Information Systems, Quantitative Analysis, and Supply & Logistics Management
Lee Buddress, Ph.D.
Recent Activity:
“Control System Approach to E-Commerce Fulfillment: Hewlett-Packard’s Experience,” with Culbertson, S., and Burruss, J. in Journal of Business Forecasting, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 10-16, Winter 2000-2001.
“On-Line Negotiation,” with Raedels, A., and Smith, M. in Proceedings of the 86 th National Association of Purchasing Management International Conference, May 2001.
Expertise:
- Negotiations
- Supply chain management
- E-Commerce
- Inventory planning and control
- Forecasting
David Gerbing, Ph.D.
Recent Activity:
Relevant business statistics using excel with data disk (1998). Custom Publishing.
A large scale 2nd order structural equation model of the influence of management participation on organizational planning benefits (1994). Journal of Management, 20, 859-885, with J. G. Hamilton & E. B. Freeman.
Expertise:
- Structural Equation Modeling
- Statistics
David Raffo, Ph.D.
Co-Editor:
International Journal of Software Process: Improvement and Practice
Recent Activity:
Co-PI, “Small Firm Collaborative R&D: Value-based Software Engineering for Small Business,” National Science Foundation, 1999-2002. “Developing Rapidly Deployable Software Process Models,” National Science Foundation, 2002-2003. “Optimizing IV & V Benefits Using Simulation,” NASA.
“Application of a Hybrid Process Simulation Model to a Software Development Project,” Journal of Systems and Software.
Expertise:
- Management of Information Technology
- Business Process Design and Analysis
- Value Based Software Engineering
- Simulation Modeling
Neil Ramiller, Ph.D.
Editorial Board:
Information, Technology, and People
Recent Activity:
Ramiller, N.C. (forthcoming) "Applying the sociology of translation to a system implementation in a lagging enterprise," Journal of Information Technoogy Theory & Applications.
Swanson, E.B. and Ramiller, N.C. (2004) "Innovating mindfully with information technology," MIS Quarterly, 28, 4, 553-583.
Ramiller, N.C. and Swanson, E.B., “Organizing visions for information technology and the I.S. executive response,” Journal of Management Information Systems, 20, 1, 2003, 13-50.
Ramiller, N.C., “Making the case: The systems-project case study as storytelling,” Journal of Information Systems Education, 14, 2, Summer 2003, 153-165.Expertise:
- Management of information technology
- Management of technological innovation
- Language, rhetoric, and management
Rohit Rampal, Ph.D.
Editorial Board:
Annals of Cases in Information Technology
Recent Activity:
“Ensemble Strategies for a Medical Diagnostic Decision Support System: A Breast Cancer Diagnosis Application,” with David West, Paul Mangiameli, and Vivian West, accepted for publication in European Journal of Operational Research.
“Choice of Information Communication Media: Development of a Theoretical Model in the Virtual Enterprise Context,” in the Proceedings of the 34th Annual meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Washington, DC, November 2003.Expertise:
- IS adoption/implementation
- Health care DSS
- Neural Networks in classification/forecasting
- Telecommunications, communication choice in virtual network organization
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