PRATIK K. BISWAS, Ph.D.

 

Senior Scientist

Knowledge-Based Systems

Applied Research

Telcordia Technologies Inc.

One Telcordia Drive

Piscataway, NJ 08854

Tel.#: 732-699-4298

Emails: pbiswas@telcordia.com,

pbiswas@research.telcordia.com

 

 
 

 

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

 

Dr. Pratik K. Biswas is currently a Senior Scientist at Telcordia Research in New Jersey. Earlier, he has held senior technical/research as well as managerial positions at Avaya Inc./Avaya Labs, American Express, Lucent Technologies Inc./Bell Laboratories, AT&T Bell Laboratories/AT&T, IBM and Krupp Forschungsinstitut (Germany) among others. He has also been a senior research faculty at the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) of the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and an adjunct professor of Computer Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. At PSU/ARL, he led and managed a DARPA-funded, Multi University (Pennsylvania State University, Duke University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of California at Los Angeles, Cornell University and Louisiana State University) Research Initiative (MURI) project, known as the Emergent Surveillance Plexus, on the surveillance capabilities of Sensor Networks. His current interests include Autonomic Computing, Sensor Networks, Information Fusion, Multicast Communication, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Agents, Distributed Systems, Software Architecture and Conceptual Modeling. Dr. Biswas received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida State University in 1988 and 1991 respectively.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

 

Distributed Systems, Intelligent Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomic Computing, Knowledge-Based Systems, Machine Learning, Logic Programming, Reasoning Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Pattern Recognition, Neural Networks, Information Fusion, Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Conceptual Modeling, Object-Oriented Analysis/Design/Implementation, User-Interface Design, Databases, Sensor Networks, VoIP Networks, Network Management, Multicast Comunication, Virtualization, Hybrid Testbeds, M2M.

 

AWARDS:

 

§         Awarded National Scholarship in India.

§         Selected by International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at Berkeley and Gesellschaft Fuer Mathematik und Datenverbeitung mbH (GMD) at Bonn, Germany for Summer Internship at Krupp ForschungsInstitut (Summer, '89).

§         Awarded Best Paper in Bell Labs Technical Journal (BLTJ) for 1999.

 

DISSERTATION:

 

CONCEPTUALIZING THE DESIGN OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS

Advisor: Prof. Abraham Kandel

(AVAILABLE AS A BOOK - see link below)

 

SELECTED EXTERNAL PUBLICATIONS:

Book:

1.      P. K. Biswas. CONCEPTUALIZING THE DESIGN OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, UMI, 1992. http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=211853855

Book Chapters:

1.      P. Biswas and A. Kandel. ON GRAMMAR INFERENCE AND ENTITY RELATIONS, In Advances in Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol. 2, M. Fishman & J. Robards (eds.), Greenwich, CT, JAI Press, pp. 235-246, 1992.

 

2.      P. K. Biswas and S. Phoha. A HYBRID SENSOR NETWORK FOR REINFORCED TARGET TRACKING, In Sensor Network Opertions, S. Phoha, T. LaPorta and C. Griffin eds., Chapter 14, pp. 689-704, Wiley-IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, May 2006. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/summary/114131273/SUMMARY

 

3.      P. K. Biswas. TOWARDS AGENT-ORIENTED CONCEPTUALIZATION AND IMPLEMENTATION, In Architectural Design of Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Techniques, H. Lin ed., Chapter 1, pp. 1-25, Idea Group Inc. (IGI) Global, Hershey, PA 17033, USA, May 2007. http://www.igi-pub.com/reference/details.asp?ID=6723&v=tableOfContents

Editorial:

1.      P. K. Biswas and S. Hussain. GUEST EDITORIAL - SPECIAL ISSUE ON INFORMATION FUSION IN DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS, Information Fusion, Elsevier, January 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2007.12.002

Journals:

1.      P. Biswas and A. Kandel. CONCEPTUALIZING THE DESIGN OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, Information Sciences, P.P. Wang (ed.) New York: Elsevier, 68, pp. 65-90, 1993.

