Narges Kasiri

Doctoral Student in MSIS program

Spears School of Business

Email: My Last Name at okstate dot edu

Office: 104D, Business Building

Phone: 744-7598

EDUCATION

·   Doctoral Student, Management Science and Information Systems, Fall 2005 - current.

·   Masters in Computer Science, Eastern Michigan University, 2003.

· Bachulare in Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 1996, Tehran, Iran.

RESEARCH

· I am currently working on Real Options model in IT investment, Oklahoma State University, Spring 2007- current.

· I am a research associate in IRIS (Institute for Research in Information Systems), member of a research team
in Email Management Strategies, Oklahoma State University, Sep. 2005- May 2008.

· Member of Rutgers TREC 2005 (Text REtrieval Conference) research team on HARD Track, doing
non-parametric statistical analysis using R software, Rutgers University, Summer 2005.

·  Independent study in "running subjects" for studies of the clustering visualization tool in "Novel
Indexing and Retrieval of Dynamic Brain Images" project, Library and Information Science,
Rutgers University, Spring 2005.

· Master's Thesis "Adaptive Term Weighting Strategies Based on Heuristic Search Techniques",
Computer Science, Eastern Michigan University, applying a new algorithm for the Search Engines,
using JAVA, MySQL and a 2 GB web database provided by NIST and  DARPA in TREC-8,
Sep. 2002- May 2003.

PUBLICATION (Journals/Conference proceedings)

· N. Kasiri, R. Sharda, "Electronic health record systems investment valuation: a system dynamics approach",

Proceedings of 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Summer 2009, San Francisco, CA.

· N. Kasiri, R. Sharda, "Some now, some later? Selecting a lot size of emails to process at one time",

    International Journal of Services Sciences, Spring 2008.

· N. Kasiri, R. Sharda, "Prioritizing and scheduling email processing: An application of the
capacitated lot sizing problem", Proceedings of DSI Mini Conference on Service Sciences,
Pittsburgh, PA, May 2007.

·   N. Kasiri, R. Sharda, "Scheduling Email Processing Using Capacitated Single-Item Inventory Model",
Proceedings of 37th National DSI Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 2006.

·   N. Kasiri, A. Ikeji, "Adaptive Term Weighting Strategies Based on Heuristic Search Techniques",
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies
(CCCT '03) and the 9th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS '03).

OTHER PUBLICATION

· With Jones T., Dobrev A. Kersting A., “Financing opportunities available to Member States to support and boost

investment in eHealth”, European Commission, Information Society and Media, 2008.

· With Jones T., Dobrev A., et al.,”Sources of financing and policy recommendations to Member States and the European

Commission on boosting eHealth investment”, European Commission, Information Society and Media, 2008.