Department of Information Systems and Operations Management
From the Chair
Volume 1, Issue 1
Spring 2014
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Welcome!
From the Chair
1
New Initiatives
2
New Courses
2
Renowned Faculty
2
Distinguished Scholars
3
Visiting Scholars
3
Summer is fast approaching and we are eager to share
many of the exciting things that have happened in the
ISOM Department recently.
Get Involved
4
Internships
4
Are Students Busy?
5
After more than 12 years serving as chair of the ISOM
Department, Dr. R.C. Baker stepped down as chair in
2012 to return to his first love of teaching. The
department is grateful for his years of leadership and
resulting improvements over those years, and looks
forward to his continuing contributions to the
department.
Hello and Goodbye
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Scholarships
5
Recent Publications
6
Conferences, Presentations, and Workshops
7
Contact Information
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In Fall 2013 the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved our BS in Information Systems and
MS in Information Systems degrees as STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Math) degrees. The
STEM designation offers new advantages to students and new grant opportunities for faculty, and we
look forward to leveraging this new designation.
Our latest initiative has been the development of a new graduate degree program: MS in Business
Analytics. This College of Business program will be housed in the ISOM Department. To develop the
best program possible, we formed an industry advisory board to help us develop the curriculum. Their
assistance and input was greatly appreciated, and we feel we have an excellent new program as a result.
This new program proposal is in its final stage of approvals with the University and the UT System. We
hope to begin offering the MS in Business Analytics in Fall 2014.
Lastly, I want to thank Dr. Carolyn Davis for stepping up to create this newsletter. Going forward we
plan to publish an ISOM newsletter each Fall and Spring to keep you updated on our activities and
opportunities. These are just a few exciting things. Please read on to learn what else the ISOM
Department has been up to!
Greg Frazier
Chair, ISOM Department
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A new STEM master’s program is being planned.
The Master of Science in Business Analytics
(MSBA) is designed to prepare graduates to
identify and implement opportunities for the
strategic use of business analytics with an
emphasis on business. Students gain
knowledge of a broad range of disciplines and
functions in the business as well as specialized
knowledge of business analytics and its
accompanying skill set. An intensive curriculum
covering business intelligence, data mining,
econometrics, marketing research and
statistical techniques prepares students for
careers in the field of business analytics.
An advisory council was formed to help develop
the MSBA with members from Accenture,
Alcon, BNSF, Bell Helicopter, Deloitte, Lockheed
Martin, Pepsico, Sogeti USA, Texas Health
Resources, Texas Instruments, Transamerica,
and USAA.
In a recent article due to be published in The
Journal of Systems and Software (2014)
Dr. Sridhar Nerur is ranked among the top 3
researchers on Agile Software Development.
Further, it ranks UTA among the top 3
institutions that have produced research on
agile. “Assessment of Institutions, Scholars, and
Contributions on Agile Software Development”
(2001-2012), by Chuang, S.W., Luor, T., and
Lu, H.P., can be found at:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2014.03.006
Professor Radha Mahapatra and Associate
Professor Sridhar Nerur recently published
“Distributed Cognition in Software Design: An
Experimental Investigation of the Role of Design
Patterns and Collaboration” in the prestigious
MIS Quarterly. MIS Quarterly is the premier
academic journal in the information systems
discipline.
Our undergraduate and graduate curriculums
now offer new courses and greater flexibility.
INSY 3309 Python Programming, OPMA 4303
Introduction to Management Sciences, and
OPMA 4314 Services Operations have been
added to our undergraduate offerings. INSY
5376 Big Data Analytics, INSY 5377 Web and
Social Analytics, and INSY 5378 Data Science: A
Programming Approach and OPMA 5362
Services Operations are new to our graduate
offerings.
In addition, we are offering an online version of
INSY 3330 E-Commerce as well as piloting a new
course this Fall, INSY 4331 Mobile App
Development.
(Dr. Mahapatra and Dr. Nerur)
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ISOM sponsored presentations from two
distinguished scholars this year.
Dr. Kay-Yut Chen received his Ph.D. from the
California Institute of Technology and is
currently working as a Principal Research
Scientist at Yahoo Labs researching game theory
and application of behavioral economics to
business problems. Dr. Chen presented
“Banded Rationality in Operations: Theory,
Experiment and Practice”.
Dr. Sudha Ram received her Ph.D. in
Information Systems from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently
the Anheuser-Busch Professor of
Entrepreneurship & Innovation in the Eller
College of Management at the University of
Arizona. She is also the director of the
Advanced Database Research Group (ADRG)
and INSITE: Center for Business Intelligence and
Analytics at the University of Arizona. She
presented “Examining News Article Propagation
via Social Media using Network Science”.
