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§ Biographical Information

• Download my curriculum vitae in Acrobat PDF format.
• Education
  • Ph.D. Information and Computer Science,
    University of California, Irvine, September 2002
  • M.A. Communication Management, Annenberg School for Communication
    University of Southern California, May 1994.
  • B.S. in Operations Management, Minor in Computer Information Systems, Business School
    California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
• Teaching
  • Current Class(es) Taught at NJIT
  • CIS663 Advanced Systems Analysis and Design
  Past Teaching Experience
  • American Indian Summer Institute In Computer Science (AISICS '97 and '98):
    Digital Presence, Personal and Organizational Electronic Communication Techniques and Norms
  • Data Structures (1997)

§ Research Interests

• Klashner is interested in using the architectural metaphor as a communication tool. He uses software architecture styles to study multi-stakeholder software integration projects associated with large, complex, socio-technical systems that depend heavily on the flow of information to maintain productivity levels. While conducting field research, he began investigating the increased use of information systems in the rapidly evolving electric power domain. He discovered how constraints emerged and were translated into system requirements, specifications, and finally implementation efforts. To understand and facilitate complex integration efforts, he built a generally applicable software architecture tool suite in Java. The tool is an analysis aide for designers who must factor in complex systemic relationships when considering domain specific constraints. His future research will leverage the tool suite and the underlying socio-technical theory to design evolvable architectures and explore resource acquisition in dynamic environments such as E-Commerce.

  You can also read his dissertation abstract or a general explanation of his research trajectory.

• General professional information:
• A Curriculum Vitae in Acrobat PDF format.

§ References

Professor Richard N. Taylor advisor
Dean John L. King (original advisor, now at Univ. of Michigan)
Professor Lubomir F. Bic

§ Publications

• Klashner, R. "ICT and the Deregulation of the Electric Power Industry: A Story of a Codependence". Special issue on Social Aspects of Digital Information in Perspective in the Journal of Digital Information. Roberta Lamb and Susan Johnson, Editors. Under review.
• Sabet, S. A. and R. Klashner. "Helping Network Managers Meet Service Demands Using DSS". In the proceedings of the SIGDSS Workshop: Research Directions on Decision Support held in conjunction with the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS'03), Seattle, WA, December 14, 2003.
• Klashner, R. "Leasing Application Services in E-Commerce Markets". In the proceedings of the 7th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS'01), Boston, MA, August 3-5, 2001, pp. 563-571. AMCIS '01 abstract.
• Klashner, R. "A Domain Specific Software Architecture Simulator". Informal research demonstration poster presentation for the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'01), Toronto, CA, May 12-19, 2001.
• Klashner, R. "Evolving Software Architectures to Reflect Changing Domain Constraints". A student position paper for the Human Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC'01), Snow Mountain Ranch, CO, February 7-11, 2001.
• Klashner, R. "Design Methods for Information Infrastructure to Support Electric Power Deregulation" for the Doctoral Consortium of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS'00), Brisbane, AU, December 7-14, 2000.

§ Short Courses or Workshops

• Martinez, C. A., Klashner, R. "Distributed Power Generation Grid Connectivity" presented at the International Colloquium on Environmentally Preferred Advanced Energy Generation (ICEPAG'00), Newport Beach, CA, April 6, 2000.

§ Selected Manuscripts

• Klashner, R., Lee, S., Samuelsen, G.S., and Brouwer, J. "Distributed Energy Resources in the Information Age: The Power Park Niche in Electric Power Spot Markets" (2000).
• Klashner, R. "A Computer Aided Requirements Engineering/Software Architecture (CARESA) Tool" (2001).
• Mazumdar, S., Klashner, R. "Islanding, Disturbed, and Normal: An Ethnography of Electricity Supply Company's MIS" abstract.