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Krzysztof  "Krys" J. Kochut
Education:
  Ph.D. 1987 Computer Science, Louisiana State University
  M.S. 1982 Computer Science, University of Warsaw, Poland
Academic Positions:
  2001 - Present Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia
  2002 - 2008 Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia
  1995 - 2001 Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia
  1988 - 1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia
Recent Grants :
 

A. Sheth, B. Arpinar, K. Kochut, J. Miller, "SemGrid: Semantic Discovery on Adaptive Services Grid," National Science Foundation, October 15, 2005 - December 31, 2007, $100,000.

A. Sheth, B. Arpinar, K. Kochut, J. Miller, "ITR-SemDis: Discovering Complex Relationships in Semantic Web, " National Science Foundation, October 1, 2003 - September 30, 2007, $800,000.

M. Pierce (PI), Biochemistry and Complex Carbohydrates Research Center; A. Sheth, K. Kochut, and J. Miller (Co-PI’s of the Bioinformatics part of the grant), "Bioinformatics of Glycan Expression, " National Institutes of Health, July 2003 – July 2008, $6.7M (Computer Science part is $709,401).

A. Sheth, K. Kochut, and I. Arpinar, "Semantic Association Identification and Knowledge Discovery for National Security Applications," National Science Foundation, August 15, 2002 - August 14, 2005, $200,000.

A. Sheth, J. A. Miller, and K. J. Kochut, "Extending Meteor with Workflow Reuse, Adaptation, and Collaboration," Naval Research Laboratory, January 1, 2000 - December 31, 2000, $200,000.

A. Sheth, J. Miller, and K. Kochut, "Workflow Management for Advanced DoD Applications", Naval Research Laboratory, July 1, 1998 - December 31, 1999, $315,542. (UGARF equipment matching funds $15,000)

A. Sheth, J. Miller, and K. Kochut, "Workflow Management and Modeling", National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), 1995-1999, $725,000. (Additional matching funds of $949,727 from UGARF, Dept. of Computer Science, Graduate School, and Software Donations).

A. Sheth, K. Kochut, and J. Miller, "Collaborative Tele-Consulting for Healthcare," SCRA, May 1996 - April 1999, $166,129 (Additional matching funds of $12,500 from OVPR).

J. Arnold, S. Covert, J.E. Hamer, C. Keith, R.A. Prade, and K.J. Kochut, "Robotics System for Physical Mapping Fungal Genomes," National Science Foundation, 1996 - 1997, $115,000. (Matching funds of $115,000 from the University of Georgia Research Foundation .)

A. Sheth and K. Kochut, "Course Approval Process Automation (CAPA)", funded by the Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Georgia, $150,065 (budget) July 1, 1996 - June 30, 1997. (This was the design and initial implementation of CAPA, the course approval system in use today at the University of Georgia.)

J. Arnold, R.A. Prade, K.J. Kochut, and S. Bhandarkar, "Parallel Computing of Physical Maps," National Science Foundation, Sep. 1994 - Aug. 1995, $50,000.

Recent Publications:
 

K. Kochut, M. Janik. "SPARQLeR: Extended Sparql for Semantic Association Discovery", Fourth European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2007, Innsbruck, Austria, 3-7 June 2007 (to appear).

C. Ramakrishnan, K. Kochut, A. Sheth, “A Framework for Schema-Driven Relationship Discovery from
Unstructured Text,” Fifth International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, Georgia, 2006; published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 4273, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2006, pp. 583-596.

M. Janik and K. Kochut, “BRAHMS: A WorkBench RDF Store And High Performance Memory System for Semantic Association Discovery,” Fourth International Semantic Web Conference, Galway, Ireland, 6-10 November 2005; published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 3729, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2005, pp. 431-445.

X. Yi and K. Kochut, “JCPNet Tool and Automated Analysis of Distributed Systems,” 43rd ACM Southeast Conference, March, 2005, Atlanta, GA.

A. Sheth, B. Aleman-Meza, B. Arpinar, C. Bertram, Y. Warke, C. Ramakrishnan, C. Halaschek, K. Anyanwu, D. Avant, F. S. Arpinar, K. Kochut, “Semantic Association Identification and Knowledge Discovery for National Security Applications,” Special Issue of Journal of Database Management on Database Technology for Enhancing National Security, Eds: L. Zhou and W. Kim, 16 (1), 2005, pp. 33-53.

