CHANDRA AMARAVADI

PROFESSOR, WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

CONTACT INFORMATION

EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE/AREAS

CONTACT INFORMATION

Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences
Western Illinois University
Macomb, IL 61455
Phone: (w) 309-298-2034
E-mail: C-amaravadi@wiu.edu
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EDUCATION

PH.D	University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. Major in Management Information Systems, minor in Management and Policy. Dissertation: Towards a Conceptual Model of an Office, An Integrating Approach Advisor: Dr. Joey F. George
MBA	University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Major in Management Information Systems.
B.E.	Andhra University, Waltair, India. Major in Mechanical Engineering. Graduated in First Class with Distinction.

COURSES TAUGHT

Management Support Systems, grad.
Corporate Information Systems, grad.
Introduction to Information Management, grad.
Systems Analysis and Design, sw engrs. (at Cognizant).
Artificial Intelligence, sw engrs. (at Cognizant).
Business Databases, undergrad.
Office Information Systems, undergrad.
Management of Information Technology, undergrad.
Seminar in MIS,undergrad (team teaching).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research can be mainly classified as Desktop support and Executive Support. Historically, I have worked in the OIS area, identifying models for functional support of administrative employees. Of late, this work has involved KM support for professional knowledge and process knowledge. Other OIS related areas of interest are intelligent desktop systems, workflow, information retrieval (digital libraries) and information extraction. With regard to Executive support, research interests include qualitative models of executive information, use of data mining for strategic decision making and organizational histories as it pertains to decision making. This is a laundry list:

KM systems for professional knowledge, knowledge codification,
Workflow models, Process knowledge,
Intelligent desktop systems,
Information extraction,
Data mining applications,
Organizational histories.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOK CHAPTER/JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1.    Amaravadi, C. S., "Exploiting the Strategic Potential of Data Mining,"

       Encyclopaedia of Information Systems and Technology, forthcoming. .

2.    Amaravadi, C. S., "Knowledge Management for Administrative Knowledge,"

       Expert Systems, 25(2), pp 53-61 May 2005.

3.  Amaravadi, C., S., "The Laws of Information Systems," Journal of Management Research,

       4(3), pp. 130-137, December 2004.

4.    Amaravadi, C. S., “Digital Repositories for E-Government,” Electronic

       Government: An International Journal, 2(2), pp. 205-218, 2005.

5.    Amaravadi, C. S.  and  Lee, I. "The Dimensions of Process Knowledge," Knowledge and

       Process Management, 12(1), pp 65-76, January 2005.

6.    Daneshgar, F., and Amaravadi, C. S.,"Sharing Contextual Knowledge in Today’s Workplace

       Environments" with Farhad Daneshgar,  Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management,

       2(1), pp 1-12, 2004.

7.      Amaravadi, C., “The Strategic Utilization of Data Mining: A Porterian Framework,” Encyclopedia

      of Information Systems, Idea Group Publishing, 2004.

8.    Amaravadi, C. S., "World and Business Computing 2051,"  Journal of Strategic

       Information Systems, 12(4), December 2003, pp 373-386.

9.    Lee, I. and Amaravadi, C. S., "An Evolutionary Distributed  Agent System: A Framework and

      Application to Manufacturing Design and Control."  Forthcoming in  Journal of Applied Systems

      Sciences, Special Issue on Living, Evolutionary and Tailorable Information Systems: Development

      Issues and Advanced Applications.

10. Amaravadi, C. and Daneshgar, F., "The Role of Data Mining in Organizational Cognition," Book Chapter in Organizational Data Mining edited by Hamid Nemati and Christopher Barko, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey PA, pp 46-60, 2003.

11. Amaravadi, C. “World and Business Computing 2051” abridged version, MyITAdvisor, Issue 10, January-February 2002. [This is a trade publication]

12. Amaravadi, C., "IS Research Relevance: Improving Consumption," Communications of the AIS, Vol 6, March, 2001.

13. Amaravadi, C.S., George, J.F., Sheng, O.R.L., Nunamaker, J.F., "The Adequacy of Office Models," Advances in Computers, Academic Press, 70+ pages, Vol. 40, pp 182-247, 1995.

14. Amaravadi, C.S., Samaddar, S., Dutta, S., "IMkIS: Computerized Intelligence for Marketing Decision Making," Marketing Intelligence and Planning, May 1995.

15. Sheng, O.R.L., Amaravadi, C.S., Aiken, M., Nunamaker, J.F., "IOIS: A Knowledge Based Approach to an Integrated Office System," DSS Journal, Special issue on Office Systems, June 1992.

16. Amaravadi, C.S., George, J.F., Sheng, O.R.L., Nunamaker, J.F., "AEI: A Knowledge Based Approach to an Integrated Office System," Journal of Management Information Systems, Summer 1992.

