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Name:              KVSVN Raju                                                                                                                                    


Position:           Professor

Address:               Dept of Computer Science & Systems Engg

        College of Engineering (A)

        Andhra University

       Visakhapatnam 530 003


Email:             kvsvn.raju@gmail.com

Phone:              91- 9440572676


Experience:   

  

  • Teaching:  Since 1979
  • Research:  Since 1977

 

Education:

  • Ph.D.(Computer Science & Technology)  IIT, Kharagpur  
  • M.E (Control Systems), AU College Of Engineering, Visakhapatnam 
  • B.E (Electrical Engineering), Govt. College of Engineering, Kakinada

Research Areas:

  • Data Engineering
  • Security  Engineering
  •  Software Engineering.
  •  Web Engineering


Professional Activities:

  • Reviewer: ACM Transactions on  Database Systems
  • Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
  • Reviewer for KDBI - Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence track in EPIA'2009.
  • Member of the Programming Committee and reviewer of  the  4th and 5th International Conference on Data Mining,  of The 2008 and 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing,  Las Vegas, USA;
  • Reviewer: RS Pressman's Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, both 6th and 7th Editions.

 DENSE Research Group: 

  •  Member:  Link   

Ph.Ds  On role:  6 (working on the following areas)

 

·     Data Privacy preserving,

·      Database Security 

·      Software Cost Estimation,

·      Reputation-based  P2P Trust Schemes,

·      Semantic Web

 

Research Projects:

  • Completed: 2
  • On going:    1

Consultancy:    10 projects completed.


Administrative Activities:  

  • Chairman, Board of Studies (2001-2004)
  • Head of the Department (1997-2000)
  • Convener,  BCAT-98 & '99 
  • In  charge, Computer work of EMCET-1992 & '93 In-charge,  Information  Management Center,  AU (1990-93) 
  • Examination  Superindent,  DOEACC Examinations   ( since1990 ), one of the  exams  conducted by the Govt. of India, all over  India)

Research Activities:

Ph Ds Supervision:

  • Improving the accuracy of effort estimation through soft computing techniques, submitted to AU for adjudication
  • Improving Informativeness while Preserving Data Privacy, submitted to AU for adjudication.
  • The RATG System: An Optimal Automated Test Case Generator using Combinatorial Design Method, August 2008, awarded by the JNTU, Hyderabad.
  • An analysis, design and performance of dynamic certificate validation trees for PKI, December, 2005. (Adjudged as the best thesis of AU of the year)
  • Pattern based methodology for object oriented systems, July, 2005
  • Planning and selection of cutting tools in flexible manufacturing systems, 2000
  • Intelligent legal assistant for adjudication, 1994.  (Adjudged as the best thesis of AU of the year)

Awards:
  • Received IBM Faculty Award - 2008
    • According to IBM’s web site, the IBM Faculty Award is a competitive, worldwide program intended to:
    • 1) Foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and services organizations; and
    • 2) Promote courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM. The candidates must have an outstanding reputation for contributions in their field or, in the case of junior faculty, show unusual promise.

 

Journal Papers:

  • Improving the accuracy of effort estimation through fuzzy set combination of size and cost drivers, WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Issue 6, Volume 8, June 2009, pp 926-936, ISSN 1109-2750. 
  • Improving the accuracy of effort estimation through fuzzy set representation of size,  Journal of Computer Science, 5(6), 451-455, 2009, Science Publications, New York, U S A.
  • A Concise Neural Network Model for Estimating Software Effort, International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering, Issue. 1, Vol. 1, May 2009 pp 188-193.
  • An Improved Fuzzy Approach for COCOMO’s Effort Estimation using Gaussian Membership Function, Vol.4, No.3, 2009, Journal of Software,  Academy Publisher, Finland.
  • An Effective Calculation of Reputation in P2P Networks, , Journal Of Networks, Vol. 4, No. 5, Pp332-342, JULY 2009, Academy Publisher, Finland.
  • A Concise Neural Network Model for Estimating Software Effort, International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering, Issue.1, Vol.1, May 2009, Academy Publisher, Finland.
  • A New Approach for Estimating Software Effort Using RBFN Network, the IJCSNS International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, VOL.8 No.7, pp 237-241, July 2008. 
  • Credibility Based Corrective Mechanism for Reputation Computation in Peer-to-Peer Communities, the IJCSNS, International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, VOL.8 No.5, pp 95-102, May 2008.
  • Fuzzy based approach for privacy preserving publication of data, IJCSNS International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, VOL.8, No.1, pp. 115-121,January 2008.
  • Reasoning with Fuzzy Sensors, IEEE Transactions on System, Man, Cybernetics, Vol. 24, No. 17, July 1994, p.p. 1061-1064, U S A.
  • Design and Implementation of fuzzy relational database system, Journal of Information Science, Vol. 35, No. 1, 1989 U S A.
  • Fuzzy functional Dependency and Lossless Join Decomposition of Fuzzy Relational Database Systems, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 129-166, 1988 U S A.
  • Study of Joins in Fuzzy Relational Databases, Fuzzy Sets and Systems Vol. 21 No. 1, pp. 19-34, 1987, West Germany.
  • Privacy against text data for privacy preserving in mined data, PCTE Journal of Computer Science, PP 51-59, Vol. 3., No. 2., July-Dec 2007.
  • Graphical Interpretation of the RATG System for Optimal Test Case Generation, IJSCI, the International Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, April 2007,  pp52-59.
  • Network security current perspectives and future concerns, CSI Communications, Vol 4, Jan 2003.
  • Legal Counseling System, SADHANA, Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, Vol. 19, Part-1, Feb 1994, pp. 75-92, Springer India .
  • Digital System Clocks, Students’ Journal of IETE, Vol. 24 No.1,1983

