Department of Computing

Kamal Pal

Teaching Assistant

Photo of Mr Kamal Pal Mr Kamal Pal
Teaching Assistant
Room: A302
Department of Computing
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB

kam@soi.city.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 7040 0294
fax: +44 20 7040 0233

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Research interest

The main theme of my research during the last twenty years has been the design and development of software tools for decision-support systems. In particular, my interest lies in hybrid knowledge-representation and reasoning schemes.

There are many areas of application of knowledge where no single representation is adequate to express all that is known. Because successes (and then limitations) of the most popular represenations have now become clear, there has been a growing interest in hybrid knowledge-based systems. Where subsymbolic schemes are not in question, probably the two representations that are receiving the greatest attention are rules (as means of expressing generlisations) and cases (as means of stating knowledge that is particular, and casuistic - in the factual sense of that word as understood before about 1650, rather than the pejorative sense that comes to mind first at the present day).

Current Interests:

  • Student-centered Teaching and Learning.
  • Handling Incomplete Information in Automated Systems.
  • Improving the Practicality of Automated Decision-support Systems.
  • IT Security and Data Communication Systems.

    Recent Publications



    1. Pal, K. & Karakostas,B., A Critiquing Mechanism in Engineering Machine Design, First International Conference on Virtual and Network Organizations Emergent Technologies and Tools, July 6-8, 2011, Ofir, Portugal.

    2. Karakostas, B. & Pal, K., Orchestrating Inter-Organisational Logistic Workflows on the Cloud, First International Conference on Virtual and Network Organizations Emergent Technologies and Tools, July 6-8, 2011, Ofir, Portugal.

    Selected publications



    1. Pa1, K. & Palmer, O., A Decision Support System for Business Acquisitions, Decision Support Systems, Vol.27, No.4, 2000, pp. 411-430.

    2. Pal, K., An approach to legal reasoning based on a hybrid decision-support system, Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1999, pp. 1-12.

    3. Pal, K., & Campbell, J.A., An Application of Rule-Based and Case-Based Reasoning within a Single Legal Knowledge-Based System, The DATA BASE for Advances Systems (an ACM SIGMIS journal), Vol.28, No.4, 1997, pp. 48-63.

    4. Pal, K. & Campbell, J.A., ASHSD-11: A computational model for litigation support, Expert Systems, Vol. 15, No. 3, 1998, pp. 169-181.

    5. Pal, K. & Campbell, J. A., A Hybrid Legal Decision-Spport System Using Both Rule- Based and Case-Based Reasoning, Information & Communication Technology Law, Vol.5, No.3, 1996, pp.227-245.

    Working Papers



    1. Pal, K., Fuzzy Concepts for Retrieving Similar Cases from a Hybrid Knowledge-Based System.

    2. Pal, K., & Karakostas, B., Validation of a Hybrid Knowledge-Based System Using Triangular Fuzzy Numbers.

    3. Pal, K., A Critiquing framework for e-Commerce Domain Name Dispute Resolution Service.

    4. Pal, K., Software Design Critiquing Mechanism Using Fuzzy Relations.

    5. Pal, K., Rough Set Approach to a Collaborative Engineering Design Environment.

    6. Pal, K., An Agent-Based Framework for Engineering Knowledge Management.

    7.Pal, K., Computer-Based Collaborative Environment for Business Merger and Acquistion.

    8. Pal, K., Strategic Value Proposition in Airlines Business Dating Models.

    9. Pal, K., & Karakostas,B., Learning from Student Experience.

    10. Pal, K., An Automated Software Environment for Handling Trademark Infringement.

    11. Pal, K., A Combination of Logic and Arithmetic Operations for Fuzzy Numbers in a Legal Decision-Support System.

    12. Pal, K., Critiquing in a Legal Decision-Support System.

    13. Pal, K., The Economics of Scientific Innovation: Incentives and Littigation.