PAUL B. KANTOR
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A. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
AB, 1959 (Summa cum laude). Columbia University. Physics and Mathematics.
PhD,
1963.
B. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Member,
Member,
Rutgers Department of
Member,
Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Privacy and Security. (2004-Present).
Member
of the Graduate Faculty, Department of Computer Science,
Member,
Professor
II (“Distinguished”),
Director,
Professor,
Rutgers University
Director,
Member,
President and Chief Scientist, Tantalus Inc. (1976-2005).
Associate
Professor,
Joint
appointment in Department of Operations Research,
Program
Director, Complex Systems Institute,
Assistant
Professor -Associate Professor Physics (
Visiting Assistant Professor Physics, SUNY Stony Brook (1965-1967).
Research Associate, Brookhaven National Labs (1963-1965).
C. HONORS AND AWARDS
Biography: listed in, Who's Who in America, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005; Who’s Who in the World 2003-.
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science. (Fall 2000).
Fulbright Research Scholar,
1999-2000 Hogskolen I
Best Paper Award, Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, 1995.
American Society of Information Science, Best JASIS paper award, 1989 (with A. Chamis, T. Saracevic and D. Trivisson).
Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar, Online Center for Library Computing (OCLC), 1987 July-December.
Distinguished Service Award,
Member, Phi Beta Kappa. Elected junior year by Columbia
College Chapter, 1958; Michaelis Prize in Physics, 1959,
D. SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL AND/OR UNIVERSITY AFFILIATIONS
(Founding) Editor-in-chief-Information Retrieval, Kluwer Academic Press (1998-2005); Member Editorial Board: Information Retrieval, Kluwer, Springer (1998-Present); JASIS (1994-Present); Information Processing and Management (1991-Present); Member: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Am. Statistical Assn; IEEE; ASIST; INFORMS; Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and other scientific and professional organizations.
a. Outside Funding
2007-2009. Paul B. Kantor (PI), Endre Boros (Co-PI) RUTCOR. Deceptive Detection: High Risk, High Performance Strategies. Agency/Source of Support: NSF/CBET. Total Funding: $299,886. Period of Performance: 08/31/07-12/31/09.
2005-2007. Paul B. Kantor (PI). IAIMS Evaluation. Agency/Source of Support: NLM. Total Funding: $67,141. Period of Performance: 09/05-12/07.
2005-2008. Fred Roberts (PI) DIMACS, Paul B. Kantor (Co-PI). A Decision Logic Approach to the Port-of-Entry Inspection Problem. Agency/Source of Support: NSF SES. Total Funding: $599,999. Period of Performance: 9/1/05-8/31/08.
2002-2009. (Supplement) Fred Roberts (PI), Paul B. Kantor (Co-PI). Three Special Focus Programs at DIMACS: Supplement for the Monitoring Message Streams Project. Agency/Source of Support: NSF CCR. Total Funding: For the KDD add-on: $560,000. Period of Performance: 7/1/02-8/31/09.
2007-2010. Fred Roberts (PI); Paul B. Kantor (Co-PI). Optimization Problems for Detection Systems. Agency/Source of Support: ONR. Total Funding: $224,863, Period of Performance: 2/1/07-1/31/10.
2007-2009. Fred Roberts (PI), Paul B. Kantor (Co-PI). The Center for Dynamic Data Mining for Homeland Security. Agency/Source of Support: DHS. Total Funding: $3,000,000. Period of Performance: 1/1/07-12/31/09.
2004-2006. Tomek
Strzalkowski (PI) SUNY
2004-2006. David Madigan (PI) DIMACS, Paul B. Kantor (Co-PI). Author Identification. KD-D/NSF $250,000.
2004-2006. Fred Roberts (PI), Paul B. Kantor (Co-PI and Project Coordinator). Monitoring Message Streams: Retrospective and Prospective Event Detection. KD-D/NSF. $300,000.
2002-2005. Steve
Hanson (PI) Department of Psychology,
2002-2005. Paul B. Kantor (PI and Project Director), Steve Hanson (Co-PI) Rutgers et al. Novel Indexing and Retrieval of Dynamic Brain Images. NSF. $2,033,722.
2002-2003. Fred Roberts (PI), Paul B. Kantor (Co-PI and Project Coordinator). Monitoring Message Streams: Retrospective and Prospective Event Detection. KD-D/NSF. $700,000.
2001-2004.
Tomek Strzalkowski (PI) SUNY
1997-2001 (Extension) Paul B. Kantor (PI). A Novel Approach to Information Finding in Networked Environments. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. $200,000. (http://scils.rutgers.edu/baa9709).
1997-2000. Paul B. Kantor (PI), Benjamin Melamed (Co-PI),
Faculty of Management,
1998-2000.
Paul B. Kantor (PI), Kwong Bor Ng (Co-PI)
1996-1998. Paul B. Kantor (PI). Exploration of Variable Pricing for Online Services at Research Libraries. Council on Library Resources. $25,000.
