PAUL B. KANTOR
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A. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
AB, 1959 (Summa cum laude). Columbia University. Physics and Mathematics.
PhD, 1963. Princeton University. Theoretical Physics.
B. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Member,
Rutgers Department of
Member,
Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Privacy and Security. 2004-
Member of the Graduate Faculty, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers 2004-
Member:
Professor
II (“Distinguished”) ,
Director,
Professor,
Director, Alexandria Project Laboratory . 1991-present.
President and Chief Scientist, Tantalus Inc. 1976-2005.
Associate Professor, School of Library and Information, Case-Western Reserve University (1972-1976).
Assistant Prof. -Associate Prof. Physics (CWRU (1967-1972).
Visiting Asst. Prof. Physics, SUNY Stony Brook (1965-1967).
Research Associate, Brookhaven Nat. Labs (1963-1965).
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 Oslo (Oslo University College), Norway
Best Paper Award, Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, 1995
Rutgers SCILS Research Award, 1994, 2000
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, Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota, 1986
Member, Phi Beta Kappa. Elected junior year by Columbia College Chapter, 1958; Michaelis Prize in Physics, 1959, Columbia University; van Buren Prize in Mathematics, 1958, Columbia University
Significant Professional and/or University Affiliations: (Founding) Editor-in-chief-Information Retrieval, Kluwer Academic Press (1998). Member, Editorial Board-JASIS (1994-) , Information Processing and Management (1991-) . Member-Rutgers Center for Operations Research (RUTCOR) (1991-). Member-DIMACS Center for Discrete Mathematics and Computer Sciences. (2003-) Member-Am. Stat Assn; IEEE; ASIS; Am Phys Soc; SPIE; ACM and numerous scientific and professional organizations.
2007-2009.
Investigators: Paul B. Kantor (PI), Endre Boros
(Co-PI) Title: 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) Title: IAIMS Evaluation Agency/Source of Support: NLM Total
Funding: $67,141 Period of Performance: 09/05-12/07
2005-2008.
Fred Roberts (PI); Paul Kantor (Co-PI) Title: A Decision Logic Approach to the
Port-of-Entry Inspection Problem Agency/Source of Support: NSF SES 05-18543
Total Funding: $599,999 Period of Performance: 9/1/05-8/31/08 Level of Effort:
.75 Summer months/year
2002-2009.
Fred Roberts (PI), Paul Kantor (Co-PI) Title: Three Special Focus Programs at
DIMACS: Supplement for the Monitoring Message Streams Project Agency/Source of
Support: NSF CCR 00-87022 Total Funding: For the KDD add-on: $560,000 Period of
Performance: 7/1/02-8/31/09
2007-2010.
Fred Roberts (PI); Paul Kantor (Co-PI) Title: Optimization Problems for
Detection Systems Agency/Source of Support: ONR Total Funding: $224,863 Period
of Performance: 2/1/07-1/31/10 Level of Effort: .25 Summer
months/year
2007-2009.
Fred Roberts (PI); Paul Kantor (Co-PI) Title: 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 Level of Effort: .5 Summer
months/year
2004-2006 High Quality Interactive Question Answering (HITIQA). ARDA $500,000, Rutgers PI. PI-Tomek Strzalkowski, SUNY Albany. Co-PI: Kwong Bor Ng, Nina Wacholder.
2004-2006 Author Identification. KD-D/NSF $250,000 co-PI. PI: David Madigan, DIMACS, Rutgers.
2004-2006 Monitoring Message Streams: Retrospective and Prospective Event Detection. KD-D/NSF. $300,000. co-PI and Project Coordinator. PI: Fred Roberts, DIMACS, Rutgers.
2002-2005
. Dynamic Brain Imaging and Archiving. McDonnell
Foundation, St. Louis (grant #: 420150). $495,000. Total Award Period
Covered: 04/01/02 - 03/31/05. PI. Steve Hanson, Co-PI:
2002-2005. Novel Indexing and Retrieval of Dynamic Brain Images. National Science Foundation. $2,033,722. PI and Project Director. Co-PI: Stephen Hanson, Rutgers et al.
2002-2003 Monitoring Message Streams: Retrospective and Prospective Event Detection. KD-D/NSF. $700,000. co-PI and Project Coordinator. PI: Fred Roberts, DIMACS, Rutgers.
2001-2004 High Quality Interactive Question Answering (HITIQA). ARDA $613,500, co-PI. PI-Tomek Strzalkowski, SUNY Albany. Co-PI: Kwong Bor Ng.
1997-2001 (Extension) A Novel Approach to Information Finding in Networked Environments. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (http://scils.rutgers.edu/baa9709) Funding $200,000, PI.
1997-2000 A Novel Approach to Information Finding in Networked Environments. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (http://scils.rutgers.edu/baa9709) $1,146,000, PI. co-PIs: B. Melamed, Faculty of Management, Rutgers; E. Boros, Rutgers Center for Operations Research.
