For many transportation systems, the cost of expanding the infrastructure is too high. Therefore, engineers must shift their focus to improving the quality of transportation within the existing infrastructure. Focusing on highway and railway systems, Intelligent Transportation Systems: New Principles and Architectures provides a radically different approach to transportation systems design - one that closely resembles reality and promises to yield an architecture that delivers the highest efficiency.
Prof. Sumit Ghosh is the associate chair for research and graduate programs in the Computer Science & Engineering department at Arizona State University. Dr. Tony Lee is a member of technical staff at Vitria Technology
Prior to ASU, Sumit had been on the faculty at Brown University, Rhode Island, and before that he had been a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories Research in Holmdel, New Jersey. Sumit Ghosh received his B. Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India, and his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from Stanford University California. Sumit's industrial experience includes Silvar-Lisco in Menlo Park CA, Fairchild Advanced Research and Development, and Schlumberger Palo Alto Research Center, in addition to Bell Labs Research. Sumit's research interests include fundamental yet practical problems from the disciplines of asynchronous distributed algorithms, stability of complex asynchronous algorithms, generalized networks, deep space networking, impact of topology on network performance, network security, modeling security attacks in ATM networks, modeling and distributed simluation of complex systems, continuity of care in medicine, mobile computing, intelligent transportation, geographically distributed visualization, synthetic creativity, qualitative metrics for evaluating advanced graduate courses, issues in the Ph.D. process, and the physics of computer science problems. He is the author of four original monograph books: Hardware Description Languages: Concepts and Principles ( IEEE Press 2000 ); Modeling and Asynchronous Distributed Simluation: Analyzing Complex Systems ( IEEE Press 2000 ); Intelligent Transportation Systems: New Principles and Architectures ( CRC Press 2000 ); and Principles of Integrating Security into Networks ( Springer Verlag ). Four more books are under review / development. Sumit has written 75 + refereed journal papers and 66 + refereed conference papers. He serves on the editorial board of the IEEE Press Book Series on Microelectronic Systems Principles and Practice. His research is the result of support from the IEEE foundation US AFOSR, U.S. Army Research Labs, U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, National Security Agency, and U.S. consultant to U.S. Army Research Lab, Raytheon Corporation, Rome Labs, and Scientific Systems Company Inc. Sumit is a U.S. citizen.
Tony S. Lee received the combined Sc.B and A.B. degree from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island in Computer Engineering and Political Science, and Sc.M. and Ph.D. degrees also from Brown University. He currently is a member of technical staff at Vitria Technology in Sunnyvale, California working in the area of distributed software development and Internet Technologies. He also serves in a consulting role for the Networking and Distributed Algorithms Laboratory at Arizona State University where he continues his research into the areas of network protocols, distributed system design, and modeling and simulation. Tony has published over a dozen peer reviewed journal and conference papers in fields ranging from transportation systems, banking systems, and military command and control. He is also co-author with Sumit Ghosh on Modeling Asynchronous Distributed Simulation: Analyzing Complex Systems ( IEEE Press 2000 ). Prior to joining Vitria Technology, Tony held a research position with NASA at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. At NASA, he was involved with several high-speed network research projects including Network Quality of Service and the Information Power Grid. Tony is also the author of ATMSIM software package, a high fidelity, distributed network simulator which enables network researchers to develop realistic models for new protocols and algorithms and identify complex interactions.
