Systems Engineering
K. Bharathan
Director of Quality, UPI
- B.A.(Honours), Economics, University of Delhi
- M.A., Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- M.Phil., Economics, University of Madras
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Madras
- M.S., Systems Engineering, University of Arizona
Office: 575 E. River Road, Tucson, AZ
Phone: (520) 321-7236
Email:
kbharathan@upiaz.org
Areas of Interest:
- Modeling Physical Systems: experiments and modeling analysis of physical systems, especially health care delivery systems.
- Knowledge Engineering: techniques for knowledge extraction, design and testing of intelligent decision support systems.
- Systems Engineering: Object-oriented system design, requirements extraction, design tools.
Selected Publications:
- "Making an Expert System Changes the Expert." (with A. T. Bahill & R. F.
Curlee) Robotics and Manufacturing: Recent Trends in Research, Education,
and Applications, Vol. 4, Eds. M. Jamshidi, R. Lumia, J. Mullins and M.
Shahinpoor. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Robotics and
Manufacturing, Santa Fe, November 11-13. ASME Press, New York, 1992.
- "How the testing techniques for a decision support system changed over
nine years." (with A. T. Bahill & R. F. Curlee). IEEE Transactions on
Systems, Man and Cybernetics. December 1995.
- "Object-Oriented Systems Engineering." (with G. L. Poe & A. T. Bahill)
Systems Engineering in the Global Market Place, Proceedings of the
Fifth Annual Symposium of the National Council on Systems Engineering.
Saint Louis, 1995.
- Bahill, A.T., Alford, M., Bharathan, K., Clymer, J., Dean, D.L.,
Duke, J., Hill, G., LaBudde, E., Taipale, E., and Wymore, A.W.,
The design-methods comparison project,
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics,
Part C: Applications and Reviews,
28(1), 80-103, 1998.
This publication with additional commentary and examples is available at
http://www.sie.arizona.edu/sysengr/methods2.
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