Prof James Kays Prof James L. Kays US Naval Postgraduate School, USA Monterey, California 93943-5117   Education 1980 Ph.D. (Mathematics), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1969 MS (Mathematics), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1962 BS, U.S. Military Academy   Other courses 1996 Government Program Management 1993 Total Quality Management, Colleges and Universities 1988 Simulation and SLAM II 1988 The Extended Simulation System (TESS) 1987 Modeling, Simulation and Gaming of Warfare 1986 Analytic Techniques of Management   Positions 2002- Dean, Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, NPS 1998-2002 Professor and Head, Department of Mathematics, Auburn University, Montgomery 1990-1998 Professor and Head, Department of Systems Engineering, US Military Academy 1989-1990 Acting Head, Department of Systems Engineering, US Military Academy 1987-1989 Director, Operations Research Center, Office of the Dean, US Military Academy 1985-1987 Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, US Military Academy 1978-1985 Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, US Military Academy 1974-1976 Staff Officer, Operations Directorate, ODCSOPS, Army General Staff, Washington, D.C. 1973-1974 Executive Officer, 1st Battalion, 15th Field Artillery, 2d Infantry Division, Republic of Korea 1969-1972 Instructor, Assistant Professor, Department Mathematics, US Military Academy 1964-1965 Company Commander, Battalion Executive Officer, Brigade S-1, USATC, Fort Campbell, KY 1963-1964 Battery Fire Direction Officer, Executive Officer; Battalion Assistant S-3, 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery, 82d Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, NC Teaching experience 26 years of undergraduate teaching experience in mathematics and systems engineering:   1. Department of Mathematics, USMA (1969-1972, 1978-1987   MA 391 Mathematical Modeling MA 473 Intermediate Probability and Statistics MA 208 Introductory Probability and Statistics MA 492 Applied Combinatorics MA 152 Multi-variable Calculus MA 387 Mathematical Analysis MA 487 Advanced Calculus MA 151 Single Variable Calculus MA 162 Multi-variable Calculus MA 384 Ordinary Differential Equations MA 484 Partial Differential Equations MA 485 Complex Analysis MA 371 Linear Algebra MA 482 Abstract Algebra 2. Department of Systems Engineering, USMA (1989-1998) SE 387 Deterministic Models SE 401 Introduction to Systems Design SE 489 Advanced Individual Study SE 381 Engineering Economy SE 388 Probabilistic Models SE 453 Advanced Engineering Decision Methods SE 487 Operations Research I 3. Department of Mathematics, Auburn University Montgomery (1999) MATH 1100 Finite Mathematics MATH 1610 Calculus I MATH 1620 Calculus II MATH 2670 Elementary Statistics   Publications   "Analysis of Acoustical Effects of Receiver and Source Motions at Short Ranges in a Deep Ocean," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 66, pp 1120-1130 (1979), senior author. "Analysis of Acoustical Effects of Relative Receiver-Source Motion at Intermediate Ranges in a Deep Ocean," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 68, pp 613-627 (1980), senior author. Ph.D. Dissertation, "Mathematical Analysis of Deep-Ocean Acoustical Effects of Receiver and Source Motions at Short and Intermediate Ranges," Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1980. "Short-Range Acoustical Effects of Depth-Varying Source Motion at Short Ranges," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 69, pp 95-107 (1981), senior author. "Acoustic Descriptors of Underwater Sound-Source Motion(U)," Proceedings of the 34th Navy Symposium for Underwater Acoustics, Vol. III, pp 460-489 (1982), senior author. "Preliminary Feasibility Study-RPI TMA Algorithm(U)," RPI Technical Report for the Naval Sea Systems Command, 1982, senior author. "Three Dimensional Tracking of an Ocean Sound Source by Acoustic Descriptors and a Linear Array(U)," The Journal of Underwater Acoustics, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp 1-14 (1983), senior author. "Modeling for the Revised OPMS," technical report completed for the U.S. Army Personnel Center, 1986. "SADARM Aim-Point Sensing," technical report completed for the Deputy Under Secretary of the Army (Operations Research), February 1988. "On Constructing Interval Scales Using Data Resulting from Categorical Judgments," technical review and report completed for the Deputy Under Secretary of the Army (Operations Research), July 1988. "Impact of 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act on Army Officer Professional Development," with M.L. McGinnis, Koopman Prize Finalist, Military Applications Section (MAS), Operations Research Society of America, 1988. "Computer Simulation Modeling of the United States Army Professional Development