- General Information
Reuven Karni joined the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management in
1977 as a research associate on the OMER project which developed an
energy-economic model for Israel; and later as a faculty member in the field of
Industrial Engineering. He spent a sabbatical at the University of Michigan in
the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and at George Mason
University in the Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory. He became an
Associate Professor in 1993. He has been head of the Center for Dynamic
Enterprise Modeling since 1997. Within this framework he organized an ERP
Forum within the faculty, the University Synergy Program International
Conference in 2000, and also three conferences on "ERP and beyond" in
conjunction with the Association of Industrial Engineers and the Association
of Software Engineers.
He has been a member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence,
the Society of Manufacturing Engineering (Computer and Automated Systems
Section), the Operations Research Society of Israel, and the Supply Chain
Association.
- Research Summary
Prof. Karni's main research interests are in the application of artificial
intelligence techniques to engineering and operations management and design;
and the application of business process modelling for business operations and
management. His current interests in artificial intelligence focus on the
extension of single-issue case-cased reasoning to include instances where
multiple-issues must be considered (heterogeneous case concatenation) in order
to provide an experience management and decisionmaking infrastructure. He is
also carrying out research in several new directions of application of
business process modelling: creation of a meta-model for business processes
from which a specific enterprise model can be derived; the integration of
knowledge management within business processes (knowledge-oriented business
process modeling); creation of a reference model for startup enterprises;
and creation of a reference model for customer relationship management.
- Current Research Projects
Inferential design theory in operations systems design
Ideation tools for concept formulation
Business modelling of startup enterprises
Knowledge management in projects
Generalized business modelling
Knowledge-oriented business process modeling
Service engineering
Rubinovitz, J. and Karni, R., "Expert system approaches to the selection of
materials handling equipment", in Expert Systems in Production and
Manufacturing: Structure and Rules, eds. Mital, A. and Anand, S.,
Taylor and Francis, 1995.
Karni, R. and Arciszewski, T., "A tool for the conceptual design of
production and operations systems", Research in Engineering Design,
9,1997, 146-167.
Karni, R. and Kaner, M. "Case-based knowledge focusing for training in
decision-making within project management processes", in Workshop Proceedings
on Case-Based Reasoning for Education and Training, 6th European Conference on
Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR 2002), Gonzalez-Calero, P.A. (Ed.),
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, 25-40, 2002.
Kaner, M. and Karni, R. "Experience management within project management
processes", Proceedings of the Second German Workshop on Experience Management
(GWEM 2003), Reimer, U., Abecker, A., Staab, S. and Stumme, G. (Eds.),
GI-Edition, Lecture Notes in Informatics, Volume P-28, 259-266, 2003.
Rabinovitz, M. and Karni, R., "A capstone business function model for
high-tech startup enterprises" monograph awarded the Rosenfeld Prize for
Research in Entrepreneurship and Hi-Tech Management by the Leon Recanati
Graduate School of Business Administration at Tel-Aviv University, 2003.
Karni, R. and Lincoln, M., "A generic business function framework for
industrial enterprises", Thirteenth ICPR Conference, Blacksburg, VA, USA, 2003.
Karni, R. and Shalev, S., "Fostering ideation in conceptual product design",
Information, Knowledge, and Systems Management Journal, 2003
(under review)
Molcho, G. and Karni, R., "A framework for modelling business decision
processes", University Synergy Program International Conference, Dearborn,
Michigan, 2003.
