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Sept. 10, 2003
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BUSINESS PROFESSOR'S RESEARCH SUPPORTS HOMELAND SECURITY
OSWEGO -- The National Science Foundation and the
Department of Defense have joined forces to support research addressing
management challenges faced by modern knowledge-based organizations --
including research by SUNY Oswego's Dr. June Dong, professor of
management in the School of Business.
Their "Management of Knowledge Intensive, Dynamic
Systems" program supports researchers investigating how information
technology can help streamline processes for organizations that must
respond rapidly to incoming knowledge, dynamic situations and
uncertainty.
Dong is working on the project with Dr. Anna
Nagurney, John F. Smith Memorial Professor at the Isenberg School of
Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
The Oswego professor said the NSF project is an
outgrowth of a presentation she and Nagurney made at a foundation
workshop in Washington, D.C., last Sept. 11. The audience included NSF
staff members, workshop speakers, and representatives from the National
Security Agency.
They have received an NSF grant "to study knowledge
supernetworks and to develop models that examine the management of
dynamic business processes under risk and uncertainty," Dong said. "The
project will develop a new theoretical framework as well as
computational algorithms."
NSF has supported their earlier work on
decentralized decision-making in complex network systems.
Dong is the co-author with Nagurney of the book,
"Supernetworks: Decision-Making for the Information Age," published
last year by Edward Elgar Publishers, and the recipient of the
President's Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity from SUNY Oswego
last spring.
She is an associate of the Virtual Center for
Supernetworks (http://supernet.som.umass.edu/).
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