Houman Younessi

Houman Younessi (PhD) is a professor of science, engineering, and management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Hartford Graduate Campus where he is also in charge of all academic programs. Houman is an internationally renowned educator, practitioner, consultant, and investigator. He is the inventor of the SBM (State Behavior Modeling) method and the co-inventor of the OPEN methodology and the new paradigm of recombinant programming. Dr. Younessi combines world class research based knowledge with recognized industry experience to bring forth innovations in research as well as in the classroom and industry, where his consultation is regularly sought by many leading organizations. A multi-disciplinarian, he has publications and expertise in many fields including software engineering, information systems, business and enterprise management and enterprise modeling and co-design, decision science, managerial economics and econometrics, and quantitative finance. Dr. Younessi is regularly invited to speak at many prestigious venues.

Publications

Collaborative Business Process Engineering and Global Organizations: Frameworks for Service Integration
Collaborative Business Process Engineering and Global Organizations: Frameworks for Service Integration
Bhuvan Unhelkar, Abbass Ghanbary, Houman Younessi. © 2010. 338 pages.
Due to the complexity and globalization among modern-day businesses, organizations now turn to collaborative processes in order to remain competitive. Collaborative Business...
Fundamentals of Collaborative Business
Fundamentals of Collaborative Business
Bhuvan Unhelkar, Abbass Ghanbary, Houman Younessi. © 2010. 36 pages.
The modern business age is about astute collaboration. This is so because the nature of competition amongst businesses has changed significantly. The core change has resulted...
Emerging Technologies for Business Collaboration
Emerging Technologies for Business Collaboration
Bhuvan Unhelkar, Abbass Ghanbary, Houman Younessi. © 2010. 28 pages.
This chapter describes the fundamentals of technologies such as Web Services (WS) and mobile technologies that provide the basis for modem-day business collaboration. These...
Global Collaborative Business
Global Collaborative Business
Bhuvan Unhelkar, Abbass Ghanbary, Houman Younessi. © 2010. 33 pages.
This chapter starts with a discussion on global collaborative business. The initial discussion in this chapter is on why and how a global collaborative business is brought about....
Collaborative Business Process Engineering (CBPE) Model
Collaborative Business Process Engineering (CBPE) Model
Bhuvan Unhelkar, Abbass Ghanbary, Houman Younessi. © 2010. 23 pages.
This chapter describes the Collaborative Business Process Engineering (CBPE) model. This model is the core model for business collaboration and is the main contribution of this...
Advanced Technologies and Architecture for Collaborative Business
Advanced Technologies and Architecture for Collaborative Business
Bhuvan Unhelkar, Abbass Ghanbary, Houman Younessi. © 2010. 30 pages.
This chapter discusses the role of information system architectures in Collaborate Business Process Engineering (CBPE). Thus, in this chapter, there is an extension of the...
Collaborative Web Based System (CWBS)
Collaborative Web Based System (CWBS)
Bhuvan Unhelkar, Abbass Ghanbary, Houman Younessi. © 2010. 23 pages.
This chapter describes the modeling of the Collaborative Web Based System (CWBS). This CWBS is the means by which the CBPE model, discussed earlier in this book, is practically...
Organizational Structure and Technology Adaptation
Organizational Structure and Technology Adaptation
Bhuvan Unhelkar, Abbass Ghanbary, Houman Younessi. © 2010. 30 pages.
This chapter discusses the effect of the technologies of Web Services (WS) and Mobile Technologies (MT) on the organizational structure of an enterprise. Subsequently, this...
Quality Assurance of the Collaborative Web Based System
Quality Assurance of the Collaborative Web Based System
Bhuvan Unhelkar, Abbass Ghanbary, Houman Younessi. © 2010. 14 pages.
This chapter discusses the important issues related to quality management, quality assurance and testing of information systems that are used by collaborative business. The...
Socio-Cultural Factors and Collaboration
Socio-Cultural Factors and Collaboration
Bhuvan Unhelkar, Abbass Ghanbary, Houman Younessi. © 2010. 21 pages.
This chapter discusses the importance of the socio-cultural factors of collaboration. This social influence is experienced not only in the society where the customers exist, but...
Change Management in Collaboration
Change Management in Collaboration
Bhuvan Unhelkar, Abbass Ghanbary, Houman Younessi. © 2010. 11 pages.
This chapter discusses the importance, relevance and the activities related to managing change in a business as it undergoes transformation to a collaborative business. One of...
Case Study 1: A Security Organization (Medium Size Organization)
Case Study 1: A Security Organization (Medium Size Organization)
Bhuvan Unhelkar, Abbass Ghanbary, Houman Younessi. © 2010. 18 pages.
This chapter describes a case study that is carried out in an organization that provides physical security services in Australia. The case study has been carried out with the aim...
Case Study 2: An Energy Provider Organization (Large Organization)
Case Study 2: An Energy Provider Organization (Large Organization)
Bhuvan Unhelkar, Abbass Ghanbary, Houman Younessi. © 2010. 16 pages.
This chapter describes a case study carried out in a large energy provider organization. The case study demonstrates the application of the CBPE model in practice. This chapter...
Appendices
Appendices
Bhuvan Unhelkar, Abbass Ghanbary, Houman Younessi. © 2010. 26 pages.
The following is the survey that was used, in detail, to elicit data related to collaborative business, business processes and mobile technologies.
Strategic View on Creating Business Value through Mobile Technologies
Strategic View on Creating Business Value through Mobile Technologies
Houman Younessi. © 2009. 11 pages.
Business value from any technology comes when it is applied, in practice, by the business to earn economic as well as social advantage. This is particularly true of mobile...