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Stevens Institute of Technology

Edward A. Stohr
923 Washington Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Home Phone: 201-659-4996

U.S. Citizen
Present Position
Professor, Co-Director, Center for Technology Management Research
Howe School of Technology Management
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken NJ 07030
Phone: (201) 216 -8915
Fax: (201) 216-5385
E-mail: estohr@stevens.edu

Professional  Interests

Research 
Business Process Management and Workflow Automation, Project Management,  Decision Support Systems
Teaching
Business Process Management, Decision Support Systems

Education

Ph.D.

   1973

   University of California, Berkeley

   Business Administration

M.B.A.

   1969

   University of California, Berkeley

   Managerial Economics

B.C.E.

   1959

   Melbourne University, Australia

   Civil Engineering

Professional Society Memberships (current)

  • Member, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Founding Member, Association for Information Systems (AIS)
  • Founding Member, Vice Chair, Technology Management Education Association (TMEDA).
  • Founding Member and Chair, AIS Special Interest Group for ICT in Global Development (SIG GlobDev)

Managerial and Professional Experience

Industry Positions Held

1967               Cost Control Engineer
                       Dominion Textile Co., Ltd., Montreal, Canada

1966               Assistant Project Engineer
                       Walsh‑Canadian Construction Co. Ltd., Montreal, Canada
 
1965-1966      Diploma of Business Administration,
                       University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
 
1963-1965      Design engineer
                       G. Maunsell and Partners, Consulting Engineers, London, England
 
1961-1963      Engineer‑in‑Charge, Field Group `A'
                       Snowy Mountains Hydro‑Electric Authority, NSW, Australia
 
1958-1961      Design Engineer
                       Snowy Mountains Hydro‑Electric Authority, NSW, Australia

Consulting

  • A Bond Refunding Scheme" for a Chicago‑based financial consulting company.
  • "Investigation of the Status of Information Systems" for AMTRAK.
  • "Investigation of a Purchasing System" for a small Chicago manufacturing company.
  • Running a business game for American Hospital Supply Corporation.
  • Design of a multi‑level distribution system and inventory control procedures for Boise Cascade Office Products Division.
  • Design of a Micro‑computer‑based data base management system for a New York art gallery.
  • Design and construction of a large DSS system for Wagner Division of Cooper Industries.

MIS Curriculum Consultation

  • Buffalo State College
  • University of Hartford
  • University of Southern Illinois              
  • Bryant College, Rhode Island
  • Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
  • GSIA, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Georgia State University
  • University of Connecticut
  • Florida International University

Academic and Teaching Experience

2001–            Information Management Program
                      Stevens Institute of Technology

                      Associate Dean for Research and Academics (2001-2006)
                      Co-Director, Center for Technology Management Research (2001 – present)


1979-2000     Information Systems Department
                      Stern School of Business, New York University.

                      Chair, Information Systems Department (1984-95)
                      Director, Center for Research in Information Systems (1996 - 99)


1977-1979     Associate Professor of Decision Sciences,
                      Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.
 
1973-1977     Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences
                      Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.
 
1973-1973      Instructor, University of California, Berkeley.
 
1969-1973      Full‑time course work leading to Ph.D. in Business Administration, 
                      University of California, Berkeley
 
1967-1969      Full‑time course work leading to a degree  of Master of Business                        
                      Administration, University of California, Berkeley.

Visiting Appointments at Other Academic Institutions

2005               Visiting Professor, University of Melbourne, (July-August, 2005)

1996               Visiting Professor, University of Economics and Business, Vienna
                      (Summer)

1996               Visiting Professor, ISMT Department, Hong University of Science and
                      Technology (Spring)

1987               Visiting Professor, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France (Summer)

 

Teaching 

Courses Taught at the Howe School

Howe School of Technology Management

MS in IS:               MIS 710 Business Process Innovation and Management

PhD:                     Mgt 726 Business Process Management
                             Mgt 716 Research Seminar

Other Teaching Experience

Stern School of Business, 1979-2001

Undergraduate:    Systems Analysis and Design
                             Systems Implementation

MBA:                     Management Information Technology and Systems (core course)
                             Decision Support Systems
                             Database Management Systems
                             Simulation
                             Management Information Systems (M.S. in Accounting core course))
                             Introduction to Operations Management
                             Information Systems in Operations Management
                             Information Technology in Service Organizations
                             Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

Executive MBA:     Management Information Systems

PhD:                     Systems Development Technologies
                             Decision Theory
                             Decision Support Systems
                            

