Systems for Analytics, Data Science, & Artificial Intelligence: Systems for Decision Support, Global Edition (PDF)

Ramesh Sharda (MBA, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, Watson/ConocoPhillips Chair, and Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. His research has been published in major journals in management science and information systems, including Management Science, Operations Research, Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Decision Sciences Journal, EJIS, JMIS, Interfaces, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and ACM Database. Dr. Sharda is a member of the editorial boards of journals such as Decision Support Systems, Decision Sciences, and ACM Database. He has worked on many sponsored research projects with government and industry, and has been a consultant to many organizations. He also serves as the faculty director of Teradata University Network. Dr. Sharda received the 2013 INFORMS Computing Society HG Lifetime Service Award, and was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame in 2016. He is a fellow of INFORMS.
Dursun Delen (PhD, Oklahoma State University) is the Spears and Patterson Chair in Business Analytics, Director of Research for the Center for Health Systems Innovation, and Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. Prior to his academic career, he worked for a privately owned research and consultancy company, Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. in College Station, Texas, as a research scientist for five years, during which time he led a number of decision support and other information systems-related research projects funded by federal agencies such as DoD, NASA, NIST, and DOE. Dr. Delen's research has appeared in major journals, including Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Communications of the ACM, Computers and Operations Research, Computers in Industry, Journal of Production