Alfonso F. Cárdenas, Professor

Alfonso Cárdenas is a Professor of the Computer Science Department, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, UCLA; Senior Fellow and past Council Member of the California Council on Science and Technology; past-Chair of the UCLA Information and Technology Planning Board; and a consultant in computer science and management, Computomata International Corporation, Los Angeles, California. He obtained the B.S. degree from San Diego State University and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1969. His major areas of interest include database management, distributed heterogeneous and multimedia (text, image/picture, voice) systems, information systems planning and development methodologies, software engineering, medical informatics, legal issues, and patent and intellectual property cases. He has been a consultant to both users and vendors of hardware and software technology.

Dr. Cárdenas has consulted for many organizations including IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, The Rand Corporation, Arthur Young and Company, TTI/Citicorp, Farmers Insurance Group, Tandem Computer (now HP&Compaq), NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Goodyear Atomic Corporation, General Dynamics, Hughes Aircraft, U. S. Department of Justice, U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Symantec, Cosa Liebermann Ltd., Banco Nacional de Mexico, Petroleos Mexicanos, and many law firms including Latham & Watkins, Loeb and Loeb, O'Melveny and Myers, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Arnold & Porter, Isaacs & Evans, and Wilson, Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He consults for law firms on intellectual property and patent infringement, patent validity/invalidity, the discovery process, obtaining and presenting evidence, and developing and evaluating alternative scenarios on various computer technology cases. He was visiting scientist/consultant to IBM Corporation in 1972-1975 on future database and applications generation technology.

Dr. Cárdenas has served as chairman and member of organizational and program committees for many conferences, and he has led many seminars and spoken to audiences in various countries. He is past-president (1984-1989) and member of the Board of Trustees of the Very Large Data Base Endowment, which conducts the annual International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. He has been a member of review boards for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and various other institutions. He is co-editor with Dennis McLeod of the book Research Foundations in Object-Oriented and Semantic Database Systems (Prentice Hall, Inc., 1990), author of the book Data Base Management Systems (W. C. Brown Publishers, 1979 and 1984), co-editor and co-author of Computer Science (John Wiley & Sons Incorporated, 1972), and author of many other publications. He is an editor of the Information Systems Journal, and is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Society for Information Management.

Dr. Cárdenas is Alumni Coordinator of the Computer Science Alumni Advisory Board, member of the UCLA Advisory Board on Privacy and Data Protection, and member of several oversight committees in major UCLA information technology projects.

Dr. Cárdenas is Principal Investigator of the completed NSF-supported Multimedia Stream System Project, Co-Principal Investigator of the completed NSF-supported KMeD Project and of the completed NIH-supported Research, Education and Patient Care Facilitated by PACS Project. He leads the Multimedia Information Stream System Technology Group (MIST), an interdisciplinary research group in the UCLA Computer Science Department in collaboration with the UCLA School of Medicine and the Department of Radiological Sciences.

He has research collaborative efforts with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory . He serves as coordinator with Yahoo! in the Computer Science Department affiliates program.

Concerned with the serious lack of diversity particularly in engineering and computer science in universities, he co-leads the NSF funded and industry supported (Google, Intel, HP, Microsoft, Cisco) FOCUS (Frontier Opportunities in Computing for Underrepresented Students) project aimed at increasing the number and performance of diversity students in computer science and engineering, and identifying the fundamental elements needed.

As member of the California Council on Science and Technology, he has promoted and advised policies and laws with the State of California needed to further health information technology, particularly for the development of the integrated electronic medical record for patients and the nurturing of personalized medicine. He has advised Governor office health care officials and state legislators, and has participated in the development of state legislature bills and review of technical, financial and organizational impediments.

Other activities include: organizing committee member of the NSF 2000 Information and Data Management workshop and "Bio-Informatics R&D and IDM in the Next Decade" panel co-chair; steering committee member of the NSF 2001 Information and Data Management workshop ; Program Co-Chair of the 2003 Visual Languages and Computing Conference; Conference Co-Chair of the 2004 Visual Languages and Computing Conference; program committee and session chair for the 2005 and 2006 International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems; and various University of California administrative/management committees including recent past chair of University of California-wide Academic Senate Information Technology and Telecommunications Policy committee, search committees for the Chancellor of the University of California Riverside and for the Chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles (2005-2007), search committee for the Dean of UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (2002-2003), alumni awards selection committees, UCLA Orion 2 library system advisory committee, various oversight committees in major information technology projects, etc.