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=156292&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=16862353&CFTOKEN=88722025

 

2.      P. Biswas and A. Kandel. IMPRECISE OBJECT MODELS: A KEY TO CONCEPTUALIZING KNOWLEDGE BASED MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Elsevier North Holland Inc., 58(1993), 143-153. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=172152&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=16862353&CFTOKEN=88722025

 

3.      A. Bieszczad, P. Biswas, W. Buga, M. Malek, and H. Tan. MANAGEMENT OF HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS WITH INTELLIGENT AGENTS, Special issue on Network Management of Bell Laboratories Technical Journal, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 109-135, October-December 1999. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/97519284/ABSTRACT (BLTJ BEST PAPER AWARD FOR 1999)

 

4.      P. K. Biswas, M. Schmiedekamp and S. Phoha. AN AGENT-ORIENTED INFORMATION PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE FOR SENSOR NETWORK APPLICATIONS, International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), Inderscience, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 110-125, 2006.

http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=record&rec_id=9881&prevQuery=&ps=10&m=or

 

5.      P. K. Biswas and S. Phoha. SELF-ORGANIZING SENSOR NETWORKS FOR INTEGRATED TARGET SURVEILLANCE, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 55, No. 8, pp. 1033-1047, August 2006. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TC.2006.130

 

6.      P. K. Biswas. TOWARDS AN AGENT-ORIENTED APPROACH TO CONCEPTUALIZATION, Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 127-139, January 2008. doi:10.1016/j.asoc.2006.11.009

 

7.      P. K. Biswas, H. Qi and Y. Xu. MOBILE-AGENT-BASED COLLABORATIVE SENSOR FUSION, Information Fusion, Elsevier, Vol. 9, Issue 3, pp. 399-411, July 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2007.09.001

 

8.      P. K. Biswas, A. Poylisher, R. Chadha and A. Ghosh. INTEGRATED NETWORK EXPERIMENTATION FOR QOS MEASUREMENTS IN OPAQUE MANETS, To appear in Wiley InterScience International Journal of Network Management.

 

9.      I. Gronbak and P. K. Biswas. M2M NETWORK ONTOLOGY FOR SERVICE UBIQUITY, Submitted to Wiley InterScience International Journal of Communication Systems.

 

10.      P. K. Biswas. A FORMAL LANGUAGE FOR MULTICAST COMMUNICATION, Under Preparation.

Conference Proceedings:

1.      P. Biswas and A. Kandel. ON GRAMMAR INFERENCE AND ENTITY RELATIONS, Proceedings of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS '89), pp. 197-201, Orlando, FL, 1989.

 

2.      P. Biswas and A. Kandel. ANALYSIS OF AN OBJECT-ORIENTED EXPERT SYSTEM FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference on Productivity through Computer Integrated Engineering and Manufacturing (PROCIEM '90), pp. 66-67, Orlando, FL, 1989.

 

3.      P. K. Biswas. AN OBJECT-ORIENTED KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION TOOL. Proceedings of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS '90), pp. 96-100, Cocoa Beach, FL, 1990.

 

4.      P. K. Biswas. AN EXTENDED OBJECT MODEL FOR THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERT SYSTEMS, Proceedings of the ACM/SIGBDP/SIGMIS International Conference on Trends and Directions in Expert Systems, pp. 524-537, Orlando, FL, 1990. www.acm.org/pubs/citations/proceedings/misc/97709/p524-biswas

 

5.      P. K. Biswas. CONCEPTUAL MODELING OF KNOWLEDGEBASES. Proceedings of the Fourth ACM/SIGART/UTSI/IEEE/AAAI International Conference in Industrial Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (IEA/AIE), Kauai, Hawaii, 1991.

 

6.      P. Biswas and A. Kandel. IMPLEMENTING IMPRECISION IN THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS. Proceedings of the Fourth International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) World Congress, pp. 5-8, Brussels, Belgium, 1991.

