M. Brian Blake,Ph.D

I joined the Department of Computer Science in the Fall of 2000. My research interests lie in the investigation of automated approaches to sharing information and software capabilities across organizational boundaries, sometimes referred to as enterprise integration. With respect to this area, my investigations cover the spectrum of software engineering: design, specification, proof of correctness, implementation/experimentation, performance evaluation, and application.

I teach the department’s courses on Software Engineering (COSC 345/346) and Electronic Commerce (COSC 545/ MGMT 630). In addition, I make regular scholarly contributions to the area of software engineering education.

One of 10 Emerging Scholars for 2007, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
National Science Foundation Advisory Board, CISE 2006-2008
Author of Most Downloaded Paper, Annals of Software Engineering and Information Systems and E-Business Management, February 2005
Author of the Best Transaction Paper of 2003, IEEE Transactions on Education, October 2004
Author of the Best Mini-Track Paper (Best Paper Finalist), Web Services and Workflow Track, IEEE Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS 2004)
Named the Most Promising Engineer, Black Engineer of Year, February 2003

IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing (EDOC'07), Program Chair
ACM Richard W. Tapia Conference on Diversity and Computing (TAPIA 2007), Funding Chair
Georgetown/IBM SOA Summit (September 2006), Organizer
2006 IEEE Conference on Services Computing (SCC2006), Program Chair
The Web Services Challenge at the IEEE Joint Conference on Electronic Commerce Technology (CEC 2007) and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce, and E-Services (EEE 2007), Founder and Conference Officer
National Academy of Engineering, Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, 2004-2005 Invited Participant and 2006 Organizer
National Academy of Science, Frontiers of Science Symposium, 2005 Invited Participant

Software Engineering for Web Services Workflow Systems, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, March 2008 (with L. Singh)
Decomposing Composition, Service-Oriented Software Engineers, IEEE Software, Special Issue of Realizing Service-Centric Systems, Nov/Dec 2007
Workflow Composition of Service Level Agreements, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, 2007 (with undergraduate, Cummings) (20% Acceptance Rate)
Context-Aware Agents for User-Oriented Service Discovery and Execution, Distributed and Parallel Databases, 2007 (with undergraduates, Nowlan & Kahan)
A Lightweight Software Design Process for Web Services Workflows, IEEE International Conference on Web Services, September 2006 (16% Acceptance Rate)
Experimentation with Local Consensus Ontologies with Implications for Automated Service Composition, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, July 2005 (with A. Williams and A. Padmanabhan)
Agent-Oriented Compositional Approaches to Services-Based Cross-Organizational Workflow, Special Issue on Web Services and Process Management, Decision Support Systems, July 2005 (with H. Gomaa)
A Specification Language and Service-Oriented Architecture to Support Distributed Data Management, Software: Practice and Experience, September 2004
Coordinating Multiple Agents for Workflow-Oriented Process Orchestration, Information Systems and E-Business Management, December 2003

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