Teaching Honors and Awards

  • Citibank Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stern School of Business

Dissertations Chaired

  • Levent Orman (Cornell University)
  • Mohan Tanniru (University of Arizona, Tucson)
  • Jae B. Lee (Seoul University)
  • Tawfic Jelassi (Dean, ENPC, Paris, France)
  • Meral Binbasioglu (Pace University)
  • Pai-chun Ma (Baruch College, CUNY)
  • Randolph H. Forsstrom (Bergen Community College)
  • Ajay Asthana (IBM - consultant)
  • Yong-beom Kim (Fairleigh Dickinson University)
  • S. Bhasker (Industry - UNDP)
  • Raghav Madhavan (Morgan Stanley)
  • Marios Koufaris (Baruch)
  • Ravi Aron (Wharton)
  • Sivakumar Viswanathan (University of Maryland)
  • Arnold Kamis (Bentley College)
  • Paul Rohmeyer (Co-Chair – Stevens Institute)
  • Wayne Huang (Industry)
  • Vincent Santa Maria (Industry)
  • Bonnie Netschert (Industry)
  • Herman Dolezal (Industry)
  • Rajkumar Kempaiah (Co-Chair - College of Mount St. Vincent)
  • Christine Bullen (Co-Chair - Stevens Institute of Technology)

Research

Publications 

 

