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DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT Faculty
Head of Department: To be filled Professor:
Albert Y. LO, BA California State; MA, PhD Univ of California, Berkeley (Deputy Head)
Visiting Professors:
Robert BLANNING, BS Pennsylvania State; MS Case lnst of Tech; PhD Pennsyl- vania
VyacheslavV. SAZONOV, PhD Science MoscowState; DSc Steklov Mathematical lnst
Reader:
Thomas R. JEFFERSON, BSc, MSc Toronto; PhD Northwestern Senior Lecturers/Associate Professors:
Tung X. BUI, PhD Fribourg, PhD New York
Kar Yan TAM, BS Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; MS, PhD Purdue (Associate Head)
Lecturers/Assistant Professors:
Grace AU, BSc, MSc, PhD London
Anthony T . CHAN, BE National Univof Singapore; MBA, MA, PhD Univof Michigan, Ann Arbor
Patrick Y.K. CHAU, BSSc Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; MBA Edinburgh; PhD Western Ontario
Ki-Ling CHEUNG, BSc Univ of Wisconsin, Madison; MSc, PhD Stanford Theodore H. CLARK, MBA, DBA Harvard
Haresh GURNANI, BTech /IT New Delhi; MS, PhD Carnegie-Mellon Kunihiko HIGA, BS, PhD Arizona
lnchi HU, BS National Taiwan; MS National Tsing-Hua; PhD Stanford
Siming HUANG, BS Univof Science & Tech of China; MS Academia Sinica; PhD Iowa
Sunro LEE, BA Yonsei; MA Central Michigan; MS Texas A&M; PhD Rensselaer Polytech lnst
Shu-Ming NG, BA, MPhil Hong Kong, MS Stanford; PhD Carnegie-Mellon Ben A. PETRAZZINI, BA National Univof Cordoba; MA Catholic UnivofArgentina;
MA, PhD Univ of California, San Diego
Lydia PRICE, BS Miami; MS Cincinnati; PhD Columbia (Joint teaching duties in Department of Marketing)
Roy C. SCHMIDT, BA, BS Maryland; MBA St Mary's; PhD Indiana Li-Chung SHIH, BS, MS Sao Paulo; PhD Tokyo lnst of Tech
Shaohui ZHENG, MS lnst ofApplied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences;
PhD Columbia
Visiting LecturersNisiting Assistant Professors:
Ho-Geun LEE, BS Seoul Nationab, MS Korea Adv lnst of Sc & Tech; PhD Univ of Texas, Austin
Jerome YEN, BS Chung Yuan; MS New Mexico; PhD Arizona
School o f Business and Mana~ement School o f Business and Management
Assistant Lecturers:
Ramesh G. KINI, BTech Indian lnst of Tech, Delhi; MSc Carnegie-Mellon Chi-Ming Davy WONG, BSc Hong Kong; MBA New South Wales Visiting Scholoars:
Pai-Chun MA, BS NationalChiao-Tung Univ, Taiwan; MBA State Univof New York, Buffalo; PhD New York
Chee-Sing YAP, BSc London; PhD Cambridge
Undergraduate Programme
There are two main streams of undergraduate programme in the Department:
lnformation Systems (IS), and Management Operations (MO); both leading to the BBA degree in lnformation and Systems Management.
lnformation Systems Stream
The discipline of Information Systems (IS) is concerned with the application of information technoloav to achieve manaaement obiectives of orofit-oriented and non- profit organisations. Gmodem society, a kajor of business activities involves the collection, analysis, processing, management, and distribution of information. Computer and telecommunication technologies, if properly applied, have proven to be instrumental in leveraging organisation's effectiveness. As organisations are increasingly facing challenges of rapid technology advances and the ever-changing marketplace, there is a strong demand for professionals who both understand business functions and possess the necessary information technology skills to assist an organisation to face these challenges.
In recognition of the vital role information technology plays in today's business world, courses offered by the IS stream aim to provide students with fundamental knowledge in major functional areas of organisation and the analytical competence to design, implement and control information systems required by business.
The Department has a number of laboratories to support teaching and research in IS. A workstation laboratory, in operation since 1993, houses 31 UNlX SPARC workstations with colour monitors. The multimedia laboratory and the networking laboratory started operations in May 1994. The multimedia laboratory consists of advanced audio-visual equipment, high performance workstations, and peripherals, all housed in a specially designed acoustic room to allow integration of voice, text and image in an integrated computing platform. The networking lab6ratory consists of a networkf PCs, workstations and communication devices running a variety of network management packages and groupware utilities.
