Vijay Kumar Mago

Research Associate

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein.

Academic Appointment

Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

Research Associate, Modelling of Complex Social Systems, The IRMACS Centre

January 2011 - till date

DAV College, Jalandhar, India

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

July 2002 – December 2010

CTIM&IT, Jalandhar, India

Lecturer, Department of Computer Science

July 2001 – June 2002

Education

PhD in Computer Science and Applications

Panjab Univeristy, Chandigarh, India

2005 - 2010

Advisor: Dr. M. Syamala Devi, Professor
Dissertation Title: A Multi-Agent Medical System for Infant and Child - care Health Services in Rural India
(Equivalent to PhD in BC as per ICES Evaluation Service)

Master in Computer Applications

Guru Nank Dev University, Amritsar, India

1998 - 2001

Department of Computer Science and Applications
(Equivalent to Master in BC with 3.51 GPA as per ICES Evaluation Service)

BA in Mathematics, Economics

Guru Nank Dev University, Amritsar, India

1995 - 1998

Subjects Taught

Fuzzy Systems, Soft Computing, Microprocessor 8085/8086, Statistics, Operating system, Computer Graphics, Computer Organization and Architecture, C, C++, DBMS, Operating system, Operation Research, System Simulation, Software Engineering,Digital Electronics, Digital Electronics.

Publications

    Journal

  1. Mago V, Devi MS, “Multi-agent model for Indian rural health care”, Leadership in Health Services, International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 18, No. 4. pages i-xi, 2005. Published by Emerald Insight, UK.
  2. Jeet K, Mago VK, Prasad B, Minhas RS, “An Influence Diagram-Based Approach for Estimating Staff Training in Software Industry”, Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 18, no. 4 pp. 267-284, 2009. Published by Freund Publishing House, Israel.

    3. Book Chapter

  3. Vijay Kumar Mago, Bhanu Prasad, Ajay Bhatia, Anjali Mago, "A Decision Making System for the Treatment of Dental Caries", Soft Computing Applications in Business. Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp 231-242, 2008
  4. Vijay Kumar Mago, M. Syamala Devi, Ajay Bhatia, Ravinder Mehta. “Using Probabilistic Neural Network for Selection of a Super Specialist Medical Agent”, Multi-Agent Systems for Health Care Simulation and Modeling , Publisher IGI Global, USA, pp 164-177, 2009.
  5. VK Mago, P Sharma, A Mago, J Mago, “Fuzzy Logic Based Expert System for the Treatment of Mobile Tooth”, “Software Tools and Algorithms for Biological Systems” in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology , Springer, Germany. (In press). Impact Factor 2.02

    Referred International Conference

  6. VK Mago and MS Devi, “A Multi-agent Medical System for Indian Rural Infant and Child Care”, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence-07 (IJCAI-7) pp 1396-1401. Organized by CMU, USA, AAAI Press, Hyderabad, India. (Acceptance rate 15.67 %)
  7. VK Mago, MS Devi and R Mehta, “Decision Making System: Agent Diagnosing Child Care Diseases”, Multi-Agent Systems and Applications V, 5th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, CEEMAS 2007,Leipzig, Germany, September 25 – 27, 2007, LNCS pp 316- 318, 2007
  8. VK Mago, MS Devi and R Mehta, “Decision Making System Based on Bayesian Network for an Agent Diagnosing Child Care Diseases”, From Knowledge to Global Care, AIME 2007, Netherlands, LNCS 4924. Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures pp127-136,2008
  9. Kawal Jeet, Vijay Kumar Mago, Bhanu Prasad, Rajinder Singh Minhas, “MaST: A Tool for Aiding the Staff Training Management by Using Influence Diagrams”, International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP 08), Florida, USA, 2008, pp 156-164. (Acceptance rate 30 %)
  10. J Mago, B Prasad, VK Mago, K Singh, “Formalizing the Protocols for a Multi Agent System in Health Care”, International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT- 08), Florida, USA, 2008, pp 198-204. (Acceptance rate 30 %)
  11. VK Mago, A Bhatia, B Prasad, A Mago, “A Fuzzy Expert System for Decision Making in the Treatment of Broken Tooth”, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-09) Orlando, Florida, USA, July 13-16, 2009. pp 268-277 (Acceptance rate 30 %)
  12. Kawal Jeet, R Dhir ,VK Mago and R S Minhas, “A Tool for Aiding the Management of Schedule Overrun”, IEEE 2nd International Advance Computing Conference 2010, pp 416-421, 2010.

    13. Journal Papers In Review

  13. Mago VK, Mago A, Bhatia A, Bhatia N, “Clinical Decision Support System for Dental Treatment”, Journal of Computational Science, Elsevier. (In review).
  14. Jeet K, Mago VK, Dhir R, Minhas RS, “An Influence Diagram Based Approach for Estimating Schedule Overrun In Software Industry”, INFOCOMP Journal of Computer Science. (In Review).
  15. Mago VK, Basra S, Bhatia N, “Software Effort Estimation Using Back Propagation Neural Network And Bayesian Regularization”, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE). (In review)
  16. Mago VK, Mago A, Kaur L, Salaria R, Bhatia N, Papageorgiou EI, “Prediction of Periodontal Disease using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps”, Information Sciences, Elsevier (In review).
  17. VK Mago, R Mehta, N Bhatia, EI Papageorgiou, J Kaur, A Kaura “A Fuzzy Cognitive Map based tool for Diagnosing Meningitis among Infants and Children”, Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier. (In review).

Book Editing

Title: “Cross Disciplinary Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition: Advancing Technologies”. To be published by IGI Global, USA in 2011.

Research Grant

Title: Medical Decision Making: Fuzzy Expert System for Congestive Heart Failure and Meningitis.
Granting Agency: University Grant Commission, India
Amount: $3000.
Status: In progress, to complete in Sept., 2011.