Riyaz T. Sikora
Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Department of Business Administration, College of Business

Degrees | Positions | Publications | Honors | Academic Service | Teaching/Research
Degrees
Ph.D. Business Administration, University of Illinois, 1994
P.G.d.M., Indian Institute of Management, 1988
B. Engr. Electronics and Communications Engineering, Osmania University, India, 1987.
Positions Held
At the University of Illinois since 1997. Assistant professor, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 1994-97.
Recent Publications
"A Multi-Agent Framework for the Coordination and Integration of Information Systems," with M. Shaw, Management Science, Vol. 44, No. 11 (November 1998), pp. 565-78. "Coordination Mechanisms for Multi-Agent Information Systems: Applications to Integrated Manufacturing Scheduling," with M. Shaw, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 44, (May 1997). "A Genetic Algorithm Based Approach to Flexible Flow-Line Scheduling with Variable Lot Sizes," with I. Lee and M. Shaw, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 27 (1997). "An Intelligent Fault Diagnosis System for Robotic Machines," with S. Piramuthu, International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Organizations, Vol. 1 (1996). "A Genetic Algorithm for Integrating Lot-Sizing and Sequencing in Scheduling a Capacitated Flow Line," in Computers and Industrial Engineering: Special Issue on Genetic Algorithms, Vol. 30 (1996). "Integrating the Lot-Sizing and Sequencing Decisions for Scheduling a Capacitated Flow Line," with D. Chhajed and M. Shaw, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 30 (1996). "A Computational Study of Distributed Rule Learning," with M. Shaw, Information Systems Research, Vol. 7 (June 1996).
Honors and Awards
Research Fellowship, The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1996. Research grants, The University of Michigan - Dearborn, 1996-97, 1995-96.
Academic Service
Editorial board of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Organizations, 1995-present.
Teaching and Research
Teaches AI/expert systems, database management systems, and management information systems. Recent research interest includes intelligent manufacturing, AI/Expert systems, business applications of machine learning in general, genetic algorithms in particular.
 

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