Dr. Alexander I. Mechitov resume Professor Stephens College of Business University of Montevallo Montevallo, AL 35115 Academic Degrees Phone: e-mail: (205)-665-6543 (office) mechitov@montevallo.edu 1987 - Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the Institute for Systems Analysis (ISA) of the Russian Academy of Sciences 1978 - M.S. in Economic Cybernetics from Moscow State University Employment 2006 - current Professor of MIS, University of Montevallo 2001-2006 - Associate Professor of MIS, University of Montevallo 1997 2001 - Chairperson of the Computer Information Systems Department, University of West Alabama 1996-1997 - Professor in the College of Business, University of West Alabama 1995,1994,1993 (summer semesters) - Visiting Associate Professor in School of Business, East Carolina University 1991-1992 - Visiting Assistant Professor in College of Business Administration, Texas A&M University 1988-1995 - Associate Professor in Institute for Systems Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences 1981-1988 - Assistant Professor in Institute for Systems Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences 1978-1981 - Systems Analyst in Institute for Systems Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences Major University, College, and Scholar Services University Senate, College of Business representative; University Planning Committee; Senate Finance, Benefits, and Resources committee; Faculty and Professional Staff Salary Committee College of Business Assessment committee College of Business Research and Faculty development committee College of Business Online Teaching committee, Chair National business B>Quest journal, Editorial Board member International Journal of Service Sciences, Editorial Board member Former appointments: University Research and Grants committee University Learning Technology committee University QEP Committee
2 Professional Affiliation The International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), Member Decision Science Institute, Member International Journal of Service Sciences, Member of Editorial Review Board Business Quest (on-line journal), Member of Editorial Review Board Sigma Beta Delta International Honor Society, Member Recent Grants (Principal Investigator) The University of Montevallo Research grant, 2008-2009 Research on TODIM Decision Analysis Method The University of Montevallo Research grant, 2006-2007 Information Technology Outsourcing to Russia: Risks and Benefits The University of Montevallo Research grant, 2004-2005 "Qualitative and Quantitative Changes in Russian Business Education" The University of Montevallo Research grant, 2001 "The Master's Degrees in E-Commerce" Recent conferences presentations (2000-2011) Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, Boston, 2011 Society of Business, Industry and Economics Annual Meeting, Destin, 2011 International Academy of Business and Economics Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, 2010 Society of Business, Industry and Economics Annual Meeting, Destin, 2010 International Academy of Business and Economics Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, 2009 The U.S.-Brazil Arts and Culture Initiative workshop, Montevallo, October 15-17, 2009 International Workshop Perspectives on Education and Economics in USA and Russia, Vicosa, Brazil, June 8-10, 2009 SE - Decision Sciences Institute Meeting, Charleston, SC, 2009 Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, Baltimore, 2008 Society of Business, Industry and Economics Annual Meeting, Destin, 2008 International Academy of Business and Economics Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, 2007 SE - Decision Sciences Institute Meeting, Savannah, GA, 2007 SE - Decision Sciences Institute Meeting, Wilmington, NC, 2006 Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 2006 SE - Decision Sciences Institute Meeting, Raleigh, 2005 Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2005 Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, Boston, 2004 MidWest Business Administration Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2004. Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, Washington, 2003 Society of Business, Industry and Economics Annual Meeting, Fort Walton Beach, 2003
3 Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, San Diego, 2002 Society of Business, Industry and Economics Annual Meeting, Gulf Shores, 2002 Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2001 SW-DSI Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2001 Intern. Conference of the IEEE Society on Man, Machine and Cybernetics, Nashville, TN, 2000 15th International Conference on Multicriteria Decision Making, Ankara, Turkey, July 2000 Professional refereed publications (2001-2011) Refereed Journal and Book Articles 2011 Moshkovich H., Gomez, L., and Mechitov A. An Integrated Multicriteria Decision-Making Approach to Evaluating Market Value of Real Estate Properties, Pesquisa Operational, 2011, vol. 31, No. 1, 3-20. 2010 Mechitov A., Moshkovich H. IT Outsourcing: a Comparative Analysis of Brazil and Russia. International Journal of Strategic Management, Volume 10, Number 2, 2010, 118-122. Mechitov A. Brazilian and Russian Economic development: Roles of academia and other factors. In: Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Studies: Pursuits in Higher Education, Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Brazil, 2010, 63-74. 2009 Mechitov A. Assessment of IT Outsourcing to Russia, Journal of International Business and Economics, Volume 9, Number 3, 2009, 130-137. Moshkovich, H., Narz, M., Mechitov I., Rovelstad, G. Adoption of Tax return E-filing by Individual Taxpayers: a Pilot Study, Insights into a Changing World, 2009, No.2, 50-59. Mechitov, A.I., R. MacPherson, Moshkovich, H.M. An Assessment of IT Outsourcing to Brazil, Business Journal for Entrepreneurs, 2009, No.1, 97-104. 2008 Mechitov A., Moshkovich H., W. Rupp. Risk Factors Issues in IT Offshore Outsourcing. Business Journal for Entrepreneurs, 2008, No.2. Olson D.L., Moshkovich H.M., Mechitov A.I. Fuzzy Sets in Data Mining, in: Data Mining Methods and Applications, Lawrence, K., Kudyba S., and Ronald Klimberg (eds.), Auerbach Publications, 2008. (Book chapter) 2007 Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H.M., Hand L., Hi-Tech Economy: a Challenged Role of American Higher Education, Business Journal for Entrepreneurs, 2007, No.1.
