Ramesh Sharda (M.B.A., Ph.D., University of
Wisconsin—Madison) is Director of the PhD in Business for
Executives Program and Institute for Research in Information
Systems (IRIS), ConocoPhillips Chair of Management of Technology,
and a Regents Professor of Management Science and Information
Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State
University (OSU). About 200 papers describing his research have
been published in major journals, including Operations Research,
Management Science, Information Systems Research, Decision Support
Systems, and Journal of MIS. He cofounded the AIS SIG on Decision
Support Systems and Knowledge Management (SIGDSS). Dr. Sharda
serves on several editorial boards, including those of INFORMS
Journal on Computing, Decision Support Systems, and ACM
Transactions on Management Information Systems. He has authored and
edited several text and research books and serves as the co-editor
of several book series (Integrated Series in Information Systems,
Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces, and Annals of
Information Systems) with Springer. He is also currently serving as
the Executive Director of the Teradata University Network. His
current research interests are in decision support systems,
business analytics, and technologies for managing information
overload.
Dursun Delen (Ph.D, Oklahoma State University) is the Spears
and Patterson Chairs in Business Analytics, Director of Research
for the Center for Health Systems Innovation and Professor of
Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of
Business at Oklahoma State University (OSU). Prior to his academic
career, he worked for a privately-owned research and consultancy
company, Knowledge Based Systems Inc., in College Station, Texas,
as a research scientist for five years, during which he led a
number of decision support and other information systems related
research projects funded by federal agencies, such as DoD, NASA,
NIST and DOE. Dr. Delen’s research has appeared in major journals
including Decision Support Systems, Communications of the ACM,
Computers and Operations Research, Computers in Industry, Journal
of Production Operations Management, Artificial Intelligence in
Medicine, Expert Systems with Applications, among others. He
recently published four textbooks: Advanced Data Mining Techniques
with Springer, 2008; Decision Support and Business Intelligence
Systems with Prentice Hall, 2010; Business Intelligence: A
Managerial Approach, with Prentice Hall, 2010; and Practical Text
Mining, with Elsevier, 2012. He is often invited to national and
international conferences for keynote addresses on topics related
to Data/Text Mining, Business Intelligence, Decision Support
Systems, and Knowledge Management. He served as the general
co-chair for the 4th International Conference on Network Computing
and Advanced Information Management (September 2-4, 2008 in Soul,
South Korea), and regularly chairs tracks and mini-tracks at
various information systems conferences. He is the associate
editor-in-chief for International Journal of Experimental
Algorithms, associate editor for International Journal of RF
Technologies and Journal of Decision Analytics, and is on the
editorial boards of five other technical journals. His research and
teaching interests are in data and text mining, decision support
systems, knowledge management, business intelligence and enterprise
modeling.
Efraim Turban (M.B.A., Ph.D., University of California,
Berkeley) is a visiting scholar at the Pacific Institute for
Information System Management, University of Hawaii. Prior to this,
he was on the staff of several universities, including City
University of Hong Kong; Lehigh University; Florida International
University; California State University, Long Beach; Eastern
Illinois University; and the University of Southern California. Dr.
Turban is the author of more than 100 refereed papers published
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