16 Result(s)
within
Article
Ramesh Sharda
-
Article
Open AccessExamining multimorbidity differences across racial groups: a network analysis of electronic medical records
Health disparities across ethnic or racial groups are typically examined through single behavior at a time. The syndemics and multimorbidity health disparities have not been well examined by race. In this stud...
-
Article
Don’t Disturb Me! Understanding the Impact of Interruptions on Knowledge Work: an Exploratory Neuroimaging Study
As we become more and more connected, the number of technology interruptions are increasing as well. The mechanisms by which a technology interruption takes attention away and ongoing task performance decrease...
-
Article
Social Media for Nowcasting Flu Activity: Spatio-Temporal Big Data Analysis
Contagious diseases pose significant challenges to public healthcare systems all over the world. The rise in emerging contagious and infectious diseases has led to calls for the use of new techniques and techn...
-
Article
RFID-based information visibility for hospital operations: exploring its positive effects using discrete event simulation
Long queues and wait times often occur at hospitals and affect smooth delivery of health services. To improve hospital operations, prior studies have developed scheduling techniques to minimize patient wait ti...
-
Article
Big Data & Analytics for Societal Impact: Recent Research and Trends
-
Article
Inventory record inaccuracy due to theft in production-inventory systems
Inventory record inaccuracy (IRI) is a major obstacle to realizing operational excellence and lean enterprise principles in the supply chain. This paper proposes an analytical model to study the operational an...
-
Article
A balanced scorecard for item-level RFID in the retail sector: a Delphi study
Item-level Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) adoption is on the agenda for many retailers. However, before adopting this technology, managers need to be able to identify its direct and indirect benefits. T...
-
Article
Open AccessKnowledge work and communication challenges in networked enterprises
A modern enterprise is a heavily wired and networked socio-technical system where multiple components play in symphony to yield a competitive position in the ear of digital economy. While the underling communi...
-
Article
You’ve got email! Does it really matter to process emails now or later?
Email consumes as much as a quarter of knowledge workers’ time in organizations today. Almost a necessity for communication, email does interrupt a worker’s other main tasks and ultimately leads to information...
-
Article
Clustering-Based Visual Interfaces for Presentation of Web Search Results: An Empirical Investigation
The result of a typical web search is often overwhelming. It is very difficult to explore the textual listing of the resulting documents, which may be in the thousands. In order to improve the utility of the s...
-
Article
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Requiring Immersive Presence (CSCLIP): An Introduction
The dramatic increase in distance learning (DL) enrollments in higher education is likely to continue. However, research on DL that includes psychomotor, cognitive, and affective skills is virtually non-existe...
-
Article
Group Knowledge Networks: A Framework and an Implementation
Recent strides in computing and telecommunications have provided managers with access to ever increasing amounts of data through higher speed computers and extensive connectivity. However, these advances have ...
-
Article
Regulation of pesticide discharge into surface and groundwater under uncertainty: A model for environmental risk‐profitability tradeoffs and policy selection
The presence of contaminants in environmental media as well as the desire to maintain a high level of economic activity has led to an important and difficult decision‐making problem for both public policy deci...
-
Article
Using the Internet for knowledge acquisition in expert systems development: a case study
Knowledge acquisition is a major task in expert system development. This paper proposes one way of acquiring knowledge for expert system development: through the use of the Internet. Internet resources (e.g. U...
-
Article
LP modeling languages for personal computers: A comparison
The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the modeling capabilities of seven algebraic modeling languages (ML) available today, namely, AMPL, GAMS, LINGO, LPL, MPL, PC-PROG and XPRESS-LP. In general...
-
Article
Connectionist approach to time series prediction: an empirical test
Among the various potential applications of neural networks, forecasting is considered to be a major application. Several researchers have reported their experiences with the use of neural networks in forecast...
