1994 ProceedingsDecision Sciences Institute

1994 Annual MeetingNovember 20-22, 1994

Hawaii, Honolulu

VOLUME 2

DSS/AI/Expert SystemsManagement Information SystemsMS/OR: Techniques, Models, and ApplicationsStatistics, Decision Analysis, and Forecasting

Pamela Perrewe, Proceeding Coordinator

Florida State University

Michael J. Showalter, Program Chair

Florida State University

UB/TIB Hannover 89 I

Contents—Volume 2

DSS/AI/EXPERT SYSTEMS

KNOWLEDGE BASED DSS APPLICATIONS

641 Paraprofessional Use of Clinical Knowledge-BasedSystems for Social Service DeliveryWilliam J. Ferns and Marion Riedel

645 'Sherpa'—Knowledge Based Decision SupportSystemfor Drug InvestigationRahul Bhaskar, Amit Gupta and Sang C. Park

647 R&D Project Selection: A Knowledge Based

Decision Aid ApproachStephen A. Floyd and G. Steven Wakefield

INVITED WORKSHOP: PHILOSOPHICALFOUNDATIONS FOR DSS/ES/AI

650 The Exposition ofthe Foundations of ArtificialIntelligence on the Systems Continuum—The

PhylogenyJaana Porra

654 The Guiding Principle ofForm in the Neural

Network PerspectiveJohn D. Haynes

USER CHARACTERISTICS AND DSSAPPLICATIONS

658 The Influences of Task and User Factors on

Performance in a Logistics DSS ApplicationMorgan Swink

661 Influencing User's Decision Making Processes: A

Simulation ApproachAhmer S. Karim

664 The Impacts on User Performance and Satisfactionof a Menu-Style User Interface and a Verbal

Interface for a Standard Software Tool: A Pilot StudyKathleen K. Molnar, Marilyn G. Kletke and Steve H.

Barr

DSS TOPICS

667 The DSS Toolkit: A Justification for FuzzyMethodologiesNancy Green Hall

670 A Conceptual Foundationfor the Design ofElectronic Meeting SystemsMohamed A. Nour and David (Chi-Chung) Yen

673 Extraneous versus Missing Information in the

Pattern Recognition Effectiveness of Neural Network

Learning AlgorithmsRobert P. Marble

673 Modeling a Helpful Teacher in Neural Network

Training Methods

Douglas Kline, Charlene G. Riggle and Frank Dull

674 A Hybrid Learning Neural Network Model forBusiness Failure Prediction

Sid H. Credle, Jaymeen R. Shah and Mirza B. Murtaza

674 Performance Evaluation of Neural Networks vs, the

Maximum Likelihood Function of AvailabilityDesigns in Estimating Market Shares

Andreas G. Lazari and George V. Meghabghab

TOPIC TABLE: NEURAL NETWORKS

TOPICS

675 Training Backpropagation Networks with NoisyInputsTerry R. Rakes, Loren Paul Rees and Julia K. Brande

675 Applying a Binary Feedforward Network to

Discover Generalized Rules in a Medical Database

Tod A. Sedbrook and Richard Wright

675 Multipoint Competitive Response Prediction:

Logistic Regression vs. Neural Networks

faye I. smith and Rick L. Wilson

675 Performance Evaluation of the ALN and ANN

TechniquesKee S, Kim

676 Forecasting Advertising and Sales by a Neural

Network Model

Ping Wang, Momiao Xiong and Joanna R. Baker

MODELING SYSTEMS AND DSS

APPLICATIONS

677 A Graphical Modeling SystemKaushal Chari and Tarun Sen

680 Combining Heuristics and Algorithms forProduction Planning in a Corporate SettingKenneth R. MacLeod and Uma G. Gupta

683 FleetManager: A Microcomputer-Based Decision

Support System for Vehicle RoutingChuda B. Basnet, Les R. Foulds and Magid Igbaria

TOPIC TABLE: TRAINING ISSUES IN

NEURAL NETWORKS

673 Designing the Training Process to Improve Neural

Network Performancefor Classification Problems

Ruth K. Meyer and Randy S. Weinberg

673 Analyzing the Impact of Correlated Data on

Training and Prediction for an Artificial Neural

Network

Barry A. Wray, Ina S. Markham and Rene Panis

DSS AND CREATIVITY

686 Creativity-Enhancing Decision Support Systems: Do

They Really Work?

James P. Clements

689 Idea Management and Generation for Decision

SupportJames P. Clements and Barin N. Nag

692 The Impacts of Decision Support Tools on

Individual Creative Problem-Solving Processes

Jane M. Mackay, Marilyn G. Kletke and Steve H. Barr

TOPIC TABLE: GDSS TOPICS

695 A Theory-Based Analysis of Selected Recent GDSS

Research

Donald E. Reed and Robert H. Elrod

695 Knowledge Quality in Knowledge Based Systems:An Empirical Study in a Group Decision MakingFramework

Subhasish Dasgupta, Michael N. Chanin and AnthonyIoannidis

NEURAL NETWORK APPLICATIONS

696 Predicting Death among ICU Patients with a

Neural Network

Ernest Preston Goss, Harish Ramchandani and Vera

Buelow

699 Current Neural Network Applications for Prediction

of BankruptcyYung-Ho Suh and Jeong-Bon Kim

702 Saks Territory Alignment: A Neural Network

ApproachShashidhar Kaparthi, Shashi Jasthi and Srinivas Y.

Prasad

TOPIC TABLE: INDUSTRIAL

APPLICATIONS OF EXPERT SYSTEMS

705 A Perceptual Grid for Guiding ApplicationsConcerning LogisticsMike Tracey

705 Quotes: A Knowledge-Based Decision SupportSystem for Aluminum CostingAnne P. Massey and Dwayne Stenzel

705 An Integrated Evaluation Systemfor Industrial

ApplicationsAlireza Lari

705 An Expert System for Inventory ManagementSameer Prasad, Vijay Shah and Javed Hasan

TOPIC TABLE: DSS AND EXPERT

SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS

706 Modeling Strategic Choice Decisions Using Genetic

AlgorithmsParag C. Pendharkar

706 Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and the Decision

Making Process

Eugene Richman

706 An Object-Oriented Framework for a SecuritySelection Decision Support SystemAntonio Palma-dos-Reis

706 An Introduction to Expert Systems with a SampleApplication: The Supplier Evaluation Process

Josephine F. Morecroft and Paul B. Bowers

DECISION SUPPORT FOR STRATEGIC

PROCESSES

707 COMPSTRAT: A Computer Assisted Environment

for the Formulation of Competitive StrategiesCarlos Scheel

711 COPASS: An Object-Oriented Knowledge SupportSystem for Strategic PlanningAlok Srivastava, Man Ho Han and Gin Hallm

714 Tlie Discovery of Strategic Environmental

Information and the Use of Computer Technology:Tlte Dilemmas of What, When, and How Much

Homer A. Ooten and Jeff A. LePine

NEURAL NETWORKS:

METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES

717 A Systematic Methodfor Developing Neural

Network Based Classification Models

Louis W. Glorfeld and Russell K.H. Ching

720 Domain Specific Heuristics: An Alternative to

General Purpose Look-Back Schemes for Increasingthe Efficiency of Backtrack Search

Alan Schamp and Heidi Owens

723 Integrating Neural Networks and Blackboard

SystemsVincent S. Lai and Robert P, Trueblood

FUZZY APPROACHES TO DECISION

SUPPORT

726 A Fuzzy Approach to Interactive Multiple Criteria

Decision MakingWei Xiong Ho and Bee K. Yew

729 FUNN: A Fuzzy Neural Network Architecture

Applied to Construction Modularization

Vipul K. Gupta, Mirza B. Murtaza and Deborah J.Fisher

733 Application of Hamming Neural Network to

Cellular ManufacturingMirza B. Murtaza, Vipul K. Gupta and Jaymeen R.

