Volume 45, Issue 3, Pages 385-662 (June 2008)

Special Issue Clusters

Contents
Pages iv-v

Recommendation Systems for Decision Support

Guest Editor: Ting-Peng Liang

Recommendation systems for decision support: An editorial introduction
Pages 385-386
Ting-Peng Liang

Website browsing aid: A navigation graph-based recommendation system
Pages 387-400
Youwei Wang, Weihui Dai, Yufei Yuan

A semantic-expansion approach to personalized knowledge recommendation
Pages 401-412
Ting-Peng Liang, Yung-Fang Yang, Deng-Neng Chen, Yi-Cheng Ku

A collaborative filtering-based approach to personalized document clustering
Pages 413-428
Chih-Ping Wei, Chin-Sheng Yang, Han-Wei Hsiao

Decision support for team staffing: An automated relational recommendation approach
Pages 429-447
Jochen Malinowski, Tim Weitzel, Tobias Keim

Decision support systems special issue on PACIS 2006

Guest Editors: Kun Chang Lee and Kyung Hoon Yang

Decision support systems special issue on PACIS 2006
Pages 449-451
Kun Chang Lee, Kyung Hoon Yang

A study of group support systems and the intergroup setting
Pages 452-460
John Lim, Xiaojia Guo

A cognitive map-driven avatar design recommendation DSS and its empirical validity
Pages 461-472
Kun Chang Lee, Soonjae Kwon

Storyline-based summarization for news topic retrospection
Pages 473-490
Fu-ren Lin, Chia-Hao Liang

Effective spam filtering: A single-class learning and ensemble approach
Pages 491-503
Chih-Ping Wei, Hsueh-Ching Chen, Tsang-Hsiang Cheng

Risk of using pirated software and its impact on software protection strategies
Pages 504-516
Samuel Shu Kin Kwan, Jeevan Jaisingh, Kar Yan Tam

Human decision-making behavior and modeling effects
Pages 517-527
Choong Nyoung Kim, Kyung Hoon Yang, Jaekyung Kim

Using peer-to-peer technology for knowledge sharing in communities of practices
Pages 528-540
Chen-Ya Wang, Hsin-Yi Yang, Seng-cho T. Chou

Knowledge-based organization evaluation
Pages 541-549
Liang-Chuan Wu, Chorng-Shyong Ong, Yao-Wen Hsu

Multilingual Knowledge Management

Guest Editors: Christopher C. Yang, Chih-Ping Wei and Hsinchun Chen

Editors' introduction special issue on multilingual knowledge management
Pages 551-553
Christopher C. Yang, Chih-Ping Wei, Hsinchun Chen

Cross-lingual audio-to-text alignment for multimedia content management
Pages 554-566
Dau-Cheng Lyu, Ren-Yuan Lyu, Yuang-Chin Chiang, Chun-Nan Hsu

Enhancing portability with multilingual ontology-based knowledge management
Pages 567-584
Aviv Segev, Avigdor Gal

Using Web resources to construct multilingual medical thesaurus for cross-language medical information retrieval
Pages 585-595
Wen-Hsiang Lu, Ray S. Lin, Yi-Che Chan, Kuan-Hsi Chen

Cross-lingual thesaurus for multilingual knowledge management
Pages 596-605
Christopher C. Yang, Chih-Ping Wei, K.W. Li

A Latent Semantic Indexing-based approach to multilingual document clustering
Pages 606-620
Chih-Ping Wei, Christopher C. Yang, Chia-Min Lin

SpidersRUs: Creating specialized search engines in multiple languages
Pages 621-640
Michael Chau, Jialun Qin, Yilu Zhou, Chunju Tseng, Hsinchun Chen

A multilingual knowledge management system: A case study of FAO and WAICENT
Pages 641-661
Daniel E. O'Leary

Volume 45, Issue 2, Pages 187-384 (May 2008)

I.T. and Value Creation
Edited by Patrick Chau and Tung Bui

Contents
Pages iii-iv

Special issue Section : I.T. and Value Creation

Introduction to the special issue on “I.T. and value creation,” the Ninth Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
Pages 187-188
Patrick Y.K. Chau, Tung Bui

From conceptual process models to running systems: A holistic approach for the configuration of enterprise system processes
Pages 189-207
Alexander Dreiling, Michael Rosemann, Wil M.P. van der Aalst, Wasim Sadiq