 

Conferences papers: 

  • Scalable rekeying limited to subgroup using Hybrid key trees, accepted in International Conference on Futuristic Computer Applications is to be held in Bangalore on 20-21 March, 2010.
  • Understanding User Behavior using Web Usage Mining,  accepted in International Conference on Futuristic Computer Applications is to be held in Bangalore on 20-21 March, 2010.
  • Efficient conference key distribution using hybrid key trees, accepted in IEEE Workshop on Collaborative Security Technologies (CoSec '09) Bangalore - 9th Dec 2009.
  • Comparison Shopping Agents : the essential characteristics and challenges to be met, Accepted in  International Conference on Intelligent Agent & Multi-Agent Systems 2009,  Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society, 22 to 24 July 2009, Chennai, India
  •  Privacy Preserving Sharing of Data, proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Data Mining, pp131-137, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 13-16, 2009, USA, it is part of WORLDCOMP'09 - The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing.
  • Estimating COCOMO's Effort Based on Fuzzy Set Representation of Size, Accepted in The 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, SERP'09: July 13-16,  Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, it is part of WORLDCOMP'09 - The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing.
  • A Methodology for Exploring the Quality of Mission Critical Software Systems, Conference on IEEE International  Advance Computing Conference (IACC’09) on March 6-7, 2009, Thapar University, Patiala, India
  • Single Layer Artificial Neural Network Model for Software Effort Estimation, IEEE International Conference on  Advance Computing Conference (IACC’09) on March 6-7, 2009, Thapar University, Patiala, India
  • Credibility Based Reputation Calculation in P2P Networks, 5th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technologies (ICDCIT) 2008, December 10 - 12, 2008. New Delhi, India and published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS Volume # 5375, pp188-195, Spinger, Germany.
  • A Novel Approach for Privacy Preserving Publication of Data, Proceedings of  WORLDCOMP'08, The 2008 International Conference on Data Mining, July 14-17,2008,  Las Vegas, USA.
  • Policy Based Controlled Migration of Mobile Agents to Untrusted Hosts, Third International Conference on International Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing - Vol.1 (IIH-MSP 2007), pp550-553, November26-28,2007, Taiwan.
  • Fault- prone module prediction of a web application using artificial neural networks,  IASTED’s International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2007) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Nov 19- 21, 2007.
  • International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2007) in Cambridge,Massachusetts, USA,  Nov 19- 21, 2007.
  • A Neural Network Approach for Web Cost Estimation, IASTED’s International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2007) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Nov 19- 21, 2007.
  • Privacy Preserving in Clustering by Categorizing Attributes Using Privacy and Non Privacy Disclosure Sets; Proceedings of  WORLDCOMP'07, The 2007 International Conference on Data Mining, pp301-307, June 25-28, Las Vegas, USA.
  • Enhanced User Privacy on Trusted Processors; Proceedings of WORLDCOMP’07, The 2007 International Conference on Security and Management, pp205-211, June 25-28, Las Vegas, USA
  • Privacy Preserving in Clustering Using Fuzzy Sets, Proceedings of  WORLDCOMP'08, The 2006 International Conference on Data Mining,. June 26-29, 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
  • Fair and Secure M-cash, IEEE proceeding of International Conference on GRC-2006, pp778- 781  at Atlanta, USA, in May, 10-12 May 2006.
  • The RATG System - Reducing Time with an Approach of Testing Based on Combinatorial Design      Method” The IASTED International Conference on SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SE 2006, 14-16   February, 2006.Innsbruck, Austria.
  • The Reliable Automatic Test Case Generation System Based on Combinatorial Design Method International Conference on Systemic Cybernetics and Informatics ICSCI 2006 under the aegis of Pentagram Research Centre Pvt. Ltd. held on 04-08 January, 2006.
