Frada Burstein

Associate Professor

Associate Dean Researh Training Faculty of IT

Director, Knowledge Management Research Program
Director, Monash Knowledge Management Laboratory,

Room H7.61
Monash University, Caulfield Campus
PO Box 197, Caulfield East, Victoria, 3145 Australia
Phone: + 61 3 9903 2011
Fax: +61 3 9903 1077
email: frada.burstein"at"infotech.monash.edu.au

Caulfield School of IT
Faculty of Information Technology
Monash University

Last updated: May, 2008
MSci(ApplMath) Tbilisi State University, PhD USSR Academy of Sciences, MACS, MAIS

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Background

I graduated from the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics of Tbilisi State University, Georgia, USSR in 1978. I have completed my PhD course in the Institute of Cybernetics, Georgian Academy of Science (the Branch of USSR Academy of Sciences). My PhD thesis was titled "Research and Development of Man-Machine Procedures for Multicriteria Decision Making (using vector preference relations)". Having completed my doctoral degree in 1981 I have a professional academic career of more than fifteen years. This includes an extensive research in the areas of decision theory and decision support systems. Since 1992 I have been working with the Department of Information Systems of the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. I am currently a Director of Knolwedge Management Research Program and a Laboratory at the Caulfield School of IT. My husband, Associate Professor Arkady Zaslavsky is also a memebr of the same school.

Teaching:

Research:

knowledge management;
intelligent decision support;
decision support systems;
multicriteria decision making;
organisational memory;
knowledge modelling

Current Professional Engagement:

Co-editor "Handbook of Decision Support Systems" (with Clyde Holsapple) published by Springer in 2008

Conference and Professional Associations

Program Co-Chair for the Australian Conference on Knowledge Management and Intelligent Decision Support (ACKMIDS'2008)
Steering Committee member and Doctoral Colloquium faculty for the IFIP TC8/WG8.3 Working Conference International Conference on Collaborative Decision Making (CDM'08)
Executive Committee Member, Australian Council of Professors & Heads of Information Systems
Chair for the Association of Information Systems Special Interest Group in DSS
Secretary for the IFIP WG 8.3 Decision Support Systems

Editorial Boards and other professional engagements

Guest Co-Editor for the special issue of DSS Journal "Decision Support in an Uncertain and Complex World" (with GeorgeWidmeyer)
Guest Co-Editor for the special issues of the journal Information Systems and E-Business Management (with Clyde Holsapple)
Area Editor, Decision Support Systems journal
Associate Editor, Journal of Decision Systems
Associate Editor, International Journal of Knowledge Management
Editorial Board member, Journal of Knowledge Management Research and Practice
Editorial Board member Journal of Information and Knowledge Management

Major recent events I was involved in:

Guest Editor for the special issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (T-ITB) "KM and IT for Healthcare"
Steering committee member for the IFIP WG open conference 2006, “Innovations and Creativity Support” (CIDMDS2006), London School of Economic, July, 2006.
Program committee member 9th International Conference on Decision Support Systems (ICDSS), January 2-4, 2007, Kolkata, India
Program committee member, Workshop on Experience Management at the 9th International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES'2006), Melbourne, September.
Program committee member, The 14th Australasian Conference on Information Systems - ACIS'2003, 12th, 13, 14th, 15th, International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD'2003)
Program Co-Chair for the 8th International Conference on Decision Support Systems (AIS SIG DSS/ISDSS) - DSS'2005
Guest Editor for the special issue of Journal of Information and Knowledge Management
Steering committee member for the Seventh International Conference on Decision Support Systems (ISDSS'03)
Steering committee member and Doctoral Research Consortium Panel member for the International Conference on Decision Making and Decision Support in the Internet Age DSIAGE 2002
Founding Program Co-Chair for the Australian Conference on Knowledge Management and Intelligent Decision Support (ACKMIDS'1998 till ACKMIDS'2007)
Program CO-Chair for the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS'2002)
Symposium Leader, Intelligent Decision Support in Urban and Civil Engineering at DMinUCE The 3rd International Conference on Decision Making in Urban and Civil Engineering
Program CO-Chair, I-KOMAT’2002: International Workshop on Intelligent Knowledge Management Techniques in conjunction with: Sixth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems

Awards: Monash Postgraduate Association Supervisor of the Year award for 2003.

Chief Investigator for the following research and development projects:
Current:

Assoc/Prof F Burstein, Prof Jim Worren, Assoc/Prof J Fisher, Prof Sue McKemmish "Smart Information Portal: Meeting knowledge and decision support needs of health care consumers for quality online information" ARC Discovery, 2006-2008
Prof L Piterman, Dr F Burstein, Dr J Fisher, Dr G Lambert, Dr M Nelson, Prof A Murphy, Dr Britta Klein: Evaluation of a computerised intervention for depression and low social support in coronary heart disease patients in general medical practice Monash Small Grant (Faculty of Medicine)
Assoc/Prof J Fisher, Assoc/Prof F Burstein, Prof L Piterman, Dr C.Pier: Intelligent Healthcare Information Portal to Support User-centric Information Provision for people with Stress and Anxiety - Monash Small Grant (Faculty of IT)
Dr H Linger, A/Prof F Burstein. Knowledge Organisation for Managing Risk in Food Safety. Monash Small Grant (Faculty of IT)
A/Prof F. Burstein, Dr Henry Linger, Knowledge Management for Severe Weather Forecasting, in collaboration with the Bureau of Meteorology
(ARC Linkage Industry Collaborative Grant and Monash Postdoctoral Fellowship grant 2002-2004)
Intelligent Healthcare Information Portal to Support User-centric Information Provision. CRC - DSTC