1996-1998. Paul B. Kantor (PI). The Efficiency of Research Libraries: A New Analytical Tool and Pilot Study Using 1995 ARL Data. Council on Library Resources. $25,000.
1996-1997. Paul
B. Kantor (PI), D.
1996-1998.
Paul B. Kantor (PI), T. Saracevic (Co-PI),
1995-1999.
Paul B. Kantor (PI), D.R. King (Co-PI),
1993 - 1994. Paul B. Kantor (PI), T. Saracevic (Co-PI). Study of the Costs and Beneficial Impacts of Library Functions. Council on Library Resources. $97,000.
1993. Paul B. Kantor and N. Belkin,
1991-1994. Paul B. Kantor (PI), Ron Rice (Co-PI), Rutgers, N.
Contractor (Co-PI),
b.
2007-2008. Barry Sopher (Co-PI) Department of
Economics,
2004-2005. Paul B. Kantor, Director of Center of
Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Policy and Security.
1998-Present. Paul B. Kantor, Director of Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries Project (joint SCILS, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, Department of Computer Science and other University units). This has received a total of $250,000 SROA, and associated faculty have generated more $6 million in resulting and related research project funding.
1991-Present. Paul B. Kantor, Director of The
1996-2000. Research Development Grants,
2000 Spring $3,500 SCILS Internal Grant for Research Development. Paul Kantor (PI).
1999 Spring $400 SCILS Internal Grant for Research Development. Paul Kantor (PI).
1998 Spring $600 SCILS Internal Grant for Research Development. Paul Kantor (PI).
DISSERTATION.
1959 - 1963. Graduate Student.
1. Published Books
a) Authored
1. Kantor, P.
B. (1986). Functional Cost Analysis for Libraries.
2. Kantor, P.
B. (1986). Costs of Preservation Microfilming at Research Libraries: A Study
of Four Institutions.
3. Kantor, P.
B. (1984). Objective Performance Measures for Academic and Research
Libraries.
b) Edited
1. Gal, C.S.,
Kantor, P.B., & Shapira, B. (Eds.). (2008). Patrolling
the Web -- Social and Technical Problems of Detecting and Controlling
Terrorist's Use of the World Wide Web. NATO Security Through Science
Series: Human and Societal Dynamics: Security Informatics and Terrorism.
2. Kantor, P.,
Muresan, G., Roberts, F., Zeng, D., Wang, F-Y., Chen, H., & Merkle, R.C.
(Eds.). (2005). Intelligence
and Security Informatics, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Intelligence and Security Informatics.
3. Kanungo,
T., Zhou, J., Barney-Smith, E., & Kantor, P.B. (Eds.). (2003). Document
Recognition and Retrieval X. Proceedings
of the SPIE. Vol. 5010.
4. Kantor,
P.B., Kanungo, T., & Zhou, J. (Eds.). (2002). Document
Recognition and Retrieval IX. Proceedings of the SPIE. Vol. 4670.
5. Kantor,
P.B., Lopresti, D.P., & Zhou, J. (Eds.). (2001). Document
Recognition and Retrieval VIII. Proceedings of the SPIE. Vol. 4307.
c) Chapters in Books
1. Kantor, P.
B. (1994). Information Retrieval Techniques. In M. Williams (Ed.), Annual
Review of Information Science (pp. 53-90).
2. Kantor,
P.B. (1990). Economic Aspects. Overview of the Data Considered. A Survey of
Copy Cataloging Practices at ARL Libraries. Costs and Benefits of Distributed
Cataloging to Library of Congress Standards. In C. Mandel, M. Runkle, P.B.
Kantor (Eds.), The National Coordinated Cataloging Program: An Assessment of
the Pilot Project (pp. 9-71).
3. Kantor, P.
B. (1989). Assessing the Costs During Budget Planning for Medline [CD-ROM]. In Medline
on CD-ROM (pp. 35-43).
4. Kantor, P.
B. (1987). Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back: The Problem of
Performance Standards for Academic and Research Libraries. In Issues
in Research Librarianship. (pp. 90-104).
5. Kantor, P.
B. (1985). The Relation Between Costs and Services at Academic Libraries. In
T.W. Mann Jr., P. Spyers-Duran (Eds.), Financing
Information Services (pp. 184-205).
6. Kantor, P.
B. (1982). Evaluation and Feedback in Information Storage and Retrieval
Systems. In Annual Review of Information Science and Technology Vol. 17.
(pp. 99-120).
7. Kantor, P.
B. (1980). Fields. In the Encyclopedia of Physics (pp. 325-326).
8. Kantor, P.
B. (1980). Analyzing the Availability of Reference Services. In Library
Effectiveness (pp. 132-151).
9. Kantor, P.
B. (1980). Availability Analysis. In Key Papers in Information Science
(pp. 368-376).
10. Kantor, P. B., & Nelson,
R.J. (1979). Ethics and the Environment: Decision Making in the Presence of
Complex Goals. In Key Papers in Decision Theory (pp. 201-217).