Shah

TOPIC TABLE: INDIVIDUAL DECISION

MAKING AND USER INTERFACES

736 Effects of Information Compression and Time

Pressure on Individual Decision Making in a Task

Utilizing Textual InformationGary R. Spurrier, Heikki Topi and Joseph S. Valacich

736 New Trends in User System Interface for Decision

Support SystemsHossein Bidgoli

736 The Effects ofCognitive Functions and Biases to

Decision Support System in Problem DefinitionGwangyong Gim and Robert H. Elrod

736 Efficiency and Effectiveness of InformationProcessing Strategies: An Empirical InvestigationDonna F. Davis, Donald L. Davis and Masood A. Badri

737 Hypermedia-Based Decisional Guidance for

Knowledge-Based DSS

Bijan Fazlollahi and Mihir Parikh

EXPERT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGIES

738 RITCaG: Intelligent Test Case Generator forRule-Based Expert SystemsUma G. Gupta

741 Incorporating Probability Measures in Case Based

ReasoningSumlt Sarkar and Debashish Ghosh

743 Three Heuristics for Identifying Missing Data in

Propositional Knowledge Bases

JinChang Wang

TOPIC TABLE: DSS PLANNING ANDDESIGN

747 A Survey of Business Needs Relative to Decision

Support SystemsWilliam T. Harding, Aaron H. Brown and James K.Fugate

747 A DATMS Approach to Serializing Decision Plans

within an Organizational Decision PlanningSupport SystemGary V. Howorka and Lorien Anderson

747 Using IDEF and QFD to Develop an

Organizational Decision Support Methodologyforthe Strategic fustification ofComputer IntegratedTechnologyJoseph Sarkis and Don Liles

747 Decision Support Systemfor the Determination ofOutsourcing Using an Interactive Hierarchy Process

William G. Bistline and Sudhirkumar N. Mallya

EMPIRICAL ISSUES IN DSS RESEARCH

748 Ethical Decision Support Systems; An Examination

of the Relationship Between DSS DesignCharacteristics and Ethical Decision MakingJohn R. Carlson and Dawn S. Carlson

751 An Examination of Hypermedia as a Decision

Support Tool

Laura L. Hall

754 An Empirical Investigation ofManager Strategies in

Prioritization Decision Problems

Rick L. Wilson and Kenneth K. Eastman

DEVELOPING INTELLIGENT DSS

757 Systems for Intelligent Guidance: IntegratingIntelligent Modules in Decision Support SystemsAlok Srivastava, Sameer Verma and Suresh S. Prabhu

760 A Study of Some AI-Based TechniquesforIncorporating Intelligence in Decision SupportSystemsJigish S. Zaveri, William P. Wagner and AryyaGangopadhyay

GSS RESEARCH ISSUES

763 A Proposal for an Experimental Study of the Effectof Communication Medium and Level of Conflict on

Negotiation in Dispersed SettingsAbbas Foroughi

766 Research Issues and Directions forComputer-Supported Distributed AsynchronousGroup Processes

Karen Dowling and Andrew S. Philippakis

769 Second-Chance Meetings in Group Decision SupportSystems: New Potentialsfor Improving Decision

QualityAndreas Schwab

ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGEMANAGEMENT: PROCESSES AND DATA

772 A Knowledge-Based Tool for System Developmentfrom Domain Models

Vijayan Sugumaran

775 Integrating Organizational Knowledge and Decision

Support Facilities to Support Work Flow: A

Process-Based ApproachBrenda L. Killingsworth and P. Candace Deans

Ronald Mueller

778 Using Hybrid Techniques for Data Mining: AnEmpirical Investigation of the Effectiveness ofPollingA. Ramaprasad and T. Ravichandran

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION FOR EXPERT

SYSTEMS

781 Classification by Rules and ExamplesAlexander Mechitov, David L. Olson and Brenda L.

Killingsworth

784 Multimedia/Hypermedia Protocol Analysis forGuided Self-ElicitationGlenn G. Shephard

787 Assertors and Facilitators: A New Communication

Paradigm for Knowledge AcquisitionMerrill E. Warkentin, Janice C. Sipior and Barin N.

Nag

EXECUTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMSAND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES

790 Executive Information System (EIS) Types andTheir Characteristics: An Empirical Field StudyKent A. Walstrom and Rick L. Wilson

793 A Macro-Level Comparison oflT-EnabledOrganizational Coordination Structures

Alexander Talalayevsky and James C. Hershauer

796 Executive Information Systems in Major U.S.

Corporations: An UpdateJeretta Horn Nord, G. Daryl Nord and Claude L.

Simpson

TOPIC TABLE: MANAGERIAL ASPECTSOF DSS

799 Management Support Systems: Current Practices

and Challengesfor Management DevelopmentAtuI Gupta, Donald Golden and Dalen Chaing

799 Predicting Success ofMergers and AcquisitionsUsing a Neural NetworkD. Gulati and B.A. Suresh

MODEL BASED DSS: AHP AND

SIMULATION

800 An AHP Based Decision Model to Assess

Productivity of New Business VenturesBharat A. Jain and Barin N. Nag

803 A Simulation Modelfor LAN Design and

Performance Measurement: A Tool for the Novice

DesignerGeorge M. Marakas

806 Preferential Schedule Assignmentsfor Airline Crew

SchedulingWendy R. Schmidt and Jamshid C, Hosseini

EXPERT SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS

809 A Prototype Expert System for Assessing Risk of

Computer ProjectsMichael J. Cerullo

811 SWExpert: A Practical Application of Expert

Systems Technology in the Food Service Sector

C. Lynn Davis, John M. Pearson and Carol W.

Shanklin

814 A Prototype Model-Based Expert System for

Inventory Control

Mohammad Z. Bsat and John Seydel

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION

SYSTEMS

817 HELPING STUDENTS ACHIEVE

RADICAL IMPROVEMENT IN

CREATIVITY (I)

J. Daniel Couger

TOPIC TABLE: MIS

818 And Your Dean Asked: "What Do You Do the Rest

of the Week?"

