Information Systems Publications:

International Journals

1.   Devinder Thapa (2011). The role of ICT Actors and Networks in Development: The case study of a mountain region in Nepal, The Electronic Journal of Informatin Systems in Developing Countries, Vol (49), 1, pp -16 . (ISSN: 1681-4835)

2.     Devinder Thapa, Maung K. Sein, and Øystein Sæbø (2012). Building Collective Capabilities through ICT in a Mountain Region of Nepal: Where Social Capital leads to Collective Action, Journal of Information Technology for Development, Vol 18, 1, pp 5-22. (ISSN: 1554-0170)

        3.   Øystein Sæbø and Devinder Thapa (2012). Introducing Internet-based Services in the Mountain Areas             of  Nepal: An Asset Pentagon Perspective, Information Technologies and International Development                     (ITID), (forthcoming). (ISSN: 1544-7529)

4.    Lanamäki, Arto; Stendal, Karen; and Thapa, Devinder (2011) "Mutual Informing Between IS Academia and Practice: Insights from KIWISR-5," Communications of the Association for Information Systems: Vol. 29, Article 7. Available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol29/iss1/

International Conferences

4.   Devinder Thapa (2011). ICT Actors, Networks and Development: The case study of a mountain region in Nepal, Accepted and presented to IFIP WG 9.4 Conference, 22-25 May, 2011, Kathmandu.

5.   Devinder Thapa and Øystein Sæbø (2011). Exploring a Link between ICT and Development: A Literature Review, Accepted and presented to IFIP WG 9.4 Conference, 22-25 May, 2011, Kathmandu.

6.  Devinder Thapa and Øystein Sæbø (2011). Demystifying the Possibilities of ICT4D in the Mountain Regions of Nepal. Paper presented at the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-44), CD-ROM, pp 1-10, IEEE Computer Society, Kuai, Hawaii. (ISBN: 9789781424496)

7.    Devinder Thapa and Øystein Sæbø (2010). A framework to analyze the interaction process between ICT and social Capital, NOKOBIT 2010, Gjøvik, Norway, (ISBN 978-82-519-2703-1).

8.   Devinder Thapa and Maung K. Sein (2010). ICT, Social Capital and Development: the Case of a Mountain Region in Nepal,  pre-ICIS SIG GlobDev Workshop 2010, St. Louis, USA, AIS Electronic Library – (ISBN: 978-0-9826068-2-7).

9. Devinder Thapa  (2009). The Impact of ICT Availability on Remote Communities:  A Case Study in Nepal, in Molka-Danielsen, J. (Ed.): Proceedings of  the 32nd Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia, IRIS 32,  Inclusive Design, Molde University College, Molde, Norway, August 9-12, 2009, (ISBN 978-82-7962-120-1).

Newspaper Articles

·         Devinder Thapa, “The e-Village”, Kathmandu Post and SouthasianMediaNet, 12 May, 2009
·         Devinder Thapa,” Re-conceptualizing digital divide”, Nepalnews.com, 29 January, 2010
·         Devinder Thapa & Øystein Sæbø,” ICT Intervention and Development in Remote Nepal”, 
       Nepalnews.com, 21 July, 2010
·         ‘Når internet kommer til landsbyen (When internet came in a village)’ – published in Norwegian
       newspapers 18 juni, 2011 (Aftenposten, FVN)

Industrial Engineering Publications

International Journal

10.     Devinder Thapa, S. C. Park, C. M. Park, and Gi Nam Wang,”Auto-Generation of IEC standard PLC code using Timed-MPSG”, IJCAS, Volume 7, Number 2, pp. 165-174, ISSN: 1598-6446, 2009. (SCIE)

11. C. M. Park, Devinder Thapa, and Gi Nam Wang,” Speech Authentication System using Digital Watermarking and Pattern Recovery”, Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 28, Issue 8, pp. 931-938, ISSN:0167-8655 , 2007. (SCI)

12.     Devinder Thapa, Suraj Dangol, Chang Mok Park, Gi-Nam Wang,” Verification of PLC Program    using a Generic Intermediate Language (IML)”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Sensing, Computing and Automation, Added volume to DCDIS series B :Applications and Algorithms, Vol. 6, ISSN 1492-8760, pp. 2956, 2006 (SCIE)

13. Suraj Dangol, Devinder Thapa, Ki Heang Cho, Chang Mok Park, Gi Nam Wang,” An Integrated Framework for Verification of IEC Standard Programmable Logic Controllers”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Sensing, Computing and Automation, Added volume to DCDIS series B: Applications and Algorithms, Vol. 6, ISSN 1492-8760, pp. 3060, 2006. (SCIE)

Book Chapter

14. D. Thapa, I. Jung, G. N. Wang, “RL based decision support system in a u-Healthcare environment,” Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Applications, ISBN 978-3-902613-14-1, 2007.