1998-2000 Semantic Dimensionality and Data Fusion for Optimal Information Retrieval, NSF, $93,000, PI.co-PI K.B. Ng, Florida State University, later Queens College, CUNY.
1996-1998 Exploration of Variable Pricing for Online Services at Research Libraries. Council on Library Resources. 25,000.PI.
1996-1998 The Efficiency of Research Libraries: A New Analytical Tool and Pilot Study Using 1995 ARL Data. Council on Library Resources. $25,000. PI.
1996-1997 Study of the Statistical Significance of the TREC Text REtrieval Conferences. National Institute of Standards and Technology. $25,000. PI. Co-PI D Hull, Rank Xerox Corporation.
1996-1998 Studying the Value of Information Services in Special Libraries and Information Centers. The Special Libraries Association $52,000, PI.co-PI T Saracevic).
1995-1999 Evaluation of Direct Catalog Access to Digitized Image Collections: Digital Library Experiments. New York University, .$150,000, PI. co-PI DR King.
1993 - 1994, Study of the Costs and Beneficial Impacts of Library Functions, supported by Council on Library Resources, $97,000, PI.co-PI: T. Saracevic
1993, Equipment funds to participate in the 2nd Text REtrieval Conference. Supported by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. $9,800. (Joint, with N. Belkin as Project Director)
1991 - 94, Adaptive Network Library Interface, US Department of Education. 3 years, $306,000, PI. co-PIs: Ron Rice, Rutgers, N. Contractor, University of Illinois.
Research Development Grants, Rutgers School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (SCILS), 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996. 2000 Spring. $3,500. PI. SCILS Internal Grant for Research Development. PI. 1999 Spring $400 PI. SCILS Internal Grant for Research Development. PI. 1998 Spring $600 PI. SCILS Internal Grant for Research Development. PI
Barry Sopher (co-PI), Paul Kantor
(co-PI)
Director, Center of Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Policy and Security. Academic Excellence Funding $100,000. 2004-2005
Director, Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries Project (joint SCILS, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, Department of Computer Science and other University units) (1998-now). This has received a total of $250,000 SROA, and associated faculty have generated more $6 million in resulting and related research project funding.
DISSERTATION. 1959 - 1963. Graduate Student. Princeton University. Woodrow Wilson Fellow. National Science Foundation Cooperative Fellow. Thesis advisor: Sam Treiman, Ph.D. DISSERTATION: Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering and the Meson Resonances. Developed and applied the so-called Kantor Amplitudes for studying the dynamic structure of partial wave scattering amplitudes.
2. Published books
(a) Authored
Kantor, Paul B. Functional Cost Analysis for Libraries, Tantalus, Inc., 1986. 80pp.
Kantor, Paul B. Costs of Preservation Microfilming at Research Libraries: A Study of Four Institutions. Council on Library Resources, 1986. 32pp.
Kantor, Paul B. Objective Performance Measures for Academic and Research Libraries, The Association of Research Libraries, 1984. 76pp+ Exhibits.
(b) Edited
5. C. Gal, P. Kantor, B. Shapira (Eds).
4. P. Kantor, G. Muresan, F. Roberts, D. Zeng, F.-Y. Wang, H. Chen, R.C. Merkle, (eds) (2005) Intelligence and Security Informatics, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2005, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 19-20, 2005, Springer, ISBN: 3-540-25999-6.
(c) Chapters in books
10. Kantor, Paul B. Information Retrieval Techniques. Chapter for Annual Review of Information Science, 1994. M. Williams Ed. pp53-90
9. The National Coordinated Cataloging Program: An Assessment of the Pilot Project. Eds. C. Mandel, M. Runkle, P. Kantor. Economic Aspects. pp9-32; Overview of the Data Considered, pp33-46; A Survey of Copy Cataloging Practices at ARL Libraries; pp47-60; Costs and Benefits of Distributed Cataloging to Library of Congress Standards. pp61-71. Designed and directed the studies, with the assistance of M. Cherikh and S. Rich. Council on Library Resources.
8. Kantor, Paul B. Assessing the Costs During Budget Planning for Medline on CD-ROM. In Medline on CD-ROM, Learned Information, Inc., Medford NJ, 1989, pp35-43.
7. Kantor, Paul B. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back: The Problem of Performance Standards for Academic and Research Libraries. In Issues in Research Librarianship, University of Indiana Libraries, Bloomington IN, 1987, pp90-104.
6. Kantor, Paul B. The Relation Between Costs and Services at Academic Libraries. In Financing Information Services, Greenwood Press, Westport CT, 1985, pp184-205.
5. Kantor, Paul B. Evaluation and Feedback in Information Storage and Retrieval Systems. In Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, V17, Knowledge Industry Publications, Inc., White Plains NY, 1982, pp99-120.
