Ram D. Gopal GE Capital Endowed Professor of Business School of Business

Ram D. Gopal
GE Capital Endowed Professor of Business
Head, Operations and Information Management
School of Business
University of Connecticut
2100 Hillside Road, Unit 1041
Storrs, CT 06269-1041
Phone: (860) 486-2408
E-mail: [email protected]
Employment
Department Head of Operations & Information Management, University of Connecticut,
2008-present
Professor, University of Connecticut, 2005-present
Associate Professor, University of Connecticut, 1999-2005
Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, 1994-1999
Visiting Positions
Visiting Professor, Indian School of Business, Summer 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014,
Spring 2008
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin, 2002
Education
Ph. D. Management Information Systems, S.U.N.Y at Buffalo, 1994
B.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 1986
Awards
o GE Capital Endowed Professor of Business, 2002-present
o Ackerman Research Scholar, 1998-2007
o CIBER Research Fellow, 1999-2002
o School of Business Research Excellence Award, 2008, 2012
o School of Business Best Research Article
“Interval Protection of Confidential Information in a Database,” 1998
“Confidentiality via Camouflage: CVC Technique for the Protection of
Confidential Data in a Database,” 2000
“Privacy Protection of Binary Confidential Data against Deterministic, Stochastic,
and Insider Threat,” 2002
“Freedom of Privacy: Anonymous Data Collection with Respondent-Defined
Privacy Protection,” 2010
o Best Associate Editor Award, Information Systems Research, 2007
o MBA Teacher of the Year Award, Operations and Information Management,
2003, 2009, 2012, 2013
o School of Business Graduate Teaching Award, 2003.
o School of Business Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2002
o Chancellor’s Information Technology Award, 2001
o School of Business Outstanding Service Award, 2000
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Service Contributions
Editorial:
Editor, Special Issue on Ubiquitous IT and Digital Vulnerabilities,
Information Systems Research, January 2015 – present
Associate Editor, Special Issue on Transformational Issues of Big Data
and Analytics in Networked Business, Management Information Systems Quarterly,
January 2015 – present
Senior Editor, Decision Sciences Journal, January 2013 - present
Associate Editor, Decision Sciences Journal, Fall 2010 – December 2012
Associate Editor, Information Systems Research, 2006 – 2008
Ad hoc Associate Editor and Senior Editor, Management Information Systems Quarterly
Editorial Board Member of Information Systems Frontiers: Journal on Research and
Innovation and Journal of Database Management
Co-editor (with Jim Marsden and Jan Vanthienen), Special Issue on Recent Advances in
Data and Text Mining, Decision Support Systems, 2010
Co-editor (with Prabhudev Konana), Special Issue on Social Computing, Operations and
Markets, Decision Sciences Journal, 2011
Conferences and Workshops:
Co-chair, Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, November 2014, San
Francisco
Vice President, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, December 2012 present
Co-chair, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, December 2008, Paris,
FRANCE
Chair, Information Systems Cluster, CORS-INFORMS International, June 2009, Toronto,
CANADA
Technology Instruction Chair, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, 2009
and 2010
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Mini-Track Chair for Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Economy, Hawaii
International Conference on Systems and Science, 2001-2002
Program Committee, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, 2001-present
Program Committee, China Summer Workshop on Information Management, 2011 present
Doctoral Program:
"Distinguished Ph.D. Alumnus Keynote", SUNY-Buffalo, April 2014
Faculty Mentor, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) Doctoral
Consortium, December 2010, Saint Louis, MI
Ph.D. Program Director, Operations and Information Management, University of
Connecticut, 1998-2008
Doctoral Dissertations supervised for Lei Wang (chair), Niam Yaraghi, Pantea
Alirezazadeh (chair), Harpreet Singh (chair), Rohit Aggarwal (chair), Rajeev Kumar (cochair), Kaveepan Lertchawara (co-chair), Bhavik Pathak (co-chair), Daniel Rice (cochair), Anna Ye Du, Arvind Tripathi, and Steven Thompson
Invited Talks:
Carnegie Mellon University, University of Florida, University of South Florida,
University of Minnesota, University of Utah, Pennsylvania State University, Indian
School of Business, University of Texas (Arlington, Austin and Dallas), University of
Washington, University of Buffalo
Community and Outreach:
Invited Talk, “Open Data Use in Academia: Teaching and Research Perspectives from
the US”, Open Data Camp, June 2014, Hyderabad, India
Panelist, “Analytics Programs: Four Perspectives”, MIS Academic Leadership
Conference, October 2013, Indiana University
Keynote, “Managing Customer Relationships in the Insurance Industry – Internet and
Analytics", AssurMarketing Conference, July 2013, Paris, France
Steering Committee, edgelab (partnership between UConn and GE, Inc.), 2002-2010
CIO Advisory Group, University of Connecticut, 2010-2013
Panelist, “Preparing IT graduates for the workforce”, Society of Information
Management, Hartford, CT, April 2010
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Invited Talk, “Research and Education Perspective: Journey to Business Analytics", The
Datawarehouse Institute India Chapter, InfoSys, July 21, 2009
Panelist, “Application Aware IS Research: Impacts and Contributions”, Workshop on
Information Technologies and Systems, December 14, 2009
Department:
Master of Science (M.S.) in Business Analytics and Project Management (BAPM), Fall
2011
Business Data Analytics undergraduate major, Fall 2015.
