CHARLES L. VILES
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
100 Manning Hall, CB #3360
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
viles@ils.unc.edu
http://ils.unc.edu/~viles/
EDUCATION
1996 Ph.D. University of Virginia,
Charlottesville,
Virginia. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Major: Computer
Science. Dissertation Title: Maintaining Retrieval Effectiveness in
Distributed, Dynamic Information Retrieval Systems.
1988 M.S. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Major: Computer Science.
1983 B.S. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. Major: Forestry (Magna Cum Laude).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 1997-Present - Assistant Professor, School of Information
and
Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill,
- 1996-1997 Research Associate, Department of Computer Science,
University of Virginia. Charlottesville, Virginia.
- 1991-1993 Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science,
University of Virginia. Charlottesville, Virginia.
- 1993-1996 Research Fellow, (Graduate support from NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center) Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia. Charlottesville, Virginia.
- 1988-1991 Senior Programmer Analyst. Virginia Institute of
Marine
Science, College of Willam and Mary, Gloucester Point, Virginia.
- 1986-1988 Teaching Assistant. Department of Computer Science,
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Viles, C. L. and J. C. French. Content Locality in Distributed Digital Libraries. Information Processing and Management. Accepted for Publication.
French, J. C. , A. Powell, C. L. Viles, T. Emmitt, K. Prey. Evaluating Database Selection Techniques: A Testbed and Experiment. SIGIR98, Melbourne, Australia August 1998.
Viles C. L. , M. J. Lewis, A. J. Ferrari, A. Nguyen-Tuong, A. S. Grimshaw. Enabling Flexibility in the Legion Run-Time Library. PDPTA'97, pp. 265-274, Las Vegas, NV June 30 -July 2, 1997.
French, J. C. and C. L. Viles. Ensuring Retrieval Effectiveness in Distributed Digital Libraries. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (Special issue on Digital Libraries) 7(1):61-73, 1996.
Viles, C. L. and J. C. French. Dissemination of Collection Wide Information in Distributed Information Retrieval Systems, SIGIR95, pp. 12-20, Seattle, WA, July 9-13, 1995
ADDITIONAL SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND SOFTWARE
D. H. Sonnenwald, G. Marchionini, B. M. Wildemuth, B.
J. Dempsey,
C. L. Viles, H. R. Tibbo, J. B. Smith. Collaboration Services in a Participatory Digital Library: An Emerging Design. To Appear in COLIS3, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 1999.
Viles, C. L. and J. C. French. Availability and Latency of World Wide Web Information Servers. Computing Systems 8(1):61-91, 1995.
DRIFT: software for running distributed information retrieval experiments. See "TREC-4 experiments with DRIFT", 4th Text Retrieval Conference, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 1995.
Legion Run-time Library. Software implementing the top two layers of
Legion's configurable run-time protocol stack. These two layers implement
Legion's macro data flow model for invoking and handling method requests on distributed objects.
RECENT COLLABORATION
Jamie Callan, CS, University of
Massachusetts
Bert J. Dempsey, SILS, UNC-CH
Adam S. Ferrari, CS, University of Virginia
James C. French, CS, University of Virginia
Marcella Grendler, UNC Libraries, UNC-CH
Andrew Grimshaw, CS, University of Virginia
Joe Hewitt, UNC Libraries, UNC-CH
Paul Jones, SILS, UNC-CH
Michael J. Lewis, CS, University of Virginia
Gary Marchionini, SILS, UNC-CH
Sally McKee, CS, University of Utah
Anh Nguyen-Tuong, CS, University of Virginia
Celine Noel, UNC Libraries, UNC-CH
Gordon Rowley, UNC Libraries, UNC-CH
Jerry D. Saye, SILS, UNC-CH
Michael E. Sieracki, Bigelow Laboratories
Tim Shearer, UNC Libraries, UNC-CH
John B. Smith, CS, UNC-CH
Natasha Smith, UNC Libraries, UNC-CH
Diane H. Sonnenwald, SILS, UNC-CH
Helen R. Tibbo, SILS, UNC-CH
Charles L. Viles, SILS, UNC-CH
Barbara Wildemuth, SILS, UNC-CH
