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J. Leon Zhao

J. Leon Zhao

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Curriculum Vitae

Professor of MIS

  • Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1992
Research Interests
  • Business process management
  • Knowledge management
  • Software requirement analysis
  • Business process reengineering
  • Service-Oriented computing
Publications and Working Papers
  • Zhao J.L., Tanniru M., Zhang L.J., "Services computing as the foundation of enterprise agility: Overview of recent advances and introduction to the special issue," Information Systems Frontiers, Volume 9, Number 1 / March, 2007, Pages 1-8
  • Sun S., Zhao J.L., Nunamaker J., Liu Sheng L., "Formulating the Data Flow Perspective for Business Process Management", Information Systems Research, Vol. 17, No. 4, December 2006, pp. 374-391
  • Kwok J., Zhao J.L., "Content-based object organization for efficient image retrieval in image databases", Decision Support Systems, Volume 42, Issue 3, December 2006, Pages 1901-1916
  • Cheng H., Tang Q., Zhao J.L., "Web Services and Service-Oriented Application Provisioning: An Analytical Study of Application Service Strategies", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Nov. 2006, 53, 4, pages: 520-533
  • Zhang D., Zhao J.L., "Preface -- Knowledge Management in Organizations", Journal of Database Management: Special Issue on Knowledge Management in Organizations, Vol. 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages i-viii
  • Gupta A., Sharda R., Ducheneaut N., Zhao J.L., Weber R., "E-Mail Management: A Techno-Managerial Research Perspective", Communications of the AIS, May 2006, Vol. 17, Article no. 43
  • J. Leon Zhao, Henry H. Bi, Hsinchun Chen, Daniel D. Zeng, Chienting Lin, Michael Chau, "Process-Driven Collaboration Support for Intra-Agency Crime Analysis", Decision Support Systems: Special Issue on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Volume 41, Issue 3, March 2006, Pages 616-633
  • Zeng D., Zhao J.L., "Effective Role Resolution in Workflow Management", INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 17, No. 3, Summer 2005, pp. 374-387
  • Hsing Kenneth Cheng and J. Leon Zhao, "Editorial on the special issue for the second Workshop on e-Business", Information Systems and E-Business Management, Volume 3, Number 3 / October, 2005, Pages 219-220
  • Zhang D., Zhao J.L., "Web Services and Process Management: A Union of Convenience or a New Area of Research? (Editorial)", Decision Support Systems: Special Issue on Web Services and Process Management, Volume 40, Issue 1, July 2005, Pages 1-8
  • Roussinov D., Zhao J.L., "Text Clustering and Summary Techniques for CRM Message Management", Enterprise Information Management: Special Issue of E-Commerce Relationship Marketing, 17(6), 2004, pp. 424-429
  • Madhusudan T., Zhao J.L., Marshall B.,"A Case-based Reasoning Framework for Workflow Model Management", Data and Knowledge
    Engineering: Special Issue on Business Process Management, 50 (1): 87-115 (2004)
  • Zhang D., Zhao J.L., Zhou L., Nunamaker J., "Can e-learning replace traditional classroom learning? - evidence and implication of the evolving e-learning technology", Communications of the ACM, 47(5), May 2004, Pages: 75 - 79
  • Bi H., Zhao J.L., "Applying Propositional Logic to Workflow Verification", Information Technology and Management: Special Issue on Workflow and E-business, 5 (3-4) 293-318, 2004
  • Jang J., Choi Y., Zhao J.L., "An Extensible Workflow Architecture through Web Services", International Journal of Web Services Research, 1(2), 1-15, April-June 2004
  • Wang H., Cheng H., Zhao J.L, "Web Services Enabled e-Market Access Control Model", International Journal of Web Services Research, 1(1), 21-40, Jan-Mar 2004
  • Segev A, Patankar A., Zhao J.L., "e-business Process Interleaving: Managerial and Technological Implications", Information Systems and e-Business Management, Vol. 1(4): 331-352, December 2003
  • Segev A., Shao S., Zhao J.L., "A data analysis model for business intelligence", International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, Vol. 1, No. 1, Pages: 7-30, Winter 2003
  • Roussinov D., Zhao J.L., "Automatic Discovery of Similarity Relationships through Web Mining", Decision Support Systems: Special Issue on Web Retrieval and Mining, 35 (1): 149-166 April, 2003
  • Kumar A., Zhao J.L., "Workflow Support for Electronic Commerce Applications", Decision Support Systems, 32(2002), 265-278
  • Zhao J.L., Goul, M., Purao S., Shan T., Tanniru T., "Impact of Service-Centric Computing on Business and Education (Panel Synopsis)," Proceedings of the 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 9-12, 2007, Keystone, Colorado, USA
  • Vitharana P., Bhaskaran K., Jain H., Wang H., Zhao J.L., "Service-Oriented Enterprises and Architectures: State of the Art and Research Opportunities" Proceedings of the 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 9-12, 2007, Keystone, Colorado, USA
