Education
Doctorate of Philosophy in Computer Science
Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Oregon State University, 6/1985
Major Areas of Concentration: Distributed Systems, Data & Knowledge Engineering, Object-Oriented Design & Programming, Database Management Systems.
Minor Area of Concentration: Decision Support Systems,Ph.D. Operations and Information Management, 1999.

Dissertation: "The Inclusion of Expertise in a Decision Support System for Strategic Planning."

Master of Business Administration College of Business, Oregon State University, 6/1979
Major Areas of Concentration: Strategic Planning and Management Science

Research Highlights
Research Interest: Current research focuses on the emergence of web services standards in the software development and deployment arena and their potential impacts on modern business organizations. Current projects involve the application of supply chain management tenets to the organizational management of web services-based applications, failure and recovery for web services-based inter-organizational workflow management systems, and the design of a web-scripting language for invoking and controlling web services as part of business application programming languages.

Sample Publications:
1. "Distributed Decision Support Systems on the WWW: The Verification of a DSS Metadata Model." (with D. Gregg and A. Philippakis) Decision Support Systems, (32)3: 2002.

2. "DSS Access on the World Wide Web: An Empirical Test of an Open Protocol Suite." (with D. Gregg). Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, 11/1999, 91-96.

3. "The Design, Development and Validation of a Knowledge-Based Organizational Learning Support System." (with M. Hine). Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 15, No. 2, Fall 1998, 119-152.

4. "Requirements for the Design of a Protocol Suite to Automate DSS Deployment on the World Wide Web: A Client/Server Approach" (with A. Philippakis, M. Kiang, D. Fernandes, and R. Otondo) Decision Support Systems, Vol. 19, (1997), 151-170.

5. "The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence as a Reference Discipline for Decision Support Systems Research" (with J.C. Henderson and F. Tonge). Special Issue of Decision Sciences on Knowledge-Based DSS, Volume 23, No. 6, (1992), 1263-1276.

Funding history
1. Principal Investigator, "A Framework for Collaborative Information Systems Engineering: Using IEF in a Shoulder to Shoulder Computing Facility" (with J. Hershauer and R. Keim) $40,000 in software and summer funding, from Texas Instruments, Inc. (1993).

2. Co-Principal Investigator, "Hewlett Packard Networked Workstation Instruction Laboratory for Business Information Systems", (with R. Eck and A. Philippakis), $100,000 in hardware and software, from: Hewlett Packard, Inc., (1993).

3. Co-Principal Investigator, "An Application of Group DSS Concepts to the Design of a Distributed Knowledge Based System Shell" (with A. Philippakis and C. Kirkwood). $80,000 in hardware and software, from: Sun Microsystems, Inc., (1989).

4. Co-Principal Investigator, "A Knowledge Based System Shell for Constructing Distributed Expert Systems" (with R. Keim and A. Philippakis). $38,000 in hardware and software, from: Apple Computer, Inc., (1989).

Industry Relationships, Consulting
1. Law Offices of Crampton Woods, Broening, and Oberg: Served as an expert witness in an implied partnership software development case, served as an expert witness in a defamation case involving an information system development effort by a consulting agency.

2. Honeywell Bull, Inc. : Conducted seminars for employees and customers on the basic concepts and techniques of artificial intelligence and expert systems.

3. Arizona Public Service Assisted in evaluation of an artificial intelligence based project: A computer application for scheduling nuclear power plant maintenance.

4. Department of Entomology, Oregon State University: Managed an expert system development project.

Executive Education
Introduction to Web Services: The state-of-the-art of web services and their application to organizational software development; the design of systems to monitor external web service utilization; the design of high-impact web services.

Managing with Technology: Using information technology in support of strategy; issues communication channel management in the environment of converged network, video, wireless and mobile computing

Proposed Funded Research Projects
Knowledge Management; Applied Web Services; Business Process and Workflow Management Systems.

Contact information
Michael Goul,
CABIT faculty Associate
Telephone: 480-965-5482
Fax: 480-965-8392
Email: Michael.Goul@asu.edu