FACULTY

Biography

Mark Fox is a Professor of Industrial Engineering with a cross appointment in the Department of Computer Science. He is head of the Enterprise Integration Laboratory, Prof. Fox is also Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Novator Systems, an ecommerce services and software company, and Co-founder and Managing Director of ChocolatePlanet.com an online retailer of premium chocolates. Prior to his return to Toronto, he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics and Director of the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Systems of The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a Co-founder and Past President of Carnegie Group Inc. (CGI), a knowledge-based software company that focused on engineering, manufacturing, and telecommunications applications. He received a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the U of T (1975), and his Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University (1983). Prof. Fox’s research has pioneered the application of Artificial Intelligence to factory planning and scheduling problems, project management, and material design. His research in constraint-directed reasoning as applied to job shop scheduling explored the problem of reasoning in the presence of constraints, determining their applicability, and selectively relaxing those that cannot be satisfied. This research resulted in the creation of the new field of knowledge-based scheduling. Dr. Fox’s current research focuses on Ontologies for Enterprise Modeling and Reasoning.

Keywords
Ontologies, enterprise modeling