Process," Proceedings, 54th Military Operations Research Society Symposium, Monterey, CA, 1988. "The Impact of Title IV on Officer Professional Development," with M. McGinnis, Operations Research Center Technical Report, USMA, 1989. "Computer Simulation of U.S. Army Officer Professional Development," with M. McGinnis, Proceedings of the 1994 Winter Simulation Conference. "A Historical Perspective of Undergraduate Systems Engineering at the United States Military Academy," with M. McGinnis, Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. "The Installation Status Report," with T. O'Hara and J. Farr, accepted for publication in the Journal of Infrastructure Systems, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996. "Resource Allocation for Army Installation Management," with E. Lind and J. Farr, Journal of Infrastructure Systems, American Society for Civil Engineers, Vol. 3, No. 4. pp177-182(1997). Presentations "Short-Range Sound Transmission between Moving Receivers and Sources in the Deep Ocean," at the meeting of The Acoustical Society of America, Cambridge, MA, June 1979. "Deep-Ocean Acoustical Effects of Relative Receiver-Source Motion at Intermediate Ranges," at the meeting of The Acoustical Society of America, Atlanta, GA, April 1980. "Deep-Ocean Acoustical Effects of Depth-Varying Source Motion at Short Ranges," at the meeting of The Acoustical Society of America, Los Angeles, CA, November 1980. "Acoustic Descriptors of Underwater Sound-Source Motion(U)," technical presentation at the Naval Underwater Systems Center, June 1981. "Acoustic Descriptors of Underwater Sound-Source Motion(U)," at the 34th Navy Symposium for Underwater Acoustics, San Diego, CA, December 1981. "Alternatives for Modeling the Revised OPMS," technical presentation at MILPERCEN, Alexandria, VA, January 1986. "Operations Research--How Scientific Is It or Should It Be?", 11th OR/SA Advisory Committee Meeting, College of William and Mary, 17 March 1988. "A Study of the Operations Research Curriculum at USMA," 11th OR/SA Advisory Committee Meeting, College of William and Mary, 17 March 1988. "The Scientific Method in Operations Research," Education Colloquium of the Military Operations Research Society, 6 April 1988. "Operations Research Education at the U.S. Military Academy," Education Colloquium of the Military Operations Research Society, 6 April 1988. "Forecasting Personnel Requirements for the U.S. Army," accepted for presentation at the Eighth International Symposium on Forecasting, Amsterdam, June 1988. (shortage of government funds prevented attendance) "An FMS Model for Assessing Personnel Management Policy in the Army," with CPT Michael L. McGinnis and CPT Scott T. Forster, the national meeting of the Operations Research Society of America, October 1988. "Forecasting Personnel Requirements for the U.S. Army," with Dr. Ruth A. Maurer, the national meeting of the Operations Research Society of America, October 1988. "Operations Research Education at the Undergraduate Level: An Assessment at the U.S. Military Academy," the national meeting of the Operations Research Society of America, October 1988. "Impact of 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act on Army Officer Professional Development," with M.L. McGinnis, Koopman Prize Finalist, Military Applications Section (MAS), Operations Research Society of America, National Conference, 1988. "Computer Simulation Modeling of the United States Army Professional Development Process," with M.L. McGinnis and S. Forster, 54th Military Operations Research Society Symposium, Monterey, CA; Operations Research Society of America, Joint National Conference, 1988. "An FMS Model for Assessing Personnel Management Policy in the Army," with M. McGinnis, Operations Research Society of America, National Conference, 1988. "The Analytical Hierarchy Process Applied to Force Design, Operations Research Society of America, National Conference, 1989. "Systems Engineering at the United States Military Academy," National Council on Systems Engineering, National Conference, 1992. "Professional Development of Operations Research Analysts," Colloquium, Education Committee, Military Operations Research Society, 1993. "Lessons Learned from ABET Accreditation Process," with D. Thomas and J. Farr, Seventeenth Annual American Society of Engineering Management Conference, 1996. Other conferences Symposium on Waves on Fluid Interfaces, Mathematics Research Center, University of Wisconsin, October 1982. 1st Army Conference on Applied Mathematics and Computing, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., May 1983. 