 

7.      P. Biswas and A. Kandel. A CONCEPTUAL TOOL FOR THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF EXPERT SYSTEM SHELLS, Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress on Expert Systems, Vol. 8, pp. 1491-1500, Orlando, FL, 1991.

 

8.      A. Bieszczad, P. Biswas, W. Buga, M. Malek and H. Tan. ADDRESSING INTEROPERABILITY IN NETWORK MANAGEMENT WITH INTELLIGENT AGENTS, Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE/IFIP Network Management and Operations Symposium (NOMS 2000), Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2000. http://dl.comsoc.org/cocoon/comsoc/servlets/GetPublication?id=188670

 

9.      P. K. Biswas. AGENT CONVERSATION: A NEW PARADIGM FOR DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION, Proceedings of the 2000 Lucent Software Symposium, Naperville, IL, April 2000.

 

10.  P. K. Biswas and S. Phoha. A MIDDLEWARE-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE FOR INFORMATION DISSEMINATION IN DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2004), pp. 605-610, Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 14-17, 2004. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/wrapper.jsp?arnumber=1417530

 

11.  P. K. Biswas. ARCHITECTING MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS WITH DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS 2005), pp. 161-166, Waltham, MA, April 18-21, 2005. http://www.ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/wrapper.jsp?arnumber=1427072

 

12.  P. K. Biswas and S. Phoha. A HYBRID INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SURVEILLANCE-BASED SENSOR NETWORK EXPERIMENTS, Proceedings of the Second International IEEE/Create-Net Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TRIDENTCOM 2006), pp. 68-73, Barcelona, Spain, March 1-3, 2006. http://www.ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/wrapper.jsp?arnumber=1649130

 

13.  P. K. Biswas. AUTONOMIC SOFTWARE RELEASE MANAGEMENT FOR COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS, Proceedings of IM 2007: 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Management, pp. 179-188, Munich, Germany, May 21-25, 2007. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/wrapper.jsp?arnumber=4258534

 

14.  P. K. Biswas, A. Poylisher, R. Chadha and A. Ghosh. HYBRID TESTBEDS FOR QOS MANAGEMENT IN OPAQUE MANETS, Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGMOBILE/ICST International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2008), Hawaii, USA, Nov. 17-19, 2008.

 

15.  P. K. Biswas, C. Serban, A. Poylisher, J. Lee, S. Mau, R. Chadha and C. J. Chiang. AN INTEGRATED TESTBED FOR VIRTUAL AD HOC NETWORKS, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities Internet (TRIDENTCOM 2009), Washington D.C., USA, April 6-8, 2009.

 

16.  I. Gronbak and P. K. Biswas. ONTOLOGY-BASED ABSTRACTIONS FOR M2M VIRTUAL NODES AND TOPOLOGIES, Submitted to 8th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless, Murcia, Spain, Sept. 16-19, 2009.

Workshop Proceedings:

1.      P. K. Biswas and S. Phoha. A SENSOR NETWORK TESTBED FOR AN INTEGRATED TARGET SURVEILLANCE EXPERIMENT, Proceedings of the 29th Annual IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN '04/EmNetS-I 2004 Workshop), pp. 552-553, Tampa, FL, Nov.16th 2004. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/LCN.2004.9

 

2.      P. K. Biswas, H. Qi and Y. Xu. A MOBILE-AGENT-BASED COLLABORATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR SENSOR NETWORK APPLICATIONS, Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS '06/IST-WSN '06 Workshop), pp. 650-655, Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 9-12, 2006.

http://www.ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/wrapper.jsp?arnumber=4053974

 

PATENTS:

 

1.      SELF-ORGANIZING SENSOR NODE NETWORK

(International - PST 16802/36, US - 11/338,569, PSU - 2004 2984)

Inventors: Pratik K. Biswas (PSU), Yi Zou (Duke), Shashi Phoha (PSU), Krish Chakrabarty (Duke), George Kesidis (PSU), Parmesh Ramanathan, Niveditha Sundaram, Lun Tong (Wisconsin) http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=2006110199

 

2.      METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT GROUP COMMUNICATION IN JAVA

[US Application (TELCORDIA Approved) is pending]

Inventor: Pratik K. Biswas

 

3.      A GRAMMAR AND ONTOLOGY FOR MULTICAST COMMUNICATION

[US Application (TELCORDIA Approved) is pending]

Inventor: Pratik K. Biswas

 

GRANT:

 

Emergent Surveillance Plexus. Technical Manager (2004). DARPA MURI. Fundamental research on establishing technologies for self-organizing surveillance networks. Managed research teams at UCLA, PSU, Duke and University of Wisconsin.

