Thomas H. Whalen
Professor
Department of Managerial Sciences
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University
Room: 840, RCB Building
Phone: 404-413-7554
E-Mail: whalen@gsu.edu
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EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Michigan State University
M.A., Michigan State University
M.S., Michigan State University
B.S., Michigan State University
SPECIALIZATIONS:
Decision analysis
Expert systems
Fuzzy logic
Fuzzy sets
Whalen’s expertise focuses on the application of approximate reasoning to decision making under generalized uncertainty, especially in the fuzzy area between ignorance and risk. Whalen has published more than 70 papers in major conference proceedings and academic journals, including Human Systems Management, International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Whalen is Magazine, and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Whalen is member of the board of directors of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society

PUBLICATIONS:
  • Logical Second Order Models:Achieving Synergy Between Computer Power and Human Reason, Gwangyong Gim and Thomas Whalen, Information Sciences 114:1-4 (1999) pp. 81-104.
  • "Linguistic Data-Mining: Fire Risk Classification in a Newly-Developed Country", Gwangyong Gim and Thomas Whalen , in R.R. Ribeiro, R.R. Yager, H.-J. Zimmermann and J. Kacprzyk (eds.): Soft Computing in Financial Engineering, Springer-Verlag, (1999) pp.4
  • Attractor Strength and Decision Structure: An Experiment Refining Yager's Measures of Decision Confidence , Carol F. Hartz, Brian M. Schott and Thomas H. Whalen, International Journal of General Systems 26:4 (1997) 325-336
  • Control of Error in Fuzzy Logic Modeling, Thomas Whalen, Gwangyong Gim and Brian Schott, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 80:1, 1996, p.23-35.
  • Usuality, Regularity, and Fuzzy Set Logic, Thomas Whalen and Brian Schott, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 6:4 (June 1992) pages 481-504