Refereed Journal Articles 

  • Davern, M.J., R. Mantena, and E.A. Stohr, “Diagnosing Decision Quality.” Decision Support Systems, 45 (2008) 123–139
  • Kamis, Arnold A, Stohr, Edward A. "Parametric Search Engines: What Makes them Effective when Shopping Online for Differentiated Products," Information & Management, vol. 43, no. 7, 904-918, 2006.
  • Michael zur Muehlen, Edward A. Stohr, “Internet-enabled Workflow Management”. Editorial to the Special Issue, Business Process Management Journal, 11 (2005), no. 3, 216-217
  • Lechler, T., B. Ronen and E.A. Stohr. “Critical Chain: A New Project Management Paradigm or Old Wine in New Bottles?” Journal of Engineering Management, December 2005.
  • John Gorgone, Paul Gray, Edward A. Stohr, Rolf T. Wigand,and Joseph S. Valacich. “MSIS 2006 Curriculum Preview.” Communications of the Association for Information Systems. Volume 15 Article 30, 2005
  • Bieber, M., D. Engelbart, R. Furuta, S.R. Hiltz, J. Noll, J. Preece, E.A. Stohr, M. Turoff, and B. Van de Walle, “Towards Virtual Community Knowledge Evolution,” Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 18, No. 4, Spring 2002, pp. 10 - 35.
  • Stohr, E.A. and J.L. Zhao, “Workflow Automation: Overview and Research Issues”. Information Systems Frontiers, August 2001.
  • Zhao, J.L., A. Kumar, A. and E.A. Stohr, "Workflow-centric Communication Mechanisms for Organizational Knowledge Distribution," Journal of Management Information Systems, Winter 2000, Vol. 17, No 3, pp. 45-72.
  • Gorgone, J.T. and P. Gray (Co-chairs), D.L. Feinstein, G.M.Kasper, J.N. Luftman, E.A.  Stohr, J.S. Valacich, and R.T. Wigand, "MSIS 2000: Model Curriculum and Guidelines for Graduate Programs in Information Systems," Communications of the AIS, Volume 3, Article 1, January 2000.
  • Stohr, E.A., and J.L. Zhao, "Temporal Workflow Management in a Claim Handling System," Software Engineering Notes, March 1999, Vol.24, No.2, pp.187-95. (Also appeared in: International Joint Conference on Work Activities Coordination and Collaboration. WACC'99, San Francisco, CA, USA, 22-25 Feb. 1999.)
  • Kim, Y., and E.A. Stohr, “Software Reusability: Survey and Research Directions”. Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 14, No. 4, Spring 1998, pp. 113-148.
  • Murphy, F.H., Pai-chun Ma, and E.A. Stohr, “An Implementation of LPFORM,” ORSA Journal of Computing, Vol. 10, No. 3, 1995.Isakowitz, T. and E.A. Stohr, and P. Balasubramanian, “RMM: A Method for Designing Hypermedia Applications,” Communications of the ACM, August 1995.
  • Murphy, F.H., Pai-chun Ma, and E.A. Stohr, “Composition Rules for Building Linear Programming Models from Component Models,” Management Science Vol. 38, No. 7, July 1992.
  • Murphy, F.H., E.A. Stohr, E.A. and A. Asthana, “Representation Schemes for Mathematical Programming,” Management Science, Vol. 38, No. 7, July 1992.   
  • Murphy, F.H., Pai-chun Ma, and E.A. Stohr, “A Graphics Interface for Linear Programming,” Communications of the ACM, Vol 32, No 8, 1989, pp. 996-1012.
  • Stohr, E.A., “A Mathematical Programming Generator System,” APL Quote Quad, Vol. 20, No. 1, September 1989, pp. 6-14.
  • Murphy, F.H., Pai-chun Ma, and E.A. Stohr, “Representing Knowledge About Linear Programming Formulations,” Annals of Operations Research, Vol 21, 1989, pp. 149-172. 
  • Murphy, F.H., Pai-chun Ma,  and E.A. Stohr, “Computer-Assisted Formulation of Linear Programs,” IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, Vol 2, No. 1. September, 1987,  pp. 147-161. 
  • Murphy, F. H. and E.A. Stohr, “An Intelligent System for Formulating Linear Programs,” Decision Support Systems, Vol 2, No 1, Jan. 1986.
  • Stohr, E.A., J.A. Turner,J.A., M. Jarke, Y. Vassiliou, and N.H. White, “A Field Evaluation of Natural Language for Data Retrieval,” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, SE‑11, No. 1, January 1985, pp. 97‑114.
  • Jarke, M., M.T. Jelassi, and E.A. Stohr, “Designing a Generalized Multiple Criteria Decision Support System,” Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 24‑43, 1985.
  • Vassiliou,Y., M.  Jarke,M., E.A.  Stohr, J.A. Turner, and N.H. White, “Natural Language for Database Queries ‑ A Laboratory Study,”  MIS Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 4 (1983), pp. 47-61.
  • Stohr, E.A. and N.H. White, “User Interfaces for Decision Support Systems: An Overview,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Information Systems, Vol. 6, No. 4, 1982.
  • Stohr, E.A. and M. Tanniru, “A Data Base for Operations Research Models,” Policy Analysis and Information Systems, Vol. 4, No. 1, March, 1980.
  • Blin, J.M., E.A. Stohr, and M. Tanniru, “A Structure for Computer‑Aided Corporate Planning,” Policy Analysis and Information Systems, Vol. 3, No. 1, March, 1979.
  • Blin, J.M., E.A. Stohr, and B. Bagamery, “Input‑Output Methods in Forecasting,” Management Science - Special Issue on Forecasting, TIMS Studies in Management Sciences, (12) 1979, pp. 113‑139.
  • Stohr, E.A., “Information Systems for Observing Inventory Levels,” Operations Research, Vol. 27, No. 2, March‑April 1978. 
  • Murphy, F.H. and E.A. Stohr, “A Mathematical Programming Approach to the Scheduling of Check‑Sorting Operations,” Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 1, March, 1978.
  • Murphy, F.H. and E.A. Stohr,“Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Check Sorting” Management Science, Vol. 24, No. 1, September, 1977.
  • Babad, J.M., V. Balachandran V. and E.A. Stohr, “Management of Program Storage in Computers,” Management Science, Vol. 23, No. 4, December 1976.
  • Babad, J,.M., and E. A. Stohr, “The Effect of Different GPSS Random Number Generators on Simulation Results,” Simuletter, Vol. 6, No. 4, July 1975.
  • Stohr, E. A. “A Model of a Project Activity,” Annals of Social and Economic Measurement, Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring, 1975.

 

Journal Articles under Review or in Preparation

  • Huang, W. and E.A. Stohr. “Intelligent Business Process Management through a Business Process Rules Engine.” Revise and resubmit status for Management Information Systems Quarterly.
  • Morabito, J., I. Sack, E.A. Stohr and A. Bhate. “Architecting Flexible Organizations.” Under review for Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management.
  • Fallah, M.,  F. Murphy, and E.A. Stohr. “A Methodology for Improving Investment Portfolio Management Process for the Homeland Security Department using Quality Function Deployment.” To be submitted to Journal of Homeland Security and Management.
  • Horwitch, M. and E.A. Stohr. “A Vision for Technology Management.” To be submitted to Int. Journal of Technology and Innovation Management Education.