4 Moshkovich H.M., Mechitov A.I., Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and IT change management." International Journal of Business Research, 2007, Vol.VII, No.1, 1-5. 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. (Book chapter) 2006 Mechitov A., Moshkovich H. Russian Business Schools in Time of Transition. Journal of Education for Business, 2006, Volume 81, Number 4, March/April, 225-229. Moshkovich H., Mechitov A., Olson D. E-Commerce and the Undergraduate MIS Curricula: an Exploratory Study. Journal of Information Systems Education, 2006, Volume 17, Number 2, 185-194. Mechitov A., Moshkovich H. Russian Academy Goes Through Overhaul. Insights to a Changing World Journal, 2006, issue 1, 21-31. 2005 Mechitov A., Moshkovich H. Olson D.L Incorporating Data Mining Models Into Business Classes: Some Methodological and Practical consideration. Journal of Informatics Education & Research, 2005, 7(1) 1-19. Moshkovich H., Mechitov A., Olson D. Infusion of Electronic Commerce in the Information Systems Curriculum, Journal of Computer Information Systems. 2005, Vol. 46, No.1, Fall 2005, 1-8. Moshkovich H.M., Mechitov A.I., Olson D.L., Verbal Decision Analysis a chapter in the book State of the Art of MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS, edited by José Figueira, Salvatore Greco and Matthias Ehrgott, International Series in Operations Research and Management Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2005 (book chapter) 2004 Mechitov A., Moshkovich H. Specifics and Dynamics of Russian Business Education, B>Quest, 2004. 2003 Olson D., Mechitov A., Moshkovich H. Decision Strategies in Dynamic Environment: An Experimental Study, Journal of Business, Economics, and Industry, Fall 2003, Vol.3, 31-39. 2002 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. Journal of Expert Systems with Applications, 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. 2001
5 Mechitov A., Moshkovich H., Underwood S., Taylor R. Comparative Analysis of Academic Web Sites. Education, 2001, Vol. 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, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 41-49 Previous publications 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, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2000, 487, 357-368. 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. Mechitov A.I., Peper M.J., Taylor R.G. Business Education in Free-Market Russia: Opportunism or Enlightened Self Interest? Convergence, 1998, Vol.31, No.4, 23-32 Olson D., Mechitov A., Moshkovich H. Cognitive Effort and Learning Features of decision Aids: Review of Experiments. Journal of Decision Systems, 1998, Vol.7, 129-146. Mechitov A.I., Peper M.J., Underwood Sh. Internet gives new opportunities in business education. TSU Business and Economic Review, 1998, No.1 Korhonen P., Larichev O., Mechitov A., Moshkovich H., Wallenius Ju. Choice Behaviour in a Computer-Aided Multiattribute Decision Task. Journal of Multiattribute Decision Analysis, 1997, vol.6, 233-246. Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H., Olson D.L. Computer Systems Illustration of Decision Aid Techniques in CIS Courses. Journal of Computer Information Systems, 1997, pp.1-7. Mechitov A.I., Peper M. J. Russian business schools - new realities and opportunities. TSU Business and Economic Review, 1997, Vol.21, No.1, pp.9-12 Schellenberger R.E, Mechitov A.I., Olson D.L.,. Comparison of CIS curricula in Russian and American universities, Education, 1996, Vol. 117, No.2, 297-305 Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H.M., Bradley J.H., Schellenberger R.E. An ordinal model for casebased reasoning in a classification task. International Journal of Expert Systems, 1996, Vol. 9, No.2, 225-242 Taylor R.G., Mechitov A.I., Schellenberger R. Transformation within the Russian Academic Community. International Education, 1996, Vol.26, No.1, 29-39. Mechitov A.I., Schellenberger R., Taylor R.G. Computer Information Systems Education in Modern Russia. Journal of Education for Business, 1996, Vol.71, No.5, 305-307. Olson D., Moshkovich H.M., Schellenberger R., Mechitov A.I. Consistency and accuracy in decision aids: experiments with four multiattribute systems. Decision Sciences. 1995, Volume 26, No.6, 723-748. Olson D.L., Schellenberger R.E., Mechitov A.I. Teaching Knowledge Base Consistency and Completeness. Journal of Computer Information Systems. 1995, volume XXXVI, No.1, pp.7-12