J. Michael Pearson, Jung P. Shim and John English

818 Information Resources Management: An Evolution

ofa Stand-Alone DisciplineJanet F. Laribee and Kamlesh T. Mehta

818 Preferred Information Systems Skills: A

Multi-Regional Study of Current and Future Needs

Margaret H. Neumann, Carol J. Jeffries and Henry D.

Crockett

END USER TRAINING AND SATISFACTION

819 Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the End-User

Computing Satisfaction Instrument

William J. Doll, Weidong Xia and Gholamreza

Torkzadeh

822 A Model of the Determinants of Computer UsageGholamreza Torkzadeh and Deborah J. Dwyer

825 A Study of Management Involvement in End-User

TrainingInjazz J. Chen, Atul Gupta, Mike Lin and Dalen

Chiang

RESEARCH ISSUES IN MIS (I)

828 The Evolution ofMIS Research Topics: An

Empirical AnalysisKent A. Walstrom and BUI C. Hardgrave

831 The Classification of Information Systems: An

Updated Model

E. Reed Doke and Tonya B. Barrier

834 A Framework for MIS Research

Susan E, Rebstock

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE ISSUE

837 The Impact ofIndustrial, Organizational, and

Technological Factors on EDI DiffusionDavid J. Paper and Arun Rai

840 Factors Influencing the Adoption of ISDN by

OrganizationsNarender K. Ramarapu, N. Dan Worobetz and Mark

N. Frolick

843 The Impact of Inter-Organizational Relationships on

Initiation of Inter-Organizational SystemsG. Premkumar and Keshavamurthy Ramamurthy

SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT

846 Software Quality Assurance: An Analytical Survey

and Research Prioritization

Arun Rai, Haidong Song and Marvin D. Troutt

849 Immediate Versus Delayed Learning TransferPerformance for the Extended Entity RelationshipModel

Douglas B. Bock and Terence F. Ryan

852 The Object-Oriented Paradigm as a Function of the

Relational Database Paradigm: A Consideration

Timothy P. O'Keefe and Douglas E. White

STRATEGY ISSUES

855 The Congruence Bettoeen an Organization'sCompetitive Strategy and Information TechnologyLeader's Rank and Role

Jahangir Karimi, Yash P. Gupta and Toni M. Somers

858 A Theoretical Model of IS Planning and Business

StrategyJianwen Liao

861 The Information Systems Outsourcing Decisions:

Empirical Test of a Strategy—Theoretic DiscrepancyModel

James T.C. Teng, Myun Joong Cheon and Varun

Grover

IS IN HEALTHCARE

864 The Impact of Extent of Use, Staff Scheduling, and

Adoption ofFormal Quality Control Mechanisms on

End-User Perceptions of Information Technology in

the Health Care IndustryParag C. Pendharkar and James A. Rodger

867 Measuring the Impact of a Point-of-Care ComputerSystem on ICU Nurses

Ernest Preston Goss, Vera A. Buelow and Harish

Ramchandani

870 The Medical Center "MED" Information Systems

ProjectJames Vorbach

CAREERS AND TRAINING

873 A Longitudinal Study of the Most Wanted Skills in

the MIS job Market

Charles R. Litecky and Kirk P. Arnett

876 IS Employee Turnover Intentions: The Current

Picture

Seung-Hee Ko, Kirk P. Arnett, Charles R. Litecky and

James E. Trumbly

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879 A Study of Training in Computer-Supported GroupDecision MakingEdward T. Chen, Sumtt Sircar and Hsin-Ginn Hwang

MEASURING SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS

882 Toward a Comprehensive Measure ofIT EffectivenessKristy D. Glorfeld, Timothy Paul Cronan and Thomas

W. Jones

886 The Development of Computer System Success

Measures

Robert W. Stone and David J. Good

889 Tlxe Relationship Between Integrative Task Designfor Information Systems Professionals and Perceived

Information Systems EffectivenessStanley E. Gambill and Ronald B. Wilkes

TOPIC TABLE: IS EDUCATION

890 The MIS Undergraduate Curriculum—Does It

Impart Adequate Skills for Entry Level Jobs?Kamal K. Hingorani and Chetan S. Sankar

890 Relationships in MBA-MIS ProgramsJames Morgan and Craig A. VanLengen

890 The Skills Needed by Today's Systems AnalystMark M. Misic and David K, Graf

890 An Empirical Investigation of the Characteristics ofInformation Systems Academicians and Implicationsfor the Evolution of the Information Systems

DisciplineLuAnn Bean and Maeve L. Cummings

891 Ethics in IS Curricula

Sooun Lee, David (Chi-Chung) Yen and Hung-Lian

Tang

TOPIC TABLE: TQM AND EVALUATION

892 A Frameworkfor IS Design for TQM

ImplementationNazim U. Ahmed

892 Integrating Total Quality Management Conceptsinto the Systems Development Process

Moutaz Khouja, Ram Kumar and Anthony C.

Stylianou

892 Determining the Quality Factors in Maintenance

ProgrammingJoyce M. Rowe and Ralph D. Neal

892 Source Selection and Evaluation Using the AHP

J.P. Shim and Nam Y. Lee

893 TQM and Its Impact on Business Information

RequirementsStephen A. Floyd and Kenneth D. Tice

RESEARCH ISSUES IN MIS (II)

894 Measures of Computer Program ComprehensionProcesses: The Problem with Using Responses to

Comprehension Questions in Place of Concurrent

Verbal Protocols

Teresa M. Shaft

897 Assessing Test-Retest Reliability in the Presence ofUnstable Phenomena

Anthony R. Hendrickson and Kristy D. Glorfeld

900 Unidimensional Assessment of Davis' Perceived

Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use Instrument

Michael R, Collins, Anthony R. Hendrickson and Patti

D. Latta

IS EDUCATION (I)

903 Managerial Perspective on the Information

Technology Needs of End Users

Chung S. Kim, Nancy K. Keith and Neil E. Swanson

906 M.S. in Information Systems: The Scottish

PerspectiveThomas E. Sandman

909 The Dilemma of More, Less or the Status QuoforMIS Coverage in MBA Education: A CallforInnovative Solutions

Hindupur V. Ramakrishna, Bindiganavale S.

Vijayaraman and Vernon A. Quarstein

912 WILL MULTIMEDIA CHANGE OUR

LIFE AS TEACHERS?

Shimon Schocken

TOPIC TABLE: MIS ORGANIZATIONAL

ISSUES

913 The Decentralization ofInformation Systems:Towards an Operational DefinitionParamjit S. Kahai, Houston H. Carr and Charles A.