Management Operations Stream
The quantitative management group in the Department of lnformation and Systems Management offers courses in manaaement o~erations and manaaement science, and statistics. The general theme is thedevelopment of problem-solvi~g skills useful to all managers. Management operations provide the basis for undertaking the work and controlling it to a successful completion by means of skills to break work down into tasks, and evaluate the time and resources needed. Included are the identification of management problems, modelling and solution of the technical components, interpre-
tation and use of the solution, and solution maintenance. Areas of study covered in this stream include operations and technology management, and management science.
Statistics is one of the most useful methods by which numerical information can be collected, summarised and interpreted as an aid to decision making in an uncertain environment. As a consequence, statistical methods are widely used in all areas of business. The general theme of the statistics courses in this stream is the development of application-orientated statistical methods to business, with an emphasis on problem- solving skills for data-orientated problems, specifically including categorical data, fore- casting, multivariate methods, nonparametric methods, missing data and partial informa- tion, regression analysis, reliability models, sequential analysis, sample survey and resampling methods.
Curriculum for BBA in lnformation and Systems Management First Year
The common first-year undergraduate curriculum is shown on page 160.
Information Systems Stream
Second Year Fall Semester
ISMT 221 C lnformation Systems Analysis and Design [3-1-0:4]
COMP 102 R Com~uter Fundamentals and Proarammina 13-0-2:41 MARK 212 C ~ a r k e t i n ~ Management
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" i4-0-0:4j MGTO 221 C Organisational Behaviour [4-0-0:4]
SB&M E Business and Management Elective [3-0-0:3]
19 credits Spring Semester
ISMT 223 C Business Applications Programming [3-1-0141 ISMT 226 C Database Design and Administration [2-1-0:3]
(1) COMP 171 R Data Structures and Algorithms [3-1-0:3]
OR ISMT 227 R Data Management and File Structures [3-0-0:3]
FREE E Free Elective [3-0-0:3]
H&SS E Humanities and Social Science Elective [3-0-0:3]
16 credits Third Year
Fall Semester
ISMT 330 C Information Systems Development and [2-1-0131 Project Management
ISMT 333 C Information Systems Project [ I -0-2:2]
H&SS E Humanities and Social Science Elective [3-0-0:3]
H&SS E Humanities and Social Science Elective [3-0-0131 SB&M E Business and Management Elective [3-0-0:3]
14 credits
School of Business and Management
Spring Semester
ISMT 335 C Telecommunications and Computer [3-0-0:3]
Networking Management
(1) ISMT E Information Systems Elective [3-0-0:3]
OR ENGG E Engineering Elective [3-0-0:3]
FREE E Free Elective [3-0-0:3]
H&SS E Humanities and Social Science Elective [3-0-0:3]
SB&M E Business and Management Elective [3-0-0131 15 credits (1
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, Students who have taken ISMT 227 in Spring Semester of the second year willtake ENGG elective; students who have taken COMP 171 in Spring semester of the second year will take ISMT elective.
A minimum of 101 credits is required for the BBA programme in lnformation and Systems Management
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lnformation Systems Stream.Management Operations Stream
Second Year Fall Semester
ISMT 261 R Production and Operations Management [4-0-0:4]
FREE E Free Elective [4-0-0:4]
H&SS E Humanities and Social Science Elective [3-0-0:3]
MARK 21 2 C Marketing Management [4-0-0:4]
MGTO 221 C Organisational Behaviour [4-0-0:4]
19 credits Spring Semester
ISMT 271 R Management Science [3-1-0:4]
ISMT E Management Operations Elective [4-0-0:4]
ENGG E Engineering Elective [3-0-0:3]
FREE E Free Elective [3-0-0131
H&SS E Humanities and W a l Science Elective [3-0-0:3]
17 credits Third Year
Fall Semester
ISMT E Management Operations Elective [4-0-0:4]
FREE E Free Elective [3-0-0:3]
H&SS E Humanities and Social Science Elective [3-0-0:3]
MGTO 321 R Corporate Strategy [4-0-0:4]
14 credits
School of Business and Management
Spring Semester
ISMT E Management Operations Elective [4-0-0:4]
ENGG E Engineering Elective [3-0-0131
FREE E Free Elective [4-0-0:4]
H&SS E Humanities and Social Science Elective [3-0-0:3]
14 credits A minimum of 101 credits is required for the BBA programme in lnformation and Systems Management - Management Operations Stream.
