Curriculum Vitae

 Employment | Teaching | Research | Achievements | Journal Publications | Conferences

Education

1984	-	Ph.D. in Management Information Systems/Management Science from the Institute for Systems Analysis (ISA) of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1973	-	M.S. in Economic Cybernetics from Moscow Institute of Engineering and Economics

 Employment

August 2006-present	-	Associate Professor of MIS/QM, University of Montevallo
June 2001-2006	-	Assistant Professor of MIS/QM, University of Montevallo
1999 – May 2001	-	Associate Professor of MIS/Quantitative Analysis in College of Business, University of West Alabama
1996-1999	-	Visiting Associate Professor in College of Business, University of West Alabama
1995,1994,1993 (summer semesters)	-	Visiting Associate Professor in School of Business, East Carolina University
1987 –1996	-	Associate Professor in Institute for Systems Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1978 – 1987	-	Assistant Professor in Institute for Systems Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1973 – 1978	-	Systems Analyst in Institute for Systems Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences

 Teaching Interests

Management Information Systems Programming Languages Systems Analysis and Design Database Management Internet Applications

Telecommunications and Networking Computerized Data Analysis Electronic Commerce Operations Management Statistics

 Taught courses

1996-present - Microcomputer Applications, Computer Organization, Management Information Systems, Statistics, Production/Operations Management, Computerized Data Analysis, E-Commerce, Systems Analysis and Design

1995, 1994, 1993 - Introduction to Computers (East Carolina University)

1993, 1994 - Management Information Systems (Moscow EEP University)

1985-95 - Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Expert Systems, Management Information Systems  (Institute for Systems Analysis)

Research Interests

·      Multicriteria Decision Analysis

·      Decision Support and Expert Systems

·      Behavioral Aspects of Decision Making

·      Group Decision Making

·      Data Mining

·      Electronic Commerce

·      IT Outsourcing

Main Scholarly Achievements 

• More than 35 refereed publications in English

• About 30 refereed publications in Russian

• Book summarizing 15 years of research published by Kluwer Publishers

• Two more research books (one in Russian)

• Numerous presentation at national and international conferences

• The Best Theoretical/Empirical Research Paper Award (1998, Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting)

• The Best Track Presentation (1996, INFORMS Annual Meeting)

• Outstanding Paper in the Decision Analysis Non-Profit/Public Administration, Government, and Health Care track (1999, South-East Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting)

• Publications in several top level American and European Journals such as Decision Sciences, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, European Journal of Operational Research

• Invited speaker for the International Conference on Operational Research for Development (ICORD VI) and 39th Symposium of Brazilian Operational Society (2007)

Editorial Activities 

·        Editorial Review Board - B>Quest

·     Editorial Board member – International Journal of Service Sciences

·     Reviewer for:

Journal of Multicriteria Decision Analysis

European Journal of Operational Research

International Journal of Production and Economics

Journal of Mechanical Design

Mathematical and Computer Modeling

B>Quest

Numerous conference proceedings

Professional Affiliation

·        Decision Sciences Institute, Member

·        The International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), Member

·        American Association of University Women (AAUW), State Co-Director (website)

·        The European Association in Decision Making (EADM), Member (1988-2001)

·        ALPHA DELTA KAPPA, International Honorary Sorority for Women Educators, Corresponding Secretary (1998-2001)

 

Grants

University of Montevallo Research Grant, 2006 (co-investigator)

University of Montevallo Research Grant, 2004 (co-investigator)

Grant from UM Foundation, 2004 for .Net  Development Server (for teaching server-side programming)

College of Business (University of Montevallo) summer Research Grant, 2001

The University of West Alabama Research Grant, 1999

"Effectiveness of Ordinal Judgments for Comparison of Multiattribute Alternatives" (principal investigator)

The University of West Alabama Research Grant, 1999-2000

"Learning Effect in Multicriteria Decision Aid Processes" (co-investigator)
 

Journal Publications

 

Moshkovich H.M., Mechitov A.I., “Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and IT change management." International Journal of Business Research, accepted for publication in 2007.

Olson D.L., Moshkovich H.M., Mechitov A.I. “Fuzzy Sets in Data Mining,” in: “Data Mining Methods and Applications,” Lawrence, K., Kudyba S., Ronald Klimberg (eds.), Auerbach Publications, accepted for publication in December 2007.

