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AI Agency Risks and Their Mitigation Through Business Process Management: A Conceptual Framework

Description: This article builds on agency theory and identify factors that increase the risk of an agency problem between a principal (a human or an organization) and an AI agent and propose a framework for AI agency problem analysis. The framework is illustrated through AI use cases and industry examples. Implications for AI governance research and practice are discussed. It was presented at the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Date: January 8, 2019
Creator: Sidorova, Anna & Rafiee, Dana
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Cognitive biases resulting from the representativeness heuristic in operations management: an experimental investigation

Description: This article investigates the six cognitive biases resulting from the use of the representativeness heuristic, namely, insensitivity to prior probability of outcomes, insensitivity to sample size, misconception of chance, insensitivity to predictability, the illusion of validity, and misconception of regression. Specifically, the authors examine how cognitive reflection and training affect these six cognitive biases in the operations management context.
Date: April 10, 2019
Creator: AlKhars, Mohammed; Evangelopoulos, Nicholas; Pavur, Robert J. & Kulkarni, Shailesh S.
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Confirmatory Influence of Trust in E-commerce: A Data Collection Bias and Suggestion

Description: Article explores the importance of investigating the impact of trust on intention to purchase from both successful and unsuccessful purchase cases in order to provide a more balanced view of the critical role of trust in e-commerce transaction decisions.
Date: January 7, 2020
Creator: Kim, Dan J. & Ogbanufe, Obi
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Continued Usage and Location Disclosure of Location-Based Applications: A Necessity for Location Intelligence

Description: This article's research builds a continuance usage and location disclosure model from the expectation-confirmation perspective. The effect of benefit expectations on usefulness and satisfaction is hypothesized. In addition, the positive effect of usefulness on satisfaction and continuance intention is postulated. Findings contribute to the current literature in business intelligence by focusing on location disclosure behavior in the context of LBAs and the necessity of this type of information… more
Date: January 8, 2019
Creator: Peak, Daniel; Mousavizadeh, Mohammadreza & Koohikamali, Mehrdad
Partner: UNT College of Business

Creating a Collaborative Online Project for an MBA Core course

Description: Poster presented as part of the 2012 University Forum on Teaching & Learning at UNT. This poster discusses creating a collaborative online project for an MBA core course. Traditional face-to-face classes offer the rich interactive experience gained through collaborative group projects.
Date: March 28, 2012
Creator: Evangelopoulos, Nicholas & Jayakumar, Jay
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Dynamic Interactive Visualizations: Implications of Seeing, Doing, and Playing for Quantitative Analysis Pedagogy

Description: Article presents a sample of dynamic interactive visualizations of relatively complex quantitative topics in statistics, operations management, and management science and discuss their implications for pedagogy for undergraduate and graduate students.
Date: May 16, 2019
Creator: Kulkarni, Shailesh S.; Mai, Bin; Amirkiaee, S. Yasaman & Tarakci, Hakan
Partner: UNT College of Business
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An empirical Bayes approach to incorporating demand intermittency and irregularity into inventory control

Description: Article asserts that spare parts inventory management is complex due to the combined impact of intermittent and variable demand patterns. This study proposes a novel nonparametric Bayesian forecasting approach with its roots in the empirical Bayes paradigm.
Date: June 8, 2022
Creator: Ye, Yuan; Lu, Yonggang; Robinson, Powell & Narayanan, Arunachalam
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Error and optimism bias regularization

Description: Article describes how in Machine Learning, prediction quality is usually measured using different techniques and evaluation methods. This paper will introduce a simple regularization term to manage the number of over-predicted/under-predicted instances in a regression model.
Date: January 28, 2023
Creator: Sohaee, Nassim
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Introduction to the Minitrack on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics Management, Governance, and Compliance

Description: This article is an introduction to the Minitrack on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics Management, Governance, and Compliance at the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Date: January 7, 2020
Creator: Sidorova, Anna; Saltz, Jeffrey & Goul, Michael
Partner: UNT College of Business
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An Investigation of Predictors of Information Diffusion in Social Media: Evidence from Sentiment Mining of Twitter Messages

Description: Article is a study examining how emotional arousal influences information diffusion in social media using a sentiment mining approach. The authors propose a research model and test it using data collected from Twitter.
Date: January 7, 2020
Creator: Kim, Dan J. & Salehan, Mohammad
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Is Print REALLY Dead? Exploring the Relationship between the Technology Acceptance Model and Use of E-books at a Large Research University

Description: Poster presented at the 2017 ALA Annual Conference. This poster summarizes the application of the technology acceptance model to the use of e-books at a large research university.
Date: June 24, 2017
Creator: Smith, Susan; Rodriguez, Allyson; Dewitt-Miller, Erin; Xu, Lu & Billings, Emily
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Mechanisms of Social Interaction and Virtual Connections as Strong Predictors of Wellbeing of Older Adults

Description: Article examining the domains of social determinants of health, specifically the social and community context per Healthy People 2030 objectives. These mechanisms of social interaction, in the form of group activities, community engagement, and virtual interactions via email or text message, were assessed using hierarchical regression analysis to find out their association with wellbeing, depression symptoms, and cognition of older adults.
Date: March 16, 2022
Creator: Sen, Keya; Prybutok, Victor R.; Prybutok, Gayle & Senn, William
Partner: University of North Texas
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Role of Electronic Healthcare Record Adoption in Enhancing the Relationship between Quality Measures and Hospital Financial Performance

Description: Article asserts that the most significant government-mandated technology is the implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). The present research examines EHR through the lens of Resource Advantage Theory –– to empirically assess how partial and comprehensive implementation levels of EHR adoption influence quality management and financial performance of hospitals.
Date: November 16, 2022
Creator: Malhan, Amit; Pavur, Robert J.; Pelton, Lou E. & Manuj, Ila
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Towards a Dimensional Model for Community Knowledge

Description: Poster paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper proposes a dimensional model with "aspects of a corpus, such as topic or opinion, as derived star schema dimensions." Focusing on a case study on Twitter the paper demonstrates how the derived dimensions, combined with transactional facts and derived facts can uncover "the collective tacit knowledge in Twitter communities."
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Shakeri, Shadi & Evangelopoulos, Nicholas
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Vice or Virtue? Exploring the Dichotomy of an Offensive Security Engineer and Government “Hack Back” Policies

Description: This article uses the virtue (ethics) theory and cyber attribution to argue that there exists a dichotomy among offensive security engineers, one that appreciates organizational security practices, but at the same time violates ethics in how to retaliate against a malicious attacker.
Date: January 7, 2020
Creator: Parrish, James L.; Withers, Kim L.; Smith, James N. & Ellis, Timothy J.
Partner: UNT College of Business
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