  • Model-Based Testing based on Functional Requirements Using Combinatorial Design Method was selected & published in International Conference on Systemics Cybernetics and Informatics ICSCI 2006 under the aegis of Pentagram Research Centre Pvt .Ltd. held on 04-08 January, 2006.
  • Design level measures for pattern oriented software development: A case study, proceeding ofInternational conference on Information Technology, held on 23-26 May, 2003, Katmandu, Nepal
  • Fuzzy Functional Dependencies, Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Data Engineering,  Feb. 1986 Los Angeles, U S A.
  • A New Class of Data Dependencies in Relational Databases, Information Processing Letters Vol. No 18, pp. 216 – 218, 19986 North Holland.
  • The RATG System, International Conference on current trends of information technology, MERG05, Bhimavaram, India.
  • An Efficient protocol for certificate path validation, Proc. of 8th International Conference on Information Technology, December, 2005, Bhubaneswar, India.
  • An authenticated dictionary for publishing certificate paths in delegated servers for multi-domain PKI, Proc. of International Conference on Number Theory and Secure Communications, Srinivasa Ramanujam Centre, Kumbakonam, December 2003, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • Estimating relative size when alternative design exist for a given object oriented design problem, Proc of 6th International Conference on Information Technology, Dec 22-25, 2003, Bhubaneswar, India.
  • A Delegated Server Model for certificate path discovery and validation in heterogeneous PKI structures, Proc. of 6th International Conference on Information Technology,  December22-25, 2003, Bubhaneswar, India.
  • Pattern based Design Hand Book for Pattern Oriented Software Development: A Case Study: Sixth International Conference on Information Technology, Dec 22-25, 2003, Bhubaneswar, India.
  • Efficiency of RATG Test Cases as Measured By code coverage, National Conference, TEQIP – 2005, SNIST Factor-Covering Designs for Software Testing, National Conference, TEQIP – 2005, SNIST.
  • Applicability of Authenticated Dictionaries for certificate validation in large PKI systems, Proc. of  National Workshop on Cryptology, Anna University, conducted by Cryptography Research Society of India, Chennai, India, October 2003.
  • Generating Kiviat Diagrams on PC for demonstrating Software Quality of Large Software TQM through IT, BIG-97, Computer Society of India, 8th- 10th August, 1997.
  • Proposed Emhanced ILAFA, 30th Annual Convention, Computer Society of India, pp. 268-278, 9-12 November 1995, Hydferabad India.
  • Quality and Performance Evaluation of Expert Systems, National Symposium on Modern Trends in Electronics and Communications Systems, Feb 23-25, 1995 Visakhapatnam.
  • Quality Assurance of Expert Systems, Ninth National Conference of Computer Engineers On Software Quality Assurance and Productivity, 26th and 27th Nov. 1994  Jabalpur.
  • An Intelligent Legal Assistant, Intelligent Computing Congress, Dec 15-18, 1993, Hyderabad
  • On Computerization of a Legal System, Proceeding on Computers in Public Systems, CSI Western  Regional Convention, Nov 10 –11, 1993 Ahmedabad.
  • On Application of a Fast algorithm to Compute the Reliability of a System, Proceeding of SRC-93, Visakhapatnam, August, 1993.
  • An Optimized Test Data Generation to Test a Program, Proceeding of SRC-93, Visakhapatnam, August, 1993.
  • Digital Protection in Power System using Microprocessors, Proceedings of All India Symposium on Power Systems Operations and Control, June 1979 Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad.
  • A Hierarchical Syntactic Pattern Recognition System for Circuit Analysis, Annual Convention Computer Society of India, 1978.
         Note: Co-authors of the most of the above papers were my research students

 

Internal Research Forum:   

  •  Information Security – Time to drag it from margins to centre of focus, Bulletin of Andhra  University Research Forum, Vol 9, Nos.1&2, April &May, 2003.

Professional Organization Memberships: 

  • Sr. Member,  Computer Society Of India 
  • Member, Institute of Engineers (I) 
  • Member, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers 
  • Member, Indian Society for Technical Education.