2. Journal Articles (refereed)
1. Kelly, D., Kantor, P. B., Morse, E. L., Scholtz, J., & Sun, Y. (in press). Questionnaires for eliciting evaluation data from users of interactive question answering systems. Journal of Natural Language Engineering. (Special Issue on Interactive Question Answering).
2. Boros, E., Fedzhora, L., Kantor, P.B., Saeger, K., & Stroud, P. (in press). Large scale LP model for finding optimal container inspection strategies. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly.
3. Wacholder, N., Kelly, D., Kantor, P.B., Rittman, R., Sun, Y., Bai, B., Small, S., Yamrom, B., & Strzalkowski, T. (2007). A model for quantitative evaluation of an end-to-end question-answering system. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58 (8), 1082-1099. (June 2007). [PDF].
4. Kelly, Diane., Wacholder, Nina., Rittman, Robert., Sun, Ying., Kantor, P.B., Small, Sharon., & Strzalkowski, Tomek. (2007). Using interview data to identify evaluation criteria for interactive, analytical question-answering systems. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58 (7) 1032-1043. (May 2007). [PDF].
5. Roberts, F., & Kantor, P. B. (2007). Monitoring Message Streams: Algorithmic Methods for Automatic Processing of Messages. Journal of the Intelligence Community Research and Development. February 2, 2007. [PDF]. This link is to the manuscript as submitted. JICRD is a classified journal and the authors have not seen the published paper.
6. Ng, Kwong Bor., Kantor, P.B., Strzalkowski, Tomek., Wacholder, Nina., Tang, Rong., Bai, Bing., Rittman, Robert., Song, Peng., & Sun, Ying. (2006). Automated judgment of document qualities. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57 (9), 1155-1164. (July 2006). [PDF].
7. Sun, Y., & Kantor, P.B. (2006). Cross-Evaluation: A new model for information system evaluation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57 (5), 614-628. (March 2006). [PDF].
8. Elovici, Yuval., Shapira, Bracha., & Kantor, P.B. (2006). A decision theoretic approach to combining information filters: An analytical and empirical evaluation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57 (3), 306-320. (1 February 2006). [PDF].
9. Elovici, Y., & Kantor, P. B. (2003). Using the Information Structure Model to Compare Profile-Based Information Filtering Systems. Information Retrieval, 6 (1), 75-97. [PDF].
10. Summerfield, Mary., Mandel, Carol., & Kantor, Paul B. (2001).
Perspectives on Scholarly Online Books: The
11. Shapira, B., Kantor, P.B., & Melamed, B. (2001). The Effect of Extrinsic Motivation on User Behavior a Collaborative Information Finding System. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 52, 879-887. [PDF].
12. Summerfield, Mary., Mandel,
Carol., & Kantor, Paul B. (2000). The Potential for Scholarly Online Books:
Views from the
13. Kantor, P.B., & Voorhees, E. M. (2000). The TREC-5 Confusion Track: Comparing Retrieval Methods for Scanned Text. Information. Retrieval, 2 (2/3), 165-176. [PDF].
14. Kantor, P.B., Boros, E., Melamed, B., Menkov, V., Shapira, B., & Neu, D.J. (2000). Enabling technologies: capturing human intelligence in the Net. Communications of the ACM, 43 (8), 112-115. [PDF].
15. Ng, K.B., & Kantor, P. B. (2000). Predicting the Effectiveness of Naive Data Fusion on the Basis of System Characteristics. Journal of American Society for Information Science, 51 (13), 1177-1189. [PDF].
16. Zangwill, Willard
17. Zangwill, W.I., & Kantor, P.B. (1998). Toward a Theory of Continuous Improvement and the Learning Curve. Management Science, 44 (7), 910-920. [PDF.]
18. Kantor, P.B., & Lee, J.J. (1998). Testing the Maximum Entropy Principle for Information Retrieval. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49 (6), 557-566. [PDF].
19. Saracevic, T., & Kantor, P.B. (1997). Studying the Value of Library and Information Services. Part I. Establishing a Theoretical Framework. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48 (6), 527-542. [PDF]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199706)48:6<527::AID-ASI6>3.0.CO;2-W].
20. Saracevic, T., & Kantor, P.B. (1997). Studying the Value of Library and Information Services. Part II. Methodology and Taxonomy. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48 (6), 543-563. [PDF.]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199706)48:6<543::AID-ASI7>3.0.CO;2-U].
21. Abels, E.G., Kantor, P.B., & Saracevic, T. (1996). Studying the cost and value of library and information services: applying functional cost analysis to the library in transition. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47 (3), 217-227. [PDF.].
22. Belkin, N., Kantor, P.B.,
Fox, E., & Shaw, J. (1995). Combining
the Evidence of Multiple Query Representations for Information Retrieval. Information
Processing and Management, 31 (3), 431-448. [PDF.]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and
search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights)
doi:10.1016/0306-4573(94)00057-A].