Faculty Research Interests
Professor Albert Y. LO, Deupty Head of Department Statistics (Bayesian Estimation).
Professor Robert W. BLANNING. Visitina Professor
Model management systems, decision ~ ~ ~ o r t s y s t e m s , information technology manage- ment; information economics; management applications of artificial intelligence.
Professor Vyacheslav V. SAZONOV, Visiting Professor
Probability theory: foundations of probability; probabilities on algebraic structures; ap- proximation methods in probability. Applied probability: Markov models; renewal models:
statistics: Bayesian statistics; nonparametric statistics; approximation methods in statis- tics.
Dr Thomas R. JEFFERSON, Reader
Management Science (particularly optimisation); operations management; statistics;
information systems.
Dr Tung X. BUI, Associate Professor
Implementation of information systems in large organisations; group decision and negotiation support systems, crisis management support systems; design of distributed knowledge-bases for organisational decision making.
Dr Kar-Yan TAM, Associate Professor and Associate Head of De~artment
Decision support systems; information systems development and management; applica- tions of information technology in finance, and logistic and operation management.
Dr Grace AU, Assistant Professor
Off ice automation; multi-media information systems; document image processing; workflow analysis; executive information systems; visual simulation modelling.
Dr. Anthony T. CHAN, Assistant Professor
Statistics (time series, forecasting and stochastic control); management science.
Dr Patrick Y.K. CHAU, Assistant Professor
Decision support systems; expert systems; visual interactive modelling; simulation;
applications of management science techniques in marketing and finance.
Dr Ki-Ling CHEUNG, Assistant Professor
Production and operations management; decision theory.
School of Business and Mana~ernent School of Business and Management
Dr Theodore H. CLARK, Assistant Professor
lnformation systems management, information technology strategy, interorganisational networking.
Dr Haresh GURNANI. Assistant Professor
Enterprise and logisti& management, operations and technology management; manu- facturing strategy, total quality management; operations research, applied.optimisation
Dr Kunihiko HIGA, Assistant Professor
Database design; expert systems design; object-oriented data model; distributed infor- mation systems.
Dr In-Chi HU, Assistant Professor
Sequential analysis; stochastic control; stochastic process.
Dr Si-Ming HUANG, Assistant Professor
Mathematical programming; combinatorial optimisation; graph theory; stochastic proc- ess; quantitative approaches to production/operations management problems; facility locationldesign modelling and analysis.
Dr Sunro LEE, Assistant Professor
Methodological issues in expert systems development and testing, experimentation in software engineering; A1 applications to managerial problem solving.
Dr Shu-Ming NG, Assistant Professor
Mathematical programming; combinatorial optimisation; manufacturing models.
Dr Ben A. PETRAZZINI, Assistant Professor
Telecommunications policy; telecommunications reforms in developing countries; socio- economic impact of telecommunications privatisation.
Dr Lydia PRICE, Assistant Professor
Marketing management; consumer behavior; research methodology.
Dr Roy C. SCHMIDT, Assistant Professor
Interaction between organisations and information systems; information systems support for strategic decision making; information systems development (involvement and satis- faction).
Dr Li-Chunp SHIH, Lecturer
Strategy a& operations management; total quality and productivity management; ap- plied heuristics methods; product development management; motivation systems.
Dr Shao-Hui ZHENG, Assistant Professor
Quallty control; production management, inventory management; applied stochastic processes; Markov devision programming; simulation; applied statistics.
Dr Ho-Geun LEE, Visiting Assistant Professor
Electronic market structures; integration of Al and OR approaches; telecommunications and multi-media technologies.
Ramesh G. KINI, Assistant Lecturer
Manufacturing and marketing implications of design and conformance quality related decisions; production management.
Chi-Ming Davy WONG, Assistant Lecturer Statistics; nonparametric regression.
Dr Pai-Chun MA, Visiting Scholar
CASE tools for decision analysis and mathematical model formulation and model management building LP modeis from components using experts' rules; applying opera- tions management concepts for model management.
Dr Chee-Sing YAP, Visiting Scholar
lnformation technology in small business; government policy and IT in Asia-Pacific countries; telework.
Dr Jerome YEN, Visiting Assistant Professor
Systems development; artificial intelligence and neural networks; group decision support technology; competition intelligence.
School of Business and Management
DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT OF ORGANISATIONS