Richard G. Mathieu
Biography / Teaching/ Research / Service
Dr. Richard G. Mathieu (Rick)
Department Head and Professor of CIS
Dept. of Computer Information Systems & Management Science
College of Business MSC 0202
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA
Office:234 Showker Hall
Voice: (540)568-3064
FAX: (540)568-3273
Email: mathierg@jmu.edu

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Bio

Rick Mathieu is the McDonald Bradley Fellow and Department Head of the Department of Computer Information Systems & Management Science in the College of Business at James Madison University.  He is currently serving on the board of directors for the Shenandoah Valley Technology Council.  In addition, he serves as a program evaluator (PEV) for the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET. 

From 1999 until 2005 he taught in the Department of Decision Sciences and MIS in the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University. From 2003 until 2005 he served as department chair. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of Virginia and his B.S. from the University of Delaware. From 1991 until 1999 he taught in the Department Information Systems and Operations Management in the Cameron School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. 

Rick is active in the information systems research community. He is the column editor in IT Systems for Computer (IEEE), and is on the editorial board for the Journal of Information Systems Education, Operations Management Research, the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, the International Journal of Services Sciences, and the International Journal of Services and Operations Management.  He has published over thirty peer-reviewed journal articles, three peer-reviewed book chapters, one book, and thirty-four conference proceedings. His research has appeared in publications such as Communications of the ACM, Computer (IEEE), Computers and Industrial Engineering, Production Planning and Control, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and Computers in Industry. He has received fourteen research grants totaling over $138,000.

Rick supervised over a dozen directed independent studies at Saint Louis University in the area of text mining, XML data management, data warehousing, and remote computer lab design. In May of 2003 he received the Thomas Knapp, SJ, Faculty Member of the Year Award for the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University.

Rick has served as a consultant in both industry and government, and has published numerous articles on critical success factors in the development and implementation of information systems in manufacturing organizations. His book, Manufacturing and the Internet (published by Engineering & Management Press), was recently honored with a first place award in the Association Trends 1996 Publications Contest. Rick is a regular speaker on manufacturing information systems and has spoken at conferences sponsored by the Institute of Industrial Engineers, APICS, Internet World and the National Technological University. 

At the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, he has supervised over fifteen directed independent studies and lead seven cooperative university/industry student projects at both the graduate and undergraduate level. While an instructor at the University of Virginia in 1989-1990, he lead a capstone design team that won first prize in the senior capstone design project for "A Decision Support for Appomattox-Buckingham State Forest".

