Background

I am an Information Systems professor in the School of Computing at UVU. I am interested in using artificial intelligence methods to manage the information overload problem. I am also interested in business intelligence and data management.

Courses Taught

UVU
INFO1200 - Introduction to Programming for IS&T Majors (C#)
INFO2050 - Database Fundamentals (MS SQL Server)
INFO3410 - Database Systems and Data Warehousing
INFO4410 - Database Administration (MS SQL Server)
INFO4440 - Enterprise Computing (Microsoft Dynamics)

UofU
IS 4415 - Data Structures and Java
IS 4420 - Database Fundamentals (Oracle)
IS 4460 - Web-based Applications (CSS, JavaScript and PHP)
IS 4480 - Data Warehousing (Oracle)
IS 6484 - Advanced Data Management (Oracle and MySQL)

Education

Ph.D., Management with emphasis in Management Information Systems, 2006, University of Arizona. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
MS, Management Information Systems, 2001, University of Arizona
BS, Accounting, Summa Cum Laude, 1995, Brigham Young University

Publications

“Genetic programming for prevention of cyberterrorism through dynamic and evolving intrusion detection” James V. Hansen, Paul B. Lowry, Rayman D. Meservy, DANIEL MCDONALD. Decision Support Systems (DSS), Volume 43, Issue 4 (August 2007).

“Aggregating automatically extracted regulatory pathway relations” Marshall,B; Hua Su, DANIEL MCDONALD, Eggers,S; and Chen,H. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 10:1 2006, pgs 100-108.

“Summary in context: searching versus browsing”. MCDONALD,D., Chen, H. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM TOIS) 24:1 2006.

“Transforming open-source documents to terror networks: the Arizona TerrorNet” DANIEL MCDONALD, Hsinchun Chen, and Rob Schumaker. AAAI Spring Symposium on Homeland Security. March 2005, Stanford University.

“Linking ontological resources using aggregatable substance identifiers to organize extracted relations”, B. Marshall, H. Su, D. MCDONALD, H. Chen. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2005 Kona, Hawaii.

“EBizPort: collecting and analyzing business intelligence information” Marshall, B., MCDONALD, D., Chen, H., Chung, W. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 55 (10): 873-891 (2004) Special Issue on Document Search Interface Design for Large-scale Collections and Intelligent Access.

“Extracting gene pathway relations using a hybrid grammar: the Arizona Relation Parser”. MCDONALD, D., Chen, H., Su, H., Marshall, B. Bioinformatics 20: 3370-8 (2004)

“Genescene: biomedical text and data mining”. G. Leroy H. Chen, J. D. Martinez, S. Eggers, R. R. Falsey, K. L. Kislin, Z. Huang, J. Li, J. Xu, D.M. MCDONALD, and G. Ng, JCDL, May 2003 Houston, TX.

“Using sentence-selection heuristics to rank text segments in TXTRACTOR”. MCDONALD, D. and Chen, H., JCDL, July 2002 Portland, OR.

“Comparison of two approaches to building a vertical search tool: A case study in the nanotechnology domain”. Chau,M., Chen,H., Qin,J., Zhou,Y.,Qin,Y, Sung,W., MCDONALD,D. JCDL, July 2002, Portland, OR.