Graduate level Advanced Business Certificate (ABC) programs in IT Audit, Business
Analytics, and Project Management
Undergraduate Minor in Engineering Management designed for both Business and
Engineering undergraduate students
Media Mentions:
Equipping Business Students with Competencies Valued by Today’s Organizations,
http://www.jmp.com/software/success/pdf/104414_uconn.pdf
Interviewed by Stuart J. Brown for the Cable Access Television Show From the Campus,
November 15, 2002
Appeared as a guest for an hour-long interview on the Online Tonight show with David
Lawrence on Apr 24, 2002
UConn Advance, “Researchers say sharing music on-line has changed industry”, by
Sherry Fisher, University of Connecticut, September 23, 2002
Washington Post, "The Cyberspace Battle of the Bands", 14 April 2002
Business Week, "Superstars Sing the Online Blues," 27 May, 2002
San Francisco Chronicle, "New Musical Acts Get Lift From Internet - Downloading
Levels Field," 17 April 2002
Business 2.0 Web Guide: Music Industry: Issues & Commentary, "SFGate.com: New
Music Acts Get Lift from Internet; Downloading Levels Field, Study Finds"
The Shifted Librarian, "New Musical Acts Get Lift from Internet: Downloading Levels
Field, Study Finds"
slashdot.org, "The Music Business and the Internet"
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snowdeal.org, "New Musical Acts Get Lift from Internet"
Teaching
Graduate (MSBAPM, Full time MBA, Professional MBA, Executive MBA, Ph.D.):
MBA core course in Management Information Systems
Predictive Modeling
Data Mining with R
Advanced Business Analytics and Project Management
Data Mining and Business Intelligence
Digital Game Design Techniques for Businesses
Special Topics – Financial and Accounting Issues in IT
Object Oriented Software Development
E-Commerce Systems Development
Ph.D. Seminar in Information Systems
Undergraduate:
Systems Analysis
Systems Design
Advanced Information Technology
Research
In Process:
Wang, L., Gopal R D., Shankar, S., Gunasti, K., and Pancras, J, “Game of Drones: How
Gamification Signals Expertise and Impacts Consumers’ Perceptions of Word-of-Mouth
Effectiveness”, under review at MIS Quarterly, Feb 2015.
Gopal, R. D., Yaraghi, N., Ramesh, R., Sharman, R., “Consenting Adults: An Empirical
Analysis of Patients’ Willingness to Disclose their Medical Records on Health
Information Exchange Platforms”, under second review at Information Systems
Research, 2015.
Gopal, R. D., Yaraghi, N., Ramesh, R., and Singh, R., “Drivers of Information Disclosure
on Health Information Exchange Platforms: Insights from an Exploratory Empirical
Study”, under review at Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2015.
Gopal, R. D., Hidaji, H., Patterson, R, Rolland, E, and Zhdanov, D., “Improving
Propagation in Adaptable Networks”, under second round review at Production and
Operations Management Journal, 2015.
Bapna, R., Langer, N, and Gopal, R. D., “Climbing the Organizational Ladder:
Investigating the Role of On-the-Job Training and Gender on Employee Promotions,”
under review at Management Science, 2015.
