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Recent Key Publications

  • Arun Kumar, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Himanshu Chauhan, Sheetal K. Agarwal, Nitendra Rajput, FOLKSOMAPS - Towards Community Driven Intelligent Maps for Developing Regions, To appear in proceedings of 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009), 17-19 April 2009, Doha, Qatar.


  • Sheetal K Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Amit Anil Nanavati, Nitendra Rajput, Content Creation and Dissemination by-and-for Users in Rural Areas , To appear in proceedings of 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009), 17-19 April 2009, Doha, Qatar.


  • Arun Kumar, Nitendra Rajput, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Sheetal K. Agarwal and Amit A. Nanavati, WWTW: The World Wide Telecom Web, In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR), August 2007, Kyoto, Japan.


  • Arun Kumar, Nitendra Rajput, Sheetal K Agarwal, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Amit A Nanavati, Organizing the Unorganized - Employing IT to Empower the Under-privileged, In ACM International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Beijing, China, 21-25 April 2008. (pdf)


  • Arun Kumar, Anindya Neogi, Sateesh Pragallapati and D. Janaki Ram, Raising Programming Abstraction from Objects to Services, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), July 9-13, 2007, Utah, USA. Preprint (pdf).


  • Vikas Agarwal, Koustuv Dasgupta, Neeran Karnik, Arun Kumar, Ashish Kundu, Sumit Mittal and Biplav Srivastava, A Service Creation Environment based on End to End Composition of Web Services, In Proceedings of 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) ), 10-14 May 2005, Chiba, Japan.


Book Chapters


  1. Arun Kumar, Vikas Agarwal, and Neeran Karnik Metering and Accounting for Service-oriented Computing, In E-Business Models, Services, and Communications - Advances in E-Business Research Series (Volume 2), IGI Global, 2007.


Refereed Journals


  1. Arun Kumar, Neeran Karnik, and Vikas Agarwal, Usage Metering for Service Oriented Grid Computing, International Journal of E-business Research (IJEBR) - Special Issue on Web Services based E-business Systems, Idea Group, Jan 2006.


  2. (Invited Paper) Vikas Agarwal, Girish Chafle, Koustuv Dasgupta, Neeran Karnik, Arun Kumar, Sumit Mittal and Biplav Srivastava, Synthy: A System for End to End Composition of Web Services, Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier, Volume 3, Issue 4, Dec. 2005.


Refereed Conferences


  1. Arun Kumar, Nitendra Rajput, Sheetal K Agarwal, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Amit A Nanavati, Organizing the Unorganized - Employing IT to Empower the Under-privileged, In ACM International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Beijing, China, 21-25 April 2008. (pdf)


  2. Sheetal K Agarwal, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Arun Kumar, Amit A Nanavati, and Nitendra Rajput HSTP: Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol, In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2007), Sept. 10-12th, 2007, Manchester, UK. Preprint (pdf).


  3. Arun Kumar, Anindya Neogi, Sateesh Pragallapati and D. Janaki Ram, Raising Programming Abstraction from Objects to Services, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), July 9-13, 2007, Utah, USA. Preprint (pdf).


  4. Girish Chafle, Gautam Das, Koustuv Dasgupta, Arun Kumar, Sumit Mittal, Sougata Mukherjea and Biplav Srivastava, An Integrated Development Environment for Web Service Composition, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), July 9-13, 2007, Utah, USA


  5. Arun Kumar, Nitendra Rajput, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Sheetal K Agarwal, and Amit A Nanavati, VOISERV: Creation and Delivery of Converged Services through Voice in Emerging Economies, In Proceedings of 8th IEEE International Symposium on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), June 21- 25, 2007, Helsinki, Finland. Preprint (pdf).


  6. Arun Kumar, Anindya Neogi and D. Janaki Ram, An OO Based Semantic Model for Service Oriented Computing, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), September 18-22, 2006, Chicago, USA. Preprint (pdf).


  7. Girish Chafle, Koustuv Dasgupta, Arun Kumar, Sumit Mittal and Biplav Srivastava, Adaptation in Web Service Composition and Execution, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), September 18-22, 2006, Chicago, USA


  8. Arun Kumar and Vikas Agarwal, Metric Service : A Mediation Engine for Metrics Collection, Aggregation and Composition, In Proceedings of 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), 3-7 April 2006, Vancouver, Canada. Available as IBM Research Report No. RI05002.


  9. Arun Kumar, Biplav Srivastava and Sumit Mittal, Information Modeling for End to End Composition of Semantic Web Services, Proceedings of 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 6-10 November 2005, Galway, Ireland. Preprint available as IBM Research Report No. RI05001, February 2005.


  10. Arun Kumar, Neeran Karnik and Ravindranath C. K., Moving from Data Modeling to Process Modeling in CIM, In Proceedings of 9th IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), 15-19 May 2005, Nice, France.


  11. Vikas Agarwal, Koustuv Dasgupta, Neeran Karnik, Arun Kumar, Ashish Kundu, Sumit Mittal and Biplav Srivastava, A Service Creation Environment based on End to End Composition of Web Services, In Proceedings of 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) ), 10-14 May 2005, Chiba, Japan. Preprint available as IBM Research Report No. RI04008, November 2004.