 

Refereed Conference Proceedings 

  • Morabito, J., Sack, I., Stohr, E., and Bhate, A . (2008), “Architecting Flexible Organizations.” Proceedings of the Eight Global Conference on Flexible Systems Management, June 2008, GLOGIFT 08.
  • Horwitch, Mel and Edward A.Stohr, “Value Creation-Learning in the Early Twenty-First Century,” PICMET ‘08 Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, July 27-31, 2008.
  • Huang, Wayne and Edward A. Stohr, “Design and Implementation of a Business Process Rules Engine,”2nd Annual International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST), Pasadena CA, 2007. (Winner, Herbert A. Simon, Best Paper Award.)
  • Huang, W. and E.A. Stohr. “Intelligent Business Process Management through Business Process Rules Engine,” Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), December 2006 (Demonstration.)
  • Friedman, E. A.. and E.A. Stohr, “Technology Management for Global Development: A Conceptual Framework,” Academy of Management:  BAWB Global Forum, October 22-25, 2006 (Virtual presentation).
  • Friedman, Ed and E.A. Stohr, "Technology Management for Global Development - A Field-Based Context", IST-Africa 2007, May 9-11, Maputo, Mozambique.
  • zur Muehlen, Michael; Nickerson, Jeffrey V.; Stohr, Edward A.: “Process Integration – From Workflow Models to Web Services Choreography.” Proceedings of the EURO/INFORMS Conference 2003, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2003.
  • Bieber, M., I. Im,R. Rice, R. Goldman-Siegel, R. Paul, S.R. Hiltz, J. Preece, E.A. Stohr, and M.Turoff, “Towards Knowledge-Sharing and Learning in Virtual Professional Communities,” 35th Hawaii International Conference on Information Sciences (HICSS), January 2002
  • Bieber, M., D. Engelbart, R. Furuta, S.R. Hiltz, J. Noll, J. Preece, E.A. Stohr, M. Turoff, M. and B. Van De Walle, "Virtual Community Knowledge Evolution," 35th Hawaii International Conference on Information Sciences (HICSS).
  • Stohr, E.A. and  R.P. Stohr, “Transaction Breaks: A Litany of Errors,” Proc. Thirteenth Bled Electronic Commerce Conference, Bled Slovenia, June 2001.
  • Bieber, M., D. Engelbart, R. Furuta, S.R.,Hiltz, J. Noll, J. Preece, E.A. Stohr, M. Turoff, and B. Van De Walle, "Virtual Community Knowledge Evolution," Proc. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2001.
  • Kumar, A., E.A. Stohr, and J.L. Zhao "Organizational Concept Space: A Dynamic Grouping Approach to Organizational Knowledge Distribution," Proc. WITS, 2000, Brisbane Australia, December 2000.
  • Stohr, E.A. and J.L. Zhao, "Building Workflow Engines for Commerce Logic Applications," Proc. Americas Conference on Information Systems, Long Beach, CA, August 2000.
  • Zhao, J.L., A. Kumar. A. and E.A. Stohr, "A Workflow-Centric Model of Organizational Knowledge Distribution," Proc. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2000.
  • Stohr, E.A., and S. Viswanathan, "Emergent Structures in the Information Economy," Proc. Association for Information Systems Americas Conference, Baltimore, August 1998.
  • Kim, Y. and E.A. Stohr, “A Model for Performance Evaluation of Interactive Systems," Proc. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 1997.
  • Stohr, E.A. and J.L. Zhao, “A Technology Adaptation Model for Business Process Automation,” Proc. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 1996.
  • Balasubramanian, P., T. Isakowitz, and E.A.. Stohr, “Structured Hypermedia Design, First International Workshop on Hypermedia Design, Edinburgh, UK, September 1995,”
  • Balasubramanian, P., T. Isakowitz, T. and E.A. Stohr, “Designing Hypermedia Applications,” in Information Systems: DSS/Knowledge-Based Systems, Proc. Hawaii International Conference on Information Systems (HICSS), Vol III, pp.354-365, January 1994.
  • Balasubramanian, P.,T. Isakowitz, H. Johar, and E.A. Stohr, “Hyper Model Management Systems,” Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, January 1992.
  • Kim, Y., “Software Reuse: Issues and Research Directions,” Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, January 1992. 
  • Olson, M. and E.A. Stohr, “Progress in MIS: The Center for Research in Information Systems at New York University,” Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, January 1989.
  • Ma, Pai-chun, F.H. Murphy, and E.A. Stohr, “Semantic Structures in Linear Programs,” Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, January 1989. 
  • Lee, J.B. and E.A. Stohr, “Representing Knowledge for Portfolio Management Decision Making,” IEEE 2nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence  Applications, Miami Beach, December, 1985.
  • Jarke M., J. Krause, Y. Vassiliou, E.A. Stohr, J.A.Turner, J.A. and N.H. White, “Evaluation and Assessment of a Domain‑Independent Natural Language Query System,” IEEE Database Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 3, September 1985, pp. 34-44. 
  • Vassiliou, Y., M. Jarke, E.A. Stohr, J.A. Turner, N.H. White, “Coupling Field Studies with Field Experiments for the Evaluation of Computer Languages,” Proc. 13th ACM Computer Science Conference, New Orleans, March 1985, pp. 179‑183.
  • Jarke, M., M.T. Jelassi, and E.A. Stohr, “A Database‑Driven User Interface Generator for a Generalized Multiple Criteria Decision Support System,” Proc. IEEE Workshop on Languages for  Automation, New Orleans, November, 1984, pp. 127‑133.
  • Vassiliou, Y., M. Jarke, E.A. Stohr, J.A.Turner and N.H. White,  “Application Development for Natural Language Query Systems,” Proc. IEEE Workshop on Languages for Automation, Chicago 1983, pp. 288‑293.
  • Stohr, E.A., J.A. Turner, Y. Vassiliou, and N. H. White, “Research in Natural Language Retrieval Systems,” Proc. 15th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January, 1982.
  • Stohr, E.A., “The Systems Development Process: A Data Theoretic Approach,” Proc. First International Conference on Information Systems, Wharton, Philadelphia, December, 1980.
  • Stohr, E.A. and M. Tanniru, “The Design of a Corporate Planning System Simulator,” Proceedings of the ACM Winter Simulation Conference, Miami, December, 1978.
  • Blin, J.M., E.A. Stohr, and M. Tanniru, “Development of a Corporate Information System,” IEEE Computer Science Applications Conference, Chicago, November 10, 1977.
  • Babad, Y., V. Balachandran, and E.A. Stohr, “Cost Evaluation of Storage Schemes,” Proceedings of the ACM, November 1974. 