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Journal Publications:
Gopal, R. D., Li, Xinxin, Singh, Harpreet, “Pipes, Pools and Filters: How Collaboration
Networks Affect Innovative Performance”, forthcoming in, Strategic Management
Journal, 2015.
Boylu, F., Bhattacharjee, S., Bai, X., and Gopal, R. D., “Growth Projections and
Assortment Planning of Commodity Products across Multiple Stores: A Data Mining and
Optimization Approach”, forthcoming in INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2015.
Wang, L., Gopal R. D., Shankar, S., and Pancras, J. “On the Brink: Predicting Business
Failure with Mobile Location-Based Checkins,” forthcoming in Decision Support
Systems, 2015.
Gopal, R. D., Yaraghi, N., Ramesh, R., Du, A., Sharman, R. “Health Information
Exchange as a Multi-sided Platform: Adoption, Usage and Practice Involvement in
Service Co-Production”, Information Systems Research, Vol. 26, Issue 1, pp. 1-18,
March 2015.
Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., Das-Smith, S., Du, A. Y, “Optimal Management of Digital
Content on Tiered Infrastructure Platforms,” in Information Systems Research, Published
Online: December 24, 2014.
Gopal, R. D., Langer, N., Mehra, A., Bapna, R. “Examining Returns to Scale and Human
Capital Investments in the Offshore IT Services Industry: A Firm Level Analysis of
Small and Medium Enterprises,” MIS Quarterly, Vol. 38, Issue 3, pp. 757-771, 2014.
Gopal, R. D., Yaraghi, N., Ramesh, R., Du, A., Sharman, R. “Professional and
Geographical Network Effects on Healthcare Information Exchange Growth: Does
Proximity Really Matter?” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association,
Vol. 21, Issue 4, pp. 671-678, 2014
Garfinkel, R. S., Alirezazadeh, P., Boylu, F., Gopal, R. D. “Optimal Identity Matching
via Statistical Estimation and Information Acquisition”, Decision Support Systems, Vol.
57, pp. 160-171, January 2014
Bapna, R., Langer, N., Mehra, A, Gopal, R. D., Gupta, A., “Human Capital Investments
and Employee Performance: An Analysis of IT Services Industry”, Management Science,
Vol. 59, Issue 3, pp. 641-658, 2013
Gopal, R. D., Yaraghi, N., Ramesh, R., Du, A., Sharman, R. “Network Effects in Health
Information Exchange Growth,” ACM Transactions on Management Information
Systems, Vol. 4, Issue 1, pp. 1-26, 2013
Aggarwal, R., Gopal, R. D., Gupta, A., Singh, P, “Putting Money Where the Mouths are:
The Relation Between Venture Financing and Electronic Word-of-Mouth”, Information
Systems Research, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 976–992, 2012
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Aggarwal, R., Gopal, R. D., Sankaranarayanan, R., Singh, P., “Blog, Blogger, and the
Firm: Can Negative Posts by Employees Benefit Firms?” Information Systems
Research, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 306–322, 2012
Bai, X., Gopal, R. D., Nunez, M., Zhdanov, D., “On The Prevention of Fraud and Privacy
Exposure in Process Information Flow” INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 24, Issue
3, pp. 416-432, 2012
Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., Das-Smith, S., Du, A. Y. “Risk Hedging in Storage Grid
Markets: Do Options Add Value to Forwards?” ACM Transactions on Management
Information Systems, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 10:1-10:23, 2011
Das, S., Du, A. Y., Gopal, R. D., and Ramesh, R., “Risk Management and Optimal
Pricing in Online Storage Grids,” Information Systems Research, 22(4), pp. 756-773,
2011
Gopal, R. D., Li, X., Sankaranarayanan, R., “Search and Content Channel Interaction
in Online Keyword-Based Advertising” Decision Support Systems, 52(1), pp. 1-8,
December 2011
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Marsden, J., and Sankaranarayanan, R., “Digital
Goods and Markets: Emerging Issues and Challenges” ACM Transactions on
Management Information Systems, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 8:1-8:14, 2011
Gopal, R. D., Li, X., Sankaranarayanan, R., “Search and Content Channel Interaction in
Online Keyword-Based Advertising” Decision Support Systems, Vol. 52, Issue 1, pp. 1-8,
2011
Gopal, R. D., and Gupta, A., “Trading Higher Software Piracy for Higher Profits: The
Case of Phantom Piracy,” Management Science, Vol. 56, No. 11, pp. 1946-1962,
November 2010
Bai, X., Gopal, R. D., Nunez, M., Zhdanov, D., “On Managing Information Security Risk
for Business Processes,” International Journal of Decision Sciences, 1 (1), 45-53, 2010
Pathak, B., Garfinkel, R., Gopal, R. D., Venkatesan, R., and Yin, F., “Empirical Analysis
of the Impact of Recommender Systems on Sales,” Journal of Management Information
Systems, Vol. 27, No. 02, pp. 159-188, Fall 2010
Kumar, R., Gopal, R. D., and Garfinkel, R., “Freedom of Privacy: Anonymous Data
Collection with Respondent-Defined Privacy Protection,” INFORMS Journal on
Computing, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 471-481, Summer 2010
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Marsden, J., Sankaranarayanan, R., and Telang, R., “To
Theme or Not To Theme: Can Theme Strength be the Music Industry's "Killer App"?”