4. Kantor, Paul B. Fields. Invited article in the Encyclopedia of Physics, Addison Wesley, Reading MA, 1980, pp325-326.
3. Kantor, Paul B. Analyzing the Availability of Reference Services. In Library Effectiveness, Library Administration and Management Association/American Library Association, Chicago, IL, 1980, pp132-151.
2. Kantor, Paul B. Availability Analysis. In Key Papers in Information Science, Knowledge Industry Publications Inc, White Plains NY, 1980, pp368-376.
1. Kantor, Paul B. and Nelson, R.J. Ethics and the Environment: Decision Making in the Presence of Complex Goals. In Key Papers in Decision Theory, Reidel Press, Dortrecht, Holland, 1979, pp201-217.
3. Journal articles (refereed).
4. Journal articles (not refereed).
2. Kantor PB. The adaptive network library interface: A historical overview and interim Report. Library Hi-Tech v11(3) Issue 43. pp81-92.
1. Saracevic T, Kantor PB. Online searching: Still an imprecise art. Library Journal v116(16)47 et seq..
5. Published conference proceedings.
1. B. Bai and P. Kantor and A. Shokoufandeh. The Effectiveness of Finite Impulse Response Model in Content-based fMRI Image Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI07). 2007.
2. B. Bai and P. Kantor. A Shape-Based Finite Impulse Response Model for functional Brain Images. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI07). 2007
3. B. Bai and P. Kantor and A. Shokoufandeh and D. Silver. fMRI Brain Image Retrieval Based on ICA Components. In Proceedings of Encuentro Nacional de Computacion: Current Trends in Computer Science (ENC07)2007.
4. B. Bai and P. Kantor and N. Cornea and D. Silver. Toward Content-based Indexing and Retrieval of Functional Brain Images. In Proceedings of the 8th Conference of Recherche d'Information Assistee par Ordinateur (RIAO 07}. 2007.
5. Bai, B., Kantor, P.B., Cornea, N., Silver, D., IR Principles for content-based indexing and retrieval of functional brain images. ACM Fifteenth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. CIKM 2006. November 2006, pp.139-146.
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
(HLT-NAACL ’06),
7. Bing Bai Paul Kantor Nicu Cornea Deborah Silver. IR principles for content-based indexing and retrieval of functional brain images. CIKM 2006
8. Cornea,
N.D., Ibraev, U., Silver, D., Kantor, P., Shokoufandeh,
A., Abrahamson, J.,
9. Cornea,
N.D., Demirci, M.F., Silver, D., Shokoufandeh,
A.,
10. Dmitriy Fradkin and Paul Kantor. Methods for Learning Classifier Combinations: No Clear Winner. Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2005, Information Access and Retrieval Track. March 2005
11. Bai, B., Ng, K.B., Sun, Y., Kantor, P. and Strzalkowski, T. (2004). The institutional dimension of document quality judgments. In the Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science and Technology.
12. Rittman, R., Wacholder, N., Kantor, P, 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, 349-359.
13. Sun, Y., Kantor, P., Strzalkowski, T., Rittman, R., and Wacholder, N. (2004). Cross Evaluation - a pilot application of a new evaluation mechanism. In the Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science and Technology.
14. Aynur Dayanik, Dmitriy Fradkin, Alex Genkin, Paul Kantor, David D. Lewis, David Madigan, Vladimir Menkov. DIMACS at the TREC 2004 Genomics Track. Proceedings of the 13th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2004)
15. Dmitriy Fradkin and Paul Kantor. A Design Space Approach to Analysis of Information Retrieval Adaptive Filtering Systems. Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). November 2004.
16. Tang, R., Ng, K.B., Strzalkowski, T., and Kantor, P. (2003) "Automatically Predicting Information Quality". HLT/NACCL'03
17. Tang, R., Ng, K.B., Strzalkowski, T., and Kantor, P. (2003) "Toward Machine Understanding of Information Quality" ASIST2003.
18. Ng, K.B., Kantor, P., Tang, R, Rittman, R., Small, S., Song, P., Strzalkowski, T. Sun, Y. and Wacholder, N. "Identification of Effective Predictive Variables for Document Qualities" ASIST2003.
19. A.Anghelescu, E. Boros, D. Lewis, V.
Menkov, D. Neu, P. Kantor. Rutgers
Filtering Work at TREC 2002: Adaptive and Batch, ,
In D. Harman and
20. Ibraev U, Ng KB, Kantor P. (2002) Exploration of a Geometric Model of Data Fusion. Proceedings of the 2002 Conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
21. Ng, K.B., Rieh, S.Y., and Kantor, P.B. (2000) "Signal detection methods and discriminant analysis applied to categorization of newspaper and government documents: a preliminary study." Proceedings of 2000 Annual Conference of American Society for Information Science and Technology, pp. 227-236.
22. Ibraev, U, Ng, K.B. & Kantor, P.B. (2001) "Counter-intuitive cases of data fusion in information retrieval". Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting 2001.
