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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Best Faculty Advisor Award Nominee – 2003 Student Organization
Recognition Awards
Recognition for State Employee Charitable Contribution (2003, 2004)
Papers under review
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Using data modeling patterns: Development and evaluation of a methodology
(Antony and Mellarkod). Currently being revised for Journal of Database
Management.
Research in progress
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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
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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
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VB.Net, HTML, Active Server Pages, Web-site development, PowerBuilder,
Visual Basic, SQL, FoxPro, C, Microsoft Access, Excel, Fortran, Paradox
Personal
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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)