MIS Ph.D.

Seminar
(Fall 2009)

Instructor: Young U. Ryu

Indranil Bardhan
Time & Location: Wed. 9:30am–1:15pm @ SOM 2.901

Class Activities:

• Each student will present papers and lead seminars. His or her responsibilities are to present
summaries of papers and to be in charge of the class discussion.
• Students are required to thoroughly read all assigned papers and participate in the class discus-
sion.

Performance Evaluation Criteria:

• Synopsis and presentation of paper from Readings List: 25%. Each student is expected to
present one paper from Dr. Ryu’s list and one paper from Dr. Bardhan’s list.
• Essay (preliminary research model/framework based on one of course topics): 25%
• Research Paper (should be an extension of Essay): 50% (due during Finals week)

Class Schedule: Students may download papers from

http://www.utdallas.edu/∼ryoung/phdseminar

• Aug. 26 (Week 1): Course introduction

• Sept. 2 (Week 2): Data mining methods
– J. R. Quinlan. (1986). Induction of decision trees. Machine Learning, 1(1):81–106.
– S. Balakrishnama and A. Ganapathiraju. Linear Discriminant Analysis—A Brief Tutorial.
– J. A. Anderson. (1982). Logistic discrimination. In Handbook of Statistics 2, North-Holland,
169–191.
• Sept. 9 (Week 3): Data mining methods
– K. Knight. (1990). Connectionist ideas and algorithms. Communications of the ACM, 33(11):59–
74.
– L. Devroye and T. J. Wagner. (1982). Nearest neighbor methods in discrimination. In Handbook
of Statistics 2, North-Holland, 193–197.
– K. P. Murphy. Naive Bayes classifiers.
– M. Y. Kiang. (2003). A comparative assessment of classification methods. Decision Support
Systems, 35(4):441–454.
– (OPTIONAL) P.S. Bradley, Usama M. Fayyad, and O.L. Mangasarian. (1999). Mathematical
programming for data mining: Formulations and challenges. INFORMS Journal on Computing,
11(3):217–238.
• Sept. 16 (Week 4): Data mining methods and Applications
– Kristin P. Bennett and Colin Campbell. (2000). Support vector machines: Hype or hallelujah?
SIGKDD Explorations, 2(2):1–13.

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 – Y. U. Ryu and W. T. Yue. (2005). Firm bankruptcy prediction: Experimental comparison of
isotonic separation and other classification approaches. IEEE Transactions On Systems, Man,
And Cybernetics—part A : Systems And Humans, 35(5):727–737.
– (OPTIONAL) B. Padmanabhan and A. Tuzhilin. (2003). On the use of optimization for data
mining: Theoretical interactions and eCRM opportunities. Management Science, 49(10):1327–
1343.
• Sept. 23 (Week 5): Social network models
– M. E. J. Newman, D. J. Watts, and S. H. Strogatz. (2002). Random graph models of social
networks. Proceedings of National Academy of Science, 99:2566–2572.
– D. J. Watts and S. H. Strogatz. (1998). Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks. Nature,
393(6684):440–442.
– A-L. Barabási, E. Ravasz, and T. Vicsek. (2001). Deterministic scale-free networks. Physica A,
299:559–564.
– A-L. Barabási and E. Bonabeau. (2003). Scale-Free Networks. Scientific American, May 2003:50–
59.
• Sept. 30 (Week 6): Social network analysis and Applications
– D. Knoke and S. Yang. (2008). Chapters 4 and 5 of Social Network Analysis, Second Edition.
SAGE Publications, Los Angeles, CA.
– H. K. Kim, Y. U. Ryu, J. K. Kim, and Y. H. Cho. Customer-driven content recommendation
over a network of customers.
– (OPTIONAL) R. Zheng, D. Wilkinson and F. Provost. Social network collaborative filtering.
• Oct. 7 (Week 7) to Nov. 4 (Week 11):
– Introduction: IS Economics Research Landscape
1. Banker, R.D., and Kauffman, “The Evolution of Research in Information Systems,” Man-
agement Science, 50, 3, 2004, pp. 281-198.
2. Izak Benbasat and Robert W. Zmud, “The Identity Crisis within the IS Discipline: Defining
and Communicating the Discipline’s Core Properties,” MIS Quarterly, June, 2003, (pp.
183-194)
3. (OPTIONAL) Benbasat, I., and Zmud, R. “Empirical Research in Information Systems:
The Practice of Relevance,” MIS Quarterly, March 1999, pp. 3-16.
– Data Envelopment Analyses
4. Banker, R. D., A. Charnes and W. W. Cooper. 1984. “Some Models for Estimating Technical
and Scale Inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis” Management Science 30(9) 1078-
1092.
5. Bardhan, Indranil R., Cooper, William W., and Subal C. Kumbhakar, “A Simulation Study
of Joint Uses of Data Envelopment Analysis and Statistical Regressions for Production
Function Estimation and Efficiency Evaluation” Journal of Productivity Analysis, Vol. 9,
No. 3, pp. 249-278, 1998
6. (OPTIONAL) Banker, Rajiv D. and Sandra A. Slaughter. 1997. “A Field Study of Scale
Economics in Software Maintenance” Management Science 43 (12) 1709-1725.
– IT Impact: Economic Value
7. Nigel Melville, Kenneth Kraemer, and Vijay Gurbaxani,“Information Technology and
Organizational Performance: An Integrative Model of IT Business Value,” MIS Quarterly,
2004.