Decision Support Systems, Volume 48, Issue 1, pp. 141-149, December 2009
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertwachara, K., and Marsden, J., “Re- tuning the Music
Industry – Can They Re-attain Business Resonance,” Communications of the ACM,
Volume 52, Issue 6, pp. 136-140, June 2009
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Garfinkel, R., Gopal, R. D., Pathak, B., and Yin, F., “Shopbot 2.0: Integrating
Recommendations and Promotions with Comparison Shopping,” Decision Support
Systems, Volume 46 Issue 1, pp. 61-69, December 2008
Du, A. Y., Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Whinston, A. B., “Topographically
Discounted Internet Infrastructure Resources: A Panel Study and Econometric Analysis,”
in Information Technology and Management, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 135-146, June 2008
Nunez, M., Garfinkel, R., and Gopal, R. D., “Stochastic Protection of Confidential
Information in Statistical Databases: A Hybrid of Data Perturbation and Query
Restriction,” Operations Research, Vol. 55, No. 5, pp. 890-908, 2007.
Du, A. Y., Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Whinston, A. B., “Capacity
Provision Networks: Foundations of Markets for Sharable Resources in Distributed
Computational Economies,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 126-144,
2007.
Sharman, R., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Ramanna S., “Cache Architecture for OnDemand Streaming,” ACM Transactions on the Web, Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp. 2007.
Garfinkel, R., Gopal, R. D., and Thompson, S., “Releasing Individually Identifiable
Microdata with Privacy Protection against Stochastic Threat: An Application to Health
Information,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 23-41, 2007.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Marsden, J., and Telang, R., “The Effect of Digital
Sharing Technologies on Music Markets: A Survival Analysis of Albums on Ranking
Charts,” Management Science, Vol. 52, No. 9, pp. 1359-1374, 2007.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “Stochastic Dynamics
of Music Album Lifecycle: An Analysis of the New Music Landscape,” International
Journal of Human Computer Studies, Vol. 65, Issue 1, pp. 85-93, 2007.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “Impact of Legal
Threats on Individual Behavior: An Analysis of Music Industry Actions and Online
Music Sharing,” Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 91-114, April 2006.
Gopal, R. D., Bhattacharjee, S., and Sanders, G. L., “Do Artists Benefit from Online
Music Sharing?” Journal of Business, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 1503-1534, May 2006.
R. Bapna, P. Goes, R. D. Gopal, and J. Marsden, “Moving from Data-Constrained to
Data-Enabled Research: Experiences and Challenges in Collecting, Validating, and
Analyzing Large-Scale E-Commerce Data,” Statistical Science, 21(2) (2006).
Gopal, R. D., Phatak, B., Tripathi, A., and Yin, F., “From Fatwallet To eBay: An
Investigation of Online Deal Forums and Sales Promotions,” Journal of Retailing, 82(2),
pp. 155-164, 2006.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “Consumer Search and
Retailer Strategies in the Presence of Online Music Sharing,” Journal of Management
Information Systems, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp.129-159, 2006.
