Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University Information Systems Research Seminar Series: 2003-2004 The Information Systems Research Seminar will meet about once every two weeks, on Thursday afternoons from 4:15 to 5:45, in room 5-80 at the Kaufman Managment Education Center. The seminar is co-sponsored by the Information Systems group of the Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences, and CeDER: the Center for Digital Economy Research. The seminar features a mix of researchers and faculty members from NYU and other leading universities/research institutions. The talk is followed by a CeDER-sponsored reception between 6:00 and 7:00, where the discussion continues. The seminar for 2003-04 was organized by Arun Sundararajan. If you'd like to participate in the seminar, get details about current or past talks, or join the announcement mailing list, contact Julia Mills. Current semester's schedule

Schedule for Spring 2004 Date Speaker Topic (brief) Time and Place Thursday, January 29th Gedas Adomavicius University of Minnesota Towards Comprehensive Real-Time Bidder Support in Iterative Combinatorial Auctions abstract - paper 12:30 - 2:00pm KMC 8-164 Thursday, January 29th David Fitoussi MIT Information Technology and the Spatial Distribution of Customer Service abstract - paper 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Friday, January 30th Avi Giloni Yeshiva University L1 Regression: Robustness, Estimation, and Applications department-wide seminar 11:30am-12:50pm KMC 2-80 Thursday, February 5th Gautam Pant University of Iowa Learning to Crawl: Topic Driven Web Crawlers abstract - paper - related paper 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Thursday, February 12th Anindya Ghose Carnegie-Mellon University The Strategic Impact of Internet Referral Services on Channel Profits abstract - paper 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Tuesday, February 17th Neveen Farag-Awad University of Michigan Online Retailer Service: IT Features and Price Dispersion abstract - paper 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Thursday, February 19th Panos Ipeirotis Columbia University Classifying and Searching Hidden Web Databases abstract - paper 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Tuesday, February 24th Ping Wang UCLA Launching an Information Technology Fashion abstract 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Thursday, February 26th Mark Bergman UC Irvine In Situ Requirements Analysis abstract - paper 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Monday, March 1st Mark Mortensen McGill University Antecedents and Consequences of Team Boundary Disagreement abstract - paper 10:30am-12:00noon KMC 5-80 Thursday, March 11th Maryam Alavi Emory University A Sociotechnical Perspective on Knowledge Networks abstract 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Monday, March 22nd Dimitris Bertsimas MIT Robust Optimization: A Tractable Theory of Stochastic Optimization abstract department-wide seminar 2:30-4:00pm KMC 2-80 Thursday, April 1st Jacob Zahavi Tel-Aviv University and the University of Pennsylvania A Data Mining Approach for Predicting Customers’ Life Time Value abstract 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Thursday, April 8th Roy Radner New York University A Strategic Analysis of Petty Corruption abstract (paper will be available at the talk) 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Thursday, April 15th Patrick McDaniel AT&T Labs Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in the Movie Production and Distribution Process abstract - paper 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Wednesday, April 21st Judith Chevalier Yale University The Effect Of Word Of Mouth On Sales: Online Book Reviews abstract - paper 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Thursday, April 22nd Kathleen Carley Carnegie-Mellon University A Structural Basis for Assessing Organizational Performance and Vulnerability abstract - paper1 - paper2 - paper3 department-wide seminar 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Thursday, April 29th Ravi Aron University of Pennsylvania IT-Enabled Decentralized Information Production and the Extended Organizational Form abstract 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80