Published Books

Cárdenas, A. F., Chu, W. W., and Fox, E. A. (editors), Proceedings of the NSF Information and Data Management Workshop IDM99 : Research Agenda for the 21st Century, National Science Foundation (Washington, D. C.), Los Angeles, CA, March 7-9, 1999, 249 pages.

Chu, W. W., Cárdenas, A. F., and Taira, R. K. (editors), Proceedings of the AAAS Workshop on Advances in Data Management for the Scientist and Engineer, National Science Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts, February 1993, 142 pp.

Cárdenas, A. F. and D. McLeod (editors), Research Foundations in Object-Oriented and Semantic Database Systems, Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990.

Cárdenas, A. F., Data Base Management Systems , (2nd Edition), W. C. Brown Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa, and Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1985; 3rd Edition in 2001.

Cárdenas, A. F., Sistemas de Administracion de Bancos de Datos , Limusa-Wiley, Mexico City, Mexico.

Cárdenas, A. F., Presser, L., and M. A. Marin (editors), Computer Science, John Wiley and Sons, 1972.

Presser, L., Cárdenas, A. F., and M. A. Marin (editors), Ciencias de la Computacion, Volumen I: Tecnologia de Sistemas, Limusa-Wiley, Mexico City, 1972.

Presser, L., Cárdenas, A. F., and M. A. Marin (editors), Ciencias de la Computacion, Volumen II: Lenguajes, Traductores y Aplicaciones, Limusa-Wiley, Mexico City, 1972.

Publications

Pon, R. K., Cárdenas, A. F., Buttler, D., Critchlow, T., "Measuring the Interestingness of Articles in a Limited User Environment," Information Processing and Management, No. 47, January 2011, pp. 97 - 116.(PDF Version)

Krishnan, A., Cárdenas, A. F., Springer, D., "Search for Patents Using Treatment and Causal Relationships," CIKM2010 Conference/Patent Information Retrieval 2010 Workshop, Toronto, Canada, October 26 - 30, 2010. (PDF Version)

Barai, S., Cárdenas, A. F., "Image Annotation System Using Visual and Textual Features," Distributed Multimedia Systems Conference/2010 Visual Languages and Computing, in Chicago, Illinois, October 14-16, 2010. (PDF Version)

Huang, Z., Cárdenas, A. F., "Extracting Hot Events From New Feeds, Visualization and Insights," 2009 Distributed Multimedia Systems Conference, San Francisco, California, September 10-12, 2009. (PDF Version)

Chu, A., Sakurai, S., Cárdenas, A. F., "Automatic Detection of Treatment Relationships in Patent Retrieval," 2008 CIKM Patent Information Retrieval Workshop, October 2008, Napa, California, 6 pages. (PDF Version)

Pon, R. K., Cárdenas, A. F., Buttler, D., "On Line Selection of Parameters in the Rocchio Algorithm for Identifying Interesting News Articles," Proceedings, 2008 CIKM Web Information and Data Management Workshop, October 2008, Napa, California, 8 pages. (PDF Version)

Sakurai, S., Cárdenas, A. F., "An Analysis of Patent Search Systems," Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, Patent and Trademark Office Society, Arlington, Virginia, 90(6), June 2008), pp. 448-460.