23. Paul B. Kantor, Myung Ho Kim, Ulukbek Ibraev and Koray Atasoy (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. Volume 36, 1999, pp.507-514.
24. Endre Boros, Paul B. Kantor, David Neu (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. Volume 36, 1999, pp.633-642.
25. Paul B. Kantor, Benjamin Melamed, Endre Boros, Vladimir Menkov (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. Volume 36, 1999, pp.536-545.
26. Wonsik Jeff Shim and Paul B. Kantor, Evaluation of Digital Libraries: A DEA Approach (1999). In Woods, Larry (Ed.) Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science. Volume 36, 1999, pp.605-615.
27. Ragnar Nordlie and Paul B. Kantor. Models of the Behavior of People Searching the Internet: a Petri Net Approach(1999). In Woods, Larry (Ed.) Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science. Volume 36, 1999, pp.643-650.
1. Paul B. Kantor and Tefko Saracevic. Quantitative Study of the Value of Research Libraries: A Foundation for the Evaluation of Digital Libraries (1999). In Woods, Larry (Ed.) Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science. Volume 36, 1999, pp.407-419.
2. Saracevic T, Kantor PB (1998). Studying the value of library and information services in corporate environments: Progress report. In Larson, R. (Ed.) Proceedings, 1998 Annual meeting of American Society for Information Science . pp411-425.
3. Kim K, Golden G, Kantor PB. (1998) Adaptive Pricing of Information Services in Networked Environments: Simulation Models and Empirical Results. In Larson, R. (Ed.) Proceedings, 1998 Annual meeting of American Society for Information Science . pp. 203-216.
4. Kantor PB, Shim W (1998) Library Circulation as Interaction Between Readers and Collections: the Square Root Law. Larson R. (Ed.). Proceedings, 1998 Annual meeting of American Society for Information Science . pp260-266.
5. Shim W, Kantor PB (1998) A Novel Economic Approach to the Evaluation of Academic Research Libraries.. In Larson, R. (Ed.) Proceedings, 1998 Annual meeting of American Society for Information Science . pp400-410.
6. Ng KB, Kantor PB. (1998) An Investigation of the Conditions for Effective Data Fusion in Information Retrieval: A Pilot Study. Proceedings, 1998 Annual meeting of American Society for Information Science. pp167-178.
7. Basu C, Kantor P. (1995) When just one is enough. In Finan
T, Ed. Proceedings of the 1995 Conference on Intelligent Agents.
8. Kantor,
Paul B. Information and Quality in the Production of Goods and Services: A Dual
Relation. International Congress on the Economics of Information,
sponsored by the Ecole National Superieure
des Science de l'information et des bibliotheques.
9. Kantor PB, 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.
10. Ng
KB, Kantor P. (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. Proceedings of the 4th Text REetrieval Conference (TREC-4). National
11. Kantor PB, Ng KB. Decision Level Data Fusion for Routing of Documents in the TREC3 Context: A Best Case Analysis of Worst Case Results in D. Harman, Ed. Proceedings of the Third Annual Text Retrieval Conference,1995.
12. An Experimental Evaluation of Task Scheduling on Reconfigurable Multicomputer Architectures with Woods, WA, Moser, HD, and Frieder, O. In the Proceedings of the 1994 conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems.
13. W.A. Woods, H.D. Moser, O. Frieder, Kantor PB. A Case for Reconfigurable Architectures for Information Retrieval CIKM94 Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.
14. 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, Klavans J, Stanfill
C, Schwartz M. The
JANUS Digital Library in Schnase JL, Leggett JL, Furuta RK, Metcalfe T, Eds. Digital Libraries '94.
Hypermedia Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science,
15. Belkin N, C. Cool, R. Quatrain, Kantor PB. Combining Evidence for Information Retrieval in D. Harman, Ed. The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2). NIST 500-215. March 1994. pp35-44.).
16. Cool,
C., Belkin, N., Kantor, P., Frieder,
O. Characteristics
of texts affecting relevance judgments.. pp77-84.
In Proceedings of the National Online Conference 1993. Ed.
Williams, M.E.; Learned Information, Inc.,
17. Zhao SY, Kantor PB. Development of an adaptive network library interface: Progress report and system design issues. Proceedings 56th Annual American Society for Information Science Meeting. Eds. Bonzi and Katzer. pp211-216. (1993).
18. Saracevic T, Kantor PB. Two heads are better than one: the potential of data fusion concepts for improvement of online searching. In 13th National Online Meeting, Edited by M. E. Williams, Medford, New Jersey, Learned Information, Inc., 1992, pp147-51.
19. Kantor PB. National, language specific evaluation sites for retrieval systems and interfaces. In Proceedings of RIAO Conference 1988. User-Oriented Content Based Text and Image Handling. MIT, pp138-147 1988.
