• Program Description
• Faculty & Research
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• Incoming Students

• Kuechler, William, Alexander McLeod, Mark Simkin, "Filling the Pipeline for IT Professionals: What Can IS Faculty Do?", Journal of Information Systems Education, Forthcoming 2009.
• McLeod, Alexander and Sonja Pippin, "Individual Taxpayer Intention to Use Tax Preparation Software: Examining Expertise, Experience, Trust and Perceived Risk", Journal of Information Science and Technology, Forthcoming 2009.
• McLeod, Alexander, Jan Guynes Clark, "Using Stakeholder Analysis to Identify Users in Healthcare Information Systems Research", The International Journal of Health Information Systems and Informatics, July/September 2009 (4) 3.
• Kuechler, William, Alexander McLeod, Mark Simkin, "Why Don't More Students Major in IS?", Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, Forthcoming 2009.
• Wong, Jeffrey, Roger H.L. Chiang, and Alexander McLeod, "A Strategic Management Support Architecture: Integration of the Balanced Scorecard and Enterprise Resource Planning", International Journal of Business Information Systems, Forthcoming 2009 (4) 6.
• McLeod, Alexander, Darrell Carpenter, Jan Guynes Clark, "Measuring Success in Interorganizational Information Systems: A Case Study", Communications of the Association for Information Systems, June 2008 (22) 34.
• McLeod, Alexander, Jan Guynes Clark, John Warren, and Glenn Dietrich, "The Impact of Information Systems on End User Performance: Examining the Effects of Cognitive Style Using Learning Curves in an Electronic Medical Record Implementation", Communications of the Association of Information Systems, February 2008 (22) 9.
• McLeod, Alexander, Eric Epley and Rasa Silenas, "Personal Identity Verification for Regional Emergency Workers", International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, July 2008.

Conference Proceedings

• McLeod, Alexander and Sonja Pippin, "Using Technology Acceptance Theory to Model Individual Differences in Tax Software Use", Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, California, August 2009.
• Conklin, Wm. Arthur and Alexander McLeod, "Examining the Information Technology Security Essential Body of Knowledge", 8th Annual Security Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2009.
• McLeod, Alexander and Sonja Pippin, "Security and Privacy Trust in E-Government: Understanding System and Relationship Trust Antecedents", Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-42, Waikoloa, Big Island Hawaii, January 2009.
• McLeod, Alexander, Sonja Pippin, and Richard Mason, "Possible Determinants of Individual Taxpayers' Intention to Use Tax Preparation Software: Some Empirical Evidence from a Pilot Study", American Accounting Association, Anaheim, California, August 2008.
• McLeod, Alexander, Darrell Carpenter, Jan Guynes Clark, "Using Biometric Authentication to Improve Fire Ground Accountability: An Assessment of Firefighter Privacy Concerns", Americas Conferences on Information Systems, Toronto Canada, August 2008.
• McLeod, Alexander, Alberto Carlos Dorantes and Glenn B. Dietrich, "Modeling Security Vulnerabilities Using Chaos Theory: Discovering Order, Structure, and Patterns from Chaotic Behavior in Complex Systems", 7th Annual Security Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2008.
• McLeod, Alexander, Sonja Pippin and Richard Mason, "Individual Taxpayer Intention to Use Tax Preparation Software: Examining Expertise, Experience, Trust and Perceived Risk", ISOneWorld, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2008.
• Carpenter, Darrell, Alexander McLeod and Jan Guynes Clark, "Emergency Response Systems and Biometrics: Assessing Fire Fighter Privacy Concerns", 7th Annual Security Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2008.
• McLeod, Alexander, Jan Guynes Clark, "Defining the User in Healthcare Information Systems Research", Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-40, Waikoloa, Big Island Hawaii, January 2007.
• Salinas, Rasa, Eric Epley and Alexander McLeod, "A Uniform Identification Badge for Medical and Emergency Workers: Managing a Regional Personal Identification Verification Program", The 6th Annual Security Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2007.
• Carpenter, Darrell, Alexander McLeod and Jan Guynes Clark, "The Integration of Biometric Technologies with Fire Fighting Information Systems", National Institute of Standards and Technology - Bureau of Fire Research Laboratories Annual Fire Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, March 2007.
• Dorantes, Carlos, Alexander McLeod, Glenn B. Dietrich, "Cyber Emergencies: What Managers Can Learn from Complex Systems and Chaos Theory", Americas Conference on Information Systems, Acapulco, Mexico, August 2006.
• McLeod, Alexander and V. Srinivasan Rao, "The Role of Mentoring in Information System Professional Development", Americas Conference on Information Systems, New York, N.Y., August 2004.

