Business Intelligence Analytics Data Science and AI Global Edition

About our authors Ramesh Sharda (MBA PhD University of WisconsinMadison) is the Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Programs Watson/ConocoPhillips Chair and a Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University (OSU). He cofounded and directed OSU's PhD in Business for the Executives Program. About 200 papers describing his research have been published in major journals including Operations Research Management Science Information Systems Research Decision Support Systems and the Journal of MIS. He cofounded the AIS SIG on Decision Support Systems and Knowledge Management (SIGDSA). Dr. Sharda serves on several editorial boards including those of Decision Support Systems and ACM Data Base. He has authored and edited several textbooks and research books and serves as the coeditor of several Springer book series (Integrated Series in Information Systems Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces and Annals of Information Systems) with Springer. He served as the Executive Director of the Teradata University Network from 2013-2020. His current research interests are in decision support systems business analytics and technologies for managing information overload. Ramesh is a Fellow of INFORMS and AIS and was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame in 2015. He was awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Aalto University of Finland for spring 2023. Dursun Delen (PhD Oklahoma State University) is the Spears Endowed Chair in Business Administration Patterson Foundation Endowed Chair in Business Analytics Director of Research for the Center for Health Systems Innovation and Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University (OSU). Prior to his academic career he worked for a privately owned research and consultancy company Knowledge Based Systems Inc. in College Station Texas as a research scientist for 5 years during which he led a number of decision support and other information systemsrelated research projects funded by several federal agencies including the Department of Defense (DoD) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) and Department of Energy (DOE). Dr. Delen has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles some of which have appeared in major journals like Decision Sciences Decision Support Systems Communications of the ACM Computers and Operations Research Computers in Industry Journal of Production Operations Management Artificial Intelligence in Medicine International Journal of Medical Informatics Expert Systems with Applications and IEEE Wireless Communications. He recently authored/coauthored twelve textbooks in the broad areas of business analytics data mining text mining business intelligence and decision support systems. He is often invited to national and international conferences for keynote addresses on topics related to data/text mining business analytics decision support systems business intelligence and knowledge management. He regularly chairs tracks and minitracks at various information systems and analytics conferences. He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Business Analytics Journal of AI in Business (part of Frontiers in AI family of journals) and as Senior Editor Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member for more than another dozen of academic journals. His research and teaching interests are in data and text mining business analytics decision support systems data science knowledge management business intelligence and enterprise modeling. Efraim Turban (MBA PhD. University of California Berkeley) is a Visiting Scholar at the Pacific Institute for Information System Management University of Hawaii. Prior to this he was on the staff of several universities including City University of Hong Kong; Lehigh University; Florida International University; California State University Long Beach; Eastern Illinois University; and the University of Southern California. Dr. Turban is the author of more than 100 refereed papers published in leading journals such as Management Science MIS Quarterly and Decision Support Systems. He is also the author of 20 books including Electronic Commerce: A Managerial Perspective and Information Technology for Management. He is also a consultant to major corporations worldwide. Dr. Turban's current areas of interest are Web-based decision support systems social commerce and collaborative decision making. . Language: English