Alexander Kogan
	Phone: (973) 353-1064 FAX: (973) 353-1283 E-mail: Web: http://kogan.rutgers.edu
	Professor of Accounting and Information Systems
	Rutgers Business School
	Rutgers University

Alexander Kogan received his BS/MS in Operations Research from Phystech - Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Kogan's research and professional interests include artificial intelligence and expert systems, knowledge-based decision support systems, accounting information systems, continuous online auditing, electronic commerce and accounting problems of the Internet infrastructure, logical analysis of data, Boolean functions, reasoning under uncertainty, combinatorial optimization, and productivity accounting.

The main area of concentration of Prof. Kogan's research efforts has been in the foundations of information systems. Prof. Kogan has published over seventy papers. His research covers a wide range of topics from the development of fundamental aspects of established technologies such as knowledge-based systems to the prospects, problems and applications of emerging technologies such as electronic commerce.

Prof. Kogan's articles appear in scholarly and professional journals (including Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Information Systems, Theoretical Computer Science, Information Processing Letters, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical Programming, Discrete Applied Mathematics, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, International Journal of Digital Accounting Research, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, INFOR -- Information Systems and Operational Research, IS Audit & Control Journal, Management Accounting, Journal of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, Soviet Mathematics - Doklady), conference proceedings, and topical volumes.

Prof. Kogan is a past President of the Artificial Intelligence / Emerging Technologies Section of the American Accounting Association and a member of RUTCOR - Rutgers University's Center for Operations Research. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, and International Journal of Digital Accounting Research. Prof. Kogan is a Guest Editor of the Special Issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics on Discrete Mathematics and Data Mining 2003 (DM&DM'03).

Prof. Kogan is a co-author (with Sudit and Vasarhelyi) of "The Internet Guide for Accountants" published by Prentice Hall, and a co-editor (with Vasarhelyi) of the "Artificial Intelligence in Accounting and Auditing: Towards New Paradigms, Vol. 4" published by Markus Wiener.

Prof. Kogan has received the Rutgers University's Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, and the Research and Service Awards of the Artificial Intelligence / Emerging Technologies Section of the American Accounting Association.

Prof. Kogan is one of the founders and the Webmaster of the Rutgers Accounting Web (RAW). The RAW is the oldest and the largest accounting Web site on the Internet. Since 1994, the RAW materials have been available on the Internet for use by accounting scholars, practitioners, educators and students. The development of the RAW was supported by a grant from the National Center For Automated Information Research (NCAIR). The RAW originally put on the Web such major accounting organizations as the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, the American Accounting Association the Institute of Management Accountants, the Institute of Internal Auditors, and the Association of Government Accountants.