Rajiv Ramnath

Dr. Rajiv Ramnath obtained his PhD in computer science from The Ohio State University in 1988. He is the Director of Practice at the National Science Funded research site called Center for Experimental Research and Computer Systems for Enterprise Transformation and Innovation (or CETI) at The Ohio State University. He was formerly a Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Concentus Technology Corp. and involved in government and DARPA-funded R&D programs such as the National Information Infrastructure Integration Protocols (NIIIP) project. In this capacity he was also responsible for the development of enterprise workflow technology and its highly distributed development process. He is currently engaged in industry-facing programs of applied R&D, education, technology transfer and practice. Dr. Ramnath's expertise and research interests range from wireless sensor network and pervasive computing applications in the enterprise, to the alignment of business strategy and processes with information technology, enterprise architecture, technology management and integration and software engineering, e-Government, collaborative environments, configurable enterprise systems, workflow, and work-management systems. He has published numerous papers in these areas. He also teaches graduate and under-graduate research, technology strategy and software engineering courses at the Ohio State University.

Publications

Stakeholder Ontology and Mining for Improving Complex Services
Stakeholder Ontology and Mining for Improving Complex Services
Jay Ramanathan, Rajiv Ramnath. © 2013. 15 pages.
Complex service-oriented organizations (such as IT customer service or the hospital emergency) deal with many challenges due to incoming request types that we characterize as...
Serious Game Framework for Design of Medical Applications
Serious Game Framework for Design of Medical Applications
Yingxiao Xu, Jay Ramanathan, Rajiv Ramnath. © 2012. 15 pages.
Serious games have potential for achieving a variety of effectiveness goals for different stakeholders in complex domains like healthcare. The authors propose a Serious Game...
Co-Engineering Applications and Adaptive Business Technologies in Practice: Enterprise Service Ontologies, Models, and Frameworks
Co-Engineering Applications and Adaptive Business Technologies in Practice: Enterprise Service Ontologies, Models, and Frameworks
Jay Ramanathan, Rajiv Ramnath. © 2009. 426 pages.
Service organizations and enterprises have the dual challenge of embracing externally-driven variation while simultaneously evolving the enabling of information technology...
Characterization of Service Orientation and the Adaptive Complex Enterprise
Characterization of Service Orientation and the Adaptive Complex Enterprise
Jay Ramanathan, Rajiv Ramnath. © 2009. 51 pages.
We begin with a characterization of service challenges and a conceptualization of a complex service enterprise as a collection of organizations and sub-organizations. Each...
Adaptive Complex Enterprise Framework: Ontology, Modeling, Co-Engineering Principles, Work Products
Adaptive Complex Enterprise Framework: Ontology, Modeling, Co-Engineering Principles, Work Products
Jay Ramanathan, Rajiv Ramnath. © 2009. 63 pages.
The ACE structure for coordination across various services using policies to meet overall goals is presented here. The more detailed depiction of the ACE structure in Figure 1...
Governance and Conceptual, Logical and Installed Architecture Alignment Using Work Products and Workflow
Governance and Conceptual, Logical and Installed Architecture Alignment Using Work Products and Workflow
Jay Ramanathan, Rajiv Ramnath. © 2009. 44 pages.
Governance and related alignment methods for the management of complex systems are introduced here to facilitate and better decision making. The goal here is to increase re-use...
EA Knowledge for ACE Deployment
EA Knowledge for ACE Deployment
Jay Ramanathan, Rajiv Ramnath. © 2009. 61 pages.
The knowledge infrastructure for enterprise architecture presented here has a taxonomy of useful patterns and pattern applications illustrated in Figure 1. The applications help...
Strategic Improvement of Non-Routine Services
Strategic Improvement of Non-Routine Services
Jay Ramanathan, Rajiv Ramnath. © 2009. 25 pages.
Organizations like the City are pressured to be more and more service oriented with fewer resources. The City has an expanding service area, fluctuating revenue, and a growing...
Co-Engineering Business Need and IT Services
Co-Engineering Business Need and IT Services
Jay Ramanathan, Rajiv Ramnath. © 2009. 25 pages.
Vertical traceability along the internal value chain illustrated in Figure 1 below allows us to establish a charge back system for the use of IT services. In addition the...
Co-Engineering IT Services for Lean Operations
Co-Engineering IT Services for Lean Operations
Jay Ramanathan, Rajiv Ramnath. © 2009. 28 pages.
The ACE structure is not only used to create BioS goals and work products, but also to perform the analysis needed to prioritize improvement projects and their tasks. We next...
Management, Monitoring, and Mining of Service Knowledge
Management, Monitoring, and Mining of Service Knowledge
Jay Ramanathan, Rajiv Ramnath. © 2009. 34 pages.
There is consensus that explicit knowledge is information. In addition there is tacit knowledge that exists in the human minds. Tacit knowledge is applied unconsciously. It is a...
Relating IT to Service Innovation
Relating IT to Service Innovation
Jay Ramanathan, Rajiv Ramnath. © 2009. 18 pages.
We explore how different types of opportunities for Interaction improvement - innovation, effectiveness, and resilience can be identified. Our goal here is to explore how an...
Research Topics in Complex Systems
Research Topics in Complex Systems
Jay Ramanathan, Rajiv Ramnath. © 2009. 26 pages.
The Adaptive Complex Enterprise framework presented provides a basis for integrating many related areas of research into a services discipline. We have shown the framework is...