17. Amaravadi, C.S., Motiwalla, L.F., "Managerial Roles in Innovation," WIU Journal of Business, 50+ pages, Winter 1990.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

Mangalaraj, G. and Amaravadi, C. S., "Connecting to the Next Generation Mobile Desktop,"  America’s Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS),

August 14-17, 2008.

Amaravadi, C.S., "Can We Codify Professional Knowledge?" Proceedings of IRMA, May 2007, Vancouver, B.C.

Amaravadi, C. S., “Creating Organizational Histories from Electronic Media: Some Issues and Challenges,”

paper accepted for the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in

Organizations, University of Greenwich, London, April 3-6, 2004.

Amaravadi, C. S., “Designing IT Infrastructures for E-Governments: The Case of Digital Repositories,”

International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business,

Education, Medicine and Mobile Technologies on the Internet, L’Aquila, Italy, July 28-August 4.

Daneshgar, F., and Amaravadi, C. S., “An Awareness-based Framework for Extended Office Systems,"

3rd European Conference on Knowledge Management, Trinity College, Dublin, on 24-25

September 2002.

Amaravadi, C. S. “A Process View of Organizational Knowledge,” 3^rd European Conference on Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management, Athens, Greece, Nov 7-8, 2002.

Amaravadi, C. S. “Engineering Administrative Knowledge for Extended Office Systems,” 2^nd European Conference on Knowledge Management, Bled, Slovenia, Nov 7-8, 2001.

Amaravadi, C.S. “The World and Business Computing in 2051,” Fifty years of Business Computing conference, Guildhall, London, U.K., Nov 5-6, 2001.

Amaravadi, C. S. “Planning for Office Information Systems,” IRMA ‘99, Hershey, PA, May 17^th, 1999.

Amaravadi, C. “Research Issues in Office Information Systems,” IFIP WG 8.4/8.5 Joint Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, September 5^th 1998.

Kumar, N. and Amaravadi, C. S. “A Framework for Information Processing in Organizations," Third Australian Conference on Information Systems, October 1992.

Amaravadi, C. S. and Prasad V. "Cognitive Modelling Support for Executives," Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute National Conference (DSI), November 1992.

Amaravadi, C. S. "Pedagogical Implications of Motivational Theories for MIS," Proceedings of the International Academy for Information Management Conference, Chicago, December 1990.

Nunamaker, J. F., Amaravadi, C. S., Motiwalla, L., "OSA: An Office Systems Architecture for Supporting Managerial Activities," U.S. Information Systems Engineering Command's (USAISEC) Technology Strategies Conference, February 1988.

RESEARCH SUMMARIES

CURRENT PROJECTS/WORKING PAPERS

Amaravadi, C. S. "Research Issues in Advanced OIS" OIS_RES.DOC

This paper describes the fifth generation office information systems architecture and identifies the areas of research necessary to bring this vision to reality.

Amaravadi, C. S. "Extracting Organizational Histories from Electronic Media"

This work attempts to extract information from office documents.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Inducted to Phi Kappa Phi, Western Illinois University, April 1st, 2007.
Marquis Who's Who 2005.
Who's Who Among America's Teacher's, 2004, 2005.
Who's Who in Business Higher Education, Golden Key, 2003.
College of Business and Technology Excellence award for Outstanding Research, Western Illinois University, Spring 2002.
£5,000 NCC Best Paper Prize, National Computer Center, U.K., November 5^th, 2001.
Who’s Who in 21^st Century, 2^nd Edition, International Biographical Center, U.K.
Delta Sigma Pi Teacher of the week, Western Illinois University, 10/22/01-12/10/01.
Inducted to Beta Gamma Sigma, Western Illinois University, April 1^st, 2001.
Certificate of Merit for contribution to International Activities, Office of International Students, Western Illinois University, 1998.
Recipient of $15,000 State Farm Distinguished Professor Award, Dept. of IMDS, Western Illinois University, Summer 1992.
Recipient of $2,500 College of Business Research Grant, Western Illinois University, Summer 1991.
Recipient of $2,130 grant from the University Research Council, Western Illinois University, October 1991.

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

Dry Clean City -- Bloomington, Illinois (Sales improvement, database).
Licea Mexicana Canadiense - Limeca, Quaretaro, Mexico (an information system).
IGI Group, Hershey, PA (research trends).
OSQ Corporation, Chicago (high level software design, web site content, development methodology, operational planning).
Cognizant Technologies Corporation, Chennai (applied research in workflow).
Illinois Institute of Technology, Dept of Biotechnology (email with database back end).
University of Arizona, Dept of Pharmacy (bibliographic software selection/installation).
Wellspring Computer Services, Minneapolis (micro-computer applications).

CONSULTING INTERESTS

Applied research in Office systems, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge management.
New product development/brainstorming (software product or any consumer product)
Product specifications (software products or any consumer products).
High level software design.
Product/Technology evaluation (software products/methodologies or any consumer products).