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Garfinkel, R., Gopal, R. D., Rice, D., and Nunez, M., “Secure Electronic Markets for
Private Information,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part A:
Systems and Humans), Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 461-471, May 2006.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “Whatever Happened
To Payola? An Empirical Analysis of Online Music Sharing” Decision Support Systems,
pp. 104-120, Vol. 14, 2006.
Gopal, R. D., Thompson, S., Tung, A., and Whinston, A. B., “Managing Risks in
Multiple Online Auctions: An Options Approach,” in Decision Sciences, pp. 397-425,
Vol. 36, No.3, 2005.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “Using P2P Sharing
Activity to Improve Business Decision Making: Proof of Concept for Estimating Product
Life-Cycle,” in Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, pp. 14-20, Vol. 4, No.
1, 2005.
Gopal, R. D., Sanders, G. L., Bhattacharjee, S., Agrawal, M., and Wagner, S. C., “A
Behavioral Model of Digital Music Piracy,” Journal of Organizational Computing and
Electronic Commerce, Vol. 14, No. 2, Pages 89-105, 2004.
Seung K. S., Gopal, R. D., Sanders, G. L., and Whinston, A. B., “Global Software Piracy
Revisited: Beyond Economics,” Communications of the ACM, pp. 103-107, Vol. 47, No.
1, January 2004.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., and Sanders, G. L., “Digital Music And Online Sharing:
Software Piracy 2.0?” Communications of the ACM, pp. 107-111, Vol. 46, No. 7, July
2003.
Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Whinston, A. B., “Scaling Web Services with
Capacity Provision Networks,” IEEE-Computer, pp. 64-72, Vol. 36, No. 11, November
2003.
Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Whinston, A. B., “Trading Caches: Capacity
Provision Networks,” IEEE-IT Professional, pp. 30-36, Vol. 5, No. 4, July|August 2003.
Tung, Y. A., Gopal, R. D., and Whinston, A. B., “Multiple Online Auctions,” IEEEComputer, pp. 100-102, Vol. 36, No. 2, February 2003.
Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Whinston, A. B., “Microproducts in a Digital Economy:
Trading Small, Gaining Large,” International Journal of Electronic Commerce, pp. 9-29,
Vol. 8, No. 2, Winter 2003-4.
Garfinkel, R, Fernandez, and Gopal, R. D., “Design of an Interactive Spell Checker:
Optimizing the List of Offered Words,” Decision Support Systems, pp. 385-397, Vol. 35,
2003.
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Garfinkel, R, Gopal, R. D, and Goes, P. B., “Privacy Protection of Binary Confidential
Data against Deterministic, Stochastic, and Insider Threat,” Management Science, pp.
749-764, Vol. 48, 2002.
Gopal, R. D, Goes, P. B, and Garfinkel, R., “Confidentiality via Camouflage: CVC
Technique for the Protection of Confidential Data in a Database,” Operations Research,
pp. 501-516, Vol. 50, 2002.
Gopal, R. D., Walter Z. D., and Tripathi, A. K., “AdMediation: New Horizons in
Effective Email Advertising,” Communications of the ACM, pp. 91-96, No. 44, No. 12,
December 2001.
Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Zionts, S., “Criss-Cross Hash Joins: Design and Analysis,”
IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, pp. 637-653, Vol. 13, No. 4,
July/August 2001.
Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Zionts, S., “Cascade Graphs: Analysis, Design and
Algorithms,” INFORMS Journal of Computing, pp. 2-28, Vol. 13, No. 1, Winter 2001.
Gopal, R. D., and Sanders, G. L., “Global Software Piracy: You Can't Get Blood Out of
Turnip,” Communications of the ACM, pp. 82-89, Vol. 43, No. 9, September 2000.
Tung, A. Y., Gopal, R. D., and Marsden, J., “HypEs: An Architecture for Hypermediaenabled Expert Systems,” Decision Support Systems, 26, pp. 307-321, 1999.
Gopal, R. D., and Tung, A., “An Examination of the Role of Internet Technologies in
Developing Next Generational Executive Information Systems,” Journal of Computer
Information Systems, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 81-91, 1999.
Gopal, R. D. and Sanders, G. L., “International Software Piracy: Analysis of Key Issues
and Impacts,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 380-397, 1998.