23. Woods, W.A., Moser, H.D., Frieder, O., & Kantor, P.B. (1995). An Experimental Evaluation of Task Scheduling on Reconfigurable Multicomputer Architectures. Journal of Computer Science and Engineering, 10 (4), 244-254. (October 1995).
24. Cherikh, M. & Kantor, P.B. (1992). Counterexamples in distributed detection. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 38 (1), 162-165. [PDF.]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi: 10.1109/18.108263].
25. Kantor, P.B., & Zangwill, W.I. (1991). Theoretical foundation for a learning rate budget. Management Science, 37 (3), 315-330. [PDF.].
26. Kantor, P.B., & Lee, J.J. (1991). A study of probabilistic information retrieval systems in the case of inconsistent expert judgments. Journal of the American Association for Information Science, 42 (3), 166-172. [PDF.].
27. Kantor, P.B. (1989). Library cost analysis. In Problem Solving in Libraries [Special Issue]. Library Trends, 38 (2), 171-188, (Fall 1989).
28. Saracevic, T., Kantor, P.B., Chamis, A., & Trivison, D. (1988). A Study of information seeking and retrieving. I. Background and methodology. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 39 (3), 161-176. (May 1988). [PDF.]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198805)39:3<161::AID-ASI2>3.0.CO;2-0].
29. Saracevic, T., Kantor, P.B., Chamis, A., & Trivison, D. (1988). A Study of information seeking and retrieving. II. Users, questions, and effectiveness. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 39 (3), 177-196. (May 1988). [PDF.]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198805)39:3<177::AID-ASI3>3.0.CO;2-F].
30. Saracevic, T., & Kantor, P.B. (1988). A Study of information seeking and retrieving. III. Searchers, searches, and overlap. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 39 (3), 197-216. (May 1988). [PDF.]. [*Note: These 3 papers received the 1989 Best Papers Award of the American Society for Information Science.]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198805)39:3<197::AID-ASI4>3.0.CO;2-A].
31. Kantor, P.B. (1987). A model for stopping behavior of the users of on-line systems. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 38 (3), 211-214. (May 1987). [PDF.]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198705)38:3<211::AID-ASI10>3.0.CO;2-U].
32. Kantor, P.B. (1986). Three studies of cost and services at academic libraries. Advances in Library Administration and Organization, 5, 221-285.
33. Kantor, P.B. (1986). Is Hilbert space too large? Physical Review Letters, 56 (14), 1437-1440. (April 7, 1986). [PDF.]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.1437].
34. Kantor, P.B. (1984). Cost and usage of health sciences libraries: economic aspects. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 72 (3), 274-286. (July 1984). [PDF.].
35. Kantor, P.B. (1984). Maximum entropy and the optimal design of automated information retrieval systems. Information Technology Research Development and Application, (GB) 3 (2), 88-94.
36. Kantor, P.B. (1981). Quantitative evaluation of the reference process. RQ, 21 (1), 43-53. (Fall 1981).
37. Kantor, P.B. (1981). Levels of output related to cost of operation of scientific and technical Libraries, Part II: A capacity model of the average cost formula, Library Research, 3 (2), 141-154. (Summer 1981).
38. Kantor, P.B. (1981). Levels of output related to cost of operation of scientific and technical Libraries. Part I: Techniques and cumulative statistics. Library Research, 3 (1), 1-28. (Spring 1981).
39. Kantor, P.B. (1981). The logic of weighted queries. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 11 (12), 816-821.
40. Kantor, P.B. (1981). Demand adjusted shelf availability parameters. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 7 (2), 78-82. (May 1981) [PDF.].
41. Kantor, P.B. (1981). On the stability of distributions of the type described by Trueswell. College and Research Libraries, 41 (6), 514-516.
42. Kantor, P.B. (1980). A review of library operations research. Library Research, 1, 295-345.
43. Kantor, P.B., & Nelson, R.J. (1979). Ethics and the environment: Decision making in the presence of complex goals. Journal of Theory and Decision, 10, 181-200.
44. Kantor, P.B. (1978). A note on cumulative advantage distributions. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 29 (4), 202-204. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi:10.1002/asi.4630290409].
45. Kantor, P.B. (1978). Vitality, an indirect measure of relevance. Collection Management, 2 (1), 83-95.
46. Saracevic, T., Shaw, W., & Kantor, P.B. (1977). Causes and dynamics of user frustration at an academic library. College and Research Libraries, 38, 7-18.
47. Kantor, P.B. (1976). Availability analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 27 (6), 311-319. (October 1976). [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi: 10.1002/asi.46302702019927699].
48. Kantor, P.B. (1976). The library as an information utility in the university context: Evolution and measurement of service. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 27 (2), 100-112. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi: 10.1002/asi.4630270205].
49. Kantor, P.B. (1970). Extension of the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 11 (10), 3099-3103. (October 1970). [PDF.]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi: 10.1063/1.1665099].
50. Kantor, P.B. (1970). Internal symmetry cannot be concealed. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 11 (6), 1995-1996. (June 1970). [PDF.]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi: 10.1063/1.1665356].