Arthur Conklin, Assistant Professor University of Houston (2006)

• White, G., Conklin, A., "The appropriate use of force-on-force cyberexercises", Security & Privacy Magazine, IEEE, Volume: 2, Issue: 4, July-Aug. 2004 Pages: 33 - 37.

Book Chapters

• Security+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Osbourne-McGraw Hill, 2003, 592 pages.
• Principles of Computer Security: Security+ and Beyond, McGraw Hill Technology Education, 2004, 800 pages.
• Computer Security Lab Manual, McGraw Hill Technology Education, 2005, 400 pages.

Conference Proceedings

• Conklin, Wm. Arthur; Dietrich, Glenn, "Systems Theory Model for Information Security", Proceedings of the 41th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2008.
• Conklin, Wm. Arthur, "Why FISMA Falls Short: The need for security metrics", Proceedings of the Second Annual Workshop on Information Security and Privacy - WISP 2007,(SIGSEC pre-ICIS), Montreal, Canada, December 2007.
• Conklin, Wm. Arthur, "The Design Of an Information Security Practicum Course", Proceedings of the 2007 International Academy for Information Management - (SIGED pre-ICIS), Montreal, Canada, December 2007.
• Conklin, Wm. Arthur; Jensen, Bradley; "Entity Data Model as a Mistake Proofing Mechanism", Academic Days Conference on Business Applications, Relational Databases, and Security, November 2007.
• Conklin, Wm. Arthur, "Why FISMA Doesn't Work", GFirst Conference, Orlando, FL, June 2007.
• Conklin, Art; Perry, David, "End user behavior and Internet security", RSA2007, San Francisco, CA, February 2007
• Conklin, Art; Dietrich, Glenn; "Secure Software Engineering: A New Paradigm", Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2007.
• Conklin, Art; "Barriers to Adoption of e-Government", Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2007.
• Conklin, W. A., "Bottom-Up meets Top-Down: A New Paradigm for Software Engineering Instruction", Proceedings of the 10th Annual Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, June 5-8, 2006, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, Maryland, ISBN: 1-933510-98-6, Pages 131-136.
• White, Greg; Conklin, Art; "e-Government and Cyber Security: The Role of Cyber Security Exercises", Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 4-7 January 2006, Pages 79-87.
• Conklin, Art; "Cyber Defense Competitions and Information Security Education: An Active Learning Solution for a Capstone Course", Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 4-7 January 2006, Pages 220-225.
• Conklin, A.; "The Use of a Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in Information Security Education", 2005 INFORMATION SECURITY CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT Conference (InfoSecCD 2005) September 23-24, 2005 Kennesaw State University, Georgia.
• Conklin, A.; Dietrich, G.; "Modeling End User Behavior to Secure a PC in an Unmanaged Environment", 2005 Americas Conference on Information Systems, 11-14 August 2005, Omaha, NE.
• Conklin, A.; Dietrich, G.; "Secure Software Design Principles: A Systems Approach", 2005 Americas Conference on Information Systems, 11-14 August 2005, Omaha, NE.
• Conklin, A.; White, G.; "Graduate Level Assessment Course: A Model for Safe Vulnerability Assessment", Proceedings of the 9th Annual Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, 6-9 June 2005, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, ISBN: 1- 933510-99-4, Pages 109-114.
• Conklin, A.; Dietrich, G.; Walz, D., "Password-based authentication: a system perspective"; Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2004., 5-8 Jan. 2004 Pages: 170 - 179.

Carlos Alberto Dorantes, Assistant Professor Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus Queretaro (2007)

• Ko, M., Osey-Bryson, K., Dorantes, C.A., "Investigating the impact of publicly announced information security breaches on three performance indicators of the breached firms", Information Resources Management Journal, Volumen 22, Issue 2, 2009, pp. 1-21.
• Ko, M. and Dorantes, C.A., "The impact of information security breaches on financial performance of the breached firms: an empirical investigation," Journal of Information Technology Management, Volume 17, Issue 2, 2006, pp. 13-22.
• Goles, T., White, G., Beebe, N., Dorantes, C.A., Hewitt, B., "Moral intensity and ethical decision-making: a contextual extension", Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, Volume 37, Issue 2-3, Spring-Summer 2006, pp. 86-95.

