Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science: A Managerial Perspective

projects funded by several federal agencies including Department of Defense (DoD), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO), and Department of Energy (DOE). Dr. Delen has published more than 100 peer reviewed articles, some of which have appeared in major journals like Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Communications of the ACM, Computers and Operations Research, Computers in Industry, Journal of Production Operations Management, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Expert Systems with Applications, and IEEE Wireless Communications. He recently authored/co-authored seven textbooks in the broad areas of business analytics, data mining, text mining, business intelligence and decision support systems. He is often invited to national and international conferences for keynote addresses on topics related to data/text mining, business analytics, decision support systems, business intelligence and knowledge management. He served as the general cochair for the Fourth International Conference on Network Computing and Advanced Information Management (September 24, 2008, in Soul, South Korea) and regularly chairs tracks and mini-tracks at various information systems and analytics conferences. He is currently serving as editor-in-chief, senior editor, associate editor or editorial board member for more than a dozen academic journals. His research and teaching interests are in data and text mining, business analytics, decision support systems, knowledge management, business intelligence, and enterprise modeling.

Efraim Turban (M.B.A., Ph.D., 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. Dr. Turban is the author of more than 100 refereed papers published in leading journals, such as "Management Science", "MIS Quarterly", and "Decision Support System". He is also the author of 20 books, including "Electronic Commerce: A Managerial Perspective" and "Information Technology for Management". He is also a consultant to major corporations worldwide. Dr. Turban's current areas of interest are Web-based decision support systems, social commerce, and collaborative decision making.