20. Kantor
M, Kantor PB. Decision making with barely any information. Maximum-entropy
and Bayesian Methods in Science and Engineering. Proceedings of the 5th,
6th, and 7th Workshops on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Applied
Statistics. Eds. G. J. Erickson and C. R. Smith.
21. Saracevic T, Kantor PB, Chamis A, Trivison D. Effectiveness and efficiency of searching in online searches: preliminary results from a study of information seeking and retrieving. In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science 1986 Conference, pp341-349, 1986.
22. Kantor PB. Application of the Maximum Entropy Principle to Retrieval from Large Data Bases. In Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Analysis and Estimation Problems, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods in Applied Statistics, Laramie WY, pp273-8187., 1986.
23.
Kantor PB. Scholars Cross Reference System. In Annual
Research Report of OCLC, OCLC,
24. Kantor PB. Information retrieval issues in the design of expert systems. In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science 1986 Conference, pp113-117, 1986.
25. Kantor PB. Information retrieval in the design of expert systems. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, pp109-118, 1986.
26. Kantor PB. The maximum entropy principle in information retrieval. In Proceedings of the ACM-SIGIR Conference, pp269-274, 1986.
27. Kantor PB. 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 V20, pp28-31, 1983.
28. Kantor PB. Quality, quantity and feedback in managing information systems. In Information Interaction, the Proceedings of the 45th American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting pp366-367, 1982.
29. Kantor
PB. Rigorous solution of competitive advantage problems: Application to bibliometric problems. In The Information Community: an
30. Kantor PB. Econometric studies and the determination of unit costs. In Communicating Information Proceedings of the 43rd American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, v17pp343, 1981.
31. Frohmberg KA, Kantor PB. Case studies of automation: the
main and music libraries at
32. Frohmberg K, Moffet W, Kantor PB. Increases in book availability in a large college library. In Communicating Information, Proceedings of the 43rd Annual American Society for Information Science Meeting, pp292-294, 1980.
33. Kantor PB. 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), 1977.
34. Kantor PB. QUBMIS: A quantitatively based management information system. In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science, pp174-176, l978.
6. Notes, book reviews, abstracts.
Review of “Strategic Appraisal: The Changing Role of Information Warfare” Ed. Zalmay Kahlilzad and John P. White. RAND. 1999. In Library Quarterly v71(3) p. 425-426. (July 2001)
Review of "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing" by Manning and Shutze, in Information Retrieval (2001)
Review of Randomness by Deborah J. Bennett in Library Quarterly (1999)
Review of Measuring Information: An Information Services Perspective by Jean Tague-Sutcliffe. (1996) In Information Processing and Management 32(2).
Review of Operations Research for Libraries and Information Agencies by Kraft and Royce. Journal of American Society for Information Science, v45(2)pp118-119. (March 1994).
Review of Research for Decision Making: Methods for Librarians by R. Swisher and C. R. McClure, College & Research Libraries, V47(1)pp92-93, January 1986.
Review of The Public Library in the 1980's: Problems of Choice by L. J. White. In Information Processing and Management, V21(1)pp77-78, 1985.
7. Conference presentations, lectures, demonstrations.
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 Virginia. November 14, 2001.
2001 E. Boros, P.B. Kantor, D.J. Neu, A Clustering Based Approach to Creating Multi-Document Summaries. 2001 Sep. 13. Document UnderstandingConference.
2000 Kantor PB. Information Retrieval Research -- a Survey of Issues. Invited Presentation at Syracuse University. Nov 2, 2000.
2000 Kantor PB. American Society for Information Science. Invited Presentation. November 2000. On Evaluating IR System Performance.
2001 Kantor PB. Newtonian Models of Human Behavior. SCILS Research Day. Feb. 2, 2001.
2000
Fulbright Research Scholar in
2000 May 18 AntWorld: A Collaborative Information Finding System (to OUC Students)
2000 May 11 Digital Libraries that Learn from their Users. (to OUC JBI Alumni program.2000).
2000 April 27 Digital Libraries and DL Research in the United States (to Students, OUC)
2000 April 27 Observation and Measurement in the Evaluation of Digital Libraries (to Students, OUC)
2000 April 13 A New Model of User Search Behavior: Theory and Observation (to OUC Faculty)
2000 April 11 User Models. Search Engines Conference, Boston MA.
2000 April 4 AntWorld: A Collaborative Information Finding System. To: Information Sciences department of the National Technical University in Trondheim, Norway.
2000 March 23 An Early Online Books Project. Conference on Electronic Access to Information. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor.
2000 March 20,21 Information Systems and Electronic Business Knowledge. Rutgers Business School.
2000 Jan 26. Statistical Issues in Information Retrieval. Rutgers University Department of Statistics.
2000 Jan.13 7 Myths of Information Science Association of Library and Information Sceicne Educators Annual Conference. San Antonio, Texas.