Pon, R. K., Cárdenas, A. F., Buttler, D., and Critchlow, T., "Improving Naive Bayes with Online Feature Selection for Quick Adaptation to Evolving Feature Usefulness," 2008 SIAM SDM Text Mining Workshop, Atlanta, GA, April 26, 2008. (PDF Version)

Pon, R. K., Cárdenas, A. F., and Buttler, D., "Measuring the Interestingness of Articles," Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining (Second Edition), editor John Wang, Information Science Reference, IGI Global, August 2008, pp. 1194-1199. (PDF Version)

Pon, R. K., Cárdenas, A. F., Buttler, D., Critchlow, T., "Tracking Multiple Topics for Finding Interesting Articles", Thirteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2007. (PDF Version)

Pon, R. K., Cárdenas, A. F., Buttler, D., Critchlow, T., "iScore: Measuring the Interestingness of Articles in a Limited User Environment", presented at IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining 2007, Honolulu, HI, April 1-5, 2007. (PDF Version)

Son, R., Taira, R., Kangarloo, H. and Cárdenas, A. F., "Context-Sensitive Correlation of Implicitly Related Data: An Episode Creation Methodology," IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE, 2007. (PDF Version)

Aoyama, D. A., Hsiao, J. T., Cárdenas, A. F., Pon, R. K., "TimeLine and Visualization of Multiple-Data Sets and the Visualization Querying Challenge", Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (2007), Vol. 18, 1-21, February 2007. (PDF version)

Chan, S., Pon, R. K, and Cardenas, A. F., "Visualization and Clustering of Author Social Networks", 2006 Distributed Multimedia Systems Conference, Grand Canyon, Arizona, August 30 - September 1, 2006, pp.174-180. (PDF version)

Cardenas, A. F.,  Pon, R. K, and Islam, B. S., "The Image Stack Stream Model, Querying and Architecture", 2005 Distributed Multimedia Systems Conference, Banff, Canada, September 5-7, 2005. (PDF version)

Pon, R. K. and Cárdenas, A. F., "Data Quality Inference," Second International ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Information Quality in Information Systems (IQIS 2005), Baltimore, MD, June 17, 2005. (PDF version)

Cárdenas, A. F., Pon, R. K., Cameron, R. B., and Coyle, M. A., "The Mobile Patient and Mobile Physician Data Access and Transmission," The 2005 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS '05), June 20-25, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada. (PDF version)

Brown, M. S., Shah, S. K., Pais, R. C., Lee, Y., McNitt-Gray, M. F., Goldin, J. G., Cárdenas, A. F., and Aberle, D. R., "Database Design and Implementation for Quantitative Image Analysis Research", IEEE Transactions on Information Technology and Biomedicine, Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2005, pp. 99-108. (PDF version)

Cárdenas, A. F., Pon, R. K., Michael, P. A., Hsiao, J. T., "Image Stack Viewing and Access," In Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Vol. 14, Academic Press Ltd., pp. 421-441, 2003. (PDF version)

Cárdenas, A. F., Pon, R. K., and Cameron, R. B., "Management of Streaming Body Sensor Data for Medical Information Systems," The 2003 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS '03), June 23-26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada. (PDF version)

Son, R., Taira, R. K., Bui, A., Kangarloo, H., and A. F. Cárdenas , "A Context-Sensitive Methodology for Automatic Episode Creation," Proceedings, American Medical Informatics Association Annual Meeting, November 2002, 5 pages. (PDF version)

Cárdenas, A. F. and Michael, P. A. , "Image Stack Stream Model of Multimedia Data," Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, San Francisco, CA., September 26-28, 2002. (PDF version)

Cárdenas, A. F., Michael, P. A. and Islam, B. S. , "Stack Database Model/View of Multimedia Data," Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 24-27, 2002. (PDF version)

Son, R., Taira, R. K., Bui, A., Kangarloo, H., and A. F. Cárdenas , "A Probabilistic Model for Constructing Healthcare Episodes," Proceedings of the 2002 Internaitonal Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 24-27, 2002, pp. 77-83. (PDF version)

Bui, A, McNitt-Gray, M., Goldin, J., Cárdenas, A., and Aberle, D., "Problem Oriented Prefetching for an Integral Clinical Imaging Workstation," Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 242-253, May/June 2001. (PDF version)

Cárdenas, A., and Embrechts, M., "Bio-Informatics R&D and IDM in the Next Decade, " NSF Information and Data Management Workshop, Chicago, Illinois, March 5-7, 2000.

Cárdenas, A., "A 2025 Scenario and Vision on Stream Data Modeling," Information Systems Engineering -- State of the Art and Research Themes, Brinkkemper, S., Lindencrona, E. and A. Solvberg (Editors), Spinger-Verlag, London, Great Britain, 2000.

