James and H.K. Stuart Chancellors Distinguished Chair
Coordinator of Operations and Supply Chain Management


Management

Contact Information

CBA 256
P.O. Box 880491
Lincoln, NE 68588-0491
Phone: +1-402-472-4521
Fax: +1-402-472-5855
dolson3@unl.edu

Joined the college in 2001.

Expertise

• Information Systems
• Operations Management

Education

Ph.D. - General Business at the University of Nebraska Lincoln in 1981 M.B.A. - Kearney State College in 1978 B.S. Mathematics at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology in 1966

Research Interests

MIS, decision making, simulation, quantitative analysis, data mining

Teaching Interests

MIS, project management, decision support systems, simulation, quantitative analysis, decision theory

Published In

Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes
European Journal of Operational Research
Journal of the Operational Research Society
Decision Sciences
Decision Support Systems
Journal of Operations Management
Journal of Multicriteria Decision Analysis
Foundations of Information Systems

Awards

Fellow, Decision Sciences Institute Program Chair 1997
Decision Sciences Annual Meeting Vice President, Decision Sciences Institute 1989-1991, 1994-1996, 2003-2005

Documents & Links

• Resume
• Springer Book Series - Models in Risk Management

Books

• (1992) Decision Support Models and Expert Systems
• (1996) Decision Aids for Selection Problems
• (1997)(2003)(2005) Introduction to Management Science
• (1998) Business Statistics: Quality Information for Decision Analysis
• (1998) Decision Support Models and Expert Systems
• (1998)(2002) Introduction to Simulation and Risk Analysis
• (2000)(2003) Statistics, Data Analysis, and Decision Modeling
• (2001) Multiple Criteria Analysis in Strategic Siting Problems
• (2001)(2004) Introduction to Information Systems Project Management
• (2004) Managerial Issues of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
• (2006) Introduction to Business Data Mining
• (2008) Advanced Data Mining Techniques
• (2008) Enterprise Risk Management
• (2008) New Frontiers in Enterprise Risk Management
• (2009) Enterprise Information Systems: Contemporary Trends and Issues
• (2010) Convergenomics: Strategic Innovation in the Convergence Era
• (2010) Enterprise Risk Management Models

Finland

• Balanced Scorecard
• Cases
• Example
• Financial Models
• Introduction
• Probability
• Selection
• Simulation Model
• Supply Chain
• Value Analysis
• VaR simulation

Journal Articles

• A comparison of stochastic dominance and stochastic DEA for vendor evaluation
• A Linear Approximation for Chance Constrained Models
• A Management Science Approach to Contingency Theory
• A Simulation Study of IT Outsourcing in the Credit Card Business: A Practical Study of a Thai Bank
• A TOPSIS data mining demonstration and application to credit scoring
• An Integrated Method to Evaluate Business Process Alternatives
• Chance Constrained Quality Control
• CIO's perspectives of critical success factors in ERP upgrade projects
• Comparative Analysis of Multiattribute Techniques Based on Cardinal and Ordinal Inputs
• Comparison of First Order Predicate Logic, Fuzzy Logic and Non-Monotonic Logic as Knowledge Representation Methodology
• Comparison of Four Goal Programming Algorithms
• Comparison of the Rembrandt System with Analytic Hierarchy Process
• Comparison of Three Multicriteria Methods to Predict Known Outcomes
• Comparison of Weights in TOPSIS Models
• Data Influences the Result More than Preferences
• Data Mining and Simulation: A Grey Relationship Demonstration
• Dynamic MCDM: The Case of Urban Infrastructure Decision Making
• Ethical aspects of web log data mining
• Evaluation of ERP Outsourcing
• How interfirm collaboration benefits IT innovation
• Implementation of the Centroid Method of Solymosi and Dombi
• Integrating Systems Thinking Into IS Education
• Issues in Multinational ERP Implementation
• Knowledge Acquisition Tool for Case-Based Reasoning Systems
• Knowledge sharing: Effects of cooperative type and reciprocity level
• Multi-Attribute Value Methods in Group Decision Support Systems: Past Applications and Future Potential
• Multicriteria Support for Construction Bidding
• Ordinal Judgments in Multiattribute Decision Analysis
• Problems of Decision Rule Elicitation in a Classification Task
• Requirements Negotiation Using Multi-Criteria Preference Analysis
• Rule Induction in Data Mining: Effect of Ordinal Scales
• Similarity measures between intuitionistic fuzzy (vague) sets: A comparative analysis
• Simulation as a Pedagogical Tool for Managerial Decision Making in a Transition Economy
• Simulation of Fuzzy Multiattribute Models for Grey Relationships
• Simultaneous Optimization in Process Quality Control via Prediction-Interval Constrained Programming
• The Decentralization of Management Science and the Birth of Self-Starters
• The Method of Grey Related Analysis to Multiple Attribute Decision Making Problems with Interval Numbers
• The Rule of Rules and Examples in the Process of Knowledge Acquisition in Direct Classification Tasks
• Understanding Managerial Preferences in Selecting Equipment

Korea

• Association Rules
• BPR
• Data Mining Overview
• Description of cases
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Enterprise Systems
• ERM Telecom Case
• ERP Alternatives
• ERP Outsourcing
• ERP Training
• MarketBasket
• Questions
• Telecom Data Mining

Papers

• Conjoint Analysis and MCDA in Physician Preference Analysis
• Data Set Balancing
• Decision Making with Uncertainty and Data Mining
• Earthquake ERM
• ERM aspects of ERP
• Hermeneutics in IS
• Improving Strategic Decision Making in Transitional Economies: A Systems Dynamics Model of a Bulgarian Firm
• Multi-Criteria Preference Analysis for Systematic Requirements Negotiation
• multiple criteria bibliography
• Philosophy and Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis
• Subjectivity in Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis

Presentations

• Association Rules
• CONFENIS2011Huy
• CONFENIS2011OJC
• Convergenomics
• Critical success factors in ERP upgrade projects
• data mining power point
• Data Set Balancing
• DataMining2011
• Decision Making with Uncertainty and Data Mining
• E-procurement
• ERM - Reykjavik
• ERP Evolution - ICEIS 2010
• ERP power point
• group MCDM power point
• Human Centered Processes - Delft
• IT overview power point
• MCDM 2011
• MCDM overview power point
• OSS ERP - CONFENIS2010
• Risk Management
• subjective MCDM power point
• SupplyChainOutsourcing
• system dynamics model
• Text Mining
• TorontoRisk2011
• Views of Risk
• Water2011Lotov

Short Stories

• Because we care...
• How Do You Start a Flood?
• Penny Cheap
• Reunion
• Roller Derby
• The Development of a Blessed Boon
• The Need for User Involvement
• The Proper Degree of Assurance
• The Simplest Car on the Lot
• Vikings

Sweden

• Reasons For and Against Enterprise System Adoption
• Seminar: Bolt-ons
• Seminar: BPR
• Seminar: Installation
• Seminar: Introduction
• Seminar: Open Systems
• Seminar: Products
• Seminar: Training
• Short Description

Research