6 Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H.M., Olson D.L., Killingsworth B. Knowledge Acquisition Tool for Case-Based Reasoning Systems. Expert Systems with Applications, 1995, vol.9, N0.2, p.201-212. 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, vol.,64, No.1, pp.9-21. Mechitov A., Schellenberger R., Taylor R. The Changing World of Russian University Students. College Student Journal, 1995, Vol.29, No.2, 130-133. Mechitov A.I., Popkov Y.S., Taylor R., Schellenberger R.E. University Teaching in Russia: Status of Institutions, Ranks, and Degrees. National Forum of Applied Educational Research Journal, 1995, Vol.8., No.2, pp.38-40. 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, Vol.8, No.1, 203-212. Taylor R., Mechitov A. Russian Schools and the Legacies of the Soviet Era. Education, 1994, Vol.115, No.2, 260-263. 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. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, 1993, 2(1), 5-26. 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.) Elsevier Science Publishers (North-Holland), 1990, 43-55. Larichev O.I., Naginskaya V.S., Mechitov A.I. An Interactive Procedure for Industrial Building Design Choice. Journal of Applied Systems Analysis, 1987, 33-40. (About 30 articles published in Russian refereed journals in 1982 1993) Refereed Proceedings 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. Gothard D. IT Offshore Outsourcing: Knowledge Drain and Other Risk Factors. Proceedings of the 37th Annual SE-Decision Science Institute Meeting, Savannah, GA, 2007 Mechitov A., Moshkovich H. Sequential Versus Parallel Choice Behavior in Decision Tasks. SE- DSI Annual Meeting, Wilmington, NC, 2006 Moshkovich Helen M., Mechitov Alexander I., Current MIS Curricula and E-Commerce: Problems and Solutions, Proceedings of the 36th Annual DSI 2005 Meeting, San Francisco
7 Mechitov Alexander I., Moshkovich Helen M., "Russian Business Education: Current Problems and Perspectives", Proceedings of the 36th Annual DSI 2005 Meeting, San Francisco Moshkovich H., Mechitov A., McMinn N. Web Development Skills within the IS Curriculum, SE- DSI 35 th Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC, 2005 Moshkovich H., Mechitov A., Olson D. Verbal Decision Analysis and Multi Attribute Utility Theory: Comparison, Proceedings of the 35rd Decision Science Institute Annual Meeting, Boston, 2004. Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H. Muticriteria Decision Making Approaches: Some Methodological Considerations. Proceedings of the 40th Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2004. Mechitov A., Moshkovich H., M.,Olson D. Teaching Data Mining in Business Classes: Some Methodological and Practical Considerations, Proceedings of Annual DSI 2003 meeting, Washington, D.C. 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., Mechitov A.I. Ordinal Classification Approach to Knowledge Discovery, Proceedings of the 32th Annual SE-DSI Meeting, 2001, New Orleans, 127-128. Mechitov A.I., Moshkovich H. Knowledge Elicitation for Ordinal Classification Tasks, Proceedings of the 32th Annual SE-DSI Meeting, 2001, 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, July 2000. Moshkovich H., Mechitov A., Schellenberger R. Effectiveness of Ordinal Information for Data Mining. Presentation at International Conference of the IEEE Society on Man, Machine and Cybernetics, Nashville, TN, October 2000.