  12. Arun Kumar and Neeran Karnik, Empowering Associations in CIM for Active Data Modeling, In Proceedings of 6th National Conference on Object Oriented Technology (NCOOT) , 7-8 August 2004, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India.


  13. Vikas Agarwal, Neeran Karnik and Arun Kumar, An Information Model for Metering and Accounting, In Proceedings of 9th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) , April 2004, Seoul, Korea. A preliminary version of this paper is available as IBM Research Report RI03003, May 2003.


  14. Vikas Agarwal, Neeran Karnik and Arun Kumar, Metering and Accounting for Composite e-Services, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on E-Commerce (CEC) , Newport Beach, CA, USA, June 2003. An extended version is available as IBM Research Report RI02024.


  15. Chandra Sekharaiah K, Arun Kumar and Janaki Ram D., A Security Model for Object Role Database Systems, Proceedings of International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE) , Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2002.


  16. Johara Shahabuddin, Vishu Gupta, Abhay Chrungoo, Sanjiv Kapoor, Sandeep Juneja and Arun Kumar, Stream-Packing: Resource Allocation in Web Server Farms with a QoS Guarantee, Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Volume 2228, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC) , Hyderabad, India, December 2001.


  17. K. Balaji, Rajkishore Barik, Arun Kumar and Ashish Kundu, An Allocation Algorithm for Generalized Bids in Combinatorial Auctions, Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications (ADCOM) , Bhubaneshwar, India, December 2001.


Refereed Workshops/Demonstrations


  1. Neil Patel, Sheetal Agarwal, Nitendra Rajput, Arun Kumar, Amit Nanavati, Paresh Dave, Tapan S. Parikh
    Experiences Designing a Voice Interface for Rural India , In proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology for Development (SLT 2008).



  2. Arun Kumar, Nitendra Rajput, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Sheetal K. Agarwal and Amit A. Nanavati, WWTW: The World Wide Telecom Web, In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR), August 2007, Kyoto, Japan.


  3. Janaki Ram D. and Arun Kumar, Interaction Driven OOAD, To appear in Proceedings of ECOOP 2005 First Workshop on Building a System Using Patterns: Examine the Illustrious Claim, July 2005, Glasgow, Scotland


  4. Vikas Agarwal, Girish Chafle, Koustuv Dasgupta, Neeran Karnik, Arun Kumar, Ashish Kundu, Anupam Mediratta, Sumit Mittal and Biplav Srivastava, Building Applications with End to End Composition of Web Services, AAAI-05 Intelligent Systems Demonstration Program, July 9-13, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA


Refereed Poster Papers


  1. Nitendra Rajput, Sheetal K. Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Amit Nanavati, An Alternative Information Web for Visually Impaired Users in Developing Countries, In Tenth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Halifax, Canada, October 2008.


  2. Arun Kumar, D. Janakiram, Towards a Programming Language for Services Computing, In 2008 International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Beijing, China, 21-25 April 2008.


  3. Sheetal K Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Amit A Nanavati, and Nitendra Rajput, The World Wide Telecom Web Browser, In 2008 International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Beijing, China, 21-25 April 2008.



  4. Sheetal K Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Amit A Nanavati, and Nitendra Rajput, VoiKiosk: Increasing Reachability of Kiosks in Developing Regions, In 2008 International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Beijing, China, 21-25 April 2008.


Miscellaneous (Magazine Articles, Research Reports, Thesis..)


  1. Sheetal K Agarwal, Nitendra Rajput, Amit A Nanavati, Sougata Mukherjea, and Arun Kumar, Raising a Billion Voices, In ACM Interactions, March-April 2008.


  2. Sheetal K Agarwal, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Swati Challa, Nanda Kambhatla, Arun Kumar, Sougata Mukherjea, Amit A Nanavati, and Nitendra Rajput, Pyr.mea.IT: Permeating IT Towards the Base of the Pyramid, In ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Special Issue on System Projects at IBM Research, Vol 42, Issue 1, January 2008.


  3. Arun Kumar, Nitendra Rajput, Dipanajan Chakraborty, Sandeep Jindal, and Amit Anil Nanavati, VOIGEN : A Technology for Enabling Data Services in Developing Regions. Available as IBM Research Report RI07001 , January 2007.


  4. Arun Kumar, Nitendra Rajput, Dipanjan Chakraborty, and Amit A. Nanavati, WWTW: A World Wide Telecom Web for Developing Regions. . Available as IBM Research Report RI06010 , November 2006.


  5. Arun Kumar, Neeran Karnik and Girish Chafle, Context-Sensitivity in Role Based Access Control, Published in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Volume 36, (no 3), pages 53 - 66, July 2002. (Pre-print version is available for download from the ResearchIndex cache).


  6. Vikas Agarwal, Neeran Karnik and Arun Kumar, Architectural Issues for Metering and Accounting of Grid Services, Available as IBM Research Report RI02010, April 2002.


  7. Vikas Agarwal, Girish Chafle, Neeran Karnik, Arun Kumar, Ashish Kundu, Johara Shahabuddin and Pradeep Varma, An Architecture for Virtual Server Farms, Available as IBM Research Report RI01006, April 2001.


  8. Arun Kumar and Janaki Ram D., An Access Control Based Security Model for Roles in CORBA compliant Distributed Object Oriented Systems, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Technical Report No. IITM-CSE-DOS-98-06, December 1998.