Solomon Raj Antony Area of ISQS Rawls College of Business Administration Mail Stop 2101 Texas Tech University Lubbock TX 79409 USA Home:(806)797-4420 Work: (806)742-1927 Fax: (806)742-3193 e-mail: solomon.antony@ttu.edu Website: http://www.ba.ttu.edu/isqs/antony Education Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration (MIS) from Florida International University. 1997. Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) in Chemical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India.1983 Work Experience Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University since 1998 September to present Visiting Instructor at Oakland University during1996 August to 1998 August Graduate Assistant at Florida International University during1991 to 96 August Systems Analyst at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi, India during 1987 to 91 Research Associate at ICRIER during 1985 to 1987 Research Associate at NCAER, New Delhi, India during 1984 to 1985 Research Assistant at Center for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India during 1983 to 1984. RESEARCH Refereed Journal Articles Solomon Antony, Zhangxi Lin and Bo Xu (2005) Determinants of Online Escrow Service Adoption in Consumer-to-Consumer Online Auction Market: An Experimental Study. Conditionally accepted for publication in Decision Support Systems. Solomon Antony, Dinesh Batra and Radhika Santhanam (2004). The use of a knowledge-based system in conceptual data modeling. In press at Decision Support Systems. Solomon Antony and Dinesh Batra (2002). CODASYS: A consulting tool for novice database designers. DATA BASE : Advances in Information Systems. Summer 2002; Vol. 33, Iss. 3; pg. 54, 15 pgs 54, 15 pgs Dinesh Batra and Solomon Antony (2001). Consulting support during conceptual database design in the presence of redundancy in requirements specifications: An empirical study. International Journal of Human Computer Studies. Vol. 54. pp 25-54. Steve Zanakis, Solomon Antony, Sandeepa Dublish and Nicole Wishart (1998). Multi-attribute decision making: A simulation comparison of select methods. European Journal of Operational Research. Vol 107, No. 3. pp 507. Solomon Antony and Christos Koulamas (1996). Simulated annealing applied to the total tardiness problem. Control and Cybernetics Vol 25, No 1 . 121130. Dinesh Batra and Solomon Antony (1994). Novice errors in conceptual database design European Journal of Information Systems, Vol 3, 57-69. Christos Koulamas, Solomon Antony and Ruben Jean (1994). A survey of simulated annealing applications to operations research problems. Omega: International Journal of Management Science, Vol 22, 41-56. Dinesh Batra and Solomon Antony (1994). Effects of data model and task characteristics on designer performance. International Journal of HumanComputer Studies, Vol 41, 481-508. Refereed Conference papers Solomon Antony and Vidhya Mellarkod (2004). "A methodology for using Data model patterns". America's Conference on Information Systems, New York (August 2004). Antony S. and Mellarkod V. A (2004). Methodology for using Data-modeling Patterns. Third Symposium on Research in Systems Analysis and Design, St. Johns, Canada Solomon Antony, Zhangxi Lin and Bo Xu. "Determinants of Online Escrow Service Adoption: An Experimental Study". The 11th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, December 15 and 16, 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. "Empirical validation of knowledge-based systems for conceptual database design". Proceedings of the 1999 Americas Conference on Information Systems. With D. Batra and R. Santhanam "A consulting system for ER modeling instruction" 1999 Americas Conference on Information Systems. The Reexamination of Information System Project Selection Bias (1996). Proceedings of The 1996 Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Orlando, Florida. With R. Santhanam, and S. Hong Conference presentations Solomon Antony and Vidhya Mellarkod (2004). Use of Protocol Analysis Technique for Developing Methodologies. International Symposium on Research Methods (ISRM) Washington, DC, USA. The Effects of the Interface on Implicit Learning: An Empirical Investigation using Database Design Aids. The INFORMS conference 2001 at Miami Beach, November 5-7, 2001. Comparison of Outranking Methods. The INFORMS 2000 Conference at San Antonio. November 5-8, 2000. Design support system for Entity Relationship Modeling. (1996) ICASE*96, Crete Research Grants COBA large grant research award for 2001 for $810 Research grant for $25,000 from the Leather Research Institute at Texas Tech to study the effectiveness of the web portal for the Exotic Leather Industry in Texas FY 2001-2002 Research grant for $24,500 from the Leather Research Institute at Texas Tech University to develop a Web portal for the Exotic Leather Industry in Texas. FY 2000-2001. TEACHING Courses taught Doctoral Seminar in Systems Analysis and Design (TTU) Systems Analysis (TTU) MIS course for MBA (TTU) Database Management (FIU, Oakland, TTU) Advanced Topics in MIS (TTU) Distributed Systems (TTU) Data Communication (TTU) Production and Operations Management (TTU) Introduction to Information Systems (FIU, Oakland) Decision Support Systems (Oakland) GUI Application development (Oakland) SERVICE Professional service Member – Program Committee for EMMSAD 2005 workshop. Associate Editor for ICIS 2005 mini-track. Editorial Board of Journal of Database Management (2002 to present). Reviewed articles for journals Communications of the ACM Data Base: Advances in Information Systems Decision Sciences Decision Support Systems Information Systems Research International Journal of Electronic Commerce Journal of Database Management Journal of Management Information Systems Journal of the Association of Information Systems Reviewed papers for conferences IFIP 9.4 International Conference on Information Systems IRMA International Conference North Eastern Decision Sciences Conference South Western DSI University Service Faculty advisor for MS in MIS. (2001-2004) University committees: SERTEC (1999), TLTC Advisory committee (2001,2002), Faculty Development Committee (2001) College committees: e-Business Curriculum committee (1999), Distance Learning (2000), Curriculum content and development sub-committee for Accreditation self-study (2001), Dean's Merit advisory committee (2002), New programs task force committee (2002), Distance learning and e-commerce (2002), IT Security committee (2002). Area committees: Recruiting (1999), Ph D Program (2000), Masters Program (2003) Member of dissertation committees of Kazou Nakatani and of Nicole Wishart. Graded comprehensive exams of MIS Ph D students (1999, 2004) Faculty advisor to the India Students Association at Texas Tech University in 2000-2003 Honors and recognitions Best Faculty Advisor Award Nominee – 2003 Student Organization Recognition Awards Recognition for State Employee Charitable Contribution (2003, 2004) Papers under review Using data modeling patterns: Development and evaluation of a methodology (Antony and Mellarkod). Currently being revised for Journal of Database Management. Research in progress Effects of knowledge-based systems in implicit learning (Antony and Santhanam) - Manuscript being finalized. Protocol Analysis for developing methodologies (Antony and Mellarkod) Manuscript being finalized. Is Data Modeling knowledge necessary to Model Data? (Antony and Mellarkod) - Data collection completed Patterns of data models (Batra, Antony and Wishart) - Manuscript preparation underway. Analogical Reasoning as a tool for Problem solving and Learning: Applications in Systems Analysis and Design (Literature review) Technical Skills VB.Net, HTML, Active Server Pages, Web-site development, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, SQL, FoxPro, C, Microsoft Access, Excel, Fortran, Paradox Personal I am of Indian origin I have Permanent Resident status in the USA. I have been happily married to Chitra since 1990, and we have 3 year-old baby daughter. (Last updated June 22, 2005)