W.S. York, A. Sheth, K. Kochut, J. Miller, C. Thomas, K. Gomadam, X. Yi, and M. Nagarajan, “Semantic Integration of Glycomics Data and Information,” 1st Workshop on Human Disease Glycomics/Proteome Initiative: Functional Glycomics in Disease, Osaka, Japan, 2004, pp. 23-24.

A. Sheth, W. York, C. Thomas, M. Nagarajan, J. Miller, K. Kochut, S. Saho, X. Yi, “Semantic Web technology in support of Bioinformatics for Glycan Expression,” W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA., 2004, pp. 27-28.

X. Yi and Krys J. Kochut, “A CP-nets-based Design and Verification Framework for Web Services Composition”, Proceedings of 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, San Diego, California, USA, pp. 756-760, 2004.

X. Yi and Krys J. Kochut, “Towards Efficient Integration of Complex Web Services Using a Unified Model for Protocol and Process”, Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Internet Computing (IC 2004), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 2004, pp. 467-474.

X. Yi and K. Kochut, “Process Composition of Web Services with Complex Conversation Protocols: a Colored Petri Nets Based Approach,” Proceedings of the Design, Analysis, and Simulation of Distributed Systems 2004, Washington, D.C., 2004, pp. 141-148.

J. Cardoso, A. Sheth, J. Miller, J. Arnold, and K. Kochut, “Quality of Service for Workflows and Web Service Processes,” Journal of Web Semantics, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2004, pp. 281-308.

J. Arnold, H.B. Schuttler, D.A. Logan, D. Battogtokh, J. Griffith, B. Arpinar, S.M Bhandarkar, S. Datta, K.J. Kochut, E.Kraemer, J.A. Miller, A. Sheth, G. Strobel, T. Taha, B. Aleman-Meza, J. Doss, L. Harris, and A. Hyong, “Metabolomics,” in Handbook of Industrial Mycology, Mercel-Dekker, New York, N.Y., pp. 597-633, 2004.

Z. Luo, A. Sheth, K. Kochut, and B. Arpinar, “Exception Handling for Conflict Resolution in Cross-Organizational Workflows,” International Journal on Distributed and Parallel Databases, Vol. 13 , No. 3, 2003, pp. 271-306.

K. Anyanwu, A. Sheth, J. Cardoso, J. Miller, and K. Kochut, “Healthcare Enterprise Process Development and Integration,” Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, 35 (2), May 2003, pp. 83-98.

Z. Xu, B. Lance, C. Vargas, I. B. Arpinar, E. Kraemer, K. J. Kochut, J. A. Miller, J. R. Wagner, M. J. Weise, J. K. Wunderlich, J. Stringer, G. Smilian, M. T. Cushion and J. Arnold, "Mapping by Sequencing the Pneumocystis Genome Using the Ordering DNA Sequences V3 Tool," Genetics (GENE), Genetics Society of America, Vol. 163, 2003, pp. 1299-1313.

K. Kochut, J. Arnold, A. Sheth, J. Miller, E. Kraemer, B. Arpinar and Jorge Cardoso, “IntelliGEN: A Distributed Workflow System for Discovering Protein-Protein Interactions,” International Journal on Distributed and Parallel Databases, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2003, pp. 43-72.

D. Hall, J. Miller, J. Arnold, K. Kochut, A. Sheth, and M. Weise, “Using Workflow to Build an Information Management System for a Geographically Distributed Genome Sequence Initiative,” Genomics of Plants and Fungi, R.A. Prade and H.J. Bohner, Editors, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, N.Y., 2003, pp. 359-371.

B. Hammond, A. Sheth, K. Kochut, “Semantic Enhancement Engine: A Modular Document Enhancement Platform for Semantic Applications over Heterogeneous Content,” in Real World Semantic Web Applications, V. Kashyap and L. Shklar, Eds., IOS Press, 2002, pp. 29-49.

A.P. Sheth, J. Cardoso, J.A. Miller, K.J. Kochut and M. Kang, "QoS for Service-Oriented Middleware," Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI'02), Orlando, Florida, 2002, pp. 528-534.

A. Sheth, C. Bertram, D. Avant, B. Hammond, K. Kochut, Y. Warke, "Semantic Content Management for Enterprises and the Web'', IEEE Internet Computing, July/August 2002, pp. 80-87.

Amit Sheth, John Miller, Krys Kochut and Budak Arpinar, "Research in Multi-Organizational Processes and Semantic Information Bokering at the LSDIS Lab,"SIGMOD Record, 30 (4) December 2001, pp. 123-128.

