2011 Faculty Publications & Grants

Amiri, Ali and Reza Barkhi, “The Combinatorial Bandwidth Packing Problem,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 208, Issue 1, (2011), pp. 37-45.

Barkhi, Reza and Yi-Ching Kao, “Evaluating Decision Making Performance in the GDSS Environment Using Data Envelopment Analysis,” Decision Support Systems, Vol. 49, No. 2, (2010), pp. 162-174.

Bélanger, France and L. Carter.  2010.  “The Impacts of the Digital Divide on Citizens’ Intentions to Use Internet Voting,” International Journal on Advances in Internet Technology, Volume 10, Number 3 & 4, pp. 203-211.

Brazel, Joseph F., Tina D. Carpenter, and J. Gregory Jenkins. 2010. “Auditors’ Use of Brainstorming in the Consideration of Fraud: Reports from the Field,” The Accounting Review 85 (4), (July): pp. 1273-1301.

Christie, Nancy and John Brozovsky, “New Standards Available for Private Companies:  At Last a Little GAAP,” Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal, Vol. 16, Number 1, pp. 55-69, 2010.

Christie, Nancy, John Brozovsky, and Sam Hicks, “Accounting for Small Business:  The Role of IFRS,” The CPA Journal, July 2010, pp. 20-23.

Christie, Nancy, John Brozovsky, and Sam Hicks, “International Financial Reporitng Standards for Small and Medium-sized Entities:  An Update for the Commercial Loan Officer,” Commercial Lending Review, September-October 2010, pp. 28-34.             

Ferreira, Cristiano D.; J. A. Santos, Ricardo da Silva Torres, Marcos André Gonçalves, Rodrigo Carvalho Rezende, and Weiguo Fan, “Relevance Feedback Based on Genetic Programming for Image Retrieval.” Pattern Recognition Letters 32(1), pp. 27-37 (2011).

Gnyawali, Devi R., Weiguo Fan, and James Penner, “Competitive Actions and Dynamics in the Digital Age: An Empirical Investigation of Social Networking Firms.” Information Systems Research 21(3), pp. 594-613 (2010).

Gramling, Audrey A., J. Gregory Jenkins, and Mark H. Taylor.  2010. “Policy and Research Implications of Evolving Independence Rules for Public Company Auditors,” Accounting Horizons, 24(4), (December), pp. 547-566.

Harris, A. L., France Bélanger, K. Loch, M. C. Murray, and A. Urbaczewski.  2011.  “Study Abroad as an Education Experience:  Challenges, Realizations, and Lessons Learned,” Communications of the AIS, Volume 28, Issues 1, Article 2.

Inger, Kerry K., John J. Maher, and W. Eugene Seago, “Repeal of Equity-Debt Exception and Corporate Capital Structures,” Tax Notes, Volume 128, No. 9, (August 2010), pp. 959-969.

Oler, Derek K., Mitchell J. Oler, and Christopher J. Skousen, “Characterizing Accounting Research,” Accounting Horizons, 24(4), (2010), pp. 635-670.

Ross, Dianna and D. William Deck, Jr., “Student Guide to Greenwashing,” B-quest, January (2011), http://www.westga.edu/~bquest/2011/pedagogy11.htm.

Schaupp, L. C., France Bélanger, and R. Crossler.  2010. “The Fraud Pentagon:  A Framework of IT-Based Fraud,” E-Business Review, Volume X, pp. 124-130.

Seago, W. Eugene, “Some Tax Accounting Articles You Should Have Read in 2010,” 130 Tax Notes, No. 10, (March 7, 2011), pp. 1210-1213.

Seago, W. Eugene and Edward J. Schnee, “Double Deduction Arising From Transfers to Controlled Corporations,” Journal of Taxation, March 2011.

Seago, W. Eugene and Edward J. Schnee, “Issues Arising From Allocations of Consolidated Tax Liability,” 113 Journal of Taxation, No. 1, (July 2010), pp. 33-46.

Seago, W. Eugene and Edward J. Schnee, “Tax Accounting for Coupons Under the Special Rules in the Regulations,” 112 Journal of Taxation, No. 5, (May, 2010), pp. 295-303.

Sheetz, Steven D., Andrea Kavanaugh, Francis Quek, B. Joon Kim, and Szu-Chia Lu, “Expectation of Connectedness and Cell Phone Use in Crisis,” International Journal of Emergency Management, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2010, pp. 124-136.

Teets, Jay M., David P. Tegarden, and Roberta S. Russell, “Using Cognitive Fit Theory to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Information Visualizations:  An Example Using Quality Assurance Data, IEEE Transactions in Visualization and Computer Graphics, 16(5) (2010), pp. 841-853.

Tegarden, David P., Steven D. Sheetz, and David Henderson, “Strategic Planning in an Accounting Informatin Systems Department Using Cognitive Factions and Causal Maps,” Accounting Education:  An International Journal, 19(5) (2010), pp. 473-500.

Wilson, E. V. and Steven D. Sheetz, “A Demands-Resources Model of Work Pressure in IT Student Task Groups,” Computers and Education:  An International Journal, 55, 2010, pp. 415-426.

Wu, Harris, Michael D. Gordon, and Weiguo Fan, “Collective Taxonomizing: A Collaborative Approach to Organizing Document Repositories,” Decision Support Systems 50(1), pp. 292-303 (2010).

Xu, Xiabo, Weiago Zhao, and Reza Barkhi, “IT Infrastructure Capabilities and IT Project Success:  A Development Team Perspective,” Information Technology and Management, Vol. 11, No. 3, (2010), pp. 123-142.

Grants Awarded

Natsev, A., A. Kavanaugh, E. Fox, D. Shoemaker, and Steven D. Sheetz, “Social Media for Cities, Counties, and Communities,” VT Center for Community Security & Resilience and Arlington County Virginia, $19,000, October 2010.  Partner is IBM.

Jenkins, J. Gregory and Steven D. Sheetz, “Detecting Deception in Auditor Client Communications:  A Comparison of Communication Modes,” Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment (ISCE), $10,000, February 2011.

Sheetz, Steven D., “Research Experiences for Undergraduates for the LIKES: Living in the Knowledge Society.”  Funded by the NSF, $8,400, August 2010.

Book Chapters

Ahmad, N. and Reza Barkhi, “The Contextual and Collaborative Dimensions of Avatar in Real-Time Decision Making,” Supporting Real Time Decision Making: The Role of Context in Decision Support on the Move, (Ed. Freda Burstein and Arkady Zaslavsky), Springer Media, N.Y., 2011, pp. 133-158.

James, T., T. Pirim, K. Boswell, B. Reithel, and Reza Barkhi, “Examining an Individual’s Perceived Need for Privacy and Security,” in Pervasive Information Security and Privacy Developments:  Trends and Advancements (Advances in Information Security and Privacy series), Ed. Hamid Nemati, IGI Global Publishing, 2010, pp. 1-13.