Associate Professor of MIS
Chapman Endowed Chair in MIS
Room 313-D, Helmerich Hall
The
Tulsa, OK 74104-9700
Phone: (918) 631-2786
Email: akhilesh-bajaj@utulsa.edu
Web: http://nfp.cba.utulsa.edu/bajaja/
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Primary Teaching/Research Interest
1. Data Management
Specific Research Interests
1. Creation and Evaluation of
2. IS Consumer Decision Models
3. Database Systems.
Specific Teaching Interests
1. Basic and Advanced Database Management
2. Building and Implementing
3. Systems Analysis and Design
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Department
of MIS,
Start Date: August, 1993.
Completion Date: August, 1997.
Major: MIS Minor: Computer Science
Dissertation Title: “Managing Business Workflows Using a Database Approach: A Formal Model, A Case Study and A Prototype”
Dissertation Chair: Dr.
Master of Business
Administration,
Bachelor of
Technology, Chemical Engineering, The Indian
RELEVANT WORK
EXPERIENCE
August 2005 – Present:
Chapman Associate Professor of MIS,
Responsible for research and teaching. Awarded Chapman Endowed Chair of MIS.
August 2003 – 2004: Associate Professor of MIS, University of Tulsa OK
Responsible for research and teaching.
August, 1997 – August,
2003: Assistant Professor of MIS,
Responsible for independently designing and teaching three graduate classes: 95-703 (Introduction to Database Systems), 95-704 (Advanced Database Systems) and 95-794 (Building and Implementing Enterprise Wide Systems). Recent teaching Ratings: 4.46/5, 4.7/5, 4.53/5.
1994 – July, 1997:
Instructor, Dept. of MIS,
Continuously and independently taught MIS classes in both semesters and summer, starting summer, 1994. Classes include: 9 units of MIS 331 (Database Systems), 3 units of MIS 301 (Data Structures and Algorithms) and 12 units of MIS 121 (Introduction to Business Programming). Teaching ratings in all sections over 4/5.
1991-1992: Management Associate, Citibank Worldwide Personal Banking. NY
Responsible for setting up an information system for a
networked customer support unit, spread across 4 geographical locations in the
RESEARCH STATEMENT
TEACHING STATEMENT
HONORS AND AWARDS
ConocoPhillips
Faculty Sponsorship Award Nov 2008.
IGI Global’s
Excellence in Research Awards "Outstanding
Reviewer of 2007”
Chapman Endowed Chair
in MIS:
National Guard Medal Of Excellence: Awarded in appreciation of services rendered, by the Director of the Army National Guard, July, 1999.
Graduate Registration
Scholarships: Awarded on Merit by the Dept. of MIS,
Graduate Fellowship:
Awarded on Merit by the Dept. Of MIS,
National Talent
Scholarship, 1983: Awarded to 250 high school students in
Program Award with Professor Sunder Kekre, Graduate Schoool of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001-2002 ($472,000): This competitive award is part of a $7million Department of Defence grant awarded to CMU and the Software engineering Institute (SEI) to study technology insertion in small manufacturers. The award covers creating methodologies for technology insertion, as well as studying the impact of technical and human factors on bottom line metrics such as budget overruns, time overruns and customer satisfaction for small manufacturers.
PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Forthcoming, Journal of Information Technology Research
20. Bajaj, A. and Bradley, W.
“Linking Systems Analysis Outputs to Capital Budgeting Measures: A Framework and Case Study Validation” by Akhilesh Bajaj and Wray Bradley
Forthcoming , Journal of Information Science and
Technology
19.
Bajaj, A., Bradley, W., Cravens, K.
“SAAS: Integrating Systems Analysis with Accounting
and Strategy for Ex Ante Evaluation of IS Investments”
Journal
of Information Systems 22 (1), pp. 97-124, 2008. PDF Copy
for Viewing
18. Bajaj, A., Siau, K.
“Ecommerce Systems: Architecture,
Infrastructure, Model and Development Methodology”
Refereed
Editorial Preface, Journal of Database Management, Vol. 18, Issue 4, Dec, 2007.
PDF Copy for viewing.
17. Bajaj A.
“The Role of
Expertise in the Evaluation of Computing Architectures: Exploring the Decision
Models of Expert and Novice IS Managers”
Journal
of Organizational & End User Computing (JOEUC), vol. 20 (2) April-Jun, 2008 PDF
Copy for viewing
16. Bajaj, A.
and Ram, S.
“A Comprehensive Framework Towards
Information Sharing Between Government Agencies”
International Journal of Electronic
Government Research, Apr-Jun,
2007, vol. 3, no. 2, pp 29-44. Pdf copy for
viewing
Reprinted in
“Electronic Government: Concepts, Methodologies,
Tools and Applications”, 2008, edited by Dr. Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko.
