College of Business
 
Windows Information Systems/Decision Sciences
PhD In IS

Research Areas

IT in Organizations

Issues facing IT professionals

Open Source Software: User and Organizational Adoption

User Resistance in Enterprise Systems

Managing Complexity

Technology-Enabled Work Design

Technology adoption and diffusion

Knowledge Structures of Transnational Employees

Global Information Systems

Applications Integration

Workflow Systems

Distributed Systems

Information Security & Risk Management

 

Electronic Commerce

Internet based auctions

Electronic marketplaces

Variable Pricing Mechanisms

Pricing models for information goods

Information markets and commerce

Data Mining in E-Commerce

Learning from Web clickstream data

Online behavioral targeting

Online advertising and recommender systems

Supply Chains

 

Software Engineering and Systems Development

Open Source Software

Software Requirements

IT Project Management

Flexible Software Development Processes

Cost Estimation for Software Development Projects

Using information markets in systems development and project management

Cleanroom Software Engineering: Intellectual Control in Software Development

Program Understanding and Function Extraction

Quality Assurance and Testing

Software Localization in Global Systems

Evaluation and Use of Systems Development Methodologies and Techniques

 

Business Intelligence

Database Systems and Data Warehouses

Methods for Reporting and Analytics

Data mining for business applications

Learning from clickstream data on the Web

Evaluation of BI systems

Behavioral targeting

Online recommender systems

Knowledge sharing in social networks

Communities of practice

Model combination and decision making

Model Management & DSS

Fraud Detection

Information Markets for BI

 

Computational Methods in Business

Expert Systems

Negotiation Support systems

Agent-Based Simulations

Computational Heuristics

Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation

Math Programming

Artificial Intelligence

Reinforcement learning

Active learning

 

Research Methodologies and Paradigms

The Design Science Research Paradigm

Disciplinary research as informing systems

 

IT in Specific Domains

IT in healthcare

Bioterrorism Surveillance Systems

Healthcare Information Systems

Cost-justification of healthcare investments

IT in higher education

Innovative Instructional Technologies and Pedagogies