51 Result(s)

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Decision Support and Analytics

Decision automation is examined in a broader context of using information technologies to support decision-making. Key definitions and a brief history of computerized decision support and analytics create impo...

Daniel J. Power, Ramesh Sharda in Springer Handbook of Automation (2023)

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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...

Pankush Kalgotra, Ramesh Sharda, Roger McHaney in Information Systems Frontiers (2019)

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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...

Amir Hassan Zadeh, Hamed M. Zolbanin, Ramesh Sharda… in Information Systems Frontiers (2019)

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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...

Daniel A. Asamoah, Ramesh Sharda, Howard N. Rude… in Health Care Management Science (2018)

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Time-Based Comorbidity in Patients Diagnosed with Tobacco Use Disorder

Healthcare is one of the promising fields where Big Data tools and techniques can have the highest impact. One of the key problems in the healthcare sector is to analyze impact of comorbidities. Comorbidity is...

Pankush Kalgotra, Ramesh Sharda, Bhargav Molaka… in Guide to Big Data Applications (2018)

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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...

Amir Hassan Zadeh, Ramesh Sharda… in The International Journal of Advanced Manu… (2016)

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Hawkes Point Processes for Social Media Analytics

Online social networks (OSNs) produce a huge volume of content and clickstream data over time as a result of continuous social interactions between users. Because these social interactions are not fully observ...

Amir Hassan Zadeh, Ramesh Sharda in Resha** Society through Analytics, Colla… (2015)

Reference Work Entry In depth

Computer Science and Operations Research Interfaces

John W. Chinneck, Ramesh Sharda in Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Ma… (2013)

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Data Mining

Syam Menon, Ramesh Sharda in Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science (2013)

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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...

Narges Kasiri, Ramesh Sharda, Bill Hardgrave in European Journal of Information Systems (2012)

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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...

Ashish Gupta, Ramesh Sharda, Robert A. Greve in Information Systems Frontiers (2011)

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On-demand Assistance in Handling Ammunition:Development of a Mobile Ammo DSS

Wireless technology and the emergence of handheld devices provide new ways to deliver and present information. For the military, availability of needed ammunition information is critical for decision making, e...

Supavich Pengnate, Ramesh Sharda, David Biros… in Supporting Real Time Decision-Making (2011)

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Reflections on the Past and Future of Decision Support Systems: Perspective of Eleven Pioneers

Sometimes we must look backwards before moving forward. This chapter provides an overview of the field of decision support systems (DSS), including a brief history and a progress report of a related ongoing re...

Daniel J. Power, Frada Burstein, Ramesh Sharda in Decision Support (2011)