Publications - Information & Decision Sciences

Technological innovation for sustainable growth: An ontological perspective

Cancino, Christian, A.; La Paz, Ariel, I.; Ramaprasad, Arkalgud; Syn, Thant (Elsevier, 2018-04-01)

Arkalgud Ramaprasad 27.92University of Illinois at Chicago Thant Syn 15.43Texas A&M International University Abstract Technological innovations are seen as means to optimize the efficient and clean use of vital resources ...

On The Von Neumann And Frank–Wolfe Algorithms With Away Steps

PENA, J; RODRIGUEZ, D; SOHEILI, N (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2016)

The von Neumann algorithm is a simple coordinate-descent algorithm to determine whether the origin belongs to a polytope generated by a finite set of points. When the origin is in the interior of the polytope, the algorithm ...

Do CIO IT Budgets Explain Bigger or Smaller Governments? Theory and Evidence from U.S. State Governments

Pang, M.S.; Tafti, A.; Krishnan, M.S. (INFORMS, 2016-04)

Given the recent concern on "big governments" and rising budget deficits in the United States and European nations, there has been a fundamental economic debate on the proper boundary and role of governments in a society. ...

Do Small and Medium‐Sized IT Firms Form Service Partnerships with Nonlocal IT Firms? An Assessment of Facilitators.

Findikoglu, MN; Watson‐Manheim, MB (Wiley, 2015-10)

For small and medium-sized information technology ﬁrms (IT SMEs), the service partnershipsformed with other IT ﬁrms are strategic instruments to overcome their resource constraints,increase efﬁciency, and offer complementary ...

Balancing market exploration and market exploitation in product innovation: A contingency perspective.

Zhang, H.; Wu, F.; Cui, AS (Elsevier, 2015-09)

This paper examines three different ways to balance market exploration and market exploitation in product innovation. First, following the knowledge-based view, we examine whether market exploration and market exploitation ...

Reducing Redundant Data Transmissions in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Comparing Aggregation and Filtering 1

Ouksel, A.; Lundquist, D. (Springer Verlag, 2015)

Abstract—Efficient bandwidth usage is vital for real-time ad hoc networking applications like vehicular safety. Yet, such applications can produce large amounts of identical data. Pruning redundant data transmissions ...

Incorporating conditional random fields and active learning to improve sentiment identification.

Zhang, K.; Xie, Y.; Yang, Y.; Sun, A.; Liu, H.; Choudhary, . (Neural Networks, 2014-10)

Many machine learning, statistical, and computational linguistic methods have been developed to identify sentiment of sentences in documents, yielding promising results. However, most of state-of-the-art methods focus on ...

A multi-level socio-technical systems telecommuting framework

Belanger, France; Watson-Manheim, Mary Beth; Swan, Bret R. (Taylor & Francis, 2013-12)

Telecommuting can help create organizational efficiencies and improve competitive advantage. It has been studied from a variety of perspectives, including that of transportation, management, psychology, and information ...

Confidence in Predictions from Random Tree Ensembles

Bhattacharyya, Siddhartha (Springer Verlag, 2013-05)

Obtaining an indication of confidence of predictions is desirable for many data mining applications. Predictions complemented with confidence levels can inform on the certainty or extent of reliability that may be associated ...

Spreadsheet-based Simulation Models for Decision Support: Case of strategic pairings in sport tournaments with match play for team competition

Ho, James K. (IOS Press, 2012)

In sport tournaments where teams compete in match play format, the pairing of players in matches is critical to the final outcomes. This paper presents simulation models using only commonplace spreadsheet software to ...