Gopal, R. D, Goes, P. B, and Garfinkel, R., “Interval Protection of Confidential
Information in a Database,” INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 10, No. 3, 1998.
Goes, P. B., Gopal, R. D., and Chen, N., “Query Evaluation Management: Design and
Prototype Implementation,” Decision Support Systems, No. 19, pp.23-42, 1997.
Gopal, R. D., and Sanders, G. L., “Preventive and Deterrent Controls for Software Piracy,”
Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 13, No. 44, pp. 29-48, 1997.
Wang, C. H., Gopal, R. D., and Tung, A. Y., “Diffusion of Ladder-Type Innovations: A
Study of Computer and Communications Convergence,” Computers and Industrial
Engineering, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp.497-507, 1997.
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Wang, C. H., Gopal, R. D., and Zionts, S., “Use of Data Envelopment Analysis in
Assessing Information Technology Impact on Firm Performance,” Annals of Operations
Research, 73, pp. 191-213, 1997.
Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., “The Query Clustering Problem: A Set Partitioning
Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, pp.885-899, Vol.7,
No. 6, December 1995.
Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Zionts, S., “Access Path Optimization in Relational Joins,”
in ORSA Journal on Computing, Vol. 7, No.3, Summer 1995.
Book Chapters:
Gopal, R. D., Garfinkel, R. S., Nunez, M., Rice, D.. Information Systems Security and
Statistical Databases: Preserving Confidentiality through Camouflage. Handbooks of
Information Systems Volume 3 Series on Business Computing, Emerald Group
Publishing Limited, Bingley, UK, pp. 319-346, 2009
Gopal, R. D., Bhattacharjee, S., Sankaranarayanan, R., Marsden, J. R.. Economic
Determinants of Piracy of Digital Goods: Using Market Forces to Shape a Secure
Solution, Annals of Emerging Research in Information Assurance, Security and Privacy
Services, Eds. H. Raghav Rao & S. Upadhyaya, Elsevier, August 2008
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Marsden, J., and Telang, R., “A Survival Analysis of
Albums on Ranking Charts,” Peer-to-Peer Video: The Economics, Policy, and Culture of
Today’s New Mass Medium, edited by Eli Noam and Lorenzo Maria Pupillo, Springer
Science, LLC, New York, NY, 2008.
Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Whinston, A. B., “Topographical Leveraging of
Sharable Services: The Concept of Capacity Provision Networks,” Electronic Commerce
and the Digital Economy, edited by Michael J. Shaw, M. E. Sharpe Inc., Armonk, NY, in
press, 2004.
Gopal, R. D., Walter Z. D., and Tripathi, A. K., “Economic Issues in Advertising via
Email: A Role for A Trusted Third Party?” Contemporary Research in E-Marketing
Volume 1, edited by Sandeep Krishnamurthy, Idea Group Inc., Hersey, PA, in press, 2004.
Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Whinston, A. B., “Capacity Provision Networks:
A Technology Framework and Economic Analysis of Web Cache Trading Hubs,”
Innovations in Financial and Economic Networks, edited by Anna Nagurney, Kluwer
Publishing Company, 2004.
Tung, A., Gopal, R. D., and Marsden, J. R., “Architectural Foundations for HypermediaEnabled Expert Systems,” Multimedia Technology and Applications, pp. 34-44, SpringerVerlag, Singapore, 1997.
Conference Proceedings:
Gopal, R. D., Zhdanov, D., Hidaji, H., Patterson, R., Rolland, E., “Information Sharing in
Web Services: An Exploratory Analysis,” 24th Workshop on Information Technologies
and Systems, December 2014.
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Bapna, R., Langer, N, and Gopal, R. D., “Climbing the Organizational Ladder:
Investigating the Role of On-the-Job Training and Gender on Employee Promotions,”
Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, December 2014.
Gopal, R. D., Zhdanov, D., Hidaji, H., Patterson, R., Rolland, E., “Improving Cascade
Propagation in Adaptable Networks,” Conference on Information Systems and
Technologies, November 2014.
Gopal, R.D., Yaraghi, N., Ramesh, R., and Sharman, R., “Disclosure of Medical History
on Health Information Exchange Platforms: Rational Drivers, Psychological Cues and
Environmental Effects,” Conference on Information Systems and Technologies,
November 2014.