Lectures Notes on Computer Science (LNCS)

15. Devinder Thapa, In-Sung Jung and Gi-Nam Wang, “Agent Based Decision Support System using Reinforcement Learning under Emergency Circumstances”, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 3610, pp. 888-892,Changsa, China, August 27-29, 2005. (SCIE)

16. Devinder Thapa, Chang Mok Park, Suraj Dangol, and Gi-Nam Wang,”Software based Verification and Validation of IEC Standard Programmable Logic Controller”, Lecture Series on Computer and Computational Sciences,  ISSN: 1573-4196, Greece, 28 June-8 July, IeCCS 2006. (SCIE)

17.  In-Sung Jung, Devinder Thapa, and Gi-Nam Wang, “Automatic Segmentation and Diagnosis of    Breast Lesions using Morphology Method Based on Ultrasound”, Spriger Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), 3614, pp. 1079-1088, Changsa, China, August 27-29, 2005. (SCIE)

18.  In-Sung Jung, Devinder Thapa and Gi-Nam Wang, “Neural Network Based Algorithm for  Diagnosis and Classification of Breast Cancer Tumor”, CIS 2005, Part I, LNAI 3801, pp. 107–114, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2005. (SCIE)

IEEE Index Publications

19. Devinder Thapa, J. Park, C. Park, G. Wang, and D. Shin, "A Formal Model for Real-Time Automated Manufacturing System Control with Timed-MPSG," IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, Spain, 2007.  (EI index)

20.   Devinder Thapa, Dongmin Shin, Jael Park, and Gi-Nam Wang,” Timed-MPSG: A Formal Model for Real Time Shop Floor Controller”, IEEE Computer Society, CIMCA 2006, Australia. (EI index)

21. Devinder Thapa, Chang Mok Park, Suraj Dangol, and Gi-Nam Wang,”III-Phase Verification and Validation of IEC Standard Programmable Logic Controller”, IEEE Computer Society, CIMCA 2006, Australia. (EI index)

22. Devinder Thapa, Suraj Dangol, and Gi-Nam Wang, “Transformation of Petri net into   Programm-able Logic controller using one-to-one mapping technique”, International Conference CIMCA-05 & IAWTIC 2005, Austria, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 228, November 28-30, 2005. (EI index)

23.  Devinder Thapa, C. M. Park, S. C. Park, and Gi Nam Wang,” Controller Logic design and implementation using Timed-MPSG”, ISBN: 978-89-950038-6-2-98560, pp 1540-1544, ICCAS 2007, South Korea (IEEE). (EI index)

International Conferences

24.  Devinder Thapa, S. C. Park, and Gi Nam Wang, “Architecture for Modeling, Simulation, and Execution of PLC based Manufacturing System,”  Winter Simulation 2008, USA. (EI index)

25. In-Sung Jung, Devinder Thapa, and Gi-Nam Wang, “Intelligent Agent Based Graphic User Interface(GUI) for e-Physician”, Proceedings Of World Academy Of Science, Engineering And Technology, Volume 26, ISSN: 1307-6884,  December 2007. (EI index)

26.  Devinder Thapa, S. C. Park, C. M. Park, and Gi Nam Wang, “Modeling, Verification, and Implementation of PLC program using Timed-MPSG”, ISBN#1-56555-316-02007, pp 533-540, Summer Computer Simulation 2007, USA. (EI index)

27.     Devinder Thapa, C. M. Park, S. C. Park, and Gi Nam Wang,” Formal Modeling and Verification of Shop Floor Controller Logics”, ISBN CD: 978-0-88986-701-7, IASTED, AsiaSim 2007, China. (EI index)

28. Devinder Thapa and Gi-Nam Wang, “Agent Integrated Dynamic Decision Making System in       Ubiquitous Healthcare Environment for High Risk Patient”, CIRAS 2005, International    Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (EI), pp. 103, Singapore, December 13-16, 2005. (EI index)

29.  Devinder Thapa and Gi-Nam Wang, “Intelligent Agent Based Multi Perspective Dynamic             Decision Model for Ubiquitous Healthcare System”, CIS ’05, Int’l workshop, XIAN, China, December 15-16, 2005.

30.  Devinder Thapa, Jaeho Bae, Suraj Dangol, Ki Heang Cho, Chang Mok Park, and Gi-Nam Wang, “ Agent Based Error Detection and Robot Collision Avoidance Using Reinforcement Learning         Approach”, APIEMS  ‘05, 6th Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Conference,   Manila, pp. 166, December 4-7, 2005.

31.  Insung Jung, Devinder Thapa, Sang Chan, & Gi-Nam Wang,”Computer aided diagnosis and monitoring of high risk patient using POC system in a ubiquitous environment”, WMSCI 2006, Florida, USA, pp. 69-74.

32.  In-Sung Jung, Devinder Thapa, and Gi-Nam Wang, “Comparative Study of Neural Network Algorithm to Classify the Abnormal Breast-Cancer Tumor”, CIRAS 2005, International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (EI), Singapore, pp. 104,   December 13-16, 2005. (EI index)

33.  In-Sung Jung, Devinder Thapa and Gi-Nam Wang, “Comparative Study of Neural Network           Algorithm to Classify the Abnormal Breast-Cancer Tumor”, APIEMS ’05, 6th Asia Pacific Industrial   Engineering and Management Conference, Manila, pp. 195, December 4-7, 2005.

34. In-Sung Jung, Kim Chwalhan, Devinder Thapa, Gi-Nam Wang, “A study of Neural Network based adaptive scheduling supporting Simulator framework”, DBPIA , pp. 514~519, 13 May, 2005.