63d Summer Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, Albany, NY, August 1983. Meeting of the Logistics and Operations Research Subcommittee of the Army Mathematics Steering Committee, Concepts Analysis Agency, Bethesda, MD, February 1985. Army Research Office Workshop on System Reliability, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., March 1985. Meeting of the Logistics and Operations Research Subcommittee of the Army Mathematics Steering Committee, Lexington, KY, December 1986. National meeting of the Institute of Management Sciences and The Operations Research Society of America, New Orleans, LA, May 1987. Meeting of the Military Operations Research Society, Maxwell AFB, AL, May 1987. National meeting of the Institute of Management Sciences and The Operations Research Society of America, St. Louis, MO, October 1987. Winter Simulation Conference, Atlanta, GA, December 1987. National meeting of the Institute of Management Sciences and The Operations Research Society of America, Washington, D.C., April 1988. Meeting of the Military Operations Research Society, Naval Postgraduate School, June 1988. Workshop on Soviet Troop Control, ODCSOPS, DA, Washington, D.C., June 1988. Co-Chairman, Working Group, "ADP Technology for Military OR," Meeting of the Military Operations Research Society, to be held at Ft Leavenworth, KS, June 1989. Chair, Technical Session, Military Applications Section, National meeting of the Institute of Management Sciences and The Operations Research Society of America, New York City, NY, October 1989. Other research and academic activities 2000 Consultant, Center for Business and Economic Development, AUM 1999 Consultant, US Army TRADOC Analysis Center-Monterey 1988 to 1990 Referee for Interfaces 1994-present Associate Editor, Military Operations Research June 1987 Chairman of Technical Session, Fifth Army Conference on Applied Mathematics and Computing, USMA 1983-1986 Member of doctoral committees for candidates for the Ph.D. in applied mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY May 1983 Chairman of Technical Session, First Army Conference on Applied Mathematics and Computing, George Washington University 1983-1985 Member and reviewer of manuscripts for the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications 1980-1982 Co-principal investigator conducting classified research in underwater acoustics for the Office of Naval Research, Contract No. N00014-81-K-0054 Institutional Governance Activities US Military Academy: Curriculum Committee, 1980-1984 Officer Representative, Army Lightweight Football, 1981-1998 Treasurer, USMA Class of 1962 Educational Fund, 1971-1972, 1979-1985 Vice President, Class of 1962 Educational Fund, 1986-1989 Class Trustee, Association of Graduates, 1982-1983 Chair, Self-Study Committee for Leader Development Coordination, Middle States Accreditation, 1988-1989 Member, Committee to Review Recommendations for Promotion to Professor of Designated Subject, 1986-1988 Chair, Faculty Credentials and Promotion Committee, 1989-1998 Member, Policy Board, US Military Academy, 1994-1996 Member, Admissions Committee, 1994-1998 Chair or member, USMA faculty search committees, 1986-1998 Auburn University Montgomery: Member, Faculty Senate, 2000-present President-Elect, Faculty Senate and Council, 2001-2002 Member, Information Technology Advisory Council, 2000-present Chair, Information Technology Planning Committee, 2000 Extracurricular and Community Activities Past and Present Professional Societies: Operations Research Society of America Chair, Education Committee, Military Operations Research Society, 1991-1992 Military Operations Research Society (member of the Board of Directors, 1989-1993, 1997-1999) Military Operations Research Society, Vice President for Professional Affairs, 1992-1993 National Council on Systems Engineering American Society for Engineering Education Honorary Societies: The Honorary Society of Phi Kappa Phi The Scientific Research Society of Sigma Xi Academic Recognition 1985 Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology, Who's Who in America 1980 Joaquin B. Diaz Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, presented annually to a doctoral student in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and research in mathematics 1962 Distinguished Graduate (top 5%), USMA Military Education 1986 U.S. Army War College 1974 Command and General Staff College 1966 Field Artillery Officer Advanced Course 1964 Ranger School 1962 Airborne School 1962 Field Artillery Officer Basic Course Military awards, decorations, recognition Distinguished Service Medal Legion of Merit Bronze Star Medal Meritorious Service Medal w/Oak Leaf Cluster Army Commendation Medal w/V device and two Oak Leaf Clusters Combat Infantryman's Badge Parachutist Badge Ranger Tab General Staff Identification Badge Below the zone promotions to Major and Lieutenant Colonel Selected for battalion command, 1976 Distinguished Graduate (top 5%) of: Field Artillery Basic Course Field Artillery Advanced Course Command and General Staff College