Organizational culture and leadership in ERP implementation
Pages 208-218
Weiling Ke, Kwok Kee Wei

Does knowledge reuse make a creative person more creative?
Pages 219-227
Pak-Keung Cheung, Patrick Y.K. Chau, Anson K.K. Au

Examining the effects of cognitive style in individuals' technology use decision making
Pages 228-241
Indranil Chakraborty, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Dai Cui

Weblogging: A study of social computing and its impact on organizations
Pages 242-250
Rachael Kwai Fun IP, Christian Wagner

Exploring the collective actions of public servants in e-government development
Pages 251-265
Tzu-Chuan Chou, Jau-Rong Chen, Ching-Kuo Pu

Regular papers

The role of market pricing mechanism under imperfect competition
Pages 267-277
Hossein Haghighat, Hossein Seifi, Ashkan Rahimi Kian

Screening in multiple criteria decision analysis
Pages 278-290
Ye Chen, D. Marc Kilgour, Keith W. Hipel

Two-level trust-based decision model for information assurance in a virtual organization
Pages 291-309
Yanjun Zuo, Brajendra Panda

Knowledge discovery for adaptive negotiation agents in e-marketplaces
Pages 310-323
Raymond Y.K. Lau, Yuefeng Li, Dawei Song, Ron Chi Wai Kwok

Adoption of technology-mediated learning in the U.S.
Pages 324-337
Zafer D. Ozdemir, Kemal Altınkemer, John M. Barron

Managing bandwidth allocations between competing recreational and non-recreational traffic on campus networks
Pages 338-353
David C. Novak

Visualizing decision process on spheres based on the even swap concept
Pages 354-367
Han-Lin Li, Li-Ching Ma

Learning Bayesian networks from incomplete databases using a novel evolutionary algorithm
Pages 368-383
Man Leung Wong, Yuan Yuan Guo

Volume 45, Issue 1, Pages 1-186 (April 2008)

Contents
Page v

Special Issue: Data Warehousing and OLAP

New Trends in Data Warehousing and OLAP
Pages 1-3
Juan Trujillo, Il-Yeol Song

GRAnD: A goal-oriented approach to requirement analysis in data warehouses
Pages 4-21
Paolo Giorgini, Stefano Rizzi, Maddalena Garzetti

A method for the mapping of conceptual designs to logical blueprints for ETL processes
Pages 22-40
Alkis Simitsis, Panos Vassiliadis

An MDA approach for the development of data warehouses
Pages 41-58
Jose-Norberto Mazón, Juan Trujillo

Dimensional modeling: Identification, classification, and evaluation of patterns
Pages 59-76
Mary Elizabeth “M.E.” Jones, Il-Yeol Song

Contextualizing data warehouses with documents
Pages 77-94
Juan Manuel Pérez-Martínez, Rafael Berlanga-Llavori, María José Aramburu-Cabo, Torben Bach Pedersen

Regular papers

Brokering infrastructure for minimum cost data procurement based on quality–quantity models
Pages 95-109
Alessandro Avenali, Carlo Batini, Paola Bertolazzi, Paolo Missier

Bankruptcy forecasting: An empirical comparison of AdaBoost and neural networks
Pages 110-122
Esteban Alfaro, Noelia García, Matías Gámez, David Elizondo

Diagnosing decision quality
Pages 123-139
Michael J. Davern, Ravi Mantena, Edward A. Stohr

Agent learning in the multi-agent contracting system [MACS]
Pages 140-149
Bonnie Rubenstein Montano, Victoria Yoon, Kevin Drummey, Jay Liebowitz

Context-based market basket analysis in a multiple-store environment
Pages 150-163
Kwei Tang, Yen-Liang Chen, Hsiao-Wei Hu

Formal conceptualisation as a basis for a more procedural knowledge management
Pages 164-179
Javier Andrade, Juan Ares, Rafael García, Juan Pazos, Santiago Rodríguez, Andrés Silva

A note on an experimental study of DSS and forecasting exponential growth
Pages 180-186
David Arnott, Peter O'Donnell

Volume 44, Issue 4, Pages 749-1042 (March 2008)

Security in grid computing: A review and synthesis
Pages 749-764
Erin Cody, Raj Sharman, Raghav H. Rao, Shambhu Upadhyaya

