Leslie Miller
Professor

Office: 112 Atanasoff Phone: (515) 294-7588 Fax: (515) 294-0258 Email: lmiller@cs.iastate.edu Homepage: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~lmiller/homepage.html

Research Interests

Object oriented databases, Organizational decision support systems, Data Warehouses, Database semantics, Organizational memory, Parallel searching methods, Multi-agent systems, Database design, Data Mining, Computational Biology.

Research Areas

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Information Integration and Information Retrieval, Database Systems, Information Security, Multi-Agent Systems, Software Systems

Research Statement

Dr. Miller is currently looking at the developing infrastructure for providing geospatial data to field survey and exploration applications. Other work on geospatial data focuses on developing accuracy models. Current activity in the organizational decision support systems area centers around the use of object based database systems to support the decision process. Work on organizational memory is focused on the capture of organizational semantics and the integration of corporate documents into the meeting process.

Education

Ph.D.   Computer Science, Southern Methodist University   1980
M.A.   Mathematics, University of South Dakota   1974
B.A.   Mathematics, University of South Dakota   1967

Honors and Awards

Member European Academy of Science  European Academy of Science, 2002-2008

Current Grants

Accommodating Individual Differences in Software Designed for Location-Based Survey Tasks. Sarah Nusser, Les Miller, Betty Murphy(Census). NSF (2008-2010). $230,000.

US Department of Agriculture Bioinformatics Training Grant. Jack Dekkers (PI), Sue Lamount, Chris Tuggle, Jim Reecy, Hank Harris, Ken Koehler, Dan Nettleson, Karin Dorman, Les Miller. US Department of Agriculture (2007-2009). $252,000.

Representative Publications

Refereed Journal and Conference Publications

Miller, L.L., Xin Yu, and Sree Nilakanta. Integration of Databases and Record-Based Legacy Systems for Populating Data Warehouses. Thirty-Fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2002.

Miller, L.L. and Sree Nilakanta. A Committee-Based Model for Supporting Organizational Knowledge Management. Annual Conference of the International Academy for Information Management. pp. 317-326, 2001.

Tsai, Hsine-Jen, L.L. Miller, Jian Xu, and Sa Lin. Using Ontologies to Integrate Domain Specific Data Sources. ISCA 3rd International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Las Vegas, NV. pp. 62-67, 2001.