Faculty Profiles

Journal articles
Babaian, T, Schmolze, J. "Practical Reasoning about Knowledge States for Open World Planning with Sensing," Journal of Applied and Non-Classical Logics, vol. 19, no. 1, 7-41, 2009.

Tamara Babaian, Wendy Lucas. "Black-Box Testing in the Introductory Programming Course," Journal of Informatics Education Research, 2006.

Tamara Babaian, James G. Schmolze. "Efficient Open World Reasoning for Planning," Logical Methods in Computer Science, vol. 2, no. 3, 1-39, 2006.

Tamara Babaian, Wendy Lucas, Heikki Topi. "Improving ERP Usability Through User-System Collaboration," International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, vol. 2, no. 3, 2006.

Heikki Topi, Wendy Lucas, Tamara Babaian. "Using Informal Notes for Sharing Corporate Technology Know-How," EJIS, vol. 15, no. 5, 486-499, 2006.

Alan Carlin, James G. Schmolze, Tamara Babaian. "Graphplan Based Conformant Planning with Limited Quantification," Research on Computing Science: Advances in Artificial Intelligence Theory, vol. 16, 65-75, 2005.

Book chapters
Lucas, W, Babaian, T, Topi, H. "Applying collaboration theory for improving ERPsystem-user interaction," in Advanced Topics in Enterprise Information Systems, edited col-lection, Vol. 2, pages 1-21, Idea Group Inc, Hershey, PA, 2008

Lucas, Wendy, Babaian, Tamara, Topi, Heikki. "APPLYING COLLABORATION THEORY FOR IMPROVING ERP SYSTEM-USER INTERACTION," in Advanced Topics in Enterprise Information Systems, IGI Global, Hershey, PA , USA, 2007

Tamara Babaian. "Reasoning about User Preferences," in Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Idea Group Reference, Hershey, PA, 2005

Tamara Babaian. "Knowledge-Based Personalization," in Information Management: Support Systems and Multimedia Technology, Idea Group Inc, Hershey, PA, 2003

Conference papers
Jay Cooprider, Heikki Topi, Jennifer Xu, Martin Dias, Tamara Babaian, Wendy Lucas. "A Collaboration Model for ERP User-System Interaction," in HICSS-2010, 8 pages, January 2009.

Wendy Lucas, Tamara Babaian. "Reasoning for Intelligent System-User Interaction with ERP Systems," in IJCAI 2009 Workshop on Intelligence and Interaction, 30-36, July 2009.

Babaian, T, Lucas, W. "A Reasoned Approach to Error Handling," in International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS-2008), 420-423, July 2008.

Babaian, T, Lucas, W, Topi, H. "A data-driven design for deriving usability metrics," in ICSOFT'07, 154-159, July 2007.

Tamara Babaian, Wendy Lucas, Heikki Topi. "Using a process graph to improve system-user knowledge sharing," in CHIMIT'2007, March 2007.

Babaian, T, Lucas, W, Topi, H. "Visualizing the process: A graph-based approach toenhancing system-user knowledge sharing," in ICEIS-2007, 123-128, June 2007.

Tamara Babaian, Wendy Lucas, Heikki Topi. "Making memories: applying user input logs to interface design and evaluation," in Human factors in computing systems CHI '06, 496 - 501, April 2006.

Tamara Babaian, Wendy Lucas. "Developing Testing Skills in an Introductory Programming Class," in International Conference on Informatics Education Research, December 2005.

Tamara Babaian. "Hypothetical Planning," in IJCAI 2005 Workshop on Planning and Learning in A Priori Unknown or Dynamic Domains, 90-96, August 2005.

Heikki Topi, Wendy Lucas, Tamara Babaian. "Identifying Usability Issues with an ERP Implementation," in International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 128-133, May 2005.

Heikki Topi, Tamara Babaian, Wendy Lucas. "Informal Notes on Technology Use as a Mechanism for Knowledge Representation and Transfer," in OKLC, January 2005.

Babaian, T, Lucas, W, Topi, H. "Collaborating to imporove ERP usability," in International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'2004), 164-168, April 2004.

Babaian, Tamara, Grosz, Barbara G, Shieber, Stuart M. "Writer's Aid: Using a Planner in a Collaborative Interface," in International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (IJCAI'03), 1629-1630, August 2003.

Babaian. Tamara, Grosz, Barbara G, Shieber, Stuart M. "A Writer's Collaborative Assistant," in International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, (IUI'02), 7-14, January 2002.

Babaian, T. "Learning User Preferences By Satisfying Knowledge Goals," in AAAI Fall 2002 Symposium on Personalized Agents, 1-4, January 2002.

Tamara Babaian. "Personalization via Knowledge Preconditions," in IRMA, May 2002.

Tamara Babaian, James G. Schmolze. "PSIPLAN: Open World Planning with psi-forms," in 5-th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling (AIPS'00), 292-300, April 2000.

Tamara Babaian, James G. Schmolze. "PSIPLAN-Planning with Psi-forms over Partially Closed Worlds," in European Conference of Planning, September 1999.

Tamara Babaian, James G. Schmolze. "PSIPOP-Planning with Sensing over Partially Closed Worlds," in AAAI Spring Symposium on Search Techniques for Problem Solving under Uncertainty and Incomplete Info, April 1999.

Professional presentations
Babaian, Tamara, Lucas, Wendy, Topi, Heikki. ""Improving ERP System Usability by Employing Theory Of Collaboration," (Presented by Heikki Topi.)," to the Inaugural Workshop on Enterprise Systems Research in MIS (pre-ICIS), Milwaukee, WI, December 2006.

Tamara Babaian. "Putting Automated Reasoning to Work in a Collaborative System," to the Bentley College Math Seminar, Waltham, MA, November 2006.

Professional Memberships:
AAAI
ACM

Honors and Awards:
2008, NSF Award #0819333 "Software for Real Life Systems" program within Computing and Communications Foundations. Title: "Design and Evaluation Methodologies for Enhancing ERP System Usability", Amount: $400,000; 2008-2011

Scholarly Work in Progress:
"Modeling Data for Enterprise Systems with Memories".
Paper presenting a model for usage logging and presenting results of a lab experiment on deriving useful usability data from logs. In preparation.

"Towards a Theory of System-User Collaborative Interaction in Enterprise-Wide Systems," .
Project aims to formulate the design goals that are essential for implementing a successful system-user collaboration.

Usability through System-User Collaboration: Deriving Design Principles for Greater ERP Usability.
A 16-page paper, deriving design principles from theory of collaboration and results of field studies of ERP system users. Submitted to DESRIST

Other Activities:
Member of the Program Committee for ACM CHIMIT Symposium

Presentation at a CIS/IPM Seminar. Title: "Building Collaborative Systems".

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