Olson, D.L., Moshkovich, H.M. and Mechitov, A.I., “An Experiment with Fuzzy Sets in Data Mining,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4488, Y. Shi et al., (eds.) Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2007, 462-469.

Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H.M., Hand L., “Hi-Tech Economy: a Challenged Role of American Higher Education,” Business Journal for Entrepreneurs, 2007, N1.

Moshkovich, H.M., Mechitov, A.I., Olson, D.L. “E-Commerce and the Undergraduate MIS Curricula: an Exploratory Study,” Journal of Information Systems Education, 2006, vol.17, No.2, 185-194. 

Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H.M. “Russian Business Schools in Time of Transition”, The Journal of Business Education, 2006, March/April, vol.81, No.4, 225-229. 

Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H.M. “Russian Academy Goes through Overhall,” 2006, Insight to a Changing World Journal, 2006, issue 1.

Moshkovich H.M., Mechitov A.I., Olson D.L., “Infusion of Electronic Commerce in the Information Systems Curriculum” Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2005, Vol. 46, No.1, Fall 2005, 1-8.

Mechitov A., Moshkovich H., Olson D.L., “Incorporating Data Mining Models into Business Classes: Some Methodological and Practical Considerations”. Journal of Informatics Education & Research, Spring/Summer 2005, 7(1), 1-20. 

Moshkovich H.M., Mechitov A.I., Olson D.L., “Verbal Decision Analysis”
in: “Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: State of the Art Surveys”, eds. José Figueira, Salvatore Greco and Matthias Ehrgott, International Series in Operations Research and Management Science, 2005, 78,   609-637, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H.M., “Specifics and Dynamics of Russian Business Education”, B>Quest, 2004, http://www.westga.edu/~bquest/2004/russia.htm

Olson D., Mechitov A., Moshkovich H. “Decision Strategies in Dynamic Environment: An Experimental Study”, Journal of Business, Economics, and Industry, Fall 2003, 3, 31-39.

Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H.M., Olson D.L. "The Master's Degrees in E-Commerce: A Survey Study", Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2002, XXXXII, 4, 29-34.

Moshkovich H.M., Mechitov A.I., Olson D. “Rule Induction in Data Mining: Effect of Ordinal Scales”. Expert Systems with Applications Journal, 2002, 22, 303-311.

Moshkovich H.M., Mechitov A.I., Olson D.  “Ordinal Judgments for Comparison of Multiattribute Alternatives”. European Journal of Operational Research,  2002, 137, 625-641.

Mechitov A.I., Underwood S., Moshkovich H.M., Taylor R. "Experimental Study of Academic Web Sites", Education, 2001, 121, No.4, 652-662.

Olson D., Mechitov A., and Moshkovich H. “Learning Aspects of Decision Aids”. In: Koksalan, M. and S. Ziomts (eds.),  Multiple Criteria Decision Making in the New Millennium, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 2001, vol. 507, 41-49, Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Olson D., Mechitov A., and Moshkovich H.. Multicriteria Decision Aid Techniques: Some Experimental Conclusions. In: Haimes, Y. Y. and R. E. Steuer (eds.),  Research and Practice in Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 2000, vol. 487, 357-368, Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Olson D., Mechitov A., Moshkovich H. Comparison of MCDA Paradigms. In: Advances in Decision Analysis. M. Roubens and N.Meskens, eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, 104-119.

Olson D., Mechitov A., Moshkovich H. Cognitive Efforts and Learning Features of Decision Aids: Review of Experiments. Journal of Decision Systems,  1998, 7:2, 129-146.

Moshkovich H.M., Olson D.L., Schellenberger R.E. Data influences the result more than preferences: some lessons from implementation of multiattribute techniques in a real decision task. Decision Support Systems, 1998, 22, 73-84

 Larichev O.I., Moshkovich H.M. Verbal Decision Analysis for Unstructured Problems. NetherLands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.

Korhonen P., Larichev O., Mechitov A., Moshkovich H., Walleniuus Ju. Choice Behavior in a Computer-Aided Multiattribute Decision Task. Journal of Multi Criteria Decision Analysis, 1997, 6, 233-246.

 Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H.M., Olson D.L.  Computer systems illustration of decision aid techniques in CIS courses. Journal of Computer Information Systems , 1997, 1-7.

 Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H.M., Bradley J.H., Schellenberger R.E. An ordinal model for case-based reasoning in a classification task. International Journal of Expert Systems: Research & Applications, 1996, Vol.9, No.2, 225-242.

 Olson D., Moshkovich H.M., Schellenberger R., Mechitov A.I. Consistency and accuracy in decision aids: experiments with four multiattribute systems. Decision Sciences. 1995, 26(6), 723-748.

Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H.M., Olson D.L., Killingsworth B. Knowledge Acquisition Tool for Case-Based Reasoning Systems. Expert Systems with Applications, 1995, 9(2), 201-212.

 Larichev O.I., Moshkovich H. ZAPROS-LM - a method and a system for rank ordering of multiattibute Alternatives. European Journal of Operational Research, 1995, 82, 503-521.

 Larichev O.I., Olson D.L., Moshkovich H.M., Mechitov A.I. Numerical vs. Cardinal Measurements in Multiattribute Decision Making: How Exact is Exact Enough? Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 1995, 64(1), 9-21.

Olson D.L., Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H.M. The Role of Rules and Examples in the Process of Knowledge Acquisition in Direct Classification Tasks. Expert Systems with Applications, 1995, 8(1), 203-212.

Larichev O.I., Moshkovich H.M. An Approach to Ordinal Classification Problems. International Transactions of Operational Research, 1994, 1(3), 375-385.

 Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H.M., Olson D.L. Problems of Decision Rules Elicitation in a Classification Task. Decision Support Systems, 1994, 12, 115-126.

Larichev O.I., Moshkovich H.M., Mechitov A.I., Olson D.L. Experiments Comparing Qualitative Approaches to Rank-Ordering Multiattribute Alternatives. Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, 1993, 2(1), 5-26.

 Larichev O.I., Moshkovich H.M., Furems E.M., Mechitov A.I., Morgoev V.K. Knowledge Acquisition for the Construction of Full and Contradiction Free Knowledge Bases. Netherlands: IecProGamma, 1991.

 Larichev O.I., Mechitov A., Morgoev V., Moshkovich H., Furems E., Exact Duplicates of Human Judgements. In: Contemporary Issues in decision Making. K.Borcherding, O.I.Larichev, D.M.Messick (eds.) Elsvier Science Publishers (North-Holland), 1990, 43-55.

 Larichev, O.I., Moshkovich H.M., Limits to Decision Making Ability in Direct Multiattribute Alternative Evaluation. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 1988, 42, 217-233.

Larichev O.I., Moshkovich H.M., Furems E.M., Decision Support System “Class”, in: New Directions in Research on Decision Making. B.Brehmer, H. et al., eds. Elsevier Science Publishers (North Holland), 1986, 303-315.

 Larichev O.I., Boichenko V.S., Moshkovich H.M., Sheptalova L.P., Modeling Multiattribute Information Processing Strategies in a Binary Decision Task. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 1980, 26, 278-291.

 

Conference Proceedings/Presentations

Moshkovich H.M. “Improving Decision Making through Verbal Decision Analysis,” an invited presentation at the sixth International Conference on Operational Research for Development (ICORD VI) as a part of the 39th Symposium of the Brazilian Research Society, Fortaleza, Brazil, August 30, 2007.

Round table discussion “Similarities and Differences in Business Education in American and Brazilian Business Schools” – IBMEC/Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 27, 2007 - leader.

Moshkovich H.M., Mechitov A.I. “Designing a Capstone Course in a Small MIS Program.” Proceedings of the 37th Annual SE-Decision Science Institute Meeting, Savannah, GA, 2007.

Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H.M. “IT Offshore Outsourcing: Knowledge Drain and Other Risk Factors.” Proceedings of the 37th Annual SE-Decision Science Institute Meeting, Savannah, GA, 2007

Olson D.L., Moshkovich H.M., Mechitov A.I. “An Experiment with Fuzzy Sets in Data Mining.” The International Conference on Computational Science 2007 (ICCS 2007), Beijing, China May 27-30, (presentation)

Mechitov Alexander I. and Helen M. Moshkovich, “A Sequential Versus Parallel Choice Behavior in Decision Tasks,” South-East Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, Wilmington, NC 2006

Moshkovich H., Mechitov A., McMinn D. “Web Development Skills within the Information Systems’ Curriculum.” Proceedings of South East-DSI Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC, February, 2005, 6pp.