Conference Proceedings

• Dorantes, C.A., Mancha, R., Clark, J. "Social ties and culture in software entrepreneurial firms", to be presented at The 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, California, August 6th-9th, 2009.
• Dorantes, C.A., Torres, J.A., "Clusterizacion de la industria de software en Mexico", to be published in the Proceedings of the 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 14th -17th.
• Dorantes, C.A., McLeod, A. J., Dietrich, G. B., "Modeling security vulnerabilities using Chaos Theory", Proceedings of the 7th Annual Security Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2-4, 2008.
• Dorantes, C. A., "The influence of top management on the contribution of enterprise information systems to long-term financial performance", Proceedings of the 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Kingston, Colorado, August 9th-12th.
• Dorantes, C.A. and Ko, M., "ERP long-term performance impact and its relationship with the CIO's membership to the TMT", presented in the 2007 Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• Dorantes, C. A. and Rao, S., "Competencies that enhance competitive advantage in the context of ERP systems," Proceedings of the Twelfth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Acapulco, Mexico, 2006, August 4th-6th.
• Dorantes, C.A., McLeod, A. J., Dietrich, G. B., "Cyber Emergencies: What Managers Can Learn From Complex Systems and Chaos Theory," Proceedings of the Twelfth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Acapulco, Mexico, 2006, August 4th-6th.
• Dorantes, C. A., Hewitt, B., Goles, T., "Ethical Decision-Making in an IT Context: The Roles of Personal Moral Philosophies and Moral Intensity", Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, 2006, January 4th -7th.
• 12. Dorantes, C. A. and Walz, D., "Revisiting the impact of ERP systems on business value: a triangulation method", Proceedings of the Eleventh Americas Conference on Information Systems, Omaha, NE, 2005, August 11th -14th.

Nicole Beebe, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio (2007)

• Beebe, Nicole Lang, and Jan Guynes Clark (2007) "A Discriminant Model for Predicting Hacker Behavior," Journal of Information System Security (JISSEC) (3:3), pp 3-20.
• Beebe, Nicole Lang, and Jan Guynes Clark (2007) "Digital Forensic Text String Searching: Improving Information Retrieval Effectiveness by Thematically Clustering Search Results," Digital Investigation (4:2), pp 49-54.
• Goles, Tim, Greg White, Nicole Lang Beebe, Alberto Dorantes, Barbara Hewitt (2006) "Moral Intensity and Ethical Decision-Making: A Contextual Extension," The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, 37(2-3), pp 86-95.
• Beebe, Nicole Lang, and Jan Guynes Clark (2005) "A Hierarchical, Objectives-Based Framework for the Digital Investigations Process," Digital Investigation (2:2), pp 146-166.

Book Chapters

• Beebe, Nicole Lang, and Glenn Dietrich (2007) "A New Process Model for Text String Searching," in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 242, Advances in Digital Forensics III, S. Shenoi and P. Craiger (eds.), Boston: Springer, pp 179-191.
• Beebe, Nicole Lang, and Jan Guynes Clark (2005) "Dealing with Terabyte Datasets in Digital Investigations," in: Research Advances in Digital Forensics, M. Pollitt and S. Shenoi (eds.), Springer, Norwell.

Conference Proceedings

• Beebe, Nicole Lang, and Jan Guynes Clark (2006) "Digital Forensics Curriculum Development: Identification of Knowledge Domains, Learning Objectives, and Core Concepts," Proceedings of the Twelfth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Acapulco, Mexico, August 2006.
• Beebe, Nicole Lang, and Jan Guynes Clark (2006) "A Discriminant Model for Predicting Hacker Behavior," Proceedings of the Twelfth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Acapulco, Mexico, August 2006.
• Beebe, Nicole Lang and V. Srinivasan Rao (2005) "Using Situational Crime Prevention Theory to Explain the Effectiveness of Information Systems Security," Proceedings of the SoftWars Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 11, 2005.
• Beebe, Nicole Lang, and Diane Walz (2005) "An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of Data Quality and its Antecedents on Data Warehousing Success," Proceedings of the Eleventh Americas Conference on Information Systems, Omaha, Nebraska, August 2005.
• Beebe, Nicole Lang, and Jan Guynes Clark (2004) "A Hierarchical, Objectives-Based Framework for the Digital Investigations Process," Proceedings of the Digital Forensics Research Workshop, Linthicum, Maryland, August 2004.
• Beebe, Nicole Lang, Roy Calvo and V. Srinivasan Rao (2004) "Web Services Security: Proposed Model for Content Delivery Assurance in a Low Trust Scenario," Proceedings of the Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, New York, New York, August 2004.
• Clark, Jan Guynes, Andrew G. Kotulic and Nicole Lang Beebe (2004) "Integrating Security and Privacy Issues in System Design," Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Porto, Portugal, April 2004.

