Session 1

8-9:30a

Session 1 A: Personalized Recommendation
Sonoran H (Session Chair: Vijay K. Vaishnavi)

• Zan Huang. Bipartite Graph Sampling Methods for Sampling Recommendation Data
• Pelin Atahan, Monica Johar, and Sumit Sarkar. Optimizing Offer Sets Based on User Profiles
• Abhijeet Ghoshal, Syam Menon, and Sumit Sarkar. Recommendations Using Information from Multiple Association Rules

Session 1 B: Conceptual Modeling Methodologies 
Sonoran I (Session Chair: Padmal K. Vitharana)

• Steven Alter, Narasimha Bolloju, and Douglas Vogel. Linking Work System Analysis and Technical Analysis using a Conceptual Model Underlying the Work System Framework
• Sase Singh, Fei Sun, and Carson Woo. Designing UML Diagrams Using Goal-based Concepts
• Simon K. Milton, Jayantha Rajapakse, and Ron Weber.  Ontological Clarity and Conceptual Model Validation: An Experimental Evaluation
  (*** Nominated for best paper award)

• Coffee Break (Sonoran G)
• Research Prototype, Innovation in Teaching and Industry Best-of-Breed Posters and Demo (Sonoran JK)

Session 2

10:30a-12p

Session 2 A: Health Care
Sonoran H (Session Chair: Roger Chiang)

• Ahmed Abbasi, Siddharth Kaza, and Fatemeh “Mariam” Zahedi.  Evaluating Link-Based Techniques for Detecting Fake Pharmacy Websites
• Wen Yao, Chao-Hsien Chu, Akhil Kumar, and Zang Li.  Using Ontology to Support Context Awareness in Healthcare
• Erik Giesen, Wolfgang Ketter, and Rob Zuidwijk.   An Agent-Based Analysis Approach to Resource Allocation in the Dutch Youth Health Care System

Session 2 B: Data Mining
Sonoran I (Session Chair: Xue Bai)

• Ping Yan and Daniel D. Zeng.  In-store Shopping Activity Modeling based on Dynamic Bayesian Networks
• Yu Fu, Zhiyuan Chen, A. Gunes Koru, and Aryya Gangopadhyay.  A Privacy Protection Technique for Publishing Data Mining Models and Supporting Data
• Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, and Beibei Li. Towards Designing Ranking Systems for Hotels on Travel Search Engines: Combining Text Mining and Image Classification with Econometrics

Welcome remarks and Lunch  (Sonoran G)

Session 3

Session 3 A: Collaborative Filtering
Sonoran H (Session Chair: Thomas Lee)

• Jing Peng and Daniel Zeng. Exploring information hidden in tags: A subject-based item recommendation approach
• Gediminas Adomavicius and YoungOk Kwon. Toward More Diverse Recommendations: Item Re-Ranking Methods for Recommender Systems
  (***Nominated for best paper award)
• Dan Zhu. A Game Theoretical Approach for Defending Against Shilling Attack

Session 3 B: Product Distribution and Diffusion and Supply Networks
Sonoran I (Session Chair: Zhangxi Lin)

• Muhammad Adeel Zaffar, Ram L. Kumar, and Kexin Zhao.  Diffusion of Open Source Software (OSS): An Economics of Social Networks Perspective
• Kang Zhao, Akhil Kumar, and John Yen.  Effect of Topology on the Robustness of a Supply Network – Metrics and Results
• Karl R. Lang, Richard D. Shang, and Roumen Vragov.  Strategies for Providing Digital Culture Goods in the Presence of Consumer Sharing and Content Co-Creation
  (***Nominated for best paper award)

Panel: Application Aware IS Research: Impacts and Contributions. (Sonoran JK)
Panel Chair: Al Hevner; Panelists: Ram Gopal, Matthias Jarke, Sandra Slaughter, and Iris Vessey

WITS Dinner
Venue: Sam’s Café,
Address: Biltmore Fashion Park, 2566 E. Camelback Road, Suite 201, Phoenix, AZ 85016
Phone: (602) 954-7100

Session 4

Session 4 A: Emerging e-Business Models Sonoran H (Session Chair: Radha Mookerjee)

• Linjing Li and Daniel D. Zeng.  Equilibrium Bidding Strategy for GSP Keyword Auctions
  (***Nominated for best paper award)
• Jing Hao, Syam Menon, Srinivasan Raghunathan and Sumit Sarkar. The Impact of Ranking Mechanism on Quality Score and Revenue in Keyword Auctions
• Harpreet Singh, Ram Gopal, and Xinxin Li.  Risk and Return of Investments in Online Peer-to-Peer Lending
  (***Nominated for best paper award)

Session 4 B: Data and Knowledge Management
Sonoran I (Session Chair: Jinsoo Park)

• Sandeep Purao, Arvind Karunakaran, and Brian Cameron. ReKon: Recombinable Knowledge Units for Systems Integration Projects
• Anna Ye Du, Sanjukta Das, Ram Gopal, and Ram Ramesh.   Data and Revenue Management Using Tiered Storage
• Thomas Setzer.  Data Center Workload Consolidation based on Truncated Singular Value Decomposition of Workload Profiles

