Lois M.L. Delcambre, Ph.D. Professor Emerita, Computer Science Department, Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science, Portland State University Phone: +1 503 725-2405 E-mail: lmd with the normal university address of pdx.edu Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 1982 Current CV Note: On December 31, 2015, Dr. Delcambre retired from Portland State University and was promoted to the rank of Professor Emerita. Note: prior to September 16, 2004, Dr. Delcambre was a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the OGI School of Science and Engineering at Oregon Health & Science University.
Recent Research Projects	NSF Information and Intelligent Systems Division, “Quick Draw Semantics”, with Scott Britell, Sept. 2012-Aug.2014. NSF NSDL Program, Pathways, “Ensemble: Enriching Communities and Collections to Support Education in Computing,” with David Maier and Bryant York, in collaboration with Boots Cassel, PI (Villanova), Ed Fox (Va. Tech), Rick Furuta (Texas A&M), and a number of other partner institutions and Co-PIs, Sept. 2008-2014.. NSF Information and Intelligent Systems Division, “Exploiting domain expertise to enhance information retrieval,” with Marianne Lykke Nielsen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark), and Susan Price (Microsoft Corp.), Sept. 2008-2013. NIH/NLM, Lois Delcambre PI at PSU (with Judith Logan, MD, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Overall PI), “Exploiting the User Interface for Data Integration in Effectiveness Research”, 09/09-08/11 Sept. 2009 – August 2011. NSF, Leonard Shapiro PI, Lois Delcambre Co-PI, “EAGER: Full Disclosure of Data Preparation and Use in Retrospective Studies, 0954268, Sept. 2009 – Sept. 2011. DARPA (through a subcontract with Lockheed), “Pay-as-you-go Information Integration”, with David Maier (PI), February 2008 - December 2008. NSF Information and Intelligent Systems Division, "Adapting Information using Superimposed Models and Structures", with David Maier, February 2006 - February 2010. NSF Digital Government Program, "Accelerated Indexing in a Domain-specific Digital Library, June 1, 2005 - May 31, 2006, with Marianne Lykke Nielsen (Royal School of Library and Informatoin Science, Denmark), Mathew Weaver, and Timothy Tolle, a Small Grant for Exploratory Research. NSF NSDL Program, Targeted Research Project, “Superimposed Tools for Active Arrangement and Elaboration of Educational Resources, Oct. 2004 - Sept. 2006, PI with David Maier, Edward Fox (Va. Tech.), and Lillian Cassel (Villanova). NSF Digital Government Program, “Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests”, August 2000 - March 2005, PI, with David Maier, Patricia Toccalino, Fred Phillips, Nicole Steckler, Marianne Koch, and Marianne Nielsen. NSF Digital Libraries Initiative 2 (DLI2), “Tracking Footprints through a Medical Information Space”, Jan. 1999 - Dec. 2003. Co-PI with Paul Gorman and David Maier.
Research Interests	Database Data Models Lois Delcambre has worked on object-oriented and other database data models with an emphasis on the structural aspects of the model. The database structure reflected in the class hierarchy is semantically much richer than traditional database models. Her work in this area (with S. Urban) includes constraint analysis to generate algorithmically and process the set of constraints implied by the application schema, plus additional application constraints expressed in a constraint language. This analysis assists the application designer with constraint formulation, schema design and transaction design. Further work in this area (with B. Lim) has led to the characterization of constraints appropriate for constraint analysis, termed object-centered constraints, and has considered the use of the basic algorithm for constraint enforcement. Work on the class construction primitives in a semantic data model (with K. Davis) has led to the development of the Class Model and the associated Class Algebra, a closed, class-forming algebra that includes the object-oriented equivalent of the relational algebra operations. One of the contributions of this work is a set of sound and complete rules of inference for inferring structural relationships in an application schema. The Classifier identifies all structurally inconsistent classes and all isa relationships implied by the current schema. More recent work (with S. Bowers) has resulted in the definition of the Uni-level description (ULD), a uniform, generic representation for a wide range of structural models that can accommodate multiple levels of schema and missing schemas.  The ULD permits the use of powerful transformation rules and navigation capabilities across a range of data models. Lois Delcambre has also been exploring models for terms or keywords that are used in a digital library (with M. Weaver).  The Metadata++ model includes broader/narrower term, synonym, and general association relationships but differs from classical thesarus in that there is no notion of preferred term and terms are allowed to participate in multiple locations in the broader/narrower term hierarchy.