51. Kantor, P.B. (1970). Possible difficulty with the eikonal picture of high energy interactions. Physical Review Letters, 24 (19), 1081-1083. (May 11, 1970). [PDF]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights)doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.24.1081].
52. Johnson, J.L., & Kantor,
P.B. (1969). Polarization in pion-nucleon scattering. Il Nuovo Cimento Series A, 64 (2), 353-60. (November 21, 1969).
[alphabetical].
53. Kantor, P.B., & Pientenpol, J. (1968). Chiral symmetry and the mass of the pion. Physical Review Letters, 21 (4), 241-243. (July 22, 1968). [PDF]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.21.241].
54. Kantor, P.B. (1967). Self conjugate bosons, internal symmetry and CPT invariance. Physical Review Letters, 19 (7), 394-397. (August 14, 1967). [PDF.]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi:
55. Kantor, P.B. (1966). Application of partial wave analyticity to nucleon-nucleon scattering. Physical Review, 148 (4), 1411-1418. (August 26, 1966). [PDF.]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.148.1411].
56. Kantor, P.B., Kuo, T.K., Trueman, T.L., & Peierls, R.F. (1965). Comparison of the predictions of SU(12) with nucleon-nucleon scattering Data. Physical Review, 140, 4B 1008-1012. (Nov. 22, 1965). [PDF.]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.140.B1008].
57. Kantor, P.B. (1965). Unitarity and partial wave amplitudes. Annals of Physics, 33 (2), 196-213. (June 17, 1965).
58. Kantor, P.B. (1964). Nucleon-nucleon scattering and the meson resonances. Physical Review Letters, 12 (2), 52-54. (Jan. 13, 1964). [PDF.]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.12.52].
3. Journal Articles (not refereed)
1. Lin, J., & Kantor, P. B. (2007). Presentation schemes for component analysis in IR experiments. ACM SIGIR Forum, 41 (1), 34-39. (June 2007). [PDF].
2. Callan, J., & Kantor, P.B., & Grossman, D. (2002). Information retrieval and OCR: from converting content to grasping meaning. SIGIR Forum, 36 (2), 58-61. [PDF].
3. Kantor, P.B. (1993). The adaptive network library interface: A historical overview and interim Report. Library Hi-Tech, 11 (3), 81-92.
4. Saracevic, T., & Kantor, P.B. (1991). Online searching: Still an imprecise art. Library Journal, 116 (16), 47-51. [PDF].
4. Published Conference Proceedings
1. Bai, B., Kantor, P.B. & Shokoufandeh, A. (2007). The Effectiveness of Finite Impulse Response Model in Content-based fMRI Image Retrieval. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, 4792, 742-750. [PDF] (MICCAI 07).
2. Bai, B., & Kantor, P.B. (2007). A Shape-Based Finite Impulse Response Model for functional Brain Images. Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 4th IEEE International Symposium, Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 440-443. [PDF] (ISBI07).
3. Bai, B.,
Kantor, P.B., Shokoufandeh, A., & Silver, D. (2007). fMRI
Brain Image Retrieval Based on ICA Components. Proceedings of
Encuentro Nacional de Computacion: Current Trends in Computer Science, 10-17.
[PDF.]. (ENC07).
4.
Bai, B., Kantor, P.B.,
Cornea, N.D., & Silver, D. (2007). Toward Content-based Indexing and
Retrieval of Functional Brain Images. Proceedings of the 8th
Conference of Recherche d'Information Assistee par Ordinateur. [PDF] (RIAO 07).
5. Bai, B., Kantor, P.B., Cornea, N.D., Silver, D. (2006). IR Principles for content-based indexing and retrieval of functional brain images. Proceedings of ACM Fifteenth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November 2006, 139-146. [PDF] (CIKM 2006).
6. Kelly, D.,
Kantor, P.B., Scholtz, J., & Sun, Y. (2006). User-centered evaluation of
interactive question answering systems. Proceedings of the Workshop on
Interactive Question Answering at the Human Language Technology Conference.
[PDF] (HLT-NAACL ’06,
7.
8.
9. Fradkin, Dimitriy., & Kantor, Paul B. (2005). Methods for Learning Classifier Combinations: No Clear Winner. Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing: Information Access and Retrieval Track, 1038-1043, [PDF] (March 2005).
10. Bai, B., Ng, K.B., Sun, Y., Kantor, P. B. & Strzalkowski, T. (2004). The institutional dimension of document quality judgments. Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science and Technology, 41 (1), 110-118. (ASIST 2004). [PDF.]
11. Rittman, R., Wacholder, N., Kantor, P. B., Ng, K. B., Strzalkowski, T., & Sun, Y. (2004) Adjectives as indicators of subjectivity in documents. Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 41 (1), 349-359. [PDF.].
12. Sun, Y., Kantor, P.B., Strzalkowski, T., Rittman, R., & Wacholder, N. (2004). Cross Evaluation - a pilot application of a new evaluation mechanism. Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science and Technology, 41 (1), 383-392. [PDF.]