IGI
Publishing.
15. Bajaj, A.
“Large Scale Requirements Modeling: An Industry Analysis, A Model and a Teaching Case”
Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE) Fall 2006 vol. 17, no. 3, pp 327-335. Word Copy for Viewing
14. Allen, G.,
Bajaj, A., Khatri, V., Ram, S. and Siau, K.
“Advances in
Data Modeling Research”
Communications of the AIS, vol. 17, 2006, 677-692. PDF Copy for Viewing
13. Bajaj, A,
Batra, D., Hevner, A., Parsons, J. and Siau, K.
"Systems
Analysis and Design: Should We Be Researching What We Teach?"
Communications of AIS, vol. 15, 2005, 478-493. PDF Copy for Viewing
12. Bajaj, A.
“The Effect Of the Number of
Concepts On the Readability of Schemas: An Empirical Study With Data Models”
Requirements Engineering Journal, vol. 9, 2004, pp. 261-270. Word Copy For Viewing.
11. Bajaj, A. and Leonard,
L. N. K.
“The CPT Framework:
Understanding the Roles of Culture, Policy and Technology in Promoting
Ecommerce Readiness”,
Problems and Perspectives in Management, (3), 2004, pp. 242-252. Word Copy for Viewing
10. Bajaj, A., Kekre, S., Srinivasan, K.
“Managing NPD:
Cost and Schedule Performance in Design and Manufacturing, ” Management
Science, vol. 50, no. 4, 2004, pp. 527-536. PDF File for viewing
9. Bajaj, A. and Ram, S.
"IAIS: A Methodology to Enable Inter-Agency
8. Brinton, B., Bajaj, A. and Gorr, W.
“An Estimation Of The Relative Effects Of External Software Quality Factors On
Senior IS Managers’ Evaluation of Computing Architecture”, Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 61, Issue 1, 2002, pp.59-75. PDF Copy for Viewing
7. Bajaj, A. and Ram, S.
“SEAM: A State, Entity, Activity Model For A Well Defined Workflow Development Methodology”
IEEE Transactions On Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), vol. 14, Issue 2, 2002, pp. 415-431. PDF Copy for Viewing
6. Bajaj, A.
“A Study of Senior
5. Bajaj, A. and Ram, S.
“An Empirical Methodology to Evaluate the Completeness of
Conceptual Business Process Models”, Journal
of
4. Bajaj, A. and Krishnan, R.
“CMU-WEB: A Conceptual Model For Designing Usable Web Applications”, Journal Of Database Management, vol. 10, no. 4, October – December, 1999, pp. 33-43 Word Copy for Viewing
3. Bajaj, A. and Nidumolu, S
“A Feedback Model to Understand
2. Bajaj A. and Ram, S.
“A Content Specification for Business Process Models,” Australian Journal of
1. Datta, A., Mukherjee, S., Konana, P., Viguier,
“Multiclass Transaction Scheduling and Overload Management
in Firm Real-Time Database Systems,”
8. Bajaj, A., Jones, K., Leonard, L.N-K.
“A Content-Incentive-Usability Framework for Corporate Portal Design from a Knowledge Management Perspective”
Encyclopaedia of Portal Technology and Applications, Arthur Tatnall, Ed., June 2007, Volume 1, IGI Publishing Word Copy for Viewing
7. Zheng K, Bajaj A, Daponte BO, Engberg JB,
"A Field Study of Internet Behavior among Graduate IT Students - Interpreting Gender Differences in Internet Usage and Task Preferences",
Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, Ed. Eileen Trauth, June 2006, IGI Publishing. Word Copy for Viewing.
6. Rockwell, S.,Bajaj, A.
“COGEVAL: Applying Cognitive Theories to Evaluate Conceptual Models”
Advanced Topics in Database Research, Vol. 4, edited by Keng Siau, Idea Group Publishing. Word Copy for Viewing.
5. Bajaj, A., Ram, S.
“Enabling
(expanded version of journal paper #9 from the list of articles appearing in journals on this CV)
forthcoming in Advanced Topics in Database Research,
Vol. 4, edited by Keng Siau, Idea Group Publishing. Word Copy for
Viewing.
