Ramesh Sharda (MBA, PhD, University of Wisconsin—Madison) is Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, Watson/ConocoPhillips Chair, and Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. His research has been published in major journals in management science and information systems, including Management Science, Operations Research, Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Decision Sciences Journal, EJIS, JMIS, Interfaces, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and ACM Database.

Dursun Delen (PhD, Oklahoma State University) is the Spears and Patterson Chair in Business Analytics, Director of Research for the Center for Health Systems Innovation, and Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. Prior to his academic career, he worked for a privately owned research and consultancy company, Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. in College Station, Texas, as a research scientist for five years, during which time he led a number of decision support and other information systems—related research projects funded by federal agencies such as DoD, NASA, NIST, and DOE. Dr. Delen’s research has appeared in major journals, including Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Communications of the ACM, Computers and Operations Research, Computers in Industry,

Efraim Turban (MBA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is a visiting scholar at the Pacific Institute for Information System Management, University of Hawaii. Prior to this, he was on the staff of several universities, including City University of Hong Kong; Lehigh University; Florida International University; California State University, Long Beach; Eastern Illinois University; and the University of Southern California.

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