 

TALKS:

 

1.      LUcent webtech 2000: Agents and E-COMMERCE, organized by LUCENT TEChnologies at SomerseT, NJ, on 11/7/00.

2.      BlindSiders Seminar: Intelligent Agents: Another Paradigm for Active Networks, organized by LUCENT TEChnologies at naperville, Il, on 11/14/00.

3.      IEEE Talk: Active Networks and Intelligent Agents: A New Paradigm for Building Tomorrow's Networks, organized by IEEE NJ COAST SECTION COMPUTER/INSTRUMENTATION CHAPTER at Middletown, nJ, on 2/16/01.

4.      IBM INVITED TALK: TOWARDS AGENT-BASED NETWORKING, organized by IBM at T.J.WATSON RESEARCH CENTER, YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY, on 10/30/02.

5.      LOCKHEED MARTIN INVITED TALK: INTEGRATED TARGET SURVEILLANCE, organized by ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY LABORATORIES, CHERRY HILL, NJ, on 8/9/04.

6.      BAE SYSTEMS INVITED TALK: A HYBRID SENSOR NETWORK FOR REINFORCED TARGET TRACKING, organized by ALPHATECH, BURLINGTON, MA, on 11/22/04.

7.      ROCKWELL COLLINS INVITED TALK: AN AGENT-ORIENTED INFORMATION PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE FOR SENSOR NETWORK APPLICATIONS, organized by ROCKWELL COLLINS LAB, CEDAR RAPIDS, IA, on 09/19/05.

8.      HONEYWELL INVITED TALK: A HYBRID SENSOR NETWORK FOR REINFORCED TARGET TRACKING, organized by HONEYWELL ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CENTER, MINNEAPOLIS, MN, on 04/17/06.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

 

ACM, IEEE

 

RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

 

1.      Referee for Special Issue on Sensor Networks from IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN - Taylor & Francis/CRC Press), Elsevier Computer Communications, ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal

2.      Referee for 2nd European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2005), Istanbul, Turkey, and 2005 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '05), Los Angeles, CA

3.      Guest Editor for Special Issue of Information Fusion, an Elsevier Publication, on Information Fusion in Sensor Networks, Volume 9, Issue 3

4.      Co-Guest Editor for Special Issue of Information Fusion, an Elsevier Publication, on Information Fusion in Future Generation Communication Networks

5.      Workshop Chair for Information Fusion and Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks, in conjunction with WICON 2005, Budapest, Hungary

6.      Workshop Co-Chair for Sensorfusion 2007, in conjunction with IEEE MASS 2007, Pisa, Italy

7.      Workshop Co-General Chair for Sensorfusion 2009, in conjunction with IEEE MobiQuitous 2009, Toronto, Canada

8.      Session Chair for The First International conference on Wireless Internet, WICON 2005, Budapest, Hungary

9.      Session Chair for The Fourth International conference on Wireless Internet, WICON 2008, Maui, Hawaii, USA

10.      Technical Program Committee Member of Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing (ICISIP) 2006, Bangalore, India

11.      Technical Program Committee Member of 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Systems Techniques for Ad hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks 2007 (IST-AWSN '07), ON, Canada

12.      Technical Program Committee Member of 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Systems Techniques for Ad hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks 2008 (IST-AWSN '08), Sydney, Australia

13.      International Liaison/Publicity Co-Chair (North America) for IM 2009: 11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, New York, USA

14.  Ph.D. Committee Member for Mr. Yi Zou of Electrical Engg., Duke University, 2004