Jatinder Gupta (Ed.)
Jatinder (Jeet) N. D. Gupta is currently eminent scholar of management of technology, professor of management
information systems, industrial and systems engineering and engineering management at The University of
Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama. Most recently, he was professor of management, information and
communication sciences, and industry and technology at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. He holds a PhD
in industrial engineering (with specialization in production management and information systems) from Texas
Tech University. Co-author of a textbook in Operations Research, Dr. Gupta serves on the editorial boards of
several national and international journals. Recipient of the Outstanding Faculty and Outstanding Researcher
awards from Ball State University, he has published numerous papers in such journals as Journal of Management
Information Systems, International Journal of Information Management, Operations Research, INFORMS
Journal of Computing, Annals of Operations Research, and Mathematics of Operations Research. More recently,
he served as a co-editor of several special issues including the Neural Networks in Business of Computers and
Operations Research, Semiconductor Wafer Production, special issue of Production Planning and Control,
and Design, Building and Evaluation of Intelligent Decision Making Support Systems: Special Issue of Journal
of Decision Systems. He co-edited books that included Decision Making Support Systems: Achievements and
Challenges for the New Decade and Creating Knowledge-based Healthcare Organizations published by Idea
Group Publishing. He is also the coeditor of the book: Managing E-Business published by Heidelberg Press,
Heidelberg, Australia and the book: Intelligent Decision-making Support Systems, published by Springer. His
current research interests include information security, e-commerce, supply chain management, information
and decision technologies, scheduling, planning and control, organizational learning and effectiveness, systems
education, knowledge management, and enterprise integration. Dr. Gupta has held elected and appointed positions
in several academic and professional societies including the Association for Information Systems, Production and
Operations Management Society (POMS), the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), and the Information Resources
Management Association (IRMA).
Sushil Sharma (Ed.)
Sushil K. Sharma is currently Associate Dean and Professor of Information Systems and Executive Director of the MBA and Certificate Programs at the Miller College of Business, Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana, USA). He co-edited five books that include the
Handbook of Research on Information Assurance and Security and
Creating Knowledge-based Healthcare Organizations. He is also the co-editor of the book:
Managing E-Business (Heidelberg Press, Australia). Dr. Sharma has authored over 100 refereed research papers in many peer-reviewed national and international MIS and management journals, conferences proceedings and books. He serves on editorial boards of several national and international journals and has also edited special issues. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the
International Journal of E-Adoption. His primary teaching and research interests are in e-commerce, computer-mediated communications, community and social informatics, information systems security, e-government, ERP systems, database management systems, cluster computing, Web services and knowledge management. He has a wide consulting experience in information systems and e-commerce and he has served as an advisor and consultant to several government and private organizations including projects funded by the World Bank.