Snyder

913 The Changing Locus ofInformation Technology

Decision-MakingEdward G. Cale, Jr. and Jerome Kanter

913 Communication of Strategic Vision for Information

Technology to Organization Members: Effects ofChannel Use and Organizational Structure

Mary E. Brabston

913 Job Satisfaction and Burnout of IS ProfessionalsAdam S. Huarng

TOPIC TABLE: IS DEVELOPMENT (I)

914 Information Requirement Determination:

Establishing a Missing Link

Ganesh D. Bhatt

914 The Effects of the Intelligent Workstation Initiative

on the Corporate Computing StrategyRobert Urwiler, Mark N. Frolick, Ronald B. Wilkes

and Narender K. Ramarapu

914 Measurement of Support for Information SystemsRamarathnam Ravichandran

TOPIC TABLE: IS DEVELOPMENT (II)915 A Design and Implementation Modelfor Life-Cycle

CostingNazim U, Ahmed

915 Choosing the Appropriate CASE Tool

Tonya B. Barrier, Rajeev Kaula and Chung S. Kim

915 Object-Oriented Modeling and Heuristic QueryProcessing in Geographic Databases: Applications to

Geographic Districting Problems

Ramesh Subramanian and Minnie Y. Yen

915 MNC's IS Development Strategy: The Effect ofEnvironmental InterdependenceHaidong Song and Jianwen Liao

916 An Examination of the Factors Impacting Initiation

and Adoption of Object Oriented ApproachforSystems DevelopmentT. Ravichandran

NETWORKING

917 Local Area Network ManagementManfred W. Hopfe and Nancy Tsai

919 ISDN-LAN Connection

David C. Yen, Sooun Lee and H.L. Tang

922 Current Issues in Network ManagementH. Michael Chung and Tim Chacin

IT MANAGEMENT

925 Environmental Scanning for InformationTechnology: An Investigation of How Firms Assess

the Information Technology Component of the

External Business Environment

J. Lee Maier and Charles A. Snyder

928 The Management of Information TechnologyInitiatives: A Contextual Model

Karen L. Williams and Robert W. Zmud

IS EDUCATION (II)

931 Managing Student Computer Labs: A Simulation

Model

Ralph D. Neal and H. Roland Weistroffer

934 Teaching Management Information Systems Course

Using Cooperative Learning Process

Satya N. Prattipati

937 Effectiveness of a CAl Program Designed to DevelopComputer Literacy CompetenciesRobert B. Mitchell and Dianne E. Simmons

940 MULTIMEDIA: WHAT MIS TEACHING

TOOLS ARE AVAILABLE?

Julie E. Kendall

940 A New Perspective on the Computer ConceptsCourse

Joseph B. Dougherty

940 Teaching Systems Analysis and DesignInteractively: The HyperCase ExperienceJulie E. Kendall, Kenneth E. Kendall, Richard L.

Baskerville and Raymond J. Barnes

940 Building a Multimedia Database

Wallace J. Growney and Betty Schneider

TOPIC TABLE: EIS, GSS, AND DSS

941 Graphical versus Numerical Data Representations in

Computer-Assisted What-If Analysis: Effects on the

Illusion of Control

Andrew S. Philippakls and Gillian R. Hall

941 Executive Information Systems: Review of Researchand Suggestions for Future Directions

France Belanger and J. Ellis Blanton

941 Information Systems Architecture: A ComprehensiveApproach to Solve Data Problems of Executive

Information SystemsSrinarayan Sharma

941 Group Decision Support Systems: Academic Illusion

or Reality?Bijan Mashaw

942 AN INTRODUCTION TO CASE STUDY

METHODS FOR MIS

William J. Ferns

RESEARCH ISSUES IN MIS (III)

943 The Current Status of Information Systems Research

Centers: Circa 1993

Jack D. Becker, Glenn E. Maples and Nik R. Hassan

946 The Role of Research in MIS Faculty PerformanceEvaluation: An Exploratory StudyJin H. Im and Sandra J. Hartman

949 Increasing the Effectiveness of Research Literature

Retrieval

Paul M. Mangiameli, David A. West and Stuart Westin

CASE AND THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT

952 SDM-CASE: A Verification and Validation Tool forSemantic Database Schemata

Jaroslaw A. Chudziak and James Vorbach

955 An Examination of the Legal Environment in

Systems Development: Propositions and nn AgendaKathleen Mykytyn and Peter P. Mykytyn, Jr.

958 Matching Software Process Maturity and CASE

Tool Philosophy: An Organizational Context

Framework

Ravi G.R. Patnayakuni and Nainika Patnayakuni

USER PARTICIPATION IN SYSTEMS

DEVELOPMENT

961 User Involvement in Systems Development:Separating Structurefrom Process

Kwasi Amoako-Gyampah

964 The Social Process of User and System DeveloperInteraction: A Conceptual Model

Jack T. Marchewka and Kuldeep Kumar

967 An Exploratory Study of the Impact of User

Participation and Socio-Technical SystemsMethodology on System Success—The Case StudyApproachLillian Y. Fok, Kuldeep Kumar and Wing M. Fok

TOPIC TABLE: STRATEGIC ISSUES

970 An Examination of the Relationship Between

Competitive Strategy and the Scope ofInformationTechnology Enabled BPR

Kirk D. Fiedler, Varun Grover and James T.C. Teng

970 Leaders in IT Spending: Do They Lead in

PerformanceRavi G.R. Patnayakuni, Nainika Patnayakuni andRakesh Neunaha

970 Evaluating Information System TechnologySophistication and Its Relationship to Environmental

UncertaintyB. Wayne Rockmore, Allen E. Smith and Ronald F.

Green

970 MIS Issues in 1995: A Delphi StudyMerle P. Martin and Thomas E. Sandman

971 A Contingency Framework Influencing the

CIS-Organizational Characteristics

J.V. Iyengar

972 MODEL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT—A

JOINT ACTIVITY OF DPMA, ICIS, ANDACM

Dorothy G. Dologite

CLIENT/SERVER TECHNOLOGY

973 MIS Client/Server Case Study of Dun & Bradstreet

Plan Services, Inc.

Gordon Couturier and Jack Munyan

976 Client/Server Technology: Is It Living up to Its

Hype?Albert L. Harris

979 The Implications of Rightsizing to Client/Server

Network Architecture

Patricia Sendall

ELECTRONIC MAIL AND INTERNET

982 A Quasi-Experimental Field Study ofIndividualCharacteristics and E-mail Use DiffusionN. Dan Worobetz and Shashidhar Kaparthi

985 Data Integrity and the Internet: Implications forResearch in the Decision Sciences

Richard G. Mathleu and Robert L. Woodard

988 Internet Growth and Usage by Selected Ports

Eric Wettstein, Arun Rai and David J. Paper

SYSTEMS IN SMALL BUSINESS

991 Criteria Utilized by a Very Small Business in the

Computer Implementation Decision

James M. Henson and Ravinder Nath

994 An Evaluation of Small Business SoftwareAcquisition Procedures: A Life Cycle ApproachC. Bryan Foltz and George Heilman

CROSS CULTURAL STUDIES

997 Assessing the Influence ofCulture on the Systems

Analysis and Design Process: A Pilot Test for the

Comparison of American and Chinese Systems

Analysts i

Robert B. Sweeney, Jr.