Gopal, R. D., Wang, L., Sankaranarayanan, R., Pancras, J., "Checking in to check it out:
An Empirical Analysis of Customers’ Engagement on Location Based Social Media",
23rd Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, December 2013.
Gopal, R. D., Zhdanov, D., Hidaji, H., Patterson, R., Rolland, E., "Improving Message
Propagation in Social Networks", 23rd Workshop on Information Technologies and
Systems, December 2013. Won the best poster award.
Gopal, R.D., Yaraghi, N., Ramesh, R., Du, A., Sharman, R., "Consenting Adults: Why
Do Patients Disclose Their Medical History on Health Information Exchange Platforms?”
Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, October 2013.
Gopal, R. D., Zhdanov, D., Patterson, R., Rolland, E., "Social Networks and Team
Selection: Implications for Worker Productivity", Ninth Symposium on Statistical
Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research, June 2013,
Gopal, R.D., Yaraghi, N., Ramesh, R., Du, A., Sharman, R., "Modeling Practice
Efficiencies due to Healthcare Information Exchanges and Implications for HIE Network
Growth", 22nd Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, December 2012,
Gopal, R.D., Yaraghi, N., Ramesh, R., Du, A., Sharman, R., "Professional and
Geographical Network Effects on HIE growth", Workshop on Health Information and
Economics, October 2012,
Boylu, F., Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., “A Data Mining and Optimization
Methodology for Improving Branch Product Portfolio and Performance” Proceedings of
the Twentieth Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, 2010.
Bhattacharjee, S., Boylu, F., Gopal, R. D.., “A Data Mining Approach for Improving
Branch Product Portfolio and Performance” INFORMS, 2010.
Bai, X., Gopal, R. D., Nunez, M., Zhdanov, D., “Reducing Privacy Exposure in
Healthcare Workflows” Workshop on Health Information and Economics (WHITE),
2010).
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Bai, Xue, Gopal, Ram D., Nunez, Manuel, Zhdanov, Dmitry, "A Decision Methodology
for Managing Operational Efficiency and Information Disclosure Risk in Healthcare
Processes", The Third Annual Workshop on Healthcare and IT, University of Florida.
(February 11, 2011 - February 13, 2011).
Gopal, Ram D., Li, Xinxin, Sankaranarayanan, Ramesh, "Online Keyword Based
Advertising: Impact of Ad Impressions on Own-Channel and Cross- Channel ClickThrough Rates", International Symposium of Information Systems (ISIS) 2010.
(December 18, 2010 - December 19, 2010).
Gopal, Ram D., Alirezazadeh, Pantea, Rice, Sarah, Mehra, Amit, "Communicating the
Value of Intangibles in the Software Industry", Workshop on Information Systems and
Economics (WISE) 2010. (December 11, 2010 - December 12, 2010).
Gopal, Ram D., Bapna, Ravi, Mehra, Amit, Langer, Nishtha, "Returns on Human Capital
Investments in Offshore IT Services Industry: A Firm Level Analysis", Workshop on
Information Systems and Economics (WISE) 2010. (December 11, 2010 - December 12,
2010).
Gopal, Ram D., Li, Xinxin, Singh, Harpreet, "Risk and Return of Investments in Online
Peer-to-Peer Lending", Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) 2010.
(December 11, 2010 - December 12, 2010).
Bhattacharjee, Sudip, Boylu, Fidan, Gopal, Ram D., "A Data Mining and Optimization
Methodology for Improving Branch Product Portfolio and Performance", Workshop on
Information Technology and Systems (WITS), WITS. (December 11, 2010 - December
12, 2010).
Sankaranarayanan, Ramesh, Bhattacharjee, Sudip, Gopal, Ram D., Marsden, James R.,
"Digital Goods and Markets: Emerging Issues and Challenges", INFORMS Annual
Meeting, (November 10, 2010 - November 11, 2010).
Bhattacharjee, Sudip, Boylu, Fidan, Gopal, Ram D., "A Data Mining Approach for
Improving Branch Product Portfolio and Performance", INFORMS Annual Meeting,
(November 7, 2010 - November 10, 2010).