• Coffee Break  (Sonoran G)
• Research Prototype, Innovation in Teaching and Industry Best-of-Breed Posters and Demo (Sonoran JK)

Session 5

Session 5 A: Text Mining and Web Mining
Sonoran H (Session Chair: Atish Sinha)

• Sandeep Purao, Vijayan Sugumaran, and Veda C. Storey.  From User-Contributed Tags to Domain-level Constructs: A Heuristic Approach
• Thomas H. Park, Jiexun Li, Haozhen Zhao, and Michael Chau.  Analyzing Writing Styles of Bloggers with Different Opinions
• Yilu Zhou. Dealing with Name Translation Variations and Same Name Problem

Session 5 B: Social Computing
Sonoran I (Session Chair: Gautam Pant)

• Ofer Arazy, Arie Croitoru, and Soobaek Jang. The Life Cycle of Corporate Wikis: An Analysis of Activity Patterns
• Abhishek Nagaraj, Amitava Dutta, Priya Seetharaman, and Rahul Roy.  Do Wiki-Pages Have Parents?  An Article-level Inquiry into Wikipedia’s Inequalities
• Jun Liu and Sudha Ram. Who Does What: Collaboration Patterns in the Wikipedia and Their Impact on Data Quality
  (***Nominated for best paper award)

Panel: Emerging IT Challenges in Life Sciences, Biotech, and Pharmaceutical Companies  (Sonoran JK)
Panel Chair: Sudha Ram; Panelists: TBD

Session 6

Session 6 A: Process Management and Quality management
Sonoran H (Session Chair: TBD)

• Harry Jiannan Wang, and Harris Wu.  Supporting Business Process Design through a Web 2.0 Process Repository
• Jiaqi Yan, Sherry Sun, Huaiqing Wang, and Zhongsheng Hua.  A Belief-Desire-Intention Modeling Approach for Inspection-Oriented Quality Management
• Georg Meyer, Gediminas Adomavicius, Paul E. Johnson, Mohamed Elidrisi, Ryan McCabe, Patrick O'Connor, JoAnn Sperl-Hillen, and William Rush.  A Machine Learning Approach to Improving Process Control

Session 6 B: Collaboration, Information Diffusion, and Recommender Systems
Sonoran I (Session Chair: Bin Zhu)

• Aaron R. Sun, Jessie Cheng, and Daniel D. Zeng.  A Novel Recommendation Framework for Micro-blogging based on Information Diffusion (***Nominated for best paper award)
• Young Jin Lee, Yong Tan, and Kartik Hosanagar.   Do I Follow My Friends or the Crowd? Informational Cascades in Online Movie Rating
• Akhmed Umyarov and Alexander Tuzhilin.  Making Aggregate-Level Predictions in Recommender Systems Using Multi-Level Ratings

• Ruba Aljafari, Surendra Sarnikar, and Swetha Vemula. Risk Assessment Tool For Knowledge Sharing In Interorganizational Networks
• J. Leon Zhao, Shaokun Fan, and Daning Hu. A Knowledge Flow Management System For Community Software Development
• Hong Guo, Subhajyoti Bandyopadhyay, and Hsing K. Cheng. A Different Angle On Net Neutrality – Should We Charge Broadband Users Rather Than Content Providers?
• Sudha Ram, Jun Liu, and Arjhun Thiagarajan. PROVISIA: Visualization Of Data Provenance
• Daniel Rudmark, Anders Hjalmarsson, and Linus Andrén. E-Me – Towards A Next Generation Student IS Architecture (***Nominated for best prototype award)
• David Rueckel, Bernhard Pflug, Tobias Noiges, and Katharina Steininger. Buddy Fusion (***Nominated for best prototype award)
• Wael Jabr, Radha Mookerjee, Yong Tan, and Vijay Mookerjee.  An Integrated Model For Customer Service Support: A Queuing Analysis
• Yinping Yang, Sharad Singhal, Rully Santosa, Shixing Yan, and Yong Siang Foo.  Negotiation As A Service: An Agent-Based Negotiation Engine For Online Business (***Nominated for best prototype award)

• Steven Alter. Using “Cash for Clunkers” and Other Current Cases to Teach Database Concepts
• David Douglas and Paul Cronan.  Tyson Foods, Business Intelligence via SAP’s BEx Analyzer
• Justin Greis and V. Ramesh.  An Innovative Approach To Teaching IT Governance, Risk And Controls (***Nominated for best innovation in teaching award)
• Sonja Hecht, Jörg Schmidl, Holger Wittges, and Helmut Krcmar. Extending Business Intelligence Curricula With Dashboard Design (***Nominated for best innovation in teaching award)
• Bipin Prabhakar.  Business Process Integration Project Using SAP
• Harry Jiannan Wang. Teaching Case On SOA And Web Services In A System Analysis And Design Course (***Nominated for best innovation in teaching award)

• Chris Coppola and Anthony Potts.  New Development And Distribution Model For Enterprise Software In Education
• Craig Crawford, Bob Leto, and Todd Smyth.  A Data-driven Approach to IT Cost Optimization
• Heather Czech Matthews.  Communities of Influence at Work: Universities and SAP