William A. Wallace

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Professor

Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems

phone: (518) 276-6854

fax: (518) 276-8227

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web: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/dses/www/people/faculty/wallace/wallace.htm

William (Al) Wallace holds his primary appointment at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as professor of decision sciences and engineering systems, and joint appointments in cognitive sciences and civil and environmental engineering; and is research director of Rensselaer's Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies. Presently, NSF and FHWA are supporting his research on trust and the internet, and decision technologies for emergency response and restoration and incident management. He is co-founder and co-editor of Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory.

Professor Wallace has, since 1990, authored and edited 6 books and over 70 articles and papers - out of a total of over 200 archival publications. National and international media including Associated Press, Christian Science Monitor and Business Week has reported on his research.

Curriculum Vitae

Recent relevant publications:

“Trust in Electronic Environments” ( with K. Chopra), Proceedings of the 36th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, Hawaii, January 2003.

"Visualization and Modeling for Intelligent Systems", ( with A.W. Crapo, L.B. Waisel, and T.R.Willemain), Intelligent Systems: Techniques and Applications ( C. T. Leondes Ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2002..

“Acquiring and Assessing Knowledge from Multiple Experts Using Graphical Representations " (with K. Chopra, D. Mendonca, and R. Rush), In Knowledge Based Systems Techniques and Applications, Vol. 1, (Edited by C. T. Leondes), Academic Press, San Diego, CA, pp. 293-326.

"Visualization and the Process of Modeling: A Cognitive-Theoretic View" (with A. Crapo, L. B. Waisel and T. R. Willemain), Proceedings KDD-2000: The Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Boston, MA, August 20-23, 2000, pp. 218-226.

“Modeling Relationships Among Multiple Graphical Structures”, (with K. Chopra), Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Vol. 6, No. 4 (December 2000), pp 361-380.

"Multi-Expert Operational Risk Management", (with G.E.G. Beroggi), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C, Vol.30, No.1 (February 2000), pp.32-44.

"Reengineering Claims Processing Using Probabilistic Inductive Learning", (with R. Arunasalam, J. Richie, W. Egan and O. Gür-Ali), IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 46, No. 3 (August 1999), pp. 335-345.

"Team-Soar; A Model for Team Decision Making," (with M. Kang and L. Waisel), Simulating Organizations: Computational Models of Institutions and Groups, M. Prietula, K. Carley and L. Glasser (eds), Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press/ The MIT Press, 1998, pp. 23-45.