1999 Nov. 29. Electronic Business Knowledge. School of Management, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
1999 Nov. 11 Counting the Uncountable. NEC Research Institute, Princeton, New Jersey.
1999. November (several dates) American Society for Information Science Annual Conference. Presentation of four papers, 2,3,4,6 of Section 3
1999 June. The Role of Statistics in Information retrieval: Maximizing Disorder, Beating the Oracle and Counting the Uncountable. Keynote Address. First Korean Conference on Statistics and Information Retrieval. Soong Sil University, Seoul Korea.
1999 June. Rigorous Evaluation of Information retrieval Systems: A Statistical Perspective. Statistics Department. Soong Sil University, Seoul Korea.
1998 Metrics for Digital Libraries Presentation to the Digital Libraries Working Group. July 1998. Pittsburgh PA. .
1998 Digital Libraries; The AntWorld System. Series of invited lectures on Digital Libraries and Information Retrieval. Hogskol i Oslo. Oslo Norway. May 1998.
1998 The Human in the Loop IEEE Conference on Advances in Digital Libraries. Santa Barbara CA. April 1998.
1998 Evaluation of Digital Libraries. For the NSF Workshop on Toolkits for Information Retrieval Research. March.
1998 Measurement for Digital LibrariesUniversity of Illinois. Invited Presentation February 1998.
1998 Evaluation of Digital Libraries. Feb 12. 1998.Pittsburgh PA.
1998 Measurement for Digital Libraries Metrics for Digital Libraries Working Group. Jan 1998. Stanford CA.
1998 Kantor PB . Semantic Dimension and the Effectiveness of Linear Data Fusion Methods.. Fifth International
conference on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. Jan 4-6 1998. Fort Lauderdale FL
1997 Digital Information Pheromones DARPA CV/IM PIs conference. San Diego. October 1997.
1997 Text Retrieval Conference. November 1997. NIST
1997 Digital Libraries Conference. Tutorial on Measurement and Observation. July1997. Philadelphia PA.
1996 Toward a Geometric Understanding of Vocabulary Switching. Informal presentation at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, (May 1996) and at the University of California in Santa Barbara, (July 1996).
1996 Valuing Libraries Panel Measuring Value of Library Services. Chair: D. Penniman. Invited presentation at the National Center for Eduicational Statistics/National Council on Library and Information Services. Forum on Library and Information Services Policy. Alexandria VA. (May 21, 1996).
1996 A Markov Model for the Distribution of
Non-Value-Added Time
1996 Towards a Theory of Continuous Improvement
Willard Zangwill and
1996 Information Commerce In panel The national information infrastructure: policy, politics and economics Chair: M. Mueller. Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), (May 7,1996) Washington DC.
1995 Analysis of Data Fusion in Information Retrieval of Corrupted Data Kwong Bor Ng and Paul B. Kantor. Poster presentation at the Fourth Text Retrieval Conference. (Nov. 1, 1995).
1995 Studying the value of library and information services: A taxonomy of user assessments Paul B. Kantor and Tefko Saracevic. Presentation at the 58th Annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science. (Oct. 9, 1995).
1995 What Differences are Significant: Statistical
Evaluation Information Retrieval Tests Tutorial presented at the ACM SIGIR
Conference in Seattle Washington (July 9, 1995). J. Tague-Sutcliffe,
1995 Data Fusion in Information Retrieval. Tutorial presented at the ACM SIGIR Conference in Seattle Washington (July 9, 1995).
1995 Adaptive Network Library Interfaces: A New Ontology for Information Retrieval Presentation for the Library Information and Technology Association of the American Library Association. (Jun. 27. 1995).
1995 Competitiveness Issues. Session Chair. Institute for Operations Research and Management Science. Washington DC. (May 8, 1995).
1995 Data Fusion and Logical Analysis of Data for Information Retrieval Presentation at the Rutgers Center for Operations Research. (Apr. 10, 1995).
1995 Remarks on Evaluation of Digital Libraries Brief presentation at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, for a meeting of directors of electronic and digital library projects sponsored by the foundation. (Mar. 2, 1995).
1995 Cost and Beneficial Impacts of Library and Information Services Presentation at the Graduate Library School, University of Western Ontario. (Jan. 12, 1995).
1994 A Geometric Approach to Document Fusion in Information Retrieval. Invited Presentation at the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, Fall 1994.
1994 Experiments in Anonymous Collaboration. Invited Presentation at the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, Fall 1994.
1994 An Ontology and Architecture for Scientific MetaData Presentation at the High Performance Computing in Design Seminar, Rutgers University. Fall 1994.
1994 Data Fusion in Information Retrieval Presentation at the Central Intelligence Agency. (Oct. 20, 1994).
1994 Data Fusion in Information Retrieval. Tutorial presented at the ACM SIGIR Conference in Dublin Ireland (July 1994).
1994 What Bang for the Buck: Costs and Beneficial Impact of Library Operations at SCILS 31st Alumni-Faculty Symposium. April 15, 1994.