Bui, A, Aberle, D., Goldin, J., McNitt-Gray, M., Cárdenas, A., Kleerup, E.,and Ratib, O., "TimeLine: A Multimedia, Problem-centric Visualization of Patient Records," Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), Annual Proceedings, November 1999. (PDF version)

Aberle, D., Bui, A., Kleerup, E., Goldin, J., McNitt-Gray, M., Brown, M., and Cárdenas, A., "TimeLine: A Multimedia, Problem-Centered Interfaces for Healthcare," Computer Aided Radiology Symposium (CARS 99), Vol. 1165, pp. 562-566, June 1999, Paris, France.

Dionisio, J. N. D. and Cárdenas, A. F., "Advances in Image Database Languages," book chapter in Stephen T. C. Wong (Editor), Advances in Biomedical Image Databases, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Mass., 1998, pp. 173-200.

Taira, R.K. and Cárdenas, A. F., Databases for Interventional MRI, in Interventional MRI, R. B. Lufkin (Editor), Mosby Times Mirror Co., St. Louis, Missouri, 1998, pp. 187-201.

Chu, W. W., Hsu, C.C., Cárdenas, A.F., and Taira, R. K., "Knowl edge-Based Image Retrieval with Spatial and Temporal Constraints," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 6, November/December 1998, pp. 872-888.

Bui, A., Aberle, D,. McNitt-Gray, M., Cárdenas, A. F., Goldin, J., "The Evolution of an Integrated Timeline for Oncology Patient Care," Proceedings, American Medical Informatics Association Annual Meeting, November 1998, Florida, 5 pages.

Dionisio, J. D. N. and A. F. Cárdenas, "A Unified Data Model for Representing Multimedia, Timeline and Simulation Data," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 746-767, September/October 1998.

Aberle, D. R., A. Bui, M. F. McNitt-Gray, J. G. Goldin, L. Greaser, A. F. Cárdenas, K. Brown, D. Valentino, "User Interface Design for an Integrated Multimedia Information System in Oncology," Proceedings, Abstracts 84th Radiological Society of North America Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 1997.

Chu, W. W., A. F. Cárdenas, R. K. Taira, "Knowledge-Based Image Retrieval with Spatial and Temporal Constraints", Proceedings Tenth International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, North Carolina, October 15-18, 1997.

Johnson, D. B., Taira, R. K., Cárdenas, A. F., and Aberle, D. R., "Extracting Information from Free Text Radiology Reports", In International Journal On Digital Libraries, pp. 297 - 308, August 1997.

Dionisio, J. D. N. and A. F. Cárdenas, Lufkin, Robert B., DeSalles, Antonio, Black, Keith L., Taira, Ricky K., and Chu, Wesley W. "A Multimedia Database Systems for Thermal Ablation Therapy of Brain Tumors", In Journal of Digital Imaging, , Vol. 10, No 1( February), pp. 21-26, 1997.

Aberle, D, et. al., "An Integrated Multimedia Timeline of Medical Images and Data for Thoracic Oncology Patients", In Radiographics, Vol. 16, pp. 669-681, 1996. (PDF Version)

Dionisio, J. D. N., A. F. Cárdenas, R. K. Taira, et. al. "A Unified Timeline Model and User Interface for Multimedia Medical Databases." In Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Vol. 20, No. 4, Elsevier Science, England, pp. 333-346, 1996.

Dionisio, J. D. N. and A. F. Cárdenas, "MQuery: A Visual Query Language for Multimedia, Timeline and Simulation Data", In Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Vol. 7, Academic Press Ltd., pp. 377-401, 1996.

Chu, W. W., A. F. Cárdenas, and R. K. Taira. "KMeD: A Knowledge-Based Multimedia Medical Distributed Database System." Information Systems, Vol. 20, No. 2, Permagon-Press/Elsevier Science, 1995, pp. 75-96.

Taira, R. K., M. Rivera, V. Bhushan, H. M. Chan, and A. F. Cárdenas. "Design of a Graphical User Interface for an Intelligent Multimedia Information System for Radiology Research." In Proceedings of the SPIE: Medical Imaging PACS Design and Evaluation: Engineering and Clinical Issues, February 1995, pp. 24-35.

