Management & Organizations Faculty : Amar Gupta

Thomas R. Brown Chair in Management and Technology Professor of Entrepreneurship, Management and Organizations, MIS, Computer Science, and Latin American Studies Founder and Head, Nexus for Entrepreneurship and Technology (NEXT) Initiative   Ph.D. in Computer Science, IIT, Delhi, 1980 S.M. in Management, MIT, 1980 B. Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT, Kampur, 1974    Phone: 520.626.9842 Fax: 520.621.8105 Email: gupta@eller.arizona.edu Office: McClelland Hall, Room 202E

Curriculum Vitae

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Teaching Interests

• Outsourcing
• Information Technology
• Knowledge-Based Systems
• Entrepreneurship

Areas of Expertise/Research

• Outsourcing
• Information Technology
• Knowledge-Based Systems
• Entrepreneurship
• 24-Hour Knowledge Factory

Publications and Working Papers

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Books (partial list)

Outsourcing and Offshoring of Professional Services: Business Optimization in a Global Economy (editor), Information Science Reference: Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2008

Knowledge Reuse and Agile Processes: Catalysts for Innovation (with Amit Mitra), IGI Global: Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2008

Creating Agile Business Systems with Reusable Knowledege (with Amit Mitra), Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, England, 2007

Agile Systems with Reusable Patterns of Business Knowledge - a Component Based Approach (with Amit Mitra), Artech House Press: Boston, Massachusetts, 2006

Integration of Information Systems: Bridging Heterogeneous Databases (editor), IEEE Press: New York, NY, 1989.

Principles of Expert Systems (editor - with B.E. Prasad), IEEE Press: New York, NY, 1988.

Microcomputer Based Expert Systems (editor - with B.E. Prasad), IEEE Press: New York, NY, 1988.

Multi-Microprocessors (editor), IEEE Press: New York, NY, 1988.

Advanced Microprocessors - Volume II (editor), IEEE Press: New York, NY, 1987.

Chapters in Books (partial list)

“Data Mining and Data Fusion for Enhanced Decision Support” (with S. Khan and A. Ganguly), to appear in Handbook on Decision Support Systems, International Handbook on Information Systems, edited by J. P. Holsapple and F. Burstein, Springer-Verlag.

“Creating Knowledge for Decision Making through Planning and Forecasting” (with S. Khan and A. Ganguly), in Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, edited by D. Schwartz, Idea Group Inc., July 2005.

“Data Mining and Decision Support for Business and Science” (with S. Khan and A. Ganguly), in Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, edited by J. Wang, Idea Group Inc., June 2005.

"Neural Network-Based Data Mining Techniques for Steel Making" (with R.K. Sarma, and S. Vadhavkar), in Statistical Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, edited by H. Bozdogan, CRC Press 2004, Chapter 24, pp. 401-414.

"Knowledge Management for Integrating Heterogeneous Databases" (with Bhavani Thuraisingham, Elisa Bertino and Elena Ferari) in Heterogeneous Information Exchange and Organizational Hubs, edited by Bestougeff, Dubois and Thuraisingham, Kluwer, Academic Publishers, 2002.

"Data Mining for Diverse E-Commerce Applications" (with Sanjeev Vadhavkar and Jason Yeung), in E-Commerce and Intelligent Methods, published by the Springer-Verlag Group (Physica-Verlag) in the series "Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing", Series Editor J.Kacprzyk, 2002.

Articles

“A Voice-Based Approach for Surmounting Spatial and Temporal Separations” (with K. O’Toole, S. Subramanian, and N. Denny), Journal of Information Technology Research, April-June 2008.

“Leveraging Knowledge Reuse and System Agiliy in the Outsourcing Era” (with I. Crk, D. Sorenson, and A. Mitra), Journal of Information Technology Research, April-June 2008.

“Hybrid Offshoring: Composite Personae and Evolving Collaboration Technologies” (with N. Denny, S. Mani, R. Sheshu, M. Swaminathan, and J. Samdal), Journal of Information Technology Research, January-March 2008.

“Agile Software Processes for the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory Environment” (with N. Denny, I. Crk, and R. Sheshu), Information Resources Management Journal, January-March 2008.

“The Role of Information Resources in Enabling the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory” (with S. Seshasai), Information Resources Management Journal, Vol. 20 (4), October-December 2007, pp 105-127.

“Expanding the 24-Hour Workplace” The Wall Street Journal, September 15, 2007.

“24-Hour Knowledge Factory: Using Internet Technology to Leverage Spatial and Temporal separations” (with S. Seshasai), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Vol. 7 (3), August 2007, pp 1-22.

“Offshoring: The Transition from Economic Drivers toward Strategic Global Partnership and 24-Hour Knowledge Factory” (with S. Seshasai, S. Mukherji, and A. Ganguly), Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, Vol. 5 (2), April-June 2007, pp 1-23

"Sistema de reconocimiento de caracteres para la lectura autom•tica de cheques" (with R. Palacios), Anales de Mecanica y Electricidad, 2003.

"A Knowledge Based Approach To Facilitate Engineering Design" (with S. Seshasai), Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2003.

"Selective and Authentic Third-party Distribution of XML Documents" (with E. Bertino, B. Carminati, E. Ferrari, and B. Thuraisingham), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Forthcoming.