 

Books (including Instructional Textbooks) 

  • Stohr, E.A., Organizations and Processes (in preparation).


Edited Books

  • Ghosh, S., M. Malek,  and E.A. Stohr (Eds.) Guarding Your Business: Enterprise Architectures for Security, MOT Symposium Series, Kluwer Academic Publications (2004)
  • Stohr, E.A., and Benn R. Konsynski (Eds.), Information Systems and Decision Processes,  IEEE Computer Science Press, Los Alimotos, CA., 1992.
  • Ginzberg, M.J., W. Reitman, and E.A. Stohr (Eds.) Decision Support Systems, North‑Holland, 1983.

 

Book Chapters

  • Morabito, J. and Stohr, E.A., “Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) “. The Handbook of Technology Management, 3 Volume Set, Hossein Bidgoli, Editor-in-Chief. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009.
  • Morabito, J. and Stohr, E.A., “Online Analytical Processing,” in The Internet Encyclopedia, Hosein Bigdoli (Ed.) John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
  • Nickerson, J. and E.A. Stohr, “Intra Enterprise Integration: Methods and Direction,” in Competing in the Information Age: Align in the Sand, J. Luftman (Ed.) Oxford University Press, to appear Spring 2003.
  • Stohr, E.A. and S. Viswanathan, "Recommendation Systems: Decision Support for the Information Economy" in Kendall, Kenneth E. (ed.) Emerging Information Technologies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication, Inc., 1999. Reprinted in Shafritz, M. and J. Steven Ott. Classics of Organization Theory, Fifth Edition. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt College Publishers, 2001.
  • Stohr, E.A., “Research Approaches in ISDP,” in Information and Decision Processes, E. A. Stohr and B. Konsynski (eds), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA., 1992.
  • Stohr, E.A., “Research Challenges,” in Information and Decision Processes, E. A. Stohr and B. Konsynski (eds), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA., 1992.
  • Stohr, E.A., “Decision Processes: An Organizational View,” in Information and Decision Processes, E. A. Stohr and B. Konsynski (eds), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA., 1992.
  • Stohr, E.A., “Review and Critique of DSS,” in Information and Decision Processes, E. A. Stohr and B. Konsynski (eds), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA., 1992.
  • Stohr, E.A., “Automated Support for Formulating Linear Programs,” in Proc. NATO Advanced Study Institute: Mathematical Models for Decision Support, G. Mittra (ed.), Springer-Verlag, 1988.
  • Stohr, E.A. and Turner, J.A., “End-User Computing: Impact on Education and Organizational Development,” in Managers, Micros and Mainframes, M. Jarke (ed.), John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 1986.
  • Vassiliou, Y., Jarke, M., Stohr, E.A., Turner, J.A. and N. H. White, “Requirements for Developing Natural Language Query Applications,” in Languages for Automation, S. K. Chang (ed.): Plenum Press, 1985.
  • Stohr, E.A. and N.H. White, N., “Languages for Decision Support Systems: An Overview,” in Management and Office Information Systems, Plenum Press, C. K. Chang, (ed.) 1984, pp. 71-90.
  • Jarke M., E.A. Stohr, J.A. Turner, Y. Vassiliou, and N.H. White, “Natural Language Systems Evaluation: Laboratory and Field Experiments,” Proceedings NYU Symposium on User Interfaces, May 1982.
  • Ginzberg, M.J. and Stohr, E.A., “Decision Support Systems: Issues and Perspectives,” in Decision Support Systems, M. J. Ginzberg, W. R. Reitman and E. A. Stohr (eds.), North‑Holland, 1982, pp. 9-31.
  • Stohr, E.A.,“DSS for Cooperative Decision‑Making,” in Data Base Management: Theory and Applications, C. W. Holsapple and A. B. Whinston (eds.), D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht, Holland, 1981, pp. 307.
  • Stohr, E.A., “Optimal Sort Patterns for Check‑Processing,” in Pattern Recognition Theory and Practice, K. S. Fu and A. B. Whinston (eds.), Noordhoff International Publishing, Leyden, Holland, 1977, pp. 417-427.

