Department of Information Sciences, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California

Magdi N. Kamel is an Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Division of Computer and Information Sciences and Operations at the Naval Postgraduate School. His research interests are in the areas of database management and knowledge base systems. He is particularly interested in database models and languages, data modelling, data and text mining, and knowledge discovery in large databases. Prof. Kamel is a recipient of a recent Fulbright grant for teaching and research in the database and knowledge discovery area. He is the member of the ACM and IEEE computer society.