Design and implementation of a decision support system for competitive electricity markets
Pages 765-784
Julia Sancho, Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano, Juan Antonio Chazarra, Juan Aparicio

Online reputation systems: Design and strategic practices
Pages 785-797
Ming Zhou, Martin Dresner, Robert J. Windle

On technology for functional requirement-based reference design retrieval in engineering knowledge management
Pages 798-816
Yuh-Jen Chen, Yuh-Min Chen, Hui-Chuan Chu, Hao-Yun Kao

An empirical investigation of the key determinants of data warehouse adoption
Pages 817-841
K. (Ram) Ramamurthy, Arun Sen, Atish P. Sinha

A case study on process modelling — Three questions and three techniques
Pages 842-853
Olivier Glassey

Do men and women use feedback provided by their Decision Support Systems (DSS) differently
Pages 854-869
Soussan Djamasbi, Eleanor T. Loiacono

Improving customer complaint management by automatic email classification using linguistic style features as predictors
Pages 870-882
Kristof Coussement, Dirk Van den Poel

Efficiency evaluation of data warehouse operations
Pages 883-898
Michael Mannino, Sa Neung Hong, In Jun Choi

Modeling consumer situational choice of long distance communication with neural networks
Pages 899-908
Michael Y. Hu, Murali Shanker, G. Peter Zhang, Ming S. Hung

Design support systems: A case study of modular design of the set-top box from design knowledge externalization perspective
Pages 909-924
Tzu-Liang (Bill) Tseng, Chun-Che Huang

Efficient clustering of databases induced by local patterns
Pages 925-943
Animesh Adhikari, P.R. Rao

Modifying inconsistent comparison matrix in analytic hierarchy process: A heuristic approach
Pages 944-953
D. Cao, L.C. Leung, J.S. Law

Decision support for network disruption mitigation
Pages 954-969
Diane E. Snediker, Alan T. Murray, Timothy C. Matisziw

A support system for predicting eBay end prices
Pages 970-982
Dennis van Heijst, Rob Potharst, Michiel van Wezel

Design choices for agent-based control of AGVs in the dough making process
Pages 983-999
Martijn Mes, Matthieu van der Heijden, Jos van Hillegersberg

Revisiting the role of web assurance seals in business-to-consumer electronic commerce
Pages 1000-1015
Dan J. Kim, Charles Steinfield, Ying-Ju Lai

A Multi-criteria Convex Quadratic Programming model for credit data analysis
Pages 1016-1030
Yi Peng, Gang Kou, Yong Shi, Zhengxin Chen

On supply chain cash flow risks
Pages 1031-1042
Chih-Yang Tsai

Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 565-748 (February 2008)

Contents

pp. iv

Game-theoretic modeling and control of military operations with partially emotional civilian players
Pages 565-579
Mo Wei, Genshe Chen, Jose B. Cruz Jr., Leonard Hayes, Martin Kruger, Erik Blasch

Economics of shareware: How do uncertainty and piracy affect shareware quality and brand premium?
Pages 580-594
Wendy Hui, Byungjoon Yoo, Kar Yan Tam

Utility-based decision support system for schedule optimization
Pages 595-605
I-Tung Yang

Customer-centric marketing with Internet coupons
Pages 606-620
Hsing Kenneth Cheng, Kutsal Dogan

A combinatorial procurement auction featuring bundle price revelation without free-riding
Pages 621-640
Robert W. Day, S. Raghavan

Price formation and its dynamics in online auctions
Pages 641-656
Ravi Bapna, Wolfgang Jank, Galit Shmueli

Eight key issues for the decision support systems discipline
Pages 657-672
David Arnott, Graham Pervan

A paradigmatic and methodological examination of knowledge management research: 2000 to 2004
Pages 673-688
Zining Guo, James Sheffield

ODDM: A framework for modelbases
Pages 689-709
Thadthong Bhrammanee, Vilas Wuwongse

Combining empirical experimentation and modeling techniques: A design research approach for personalized mobile advertising applications
Pages 710-724
David Jingjun Xu, Stephen Shaoyi Liao, Qiudan Li

Application of complex adaptive systems to pricing of reproducible information goods
Pages 725-739
Moutaz Khouja, Mirsad Hadzikadic, Hari K. Rajagopalan, Li-Shiang Tsay

