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ABout tHE AutHoRs

Ramesh Sharda (M.B.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison) is director of the
Ph.D. in Business for Executives Program and Institute for Research in Information
Systems (IRIS), ConocoPhillips Chair of Management of Technology, and a Regents
Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of
Business at Oklahoma State University (OSU). About 200 papers describing his research
have been published in major journals, including Operations Research, Management
Science, Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, and Journal of MIS.
He cofounded the AIS SIG on Decision Support Systems and Knowledge Management
(SIGDSS). Dr. Sharda serves on several editorial boards, including those of INFORMS
Journal on Computing, Decision Support Systems, and ACM Transactions on Management
Information Systems. He has authored and edited several textbooks and research books
and serves as the co-editor of several book series (Integrated Series in Information
Systems, Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces, and Annals of Information
Systems) with Springer. He is also currently serving as the executive director of the
Teradata University Network. His current research interests are in decision support sys-
tems, business analytics, and technologies for managing information overload.

Dursun Delen (Ph.D., Oklahoma State University) is the Spears and Patterson Chairs in
Business Analytics, Director of Research for the Center for Health Systems Innovation,
and 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 five years, during which he led
a number of decision support and other information systems–related research projects
funded by federal agencies such as DoD, NASA, NIST, and DOE. Dr. Delen’s research has
appeared in major journals including Decision Support Systems, Communications of the
ACM, Computers and Operations Research, Computers in Industry, Journal of Production
Operations Management, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, and Expert Systems with
Applications, among others. He recently published four textbooks: Advanced Data Mining
Techniques with Springer, 2008; Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems with
Prentice Hall, 2010; Business Intelligence: A Managerial Approach, with Prentice Hall,
2010; and Practical Text Mining, with Elsevier, 2012. He is often invited to national and
international conferences for keynote addresses on topics related to data/text mining,
business intelligence, decision support systems, and knowledge management. He served
as the general co-chair for the 4th International Conference on Network Computing and
Advanced Information Management (September 2–4, 2008, in Seoul, South Korea) and
regularly chairs tracks and mini-tracks at various information systems conferences. He is
the associate editor-in-chief for International Journal of Experimental Algorithms, associ-
ate editor for International Journal of RF Technologies and Journal of Decision Analytics,
and is on the editorial boards of five other technical journals. His research and teaching
interests are in data and text mining, decision support systems, knowledge management,
business intelligence, and enterprise modeling.

Efraim Turban (M.B.A., Ph.D., 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

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