Sriraman Ramachandran, Business Analyst, Business Advisory Service, Ernst & Young, LLP (2007)

• Ramachandran, S. and White, G. "Methodology to Assess Impact of Investments in Security Tools and Products", Journal of Information Systems Security, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2005.

Book Chapters

• Ramachandran, S. "Effect of Cultural Protocols in Media Choice in Global Virtual Teams", in Collaborating Virtually: Concepts and Applications, (Ed.) Tripathy, K., ICFAI Press, 2006.

Conference Proceedings

• Ramachandran, S. and White, G. "Methodology To Determine Security ROI", Proceedings of the Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, New York, New York, August 2004.
• Ramachandran, S. "Effect of Cultural Norms on Media Choice in Global Virtual Teams", Proceedings of the Eleventh Americas Conference on Information Systems, Omaha, Nebraska, August 2005.
• Ramachandran, S. and White, G. "Understanding Decision Making Process Involved with Investments in Information Technology Security Tools and Products: A Grounded Theory Based Approach", Soft-Wars, Las Vegas, Nevada,December 2005.
• Ramachandran, S. and Rao, V. S. "An Effort towards Identifying and Defining the Occupational Culture among Information Systems Professionals", ACM SIGMIS-CPR, Claremont, California, April 2006.
• Warren, J. and Ramachandran, S. "Effect of Gender Composition on Face-to-Face and Virtual Team Performance", Proceedings of ISOneWorld'2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2006.
• Ramachandran, S. and Rao, V. S. "Security Cultures in Organizations: A Theoretical Model", Proceedings of the Twelfth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Acapulco, Mexico, August 2006.
• White, G., and Ramachandran, S. "Community Cyber Security Maturity Model: An Initial Framework", Annual Security Conference, Las Vegas, April, 2007.
• Rao, V. S., and Ramachandran, S. and "Information Security Governance Arrangements: The Devil is in the Details", Proceedings of the Thirteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Keystone, Colorado, August 2007.
• Ramachandran, S. Rao, V. S., and Goles, T. "Information Security Cultures of Four Professions: A Comparative Study", Proceedings of the Forty First Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences'2008, Big Island, Hawaii, January, 2008.

Barbara Hewitt, Assistant Professor Texas A&M San Antonio (2008)

• Goles T., White G., Beebe, N., Dorantes, A., and Hewitt, B., (2006) "Moral Intensity and Ethical Decision-Making: A Contextual Extension," DATA BASE.37(2-3).
• Moczygemba, Jackie and Hewitt, Barbara, (June 2001) "Managing Clinical Data in an Electronic Environment,"  The Health Care Manager.

Conference Proceedings

• Hewitt, B: (2009)"Using the Technology Acceptance Model to Explore How Security Measures in the Adoption of Electronic Health Record" Americas Conference.
• Hewitt, B. (2009). "Adoption of Security Measures While Implementing Electronic Health Records" Southwest Decision Sciences Institute.
• Dorantes, C., Hewitt, B., and Goles, T., (2006). "Ethical Decision-Making in an IT Context: The Roles of Personal Moral Philosophies and Moral Intensity" Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-39.
• Hewitt, B. and Walz, D., (2005). "Using Shared Leadership to Foster Knowledge Sharing in Information Systems Development Projects," Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-38.
• Hewitt, B: (2009) "Using the Technology Acceptance Model to Explore How Security Measures Affect the Adoption of Electronic Health Record" Americas Conference.
• Hewitt, B. (2009). "Adoption of Security Measures While Implementing Electronic Health Records" Southwest Decision Sciences Institute.

• Dorantes, C., Hewitt, B., and Goles, T.  , (2006). "Ethical Decision-Making in an IT Context: The Roles of Personal Moral Philosophies and Moral Intensity" Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-39.
• Hewitt, B. and Walz, D.  , (2005). "Using Shared Leadership to Foster Knowledge Sharing in Information Systems Development Projects," Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-38.

Xiaogang (Trent) Chen, lecturer, The University of Texas at San Antonio (2009)

Journal Publications

• Au, Yoris A., Darrell Carpenter, Xiaogang Chen, and Jan G. Clark (2009) "Virtual Organizational Learning in Open Source Software Development Projects," Information & Management, 46(1), 9-15.

• Chen, Xiaogang and Glenn Dietrich "Knowledge Coordination in Open Source Software Development Teams," Proceedings of the 39th Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, November 2008.
• Au, Yoris A., Darrell Carpenter, Xiaogang Chen, and Jan G. Clark "Virtual Organizational Learning in Open Source Software Development Projects," Proceedings of the 18th Information Resources Management Association International Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 2007.