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Norman M.
Sadeh is a Professor in the School of
Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is director of
CMU’s e-Supply Chain Management Laboratory, director of its Mobile
Commerce Laboratory, and co-Director of the School’s PhD Program in Computation,
Organizations and Society. He also co-directs the newly created MBA track in Technology Leadership launched jointly by the Tepper School of Business and the School of Computer Science.. As part of his activities, he teaches, conducts research and provides
consulting services in the areas of Supply Chain Management, Planning and
Scheduling, Agent Technologies, Automated Negotiation, Workflow Management,
the Semantic Web, Mobile Commerce, Pervasive Computing and Internet Privacy
and Security. He is also interested in the broader business, social and
policy implications associated with the emerging Information Society.
Dr. Sadeh has been on the faculty at CMU since 1991. He built his initial reputation in the area of planning, scheduling and constraint satisfaction, developing techniques and tools that have been used by a number of companies and government organizations. He is also well-known for his seminal research in supply chain management and mixed initiative workflow management, which has influenced technical and commercial developments at several large companies. Over the past six years, Norman has conducted pioneering research in pervasive computing and semantic web technologies for privacy and context awareness and is currently extending these techniques to inter-enterprise collaboration scenarios. Other recent accomplishments include the design and launch of the international Supply Chain Trading Agent Competition (TAC-SCM). In its first 5 years, the competition has attracted over 120 entries from 60 teams hailing from 21 different countries. In the late nineties, Norman worked as program manager with the European Commission’s ESPRIT research program, prior to serving for two years as Chief Scientist of its US$650M (EURO 550M) initiative in "New Methods of Work and eCommerce" within the Information Society Technologies (IST) program. As such, he was responsible for shaping European research priorities in collaboration with industry and universities across Europe. These activities eventually resulted in the launch of over 200 R&D projects involving over 1,000 European organizations from industry and research. While at the Commission, Norman was also involved in key eCommerce and Internet policy discussions. Norman received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at CMU with a major in Artificial Intelligence and a minor in Operations Research. He holds a MS degree in computer science from the University of Southern California and a BS/MS degree in electrical engineering and applied physics from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) as “Ingénieur Civil Physicien”. Dr. Sadeh has authored over150 scientific publications. He served as general chair of the 2003 International Conference on Electronic Commerce and as editor-in-chief of “Electronic Commerce Research Applications” (ECRA). Norman is currently on the editorial board of several other journals, including “Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems” (JAAMAS), “I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society”, and the "International Journal of Web Services Research". He serves on the advisory board of the Irish Centre for Telecommunication Value-Chain Research (CTVR). He is a Certified Fellow of APICS (CFPIM). He is also the author of “m-Commerce: Technologies, Services and Business Models”, a book published by Wiley in April 2002. Norman is also co-founder and chairman of Wombat Security Technologies, a company commercializing advanced training and filtering products to combat phishing attacks. |