  • Liu M., Wang H., Zhao J.L., "Achieving Flexibility via Service-Centric Community Source: The Case of Kuali," Proceedings of the 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 9-12, 2007, Keystone, Colorado, USA
  • Sarnikar S., Zhao J.L., "Automating Knowledge Flows by Integrating Workflow and Knowledge Discovery Techniques," The 2007 Winter Conference on Business Intelligence, February 22-24, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
  • Zhu D., Meng Q., Zhao J.L., "Outsourcing Resource Selection: A Rough Set Approach," Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 3-6, 2007, Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii
  • Sarnikar S., Zhang, Z, Zhao J.L., "Predicting Query Performance in Domain-Specific Corpora", Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 3-6, 2007, Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii
  • Sarnikar S., Zhao J.L., "A Pattern-based Approach to Automating e-Business Knowledge Flows", Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on E-business, December 9, 2006, Milwaukee, WI, USA
  • Sarnikar S., Zhao J.L., "Task-Centric Document Recommendation via Context-Specific Terms", the 2006 AAAI Workshop on Modeling and Retrieval of Context, July 16-20, 2006, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Wang H., Zhao J.L., "A Formal Approach to Verification of Process Constraints", Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'06), December 8-9, 2006, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  • Wang H., Zhao J.L.,Zhang L., "Policy-Driven Process Mapping (PDPM): Towards Process Design Automation ", Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Information Systems, December 10-13, 2006, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  • Sun S., Zhao J.L., "Activity relations: A Dataflow Appraoch to Workflow Design", Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Information Systems, December 10-13, 2006, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  • Wang H., Zhao J.L., "Policy-based Business Process Modeling in E-Business", The 4th Workshop on E-Business, December 10, 2005, Las Vegas, NV, USA
  • Sarnikar S., Zhao J.L., "A Bayesian Framework for Just-in-Time Knowledge Delivery in Web-based Business Processes", The 4th Workshop on E-Business, December 10, 2005, Las Vegas, NV, USA
  • Yuan M., Zhao J.L., Nunamaker J., "Handling Uncertainty in Workflow Modeling for Collaborative E-Business Processes", The 4th Workshop on E-Business, December 10, 2005, Las Vegas, NV, USA
  • Choi Y., J. Leon Zhao, "Decomposition-Based Verification of Cyclic Workflows", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3707, October, 2005, Pages 84 - 98
  • Roussinov D., Zhao J.L., Fan W., "Mining Context Specific Similarity Relationships Using The World Wide Web", Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP), Vancouver, October 2005, Pages 499-506
  • Wang H., Zhao J.L., "A Logic-based Modeling Approach to Managing Workflow Policy Changes", 2005 Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 11-14, 2005, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
  • Sarnikar S., Zhao J.L., Gupta A., "Medical Information Filtering Using Rule-based and Content-based Approaches", 2005 Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 11-14, 2005, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
  • Yuan M., Nunamaker J., Zhao J.L., "Towards Personalized Assistance in Distributed Group Facilitation", 2005 Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 11-14, 2005, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
  • Wang H., Zhao J.L., "Change Management of Workflow Security Policies", The Pre-ICIS Workshop on Business Process Management and Information Systems, Washington, D.C., December 12th, 2004
  • Sun S., Zhao J.L., "A Dataflow Approach to Workflow Design", the 14th Workshop on Information Technoogy and Systems (WITS'04), Washington, D.C., December 11-12, 2004
  • Choi Y., Zhao J.L., "Feedback Partitioning and Decompostion-Oritented Analysis of Cyclic Workflow Graphs (Poster)", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2004) Agia Napa, Cyprus, 25-29 Oct, 2004
  • Sarnikar S., Zhao J.L., Kumar A., "Organizational Knowledge Distribution: An Experimental Evaluation", Proceedings of the AIS Americas Conference on Information Systems, New York, August 5-8, 2004
  • Wang H., Zhao J.L., Nunamaker, J., Tanniru M.,"AC-Composer: An Access Control System for Web Services Orchestration" Proceedings of the AIS Americas Conference on Information Systems, New York, August 5-8, 2004
Professional Associations
  • INFORMS
  • AIS
  • IEEE
  • ACM
Awards and Honors
  • Eller Professorship, Eller College of Management, 2007 - present
  • Honeywell Fellow, Eller Collge of Management, 2001-2007
  • Runner-up for Best Paper Award, Workshop on Electronic Business, 2007
  • IBM Faculty Award, 2005
  • Best Paper Nominee, Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2004