As a key contributor, project leader, and manager,
Dr. Frawley has conducted and directed leading-edge applied research and
development in knowledge-based systems; distributed, adaptive systems;
knowledge discovery in databases; and network information agents.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND: At the NASA Lewis
Research Center Dr. Frawley did early work in the analysis and computation of
multi-group neutron diffusion and single-group neutron transport. For two
years, he was an instructor of mathematics at
Since 1977 he has worked in the fields of
knowledge based systems and artificial intelligence. At SDRC he established the
first industrial artificial intelligence research team and was responsible for Gamma,
a knowledge based system for the interpretation of gamma ray spectra, and the Dipmeter
Advisor, an expert system for subsurface geological interpretation. At
the Mitre Corporation he held a staff position with and later was leader of the
Knowledge Based Systems Group which produced Knobs, a resource
allocation and natural language system for tactical air mission planning, which
was the research prototype for the system which successfully handled that task
in the Gulf War.
Joining GTE Labs in 1983 as a research manager, he
established and directed a research department focused on adaptive systems and
distributed intelligence. The department installed and maintained an adaptive
system for quality control in
From 1987 through 1996, he was a Principal MTS at
GTE. As project leader for Learning In Expert Domains (through 1993), he was
responsible for the Integrated Learning System (ILS), a multi-agent,
platform-independent adaptive telephone network controller, and for ARMS,
an inductively-defined automated maintenance scheduler for airborne radios. The
ILS was the first practical demonstration of multistrategy learning. ARMS
reduced maintenance costs for Airphone by $3M per year. During this period,
Dr. Frawley worked on methods by which domain knowledge can direct data-driven
inductive techniques. His system for function-based induction (Fbi) was
used in the ILS and ARMS, and to identify failing components by
discovering associated patterns in Mobilnet call data.
In 1994 he established a Network Information Agents
project, targeting services provided over the information superhighway, and was
its principal investigator through 1996. The main result was a prototype
internet news reader and filter, Gina, soon to be available to GTE's ISP
customers. For Gina he provided the personalization and customization
module, clustering users based on their usage histories and presenting to them
options common to their behavioral counterparts.
OTHER: He is a member of the American Mathematical
Society, IEEE, Sigma Xi, and AAAI, has been an NSF Research Fellow and a NASA
Fellow, and holds two patents. He served as co-chair of the first international
workshop on knowledge discovery in databases (IJCAI, 1989), was an organizer of
subsequent knowledge discovery workshops at national conferences, and was a
co-author of the paper selected as Best Paper at the 1990 European AI
conference. In 1992 he lectured at four universities in
EDUCATION:
B.S, M.S. - Physics,
Ph. D. - Mathematics,
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