Research
The Center for Global e-Commerce strives to be an academic leader in electronic business research having practical relevance to the industry. The center brings together a multidisciplinary group of faculty members and industries interested in pursuing research in e-business. A lot of research covering a broad spectrum of topics has been conducted, a sample of which is presented below.
Research Publications
E-Commerce Specific
"Decision Support System Induced Guidance for Model Formulation and Solution", Decision Support Systems, Forthcoming, Barkhi, Reza, Erik Rolland, John Butler, and Weiguo Fan.
"The Influence of Communication Mode and Incentive Structure on GDSS Process and Outcomes", Decision Support Systems, Volume 37, 2004, pp. 287-305, Barkhi, Reza, Varghese Jacob, and Hasan Pirkul.
"Discovering ranking functions for information retrieval", to appear in Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, Idea Group Inc., In press, 2005, Fan, Weiguo, P. Pathak.
"Probabilistic question answering on the web", in press, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, In press, 2004, D. Radev, Weiguo Fan , H. Qi, H. Wu, A. Grewal.
"The effects of fitness functions on genetic programming-based ranking discovery for web search", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Volume 55, Number 7, 2004, pp. 628-636,Fan, Weiguo, E. Fox and P. Pathak, H. Wu.
"Mining web navigations for intelligence", Decision Support Systems, in press, 2004, Wu, H., M. Gordon, K. Demaagd, Weiguo Fan.
"Towards answer-focused summarization using search engines", in New Directions in Question Answering, edited by Mark Maybury, 2004, Wu, H., D. R. Radev, Weiguo Fan.
"A polynomial smooth support vector machine for classification", Journal of Classification, in press, 2004, Yuan, Y. , C. Xu, Weiguo Fan.
"Multi-Dimensional Business-to-Business Auctions," Fazlollahi, B. (Ed.) Strategies for eCommerce Success, Idea Group Publishing: Hershey, PA (2002), Belanger, France, Griffin, Marilyn T. and Van Slyke, Craig.
"The Role of E-Commerce in Knowledge-based Service Industries," Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, 2:1, (Jan.-March), pages, (editorial), Belanger, France (2004).
"Trustworthiness in Electronic Commerce: The Role of Privacy, Security, and Site Attributes," Journal of Strategic Information Systems, (11:3/4), December, 245-270, Belanger, France; Hiller, Janine; and Smith, Wanda J. (2002).
"Adopting Business-to-Consumer Electronic Commerce: The Effects of Trust and Perceived Innovation Characteristics," accepted 2/19/2003 for The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems. Van Slyke, Craig; Belanger, France; and Comunale, Christie (forthcoming).
"ACEnet: Facilitating Economic Development Through Small Business Electronic Commerce," Annals of Cases on Information Technology, 3, 1-20,Van Slyke, Craig; Belanger, France, and Kittner, Marcy (2001).
"Gender Differences In Web-Based Shopping Perceptions," Communications of the ACM, (45:8), August, 82-86,Van Slyke, Craig; Comunale, Christie; Belanger, France (2002).
"The architecture of CommKnowledge: combining link structure and user actions to support an online community", with, International Journal of Electronic Business, 1(1), 2003, M. D. Gordon, W. Fan, S. Rafaeli, H. Wu, N. Farag.
Management
"The Influence of Personality Type on a Distance Course in Accounting", Journal of Educational Technology Systems, Volume 32, Number 2, 2004, pp. 179-198, Barkhi, Reza, Brozovsky, John.
"The Influence of Perceived Characteristics of Innovating on Egovernment Adoption", Electronic Journal of E-Government, Volume 2, Number 1, July 2004, pp. 11-20, Carter, Lemuria and France Bélanger.
"Electronic Government Adoption: Citizen Trust, Innovation and Acceptance Factors", accepted 9/20/04 for Information Systems Journal, Carter, Lemuria and France Bélanger.
"A generic ranking function discovery framework by genetic programming for information retrieval", Information Processing and Management, Volume 40, Number 4, 2004, pp. 587-602, Fan, Weiguo, M.D. Gordon, and P. Pathak.
"Effective profiling of consumer information retrieval needs: a unified framework and empirical comparison", Decision Support Systems, in press, 2004, Fan, Weiguo, M. D. Gordon, P. Pathak.
"Discovery of context-specific ranking functions for effective information retrieval by Genetic Programming", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Volume 16, Number 4, 2004, pp. 523-527, Fan, Weiguo, M. D. Gordon, P. Pathak.
