Dr. A. F. Salam
Department of Information Systems and Operation Management
Bryan School of Business and Economics
479, Bryan Building
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27402 (USA)
(336)-334-4991
Email: amsalam@uncg.edu
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 2000-Present Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) – ISOM Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina
August 1997-July 2000 Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) – Department of Computer Information Systems, College of Business and Public Administration, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. Intelligent Multi-agent technology for E-Business incorporating XML, Web Services, ebXML and the Semantic Web
2. Information Assurance and eBusiness Processes
3. Knowledge Management, Knowledge Representation, Ontology-based Modeling and Systems Development, Ontology and XML in E-Business
4. Electronic Commerce, Mobile eCommerce
5. Strategic Application of Internet, Telecommunications Technology and Network Resources
6. Trust and Exchange Relationship in the Digital Economy
7. Information Technology Management, ERP Implementation and Supply Chain Automation
TEACHING INTERESTS
1) Application Development using XML, Java, SOAP and Mobile Computing Technologies for E-Business
2) Networking and Telecommunications Technology
3) Distributed Systems and Architecture
4) Database Management and XML
5) Electronic Commerce
6) Information Technology and Management
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy (Management Information Systems) June, 1998
Minor: Management Science
State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Electronic Commerce
Master of Business Administration (Management Information Systems), February 1995.
State University of New York at Buffalo
Bachelor of Science (Mechanical Engineering), 1989.
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Editorial Experience:
1. Co-Editor of the Edited Book titled “ Semantic Technology and eBusiness: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation” , Idea Group Publishing, Inc., Forthcoming 2006.
2. Co-Guest Editor of the Special Section of the Communications of the ACM on Semantic eBusiness Vision. Forthcoming 2005.
3. Co-Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research on the Exchange Relationship in the Digital Economy.
4. Co-Guest Editor of the Special Section of the Communications of the ACM on Marketing on the Internet.
National and International Conference Track Chair:
1. Track Co-Chair , Semantic eBusiness Mini-Track, Americas Conference in Information Systems (AMCIS 2005), Omaha, Nebraska, August 11-14, 2005.
2. Track Co-Chair , Semantic eBusiness Mini-Track, Americas Conference in Information Systems (AMCIS 2004), New York, August 5-8, 2004.
3. Track Chair, Telecommunications, Enterprise Networks Track of the Annual Global Information Technology Management Association Conference (GITMA), June 2002, New York
4. Track Chair: Telecommunications and Networks Track , Americas Conference in Information Systems (AMCIS)1997
Reviewer for Academic Journals and International Conferences:
1. Communications of the ACM
2. IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernatics
3. Decision Support Systems
4. Information Systems Frontier
5. Journal of Electronic Commerce Research
6. International Journal of Electronic Commerce
7. European Journal of Operational Research
8. Journal of the Academy of the Marketing Science
9. Journal of Research in Electronic Commerce
10. Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences
11. Americas Conference in Information Systems (AMCIS) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2005
12. Annual Global Information Technology Management Association Conference (GITMA), June 2002, New York
REFEREED ACADEMIC JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
1. “Trust in e-commerce” (with Lakshmi Iyer, Prashant Palvia and Rahul Singh) Communications of the ACM . Issue 2, February 2005, Vol. 48, pp. 72-77.
2. “Intelligent Agents in Supporting Information Sharing in B2B eMarketplaces” (with Lakshmi Iyer and Rahul Singh) Information Systems Management, Forthcoming, Vol. 22, No. 3 Summer 2005.
3. “Semantic E-Business,” (with Rahul Singh and Lakshmi Iyer) International Journal on Semantic Web & Information Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan-March 2005, pp. 19-35.
4. “An Extension of the Technology Acceptance Model in an ERP Implementation Environment,” (with Kwasi-Amoako Gyampah) Information and Management, Vol. 41, 2004, pp. 731-745.
5. “Research Methodologies in MIS: An Update,” (with Prashant Palvia, Thomas Leary, En Mao, Vishal Midha and Praveen Pinjani) Communications of the AIS, Vol. 14. 2004, pp. 526-542.
6. “What’s in a Methodology: Methodologies in IS Research,” (with Prashant Palvia, En Mao and Khalid Soliman) Communications of the AIS, Vol. 11, 2003, pp. 289-309.
7. “Intelligent Infomediary-based eMarketplaces: Agents in eSupply Chains,” (with Rahul Singh and Lakshmi Iyer) Accepted for Publication Communications of the ACM (Forthcoming June 2005).
8. “Web Service for Knowledge Management in E-Marketplaces” (with Rahul Singh and Lakshmi Iyer), eService Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1, Fall 2003, pp. 32-52
9. " Consumer-Perceived Risk in Electronic Commerce Transactions" (with H.R. Rao and C.C. Pegels). Communications of the ACM, December 2003/Vol. 46. No.12ve.
