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Maria Zemankova received her B.S. (with Highest Honors) in Mathematics and
Computing with minor in Psychology from the American University in Cairo in 1977,
and M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Florida State University in 1979 and
1983, respectively.
From 1984 to 1988 she was on faculty of the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She served as the director for the Database and
Expert Systems Program at the National Science Foundation during 1989-93. She was
instrumental in the conception of initiatives "Research on Scientific Databases" and
"Digital Libraries". She spent a year with the MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia
as a Principal Scientist in the area of information systems, and returned to NSF in Fall
1994. She served as the Deputy Division Director for the Information, Robotics and
Intelligent Systems Fall 1995 - Fall 1997.
Her research interests are in intelligent information systems, knowledge discovery in
scientific databases, information organization and tailored information access/delivery in
digital libraries, evolutionary information systems, organization and process modeling in
information systems, and management of uncertainty, reasoning and learning in
knowledge-based systems.
Her publications include a monograph Fuzzy Relational Databases - a Key to Expert
Systems co-authored with A. Kandel (Verlag TUV Rheinland, Koln, 1984) translated
to Japanese by M. Mukaidono (Keigaku Publishing Co., Tokyo, 1987), five volumes of
Methodologies for Intelligent Systems co-edited with Z. Ras (ACM SIGART Press,
1986; North Holland, 1987, 1990; Springer Verlag, 1991, 1994), Intelligent Systems:
State of the Art and Future Directions, co-edited with Z. Ras (Artificial Intelligence
Series, Ellis Horwood Limited, London, 1990), and papers in journals, conference
proceedings, or invited contributions to books. Maria Zemankova is Co-Editor-in-Chief
with L. Kerschberg and Z. Ras of Journal of Intelligent Information Systems: Integrating
Artificial Intelligence and Database Technologies, an Associate Editor of the Int. J. of
Approximate Reasoning, and has been on program or organizing committees of
numerous conferences and workshops.
Dr. Zemankova served on the Advisory Board of the ACM SIGMOD (Association for
Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Management of Data), on the Board
of Directors of NAFIPS (North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society) and is
a member of ACM, IEEE Computer Society, NAFIPS and Sigma Xi. In 1992, she
received the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award.
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