1000 77ie India Option: A Survey of Perceived Quality,

Productivity and Viability of Indian SoftwareSolutions

Thomas Abraham and Jay Nathan

END USER STUDIES

1003 Taxonomy of Information Complexity and the EffectofRelevant vs. Irrelevant Information on Task

PerformanceAlbert H.C. Huang

1006 A User Interview System for the Automated

Generation of Relational Schema

Gillian R. Hall

1009 Integrating OR/MS Techniques and ITfor Efficientand Effective Problem SolvingSrinarayan Sharma

TOPIC TABLE: INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGY

1012 An Experimental Analysis ofInformationChanneling with Weighted Attributes

Manouchehr Tabatabai and James C. Hershauer

1012 Solutionsfor the Capacitated Minimum SpanningTree (CMST): A Hybrid Neural Network Solution

ApproachHassan Pirkul and Raymond A. Patterson

1012 A Comparative Analysis of Two ForecastingMethods: Linear Regression and Neural Networks

Suzanne Kailasam and Sachidanandam Sakthivel

1012 Microcomputer Hardware Pricing: RegressionModelsfor 386-Based and 486-Based SystemsTimothy Paul Cronan, Patti D. Latta and Timothy P.

O'Keefe

1013 MULTIMEDIA—WHAT CAN WE

LEARN FROM INDUSTRY?

J.P. Shim

MANUFACTURING

1014 Information Systems: The Missing Link in

Manufacturing Strategy and Corporate StrategicPlanningFrederick C. Weston, Jr.

1017 A Survey of Research Issues in ManufacturingInformation ManagementMohammad Dadashzadeh, Saeid Motavalli and

Mohammad Taghavi-Fard

1020 Evolution of the Information

Technology/Manufacturing Technology Interfacewithin Small Manufacturing Firms

Gary A. Williams, James W. Pearce and George W.

Mechling

REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS

1023 Causal Maps as a Requirements Analysis Tool: An

Empirical Examination of Complexity and

UnderstandingRichard D. Hauser, Jr.

1026 Pern' Net Modeling of Business Computer SystemsDiane M. Miller

1029 Assessing and Managing the Risk of New

Technology: An Application ofa Framework and

Assessment Instrument

Charlotte S. Stephens

GLOBAL IT

1032 Global and Strategic Impact ofInformationTechnology: A Model and Measurement Instrument

Prashant C. Palvia and Shailendra C. Palvia

1035 Information Technology and Business Strategy in

RomaniaCharles R. Franz and Robert Klepper

1037 Requirements of a Global Executive InformationSystem: A Preliminary Assessment

Prashant Palvia, Anil Kumar, Nadesan S. Kumar and

Rebecca A. Hendon

USER SYSTEM ACCEPTANCE ISSUES

1040 What Motivates Individuals to Use ComputerTechnology? The Finns Case

Juhani livari, Magid Igbaria, Milton A. Silver and

Donna Weaver

1043 An Empirical Assessment of Predictive Change to

Perceived Information System Use

Russell K.H. Ching, Louis W. Glorfeld and AnthonyR. Hendrickson

1046 MIS Implementation and User Acceptance: An

Exploratory Survey of Human Aspect Consideration

Karen A. Forcht, Faye P. Teer and Friedrich Jacobi

DATA COMMUNICATIONS

1049 Problems Associated toith Telecommunications

Technologies and Their Capabilities: A Study ofTelecommuting and ISDN

Yash P. Gupta, Toni M. Somers and Jahangir Karimi

1052 Electronic Commerce: The Case of the Textile

IndustryRam Kumar and Connie W. Crook

1055 Estimating LAN Performance Models by SimulatingBackground ActivityGrant O, Alexander, Timothy Paul Cronan and David

E. Douglas

IT STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

1058 CIO Effectiveness in IT Partnerships: An

Organizational Learning PerspectiveTimothy R. Kayworth

1061 Strategic Information System Planning: Does

Practice Follow Theory?Constanza Hagmann

1064 Identification of Factors for SuccessfulImplementation of Strategic Information SystemsPlanningSrinarayan Sharma

GROUP SUPPORT SYSTEM

1067 The Role of Participation in Group Decision SupportSystemsPaul S. Licker

1070 Visualization of Complex Group Decisions

Robert F. Easley and David B. MacKay

1073 Effects of Prediscussion Information Characteristics

on Computer Mediated Group Discussion

Ross Hightower and Lutfus Sayeed

EXPERT SYSTEMS

1076 E-R Modeling, Knowledge Formalization, and

Front-End Expert SystemsShawn D. Bird and Diane Lockwood

1080 Organizational Impacts ofExpert SystemsBrenda Massetti, Robert J. Mockler and Dorothy G.

Dologite

1083 Project Champions in Systems DevelopmentJanice C. Sipior and Edward J. Garrity

COST CONCERNS

1086 An ABC Pricing Schema for Determining Base

Prices in a Fuzzy Logic Transaction-Based

Differential Pricing Chargeback DSS

Jyh-Horng Tarn, Presha E. Neidermeycr, A. JamesWynne and Joseph H. Wen

1089 IT Investment: An Institutional PerspectiveJlanwen Liao

1092 Impact of CASE Technology on SoftwareMaintenance

Ravi G.R. Patnayakuni and Nainika Patnayakuni

SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

1095 An Investigation into the Abandonment of a LargeSystems Development EffortRalph M. Stair, Jr.

1098 Towards a Model for Selecting a SystemsDevelopment StrategyBill C. Hardgrave and E. Reed Doke

1101 Successful Information Systems Integration DuringCorporate MergersAnthony C. Stylianou, Carol J. Jeffries and StephanieS. Robbins

EXECUTIVE SUPPORT SYSTEMS

1104 An Empirical Analysis of the Uses of an Executive

Information System in the Strategic ManagementProcess

Sanjay K. Singh, Julio C. Rivera and Khris McAlister

1107 Schematic Faces as a Data Portrayal Technique in

EIS

Peter De Vries

1110 The Implementation of Executive Support SystemsDeepinder S. Bajwa and Arun Rai

RESEARCH ISSUES IN MIS (IV)

1113 The Effects of Personality and Media Differences on

the Performance of Dyads Addressing a CognitiveConflict Task

Heikki Topi, Madhu T. Rao and Joseph S. Valacich

1116 Developing the Information Systems Architecture:

Risk Factors and Coping StrategiesAlbert H. Segars

1119 Global IT Transfer: A Framework for AnalysisMary Helen Fagan

MIS PUBLICATIONS

1122 An Analysis of Keyword Usage in MIS Journals:1979-1990

Peeter J. Kirs, George M. Marakas and Dana Farrow

1125 Assessing MIS Journal Criteria: An AHP Evaluation

Peeter J. Kirs, Krishnamurty Muralidhar and Ramesh

Vijayasarathy

1128 A Study of MIS Publications: A Validation of"Information Systems Management Issuesfor the

1990s"

Joe Harrison, Rebecca A. Hendon, Anil Kumar,Nadesan S. Kumar, Rita Moore and Balaji Rajagopalan

CREATIVITY AND KNOWLEDGE OF IS

PROFESSIONALS

1131 Software Development—Is Creativity Suppressed?Judy L. Wynekoop and Diane B. Walz

1134 Toward Creativity Outcome Assessment in IS

OrganizationsBeata M. Lobert and Brenda Massetti

1137 Knowledge and Skill Requirements for InformationSystems Professionals: An Exploratory StudyE. Reed Doke, Douglas E. Durand and Neil E.

