Model of MIS

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Model of MIS Leading Research

• MIS 696A Readings in MIS (Nunamaker)
• University of Arizona Eller College of Business
• Department of Management Information Sciences

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Overview

• Problem Definition
• Model the MIS domain
• Framework for characterizing the results of
  research
• Research Objectives
• Build on the prior mappings
• Identify the top academic researchers and
  research papers
• Classify the top research papers
• Display the landmark events for each discipline
  in a timeline format.

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Basic MIS Model
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Framework

• Rigor vs. Relevance Referring to the utilization
  of research methods that are mathematical in
  nature and generally feature tightly controlled
  experiments (rigor) or the general
  applicability of the research for practitioners
  (relevance).
• Technical vs. Behavioral Referring to the
  positivist philosophy (technical) or
  interpretivist philosophy (behavioral) that
  guided the scientific discovery process or
  methods employed.
• Theory vs. Application Referring to the
  characterization of an environment or set of
  conditions (theory) or the use of theory to
  develop a usable solution (application).

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Visual Framework
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Research Methodology

• Sources used to identify key research papers
• Faculty interviews (incl. face-to-face
  interviews, telephone surveys, and e-mail
  questionnaires)
• Prior years' final projects
• Reading lists from related courses at various
  universities
• Internet library database searches.
• Primary methods used to prioritize papers
• Faculty opinion
• Citation counts
• Relative journal quality measures
• Third-party evaluations/critiques of the works
  (e.g. university and/or researcher websites)

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Artificial Intelligence

• 1956 John McCarthy coined the term Artificial
  Intelligence
• 1967 The successful knowledge-based program
  Dendral is built
• 1972 PAM technique A model of evolutionary
  change in Proteins
• 1995 Bayesian method developed for determining
  atomic positions
• 1997 The Deep Blue chess program beats Garry
  Kasparov
• 1999 EcoCyc is built to query and explore the
  genetics of E.Coli

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Artificial Intelligence

• Seminal Works

• A Probabilistic Approach to Determining
  Biological Structure Integrating Uncertain Data
  Sources
• Altman, R. B.
• International Journal Human-Computer Studies 42
  1995pp. 593-616
• Automatic Structuring and Retrieval of Large Text
  Files
• Salton, G. Allen, J. Buckley, C.
• Communications of the ACM 37(2) 1994 pp. 97
  108
• What are Ontologies, and Why Do We Need Them?
• Chandrasekaran, B. Josephson, J. Benjamins, R.
• IEEE Intelligent Systems 14(1) 1999 pp. 20
  26.

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Artificial Intelligence

• Key Researchers

• Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001)
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Nobel Prize winner in Economics
• John McCarthy
• Stanford University
• Father of AI
• Gerard Salton (1927-1995)
• Cornell University
• Natural-language processing

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Collaboration

• 1971 Delphi method proposed as group
  communication structure
• 1987 Collaboration used at Xerox labs
• 1987 Foundation for the study of GSS
• 1991 Communication requirements for group
  support established
• 1991 Benefits and drawbacks of GSS established
• 1996 Groupware Grid proposed

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Collaboration

• Seminal Works

• Electronic Meeting Systems to Support Group Work
• Nunamaker, J.F. Dennis, A. Valacich, J. Vogel,
  D. George, J.
• Communications of the ACM 34(7) 1991 pp. 40
  61.
• A Foundation for the Study of Group Decision
  Support Systems
• DeSanctis, G. Gallupe, R.
• Management Science 33(5) 1987 pp. 589 609.
• Lessons from a Dozen Years of Group Support
  Systems Research A Discussion of Lab and Field
  Findings
• Nunamaker, J.F. Briggs, R. Mittleman, D.
  Vogel, D. Balthazard, P.
• Journal of Management Information Systems 13(3)
  Winter 1996-1997 pp. 163 207.

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Collaboration

• Key Researchers

• Jay F. Nunamaker
• University of Arizona
• Founder of GroupSystems, U of A MIS Department
• Gerardine DeSanctis
• Duke University
• Ph.D. Advisor for R. B. Gallupe
• R. Brent Gallupe
• Queens University (Ontario, Canada)

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Database

• 1960 COBOL established
• 1961 IDS developed
• 1970 E.F. Codd published article on relational
  technology
• 1973 Michael Stonebraker developed Ingres / IBM
  with System R
• 1976 Peter Chen and Entity-Relationship model
• 1980 First database built on SQL (Oracle)

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Database

• Seminal Works

• A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data
  Bank
• Codd, E.F.
• Communications of the ACM 13(6) 1970 pp. 377
  387.
• The Entity-Relationship ModelToward a Unified
  View of Data
• Chen, P.
• ACM Transactions on Database Systems 1976 Vol.
  1, No. 1, pp 9 36.
• The Design and Implementation of INGRES
• Stonebraker, M.
• ACM Transactions on Database Systems 1976, Vol.
  1, Issue. 3.

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Database

• Key Researchers

• Edgar F. Codd (1923-2003)
• Last at IBM San Jose research lab
• Founder of relational database technology
• Peter Pin-Shan Chen
• Louisiana State University
• 35th most cited article in computer science
• Michael Stonebraker
• University of California at Berkeley
• Founder of INGRES

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Decision Science

• 1980 Framework for DSS Developed, Ralph Sprague
• 1987 Foundation of GDSS, Gerry DeSanctis and
  Brent Gallupe
• 1996 Emergence of E-Commerce, Vladimir Zwass
• 1997 Shift from OM to SCM, Lee, Padmanabhan,
  and Whang
• 2000 Proof of 2-Player Zero Sum Game
  Equilibrium, Vieille
• 2001 Convergence of E-Commerce and SCM, Lee and
  Whang

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Decision Science

• Key Articles and Seminal Works

• A Framework for the Development of Decision
  Support Systems
• Sprague, R.
• MIS Quarterly 4(4) 1980 pp. 1 26.
• Two-Player Stochastic Games I A Reduction
• Vieille, N.
• Israel Journal of Mathematics 119 2000 pp. 55
  91.
• E-Fulfillment Winning the Last Mile of
  E-Commerce
• Lee, H. Whang, S.
• Sloan Management Review 42(4) 2001 pp. 75-90.