13. Dayanik, Aynur., Fradkin, Dimitriy., Genkin, Alex., Kantor, Paul B., Lewis, David D., Madigan, David., Menkov, Vladimir. (2004). DIMACS at the TREC 2004 Genomics Track. Proceedings of the 13th Text REtrieval Conference. [PDF] (TREC 2004).
14. Fradkin, Dimitriy., & Kantor, Paul B. (2004). A Design Space Approach to Analysis of Information Retrieval Adaptive Filtering Systems. Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 251-260. [PDF] (CIKM, November 2004).
15. Tang, R., Ng, K.B., Strzalkowski, T., & Kantor, P.B. (2003). Automatically Predicting Information Quality. Proceedings of the Workshop on Interactive Question Answering at the Human Language Technology Conference. [PDF] (HLT/NACCL'03).
16. Tang, R., Ng, K.B., Strzalkowski, T., and Kantor, P. (2003). Toward Machine Understanding of Information Quality Proceedings of the 2003 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science and Technology, 40 (1), 213-220. [PDF] (ASIST 2003).
17. Ng, K.B., Kantor, P.B., Tang, R, Rittman, R., Small, S., Song, P., Strzalkowski, T. Sun, Y., & Wacholder, N. (2003). Identification of Effective Predictive Variables for Document Qualities Proceedings of the 2003 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science and Technology, 40 (1), 221-229. [PDF] (ASIST 2003).
18. Anghelescu, A., Boros, E.,
Lewis, D., Menkov, V., Neu, D., & Kantor, P.B. (2002). Rutgers
Filtering Work at TREC 2002: Adaptive and Batch. In D. Harman and E.
Voorhees (Eds.). The Eleventh Text Retrieval Conference, SP 500-251.
19. Ibraev, U., Ng, K.B., & Kantor, P. B. (2002). Exploration of a Geometric Model of Data Fusion. Proceedings of the 2002 Conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 39 (1), 124-129. [PDF] (ASIST 2002).
20. Ibraev, U., Ng, K.B., & Kantor, P.B. (2001). Counter-intuitive cases of data fusion in information retrieval. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Information Science and Technology, 38 (1). (ASIST 2001).
21. Ng, K.B., Rieh, S.Y., & Kantor, P.B. (2000). Signal detection methods and discriminant analysis applied to categorization of newspaper and government documents: a preliminary study. Proceedings of the 2000 Annual Conference of American Society for Information Science and Technology, 37 (1), 227-236. (ASIST 2000).
22. Boros, E., Kantor, P.B.,
& Neu, D.J. (2000). Logical Analysis of
Data in the TREC-9 Filtering Track. In D. Harman and E. Voorhees (Eds.). The
Ninth Text Retrieval Conference, SP 500-249.
23. Kantor, P. B., Kim, Myung Ho., Ibraev, Ulukbek., & Atasoy, Koray. (1999). Estimating the Number of Relevant Documents in Enormous Collections. In Woods, Larry (Ed.). Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 36, 507-514. [PDF]. (ASIS 1999).
24. Boros, E., Kantor, P.B., Neu, D. (1999). Pheromonic Representations of User Quests by Digital Structures. In Woods, Larry (Ed.). Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 36, 633-642. [PDF]. (ASIS 1999).
25. Kantor, P.B., Melamed, B., Boros, E., & Menkov,V. (1999). The Information Quest: A Dynamic Model of User's Information Needs. In Woods, Larry (Ed.). Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 36, 536-545. [PDF]. (ASIS 1999).
26. Wonsik, Jeff Shim., & Kantor, Paul B. (1999). Evaluation of Digital Libraries: A DEA Approach. In Woods, Larry (Ed.). Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 36, 605-615. [PDF]. (ASIS 1999).
27. Nordlie, Ragnar., & Kantor, Paul B., (1999). Models of the Behavior of People Searching the Internet: a Petri Net Approach. In Woods, Larry (Ed.). Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 36, 643-650. [PDF] (ASIS 1999).
28. Kantor, P.B., & Saracevic, T. (1999). Quantitative Study of the Value of Research Libraries: A Foundation for the Evaluation of Digital Libraries. In Woods, Larry (Ed.). Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 36, 407-419. [PDF]. (ASIS 1999).
29. Kantor, P.B., Boros, E., Melamed, B., Neu, D.J., Menkov, V., Shi, Q., Kim, M.H. (1999). Ant World (Demonstration Abstract). Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 323. SIGIR 1999. [PDF]. (ACM 1999).
30. Saracevic, T., & Kantor, P.B. (1998). Studying the value of library and information services in corporate environments: Progress report. In Larson, R. (Ed.). Proceedings of the 1998 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science, 411-425. (ASIS 1998).
31. Kim, K., Golden, G., & Kantor, P.B. (1998). Adaptive Pricing of Information Services in Networked Environments: Simulation Models and Empirical Results. In Larson, R. (Ed.). Proceedings of the 1998 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science, 203-216. (ASIS 1998).