Entity matching in heterogeneous databases: A logistic regression approach
Pages 740-747
Debabrata Dey

Volume: 44, Issue: 2
January, 2008

Contents

pp. iv

Evaluating the adoption potential of design science efforts: The case of APSARA, Purao, Sandeep; Storey, Veda C. pp. 369-381

Intelligent environment for monitoring Alzheimer patients, agent technology for health care, Corchado, Juan M.; Bajo, Javier; de Paz, Yanira; Tapia, Dante I. pp. 382-396

Explaining clinical decisions by extracting regularity patterns, Bielza, Concha; FernÃÃndez del Pozo, Juan A.; Lucas, Peter J.F. pp. 397-408

Transactive memory systems in organizations: Implications for knowledge directories, Jackson, Paul; Klobas, Jane pp. 409-424

An agent-based decision support system for wholesale electricity market, Sueyoshi, Toshiyuki; Tadiparthi, Gopalakrishna R. pp. 425-446

Delayed multiattribute product differentiation, Weber, Thomas A. pp. 447-468

e-Game: A platform for developing auction-based market simulations, Fasli, Maria; Michalakopoulos, Michael pp. 469-481

A machine learning approach to web page filtering using content and structure analysis, Chau, Michael; Chen, Hsinchun pp. 482-494

Referential integrity quality metrics, Ordonez, Carlos; GarcÃÃa-GarcÃÃa, Javier pp. 495-508

High tech, high touch: The effect of employee skills and customer heterogeneity on customer satisfaction with enterprise system support services, Ramasubbu, Narayan; Mithas, Sunil; Krishnan, M.S. pp. 509-523

Collaborative relevance assessment for task-based knowledge support , Liu, Duen-Ren; Wu, I-Chin pp. 524-543

A trust-based consumer decision-making model in electronic commerce: The role of trust, perceived risk, and their antecedents, Kim, Dan J.; Ferrin, Donald L.; Rao, H. Raghav pp. 544-564

Editorial Board pp. IFC

Volume: 44, Issue: 1
November, 2007

Network externalities, layered protection and IT security risk management

Yue, Wei T.; ÃÃakanyÃÃldÃÃrÃÃm, Metin; Ryu, YoungU.; Liu, Dengpan pp. 1-16

Cooperation and profit allocation in distribution chains

Guardiola, Luis A.; Meca, Ana; Timmer, Judith pp. 17-27

Predicting home-appliance acquisition sequences: Markov/Markov for Discrimination and survival analysis for modeling sequential information in NPTB models

Prinzie, Anita; Van den Poel, Dirk pp. 28-45

Factors relating to the decision to click on a sponsored link

Jansen, Bernard J.; Brown, Anna; Resnick, Marc pp. 46-59

An intelligent agent-assisted decision support system for family financial planning

Gao, Shijia; Wang, Huaiqing; Xu, Dongming; Wang, Yingfeng pp. 60-78

Marketing decision support system openness: A means of improving managers' understanding of marketing phenomena

Demoulin, Nathalie T.M. pp. 79-92

Effects of a reputation feedback system on an online consumer-to-consumer auction market

Yang, Jian; Hu, Xiaorui; Zhang, Han pp. 93-105

Decision support for university enrollment management: Implementation and experience

Maltz, Elliot N.; Murphy, Kenneth E.; Hand, Michael L. pp. 106-123

An economic analysis of customer selection and leveraging strategies in a market where network externalities exist

Kim, Eunjin; Lee, Byungtae pp. 124-134

Preference structures and negotiator behavior in electronic negotiations

Vetschera, Rudolf pp. 135-146

A secure double auction protocol against false bids

Ha, JungHoon; Zhou, Jianying; Moon, SangJae pp. 147-158

Do search terms matter for online consumers? The interplay between search engine query specification and topical organization

Kumar, Nanda; Lang, Karl R. pp. 159-174

Media naturalness and compensatory encoding: The burden of electronic media obstacles is on senders

Kock, Ned pp. 175-187

Typing or messaging? Modality effect on deception detection in computer-mediated communication

Zhou, Lina; Zhang, Dongsong pp. 188-201

Designing work breakdown structures using modular neural networks

Hashemi Golpayegani, S. Alireza; Emamizadeh, Bahram pp. 202-222

Is this brand ephemeral? A multivariate tree-based decision analysis of new product sustainability