Taira, R. K., W. W. Chu, A. F. Cárdenas "Database Aspects of Interventional Radiology", In Proceedings of the Interventional MRI 94 Conference, Marina Del Rey, CA, August 13-14, 1994.

Taira, R. K., A. F. Cárdenas, F. M. Stepczyk, A. T. Materna, and W. W. Chu. "Integration and Interoperability of a Multimedia Medical Distributed Database." In Proceedings, ADP Symposium on Advanced Information Systems and Technology, March 28-30, 1994, Williamsburg, Virginia, 6 pages.

Taira, R. K., A. F. Cárdenas, W. W. Chu, C. M. Breant, J. D. Dionisio, C. Hsu, and I. T. Ieong. "An Object-Oriented Data Model for Skeletal Development." In Proceedings of the SPIE, February 1994, 10 pages.

Taira, R. K., A. F. Cárdenas, and W. W. Chu. "Knowledge-Based Object-Oriented Database System for Radiology Research." Radiology, 1993, p.163.

Cárdenas, A. F., I. T. Ieong, R. Barker, R. K. Taira, and C. M. Breant. "The Knowledge-Based Object-Oriented PICQUERY+ Language." IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 4, August 1993, pp. 644-687.

Taira, R. K., A. F. Cárdenas, W. C. Chu, C. M. Breant, and T. Hall. "A Knowledge-Based Multimedia Database System for Skeletal Radiology." In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Assisted Radiology, Berlin, Germany, June 23-25, 1993.

Cárdenas, A. F., R. K. Taira, W. W. Chu, and C. Breant. "Integration and Interoperability of a Multimedia Medical Distributed Database System." IEEE Data Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 1, April 1993, pp. 43-47.

Chu, W. W., A. F. Cárdenas, and R. K. Taira. "A Knowledge-Based Multimedia Medical Distributed Database System --- KMeD." In Chu, W. W., A. F. Cárdenas, and R. K. Taira (editors), Proceedings of the AAAS Workshop on Advances in Data Management for the Scientist and Engineer, National Science Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts, February 1993, 142 pp.

Horowitz, J. and A. F. Cárdenas. "Decomposing Heterogeneous Inter-Entity Relationship Updates." IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 4, August 1992, pp. 360-370.

Pizano, A., A. F. Cárdenas, and A. Klinger. "Communicating with Pictorial Databases." In Human-Machine Interactive Systems, A. Klinger (editor), Plenum Publishing, 1991.

Cárdenas, A. F. and G. R. Wang. "Multimedia/Heterogeneous Database Management: Graph Data." Office Knowledge Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, Vol. 3, No. 2, August 1990, pp. 43-50.

Cárdenas, A. F. "Pictorial/Visual Access to Multimedia/Heterogeneous Databases." Data Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, Vol. 13, No. 2, June 1990, pp. 22-27.

Pizano, A., A. Klinger, and A. F. Cárdenas. "Specification of Integrity Constraints in Pictorial Databases." IEEE Computer, Dec. 1989, pp. 59-71.

Joseph, T. and A. F. Cárdenas. "PICQUERY: A High Level Query Language for Pictorial Data Base Management." IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 5, May 1988, pp. 630-638.

Schultz, R. D. and A. F. Cárdenas. "An Approach and Mechanism for Auditable and Testable Advanced Transaction Processing Systems." IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. SE-13, No. 6, June 1987, pp. 666-676.

Cárdenas, A. F. "Heterogeneous Distributed Data Base Management: The HD-DBMS." Proceedings of the IEEE, May 1987, Vol. 75, No. 5, pp. 588-600.

Cárdenas, A. F. "Generalized Pictorial Data Management." Proceedings, 3rd International Conference on Data Engineering, Los Angeles, California, February 3-5, 1987.

Cárdenas, A. F. "Experience with the Relational Database Model and Systems." Proceedings of the IFIP 10th World Computer Congress, Dublin, Ireland, Sept. 1-5, 1986, pp. 399.