Completed:
A/Prof F. Burstein, Dr L. Churilov, Dr D.Alahakoon; A/Prof. J.Wassertheil (Faculty of Medicine) “Empirical testing of the mobile triage decision support system (DSS)” MURF “Social Computing”

A/Prof F. Burstein, Dr Henry Linger, A Knowledge Management Framework for Food Safety Issues Management. CRC Food Safety Centre of Excellence.

Knowledge management strategies in Australia and New Zealand: a comparative study (in collaboration with School of Information Science and Humanities, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand) (Small Monash Grant 2003)

Breast Cancer Knowledge On-line (Small Monash Grant and ARC Linkage Industry Collaborative grant 2002-2003)

Towards Mobile Real -Time Multicriteria Decision Support for Open-Field Triage in Contingency Management”(Small Monash Grant 2004)

Web-based Intelligent Multicriteria Decision Support System for Weather Forecasting (Small Monash Grant 2003)

Knowledge Management in Australian professional services (2002-2003) (sponsored by Fuji Xerox Australia)

Knowledge Management in Australian financial institutions (2002) (sponsored by Fuji Xerox Australia)

Knowledge Management for Information Communities (Strategic Monash Research Fund, 2000-2001)

Knowledge Management Model within the Context of Evidence Based Health Care
(Small ARC grant for 2000, in collaboration with Monash Medical Centre)

Evaluation of the usability of electronic library resources", (SPIRT 2000 in collaboration with the State Library of Victoria)

Current Research Students:

Richard Zanner - PhD (Associate Supervisor: Dr Henry Linger)
Jill Owen - PhD (Joint Supervisor: Dr Henry Linger)
Stan Agombar - DBA (Associate Supervisor Dr Henry Linger)
Shane Grisby - PhD (Associate Supervisor: A/Prof Julie Fisher)
Kate Lazarenko - PhD ( Joint Supervisor: A/Prof Julie Fisher)
Grace Jue Xie - PhD ( Associate Supervisors: Dr Joanna Evans and Prof Sue McKemmish)
Fonny Sujanto - PhD (Associate Supervisor:Andrzej Ceglowski, BusEco)
Tony Burch - PhD (Joint Supervisor: Dr Henry Linger)

Ligia Ionesku - MIMS(Research) (Associate Supervisor: Dr Henry Linger)
Kerry Tanner - PhD (Joint Supervisor: Professor Don Schauder)
Neha Padmanabhan - MIMS(Research) completed in 2006 (Associate Supervisor: Dr Leonid Churilov)
Suzanne Zyngier - PhD completed in 2007 (Associate Supervisor:A/Professor Judy McKay, Swinburne University)
Chris Manning -PhD completed in 2006 (Principal Supervisor: Prof Ron Webber)
Simran Sohal - BIS(Honours) completed in 2006 , Second Class Honours
Sergio Viademonte - PhD completed in 2004 (Associate Supervisor: Dr Ilona Jagielska)
Bernard Terrill - PhD completed in 2004 (Principal Supervisor Professor Andy Flitman, School of Business Systems)
Jane Moon- MIMS(Research) completed 2004 (Principal Supervisor: A/Prof Julie Fisher), First Class Honours
Jessica Smith - BIS(Honours) completed 2004 (Associate Supervisor: Dr Henry Linger)
Antuanette Handley- MIMS(Hons) (Associate Supervisor Dr Kirsty Williamson)
Patrick Cao - PhD completed in 2003 (Associate Supervisor: Dr Jocelyn San Pedro)
Gabby Fennessy- PhD completed in 2002 (Associate Supervisor: Professor Don Schauder)
Paranagama, Priyanka - PhD completed in 2000, accepted in 2002 (Associate Supervisor: Professor David Arnott)
Raya Shtalman - Second Class Honours (Associate Supervisor: Henry Linger)
Yinmin Chung - MIMS(Research) (Principal supervisor - Dr Henry Linger) completed in 2006, Second Class Honours
Bruno Blanchard - MIMS(Hons) (Associate Supervisor: Kerry Tanner)
Suzanne Zyngier - MIMS(Research) - completet in 2002, first class Honours
Clyde Cook - MIMS(Hons) completed in 2003 (Associate Supervisor: Henry Linger)

Paul Ngo (1999)
"The factors that affect the acquisition of quality knowledge for an expert system" Honours

Michael Alejandrino (1999)
James Hart (1999)
Paul Ganas (1998)
Soon Meen Fung (1997)
Sean Maynard (1997)
Sharma, Ramita (1996)
Sowunmi, Adedayo (1996)
Rajarubendra, Nilanie (1996)
Ngu, Daniel (1995)
Leung, C. Y. Joanne (1995)
Gammanpila, Udaya (1994)