Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

  • “A Human-in-the-loop Segmented Mixed-effects Modeling Method For Analyzing Wearables Data” (K. Srinivasan, F. Currim, S. Ram). ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems [impact factor 2.54]. Volume 14, Issue 2, June 2023.
  • “Discovery of associative patterns between workplace sound level and physiological wellbeing using wearable devices and empirical Bayes modeling”, (K. Srinivasan, F. Currim, C. Lindberg, J. Razjouyan, B. Gilligan, H. Lee, K. Canada, N. Goebel, M. Mehl, M. Lunden, J. Heerwagen, B. Najafi, E. Sternberg, K. Kampschroer,  Sudha Ram), NPJ Digital Medicine [Impact Factor 15.36], Volume 6, Issue 5, Jan 2023.
  • “Data Completeness and Complex Semantics in Conceptual Modeling: the need for a Disaggregation Construct” (Y. Li, F. Currim, S. Ram). Journal of Data and Information Quality [impact factor 4.1]. Volume 14, Issue 4. December 2022.
  • “Toward NEPA Performance: A framework for assessing EIAs” (K. Emerson, E. Baldwin, T. Scott, J. Pidot, A. Lien, F. Currim, S. Bethard, S. Ram, M. Miller, L. Lopez-Hoffman). Environment Impact Assessment Review [impact factor 6.12]. Volume 97, November 2022.
  • “Deep Learning of Spatiotemporal Patterns for Urban Mobility Prediction using Big Data” (Y. Wang, F. Currim, S. Ram). Information Systems Research [impact factor 7.83]. Volume 33, Issue 2, June 2022.
  • “Evaluating Distributed Computing Infrastructures: An Empirical Study Comparing Hadoop Deployments on Cloud and Local Systems”. (D. Bhattacharya, F. Currim, S. Ram). IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing [impact factor 5.97]. Volume 9, Issue 3, July 2021.
  • “Wellbuilt for Wellbeing: Controlling Relative Humidity in the Workplace Matters for Our Health” (J. Razjouyan, H. Lee, B. Gilligan, C. Lindberg, H. Nguyen, K. Canada, A. Burton, A. Sharafkhaneh, K. Srinivasan, F. Currim, S. Ram, M. Mehl, N. Goebel, M. Lunden, S. Bhangar, J. Heerwagen,  K. Kampschroer, E. Sternberg, B. Najafi). Indoor Air [impact factor 4.71]. Indoor Air. Volume 30, Issue 1, Jan 2020.
  • “Predicting High Cost Patients at Point of Admission using Network Science”, (K. Srinivasan, F. Currim, S. Ram). IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics [impact factor 3.85], Volume 22, Issue 6, November 2018.
  • “Effects of office workstation type on physical activity and stress”, (C. Lindberg, K. Srinivasan, B. Gilligan, J.  Razjouyan, H. Lee, B. Najafi, K. Canada, M. Mehl, F. Currim, S. Ram, M. Lunden, J. Heerwagen, K. Kampschroer, E. Sternberg). Occupational and Environmental Medicine [impact factor 3.97], Vol 75, Issue 10, October 2018.
  • “Using a knowledge learning framework to predict errors” (S. Currim, S. Ram, A. Durcikova, F. Currim). Information Systems, Vol 40, March 2014.
  • “A Maintenance Centric Approach to the View Selection Problem” (R. Hylock, F. Currim). Information Systems, Vol 38, Issue 7, October 2013.
  • “Modeling spatial and temporal set-based constraints during conceptual database design” (F. Currim, S. Ram). Information Systems Research, Vol 23, Issue 1, March 2012.
  • “Adding Temporal Constraints to XML Schema” (F. Currim, S. Currim, C. Dyreson, R. Snodgrass, S. Thomas, R. Zhang). IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol 24, Issue 8, August 2012.
  • “Safe & Efficient Privacy-policy Enforcement on Hadoop” (I. Jo, E. Jung, F. Currim, H. Y. Yeom). Information Journal, Vol 15, Issue 4, April 2012.
  • “Competitive Intelligence Task Analysis and Retrieval: An End-User Approach” (L. Zhang, S. Currim, F. Currim). Review of Business Information Systems, Vol 15, Issue 2, 2011.
  • “A data modeling process for decomposing healthcare patient data sets” (D-F Lu, W. N. Street, F. Currim, R. Hylock, C. Delaney). Online Journal of Nursing Informatics, Vol 13, Issue 1, February 2009.
