Research

Barkhi, R., Amiri, A., and T.L. James. "A Study of Communication and Coordination in Collaborative Software Development," Journal of Global Information Technology Management. Forthcoming.

Carter, A. and C.T. Ragsdale. "A New Approach to Solving the Multiple Traveling Salesperson Problems Using Genetic Algorithms," European Journal of Operations Research. Forthcoming.

D'Souza R., Krasnodebski M., and A.S. Abrahams. “Implementation Study: Using Decision Tree Induction to Discover Profitable Locations to Sell Pet Insurance for a Startup Company,” Journal of Database Marketing & Customer Strategy Management.  Forthcoming.

James, T.L., Brown, E.B., and K.B. Keeling. "A Hybrid Grouping Genetic Algorithm for the Cell Formation Problem," Computers and Operations Research. Forthcoming.

Kor P., and A.S. Abrahams. “Teaching Information Systems Students to be Entrepreneurs: A dot.com case study,”  Communications of the AIS.  Forthcoming.

Kimbrough S.O., Abrahams A.S., Jones A.J.I., Eyers D.M. and J.M. Bacon. “Introducing the Fair and Logical Trade Project,” International Journal of Business Processes and Management.  Special Issue on Contract Architectures and Languages. Forthcoming.

Baker, W.H., Rees, L.P., and P. Tippett. 2007. “Necessary Measures: Metric-Driven Information Security Risk Assessment and Decision Making,” Communications of the ACM, Vol. 50, No. 10, pp. 101-106.

Hess, T.J., Rees, L.P., and T.R. Rakes. 2007. “Using Autonomous Software Agents in Decision Support Systems”, in Handbook on Decision Support Systems I, Burstein, Frada; Holsapple, Clyde W. (Eds.), Springer Publishing.

Russell, R.S. 2007. “A Quality-Based Framework for Analyzing Enterprise Security Threats,” Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference.

Russell, R.S., White, S., and M. Falasca. 2007. “Using Quality Function Deployment to Improve SOA Applications in the Retail Industry,” Proceedings of the Decision Science Institute Mini-Conference on Services Science.

Abrahams A.S. and Becker A. 2006. “Partitioning for Profit: An Empirical Study of Methods for Handling Unequal Costs of Error in Predictive Data Mining,” Group Decision and Negotiations Journal. ISSN 0926-2644 (Print) 1572-9907 (Online).

Cook, D.F., C.W. Zobel, and M.L. Wolfe. 2006. “Environmental Statistical Process Control Using an Augmented Neural Network,” European Journal of Operational Research 174 (3), pp. 1631-1642.

Green, J.M., Wilcke, J.R., Abbott, J. and L.P. Rees. 2006. “Development and evaluation of methods for structured recording of heart murmur findings using SNOMED CT® post-coordination,” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Vol. 13, No. 3 (May/June), pp. 321-333.

Scheibe, K.P., Carstensen, L.W., Rakes, T.R., and L.P. Rees. 2006. “Going the Last Mile: A Spatial Decision Support System for Wireless Broadband Communications,” Decision Support Systems, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 557-570.

Wang, G.A., H. Chen, J. Xu, and H. Atabakhsh. 2006. “Automatically Detecting Criminal Identity Deceptions: An Adaptive Detection Algorithm,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part A), 36(5), pp. 988-999.

Wang, G.A., H. Chen, T. Thomas, J. Xu, H. Atabakhsh, and T. Petersen. 2006. “Detecting Criminal Identity Deception: An Algorithmic Approach,” Journal of Intelligence Community Research and Development.

Zobel, C.W., D.F. Cook, and C.T. Ragsdale. 2006. “Dynamic Data Driven Classification Using Boundary Observations,” Decision Sciences 37(2), pp. 247-262.

Abrahams A.S., Eyers D.M., and Bacon J.M. 2005. “Practical Contract Storage, Checking, and Enforcement for Business Process Automation”.  Kimbrough S.O. and Wu D.J. (eds.), Formal Modeling for Electronic Commerce:  Representation, Inference, and Strategic Interaction, International Handbooks on Information Systems, Springer-Verlag, pp. 33-77.

Bergey, P. and C.T. Rasgdale. 2005. "Modified Differential Evolution: A Greedy Random Strategy For Genetic Reproduction," OMEGA: The International Journal of Management Science, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 255-265.

Badinelli, R.D., Centeno, Intiyot. 2005. "GIS-Based Simulation Studies for Power Systems Education,” Electric Power Networks Efficiency and Security, NSF.

Hirsh, Sovacol, and R.D. Badinelli. 2005. “Distributed generation and momentum change in the American Electric Utility System: a social science systems approach,” Electric Power Networks Efficiency and Security, NSF.

Goel, A.M., Zobel, C.W., and E.C. Jones. 2005. "A Multi-Agent System for Supporting the Electronic Contracting of Food Grains," Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 48 (2), pp. 123-137.

Hess, T.J., Rees, L.P., and T.R. Rakes. 2005. “Using Autonomous Planning Agents to Provide Model-Based Decision-Making Support,” Journal of Decision Systems, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 261-278.

James, T.L., Rego, C., and F. Glover. 2005. "Sequential and Parallel Path-Relinking Algorithms for the Quadratic Assignment Problem," IEEE Intelligent Systems, 20(4), pp. 58-65.

Zobel, C.W., Rakes, T.R., and L.P. Rees. 2005. "Automated merging of conflicting knowledge bases, using a consistent, majority-rule approach with knowledge-form maintenance," Computers & Operations Research, 32 (7), pp. 1809-1829.

Zobel, C.W., and W.T. Scherer.  2005. "An empirical study of policy convergence in Markov decision process value iteration," Computers & Operations Research, 32 (1), pp. 127-142.

Chung W., Y. Zhang, Z. Huang, G. Wang. T. Ong, and H. Chen. 2004. “Internet Searching and Browsing in a Multilingual World,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(9), pp. 818-831.

Conlon, S.J., Conlon, J.R., and T.L. James. 2004. "The Economics of Natural Language Interfaces: Natural Language Processing Technology as a Scarce Resource," Decision Support Systems, 38(1), pp. 141-159.

Perdomo, Thabet, and R.D. Badinelli. 2004. “A decision support model for material supply management for the construction industry”, Proceedings of European Conference on Product and Process Modeling in the Building Industry, Istanbul.

Ragsdale, C.T. and C.W. Zobel. 2004. "The Ordered Cutting Stock Problem," Decision Sciences, 35(1), pp. 81-98.

Wang, G., H. Chen, and H. Atabakhsh. 2004. "Automatically Detecting Deceptive Criminal Identities," Communications of the ACM, 47(3), pp. 70-76.

Wang G., H. Chen, and H. Atabakhsh. 2004. “Criminal Identity Deception and Deception Detection in Law Enforcement,” Group Decision and Negotiation, 13(2), pp. 111-127.

Zobel, C.W., Cook, D.F., and Q.J. Nottingham. 2004.  “An Augmented Neural Network Classification Approach to Detecting Mean Shifts in Correlated Manufacturing Process Parameters,” International Journal of Production Research 42(4), pp. 741-758. 

Novak, D. and C.T. Ragsdale. 2003. "A Decision Support Methodology for Stochastic Multi-Criteria Linear Programming Using Spreadsheets," Decision Support Systems, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 99-116.

Bergey, P, Rasgdale, C.T., and M. Hoskote. 2003. "A Decision Support System for the Electrical Power Districting Problem," Decision Support Systems, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 1-17.