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 8. Erik Brynjolfsson, and Lorin Hitt, “Paradox Lost? Firm-Level Evidence on the Returns to
Information Systems Spending,” Management Science, Vol. 42, No. 4, 1996, pp. 541-558.
9. A. Bharadwaj, S. Bharadwaj, and B. Konsynski, “Information technology effects on firm
performance as measured by Tobin’s q” Management Science, July 1999.
10. (OPTIONAL) Hitt, L.M. and Brynjolfsson, E., “Productivity, business profitability, and
consumer surplus: Three different measures of information technology value,” MIS Quar-
terly, 20(2), June, 1996: 121-142.
11. (OPTIONAL) M. Anderson et al., Value Implications of Investments in Information Tech-
nology, Management Science, September 2006.
– IT Impact: Strategic Value
12. Michael Wade and John Hulland,“The Resource-Based View and Information Systems
Research: Review, Extension, and Suggestions for Future Research,” MIS Quarterly, 2004.
13. Rajiv D. Banker, Indranil R. Bardhan, Hsihui Chang, and Shu Lin, “Plant Information
Systems, Manufacturing Capabilities and Plant Performance” MIS Quarterly, Vol. 30, No.
2, pp. 315-337, June 2006.
– IT & Real Options
13. Taudes, A., Feurstein, M., and Mild, A. “Option Analysis of Software Platform Decisions:
A Case Study,” MIS Quarterly, 2, June 2000, 227-243.
14. Indranil R. Bardhan, Robert Kauffman, and Sanjeewa Naranpanawe, “IT Project Portfolio
Optimization: A Risk Management Approach to Software Development Governance”
IBM Journal of R&D (formerly IBM Systems Journal), Forthcoming.
16. R. Fichman. “Real Options and IT Platform Adoption: Implications for Theory and
Practice,” Info. Sys. Res., 15, No. 2, 132-154 (2004).
17. (OPTIONAL) R. Fichman, M. Keil, and A. Tiwana. “Beyond Valuation: Real Options
Thinking in IT Project Management,” Calif. Mgmt. Rev. 47, No. 2, 74-100 (2005).
– IT Impact: Inter-Organizational Systems (IF TIME PERMITS)
18. Arvind Malhotra, Sanjay Gosain, and Omar El Sawy, “Leveraging Standard Electronic
Business Interfaces to Enable Adaptive Supply Chain Partnerships,” Information Systems
Research, September 2007.
19. Bala Hillol and V. Venkatesh, “Assimilation of Inter-organizational Business Process Stan-
dards,” Information Systems Research, September 2007.
• Nov. 11 (Week 12) to Dec. 2 (15): Research Discussion