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Vijayan Sugumaran is a professor of management information systems in
the Department of Decision and Information Sciences at Oakland University,
Rochester, Michigan. He is also a visiting professor in the Department of Service
Systems Management and Engineering at Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea.
He earned a PhD in information technology from George Mason University,
Fairfax, Virginia. His research interests are in the areas of service science, ontolo-
gies and semantic web issues, intelligent agent and multiagent systems, and com-
ponent-based software development. He has published over 140 peer-rev ...