10. “ERP Selection at Custom Fabrics” (with Rajeev Sharma and Prashant Palvia). Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2002, pp. 45-59.
11. Editors' Introduction to the Special Section on "Marketing and the Internet," (with Dr. H. R. Rao and Dr. B. Dos Santos) Communications of the ACM, March 1998, Vol. 41, No. 3.
12. "Information Content of Corporate Web Pages as Advertising Media: Are Corporations Effectively Informing Consumers?" (by A. F. Salam, H.R. Rao, C. C. Pegels), in Communications of the ACM, March 1998) (quoted in Arthur Andersen's Knowledge Space: 06/25/98 in an article by Marianthi N. Contos, "Marketing Thursday: Making your Web Site a Draw"; also quoted in a piece aired on National Public Radio (WBFO) July 10, 1998 at 8.00 a.m; Industry Week, July 17, 1998 and Managed Healthcare News, September 15, 1998, Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal, August 25, 1998;Working Woman , November 1998).
13. "Impact of EDI Implementation Commitment and Implementation Success on Competitive Advantage and Firm Performance", with H.R. Rao, C.C. Pegels, K.T. Hwang and V. Sethi, Information Systems Journal, (1995) 5, pp. 185-202.
REFEREED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS- INVITED ARTICLES
1. “Web Services Security” (with Fergle DAubeterre) in the Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government and Mobile Commerce (Editor: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour) Idea Group Publishing, Forthcoming.
2. “Information Assurance e-Healthcare” (with Sherrie Cannoy) in the Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government and Mobile Commerce (Editor: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour) Idea Group Publishing, Forthcoming.
3. “An Intelligent Knowledge-Based Multi-Agent Architecture for Collaboration (IKMAC) in B2B e-Marketplaces,” (with Rahul Singh and Lakshmi Iyer) in the Business Intelligence in the Digital Economy (Editor: Mahesh Raisinghani) Idea Group Publishing: London, 2004.
4. "Internet Involvement: Instrument Development, Measurement and Implications for Electronic Commerce," in the Handbook of Electronic Commerce (with H.R. Rao and C.C. Pegels) (Eds. Michael J. Shaw, Andrew B. Whinston and T. Strader), Springer-Verlag: 2000.
5. “Data Mining Using Neural Networks and Statistical Techniques: A Comparison,” (with Jozef Zurada) in Systems Development Methods For Databases, Enterprise Modeling, And Workflow Management (Eds. Wita Wojtkowski, W. Gregory Wojtknowski, Stanilaw Wrycza and Joze Zupancic) Kluwer Academic: New York, 1999.
6. "Internet Browser," in the Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering ( with Dr. H.R. Rao and M. Agrawal) (Ed. John G. Webster), Wiley: 1999.
REFEREED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
1. “Understanding Trust in Electronic Commerce Relationships,” (with Lakshmi Iyer, Prashant Palvia and Rahul Singh) DSI 2002 Conference (to be presented by Prashant Palvia).
2. “Agents and Web Services in e-Supply Chain,” Published in the Proceedings of the AMCIS 2002 Conference.
3. “To be Trusted or Not to be Trusted: Perceived Risk and Trust in the Context of Electronic Commerce and Exchange Relationship: The Consumers’ Perspective,” (with Lakshmi Iyer and Prashant Palvia) to be Published in the Proceedings of the Global Information Technology Management Conference, Dallas, June 2001.
4. “Exchange Relationship in the B2B Marketplace” with Lakshmi Iyer and Raj Srikant to be Published in the Proceedings of the AMCIS 2001 Conference, Boston, August 2001
5. “Electronic Commerce and Supply Chain Management” (with V.B. Gargeya) Published in the Proceedings of the Global Quest Conference, Puerto Rico, March 2001.
6. "Consumers As Investors: Investor Psychology and The Case of the Internet Industry" (with J. Zurada) Published in the Proceedings of the AMCIS Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 13-15, 1999. Best Paper Selection
7. "Internet-based Technologies: Value Creation for the Customer and the Value Chain Across Industries", (with H.R. Rao and S. Bhattacharjee) to be Published in the Proceedings of the AMCIS Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 13-15, 1999.
8. “An Investigation of Consumer-Perceived Risk on Electronic Commerce Transactions: The Role of Institutional Trust and Economic Incentive In A Social Exchange Framework”,(with H.R. Rao and C.C. Pegels) published in the Proceedings of the Association of Information Systems Fourth Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 15-18, 1998, Baltimore, Maryland.
9. "Internet Involvement: Instrument Development, Measurement and Implications for Electronic Commerce," (with H.R. Rao and C.C. Pegels) published in the Proceedings of the Association of Information Systems Third Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 15-18, 1997, Indianapolis, Indiana.