If you are interested here is Dr. Mathieu's Curriculum Vita

Teaching

Research 

  • Enterprise System Management
    • Project Management
      • "Evaluating the Performance of Open Source Software Projects using Data Envelopment Analysis", accepted for publication in Information Management and Computer Security, 2008 (with Barry A. Wray). 
      • "Earned Value Management in a Data Warehouse Project", Information Management and Computer Security, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2006 (with J. Art Gowan, Jr. and Mark Hey).
      • “ IS Project Management: Project Characteristics and Management Practices”, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2005, pp. 235-255 (with J. Art Gowan, Jr.).
    • Distributed Enterprise Solutions
      • "Avoiding the Pitfalls of Installing Systems Management Suites", IEEE IT Professional, Vol. 2, No. 1,  January/February 2000, pp. 32-37 (with J. Art Gowan, Jr. and Chris Jesse).
      • "Y2K Compliance and the Distributed Enterprise", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 42, No. 2,  February 1999, pp. 68-73 (with J.Art Gowan, Jr. and Chris Jesse)
    • Information Systems Security and Ethics
      • "Data Integrity and the Internet: Implications for Management", Information Management & Computer Security, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1995, pp. 3-7 (with Robert L. Woodard).
  • Integration of Research in MIS and P/OM
    • AI & Data Mining in a Production Environment
      • "An Artificial Neural Network Approach to Learning from Efficient and Inefficient Factory Performance in a Kanban-Based Just-In-Time Production System", Journal of International Technology and Information Management, Vol. 12, No. 2, Fall 2003, pp. 85-98 (with Ina Markham and Barry Wray).
      • "An Approach to Learning from Both Good and Poor Factory Performance in a Kanban-Based Just-In-Time Production System", Production Planning and Control, Vol. 13, No. 8, 2002, pp. 715-724. (with Barry A. Wray and Ina S. Markham). 
      • "Kanban Setting Through Artificial Intelligence: A Comparative Study of Artificial Neural Networks and Decision Trees", Integrated Manufacturing Systems: The International Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2000, pg. 239-246 (with I. Markham and B. Wray).
      • "A Rule Induction Approach for Determining the Number of Kanbans in a Just-In-Time Production System",  Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 34, No.4, 1998, pp. 717-727 (with I. Markham and B. Wray).
    •  Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management and the Internet
      • “Examining RFID Applications in Supply Chain Management”, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 50, No. 7, 2007, pp. 93-101 (with Fred Niederman, Roger Morley and Ik-Whan Kwon).
      • "Supply Chain's Emerging Trends", Industrial Management, Vol. 46, No. 4, July/August 2004, pp. 22-27. (with Reuven R. Levary).
      • "The Web-Enabled Transfer of Manufacturing Technology from the Public Sector to the Private Sector",  International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2001, pg. 116-124.
      • "Manufacturers Shift IT Into High Gear", Advanced Manufacturing, July 2000.
      • "Supporting New Product Development with the Internet", Industrial Management & Data Systems, 2000 (with Vince Howell and Jimmy Parker).
      • Manufacturing and the Internet, Engineering and Management Press, Norcross, GA, 1996. 
    • System Development of Manufacturing Information Systems
      • "Critical Success Factors in Information Systems Development in a Flexible Manufacturing System", Computers in Industry, Vol. 28, 1996, pp. 173-183 (with J. Art Gowan, Jr.)
      • "The Successful Development of Information Systems for FMS: Some Useful Lessons", Industrial Management and Data Systems, Vol. 97, No. 8, 1997, pp. 316-319 (with C. Canel and D. Das)
      • "Resolving Conflict Between MIS and Manufacturing", Industrial Management and Data Systems, Vol. 94, No. 8, 1994, pp. 21-30 (with J. Art Gowan, Jr.).
  • Technology Management
    • eCommerce
      • "Web Services Computing: Advancing Software Interoperability", Computer (IEEE), Vol. 36, No. 10, 2003, pp. 35-37. (with Jen-Yao Chung and Kwei-Jay Lin).
      • "Hybrid Retail: Integrating eCommerce and Physical Stores", Industrial Management, Vol. 42, No. 5, September-October, 2000, pg. 6-13 (with R. Levary).
    • Decision Support Systems
      • "A Methodology for Large-Scale R&D Planning Based on Cluster Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 40, No. 2, 1993, pp. 283-292 (with J.E. Gibson).
    • Technology Planning
      • "Top Down Approach to Computing", Computer (IEEE), Vol. 35, No. 1, 2002, pp. 116-117.
      • "The Application of a Regional Technology Planning Model to the Commercial Space Industry”,  Technology Management: Strategies & Applications, Vol. 4, No.3, 1998.
  • Information Systems Education
    • Information Systems (IS) Curriculum, Assessment and Accreditation
      • “A New Mission for the Information Systems Discipline”, Computer (IEEE), Vol. 41, No. 5, 2008, pp. 81-83 (with Don Hardaway and Richard Wills)
    • Web-Based Education
      • “Outsourcing the University Computer Lab”, Computer (IEEE), Vol. 38, No. 9, September 2005 (with Don Hardaway and Mark Hogan).
      • "An Initial Assessment of Remote Access Computer Laboratories For IS Education: A Multiple Case Study", Journal for Information Systems Education, Vol. 15, No. 4, Winter 2004 (with Chris Huntley and George P. Schell).
      • "An Information Scanning Approach for Learning to Work on the Internet", Education and Information Technologies, Vol. 6, No.1, March 2001 (with George P. Schell).
    • University/Industry Cooperative Projects
      • "Bridging the Gap Between the University and the Local DPMA Chapter: The Case for Cooperative University/Industry Student Projects",Journal of Information Systems Education,Vol. 5, No. 1, March 1993. 
    • Data Quality in the IS Curiculum

Service

  • Area Editor – IEEE Computer. IT Systems Perspective editor for the flagship publication of the IEEE Computer Society (2001 – present).
  • Editorial Review Board of Journal of Information Systems Education (Spring 1993 – Spring 1998 and January 2005 - present).
  • Editorial Board - International Journal of Services and Operations Management (2004 – present)
  • Editorial Board – International Journal of Services Science (2007 – present)
  • Editorial Board - International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management  (2004 – present)
Department of Computer Information Systems and Management Science
College of Business
James Madison University
Richard G. Mathieu, mathierg@jmu.edu 
Last updated June 2008