Moshkovich Helen M., Mechitov Alexander I., Olson D., “Verbal Decision Analysis and Multi Attribute Utility Theory: Comparison.” Proceedings of the 35th Decision Sciences Institute Annual  2004 Meeting, Boston, 6 pp.

Moshkovich Helen M., Mechitov Alexander I. “Comparison of Multi Criteria Decision Aid Techniques”, MBAA 2004 Annual Meeting, Chicago, 6 pp.

Mechitov Alexander ,I Moshkovich Helen M., Olson D. “Teaching Data Mining in Business Classes: Some Methodological and Practical Considerations”, Proceedings of the 34th Decision Sciences Institute Annual 2003 Meeting, Washington, 6 pp.

Moshkovich Helen M., Mechitov Alexander I., “Ordinal Dependences in Rule Induction”. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual DSI 2002 meeting, San Diego, 6 pp.

Moshkovich H.M., Mechitov A.I., Olsob D.L., Rule Induction in Data Mining: Some Representational Implications, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual DSI  2001 Meeting, San Francisco.

Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H.M., Taylor R.G., The Prevalence of E-Commerce Programs in National Schools of Business, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual DSI 2001 Meeting, San Francisco.

Moshkovich H., Mechitov A.I., Ordinal Classification Approach to Knowledge Discovery. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual SW-DSI 2001 Meeting, New Orleans, 127-128.

Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H., Knwoledge Elicitation for Ordinal Classification Tasks. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual SW-DSI 2001 Meeting, New Orleans, 124-126.

Olson D.L., Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H. Learning Aspects of Decision Aids. Presentation at 15th International Conference on Multicriteria Decision Making. Ankara, Turkey,  2000.

Moshkovich H., Mechitov A., Olson D. Ordinal Judgments for Comparison of Two Alternatives. Proceedings of the 30th Annual DSI 1999 Meeting, New Orleans, 519-521.

Moshkovich H., Mechitov A., Olson D. Using Decision Aid Systems: Review of Experimental Studies. Proceedings of the 29th Annual SE- DSI 1999 Meeting, Savannah, 82-84 p. (Outstanding Paper in the Decision Analysis Non-Profit/Public Administration, Government, and Health Care track)

Mechitov A., Moshkovich H., Underwood S. Comparative Analysis of Academic Web Sites. Proceedings of the 29th Annual SE-DSI 1999 Meeting, Savannah, 218-220.

Moshkovich H., Mechitov A., Olson D. Ordinal Judgments in Multiattribute Decision Analysis. Decision Sciences Institute 1998 Meeting (Las Vegas) (Best Theoretical/Empirical Research Paper Award).

Moshkovich H., Implementation of Verbal Analysis for Comparison of Multi-Attribute Alternatives. Proceedings of the 29th Annual SW-DSI Meeting, Dallas, 1998, 159-161.

Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H., Olson D.. Comparison of Multicriteria Decision Aid Techniques. Proceedings of the 29th Annual SW-DSI Meeting, Dallas, 1998, 96-98.

Olson D.L., Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H., Comparison of Multicriteria Decision Making Paradigm. Proceedings of International Conference on Methods and Applications of Multicriteria Decision Making, Mons, Belgium, 1997,  323-326

Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H., Cook Ch. Applicability of Multicriteria Decision Making Techniques. Proceedings of the 28th Annual SW-DSI Meeting, New Orleans, 1997, 43-45.

Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H., Ward B.L. An algorithmic approach to knowledge-based systems development for ordinal classification tasks. Proceedings of the 27th Annual SE-DSI Meeting, Atlanta, 1997, 152.

 Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H.M., Olson D. Problems of multicriteria decision aid technique implementation: experimental results. Proceedings of 32nd SE-INFORMS Annual Meeting, Myrtle Beach, 1996, 371-373 (The best track presentation)

 Olson D., Moshkovich H.M., Mechitov A.I., Schellenberger R. Use of ordinal judgements to rank multiattribute alternatives.  Decision Sciences Institute 1996 Proceedings, 1996, 2, 1126-1128.