"Feedback based architecture for reading courtesy amounts on checks" (with R. Palacios and P. Wang), The Journal of Electronic Imaging, 12(1), Jan 2003, pp 194-202.

"Handwritten Bank Check Recognition of Courtesy Amounts" (with R. Palacios and P. Wang), Accepted for publication in International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG), 2003.

"An Integrated and Collaborative Framework for Business Design: A Knowledge Engineering Approach" (with S. Seshasai and A. Kumar), Data and Knowledge Engineering, Special Issue on Business Process Technologies, Accepted on December 1, 2003.

"The Critical Role of Trusted Agents", Sloan Management Review, Volume 43, No. 4, Summer 2002, pp. 94-95.

"Collaborative Commerce and Knowledge Management" (with E. Bertino, E. Ferrari, and B. Thuraisingham), The Journal of Knowledge and Process Management, Volume 9, Issue 1, 2002.

"The Evolution of the High-End Computing Market in the United States" (with S.
Deshpande, and R. Foster), The International Journal of Technology Management (IJTM), Volume 23, No. 8, Spring, 2002.

"A Four-Faceted Knowledge Based Approach to Surmounting National and Other Borders", The Journal of Knowledge Management, Volume 5, No. 4, 2001.

"A Self-Configuring and Self-Administering Name System with Dynamic Address
Assignment", (with P. Huck, M. Butler, and M. Feng), Transactions on Internet Technology (ACM-TOIT), Volume 1, No. 4, 2001.

Conference Proceedings

"Offshoring and Transfer of Intellectual Property" (with G. Wiederhold and E. Neuhold), presented at SEAFOOD (First International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development), Zurich, February 2007 (to be published in a Springer Volume, Editors Mathai Josef and Bertrand Meyer).

"Training Neural Networks for Reading Handwritten Amounts on Checks" (with R. Palacios), IEEE International Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing, 2003.

"Reducing Impediments to Collaboration in A Virtual Design World" (with S. Seshasai, and T. Sainath) Virtual Worlds Conference, San Antonio, 2002.

"SSPARCy: A System for Automated Design Data and Rationale Capture" (with S. Seshasai, J. Yeung, and T. Sainath) Virtual Worlds Conference, San Antonio, 2002.

"Neural Networks Based Data Mining Techniques For Steel Making" (with R.K. Sarma, and S. Vadhavkar) Knoxville, Warren Neel Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, June 22-25, 2002

"Neural Networks in Optimization of Safety Logic", (with N. Agarwal, A. Ferriere, and B. English), Warren Neel Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Knoxville, June 22-25, 2002.

"The Introduction of Neural Networks in the Optimization of Runway Safety Logic", (with B. English and V. Mehta), Presented at the Integrated CNS Technologies Conference, Washington D.C., 2002.

"Why the Information Explosion Can Be Bad for Data Mining, and How Data Fusion Provides a Way Out", (with P. Van der Putten, and J. Kok), Second SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Arlington, April 11-13, 2002.

"Directions for Web and E-Commerce Applications Security", (with B. Thuraisingham, C. Clifton, E. Bertino, and E. Ferrari), Tenth IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), Cambridge, June 2001.

"Integrated Framework to Support Distributed CAD over the Internet", (with S. Vadhavkar, F. Pena-Mora, and J.Yeung), Tenth IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), Cambridge, June 2001.

Technical Reports and Working Papers

Self-configuration and Self-Administration of Wirelss Grids (with A. Agarwal and D. Norman), MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4460-04, 2004.

Wireless Grids: Approaches, Architectures and Technical Challenges (with A. Agarwal and D. Norman), MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4459-04, 2004.

Toward the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory (with S. Seshasai), MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4455-04, 2004.

Global Outsourcing of Professional Services (with S. Seshasai), MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4456-04, 2004.

Training Neural Networks for Reading Handwritten Amounts on Checks (with R. Palacios), MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4365-02, 2002.

A Knowledge Based Approach to Facilitate Enginering Design (with Satwik Seshasai), MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4381-02, 2002.

Using Structural Analysis to Mediate XML Semantic Interoperability (with A. Mishra and M. Ripley), MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4345-02, 2002.

Professional Associations and Editorial Boards

• Association for Computing Machinery Transactions on Internet Technology, Associate Editor
• Journal of Information Resources and Management Association, Associate Editor
• Journal of Economic Commerce in Organizations, Guest Editor, Vol 5(2), Apr-June 2007
• Information Resource Management Journal, Guest Editor (w/Satwik Seshasai), Vol 20(4), Oct-Dec, 2007
• Journal of Information Technology Research, Guest Editor, Jan-Mar 2008
• ACM Transaction on Internet Technology, Guest Editor (w/Satwik Seshasai), Vol 7(3), Aug 2007
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Senior Member

Awards and Publicity

• IBM Faculty Award, 2007 and 2008
• Receipient of Thomas R. Brown Foundation Endowment Gift, 2007
• Prominent Person at Tech Savvy MBA School, Business 2.0 Magazine , 2001
• "The New Brahmins", Boston Magazine, 1996
• "System and Method for Character Recognition with Normalization Patent", 1997
• U.S. Department of Transportation Achievement Award for "Telecommunications Information Management Systems" initiative, 1992
• Brooks Prize, Honorable Mention, 1980
• Rotary Award for International Understanding, 1979-1980