Cárdenas, A. F. et. al. "Technology for Information Resources Management." Proceedings Data Base Directions, Information Resources Management Conference, NBS U.S. Dept. of Commerce Pub. No. 500-139, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 1985, pp. 99-132.

Cárdenas, A. F., and G. R. Wang. "Translation of SQL/DS Data Access/Update into Entity-Relationship Data Access/Update." IEEE Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Entity-Relationship Approach, Chicago, Illinois, October 28-30, 1985.

Chock, M., A. F. Cárdenas, A. Klinger. "Data Base Structure and Manipulation Capabilities of a Picture Data Base Management System (PICDMS)." IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. PAMI-6, No. 4, July 1985, pp. 484-492.

Avizienis, A. A., A. F. Cárdenas, and F. Alavian, "On The Effectiveness of Fault-Tolerance Techniques in Parallel Associative Data Base Processors", Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, April 24-27, 1984, Los Angeles, California, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 50-59.

Cárdenas, A. F., F. Alavian, and A. A. Avizienis, "Performance of Recovery Architecture in Parallel Associative Data Base Processors", ACM Transactions on Data Base Systems, Vol. 8, No. 3, September 1983, pp. 291-323.

Lohman, G. M., J. Stoltzfus, A. Benson, M. Marin, and A. F. Cárdenas, "Remotely-Sensed Geophysical Data Bases: Experience and Implications for Generalized DBMS", Proceedings, ACM SIGMOD Conference, Sigmod Record, Vol. 13, No. 4, San Jose, California, May 1983.

Cárdenas, A. F., and W. P. Grafton, "Challenges and Requirements for New Application Generators", Proceedings, 1982 National Computer Conference, AFIPS Press, pp. 341-349.

Chock, M., A. F. Cárdenas, and A. Klinger, "Manipulating Data Structures in Pictorial Information Systems", Computer, Vol. 14, No. 11, November 1981, pp. 43-50.

Cárdenas, A. F., and M. H. Pirahesh, "Data Base Communication in a Heterogeneous Data Base Management System Network", Information Systems, Vol. 5, 1980, pp. 55-79

Morgan, H., A. F. Cárdenas, W. Chu, E. F. Codd, G. Dodd, D. Hsiao, et. al., "Data Base Management Systems", in B. W. Arden (Editor), What can be Automated: The Computer Science and Engineering Research Study, The MIT Press, 1980.

Cárdenas, A. F., and M. H. Pirahesh, "The E-R Model in a Heterogeneous Data Base Management System Architecture", Proceedings, International Conference on the Entity Relationship Approach to Systems Analysis and Design, December 10-12, 1979, Los Angeles, California.

Ghosh, S. P., A. F. Cárdenas, I. Mijares, and G. Wiederhold, "Some Very Large Data Bases in Developing Countries", Proceedings, Fifth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, October 1979, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Cárdenas, A. F., "Technology for Automatic Generation of Application Programs", Management Information Systems Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 3, September 1977, pp. 49-72.

Cárdenas, A. F. and J. P. Sagamang, "Doubly Chained Tree Data Base Organization --Analysis and Design Strategies", The Computer Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1, Great Britain, 1977, pp. 15-26.

Nahouraii, E. Z., L. O. Brooks, and A. F. Cárdenas, "An Approach to Data Communication Between Different Generalized Data Base Management Systems", Proceedings, Second International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Brussels, Belgium, September 8-10, 1976.

Cárdenas, A. F., "Analysis and Performance of Inverted Data Base Structures", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 19, No. 5, May 1975, pp. 253-263.

Cárdenas, A. F. and J. P. Sagamang, "Modeling and Analysis of Data Base Organization - The Doubly Chained Tree Structure", Information Systems, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 1975, pp. 57-67.

Cárdenas, A. F. and R. W. Seeley, "A Simple Data Structure for Interactive Design/Drafting", The Computer Journal, Great Britain,, Vol. 18, No. 1, February 1975, pp. 30-33.

Cárdenas, A. F., "High Level Aids for Data Management Systems Performance",  Proceedings, 1974 Association for Computing Machinery Conference, San Diego, California, November 11-13, 1974.

