West Virginia University
Department of Management and Industrial Relations
College of Business and Economics
P.O Box 6025
Morgantown, WV 26506-6025
Phone: 304-293-7938
Fax: 304-293-5652
E-mail: jim.denton@mail.wvu.edu
April 7, 2009
| Education | |
| Ph.D.: Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 1991 Major: Operations Research Minor: Management Information Systems |
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| M.B.A.: Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio, 1979 Major: Management |
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| B.S.: Case Western reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1973 Major: Chemical Engineering |
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| Teaching Experience | Research Interests | ||
| Business Information Systems Computer Programming Database Management Systems Operations Management Management Science Quality Assurance Business Statistics |
Web-based education International Education |
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| Employment History | ||
| 1997-2007: | Associate Professor, College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. | |
| 1991-1997: | Assistant Professor, College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. | |
| 1990-1991: | Instructor, College of Business Administration, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. | |
| 1987-1989: | Teaching Fellow, College of Business Administration, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. | |
| 1986-1987: | Self-employed consultant. | |
| 1983-1986: | Manager-Quality Assurance, Foseco, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. | |
| 1981-1983: | Statistical Quality Engineer, American Greetings Corp., Cleveland, Ohio. | |
| 1980-1981: | Quality Assurance Engineer, Sherwood Refractories, TRW Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio. | |
| 1977-1980: | Quality Control Engineer, Trumbull Lamp Plant, General Electric Company, Warren, Ohio. | |
| 1972-1977: | Process Engineer, Niles Glass Plant, General Electric Company, Niles, Ohio. | |
| Professional Consulting Activities | ||
| 1990: | Lubrizol Corporation, Wickliffe, Ohio: Training program in Statistical Quality Control. | |
| 1990: | Tribon Bearings, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio: Database design and development for a guage calibration system. | |
| 1995: | Ashland Coal, Inc., Huntington, West Virginia: Design and development of a decision support system. | |
| Research Grants | |
| United States Department of Energy, Morgantown Energy Technology Center, J. Denton, principle investigator: “Development of a Prototype Database and Decision Support System for Management of the EM-50 Technology Development Program”, $36,943, May, 1996. (Software development in conjunction with the Waste Policy Institute and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) | |
| National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Center for Disease Control, T. Ponzuric, principle investigator: “New Directions in Occupational Health Training”, July, 1995. (Participated in developing training software.) | |
| Refereed Journal Publications | |
| Surendra, N. and J.W. Denton, "Discussion-less Discussion Databases: Detecting and Resolving Breakdowns Using an Ethnographic Research Approach", Journal of Systems and Information Technology, Forthcoming. | |
| Surendra, N. and J.W. Denton, "Information Systems Research in Practice: An Exploratory Study", Review of Business Research, Forthcoming. | |
| Surendra, N. and J.W. Denton, "Design of IS Curricula for Practical Relevance: Applying Baseball's 'Moneyball' Theory", Journal of Information Systems Education, Volume 20, Number 1. (Spring2009). | Kleist, V.F., B. Morris, and J.W. Denton, "Information Systems Security Assurance Management at Municipal Software Solutions, Inc., International Journal of Information Security and Privacy,Forthcoming. |
| Fuller, J.A., and J.W. Denton, "Future Directions of Management Science and Operations Management in Business School Curricula", International College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, Third Quarter 2006, Volume 2, Number 3, pp 29-32. | |
| Denton, J.W., V. Kleist, and N. Surendra, "Curriculum and Course Design: A New Approach Using Quality Function Deployment", Journal of Education for Business, Volume 81, Number 2 (November/December 2005), pp. 111-117. | |
| Denton, J.W. and A.G. Peace, "Selection and Use of MySQL In a Database Management Course", Journal of Information Systems Education, Volume 14 Number 4 (2003), pp.401-407. | |
| Denton, J.W. and W. Spangler, "Effectiveness of an Integrated Precapstone Project in Learning Information Systems Concepts",Journal of Information Systems Education, Volume 12, Number 3, (Fall, 2001). | |
