Business Modelling: Multidisciplinary Approaches- Economics, Operational, and Information Systems (In Honor of Andrew B. Whinston) (Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series) [Hardcover]

Abhijit Chaudhury (Adapter), Manish Agrawal (Adapter), Clyde Holsapple (Editor), Varghese S. Jacob (Editor), H. Raghav Rao (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 2002 | Series: Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series (Book 16)

Business modelling is a vast arena of research and practice, which is gaining increasing important in the rapid development of e-commerce, globalization, and in particular, the movement toward global e-business. The ability to utilize advanced computing technology to model, analyse and simulate various aspects of ever-changing businesses has made a significant impact on the way businesses are designed and run these days. With the current global e-business and e-commerce initiatives, it has become important that all businesses carefully validate their business objectives, requirements, and strategies through a careful process of formal business modelling. It is important for effective enterprise decision making to have clear, concise business models that allow the extraction of critical value from business processes and specify the rules to be globally enforced. Particularly in e-business specifications, the need to be unambiguous, accurate, and complete becomes even greater, because there may be no human mediator or agent to rely on in complex or unforeseen situations. Business Modelling: Multidisciplinary Approaches - Economics, Operational, and Information Systems Perspectives, arranged in three parts, brings scholarly perspectives from various disciplines to bear on some of the critical aspects of business modeling. The first part (chapters 1-8) focuses on business modelling fundamentals and starts with a series of economics and operations research perspectives. The second part (chapters 9-19) concentrates on modelling in electronic businesses and focuses on Management Information Systems and Decision Support Systems. The third part (chapters 20-22) centers on multidisciplinary business modelling progress, in particular on the seminal work of Professor Andrew B. Whinston.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 520 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1st edition (January 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0792375556
• ISBN-13: 978-0792375555
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
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More About the Author

CLYDE W. HOLSAPPLE is a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute.

He holds the Rosenthal Endowed Chair in the University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics. Professor Holsapple earned his Ph.D. at Purdue University, and has formerly held tenured faculty positions at the University of Illinois and Purdue University.

Dr. Holsapple has published over a dozen books, including the classic Foundations of Decision Support Systems (forword by Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon), the 2-volume Handbook on Decision Support Systems, Decision Support Systems - A Knowledge-based Approach, the 2-volume Handbook on Knowledge Management, and Business Expert Systems.

He has authored nearly 150 journal articles across many disciplines, appearing in such publications as Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Group Decision and Negotiation, Communications of the ACM, Operations Research, Organization Science, Journal of Operations Management, Internat. Journal of Logistics Management, Annals of Operations Research, Recherche Operationnelle, Zeitschrift fur Operations Research, Computers and Operations Research, Expert Systems, Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology, Human Communications Research, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Knowledge Management, Knowledge Management Research and Practice, Knowledge and Process Management, Financial Management, Managerial Finance, Computational Economics, Socio-economic Planning Sciences, The Computer Journal, Transactions of the Information Processing Society of Japan, and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Contents of his publications have been cited over 6,000 times.

His 2002 journal article on a new approach to Engineering Ontologies received the ESI Top 1% Designation. This award recognizes a research article that received more citations since 2000 than 99% of all articles published in over 400 journals in its field during the period of 2000 to 2005. Essential Science Indicators are tracked by Thomson-Reuters based on its well-known ISI database of research publications.

His research has been funded by such organizations as the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems, and the Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation. He is recipient of the University of Kentucky's inaugural Robertson Faculty Research Leadership Award, the state of Kentucky's R&D Excellence Award, and several best paper awards in international conferences and journals.

He is Editor-in-Chief of the highly-ranked Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce. He has served as Senior Editor of Information Systems Research; Area Editor of both Decision Support Systems and the INFORMS Journal on Computing; and Associate Editor of both Management Science and Decision Sciences.

Professor Holsapple has chaired over 25 doctoral dissertations, most dealing with decisional issues in the disciplines of knowledge management, supply chain management, and information systems. He is recipient of the 1995 Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Teaching at the University of Kentucky and the 1993 Computer Educator of the Year Award from the International Association for Computer Information Systems.