1994 Adaptive Library Interfaces. Presentation to the Technical Services Education Special Interest Group of the Association of Library and Information Science Education. Feb 3, 1994. Chairs: L. Silipigni and K. Burnett.
1993 Research Opportunities in Digital Libraries. Presented at the University of Michigan, School of Information and Library Studies. September 30, 1993.
1993 Data Fusion in Information Retrieval. Presented at Cornell University, Department of Computer Science. October 19, 1993.
1993 Vector Models for Data Fusion in Information Retrieval. Presented at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Computer Science. November 16, 1993.
1993 Reverse Engineering the Patriot Missile System from Publicly Available Data. Presented at SAIC, Division of Ballistic Missile Countermeasures, Roslyn VA. November 12, 1993
1993 The Episodic Nature of Continuous Improvement. Presented at Operations Research Society of North America (ORSA). November 1, 1993
1993 Combining Evidence for Information Retrieval at the 2nd TREC Conference. August 30, 1993. (with N. Belkin).
1993 Towards a Theory of Continuous Improvement. Presented to the IDA Cost Analysis and Research Division, Washington DC. Sept 3, 1993.
1992 Economic Aspects of a National Engineering Information Network Engineering Foundation Conference, June 1992, Palm Coast FL.
1992 Two Heads are Better Than One: Data Fusion in Information Retrieval. Presented at the National Online Conference, New York NY, May 7, 1992.
1992 A Natural Hierarchy of Learning Curves. Presented at the Operations Research Society of North America (ORSA). November 3, 1992.
1990 Distributed Sensor Systems: the Two-Fold Case. Division of Systems Engineering. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH, April l7, 1990.
1990 Costs and Cost Benefits of Distributed Cataloging to Library of Congress Standards. The Library of Congress, Washington DC, April 16, 1990.
1990 Patterns in Seeking and Retrieving Information. Navesink User Centered Forum, Bellcore, Piscataway NJ, February 6, 1990. (T. Saracevic and P. Kantor).
Optimizing Imperfect Sensors. Real Time Determination of the Receiver Operating Characteristic. Briefing for the Chief of the Sensors Program, Space Systems Division, US Air Force, Los Angeles CA, November 7, 1989.
Optimizing Distributed Sensors. Operations Research Society of America-The Institute for Management Science, New York NY, October 19, 1989.
Theory of the Learning Rate Budget. Operations Research Society of America-The Institute for Management Science, New York NY, October 17, 1989. (W. Zangwill and P. Kantor).
Optimal Tuning of Imperfect Sensors and the Effect of MidBattle Corrections. Invited presentation at DAS V, the joint symposium of the US Dept of Defense and the Republic of Korea Ministry of Defense. Sponsored by the Under-Secretary of the Army for Operations Research. Korean Institute for Defense Analyses. Seoul, Korea. [Refereed Proceedings.] September 22, 1989.
Implementing The Learning Rate Budget. Institute for Cost Analysis-National Estimating Society Joint Conference, Washington DC, July 6, 1989.
Imperfect Sensors. Briefing for the Staff of the System Engineer, Phase One Engineering Team, SDIO, Arlington VA, May 5, 1989.
The Learning Rate Budget. The Weatherhead School of Management. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH, April 28, 1989.
Information Sciences. Rutgers the State University. New Brunswick NJ, February 14, 1989.
Effect of MidBattle Correction on A Strategic Defense System with Imperfect Detectors. Briefing for the Chief of Battle Management Systems, SDIO, The Pentagon, Washington DC, February 10, 1989.
Effect of MidBattle Correction on A Strategic Defense System with Imperfect Detectors. Briefing for the Chief Scientist of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO), The Pentagon, Washington DC, December 9, 1988.
Assessing the Costs. Invited Presentation, National Library of Medicine Conference on MedLine on CD-ROM, Bethesda MD, September 23, 1988.
The Cost Progress Curve. Operations Research Society of America-The Institute for Management Science, St. Louis MO, April 28, 1988.
National Language Specific Sites for the Evaluation of Retrieval Systems. First International RIAO Conference, Boston MA, March 21, 1988.
Performance Measurement for Reference Services. Case Western Reserve University Library, Cleveland OH, March 11, 1988.
Library Performance Measurement. Presentation to the Graduate Seminar at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Studies, Champaign IL, February 18 - 19, 1988.
Why Measure Performance? Association of College and Research Libraries, College and University Library Statistics Section, San Antonio TX, January 8, 1988.
A Unifying Model for the Cost Progress Phenomenon. Operations Research Society of America-The Institute for Management Science, St. Louis MO, October 28, 1987.
Conceptual Clustering and De-clustering. Invited participant, Conference on Clustering, chaired by M. Kochen and Supported by the National Science Foundation, Philadelphia PA, September 12, 1987.
Objective Probabilities and Likeliness Ratios. Seventh International Workshop on Bayesian Methods and the Maximum Entropy Principle, Seattle WA, August 6, 1987.