4. Bajaj, A., Kekre, S., Srinivasan, K.
“Levers For
Improving NPD Time and Financial Performance” in
3. Warkentin, M. and Bajaj, A.
“Continuous demand chain management: a downstream business model for
e-commerce”
(Enhanced version of book chapter 2 below)
Managing e-commerce and mobile
computing technologies , Ed. Julie Mariga, IGI Publishing,
2. Warkentin, M. and Bajaj, A.
“The On-Demand Delivery Services
Model for eCommerce” in
Managing Business with
Electronic Commerce: Issues and Trends, Ed. A. Gangopadhyayya, Idea Group,
1. Bajaj, A. and Krishnan, R.
“CMU-WEB: A Conceptual Model With Metrics For Testing And Designing Usable Web Applications”, in
Advanced Topics In
Database Research, Ed. K. Siau, Idea Group,
PUBLICATIONS IN
REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
23. Bajaj, A. and Russell, R. “Leveraging Group Cohesiveness
to Form Workflow Teams”, Research in Progress Proceedings of the
22. Bajaj, A. and Mau, D. “Deriving Extended Entity
Relationship Schemas from User Specified Interfaces” Research in Progress presented at the Seventh Symposium of the
AIS Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design (AIS SIGSAND),
21. Bajaj, A. and Russell, R. “AWSM: Leveraging the Allocation of Workflows with Social
Network Metrics”
Research in Progress presented at the Conference on Information Science Technology
and Management (CISTM),
20. Bajaj, A. and
Knight, J. “User Interface Generation From the Data Schema”, Research in
Progress presented at the sixth symposium
of the AIS Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design (AIS SIGSAND),
19. Bajaj, A., Hotchkiss, G., Wood, C. “Factors Influencing the ‘Search Link Click’ Decision: An Experiment” Proceedings of the Society for Marketing Advances, 2006. Word Copy for Viewing
18. Bajaj, A.
“Inferring the User Interface From An EER Data Schema” Research in
Progress Proceedings of the
17. Bajaj, A. “A Re-emergence of Custom
16. Bajaj, A. and Bradley, W. “An Exploration of the Role of
Systems Analysis For Ex Ante Business
Value Evaluations Of
Research in Progress Proceedings
of the
15. Bajaj, A. and Rockwell, S. “The
Effect Of Fragmentation On the Readability of Schemas: An Empirical Study With
Multiple Model Methods”, Research in
Progress presented at the third symposium of the AIS Special Interest Group on
Systems Analysis and Design (AIS SIGSAND), June 2004. Word Copy for Viewing
14. Bajaj, A. and Rockwell, S.. “COGEVAL: A Propositional Framework Based on Cognitive Theories to Evaluate Conceptual Models”, Proceedings of the Workshop on the Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD), in conjunction with CAiSE, June, 2004. Word Copy for Viewing
13. Bajaj, A., Tanabe, H. and C-C. Wang. “XSAR: XML Based Search
Agent for
12. Bajaj, A. “Measuring the Effect
of Number of Concepts on the Readability of Conceptual Models”, Proceedings of
the Workshop on the Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and
Design (EMMSAD), in conjunction with CAiSE, June, 2002.Word Copy for
Viewing
11. Bajaj, A. “EOUC (Ease-of-Use of a Concept): An Experimental Methodology to Compare the Ease-of-Use of Each Concept in a Conceptual Model”, Proceedings of the Workshop on the Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD), in conjunction with CAiSE, 2001, June, 2001. Word Copy for Viewing
10. Bajaj, A. and Siau, K. “E-Commerce Systems:
Architecture, Infrastructure, Model and Development Methodology”, Proceedings of the
9. Bajaj, A. “SMMM: A Metric Based Framework to Evaluate the Scalability of Multiple Modeling Methodologies”, Proceedings of the Workshop on the Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD), in conjunction with CAiSE, 2000, June, 2000. Word Copy for Viewing
8. Warkentin, M. and Bajaj, A. “An Investigation of the Online Grocer Selection Criteria”. Proceedings of the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute, March 2000. Word Copy for Viewing
7. Bajaj, A. “Conjoint Analysis: A Potential Methodology for
IS research”, Proceedings of the
6. Bajaj, A. “Formulating Concurrency Control Schemes as Integer Programs”
Proceedings of the
Conference on
5. Bajaj, A. and Krishnan R. “Analyzing Models for Current WWW Applications using a classification space and usability metrics” Proceedings of the Workshop on the Evaluation of Modeling methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD, in conjunction with CAiSE, 1998, June 1998. Word Copy for Viewing
4. Bajaj, A. “A comparison of expert and novice judgments in
selecting computing architectures for organizational use”, Proceedings of the Association of
3. Bajaj, A. and Ram, S. “A Business Process Model Based on
a Comprehensive Content Specification,” Technical Research Track, Proceedings of the America’s Conference on
2. Bajaj, A. and Ram, S. “A Content Specification for
Business Process Models,” Proceedings of
the Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design
(EMMSAD) at the Conference for Advanced
1. Datta, A. and Bajaj, A. “A High Performance, Low Cost
Priority Cognizant Concurrency Control Algorithm for Firm Real-Time Database
Systems,” Proceedings of the Conference
on
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
9. “Inferring the User Interface From An EER Data Schema”