Swanson

COMPUTER-AIDED SOFTWARE

ENGINEERING

1140 Information Technology Expenditure and

Organization Performance: An EmpiricalInvestigationNainika Patnayakuni and Ravi G.R. Patnayakuni

1143 The Usage and Performance Impacts ofComputer-Aided Software Engineering: AContextual Assessment by Industry Type and

Organizational Size

Arun Rai and Subhashish Samaddar

1146 Automated Life-Cycle Support Tools and the System

Development MethodologyTom L. Roberts, Jr., Michael L. Gibson, William N.

Ledbetter, Kent T. Fields and Charlotte S. Stephens

TOPIC TABLE: DATA COMMUNICATION

1149 The Future of NetworkingVivek Shah and Marcos P. Sivitanides

1149 Security Issues in Local Area Networks

Mustafa A. Kamal and Curtis Coleman

1149 Electronic Data Interchange as an EnablingTechnology for International Business

Susan Haugen and Robert Behling

1149 An Analysis of Electronic Message HandlingStandards

AH F. Emdad

TOPIC TABLE: ORGANIZATION AND

REENGINEERING

1150 Outsourcing Preferences and the Strategic Grid

Robert B. Sweeney, Jr.

1150 The Effect of IT on Organizational Structures

Kamal K. Hingorani, Jack Seaman and Michael L.

Gibson

1150 An Integrated Concurrent Engineering Approach to

Information Systems DevelopmentShad Dowlatshahi, Jyh-Horng Tarn and LyndaHodgson

1150 Modeling Dynamic System Performance of Business

Processes

Paul J, Dardeau and Debashish Ghosh

1151 A Pilot Study on Business Process ReengineeringRebecca A. Hendon

MS/OR: TECHNIQUES, MODELS

AND APPLICATIONS

1152 ANOTHER LOOK AT PROBLEM

SOLVING: DETERMINING WHAT TO

CHANGE USING THE THEORY OF

CONSTRAINTS

Christina D. McCart and Ina S. Markham

DECISION MODELS FOR SYSTEM

EFFECTIVENESS

1153 A Two Stage Least Cost Credit Scoring Model

William V. Gehrlein

1156 A Methodfor Cost-Effectiveness Analysis with an

Example from the USMC

CM. Keller and Allan C. Polley

1160 A Comprehensive Model for Managing Credit Risk

and Forecasting Losses on Portfolios ofHome

MortgagesL. Douglas Smith, Susan M. Sanchez and Edward C.

Lawrence

MODELS FOR SCHEDULING AND LOT

SIZING

1163 Anode Production Scheduling in an Aluminium

Smelter

Miles G. Nicholls

1166 Price-Break Analysis Under Uncertainty: An

Exploratory ApproachChandra Sekhar Das

1169 Safety Stock Allocation in a One-Warehouse N-Non

Identical Retailers Inventory SystemBabita Sen, Sanjay Laxman Ahire, Charles P. Schmidt

and David M. Miller

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS PROCEDURES

1172 Sensitivity Analysis Procedures for the Generalized

Assignment Problem: A Case Study of the

Variable-Depth-Search Heuristic

Mohammad M. Amini and Michael Racer

1174 Sensitivity Analysis ofConvex Quadratic Programswith Linear Constraints

Patrick Lee and Bruce M. Bradford

SIMULATION MODELING

1177 Probability Distributions for the Relative Precision

of Confidence Intervals in Terminating Simulations

Neil B. Marks

1180 Development of a Framework for Discrete Event

Simulation

Roger W. McHaney and Douglas E. White

1183 Applications of Simulation in Maintenance

ManagementYasemin Aksoy, Bahadir Inozu and Rahul Saxena

TOPIC TABLE: TECHNIQUES FOR

SCHEDULING AND INVENTORY

MANAGEMENT

1186 A Bicriterion Scheduling Problem Involving Total

Flowtime and Total Tardiness

Tapan L. Sen and Parthasarati Dileepan

1186 A Partial Backlogging Inventory Model with Price

Dependent DemandSe-Kwon Kim and Seung Lae Kim

1186 A New Approach to the Two-Stage Flow Shop

Scheduling on a Cumulative Domain

Hirokazu Kono

1186 A Combined Transportation and Inventory Cost

Model for JIT Manufacturing SystemsMaliyakal D. Jayakumar and Ranga V. Ramasesh

TOPIC TABLE: TECHNIQUES FORDECISION MAKING

1187 Risk Assessment Technique to Internal Audit

Planning: A Multifactor ApproachRamadan S. Hemaida and S. Wathen

1187 Pure Activity Analysis Modelsfor Technical and

Scale Efficiency ComparisonsMarvin D. Troutt and Ike C. Ehie

1187 Measurement and Inter-Country Comparison of

Corporate Environmental PerformanceBernadette M. Ruf, Krish Muralldhar and Peeter J. Kirs

1187 Practitioner Oriented, Heuristic-Based DSS forService District DesignAjay K. Aggarwal

TOPIC TABLE: MODELLING TECHNIQUESIN P/OM

1188 An Operations Management Perspective ofRepro-ModelingJack A. Fuller

1188 Incorporating Information as a Direct Intervention

Policy Tool into an Industry Performance Gradient

Index

Lawrence A. West

1188 Modeling the Consequences ofActions: A Human

Resources Planning Model

Thomas Rohleder and Fred Krause

Wynne Chin

1188 Information Technology and Decision MakingKate Laskowitz

HEURISTIC PROCEDURES FOR SET

COVERING AND FACILITY LOCATION

PROBLEMS

1189 A. Simulated Annealing-Based Heuristic for the

Set-Covering Problem

Larry W. Jacobs and Michael J. Brusco

1192 An Intelligent Solverfor the Generalized

Telecommunication Facility Location Problem

V.T. Raja and Bernard T. Han

1195 Neighborhood Search Heuristic for the Set CoveringProblem on Cyclic Networks

Vijayakumar R. Pyreddy, Sudhirkumar N. Mallya and

Avijit Banerjee

TRANSPORTATION MODELLING

1198 Simulation of the Stochastic Transportation Problem

Huseyin Sarper

1201 Makespan Minimization for Cargo Delivery througha Transportation Network with Time Windows

Anand S. Kunnathur, Udayan Nandkeolyar and Dao

Wei Li

ADVANCES IN NETWORK OPTIMIZATION

1204 A Linear Algorithm for Minimum Flow in Planar

Networks

Veena G. Adlakha

1207 Candidate Lists Based on the Regeneration ofSolutions for the Symmetric Traveling Salesman

Problem: Accelerating Global Optimization StrategiesSanjay Bapna

1210 Variance of Server Response Time in the Stochastic

Queue Median Problem

Roger B. Grinde

DEA APPLICATIONS

1213 Data Envelopment Analysis: Assessing OperatingEfficiency of the USPS Facilities DepartmentMohammad M. Amini and Bryan Pease

1215 Selection of Input and Output Measures in Data

Envelopment Analysis of Large Indiana School

CorporationsConstance H. McLaren

DISCRETE OPTIMIZATION:

APPLICATION/SOLUTION1218 A Multitype Hierarchical Distribution System with

Multi-Level Distribution Centers

Choong Y. Lee

1221 A Discrete Optimization Model for Preserving

Biological DiversityFred W. Glover, Ching-Chung Kuo and Krishna S.