 

Teaching Cases

  • Stohr, E.A., L. White, and S. Viswanathan, "America Online Inc.: Pricing for Online Services." Center for Research in Information Systems, Stern School of Business, New York University, October 1997.
  • Stohr, E.A., L. White, and S. Viswanathan, "America Online Inc.: The Portal Era," Cases in Electronic Commerce, Sid Huff, Mike Wade, Michael Parent, Scott Schneberger and Peter Newson (Eds) Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Dissertation

  • Stohr, E.A., “The Design of Information Systems for Economic Activities,” Technical Report No. 22, Center for Research in Management Science, University of California, Berkeley, Nov. 1973 (Dissertation).

 

Working Papers

  • Kamis Arnold and Edward A. Stohr, "When Shopping on the Web Everything is More than One Click Away." Working Paper, CTMR # 2003-1, Howe School of Technology Management, 2003.
  • Stohr, E.A., “LPSPEC: A Language for Representing Linear Programs,” Working Paper No. 139, Center for Research in Information Systems, Stern School of Business, New York University, November, 1986.
  • Stohr, E.A., “A Time Series Approach to the Computation of Efficient Portfolios from Historic Data,” Working Paper No. 277, The Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science, Northwestern University, 1977.
  • Stohr, E.A., “Simulation of Some APL Operators,” Research Report LR-16, University of California, Berkeley, February, 1971.      

 

Guest Editor

  • Co-editor (with Michael zur Muehlen), Special Issue of the Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management on “Business process management: Impact on organizational flexibility,” April 2009.
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue of Business Process Management Journal on Workflow and the Internet, Vol 11 No 3, July 2004.
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue of Information Systems Frontiers on Workflow Automation,
    August. 2001.
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue of Management Information Systems Quarterly on Information Systems Curricula and Pedagogy, Fall 1995.
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Decision Support Systems. International Journal of Policy Analysis and Information Systems, June 1981.
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Decision Support Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, 1986 and 1987.
  • Guest Editor, DSS and Knowledge-Based Systems Track, Proc. Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, IEEE Computer Society Press, January 1987 (with R. Sprague).

 

Other publications

  • Stohr, E. A., and Michael zur Muehlen, “Guest Editorial,” Business Process Management Journal, Special Issue on Workflow and the Internet, Vol 11 No 3, July 2004.
  • Zur Muehlen, Michael; Nickerson, Jeffrey; Stohr, Edward A.: Process Integration – From Workflow Models to Web Services Choreography. Proc. EURO/INFORMS Conference2003, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2003.
  • Stohr, E.A., and J.L. Zhao, "Workflow Management for Knowledge-Based Organizations," Document World, Summer 1998.
  • Ramesh, B. and E.A., Stohr, “Survey of Journals and Proceedings in MIS and Computer Science,” 1990.
  • White, N.H., M. Jarke, E.A. Stohr, J.A. Turner, and Y. Vassiliou, “Information Retrieval Using USL:  A Field and Laboratory Evaluation,” Proc. IBM Scientific Engineering Study Conference, Ploughkeepsie/NY, November 1982, 190‑190.
  • Stohr, E.A., “Data Management Systems for MicroComputers:  A Survey,” Conference on Small Computers in Business, Rutgers University, 1981.