10. "A Managerial DSS for Network Management Using Resource Utilization Approach," (with S. Bhattacharjee and H.R. Rao ) published in the Proceedings of the Association of Information Systems Third Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 15-18, 1997, Indianapolis, Indiana.
11. "An Exploratory Analysis of Information Content of Corporate Web Pages as Advertising Media," (with H.R. Rao and C.C. Pegels) published in the Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), December 15-18, 1996, Cleveland, Ohio.
12. "Impact of IS Planning and Training on Involvement and Implementation Success of EDI Systems," (with H.R. Rao, C.C. Pegels, K.T. Hwang and V Sethi) published in the Proceedings of the Second Americas Conference on Information Systems, Phoenix, Arizona, August 16-19, 1996.
13. "Electronic Data Interchange: An Investigation of Implementation Success and Competitive Advantage Among Customer-Linked Firms," (with H.R. Rao, .C. Pegels, K.T. Hwang and V. Sethi) published in the Proceedings of the First INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, May 5-8, 1996, Washington D.C.
14. "A Framework For Evaluating Expert Systems Development In Organizations" (with H.R. Rao) Published in the Proceedings of the AI in Business Workshop at the National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, July, 1992. San Jose, California.
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
1. “Understanding Trust in Electronic Commerce Relationships,” (with Lakshmi Iyer, Prashant Palvia and Rahul Singh) DSI 2002 Conference (to be presented by Prashant Palvia).
2. “Agents and Web Services in e-Supply Chain,” Published in the Proceedings of the AMCIS 2002 Conference.
3. “Electronic Commerce and Supply Chain Management” (with V.B. Gargeya) Presented in the Global Quest Conference, Puerto Rico, March 2001.
4. " Consumers As Investors: Investor Psychology: The Case of the Internet Industry" (with J. Zurada) to be Presented in at the AMCIS Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 13-15, 1999.
5. "Internet-based Technologies: Value Creation for the Customer and the Value Chain Across Industries", (with H.R. Rao and S. Bhattacharjee) to be Presented at the AMCIS Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 13-15, 1999.
6. An Investigation of Consumer-Perceived Risk on Electronic Commerce Transactions: The Role of Institutional Trust and Economic Incentive In A Social Exchange Framework”, (with H.R. Rao and C.C. Pegels) Presented at the Association of Information Systems Fourth Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 15-18, 1998, Baltimore, Maryland.
7. "Internet Involvement: Instrument Development, Measurement and Implications for Electronic Commerce," (with H.R. Rao and C.C. Pegels) Presented at the Association of Information Systems Third Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 15-18, 1997, Indianapolis, Indiana.
8. "A Managerial DSS for Network Management Using Resource Utilization Approach," (with S. Bhattacharjee and H.R. Rao ) published in the Proceedings of the Association of Information Systems Third Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 15-18, 1997, Indianapolis, Indiana.
9. "An Exploratory Analysis of Information Content of Corporate Web Pages as Advertising Media," (with H.R. Rao and C.C. Pegels) Presented at the Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), December 15-18, 1996, Cleveland, Ohio.
10. "Impact of IS Planning and Training on Involvement and Implementation Success of EDI Systems," (with H.R. Rao, C.C. Pegels, K.T. Hwang and V. Sethi) Presented at the Second Americas Conference on Information Systems, Phoenix, Arizona, August 16-19, 1996.
11. "Electronic Data Interchange: An Investigation of Implementation Success and Competitive Advantage Among Customer-Linked Firms," (with H.R. Rao, C.C. Pegels, K.T. Hwang and V. Sethi) Presented at the INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, May 5-8, 1996
12. "A Framework For Evaluating Expert Systems Development In Organizations" (with H.R. Rao) Presented at the AI in Business Workshop at the National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, July, 1992.
GRANTS
1. UNCG EPDIP Grant : $50, 000. April 2003 to August 2004.
2. “E-Business and Supply Chain Management,” (with V.B. Gargeya): Grant from the Education and Research Foundation of the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) (2000-2001)
3. Faculty Development Grant: Bryan School of Business and Economics (2000-2001)
4. New Faculty Research Grant: University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2000-2001)
5. Faculty Research Initiation Grant: University of Louisville (Spring 1999) with Dr. J. Zurada. This is a $4,000 grant ( with matching fund from the College of Business ) for research using Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic modeling to investigate the Business Performance and Investor Psychology of Pure Internet companies.
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A. F. Salam,
MBA, PhD Assistant Professor Information Systems and Operations Management Department Bryan School of Business and Economics The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Phone: (336) 334-4991 Fax: (336)-334-4083 e-mail: amsalam@uncg.edu |
