VARGHESE S. JACOB is a Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Management Information
Systems in the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD).
Prior to joining UTD, he was an Associate Professor at the Max M. Fisher College
of Business at Ohio State University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Purdue University.
His research interests are in the areas of artificial intelligence, data quality,
decision support systems, and electronic commerce. His publications include articles
in Management Science, Information Systems Research, Decision Support
Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, European Journal
of Operational Research, Psychometrika, Group Decision and Negotiation and International
Journal of Man-Machine Studies. He is the coeditor-in-chief of Information Technology
and Management and serves as an associate editor for Decision Support Systems.
He also serves on the editorial board of Information Systems Frontiers: A Journal
of Research and Innovation.