Conferences/Meetings Attended (Selected)

  • International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) (1980-2006 except 1984).
  • Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) (1994-2007)
  • INFORMS 2002, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Technology Management Education Association (TMEDA) Workshops (2002-2007)
  • Portland International Conference for Management of Engineering & Technology (2007- 08)

Recent Externally Funded Research

Grants awarded

Name

Agency

Amount $

Start/End

PI

Co-PIs

Business Continuity in the Pharmaceutical Industry

AT& T Foundation

$50,000

6/1/03 – 9/1/04

Lou Laucirica,
E. Stohr

Paul Rohmeyer

Strategic Multi-Project Resource Management, “CC-Lite”

NASA

$75,000

6/1/04 – 12/31/04

Thomas Lechler

E. Stohr

Improving the Homeland Security Budgeting Process

IBM

$25,000

11/1/07-

E.A. Stohr

Hosein Fallah, Fred Murphy

A Methodology and Process for Managing Portfolios of Homeland Security Programs

Homeland Security Institute

$48,000

3/1/05 – 12/31/05

J. Hultin,
E. Stohr

H. Fallah, Fred Murphy

Recent Internally Funded Research

Grants awarded

Name

Source

Amount $

Start/End

PI

Co-PIs

cc-Lite Project

Stevens IR&D

$25,000

1/1.2005- 5/31/2005

Thomas Lechler

Edward Stohr

Recent Research Proposals Submitted

Name

Agency

Amount $

Start/End

PI

Co-PIs

 

 

 

 

 

 

Improving the Quality of Healthcare Delivery: An Organization Modeling Approach

NSF

$350,000

1/1/2009

J. Morabito

C. Brown
I. Sack
E. Stohr

Other Funded Research

  • Commercial Workflow Management System for Teaching and Research Optika Inc., 2002.
  • Capacity Grant, NJ State, Computer hardware for Research Computing Center, 2002 (With B. Gallois, J. Nickerson, and S. Tewksbury)
  • Citibank: “Operations Management in Information Intensive Industries” - curriculum development grant, June, 1996 - 1998 (with Michael Moses.)
  • MacArthur Foundation, "Visit by Scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences,” October, 1992.
  • Shell and Amoco Oil Companies, "Model Management for Mathematical Programming Systems," 1992.
  • Panasonic Corporation, Update to Electronic Classroom, Establishment of Desktop Publishing Center, and Panasonic Ph.D. Fellowship, 1990.
  • Northwestern University Summer Research Grant, 1974, "Optimal Rewards and Penalties for Contract Work".
  • The Institute of Management Science and National Science Foundation, "Information Systems and Decision Processes" (with IS faculty from other schools), 1989.
  • Panasonic Corporation, An Electronic Classroom, for the Stern School of Management, 1987. ($350,000)
  • International Business Machines Corporation "Expert Systems Project,” 1983‑86, (with other members of the IS faculty).
  • International Business Machines Corporation "NYU Advanced Language Project,” 1981‑84, - with other members of the IS faculty. ($250,000)
  • Cullinane Corporation Grant, Fall 1978, "Data Translation and Logical Restructuring in IDMS".
  • Banking Research Center Grant, Summer 1978, "Models for Multinational Funds Management Policy".
  • Northwestern University Summer Research Grant, 1976, "Optimal State Estimation and the Design of Management Information Systems".
  • Northwestern University Summer Research Grant, 1975, "Information Systems for the Management of Inventory".

Keynote/Major Speaker Engagements

  • Keynote: International Advisory Committee, GLOGIFT ’07 Global Conference
    on Flexible Systems Management, New Delhi, India, November 2007.
  • Keynote: The Network Nation and Beyond: Festschrift in Honor of Roxanne Hiltz and Murrae Turoff, NJIT, October 13, 2007.
  • Stevens Alliance for Technology Management Annual Conference, April 2003.
  • Universidad Catolica Portuguesa Conference, Lisbon, October, 2000.
  • Keynote: Doctoral Consortium, AIS Americas Conference, Baltimore, 1998.
  • Keynote: ASAC Business School Conference, Saskatoon, Canada, 1998.
  • Universidad Catolica Portuguesa Conference, Lisbon October, 1999.