Dhir

1224 Modeling Considerations in the Application ofZero-One Goal Programming to the EquipmentSelection Problem: A Microcomputer SystemSelection Scenario

Timothy P. Garvin

TOPIC TABLE: OPTIMIZING METHODS

AND SIMULATION

1227 Improved Algorithms for Variants of the Generalized

Assignment Problem

Robert M. Nauss

1227 Simulation Modelingfor Long-Term Policy AnalysisMary-Margret Koball Little and Heather L. Koball

1227 An Algorithm for Bin-Packing Problem

Johnny C. Ho and Jatlnder N.D. Gupta

STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY

1228 Discriminant Power and Nonlinear ProgrammingApproachesBaichun Xiao

1231 RSM Strategiesfor the Optimization ofTransitory

SystemsRenato P. Panis, Ernest C. Houck and Raymond H.

Myers

1233 Reexamining the Normalization Issue in LP

Discriminant AnalysisDonna L. Retzlaff-Roberts

ADVANCED METHODOLOGIES FOR

DECISION MAKING: AHP AND MER

1236 Recent Results on the Maximum Efficiency Ratio

(MER) Model for Efficiency RankingMarvin D. Troutt, Aimao Zhang and M. Diane

Pettypool

1239 Preference Function Characterizations ofthe AHP

Hierarchic Composition Law

Marvin D. Troutt, Suresh K. Tadisina and Parag C.

Pendharkar

THE APPLICATION OF MANAGEMENT

SCIENCE

1242 The Intangible Benefits of Math ProgrammingJohn J. Lawrence

1245 A Multi-Criteria Model for a Renewable Warranty

ProgramJayprakash G. Patankar and Amitava Mitra

1248 Scheduling the Texas League with MultipleObjectivesRobert A. Russell

NONLINEAR AND STOCHASTIC

PROGRAMMING

1251 A Model for Planning Staffand Bed Requirementsin a Blood Bank

Kurt M. Bretthauer and Murray Cdt6

1254 A Stochastic Programming Modelfor Gas Supply

PlanningThomas W. Knowles

1257 A Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming Model for

Acquiring Advanced Technologies under Conditions

of Learning and ForgettingRoger J. Gagnon

ADVANCES IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

AND QUEUEING ANALYSIS

1260 Run Time Estimation for a Predefined Workload on

the AS/400

John A. Kaliski

1263 Simple Bounds on the Expected Project Duration in

PERT

Jerzy Kamburowski

1266 PERT Belief NetworksAll Jenzarli

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE METHODS IN

PRODUCTION PLANNING

1269 Mathematical Programming Approaches to Cell

Formation: A Survey and Assessment

Chao-Hsien Chu

1272 An Annealing Methodfor Production Planning in

FMS

Bharatendu Srivastava and Wun-Hwa Chen

MULTIPLE OBJECTIVE

DECISION-MAKING PROCEDURES

1275 A Two-Plwse Interactive Approachfor MultipleObjective Linear Programming Problems

Vahid Lotfi and Yong Seok Yoon

1278 An Alternative Tchebycheff Based Approach to

Interactive Multiple Objective Decision MakingGary R. Reeves and Kenneth R. MacLeod

GENETIC ALGORITHM APPLICATIONS

1280 A Survey of Genetic Algorithmic ApproachesforSolving Vehicle Routing ProblemsLawrence J. Schmitt II and Mohammad M. Amini

1283 Genetic and Branch and Bound Algorithms forAutomated Guided Vehicle Flow Path DesignKathryn W. Ernstberger and Munirpallam A.

Venkataramanan

1286 A Genetic Algorithmfor Discriminant AnalysisDaniel G. Conway, A. Victor Cabot and MunirpallamA. Venkataramanan

TOPIC TABLE: MATHEMATICAL

PROGRAMMING AND SOFTWARE

INTERFACE

1289 A Mathematical Programming Model to Assign

Visiting Students to Host Universities

Joo V.O. Lisboa and Mark A. McKnew

1289 An Application of Linear Programming in

SchedulingBangalore P. Lingaraj and Yunus Kathawala

1289 Use of Spreadsheet for Goal ProgrammingKala Chand Seal

1289 A Zero-One Goal Progamming Modelfor AssigningStudents to Project Teams

Ike C. Ehie and Marvin D. Troutt

1290 Microsoft Office: One Stop Shopping forIntroductory Quantitative Methods

William H. Rybolt and David P. Kopcso

STATISTICS, DECISION

ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING

NEURAL NETWORKS: INVITED PAPERS

1291 Model Selection Criteria: A Neural Network

ApproachA.R Venkatachalam and Jeffrey E. Sohl

1294 Determining the Saliency ofInput Variables in

Neural Network ClassifiersRavinder Nath, Balaji Rajagopalan and Randy Ryk

1297 NEURAL NETWORKS: STATISTICAL

APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL

NETWORKS

William E. Stein and Marietta J. Tretter

DESIGN AND LOSS FUNCTIONS

1298 Normal Prediction Under Linear-Quadratic Loss

Michael Cain

1301 Sequential Search Design and Analysis of3mFractional Factorial ExperimentsTimothy C. Krehbiel

1304 Optimal Control of a Process with Nonquadratic,

Nonsymmetric Cost Function—A Case StudyLawrence Magee and Helmut Schneider

HIERARCHICAL ANALYSIS

1307 Hierarchical Sensitivity AnalysisTerence Reilly

1310 On Rank Reversal and Relative Measurement in the

Hierarchy Process

Jeff Y. Zhang and Jlng Li

1313 AHP Using Chainwise Paired ComparisonsJang W, Ra

APPLIED STATISTICS

1316 City and Highway MPG Prediction Models (A Pilot

Study)Edward C, Larson, Kenneth A. Foster and Manfred

W. Hopfe

1318 17ie Two-Population Location Problem When

Nonnormal Populations Have Unequal Variances

Robert J. Pavur and Bill Brookshire

APPLICATIONS TO ECONOMICS AND

FINANCE

1321 Estimating the Regional Economic Impact of a

UniversityRajaram Gana

1324 An Empirical Evaluation of Interest-Rate,

Time-Series, and Combination Methods for InflationForecasts

Young H. Kim and Mesfin Bezuneh

1327 On the Accuracy of Time-Series MethodsforStock-Price Forecasts

Young H. Kim, Edward L. Davis and Fay D. Cobb

1330 WORKSHOP ON MAKING STATISTICS

MORE EFFECTIVE IN SCHOOLS OF

BUSINESS CONFERENCES

John D. McKenzie, Jr.