The ISOM department has hosted three visiting
scholars during the 2013-2014 academic year.
Visiting scholars often come to universities to
work with faculty in various research areas.
Currently, Dr. Yoosin Kim has joined our
department as a post-doctoral research
fellow. Dr. Kim obtained his Ph.D. last year in
MIS from Kookmin University in Seoul, Korea
with a specialization in data analytics. Prior to
this, he had worked as a data scientist for a
number of tech firms, including Accenture. His
expertise includes text mining for sentiment
analysis, content classification, stock prediction,
and statistical tools such as R, SPSS, SAS for
machine training like DT, ANN, SVM, and naïve
Bayesian algorithm. His interests are in a
prediction and recommendation system using
Big-Data analysis for customer behavior pattern
recognition, SNS content analysis and
collaboration filtering.
Dr. HaiJie Yu from the School of Energy Science
and Engineering University of Electronic Science
and Technology of China has interests in
environmental impacts to supply chain and
operations management.
Dr. Linghong Zhang from Tongji University in
Shanghai researches the area of optimal price
and ordering policies with supply chain
coordination for contracts of perishable
products.
Dr. Sudha Ram
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There’s no better way to network and stay in
touch with industry than to join an industrysponsored, student organization.
For further information contact Mr. Ken Sears
(ksears@uta.edu) for AITP, Dr. Randy Napier
(rnapier@uta.edu) for APICS, and
Dr. Edmund Prater (eprater@uta.edu) for ISM.
The Association for Information Technology
Professionals (AITP) is the professional
association comprised of career minded
individuals who seek to expand their potential -employers, employees, managers,
programmers, and many others. The
organization seeks to provide avenues for all
their members to be teachers as well as
students and to make contacts with other
members in the Information Systems field, all in
an effort to become more marketable in rapidly
changing, technological careers.
The American Production and Inventory
Control Society (APICS) Student Chapter at UTA
has been re-chartered and is now in its second
semester of activity. The mission of the APICS
Student Chapter is to facilitate learning outside
the classroom, to provide valuable networking
opportunities with current and future industry
leaders, and to provide students with the tools
needed to succeed in today’s professional
workforce.
We now have a student chapter of the Institute
for Supply Management (ISM). ISM is very
helpful for our Operations Management
students. First, they provide educational
opportunities that supplement our students’
coursework. This training leads to a Certified
Professional in Supply Management (CPSM)
certification which is highly valued in the
industry. Second both the Dallas and Fort
Worth chapters provide numerous networking
opportunities for our students. Finally, the Fort
Worth Chapter, with which UTA is affiliated, has
provided several $1,000 scholarships for our
students on a yearly basis for the past several
years.
Internships are an important way to get your
foot in the door. You receive credit for work;
you receive work experience; you make
industry contacts; you get to see how the real
world works. And, many times internships can
turn into permanent jobs.
ISOM is busy cultivating industry relationships
and identifying potential internship and job
opportunities for our students. There has been
significant increased interest in our students for
these positions. In addition, the College of
Business has established a Director for
Corporate Relations, Ms. Melanie McGee, to
assist with this initiative.
Position listings can be found at the department
website, http://wweb.uta.edu/insyopma/jobs.html
and at the University Career Services website,
http://www.uta.edu/careers/ .
For complete internship details see:
http://wweb.uta.edu/business/ugadvise/special_pro
gs.html#Internships or
http://wweb.uta.edu/insyopma/internship.html .
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In Fall 2013 we said hello to new faculty
Dr. David Crockett, Ms. Puspa Mahapatra,
Dr. Brad Masters, Dr. Billy Moore,
Dr. Randy Napier, Dr. Kurt Schmitz, and
Dr. Michel Whittenberg.
Our goodbyes, congratulations, and good luck
go to our new graduating Ph.D.s,
Dr. Kimberly Whitehead (OPMA) and
Dr. James Brown (OPMA).
The department awarded the Suzanne Sparvero
Memorial Scholarship to the following students
for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Kyle Silberbauer, INSY BS
Glenroy Boatswain, INSY BS
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Eakin, Mark and Whiteside, M., “The Sampling
Distribution of the W Estimator of the Number
of Valid Signatures on a Petition”, forthcoming
in Communication in Statistics; accepted 2013.
Mangalaraj, G., Nerur, S., Mahapatra, R., and
Price, K., “Distributed Cognition in Software
Design – An Experimental Investigation of the
Role of Design Patterns and Collaboration”, MIS
Quarterly, March, 2013.
Sikora, R. and You, L., “Effect of Reputation
Mechanisms and Ratings Biases on Traders’
Behavior in Online Marketplaces”, in the
International Journal of Organizational
Computing and Electronic Commerce, 2013.