  • “Conceptually modeling Windows and Bounds for space and time in database constraints” (F. Currim, S. Ram). Communications of the ACM, November 2008.
  • “Validating quicksand: Schema versioning in τXSchema” (R. T. Snodgrass, C. Dyreson, F. Currim, S. Currim, S. Joshi). Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol 65, Issue 2, May 2008.
  • “Weaving Temporal and Reliability aspects into a schema tapestry” (C. Dyreson, R. T. Snodgrass, F. Currim, S. Currim, S. Joshi). Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol 63, Issue 3, December 2007.
  • “The Latin American ICBG: The first five years” (B. Timmermann, G. Wachter, S. Valcic, B. Hutchinson, C. Casler, J. Henzel, S. Ram, F. Currim, R. Manak, S. Franzblau, W. Maiese, D. Galinis, E. Suarez, R. Fortunato, E. Saavedra, R. Bye, R. Mata, G. Montenegro). Journal of Pharmaceutical Biology, Vol. 37 (Suppl.), 1999, pp. 35-54.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

  • “What Makes an Online Suggestion A Good One for Online Health Communities” (Z. Yang, S. Ram, F. Currim), 25th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2020), 2020.
  • “Suggestion Mining for Online Health Forums” (Z. Yang, S. Ram, F. Currim), 29th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2019.
  • “Modeling Bike Sharing Systems and Predicting Station Demand Using Heterogeneous Data Sources” (F. Dong, F. Currim, S. Ram), 29th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2019.
  • “Drug-Drug Interaction Mining and Interaction Terms Extraction using Deep Learning: A Word-level Attention Bi-Directional LSTM” (Z. Yang, S. Ram, F. Currim), 28th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2018.
  • “Future Impact Prediction of Technology based on Patent Ranking in Heterogeneous Network” (Z. Yang, S. Ram, F. Currim), Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), 2018.
  • “Using Digital Health Wearable Devices to Understand the Relationship Between Sound levels and Wellbeing: A Segmented Mixed-effects Regression Approach” (K. Srinivasan, F. Currim, S. Ram), 27th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2017.
  • “A Regularization Approach for Identifying Cumulative Lagged Effects in Smart Health Applications”, (K. Srinivasan, F. Currim, S. Ram, C. Lindberg, E. Sternberg, B. Najafi, J. Razjouyan, H. Lee, M. Mehl, D. Herzl, R. Herzl, M. Lunden, N. Goebel, S. Andrews, B. Gilligan, J. Heerwagen, K. Kamschroer, K. Canada), 7th International Conference on Digital Health, 2017.
  • “Deep Learning for Bus Passenger Demand Prediction Using Big Data” (Y. Wang, F. Currim, S. Ram), 26th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2016.
  • “SMARTBIKE: Policy making and decision support for Bike Share systems” (S. Ram, F. Dong, F. Currim, Y. Wang, E. Dantas, L. A. Sabóia), IEEE 2nd International Smart Cities Conference, 2016.
  • “A Big Data Approach for Smart Transportation Management on Bus Network” (Y. Wang, S. Ram, F. Currim, E. Dantas, L. A. Sabóia), IEEE 2nd International Smart Cities Conference, 2016. [award: Best Paper]
  • “Feature importance and predictive modeling for multi-source healthcare data with missing values” (K. Srinivasan, F. Currim, S. Ram, C. Lindberg, E. Sternberg, P. Skeath, B. Najafi, J. Razjouyan, H. Lee, C. Foe-Parker, N. Goebel, R. Herzl, M. Mehl, B. Gilligan, J. Heerwagen, K. Kampschroer, K. Canada), 6th International Conference on Digital Health (in conjunction with WWW 2016), 2016. [award: Best Student-led Paper]
  • “SMARTBUS: A Web Application for Smart Urban Mobility and Transportation” (S. Ram, Y. Wang, F. Currim, F. Dong, E. Dantas, L. A. Sabóia), AW4city 2nd International Smart City Workshop, (in conjunction with WWW 2016), 2016.
  • “Using Big Data for Predicting Freshmen Retention” (S. Ram, Y. Wang, F. Currim, S. Currim). International Conference on Information Systems, 2015.
  • “Class Imbalance Learning and Novel Feature Extraction Methods for Predicting Freshman Retention” (Y. Wang, F. Currim, S. Currim, S. Ram, 25th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, 2015.
  • “Safe & Efficient Privacy-policy Enforcement on Hadoop” (I. Jo, E. Jung, F. Currim, H. Y. Yeom), International Conference on Computer Convergence Technology, 2011.