Service

Professional Service

  • Founder and Chair AIS Special Interest Group for ICT in Global Development (2008- present)
  • Chair, International Advisory Committee, GLOGIFT ’08 Global Conference
    on Flexible Systems Management (to be hosted by Stevens)
  • Workshop Chair, Technology Management Education Association Workshop, Hoboken NJ, August 2007)
  • Vice Chair, Technology Management Education Association (2005 – present)
  • Workshop Chair, Technology Management Education Association Workshop, Hoboken NJ, June 2006 (TMEDA 06)
  • Program Co-Chair, BPM Workshop, AMCIS 2005, Omaha, NE, August 11, 2005.
  • Program Co-Chair, AMCIS 2004, New York, NY, August 2004.
  • Program Committee Member, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2000, 2001
  • Co-Chair, Mini-track on Workflow Management Systems, HICSS 1997, 98, 99, 2000 and 2001.
  • Co-Chair, Mini-track on Workflow Automation, AMCIS 2000 and 2001
  • Member, AIS and ACM Curriculum Committee on Masters of Science in Information Systems
  • Program Committee, European Conference on Information Systems, Vienna, 2000
  • Program Committee, Pacific Conference on Information Systems, 2000
  • Program Committee and Chair of Professional Development Track, AIS, 1995  
  • Program Committee, WITS Conference, 1995, 1996.and 1997.
  • Chairman, AIS Special Committee on IS Curriculum, 1994-95
  • Chairman, Executive Committee, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 1992.
  • Chairman, ICIS Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee, 1992
  • General Chair, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), New York, 1991.
  • Chair, Workshop on Information and Decision Processes (ISDP), Tucson, Arizona, October 1989.
  • Chair, TIMS College on Artificial Intelligence in Management Science (CAIMS), 1986-87.
  • Chair, Decision Support Systems Track, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1985-86 and 1986-87.
  • Program Committee, International Conference on Information Systems, 1983.   
  • Member of the ACM Curriculum Committee for Computer Education in Management, 1980.

Editorial Boards/Associate Editorships

  • Editor-at-Large, Journal and Communications of the Association for Information Systems (1999 – present)
  • Editorial Board Member, Int. J. of Business Process Management and Integration
  • Senior Advisory Board, Journal of Information Technology Theory & Application
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Information Systems Research. (1990-2003)
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Management Information Systems (1984 – present)
  • Editorial Board, Decision Support Systems (1985 – 2007)
  • Editorial Board, IS Frontiers (2000 – present)
  • Area Editor, North America, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management (2007- present)
  • Associate Editor, Int. Journal of Technology and Innovation Management Education (2007- present)

School and Institute Service

Institute

  • Member Institute Promotion & Tenure Committee (2007 – present)
  • Member, Academic Program and Review (APAR) Committee, 2006 – present
    (Chair 2007-09)
  • Steering Committee, Middle States Accreditation, 2004 (interim report) and 2006-08.

Howe School of Technology Management

  • Coordinator, Howe School AACSB Accreditation Process, 2005 - present
  • Coordinator, Howe School Information Systems Ph.D. Program, 2006 - present
  • Associate Dean for Research and Academics, 2001-2006
  • Co-director, Center for Technology Management Research, 2001- present
  • Coordinator, Howe School Information Systems, Ph.D. Program, 2001-04 and 2007-present

Stern School of Business, New York University

  • Chair, Information Systems Department, 1984 – 1995
  • Ph.D. Coordinator, IS Department, 1999-2000
  • Co-Director, Center for Information Intensive Organizations, 1998-99
  • Director, Center for Research in Information Systems, 1996 -98
  • New York University Senate (Stern School alternate), 1996-97
  • Stern School Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1996-97
  • Director, Center for Research in Information Systems, 1986-88
  • Director, IS Undergraduate Program, 1983‑85                                           
  • IS Department Ph.D. Coordinator, 1981‑83

Awards and Honors

  • Honorary  Lifetime Member of the Global Institute for Flexible Systems Management
  • Member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Institute for Innovation, Information and Productivity (IIIP) (2007 – present)
  • Howe School Outstanding Service Award, 2006
  • Howe School Outstanding Service Award, 2004
  • Research Professor, Stern School of Business, NYU, 1998-2001
  • Citibank Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stern School of Business, 1993-94
  • Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority Scholarship-1957- 59.
  • Beta Gamma Sigma-honorary society for business students
  • Kofoid Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1970‑71.
  • Flood Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1969‑70.
  • Open Scholarship, Trinity College, Melbourne, 1958.
  • Commonwealth Scholarship, Australia, 1955‑58.