"E-health communities: scalability challenges to information management", to appear in E-Health Paradigm Shift: Perspectives, Domains and Cases, John Wiley, 2004, H. Wu and Weiguo Fan.
"A Global View of Business-to-Consumer Electronic Commerce: A Comparison of Perceptions Between American and Indian Consumers," accepted 7/1/04 for Information Resources Management Journal, Van Slyke, Craig, France Bélanger, and Varadharajan Sridhar.
"The Effects of Decision Guidance and Problem Formulation of Group Decision Making", JMIS, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Winter 2001-2002), pp. 259-282, Barkhi, Reza.
"The State of Theoretical Diversity in Information Systems", Communications of AIS, Vol. 7, No. 6 (July 2001), pp. 1-19, Barkhi, Reza, Sheetz, Steven.
"Abuse or Learning?," Communications of the ACM, 45:1, 64-65 (2002), Belanger, France, and Van Slyke, Craig.
"Privacy Strategies for Electronic Government,” in Abramson, M.A. and Means, G.E. (eds.), E-Government 2001, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: New York, NY, 2001, Hiller, J. S. and Belanger, France.
"Technology Requirements and Work Group Communication for Telecommuters" ,Information Systems Research (12:2), June, 155-176 , Belanger, France, Collins, Rosann, and Cheney, Paul H.
"Towards a Theory of Cyberplace: A Proposal for a New Legal Framework" (co-author Ronnie Cohen) in Volume 10 of the Richmond Journal of Law and Technology.
"Contemporary Virtual Environments: Introduction to Special Section," The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, (35:1), Winter, pages forthcoming (editorial), Ahuja, Manju; Belanger, France; Watson-Manheim, Mary Beth (2004).
"Communication Patterns In Distributed Work Groups: A Network Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, (42:4), December, 261-275, Belanger, France (1999).
"Workers' Propensity to Telecommute: An Empirical Study," Information and Management, (35:3), March, 139-153,Belanger, France (1999).
"Technology Requirements and Work Group Communication for Telecommuters," Information Systems Research, (12:2), June, 155-176,Belanger, France; Collins, Rosann; and Cheney, Paul H. (2001).
"Distributed Work Arrangements: A Research Framework," The Information Society: An International Journal, (14:2), April-June, 137-152, Belanger, France and Collins, Rosann (1998).
"A Framework for E-Government: Privacy Implications," Accepted 7/8/2003 (with revisions), Business Process Management Journal, Belanger, France, and Janine S. Hiller.
"Aligning IS Research and Practice: A Research Agenda for Virtual Work," Information Resources Management Journal, 15:3, July-Sept., 48-70,Belanger, France; Watson-Manheim, Mary Beth; and Jordan, Dianne H. (2002).
"Support for Communication-based Work Processes in Virtual Work," E-Service Journal, (1:3), June-December, 61-82,Watson-Manheim, Mary Beth and Belanger, France (2002).
"Ranking function optimization for effective web search by Genetic Programming: an empirical study", in the Proceedings of 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2004, . W. Fan, M. D. Gordon, P. Pathak, W. Xi and E.A. Fox.
"A generic ranking function discovery framework by genetic programming for information retrieval", Information Processing and Management, in press, 2003, W. Fan, M.D. Gordon, P. Pathak.
"Effective profiling of consumer information needs: a unified framework and empirical comparison", accepted, Decision Support Systems, 2003, W. Fan, M. D. Gordon, P. Pathak.
"Discovery of context-specific ranking functions for effective information retrieval by Genetic Programming", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, in press, 2003, W. Fan, M. D. Gordon, P. Pathak.
"Towards answer-focused summarization using search engines", in New Directions in Question Answering, edited by Mark Maybury, 2004, H. Wu, D. R. Radev, W. Fan.
"TOWARDS A THEORY OF CYBERPLACE: A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW LEGAL FRAMEWORK" (co-author Ronnie Cohen) in Volume 10 of the Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, Hiller, Janine. Financial Analysis, Valuation, Risk Assessment and Assurance
"How Management Accountants Assess the Quality of Data Warehouses," Management Accounting Quarterly, Spring 2001, pp. 28-33, Vendrzyk, Valaria P., Rumy Sen and Tarun K. Sen.
Books Published
"Electronic Business Technologies", John-Wiley & Sons: New York, NY, ISBN: 0-471-393924 (Published in 2002), Van Slyke, Craig and Belanger, France.
"Internet Law and Policy", Dr.Janine Hiller
E-Business Technologies, Dr. France Belanger