Velasco-Levy, A. and A. F. Cárdenas, "An Air Pollution Model and Simulation of Mexico City", Proceedings, 1974 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Houston, Texas, July 9-11, 1974, pp. 647-662.

Cárdenas, A. F., "Data Entry: The Cost Giant of Computer-Based Information Systems", Journal of Systems Management, August 1973, pp. 35-42.

Cárdenas, A. F., "Information Flow Diagrams: A Tool for Management Information Systems Development", Proceedings, III Semana Internacional de Computacion Electronica Para Latino America, Mexico City, July 24-27, 1973.

Cárdenas, A. F., "Generalized Software for Partial Differential Equations - Part II",  Proceedings, 1973 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 17-19, 1973, pp. 55-57.

Cárdenas, A. F., "Evaluation and Selection of File Organization - A Model and System", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 16, No. 9, September 1973, pp. 540-548.

Fairley, R. E. and A. F. Cárdenas, "Batch and Interactive Simulation of Partial Differential Equation Models", Proceedings, 1971 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, July 19-21, 1971, pp. 42-49.

Karplus, W. J. and A. F. Cárdenas, "Experience with the Partial Differential Equation Language PDEL: An Alternative to Hybrid Computation", Proceedings of the Sixth International Meeting  on Analog and Hybrid Computation, AICA/IFIPS, Munich, Germany, September 1970, pp. 724-729.

Cárdenas, A. F. and W. J. Karplus, "Design and Organization of a Translator for a Partial Differential Equation Language", Proceedings, Spring Joint Computer Conference, 1970, Vol. 36,  AFIPS Press, May 5-6, 1970, pp. 513-524.

Cárdenas, A. F., "Special Purpose Computer Languages to Analyze Systems Characterized by Partial Differential Equations", Memoria Primer Simposium Nacional De Sistemas Sobre Aplicacion De Las Computadoras A1 Analisis De Sistemas, University of Mexico Press, April 23, 24, 1970, pp. 42-56.

Cárdenas, A. F. and W. J. Karplus, "PDEL - A Language for Partial Differential Equations", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 13, No. 3, March, 1970, pp. 184-191.

Selected Published Abstracts

Cardenas, A. F. and Wang, G. R., "Multimedia/Heterogeneous Database Management Graph Data," Office Knowledge Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, Vol. 3, No. 2, August 1989, pp. 43-50.

Chu, W., Cardenas, A. F. , Taira, R. K., Bui, A. T., Johnson, D. B., Dionisio, J. D., "KMeD: The Knowledge-based Multimedia Medical Distributed Database" InfoRad Exhibit RSNA 83rd Scientific Assembly & Annual Meeting (November 1997) Chicago, Illinois, pps. 1-3, November 1997.

Cardenas, A. F., Greaser, L. E., Goldin, J. G., McNitt-Gray, M. F., Aberle, D. R., Bui, A. A. T., "User Interface Design for an Oncology Imaging and Textual Timeline" Proceedings, Abstracts of the 83rd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting for InfoRAD (November 1997) Chicago, Illinois, page 745, November 1997.

Cardenas, A. F., Goldin, J. G., McNitt-Gray, M. F., Aberle, D. R., Brown, M. S., Bui, A. A. T., "OITL: An Image Analysis and Integrated Multimedia Radiology Workstation for Oncology Patient Care", Radiology RSNA Conference 84th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting (November 1998) Chicago, Illinois, pps. 1-2, November 1998.

Aberle, D. R., Bui, A., McNitt-Gray, M. F., Goldin, J. G., Greaser, L., Cardenas, A. F., Brown, K., Valentino, D., "User Interface Design for an Integrated Multimedia Information System in Oncology" Proceedings, Abstract 84th Radiological Society of North America Conference (November 1998) Chicago, Illinois, November 1998, pps.

McNitt-Gray, M. F., Goldin, J. G., Brown, M. S., Bui, A., Cardenas, A., Aberle, D. R., "Advanced Imaging Analysis and Quantification: An Integrated Approach to CT Scanning, Segmentation, and Quantitative Analyses of Patients with Various Lung Diseases", Proceedings, Abstracts 1999 Radiological Society of North America Conference (November 1999) Chicago, Illinois, page 1, November 1999.

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