32. Kantor, P.B., & Shim, W. (1998). Library Circulation as Interaction Between Readers and Collections: the Square Root Law. In Larson, R. (Ed.). Proceedings of the 1998 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science, 260-266. (ASIS 1998).
33. Shim, W., & Kantor, P.B. (1998). A Novel Economic Approach to the Evaluation of Academic Research Libraries. In Larson, R. (Ed.). Proceedings of the 1998 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science, 400-410. (ASIS 1998).
34. Ng, K.B., & Kantor, P.B. (1998). An Investigation of the Conditions for Effective Data Fusion in Information Retrieval: A Pilot Study. Proceedings of the 1998 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science, 167-178. (ASIS 1998).
35. Boros, E., Kantor, P.B., Lee,
J.J., Ng, K.B., & Zhao, D. (1997). Application of
Logical Analysis of Data to the TREC-6 Routing Task. The Sixth Text
Retrieval Conference, SP 500-240, 611-617.
36. Ng, K.B., Loewenstern, D.,
Basu, C., Hirsh, H., & Kantor, P.B. (1996). Data Fusion of Machine-Learning
Methods for the TREC5 Routing Task (and other work). The Fifth Text
Retrieval Conference, SP 500-238, 65-74.
37. Basu, C., & Kantor, P. B.
(1995). When
just one is enough. In Finan, T. (Ed.). Proceedings of the 1995 CIKM
Conference on Intelligent Agents.
38. Kantor, P. B. (1995).
Information and Quality in the Production of Goods and Services: A Dual
Relation. International Congress on the Economics of Information,
307-330. Sponsored by the Ecole National Superieure des Science de
l'information et des bibliotheques.
39. Kantor, P.B., Saracevic, T. (1995). Studying the value of library and information services: A taxonomy of user assessments. In Kinney (Ed.). Proceedings of the 58th American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, 32, 35-47.
40. Ng, K.B., & Kantor, P. B.
(1995). Two experiments on retrieval with corrupted data and clean
queries in the TREC4 adhoc task environment: data fusion and pattern scanning.
In Harman, D. (Ed.). The Fourth Text Retrieval Conference, SP 500-236,
499-508. National
41. Kantor, P.B., & Ng, K.B.
(1994). Decision Level Data Fusion for Routing of Documents in the TREC3
Context: A Best Case Analysis of Worst Case Results. In Harman, D. (Ed.). The
Third Text Retrieval Conference, SP 500-225, 319-332. National
42. Kantor, P.B., Woods, W.A., Moser, H.D., & Frieder, O. (1994). An Experimental Evaluation of Task Scheduling on Reconfigurable Multicomputer Architectures. In the Proceedings of the 1994 Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems.
43. Woods, W.A., Moser, H.D., Frieder, O., & Kantor, P.B. (1994). A Case for Reconfigurable Architectures for Information Retrieval Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 57-62. [PDF]. (CIKM 1994).
44. McKeown, K., Millman, D.,
Donnelly, B., Hoover, J., McClintock, R., Scholten, W., Anastassiou, D., Chang,
S-F., Crosswell, A., Dalal, M., Feiner, S., Kantor, P.B., Klavans, J.,
Stanfill, C., & Schwartz, M. (1994), The JANUS Digital Library.
In Schnase, J.L., Leggett, J.L., Furuta, R.K., & Metcalfe, T., (Eds.). Digital
Libraries '94. Hypermedia Research Laboratory, Department of Computer
Science,
45. Belkin, N., Cool, C.,
Quatrain, R., & Kantor, P.B. (1993). Combining Evidence for
Information Retrieval. In Harman, D. (Ed.). The Second Text Retrieval
Conference, SP 500-215, 35-44. National
46. Cool, C., Belkin, N., Kantor,
P. B., & Frieder, O. (1993). Characteristics
of texts affecting relevance judgments. In Williams, M.E. (Ed.). Proceedings
of the National Online Conference, 77-84.
47. Zhao, S.Y., & Kantor, P.B. (1993). Development of an adaptive network library interface: Progress report and system design issues. In Bonzi & Katzer (Eds.). Proceedings 56th Annual American Society for Information Science Meeting, 211-216.
48. Saracevic, T., & Kantor, P.B.
(1992). Two heads are better than one: the potential of data fusion
concepts for improvement of online searching. In Williams, M.E. (Ed.). 13th
National Online Meeting, 147-151.
49. Kantor, P.B. (1988).
National, language specific evaluation sites for retrieval systems and
interfaces. In Proceedings of 1988 RIAO Conference--User-Oriented Content
Based Text and Image Handling, 138-147.
50. Kantor, M., & Kantor,
P.B. (1988). Decision making with barely any information. In Erickson, G.J.,
& Smith, C.R. (Eds.). Maximum-entropy and Bayesian Methods in Science
and Engineering, 2 , 421-426. The Proceedings of the 5th, 6th, and 7th
Workshops on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Applied Statistics.
