Yifeng Zhang

Phone: 217-206-8252; Email: yzhang14@uis.edu

Assistant Professor
Department of Management Information Systems
College of Business and Management
University of Illinois at Springfield
Springfield, Illinois 62703

EDUCATION

    Ph.D.     Management Information Systems
                  University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005
                  
    M.S.      Commodity Science
                   Renmin University of China, 1997

    B.E.       Textile Engineering
                  China Textile University, 1994

TEACHING INTERESTS

Principles of Management Information Systems, Data Communications, Information Security, Data Warehousing, Data Mining

COURSES TAUGHT

MIS 513, MIS 564, MIS 578, MIS 576, MIS 352, MIS 571

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Agent-Based Modeling, Electronic Commerce, Supply Chain Management, Human Computer Interactions, Data Mining

PUBLICATIONS
 

Journal Publications

“Effectiveness of Q-learning as a tool for calibrating agent-based supply network models,” with S. Bhattacharyya, in Enterprise Information Systems, 1(2), 217 – 233, 2007.

“Genetic Programming in Classifying Large-Scale Data: An Ensemble Method,” with S. Bhattacharyya, in Information Sciences, 163, 85-101, 2004.

 “Information Integrity in Healthcare Enterprises: Strategies for Mitigation of Medical Errors,” with K. Desouza, Y. Awazu, and D. Thomas, in International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 6(2), 241-255, 2004.

Conference Proceedings

“Learning to Order in Supply Networks: An Agent Modeling Study,” with S. Bhattacharyya, in Proceedings of Agent 2004 Conference, 2004.

“Human-Machine Strategies for Decision Support,” with D. Thomas, Y. Awazu, and K. Desouza, in Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2003.

Conference Presentations

 “Capturing Greater Realism With Agent-based Supply Network Models,” with S. Bhattacharyya INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2005.

“Supply Chain: from Hierarchies to Markets in an Era of Outsourcing,” with Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, CORS/INFORMS Joint International Meeting, 2004.

“Information Sharing in Supply Networks,” with Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2003

“Agent Based Models for Supply Networks,” with Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Workshop on Revolutionary Strategies and Tactics in Research Design, International Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2003.

“Genetic Programming Based Ensembles for Large Scale Data Mining,” with Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, 2002.