8. Bajaj, A., Russell, R.
“AWSM: Leveraging the Allocation
of Workflows with Social Network Metrics (Research in
Progress) at
Workshop on Process
Automation and Management SIGPAM, AMCIS 2005
7. Bajaj, A, Hotchkiss, Wood, C. “Factors Influencing the ‘Search Link Click’ Decision: An Experiment
“, AD Tech. ,
6. AMCIS, 2004 Panel Participant “ S&D And Database: Should we be researching what we are teaching?” August, 2004.
5. Bajaj, A. “An Experimental Validation of the Factors Constituting Structural Complexity in Multiple Model Methods, at the Fifth Annual Advanced Technologies in Business Conference, Oakland University, Oct, 2002
4. Bajaj, A. Tanabe, H. and Wang, C-C.
“XSAR: XML Based Search Agent for
3. Ernst & Young Foundation / ICIS Doctoral Consortium,
Bajaj, A. “Managing Business Workflows Using a Database
Approach: A Formal Model, a Case Study and a Prototype.”
2. Bajaj, A. “Formulating Concurrency Control Schemes as
Integer Programs,” INFORMS,
1. Datta, A., Bajaj,
A., Veloo, R.
“A High Performance, Low Cost Priority Cognizant Concurrency
Control Algorithm for Firm Real-Time Database Systems,” ORSA / TIMS,
President AIS
Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design (AIS SIGSAND), June 2006
– June 2008.
Chair: Mini track
on Design of Networked Applications: Models, Methods and Metrics,
General Chair, Sixth Annual SIGSAND symposium,
Co-Chair: With
-with Keng Siau & Dinesh Batra SIGSAND Track, AMCIS 2005,
-with
-with Keng Siau & Dinesh Batra SIGSAND Track, AMCIS 2006,
-with V. Khatri & N. Ramasubbu, Minitrack on IS Development in Distributed Environments, AMCIS 2006
-with Dinesh Batra and Andy Gemino, SIGSAND Track, AMCIS 2007
-with Vijay Khatri and Andy Gemino, SIGSAND Track, AMCIS 2008.
Co-Editor: with Sudha Ram. Journal of Database Management, special Issue on Data Management for Ebusiness, 2003.
-with Stanislaw Wrycza, Advances in Systems Analysis and Design, IGI Publishing in progress.
Associate Editor: International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
Program Committee Member:
-International Conference on the Entity Relationship Model and the Object Oriented Approach, (ER), 1998.
-IRMA (Information Resource Management
Association) Conference, 2003, 2005, 2006,2007.
-EMMSAD (Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design) Workshop of the CAiSE conference, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
-International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009
-International
Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP) 2009
-
-International Conference On Design Science Research In Information Systems & Technology (DESRIST), Claremont, California, 2006, 2007
-Workshop on Process Automation and Management, held in conjunction with AMCIS 2005.
- International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
-
IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) , Chicago 2006,
-Workshop on Information Technologies & Systems (WITS), 2006, 2007, 2008.
-European SIGSAND Symposium, 2006, 2007, 2008
-International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD) 2008
-Working Conference PoEM (Practice of Enterprise Modeling), Stockholm, Sweden, 2008, 2009
Demo & Poster Co-Chair with Ramesh Venkataraman, 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2006)
Publicity/Membership Coordinator: AIS Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design (AIS SIGSAND), June 2004 – 2006.
Treasurer: Joint ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data & ACM (SIGACT, SIGMOD, SIGART) Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, Tucson, AZ, 1997 (SIGMOD/PODS, 1997)
Editorial Board: Journal Of Database Management, Journal of
Electronic Commerce Research, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations,
International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies, International
Journal of Web Services Research, International
Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, International Journal
of Information System Modeling and Design
Editorial Advisory
Board: Advances in Web Services Research (AWSR) Book Series, IDEA group
Member: IFIP 8.1 Group to study the Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (since 2000), Association of Information Systems (AIS since 1998), INFORMS (2003-2004).
Reviewer: Journal of Database Management, Journal of Systems and Software, IEEE Computer, MIS Quarterly, Data & Knowledge Engineering, Management Science, Information Systems Research, Information Systems Frontiers, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Operations Research, Decision Support Systems, JAIS.
National Science
Foundation (NSF) Review Panel:
Invited by NSF to sit on panels that review proposals for NSF grants allocation.
Ph.D. Committees: Bonnie Anderson (CMU), WenXuan Ding
(CMU), Sabyasachi Saha (TU), Manasi Kelkar (TU), Stephane Airiau (TU)
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