conference. His current research interests are in distributed database systems, distributed operating systems, performance evaluation, Petri net modeling and knowledge-bases. He is the author of a book. Project Planning and Control Techniques (in Turkish), published by the Information Processing Society of Turkey and the co-author of an upcoming book entitled Principles of Distributed Database Systems to be published by Prentice-Hall. He is also author or co-author of a number of technical articles. Dr. Ozsu is a member of the IEEE, ACM, AAAI and ΣΞWayne DavisWayne A. Davis, Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, received a B.S.E. from the George Washington University in 1960, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa in 1963 and 1967, respectively. He worked for DRTE of the Defence Research Board in Ottawa from 1960 to 1968. From 1968 to 1969, he was at CRC of the Department of Communications. Since 1969, he has been in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta, and was Acting Chairman of the Department in 1982/83. In 1977 he was promoted to Full Professor and in 1985 he was made an Honorary Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science of the Harbin Shipbuilding Engineering Institute, Heilongjiang, China. He was Program Chairman of the CIPS