PADMAL VITHARANA
Associate Professor
Management
Information Systems
Room 506
Phone:
(315) 443-3132
Fax:
(315) 443-2185
padmal AT syr DOT edu
EDUCATION
Doctor
of Philosophy (
Major: Management Information Systems Minor:
Computer Science
Master of
Business Administration (
Major: Management Science
Bachelor of
Science (
Majors: Computer Science and Mathematics
TEACHING
Whitman School of Management, Syracuse
University
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Ø MIS
930: Doctoral Seminar in Management Information Systems. Ø MIS
635: Principles of Database Management. Ø MIS
625: Systems Analysis and Design. Ø MIS
400/600: Implementing a Web-Enabled Ø MIS
325: Introduction to Information Systems for Managers. |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Primary:
Component- and service-based development and application assembly.
Secondary:
Software quality assurance, computer-facilitated group work,
open source, outsourcing, and electronic commerce.
PUBLICATIONS
Ø Vitharana, P.
and H. Jain, Research Issues in Testing Business Components, Information
and Management, vol. 37, no. 6, September 2000, pp. 297-309.
Ø Vitharana, P.
and K. Ramamurthy, Computer-Mediated Group Support, Anonymity and the Software
Inspection Process: An Empirical Investigation, IEEE Transactions on
Software Engineering, vol. 29, no. 2, February 2003, pp. 167-180.
Ø Vitharana, P.,
F. M. Zahedi and H. Jain, Knowledge‑based
Repository Scheme for Storing and Retrieving Business Components: A Theoretical
Design and an Empirical Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Software
Engineering, vol. 29, no. 7, July 2003, pp. 649-664.
Ø Vitharana, P., Risks and Challenges of Component-based
Software Development, Communications of the ACM, vol. 46, no. 8,
August 2003, pp. 67-72.
Ø Jain,
H., P. Vitharana and F.M. Zahedi, An
Assessment Model for Requirements Identification in Component-based Software
Development, Database for Advances in Information Systems, vol.
34, no. 4, Fall 2003, pp. 48-63.
Ø Vitharana, P.,
F.M. Zahedi and H. Jain, Design, Retrieval, and Assembly in Component-based
Software Development, Communications of the ACM, vol. 46, no. 11,
November 2003, pp. 97-102.
Ø Vitharana, P.,
H. Jain and F. M. Zahedi,
Strategy-based Design of Reusable Business Components, IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 34, no. 4, November 2004, pp. 460-474.
Ø Vitharana,
P. and R.
Dharwadkar, Information Systems Outsourcing: Linking
Transaction Cost and Institutional Theories, Communications of AIS,
vol. 20, September 2007, pp. 346-370.
Ø Vitharana,
P. and M.
Mone, Measuring Critical Factors of Software Quality
Management: Development and Validation of an Instrument, Information Resource Management
Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, April 2008, pp. 18-37.
Ø Zhao, J. L., M. Gaul,
Ø Basu, A. and P. Vitharana, Impact of Customer Knowledge Heterogeneity on Bundling
Strategy, Marketing Science Journal, vol. 28, no. 4, July-August 2009,
pp. 792-801.
Ø Vitharana,
P. and M.
Mone, Software Quality Management: Measurement and
Research Directions, Advances in Information Resource Management Book Series Titled “Global, Social, and
Organizational Implications of Emerging Information Resources Management:
Concepts and Applications” Edited by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Information Resources Management Association,
forthcoming (invited paper, modified and updated from Vitharana, P. and M. Mone,
Measuring Critical Factors of Software Quality Management: Development and
Validation of an Instrument, Information Resource Management Journal, vol. 21,
no. 2, April 2008, pp. 18-37).
Ø Vitharana,
P., J.
King, and H. Chapman, Impact of Internal Open Source Development on Reuse:
Participatory Reuse in Action, Journal of MIS, forthcoming.
GUEST EDITORSHIPS
Ø Jain, H. and P. Vitharana (editors),
Special Issue on Architecture & Design for Application Agility, Information
Technology and Management, vol. 9, no. 1, March 2008 (for more details,
see Guest Editorial).
RESEARCH PANELS
Ø Impact of Service-Oriented Computing on
Business & Education, The Americas Conference on Information Systems
(AMCIS), August 9-12, 2007, Keystone, Colorado, USA (for more details, see http://www.u.arizona.edu/~jlzhao/amcis07-panel)