Frontiers in Information Science. Keynote Address, American Society for Information Science Research Mini-Forum, University of Western Ontario, Waterloo, Ontario, May 5, 1987.
A Study of the Maximum Entropy Principle in the Case of Inconsistent Expert Judgments. Presented at the May 3-5 1987 meeting of ORSA-TIMS, New York NY. (J. J. Lee and P. B. Kantor).
Distributed Intelligence and Anonymous Reference Sharing: a New Tool for Scholars. Online Center for Library Computing, Dublin OH, May 1, 1987.
Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back.: The Problem of Performance Standards for Academic and Research Libraries. University of Indiana Libraries, Bloomington IN, April 2, 1987.
Multi-Expert Expert Systems. The First International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Knoxville TN, October 23, 1986.
Information Retrieval and Artificial Intelligence: Who Is Helping Whom? American Society for Information Science, Chicago IL, September 29, 1986.
The Maximum Entropy Principle in Information Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, Pisa, Italy, September 1986.
The Production Learning Curve: A Unifying Model. Operations Research Group at AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ, August 18, 1986.
Is Hilbert Space Too Large? VIth Annual Workshop on Bayesian Inference and the Maximum Entropy Principle, Seattle WA, August 7, 1986.
The ARL Experience: Precursor to Standards? Preconference on Cost Studies sponsored by the Reference and Technical Services Division of the ALA, New York NY, 1986.
Seminar on Economic Problems of Academic Libraries for Library Directors and University Administrators at the Level of Academic Vice-President. Seminar Leader. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston MA, (with M. Cummings) June 6, 1985.
Seminar on Economic Problems of Academic Libraries for Library Directors and University Administrators at the Level of Academic Vice-President. Seminar Leader. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, (with M. Cummings) May 28, 1985.
Library Cost Measurement. American Library Association Pre- Conference on Technical Services, New York NY, May 27, 1986.
Seminar on Economic Problems of Academic Libraries for Library Directors and University Administrators at the Level of Academic Vice-President. Seminar Leader. University of Illinois, Champaign IL, (with M. Cummings) May 7, 1985.
Multi-Expert Expert Systems. University of Minnesota School of Business Management Information Systems Program, Minneapolis MN, May 2, 1986.
Library Performance and Costs of Quality. Association of Research Libraries, Minneapolis MN, May 1, 1986.
Seminar on Economic Problems of Academic Libraries for Library Directors and University Administrators at the Level of Academic Vice-President. Seminar Leader. Emory University, Atlanta GA, (with M. Cummings) March 30, 1985.
Seminar on Economic Problems of Academic Libraries for Library Directors and University Administrators at the Level of Academic Vice-President. Seminar Leader. University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley CA, (with M. Cummings) April 29, 1985.
Seminar on Economic Problems of Academic Libraries for Library Directors and University Administrators at the Level of Academic Vice-President. Seminar Leader. University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX, (with M. Cummings) April 11, 1985.
Seminar on Economic Problems of Academic Libraries for Library Directors and University Administrators at the Level of Academic Vice-President. Seminar Leader. Florida State University, Tallahassee FL, (with M. Cummings) January 30, 1985.
Objective Performance Measurement in Libraries, and the Determination of Costs in Technical Services. Northwestern University, Evanston IL, Summer 1984.
Objective Performance Measurement in Libraries, and the Determination of Costs in Technical Services. Emory University, Summer 1984.
Objective Performance Measurement in Libraries, and the Determination of Costs in Technical Services. University of Georgia, Summer 1984.
Objective Performance Measurement in Libraries, and the Determination of Costs in Technical Services. New York University, Summer 1984.
Objective Performance Measurement in Libraries, and the Determination of Costs in Technical Services. Vanderbilt University, Summer 1984.
Workshop on Unit Cost. Kentucky Special Libraries Association, May ll-12, 1984.
Cost Function for Academic Libraries. Invited Presentation for Directors of Major Research Libraries, Colorado Springs CO, April 27, 1984.
Cost and Usage of Medical Libraries. Keynote speech, Southeastern Conference of Hospital Librarians Annual Meeting, Atlanta GA, April 4, 1984.
The Relations Between Costs and Services in Academic Libraries. Fifth International Conference on Contemporary Issues in Academic and Research Libraries, Boulder CO, March 4, 1984.
The Role of Mathematics in Information Science. Northwestern University Library, Evanston IL, Winter 1984.
Objective Performance Measures for Academic Libraries Presented at the University of North Carolina Library School.
Objective
Performance Measures for Academic Libraries Presented at the
Objective Performance Measures for Academic Libraries Presented at the Northwestern University Library.
Objective Performance Measures for Academic Libraries Presented at the University of Chicago Library School.
Objective Performance Measures for Academic Libraries Presented at the University of California at San Diego.
The Role of Mathematics in Information Science. University