J. Cardoso, Z. Luo, J. Miller, A. Sheth and K. Kochut, ``Survivability Architecture for Workflow Management Systems,'' Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE'01), Athens, Georgia, 2001, pp. 207-214.

Z. Luo, A. Sheth, K. Kochut, and J. Miller, ``Exception Handling in Workflow Systems,'' International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Complex Problem-Solving Technologies, Vol. 13, No. 2, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, pp. 125-147.

J. Miller, A. Sheth, K. Kochut, and Z. Luo, ``Recovery Issues in Web-Based Workflow,'' Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-99)'', Atlanta, Georgia, 1999, pp. 101-105.

K. Kochut, A. Sheth, and J. Miller, ``Optimizing Workflow,'' Component Strategies, Vol. 1, No. 9, 1999, pp. 45-57.

M. Kang, J. Froscher, A. Sheth, K. Kochut, J. Miller, ``A Multilevel Secure Workflow Management System,'' CAISE*99, 11th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany, published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 1626, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 1999, pp. 271-285.

J. Miller, A. Sheth, and K. Kochut, ``Perspectives in Modeling: Simulation, Database and Workflow,'' Conceptual Modeling: Current Issues and Future Directions: Selected Papers from the Workshop on Conceptional Modeling, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1565, P.P. Chen, J. Akoka, H. Kangassalo, B. Thalheim, Editors, Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 1999, pp. 154-167.

Z. Luo, A. Sheth, J. Miller, and K. Kochut, ``Defeasible Workflow, its Computation and Exception Handling,'' Online Proceedings of the 1998 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Workshop (CSCW-98): Towards Adaptive Workflow Systems, Seattle, Washington (November 1998).

J. Miller, D. Palaniswami, A. Sheth, K. Kochut, and H. Singh, ``WebWork: METEOR2's Web-based Workflow Management System,'' Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Vol. 10 (2), 1998, pp. 186-215.

A. Sheth and K. Kochut, ``Workflow Application to Research Agenda: Scalable and Dynamic Work Coordination and Collaboration Systems,'' Workflow Management Systems and Interoperability, Springer-Verlag, Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences, Vol. 164, 1998, pp. 35-60 (also published as in proceedings Advances in Workflow Management Systems and Interoperability, NATO-ASI, Istanbul, Turkey, August 1997).

A. Sheth and K. Kochut, ``Workflow Application to Research Agenda: Scalable and Dynamic Work Coordination and Collaboration Systems,'' Advances in Workflow Management Systems and Interoperability, NATO-ASI, Istanbul, Turkey, August 1997, pp. 34-59.

J. Miller, A. Sheth, K. Kochut, and D. Palaniswami, ``The Future of Web-Based Workflows,'' Proceedings of the International Workshop on Research Directions in Process Technology, Nancy, France, July 1997.

A. Sheth, D. Worah, K. Kochut, J. Miller, K. Zheng, D. Palaniswami, and S. Das, ``The METEOR Workflow Management System and Its Use in Prototyping Significant Healthcare Applications,'' Towards An Electronic Patient Record (TEPR '97), Conference proceedings, April-May 1997, Nashville, TN.

R.A. Prade, J. Griffith, K.J. Kochut J. Arnold, W.E. Timberlake, ``In Vitro Reconstruction of the Aspergillus Nidulans Genome,'' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 94, 1997, pp. 14564-14569.

J. A. Miller, W. D. Potter, K. J. Kochut, and D. Ramesh, ``Object-Oriented Simulation Languages and Environments: A Four-Level Architecture,'' Object Oriented Simulation, Zobrist, Editor, 1997, pp. 53-58.

A. Sheth, K. Kochut, J. Miller, D. Worah, S. Das, C. Lin, D. Palaniswami, J. Lynch and I. Shevchenko, ``Supporting State-wide Immunization Tracking using Multi-Paradigm Workflow Technology'', Proceedings of the 22nd Intl. Conf. on Very Large Databases (VLDB96), September 1996.

K.J. Kochut, ``Snake-In-The-Box Codes for Dimension 7,'' Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, Vol. 20, 1996, pp. 175-185.

J.A. Miller, A.P. Sheth, K.J. Kochut, and X. Wang, ``CORBA-based run time architectures for workflow management systems,'' Journal of Database Management, Special Issue on Multidatabases, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1996, pp. 16-27.

J.A. Miller, A.P. Sheth, K.J. Kochut, X. Wang, and A. Murugan, ``Simulation Modeling Within Workflow Technology,'' Proceedings of the 1995 Winter Simulation Conference, Arlington, VA, 1995, pp. 612-619.