| Denton, J.W., "Using Web-based Projects in a Systems Design and Development Course", Journal of Computer Information Systems, Volume 40, Number 3 (Spring, 2000), pages 84-87. | |
| Denton, J.W., and M. Hung, "A Comparison of Nonlinear Optimization Methods for Supervised Learning in Multilayer Feedforward Neural Networks", European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 93, 1996, pp 358-368. | |
| Denton, J.W., Sayeed, L., Moorman, A., and Perkins, N., "Using Neural Networks to Classify Employees for Tax Purposes", Accounting, Management, and Information Technologies , volume 5, number 2, pages 123-138. | |
| Denton, J.W., "Causal Forecasting with Neural Networks", Journal of Business Forecasting Methods and Systems , volume 14, number 2, Summer 1995, pages 17-20. | |
| Hung, M.S. and J.W. Denton, "Training Neural Networks Using the GRG2 Nonlinear Optimizer", European Journal of Operational Research, volume 69, number 1, August 27, 1993, pp. 83-91. | |
| Denton, J.W., M.S. Hung, and B. Osyk, "A Neural Network Approach to the Classification Problem", Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal, volume 1, number 4, 1990, pp. 417-424. | |
| Denton, J.W. and G.R. Madey, "Impact of Neurocomputing on Operations Research", in The Impact of Recent Computer Advances on Operations Research , R. Sharda, et.al., eds., Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Inc., 1989, pp. 302-312. | |
| Refereed Conference and Seminar Proceedings | |
| Fuller, J.A. and J.W. Denton, "A Business School View of Operations Management and Management Science", European College Teaching and Learning Conference Proceedings, Sienna, Italy, June 21-23, 2006. | |
| Fuller, J.A. and J.W. Denton, "Operations Management and Management Science: Diverging or Converging Academic Fields?", European Applied Business Research Conference Proceedings, 2006. | |
| Denton, J.W. and W. Spangler, "Using Electronic Commerce as an Integrating Tool for Teaching MIS Concepts", Proceedings of ISECON 2000, the 17th Annual Information Systems Education Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November, 2000. | |
| Denton, J.W., and J.A. Fuller, "A Decision Support System for the Coal Industry", Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on the Use of Computers in the Coal Industry, June, 1996, pp. 128-133. | |
| Denton, J.W. "Using Neural Networks to Perform Linear Regression", 1993 Proceedings, Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting, Washington, November, 1993. | |
| Denton, J.W. "Optimization Methods for Neural Network Training", Technologies for Competitive Growth in West Virginia, Software Valley Foundation, October, 1992. | |
| Research Presentations | |
| Denton, J.W., "Using Neural Networks to Select Optimal Forecasting Methods," WVU College of Business and Economics Summer Grant Research Program, October 17, 1997. | |
| Denton, J.W., "Quality Management Techniques", Mountaineer Country business Growth Academy, Morgantown, WV, January, 1995. | |
| Denton, J.W., and M.S. Hung, "Second Order Training Methods for Supervised Learning in Neural Networks", TIMS/ORSA National Meeting, Orlando, April, 1992. | |
| Denton, J.W., and M.S. Hung, "Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks", Annual Mini-conference on Operations Research, Youngstown State University, April, 1992. | |
| Denton, J.W., "Uses of Neurocomputing in Quality Assurance", Production and Operations Management Society National Meeting, New York, November, 1991. | |
| Denton, J.W., and M.S. Hung, "Robust and Efficient Neural Network Training", TIMS/ORSA National Meeting, Nashville, May, 1991. | |
| Denton, J.W., and M.S. Hung, "A Computational Study of Training Algorithms for Neural Networks", TIMS/ORSA National Meeting, Las Vegas, May, 1990. | |
| Denton, J.W., M.S. Hung, and B. Osyk, "A Neural Network Approach to the Classification Problem", ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, New York, October, 1989. | |
| Madey, G.R. and J.W. Denton, "Credit Evaluation with Missing Data Fields", INNS Annual Meeting, Boston, September, 1988. | |
| Denton, J.W., and G.R. Madey, "Implications of Neurocomputing to OR/MS/IS", TIMS/ORSA National Meeting, Washington, April, 1988. | |
| Service as Referee | ||
| 1991: | Computers in Operations Research, Abraham Mehrez, associate editor. | |
| 1996: | International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Organizations, R.P. Raghupathi, editor. | |
| 1997: | Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting, Ramesh Sharda, track chair. | |
| 1997-2003: | Omega, George Mitchell, editor. | |
| 2000-2007: | Journal of Information Systems Education, Albert Harris, Editor. | |
| Professional Organization Memberships | |
| Beta Gamma Sigma | |
| Decision Sciences Institute | |