Yang, Z., J. Wang, and Mourali, M., “The Effect
of Peer Influence on Two Aspects of Music
Piracy: The Moderating Role of Self-Construal”,
forthcoming in Journal of Business Research,
accepted 2013.
Jie Zhang, Prater, E. and Lipkin, I., “Analyzing
Online Auction Behavior with Fuzzy Set Theory,”
Decision Support System, accepted 2013.
Jie Zhang, Hu, N and Raja, M.K., “To Revoke or
Not to Revoke–-CRL Releasing Strategies”,
Decision Support Systems, accepted 2013.
Luo, Xueming and Zhang, Jie, “How Do
Consumer Buzz and Traffic in Social Media
Marketing Predict the Value of the Firm?”,
Journal of Management Information Systems,
accepted 2013.
Luo, Xueming, Zhang, Jie, and Duan, Wenjing,
“Social Media Metrics and Firm Equity Value.”
Information Systems Research Vol.24 No.1, pp.
146–163, 2013.
Dr. Edmund Prater and Dr. Kimberly Whitehead coauthored An Introduction to Supply Chain Management.
“Writing the book with Dr. Prater was a great
experience. We tried to keep a practitioner
tone based on our combined years of practical
experience. Feedback is positive from both
academics and practitioners.”
---Kimberly Whitehead
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O. Al-Laymoun presented “The Impact of Adoption of
Social Networking Services on the Firms’ Stock Prices:
An Institutional Theory Perspective” at The General
Business Conference at Sam Houston State University,
Huntsville, TX, April 10-13, 2014.
Ms. O. Awe presented “The Moderating Effects of
Culture in Customer Satisfaction and Service Quality”
at DSI Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 15-19,
2013.
Ramakrishna Dantu presented “A Theoretical Model
for Assessing User Resistance Intention in IS
Implementation” at DSI Conference, Baltimore, MD,
November 15-17, 2013.
Indika Dissanayake presented “Knowledge
Management in software Development: The Case of
Agile Software”, at the AMCIS Conference in Chicago,
IL, August 14-17, 2014.
Indika Dissanayake presented “Virtual Team
Performance in Crowdsourcing Contests” at INFORMS
Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 6-8, 2013.
Mark Eakin presented “A Simplifying Framework for
an Introductory Statistics Class” at DSI Conference,
Baltimore, MD, November 16-19, 2013.
Greg Frazier presented “The Competitive Dynamics of
a Firm’s Capacity Position and Inventory Leanness
Activities” at DSI Conference, Baltimore, MD,
November 15-19, 2013.
Greg Frazier presented "Supplier Selection for
Effective Acquisition on Remanufacturing" at
Southwest Decision Sciences Institute Conference,
Dallas, March 11-15, 2014.
Nisha Kulangara presented “Meta-Analysis on
Innovation and Outsourcing”, at DSI Conference,
Baltimore, MD, November 15-19, 2013.
Radha Mahapatra presented “Adoption of
Telemedicine – Challenges and Opportunities”, at the
AMCIS Conference in Chicago, IL, August 14-17, 2013.
James Teng presented "Quo vadis, ERP? – Explicating
and Modeling Dimensions of ERP Success" at
Southwest Decision Sciences Institute Conference,
Dallas, March 11-15, 2014.
Jingguo Wang presented “Can Relationship Conflict
Damage an Organization’s Information Security?” at
The 2013 Dewald Roode Workshop on Information
Systems Security, Niagra Falls, NY, October 4-5, 2013.
Jingguo Wang presented "The Role of Social Norms in
Information Security Compliance" at Southwest
Decision Sciences Institute Conference, Dallas, March
11-15, 2014.
Kimberly Whitehead presented “It’s a Matter of Give
and Take: Exploring the Role of Knowledge Transfer
Capacities within Green Supply Chain Collaboration”
at DSI Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 15-19,
2013.
Adel Yazdanmehr presented “The Impact of Adoption
of Social Networking Services on the Firms’ Stock
Prices: An Institutional Theory Perspective” at The
General Business Conference at Sam Houston State
University, Huntsville, TX, April 10-13, 2014.
Jie Zhang presented Social Media Blog Sentiments
and Brand Performances Competitive and
Asymmetric Effects at CIST and INFORMS
Conferences, Minneapolis, MN, October 4-8, 2013.
Sridhar Nerur, M.K. Raja, Jingguo Wang, Jie Zhang and
Indika Dissanayake attended the Workshop on Social
and Business Analytics at McCombs School of
Business at The University of Texas at Austin on
March 27-29, 2014.
Sridhar Nerur, Randy Napier, and Ganapathiraman
Raman attended the University Alliances Winter 2013
Workshop in Huntsville, Texas on January 6-9, 2014.
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817-272-3502
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817-272-5746
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817-272-7399
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