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Decision Science

• Key Researchers

• Ralph Sprague
• University of Hawaii at Manoa
• DSS, Framework for the Development of DSS
• Hau Lee
• Stanford University
• Operations Research SCM, The Bullwhip Effect
• Haim Mendelson
• Stanford University
• eCommerce, Strong mathematical background

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Economics of Informatics

• 1985 Pricing of computer services
• 1988 Switching costs and lock-in theories
• 1993 Productivity paradox of IT
• 1999 Bundling of information goods
• 1999 Economics of global IT

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Economics of Informatics

• Seminal Works

• The Nature of the Firm
• Coase, R.H.
• Economica 4(16) 1937 pp. 386-405.
• Pricing Computer Services Queuing Effects
• Mendelson, H.
• Communications of the ACM 28(3) 1985 pp.
  312-321.
• The Productivity Paradox of Information
  Technology
• Brynjolsson, E.
• Communications of the ACM 35(12) 1993 pp.
  66-67.

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Economics of Informatics

• Key Researchers

• Erik Brynjolfsson
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Key paper on bundling information goods
• Haim Mendelson
• Stanford University
• Key paper on queuing effects
• Ronald H. Coase
• University of Chicago
• The Nature of the Firm Coases Theorem

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Human-Computer Interaction

• HCI research responsible for growth/popularity
  of computing
• Research Products Hypertext Mouse Windows
  GUI Format
• Design Issues (Software / Hardware / Consumer
  Goods)
• Information Visualization
• Future Streams Adoption, Virtual Reality,
  Ubiquitous Computing

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Human-Computer Interaction

• Founding Fathers

• Vannevar Bush (1890-1974)
• MIT (EE) Director, Office of Scientific Research
• "As We May Think," Atlantic Monthly (1945)
• J.C.R. Licklider (1915-1990)
• MIT Founder of ARPA's IPTO
• "Man-Computer Symbiosis" (1960)
• Douglas C. Engelbart
• Stanford University (Stanford Research Labs)
• "Augmenting Human Intellect" (1962) Mouse (1964)

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Human-Computer Interaction

• Key Researchers Contributors

• Ben Schneiderman
• University of Maryland
• "Direct Manipulation," Designing the User
  Interface
• Jakob Nielsen Donald Norman
• NN Group
• "Usability Gurus" Website Software Design
• Stuart K. Card
• (Xerox) PARC Lab Palo Alto, CA
• "Psych. of HCI" (1983) Information Visualization

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Human-Computer Interaction

• Seminal Research Works

• Prospects for Psychological Science in
  Human-Computer Interaction
• Newell, A. Card, S.
• (1985). Human-Computer Interaction, 1 (3).
  209242.
• The Usability Engineering Life Cycle
• Nielsen, J.
• (1992). IEEE Computer 25 (3). 1222.
• Direct Manipulation A Step Beyond Programming
  Language
• Schneiderman, B.
• (1993). IEEE Computer 16 (8). 5769.

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Social Informatics

• 1988 Adaptive technology required for team
  differences
• 1994 Fair use and digital data
• 1998 Trust in global virtual teams
• 2000 Framework to study technology in
  organizations
• 2001 Intellectual property in an open
  information environment

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Social Informatics

• Seminal Research Works

• Computerization and Social Transformations
• Kling, Rob
• Science Technology and Human Values, 16 (3),
  1991, 342-367
• Toward a New Politics of Intellectual Property
• Samuelson, P.
• Communications of the ACM, 44(3) 2001, 98-99.
• Using Technology and Constituting Structures A
  Practice Lens for Studying Technology in
  Organizations
• Orlikowski, W.
• Organization Science, 11(4) 2000, 404-428

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Social Informatics

• Key Researchers Contributors

• Wanda J. Orlikowski
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Interactions between information technology and
  the organization
• Pamela Samuelson
• University of California at Berkeley
• Intellectual property law, public policy for
  information technology
• Rob Kling (1944-2003)
• Indiana University at Bloomington
• electronic media to support communication

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Systems Analysis Design

• 1968 - SAD became a formal discipline, Ludwig von
  Bertalanffy
• 1972 - Information hiding was promoted By D.L.
  Parnas
• 1979 - "Structured Design" was published by
  Edward Yourdon
• 1980 Workflow emerges
• 1986 - Object-oriented development was described
  by Grady Booch
• 1997 - UML 1.1 was submitted to the OMG

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Systems Analysis Design

• Seminal Research Works

• Object-Oriented Development
• Booch, G.
• IEEE Transactions On Software Engineering 12(2)
  1986 pp. 211-221.
• A Spiral Model of Software Development and
  Enhancement
• Boehm, B.
• IEEE Computer 21(5) 1988 pp. 61-72.
• Dynamic Configuration for Distributed Systems
• Kramer, J. Magee, J.
• IEEE Transactions On Software Engineering 11(4)
  1985 pp. 424-435.

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Systems Analysis Design

• Key Researchers Contributors

• Barry Boehm
• University of Southern California
• Software process modeling, requirement
  engineering, and architecture.
• Jeff Kramer
• Imperial College, London
• Software architecture of distributed systems.
• Edward Yourdon
• Cutter Consortium
• 26 books and more than 560 technical papers.