  • “When Entities are Types: Effectively Modeling Type-Instantiation Relationships” (F. Currim, S. Ram). Third International Workshop on Active Conceptual Modeling of Learning, 2010.
  • “Exploratory Competitive Intelligence through Task Complexity Analysis” (S. Currim, L. Zhang, F. Currim). Fifth annual conference of Midwest Association for Information Systems (MWAIS), 2010.
  • “Privacy policy enforcement for health information data access” (F. Currim, E. Jung, X. Xiao and I. Jo). WiMD 2009: ACM International Workshop on Medical-grade Wireless Networks. May 2009.
  • “Quips, MD: Query Information Privacy and Security, for Medical Data” (X. Xiao, E. Jung, F. Currim). Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, 2008.
  • “NursingCareWare: Warehousing for nursing care research and knowledge discovery” (R. Hylock, W. N. Street, D-F Lu, F. Currim), Proceedings of the 3rd INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Health Informatics, 2008.
  • “RFID Tagging at the aggregate level: implications for using groupings” (F. Currim, S. Ram). Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Research in Systems Analysis and Design, 2008.
  • “Database systems: Understanding the effect of organizational knowledge creation on data quality” (S. Currim, F. Currim). Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Research in Systems Analysis and Design, 2008.
  • “RFID Data: A case of and for types and instances” (F. Currim, S. Ram). Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, 2007. [Acceptance rate ~ 32%; Acceptance rate for Conceptual modeling track not known but likely under 30% based on past data]
  • “Understanding the concept of “Completeness” in frameworks for modeling cardinality constraints” (F. Currim, S. Ram). Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, 2006. [Acceptance rate 82/220 ~ 37%; acceptance rate in Conceptual modeling track: ~ 27%]
  • “Schema-mediated exchange of temporal XML data” (C. Dyreson, R. T. Snodgrass, F. Currim, S. Currim). Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 2006. [Acceptance rate 37/158 ~ 23%]
  • “Making the case for new semantic constructs to model RFID data” (F. Currim, S. Ram). Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Research in Systems Analysis and Design, 2006.
  • “Validating quicksand: schema versioning in τXSchema” (C. Dyreson, R. T. Snodgrass, F. Currim, S. Currim, S. Joshi). Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on XML Schema and Data Management, 2006. [Acceptance rate 10/15 ~ 66%]
  • “A Tale of Two Schemas: creating a temporal XML schema from a snapshot schema with τXSchema” (F. Currim, S. Currim, R. T. Snodgrass, C. Dyreson). In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, 2004, Heraklion-Crete, Greece. pp. 348-364. [Acceptance rate 42/294 ~ 14%]

Other Publications and Presentations

  • “Understanding Semantic Completeness in Rule Frameworks for Modeling Cardinality Constraints” (F. Currim, S. Ram). EMISA Journal (invited contribution for special issue), Vol 13(2), 2018.
  • “A literature survey of computational support for global public policy” (F. Currim, W. Foster, R. Reinsch, H. Thoreson, S. Saheil). Technical Report. 2013.
  • “Modeling Spatial and Temporal Cardinality Constraints”, (F. Currim, S. Ram). Information Systems sub-track INFORMS, November 2010.
  • “The CARD System”, (F. Currim, N. Neidig, A. Kampoowale, G. Mhatre). 29th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, (ER 2010), pp. 433-437.
  • “τXSchema—Support for Data- and Schema-Versioned XML Documents”, (F. Currim, S. Currim, C. Dyreson, R. T. Snodgrass, S. W. Thomas, S. Joshi, E. Roeder). Technical Report TR-91, TimeCenter, May 2009.
  • “Q-RICE: Query Rewriting and policy Integration for access Control and Enforcement” (E. Jung, F. currim, X. Xiao, N. Burnette, E. Hoffman).  DIMACS workshop on Internet Privacy: Facilitating Seamless Data Movement with Appropriate Controls. September 2008.
  • “A Data modeling process For decomposing healthcare patient data sets” (D-F Lu, W. N. Street, F. Currim, C. Delaney). International Conference to Celebrate the Centennial of the College of Nursing, SeoulNationalUniversity, 2007.
  • “CARD: Constraint Automated Representation for Database Systems” (F. Currim, N. Neidig, A. Kampoowale, G. Mhatre, M. Vanderflugt, A. Padiyara). Prototype Session Demonstration, at 17th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, 2007.