Professor Joan Peckham

Professional Preparation

Teaching Appointments

Awards

• 2005 Outstanding Research Recognition, URI Outreach
• 1998 Excellent research paper, Anbar Citation
• 1988-89 T. L. Booth Teaching Award, UCONN
• 1985-87 IBM Teaching Fellowship
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Computer Science Honor Society
• Pi Mu Epsilon, National Honorary Mathematics Fraternity
• Magna Cum Laude SUNY Albany (1970)

Selected Grants and Funding

• NIH BRIN/INBRE (Biological Research Infrastructure Network) grant from NIH with URI Pharmacy College, building a Bioinformatics Core in Rhode Island.
• NSF- Prototype system for the analysis of the emergency evacuation of TF Greene Airport.
• NSF ADVANCE, Increase the numbers of women in scientific tenure track positions.
• URITC/RIDOT Intelligent transportation system prototypes.
• NSF REU Site, 3-d graphics, Research experience for undergraduates

Research Areas

Expertise/Interests: Databases, Conceptual Modeling, Software Engineering, Interdisciplinary Projects (Including bioinformatics, transportation, women's studies).

Reserch Project Web Sites:

Bioinformatics

Behavioral Model of Pedestrian Dynamics

Intelligent Transportation Systems

URI Advance Project

Selected Publications

• Joan Peckham, Benigno E. Aguirre, Natacha Thomas, Jean-Yves Hervé et. al., "A Pattern for the Integration of Conceptual Models in Support of Multidisciplinary Efforts to Develop Software", , Simulation and Modeling VI, Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Editors Lucio Soibelman and Feniosky Pena-Mora, ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering, 12 pages.
• Scott Lloyd, Joan Peckham, Jian Li, and Qing (Ken) Yang, "Simultaneous Database Backup Using TCP/IP and a Specialized Network Interface Card", in Advanced Topics in Database Research, Keng Siau, editor, Volume 4, 2005, Idea Group
• Lloyd, Li, Yang, & Peckham, RORIB: An Economic and Efficient Solution for Real-Time Online Remote Information Backup, with Scott J. Lloyd, Jian Li, and Qing (Ken) Yang, Journal of Database Management (JDM), 14(3), 56-73, July-Sept 2003.
• Peckham & Lloyd, editors, Practicing Software Engineering in the 21st Century, IRM Press, Hershey, PA, 2003
• Peckham, DiPippo, Hervé, and Hunter, "Moving Smart In Rhode Island", Annual Northeast Decision Sciences Meeting and Proceedings, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 20-22, 2002, Editor Rhonda Aull-Hyde, p.202-204.
• Peckham and Lloyd, "On Extracting the Semantics of the Iterator Pattern for Use in a Case Tool", IRMA (International Resources Management Association) Conference and Proceedings, 2002, Seattle, WA, May 19-22, Editor Medhi Khosrow-Pour, p. 571-573..
• Peckham, "The Application of Conceptual Data Modeling Techniques to the Development of Design Software", Workshop on Advances in Conceptual Modelling in Design, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design, June 2000.
• Jepson, Sadasiv, Peckham, Database Application Programming With Linux, 512 pages 1 edition (February 4, 2000) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471355496, August 2000.
• Peckham, Dipippo, et.al., "A First Course in Computer Science, The Discipline is more than Programming", Proceedings of Fifth Northeastern Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, Ramapo College, April 2000, p. 220-227.
• MacKellar and Peckham, "Multiple Perspectives of Design Objects", Proceedings of AID '98 (Artificial Intelligence in Design), John Gero and Faye Sudweeks, editors, July 1998, Kluwer Academic Press.
• Brawner, MacKellar, Peckham, and Vorbach, "Automatic Generation of Update Rules to Enforce Consistency Constraints in Design Databases'', 32 pages, in 7th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-7) Searching for Semantics: data mining, reverse engineering, etc., 1997, Spaccapietra and Maryanski, editors, Chapman and Hall.
• Peckham, MacKellar, and Doherty. "A Data Model for the Extensible Support of Explicit Relationships in Design Systems'', VLDB Journal, Volume 4, Number 2, April 1995, p. 157-191.
• Doherty, Peckham, MacKellar, and Fay-Wolfe. "Implementing Relationships and Constraints in an Object-Oriented Database Using a Monitor Construct'', Proceedings First International Conference on Rules in Database Systems, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 1993, co-authors, also in Rules in Database Systems, eds. Norman W. Paton and M. Howard Williams, Workshops in Computing, Springer Verlag, p.347-363.
• Peckham and Maryanski. "Semantic Data Models", Computing Surveys, (20,3), Sept. 1988, p. 153-189.