Publications

Jason Dedrick, Kenneth L. Kraemer, William Foster, and Zhang Cheng recently published the report, “Technology and Organizational Factors in the Notebook Industry Supply Chain (2006)” for The Personal Computing Industry Center and CAPS: Center for Strategic Supply Research. The focus study provides insights into the relationship between digital supply chains and Chinese business networks and raises the issue of the business risk associated with dependence on the Great China supply chain. The entire study is available in English and Chinese.

Vijay Gurbaxani served on the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Job Migration Task Force and co-authored Chapter 2, “The Economics of Offshoring,” with Ashish Arora, William Aspray and Burt Barnow in the report “Globalization and Offshoring of Software.” Recently released in February 2006, the report examines the issues surrounding the migration of jobs within the computing and information technology field and industry. It has been receiving ample attention from the press in publications such as The New York Times, The Economic Times, International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, Information Week, Computerworld, CNN and CNet.

Paul Dourish has been nominated for Best Paper Award for “Implications for Design” to be published in the Proceedings of the CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Montréal, Canada, April 2006.

Paul Gray, J.T. Gorgone, E. A. Stohr, J.S. Valacich, and R. T. Wigand published the article “MSIS 2006: Model Curriculum and Guidelines for Graduate Degree Programs in Information Systems” in Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Volume 17, Article 1 in January 2006.

Paul Gray authored a chapter titled “Academic Electronic Journals: Past, Present and Future” with A. Hovav, to appear in Advances in Computing edited by M. Zelkowitz and published by Academic Press later this year.

Sanjeev Dewan and Fred Riggins have edited the edition and written the article “The Digital Divide: Current and Future Research Directions,“ in the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Volume 6, Issue 12, Article 13, December 2005, pp 298-337.

Dale Ganley, Sanjeev Dewan and Kenneth L. Kraemer have published the article “Across the Digital Divide: A Cross-Country Multi-Technology Analysis of the Determinants of IT Penetration” in the Journal of the Association of Information Systems (JAIS), Volume 6, Issue 12, Article 10, December 2005, pp 409-432.

Alfred Kobsa completed Volume 15 (2005) of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (http://www.umuai.org). The impact factor of this journal continues to be among the top 5% of about 450 international Computer Science journals that are being indexed by ISI/Thompson.

Paul Dourish and John Riedl edited a special issue on Recommender Systems and authored the article “Introduction to the Special Section on Recommender Systems,” in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2005.