51. Kantor, P.B., Bookstein, A.,
Dillon, M., & Saracevic, T. (1987). Clustering of Concepts for Optimal
Retrieval. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual International ACM SIGIR
Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 316. (SIGIR 1987).
52. Saracevic, T., Kantor, P.B., Chamis, A., & Trivison, D. (1986). Effectiveness and efficiency of searching in online searches: preliminary results from a study of information seeking and retrieving. In Proceedings of the 1986 American Society for Information Science Conference, 341-349.
53. Kantor, P.B. (1986).
Application of the Maximum Entropy Principle to Retrieval from Large Data
Bases. In Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Analysis and Estimation Problems,
273-8187. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian
Methods in Applied Statistics,
54. Kantor,
P.B. (1986). Scholars
Cross Reference System. In Annual Research Report of OCLC,
26-27. OCLC,
55. Kantor, P.B. (1986). Information retrieval issues in the design of expert systems. In Proceedings of the 1986 American Society for Information Science Conference, 113-117.
56. Kantor, P.B. (1986). Information retrieval in the design of expert systems. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, 109-118.
57. Kantor, P.B. (1986). The maximum entropy principle in information retrieval. In Proceedings of the 1986 ACM-SIGIR Conference, 269-274. [PDF].
58. Kantor, P.B. (1983). Minimal constraint implementation of the maximum entropy principle in the design of term-weighting systems. In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science 1983 Annual Meeting, 20, 28-31.
59. Kantor, P.B. (1982). Quality, quantity and feedback in managing information systems. In Information Interaction, the Proceedings of the 45th American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, 366-367.
60. Kantor, P.B. (1981). Rigorous
solution of competitive advantage problems: Application to bibliometric
problems. In The Information Community: an
61. Kantor, P.B. (1981). Econometric studies and the determination of unit costs. In Communicating Information Proceedings of the 43rd American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting,17, 343.
62. Frohmberg, K.A., &
Kantor, P.B. (1982). Case studies of automation: the main and music libraries
at
63. Frohmberg, K., Moffet, W., & Kantor, P.B. (1980). Increases in book availability in a large college library. In Communicating Information, Proceedings of the 43rd Annual American Society for Information Science Meeting, 292-294.
64. Kantor, P.B. (1978). QUBMIS: A quantitatively based management information system. In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science, 174-176.
65. Kantor, P.B. (1977). Contextual and quantitative aspects of the evaluation of information systems. In Proceedings of the 1977 Conference of the American Society for Information Science, (microfiche Pt 2. Fiche 4, Frame C10-14).
5. Notes, Book Reviews, Abstracts
1. Review of
“Strategic Appraisal: The Changing Role of Information Warfare.” by Kahlilzad, Zalmay
& White, John P. (Eds.). (1999).
2. Review of "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing" by Manning, Christopher & Shutze, Hinrich. In Information Retrieval, 4 (1), 80-81. (April 2001). [PDF.]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi:10.1023/A:1011424425034].
3. Editorial with Stephen E. Robertson. Editorial. Information Retrieval, 1 (1-2), 5. (April 1999). [PDF.]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi: 10.1023/A:1009990414324].
4. Review of “Randomness.” by Bennett, Deborah J. In Library Quarterly (1999).
5. Review of “Measuring
Information: An Information Services Perspective.” by Tague-Sutcliffe, Jean.
Academic Press:
doi:10.1016/S0306-4573(96)90103-X].
6. Review of “Operations Research for Libraries and Information Agencies.” by Kraft and Royce. In Journal of American Society for Information Science, 45 (2), 118-119. (March 1994). [PDF.]. [go to http://dx.doi.org and search for the following doi number (may require institutional access rights) doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199403)45:2<118::AID-ASI5>3.0.CO;2-T].
7. Review of “Research for Decision Making: Methods for Librarians.” by Swisher, R. & McClure, C.R. In College & Research Libraries, 47 (1), 92-93. (January 1986).
8. Review of
“The Public Library in the 1980's: Problems of Choice.” by White. L.J., D.C.
Heath
6. Conference Presentations, Lectures, Demonstrations
2008 CIKM 2008 Workshop Author “BooksOnline 2008 Setting the Roadmap for Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories”
2007 NATO Advanced Research Workshop “Bayesian Models, Prior Knowledge, and Data Fusion for Monitoring Messages and Identifying Actors”, June 4-5, 2007.
2001 Invited Address:
“Statistical Issues in Information Retrieval” at the International Statistical
Institute, August 22-29,
2001 Invited Address:
"Current problems in information Retrieval" Keynote address.
Northrup Grumman Research Conference. MacLean,
2001 E. Boros, P.B. Kantor, D.J. Neu, A Clustering Based Approach to Creating Multi-Document Summaries. 2001 Sep. 13. Document Understanding Conference.
2000 Kantor PB. Information
Retrieval Research -- a Survey of Issues. Invited Presentation at