Yada, Katsutoshi; Ip, Edward; Katoh, Naoki pp. 223-234

Efficiency of critical incident management systems: Instrument development and validation

Kim, Jin Ki; Sharman, Raj; Rao, H. Raghav; Upadhyaya, Shambhu pp. 235-250

An intelligent information agent for document title classification and filtering in document-intensive domains

Song, Dawei; Lau, Raymond Y.K.; Bruza, Peter D.; Wong, Kam-Fai; Chen, Ding-Yi pp. 251-265

Agile Integration Modeling Language (AIML): A conceptual modeling grammar for agile integrative business information systems

Zhang, Hong; Kishore, Rajiv; Sharman, Raj; Ramesh, Ram pp. 266-284

Scheduling meetings through multi-agent negotiations

Wainer, Jacques; Ferreira, Paulo Roberto; Constantino, Everton Rufino pp. 285-297

A temporal approach to expectations and desires from knowledge management systems

Nevo, Dorit; Chan, Yolande E. pp. 298-312

Smart-Swaps ÃÃÃÃÃÃ A decision support system for multicriteria decision analysis with the even swaps method

Mustajoki, Jyri; HÃÃmÃÃlÃÃinen, Raimo P. pp. 313-325

A practical approach for efficiently answering top-k relational queries

Ayanso, Anteneh; Goes, Paulo B.; Mehta, Kumar pp. 326-349

Factors affecting the adoption of electronic signature: Executives' perspective of hospital information department

Chang, I-Chiu; Hwang, Hsin-Ginn; Hung, Ming-Chien; Lin, Ming-Hui; Yen, David C. pp. 350-359

Note on supply chain integration in vendor-managed inventory

van der Vlist, Piet; Kuik, Roelof; Verheijen, Bas pp. 360-365

Response to ÃÃÃÃÃÃNote on supply chain integration in vendor managed inventoryÃÃÃÃÃÃ

Yao, Yuliang; Evers, Philip T.; Dresner, Martin E. pp. 366-367

Volume 43, Issue 4
pp. 1081-1718 (August 2007)
Special Issue Clusters

1. Editorial Board
Page IFC

2. Contents
Pages iv-vii

Web-based decision support

Guest Editors: Hemant Bhargava, Daniel Power and Daewon Sun

3. Special issue of Decision Support Systems on web-based decision support
Pages 1081-1082
Hemant K. Bhargava, Daniel J. Power and Daewon Sun

4. Progress in Web-based decision support technologies
Pages 1083-1095
Hemant K. Bhargava, Daniel J. Power and Daewon Sun

5. The evolution of web-based optimisation: From ASP to e-Services
Pages 1096-1116
Patrick Valente and Gautam Mitra

6. Retrieval for decision support resources by structured models
Pages 1117-1132
Ulrich Güntzer, Rudolf Müller, Stefan Müller and Ralf-Dieter Schimkat

7. A software architecture and framework for Web-based distributed Decision Support Systems
Pages 1133-1150
Shifeng Zhang and Steve Goddard

8. Movie forecast Guru: A Web-based DSS for Hollywood managers
Pages 1151-1170
Dursun Delen, Ramesh Sharda and Prajeeb Kumar

9. A web-based spatial decision support system optimizes routes for oversize/overweight vehicles in Delaware
Pages 1171-1185
Julian J. Ray

10. TeamSpirit: Design, implementation, and evaluation of a Web-based group decision support system
Pages 1186-1202
Minder Chen, Yiching Liou, Ching-Wen Wang, Yi-Wen Fan and Yan-Ping Jeffery Chi

Decision Support in Medicine

Guest Editors: Gondy Leroy and Hsinchun Chen

11. Introduction to the special issue on decision support in medicine
Pages 1203-1206
Gondy Leroy and Hsinchun Chen

12. Large-scale regulatory network analysis from microarray data: modified Bayesian network learning and association rule mining
Pages 1207-1225
Zan Huang, Jiexun Li, Hua Su, George S. Watts and Hsinchun Chen

13. Predicting adequacy of vancomycin regimens: A learning-based classification approach to improving clinical decision making
Pages 1226-1241
Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Chih-Ping Wei, Tsang-Hsiang Cheng and Jian-Xun Chen