Bai, Xue, Gopal, Ram D., Nunez, Manuel, Zhdanov, Dmitry, "On The Prevention of
Fraud and Privacy Exposure in Process Information Flow", INFORMS Annual Meeting,
2010. (November 6, 2010 - November 7, 2010).
Gopal, R. D., Aggarwal, R. and Sankaranarayanan R., “Blog, Blogger and the Firm: An
Analysis of Employee Incentives and Firm Policies,” Proceedings of the Sixteenth
Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, pp. 175-180, Milwaukee,
WA, 2006.
Du, A. Y., Li J, P., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Tayi, G. K., “Risk Management in
Globally Distributed Call Center Networks – A Real-Options Approach,” Proceedings of
the Sixteenth Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, pp. 163-168,
Milwaukee, WA, 2006.
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Garfinkel, R., Gopal, R. D., Rice, D., and Nunez, M., “Electronic Markets for Private
Information: Economic and Security Considerations,” Proceedings of the 39th Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-39, 2005, Recipient of the Best
Paper Award in the Internet and Digital Economy Track.
Garfinkel, R., Gopal, R. D., and Rice, “New Approaches to Disclosure Limitation While
Answering Queries to a Database: Protecting Numerical Confidential Data Against
Insider Threat Based on Data or Algorithms,” Proceedings of the 39th Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-39, 2005.
Du, A. Y., Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Whinston, A. B., “Share Auctions,
Pre-communications and Simulation with Petri-Nets,” Workshop on Information Systems
and Economics (WISE 2005), Irvine, CA, 2005.
Du, A. Y., Geng, X., Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Whinston, A. B., “Analysis of
Topographical Leverage-driven Capacity Trading in Internet Storage Infrastructures,”
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and
Systems, pp. 93-98, Las Vegas, NV, 2005.
Garfinkel, R., Gopal, R. D., Tripathi, A., and Yin, F., “Design of a Bundle Shopbot,” in
Proceedings of the 14th Workshop of Information Technologies and Systems, pp.14-19,
December 2004, Washington, D. C.
Gopal, R. D., Thompson, S., and Tung, A., “Transaction Risk Management in Online
Auctions,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Seattle,
WA, 2003.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “Economics of Online
Music Sharing,” Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Electronic
Commerce, Pittsburgh, PA, 2003.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “No More Shadow
Boxing with Online Music Piracy: Strategic Business Models to Enhance Revenues,”
Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems and Sciences, Hawaii,
January 2003.
Gopal, R., and Gupta, A., “Trading Higher Software Piracy for Higher Profits: The Case of
Phantom Piracy,” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems and
Sciences, Hawaii, January 2002.
Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., and Sanders, G. L., “The Internet and Free Music: How
Can The Recording Industry Turn This Minefield In Its Favor,” Proceedings of the
Decision Sciences Institute Meeting, San Francisco, California.
Garfinkel, R., Gopal, R. and Goes, P., "The CVC Approach to Data Security: Binary
Confidential Data and Insider Threat", Proceedings of Computational Statistics
(COMPSTAT) 2000, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Eds. W. Jansen and J. Bethlehem, Statistics
Netherlands, August 2000, pp. 31-32.
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Gopal, R. D, Goes, P. B, and Garfinkel, R., “Confidentiality via Camouflage: CVC
Approach to Database Query Management,” Proceedings of the Statistical Data
Protection Conference, Portugal, pp.1-8, March 1998.
Gopal, R. D., Bapna, R., and Sanders, G. L., “The Role of Ethics and Deterrence on
Software Piracy: A Cross-Cultural Study,” Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute
Meeting, Orlando, Florida, 1996.
Gopal, R. D., Goes, P. B, and Garfinkel, R., “A Database Security Model to Provide
Interval Protection of Confidential Data,” Proceedings of the Workshop on Information
Technology, pp. 155-164, 1994.
Gopal, R. D., and Sanders, G. L., “The Effect of Preventive and Deterrent Software Piracy
Strategies on Producer Profits,” Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual International
Conference on Information Systems, pp. 161-170, 1992.
Gopal, R. D., and Ramesh, R., “Multiple Query Optimization,” Proceedings of 1991
Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, pp. 806-808, 1991.
Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., and Zionts, S., “A Methodology for Join Processing in
Relational Databases,” Proceedings of 1991 Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences
Institute, pp. 809-811, 1991.
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