Selected Awards and Honors:	2016 Elected as an ER Fellow. The ER Fellows Award is an honor given to selected individuals in the conceptual-modeling community in recognition of their contributions to ER research, ER education, and ER community service. link 2013 George C. Hoffman Award for Faculty Excellence, Portland State University. The Hoffmann Award is given annually to a faculty member in a tenure-track or tenured appointment in recognition of distinguished contributions to the University in the areas of instruction, university service, and scholarship (in that order) which are done in the spirit of humanism, civility, and collegiality with particular dedication to students and loyalty to the University—values especially cherished by George Hoffmann. link James Terwilliger, my PhD student at the time, was selected as the outstanding graduate student in MCECS and also the outstanding graduate student at PSU. The awards were given just before graduation, June 2009. Best paper award, (with Susan Price, Marianne Lykke Nielsen, and Kalervo Jarvelin), "Discounted Cumulated Gain Based Evaluation of Multiple-Query IR Sessions," European Conference on Information Retrieval, 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4956/2008, Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-78645-0. Editorial Board Member, Journal of Data Semantics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science subline), Springer-Verlag, 2002-present. 2002 Computer Science and Engineering Department, Outstanding Teacher, OGI School of Science and Engineering, OHSU. 2001 Recipient of the Oregon Graduate Institute Faculty Award for Outreach.  1999 Computer Science and Engineering Department, Outstanding Teacher, Oregon Graduate Institute.
Departmental and Institutional Service:	Chair, Computer Science Department Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2005-2010, 2012-2015. Member of the Teacher Education Committee (TEC), a committee of the Faculty Senate, 2012-2013. Co-Project Leader, OGI School Web Development Project, with Jeff Schilling.  Co-leading the effort to interview constituents across the OGI school, interview web vendors, select I-Site Design, and serve as the primary leads for the project work in conjunction with I-Site Design. 2000 Developed CSE514D, a distance learning version of CSE514 Introduction to Database Systems, in conjunction with Cenquest, Inc. Member of the Institute Strategic Planning Committee 1998-1999. Awarded the Oregon Graduate Institute Outstanding Teaching Award (one of ten awardees), with a cash award of $1500, 1997.
Recent Professional Service:	Invited Keynote: “Conceptual Modeling? When we are awash in data?”, the 2017 International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Valencia, Spain. Slides Program Committee Member, 2017, International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. Program Committee Member, 2016, International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. Program Committee Membet, 2015, International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. Program Committee Member (Senior Reviewer), 2014, International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. Program Committee Member, 2013, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Program Committee Member, 2012 International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management Systems (SSDBM). Program Committee Member, 2012 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Program Committee Member, 2012 International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. Program Committee Co-Chair, with Manfred Jeusfeld and Tok Wang Ling, 2011 International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. Program Committee Member, 2011 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Program Committee Member, 2010 European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL). Program Committee Member, 2010 Very Large Databases Conference (VLDB) Program Committee Member, 2010 European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) Program Committee Member, 2009 Very Large Databases Conference (VLDB) Mentor for the PhD Colloquium, held in conjunction with the 2009 International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2009) Program Committee Member, 2009 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) Co-Editor in Chief: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Journal on Data Semantics. 2008 – 2009. Program Committee Member, 2008 Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE). Program Committee Member, 2008 International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER). Program Committee Member, 2007, International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER). Program Committe Member, 2006 International Conference on Digital Government, May 2006. Program Committee Member, 2006 Extending Database Technology Conference, March 2006. Program Committe Member, 2006 International Conference on Digital Government, May 2006. Program Committee Member, 2005 ACM SIGMOD (Special Interest Group in Management of Data) Conference, June 2005. Program Committee Member, The 17th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'05), June 2005. Co-Program Chair (with Oscar Pastor and John Mylopolous), International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2005. Conference Co-Chair (with  Genevieve Giuliano), dg.o 2005, The National Digital Government Research Conference, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, published in the ACM Digital Library, May 2005. Program Committee Member, International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2004), 2004. Program Chair, dg.o 2004, The Digital Government Conference, The National Conference on Digital Government Research, Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, May 2004. Panel Organizer and Moderator, “Conceptual Modeling for GIS,” International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2003), Chicago, Illinois, Oct. 2003. Program Committee Member, International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2003), 2003. Proceedings Chair, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2003. Program Committee Member, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2003. Program Committee Member, ACM SIGMOD Conference, 2003. NSF Site Review Team, Engineering Research Center Program, 2003. Organizer (with Paul Gorman and David Maier), DLI2 PI Meeting, July 2002, Portland, Oregon. Posters Chair and Program Committee Participant, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2002. Program Committee Member, International Conference on Data Engineering, 2002. NSF Review Panel, Winter 2002. NSF Site Review Team, Engineering Research Center Program, 2002. NSF Site Review Team, Engineering Research Center Program, 2000. Review Team Member, Laboratory Review, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a Department of Energy, Multi-Program National Laboratory, September 1999. Addison-Wesley, Reviewer of Books and Book Proposals in the field of object-oriented analysis and design, including use case modeling.
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