Rolling Readings: Fall 1999

Unless otherwise specified, sessions will be on Wednesday mornings, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., in MEC 9-172

Date	Topic and Speaker(s)	Readings
9/8/99	MIS Research Frameworks Prof. Hank Lucas	Lucas, "Information technology for Management"excerpt Gorry and Morton, "A framework for MIS" Mason and Mitroff, "A program for researchon MIS" Ives, Hamilton and Davis, "A framework forresearch in computer-based MIS"
9/15/99	Theory building in MIS Prof. Hank Lucas	Dubin, "Theory building in applied areas",  Sutton and Shaw, "What theory is not" Keen, "MIS Research: reference disciplinesand a cumulative tradition.
9/22/99	Dissertations, faculty research IS department faculty	Davis, "The dissertation proposal"
9/29/99	Data communications fundamentals Prof. Norman White	White, N., Data communications: some basics Sterling, B., A short history of the Internet Zakon, R. H., Hobbes Internet Timeline v4.2 Three chapters of a TCP/IP textbook
10/8/99 Note: Friday 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.	Wide-Area Wireless Data Networks Ken Budka (Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs) Arnab Das (Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs)	Budka, K., Jiang, H. and Sommers, S. E., Cellular Digital Packet Data Networks Tuttlebee, W., You’ll Never Talk Alone. Pandya, R., Emerging Mobile and Personal Communication Systems. Sollenberger, N., Seshadri, N., and Cox, R., The Evolution of IS-136 TDMA for Third Generation Wireless Systems. Ojanpera, T., and Prasad, R., An Overview of Third-Generation Wireless Personal Communications: A European Perspective. Goodman, D., Cellular Packet Communications.
10/13/99	Recommender and Personalization Technologies Prof. Alex Tuzhilin Search and Mediation Technologies Prof. Vasilis Vassalos	Adomavicius, G. and Tuzhilin, A., User Profiling in Personalization Applications through Rule Discovery and Validation Pazzani, M., A Framework for Collaborative, Content-Based and demographic Filtering. Stohr, E. A., and Viswanathan, S., Recommender Systems: Decision Support for the Information Economy. Tuzhilin, A., The E-Butler Service, or Has the Age of Electronic Personal Decision Making Assistants Arrived? Members of the Clever Project, Hypersearching the Web. Garcia-Molina, H., et al., The TSIMMIS Approach to Mediation: Data Models and Languages. Gravano, L. and Papakonstantinou, Y., Mediating and Metasearching on the Internet. Excerpts from two chapters of Modern Information Retrieval.
10/20/99 Note: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon	Business Rules for E-Commerce Benjamin Grosof (Senior Research Scientist, IBM T.J. Watson Labs)	Grosof, B., Business Rules for E-Commerce: Interoperability and Conflict Handling. Reeves, D., et al., Towards a Declarative Language for Executing Negotiable Contracts. Russell, S. and Norwig, P., Intelligent Agents. Other papers available at www.research.ibm.com/rules/
10/29/99 Note: Friday 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.	Electronic Commerce: Overview of Markets, Auction Theory Prof. Wedad Elmaghraby Prof. Arun Sundararajan	Roberts, "Perfectly and imperfectly competitivemarkets" Stigler, "Perfect competition, historicallycontemplated" Arthur, "Increasing returns and the two worldsof business".  Klemperer and Bulow, "Auction theory: a guide to the literature" Milgrom, "Auctions and bidding: a primer"
11/3/99	Electronic Commerce: Overview of Electronic Markets Ph.D. Students	Bakos, Y. The emerging role of electronic market places on the Internet. Choudhury, Harzel and Konsynski, Uses and consequences of electronic markets Kambil, A., and van Heck., Re-engineering the Dutch Flower Auctions: A Framework for Analyzing Exchange Organizations Malone, T., Yates, and Benjamin., Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies
11/10/99	Electronic Commerce: Search and Pricing Prof. Yannis Bakos Ph.D. students	Diamond, P. "Search Theory" Bakos, Y. "Reducing buyer search costs: implicationsfor electronic marketplaces" Brynjolfsson, E. and Smith, M., "Frictionless commerce:an analysis of Internet and conventional retailers".
11/17/99	Electronic Commerce: Virtual Communities Prof. Lee Sproull	Galeghar, J., Sproull, L., and Kiesler, S., Legitimacy, Authority, and Community in Electronic Support Groups. Sproull, L. and Faraj, S., Atheism, Sex and Databases: The Net as a Social Technology. Sproull, L., and Kiesler, S., Reducing Social Context Cues: Electronic Mail in Organizational Communication. Armstrong, A. and Hagel, J., The Real Value of Online Communities. (optional) Hagel, J., and Armstrong, H., Net Gain: Expanding markets through virtual communities.(optional)
11/19/99 Note: Friday 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.	Electronic Commerce: Doctoral Research at Stern Arnold Kamis Marios Koufaris Wonseok Oh Shiva Viswanathan	Kamis, TBA Koufaris, Kambil and LaBarbera, "Customer retention and unplanned purchases on the web" Oh, "The effects of reduced search costs on search intensity and commodity price dispersion in electronic markets: an empirical study" Viswanathan, TBA
11/24/99	No meeting this week (Thanksgiving)	.
12/1/99	Electronic Commerce: Patterns of Customer Interaction Prof. Vasant Dhar Current Research Ph.D. students	Will probably evolve, so will be announced a couple of weeks before the session
12/8/99	Electronic Commerce: Current Research Ph.D. students	Will probably evolve, so will be announced a couple of weeks before the session