W.D. Potter, K.J. Kochut, J.A. Miller, V.P. Gandham, and R.V. Polamraju, ``The Evolution of the Knowledge/Data Model,'' Advances in Databases and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 1, 1995, pp. 263-310.

W. D. Potter, R. W. Robinson, J. A. Miller, K. J. Kochut, D. Z. Redys, ``Using the Genetic Algorithm to Find Snakes in the Box Codes,'' Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Austin, TX, June 1994, pp. 421-426.

W.D. Potter, J.A. Miller, and K.J. Kochut, ``A Hyper-Semantic Approach to Intelligent Information Systems,'' Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 4, 1994, pp. 341-357.

M.A. Maloof and K.J. Kochut ``Modifying Rete to reason temporally,'' Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE International Conference on Tools for AI, Boston, MA, November 1993, pp. 472-473.

K.J. Kochut, J. Arnold, J.A. Miller, and W.D. Potter ``Design of an Object-Oriented Database for Reverse Genetics,'' Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Washington, DC, July, 1993, pp. 234-242.

W.D. Potter, K.J. Kochut, J.A. Miller, V.P. Gandham, and R.V. Polamraju, ``The Evolution of the Knowledge/Data Model,'' International Journal of Expert Systems, Vol. 6, 1993, pp. 39-81.

K.J. Kochut and J.A. Miller, ``WarpLog: Time Warped Logical Objects,'' Proceedings of the 26th Annual Simulation Symposium, Arlington, VA, 1993, pp. 30-39.

S.C. Cater, K.J. Kochut, and A.E. Colbert, ``The Spawning Stack Machine: An implementation of a portable compiler for concurrent architectures,'' Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE Southeastcon, 1993, pp. 513-518.

J.A. Miller, W.D. Potter, and K.J. Kochut, ``Knowledge, data, and models,'' IEEE Potentials, December 1992, pp. 11-16.

Potter, W.D., J.A. Miller, and K.J. Kochut, ``A Hyper-Semantic Approach to Intelligent Database Systems,'' appearing and presented as part of the panel "Intelligent Database Technology," in Proceedings of the Third Annual Symposium of the International Association of Knowledge Engineers - IAKE'92, Washington, DC, November, 1992, pp. 348-351.

Walter D. Potter, Terry A. Byrd, John A. Miller, and K.J. Kochut, ``Extending Decision Support Systems: The Integration of Data, Knowledge, and Model Management,'' Annals of Operations Research Vol. 38, pp. 501-527, 1992.

M. Maloof and K.J. Kochut ``Ontology for a Temporal Production System,'' Proceedings of the 7-th Annual University at Buffalo Graduate Conference on Computer Science, 1992, pp. 11-16.

J. A. Miller, J. Arnold, K.J. Kochut, A. Jamie Cuticchia, and Walter D. Potter, ``Query Driven Simulation as a Tool for Genetic Engineers,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Simulation in Engineering Education, Newport Beach, CA January 1992, pp. 67-72.

J.A. Miller, W.D. Potter, K.J. Kochut, A.A. Keskin, and E. Ucar, ``The Active KDL Object-Oriented Database System and Its Application to Simulation Support,'' Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, July-August, 1991, pp. 30-45.

K.J. Kochut, J.A. Miller, W.D. Potter, and A.D. Wright, ``h-KDL: A Historically Extended Functional Object-Oriented Database System,'' 5-th International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, TOOLS '91, Prentice-Hall, Santa Barbara, 1991, pp. 73-86.

K.J. Kochut, J.A. Miller and W.D. Potter, ``Design of a CLOS Version of Active KDL: A Knowledge/Data Base System Capable of Query Driven Simulation,'' AI & Simulation '91, New Orleans, 1991, pp. 139-145.

J.A. Miller, K.J. Kochut, W.D. Potter, E. Ucar, and A.A. Keskin, ``Query Driven Simulation Using Active KDL: A Functional Object-Oriented Database System,'' International Journal in Computer Simulation, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-30, 1991.

J.A. Miller, W.D. Potter, O.R. Weyrich, and K.J. Kochut, ``Model Instantiation for Query Driven Simulation in Active KDL,'' 23-rd Annual Simulation Symposium, Nashville, TN, April 1990, pp. 15-32. (This paper won the Best Paper Award.)

W.D. Potter, J.A. Miller, and K.J. Kochut, ``Supporting an Intelligent Simulation/Modeling Environment Using the Active KDL Object Oriented Database Programming Language,'' 21-st Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1990, pp. 1895-1900.