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BHAVANI THURAISINGHAM
CRC PRESS
Boca Raton London New York Washington , D.C.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Thuraisingham, Bhavani M.
XML databases and the semantic web / Bhavani Thuraisingham.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8493-1031-8 (alk. paper)

The Author
Bhavani Thuraisingham, Ph.D., recipient of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society prestigious 1997
Technical Achievement Award for her outstanding and innovative work in
secure data management, is the Director of the Information and Data
Management (IDM) program at the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Since October 2001, she has been on Intergovernmental Personnel Act
(IPA) from the MITRE Corporation to NSF. In this position she is
responsible for funding research in information and data management
technology and developing strategies for the advancement of this
technology in the United States. She also collaborates with other major
research funding organizations both in the United States and abroad to
provide technical directions in information and data management. She isalso involved in the NSF-EU semantic Web initiative and is providing
research directions in this area.
Prior to her current position at NSF, she worked for MITRE Corporation,
joining the firm in January 1989. Between May 1999 and October 2001,
she was a chief scientist in data management at the MITRE Corporation
Information Technology Directorate in Bedford, Massachusetts. In this
position she provided technology directions in data, information, and
knowledge management for the Information Technology Directorate of the
MITRE Air Force Center. In addition, she was also an expert consultant in
computer software to the MITRE work for the Internal Revenue Service.
Her recent work focused on data mining as it relates to multimedia
databases and database security, distributed object management with
emphasis on real-time data management, and Web data management
applications in e-commerce. She also served as adjunct professor of
computer science at Boston University for 2 years and taught a course in
advanced data management and data mining. As part of her IPA
agreement with NSF, she works a day each week at MITRE, conducting
research in data management.
Between June 1995 and May 1999, she was the department head in data
management and object technology in the MITRE Information Technology
Division in the Intelligence Center. In this position, she was responsible for
the management of about 30 technical staff in four key areas: distributed
databases, multimedia data management, data mining and knowledge
management, and distributed objects and quality o f service. Prior to that,
she held various technical positions including lead, principal, and senior
principal engineer; and was head of the MITRE research in Evolvable
Interoperable Information Systems and Data Management, and co-director
of the MITRE Database Specialty Group. She managed 15 research
projects under the Massive Digital Data Systems effort for the intelligence
community and was also a team member of the Advanced Warning and
Control System (AWACS) modernization research project between 1993
and 1999. Before that, she led team efforts on the designs and prototypes
of various secure database systems for government sponsors between
1989 and 1993.
Prior to joining MITRE, Dr. Thuraisingham worked in the computer industry
between 1983 and 1989. She was first a senior programmer/analyst with
Control Data Corporation for over 2 years, working on the design and development of the CDCNET product and later she was a principal
research scientist with Honeywell Inc. for over 3 years, conducting
research, development, and technology transfer activities. She was also
an adjunct professor of computer science and a member of the graduate
faculty at the University of Minnesota between 1984 and 1988. Prior to
starting her industrial experience and after completing her Ph.D., she was
a visiting faculty member first in the department of computer science, at
the New Mexico Institute of Technology, and then at the department of
mathematics at the University of Minnesota between 1980 and 1983. Dr.
Thuraisingham has a B.Sc., M.Sc., M.S., and also received her Ph.D.
degree from the United Kingdom at the age of 24. She is a senior member
of the IEEE; and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM), British Computer Society, International Federation for Information
Processing (IFIP) 11.3, and Armed Forces Communications Electronics
Association (AFCEA). She has a certification in Java programming and
has also completed a management development program. She is the
recipient of the 2001 National Woman of Color Technology Research
Leadership Award.
Dr. Thuraisingham has published over 400 technical papers and reports,
including over 50 journal articles, and is the inventor of three U.S. patents
for MITRE on database inference control. She has also served on the
editorial boards of various journals, including IEEE Transactions on
Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal of Computer Security, and
Computer Standards and Interfaces Journal; and currently serves on the
technical committee in data management for IASTED. She gives tutorials
in data management, including data mining, object databases, and Web
databases; and has taught courses at both the MITRE Institute and the
AFCEA Educational Foundation for several years.
She has chaired or co-chaired several conferences and workshops
including the IFIP 1992 Database Security Conference, ACM 1993 Object
Security Workshop, ACM 1994 Objects in Healthcare Information Systems
Workshop, IEEE 1995 Multimedia Database Systems Workshop, IEEE
1996 Metadata Conference, AFCEA 1997 Federal Data Mining
Symposium, IEEE 1998 COMPSAC Conference, IEEE 1999 WORDS
Workshop, IFIP 2000 Database Security Conference, and IEEE 2001
ISADS Conference. She is a member of the Object Management Group
(OMG) real-time special interest group, founded the Command Control
Communications Computers Intelligence (C4I) special interest group, and has served on panels in data management and mining. She has edited
several books and special journal issues and was the consulting editor of
the Data Management Handbook series by CRC's Auerbach Publications
for 1996 and 1997. She is the author of the books Data Management
Systems Evolution and Interoperation; Data Mining: Technologies,
Techniques, Tools and Trends; Web Data Management and Electronic
Commerce; and Managing and Mining Multimedia Databases published by
CRC Press.
Dr. Thuraisingham has given invited presentations at conferences
including keynote addresses at the Second Pacific Asia Data Mining
Conference 1998, the SAS Institute Data Mining Technology Conference
1999, IEEE Artificial Neural Networks Conference 1999, IEEE Tools in AI
Conference 1999, and IFIP Integrity and Control Conference 2001. She
has also delivered the featured addresses at the AFCEA Federal
Database Colloquium from 1994 through 2001, and has also been a
featured speaker at several object world conferences as well as the
client-server world and data warehousing conferences. Her presentations
are worldwide including in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom,
France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Sweden,
Finland, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Greece, Ireland, Egypt,
South Africa, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, New Zealand,
and Australia. She also gives seminars and lectures at various universities
around the world including at the University of Cambridge in England and
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and participates in panels at
the NSF, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Air Force Scientific
Advisory Board.