NEURAL NETWORKS

1331 The Use of Neural Networks and Combined

Forecasts in the Prediction of Portfolio Returns with

Differential Penalty Costs

Gerald Kohers, Terry R. Rakes and Loren P. Rees

1334 An Investigation ofClassical and Neural Network

Classifiersfor Gaussian and Non-Gaussian

Distributions

Balaji Rajagopalan, Nadesan S. Kumar, Ravindra

Krovi and Akhilesh Chandra

1337 Neural Network Model for College Student

Persistence Predictions

Kam Fui Lau, Seetharama L. Narasimhan and Shaw

K. Chen

TOPIC TABLE: TOPICS IN PROBABILITY

AND STATISTICS

1340 Untying the Gordian Knot: A Process of ProbabilityDistribution Selection

Fred W, Cooper, Susan A. Chesteen and Dan C.

Hailing

1340 A Statistic for Testing the Hypothesis ofRandomness in Sequential Selections with

ReplacementJames K. Fugate

1340 A Comparison Between the Trimmed and the

Untrimmed Mean Using Both Skeiued and

Symmetrical Distributions

Steven W. Lamb and C. Andrew Cooper

1340 A Stochastic Dominance Analysis of ConsumptionInterlinkage and Demand for Credit in a

Nonexpected Utility Maximization Model

Satyajit Ghosh

1341 Supporting Aversion Elicitation Under NegativeCriteria in the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Ido Millet

TOPIC TABLE: REGRESSION AND

FORECASTING

1342 Sinusoidal Modelfor Predicting Stock Prices

Vivek Shah and Mayur Mehta

1342 Approximating Tax-Adjusted Lost Income Awards:

A Regression ApproachCarol A. Markowski

1342 A Regression Model for Predicting Nonresidential

Construction Market Trends

Lisa A. Ferguson and Jerry L. Atwood

1342 Correlations and Time Lags Between Corn Futures

and Feeder Cattle Futures

Long-Geng Zhao and Calvin DeWitt

TIME SERIES FORECASTING

1343 An Evaluation of Subaggregate Time Series

Statistical Correlation for Aggregate Variable Time

Series Forecast StrategiesGene Fliedner

1346 Dynamic Diagnostics of Time Series ForecastingModel Using Phase Plane and Velocity DiagramTechniqueJyh-Homg Tarn and Muhammad A, Razi

1349 The Effects of Firm Size and Number of EarningsEstimates on the Accuracy of Combined Forecasts

Kamal M. El-Sheshat

TOPIC TABLE: QUALITY-RELATED ISSUES

1352 Using Statistical Analysis in Litigation: Health Care

Cost Containment

Michael A. Spinelli

1352 Managerial Efficiency and Experience: HowSuccession Affect Organizational PerformanceJohn L. Fizel and Michael P. DTtri

1352 Ri'sfc Assessment in New Product Development: ADecision Model to Evaluate Financial Variables

Peter W. Stonebraker

1352 Designing Measurement Studies with BudgetConstraints

George A. Marcoulides

1353 A Comparison ofForecasting Practices among JIT

and Non-JFT Purchasers

Joel D. Wisner and Linda L. Stanley

USING INFORMATION

1354 Constructing Subjective Probabilityfrom InformationM.R. Yilmaz

1357 Statistical Characterization of Input Processes in

Queueing SystemsHag-Min Kim and Stergios B. Fotopoulos

1360 The Value of Reliable InformationWilliam Remus, Marcus O'Connor and Kenneth

Griggs

TOPIC TABLE: NEURAL NETWORKS

1363 Analysis of Training Time, Learning Rate, and

Momentum in Developing a Back PropagationNeural Networkfor Discriminant Analysis

Kyungdoo T. Nam, Clive C Sanford and Victor R.

Prybutok

1363 Using Neural Networks as an Alternative to Linear

Regression Models in the Presence of an Outlier: A

Simulation StudyKyungdoo T. Nam and Victor R. Prybutok

1363 Combining Neural Netiuorks and Statistical

Predictions to Solve a Classification Problem

Ina S. Markham and Cliff T. Ragsdale

LOGISTIC, LINEAR PROBABILITY AND

DISCRIMINANT MODELS

1364 Balanced D-Optimum Designs for the Linear

Logistic Model

Joseph A. Scazzero

1367 Ridge Regression Estimation of the Linear

Probability Model

Rajaram Gana

1370 Evaluation ofAdaptive Discriminant Methods

Using a Balanced Error Criterion

Edward P. Markowski and Carol A. Markowski

1379 Explorations in Estimation Methodologies for a

Simplified Model of Residential Demandfor

Electricity with Systematically Varying Coefficients

Roger L. Burford and Susan M.L. Zee

TIME SERIES MODELS

1382 The Stochastic Hurdle Decision Rule

Douglas W. Mallenby

1385 Specification Error in Exponentially Weighted

Moving Average (EWMA) Models

Richard A. Toelle

1388 A Linear Approachfor Estimation ofARMA Models

Askar H. Choudhury

SAMPLING

1391 Identifying Data Generating Families of ProbabilityDensities: A Bootstrap Resampling ApproachLawrence R. Takeuchi, Peter A. Sharp and Ming-TungLee

1394 Bootstrap Approaches: Some Potential Problems

Howard R. Clayton

1397 Acceptance Sampling Can Play a Role

John Keith Ord

FORECASTING APPLICATIONS

1400 Forecasting Product Mix to Improve Inventory

ManagementArthur J. Adams

1403 Interval Analysis for Forecasting with Regional

Input-Output Models

Max E. Jerrell

1406 Tlte Effect of Forecast Precision on Inventory Review

Period

Timothy S. Vaughan

REGRESSION AND LINEAR MODELS

1409 GLIM and TaguchiSamuel X. Lowe

1412 A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Nonlinear Least

Squares Estimation

Alan D. Olinsky, Paul M. Mangiameli and Shaw K.

Chen

TOPIC TABLE: ACADEMIC ISSUES

1415 Content and Pedagogy of Business Statistics

Textbooks: The Past and the Future

Arthur J. Adams and Ronald E. Shiffler

1415 Statistical Analysis of Instructor's EffectivenessShad Dowlatshahi

1415 Publishing Management Science Manuscripts: An

Evaluation of Journal QualityJeremy B. Fox and Joan M- Donohue

1415 The Role Forecasting Education Should Play in

Business Schools

John E. Hanke

1416 Using a Spreadsheet to Compute the Fixed Vector

for a Markov Chain

David W. Pentico

ESTIMATION

1373 A Comparison ofSeveral Common Growth

Parameter Estimators

Jeffrey J. Green

1376 Evaluation of Preliminary Samples in ConfidenceInterval Estimation ofthe MeanNeil B. Marks

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