IRIT ASKIRA GELMAN



EDUCATION


Ph.D. in Management Information Systems (MIS), Minor in Economics,  Eller School of Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Dissertation: Studies on the Informativeness, Value, and Cost, of Information and Information Systems.

M.Sc. in Information Systems (IS),  Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel M.Sc. Thesis: Model Reduction: Extracting Simple and Adequate Mathematical Macro- econometric Model-Based Information.

Computer Science studies,  Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

B.Sc. in Mathematics,  Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel



PUBLICATIONS

Information Quality of Learning Models

Askira Gelman, I., Input Accuracy in Classification Tasks: Which Errors are more Painful?(Extended Abstract), The Proceedings of the SigIQ Workshop 2012, Quality Information in Organizations and Society, Orlando, Florida, December 16.

Askira Gelman, I., Knowledge Discovery: Comprehensibility of the Results, Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-31), 1998.

Information Quality of Conjunctive and Disjunctive Decisions

Askira Gelman I., Biases in Multi-Criteria, Satisficing Decisions Due to Data Errors, ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (ACM JDIQ). Vol 2. No. 4, 2012.

Askira Gelman, I., A Model of Error Propagation in Conjunctive Decisions and its Application to Database Quality Management. Journal of Database Management (JDM), Vol. 23, No. 1, 2012.

Askira Gelman, I., An Empirical Study of the GIGO Axiom in Decision Making Scenarios. 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2012.

Askira Gelman, I., GIGO or not GIGO: The Accuracy of Multi-Criteria Satisficing Decisions. ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (ACM JDIQ). Vol 2. No. 2 2011.

Askira Gelman, I., Setting Priorities for Data Accuracy Improvements in Satisficing Decision-making Scenarios: A Guiding Theory. Decision Support Systems (DSS), Vol. 48, No. 4, 2010, pp. 507-520.

Askira Gelman I., A General Ranking Strategy for Data Accuracy Management, 15th International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ-10), Little Rock AR, 2010.

Askira Gelman, I., The Asymmetric Nature of Decision Errors in Multi-Criteria, Satisficing Decisions. 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2009.

.Askira Gelman, I., Simulations of Error Propagation for Prioritizing Data Accuracy Improvements in Multi-Criteria Satisficing Decision Making Scenarios. 30th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS-09). Phoenix, Arizona, 2009.

Askira Gelman, I., Theories of Error Propagation in Satisficing Decisions and their Application to Data Quality Management. 3rd Israel Association for Information Systems Conference (ILAIS 2008), 2008.

Askira Gelman, I., A Model of Error Propagation in Satisficing Decisions and its Application to Database Quality Management. 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2008.

Askira Gelman, I., GIGO or not GIGO: Error Propagation in Basic Information Processing Operations. 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2007.

Askira Gelman, I., Simulations of Error Propagation for Prioritizing Data Accuracy Improvement Efforts. 12th International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ-07), MIT, Cambridge MA, 2007.

Information Quality on the Web

Askira Gelman, I. and Askira, A., Show Us Your Pay Stub: Income Verification in P2P Lending. 18th International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ-13), Little Rock AR, 2013.

Askira Gelman I., Wu, N., Combining Structured and Unstructured Information Sources for a Study of Data Quality: A Case Study of Zillow.Com, Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-44), 2011.

Wu, N., Askira Gelman I., and Osesina, O. I., How Consistent is Web Information—A Case Study on Online Real Estate Database. 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2009.

Askira Gelman, I., and Barletta, A.L., Initial Study of a ‘Quick and Dirty’ Website Data Quality Index. 13th International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ-08), MIT, Cambridge MA, 2008.

Askira Gelman, I., and Barletta, A.L., A ‘Quick and Dirty’ Website Data Quality Indicator.Second Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW 2008) in Proceedings of ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), 2008.

A Complementarity Theory for Improving Information Quality

Askira Gelman, I., Towards a Complementarity Theory for Extracting Accurate Data from Inaccurate Databases through Integration. 1st International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, (DESRIST 2006), Claremont CA, 2006.

Askira Gelman, I., A Theory of Complementarity for Extracting Accurate Data from Inaccurate Sources through Integration. 10th International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ-05), MIT, Cambridge MA, 2005.

Effects of Dependencies in Data on Information Quality

Askira Gelman, I., Does Higher Data Accuracy Produce Higher Information Value? Journal of AIS (JAIS) Sponsored Theory Development Workshop, Washington D.C., USA, December 2004.

Askira Gelman, I., D. Pingry, and D. Zeng, Does Higher Data Accuracy Produce Higher Prediction Accuracy? International Workshop on Data and Information Quality in conjunction with CAISE’04, Riga, Latvia, 2004.

Askira Gelman, I., Simulations of the Relationship between an Information System’s Input Accuracy and its Output Accuracy. 9th International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ-04), MIT, Cambridge MA, 2004.

Causal Models and Causal Reasoning

Askira Gelman, I., Addressing Time-Scale Differences among Decision-Makers through Model Abstractions. European Journal of Operational Research, (EJOR) Vol. 160, No. 2, pp. 325-335, 2005.

Askira Gelman, I., Model Abstractions that Address Time-Scale Differences Among Decision-Makers, DSS Internet Age 2002 Conference, Cork, Ireland, 2002.

Askira Gelman, I., Research Summary: Abstraction Techniques, and their Value, 5th International Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation (SARA- 2002) immediately after the 18th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI- 2002), Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, 2002.



SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY

Journals

  • Associate Editor of the ACM Journal on Data and Information Quality (JDIQ).
  • Ad Hoc Associate Editor and reviewer for numerous journals: Information Systems Research (ISR), DSS Journal, Electronic Markets, INFORMS Journal on Computing, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), and others.

Proposals and organization

  • Mini-Track Chair 19th American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) Information Quality in Crowd funding, 2013
  • Mini-Track Co-Chair 18th American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) “Data and Information Quality and Decision Quality”, 2012.
  • Mini-Track Co-Chair 18th American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) “Data and Information Quality and Decision Quality”, 2012.
  • Mini-Track Chair 18th American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) “Data and Information Quality of Unstructured Data”, 2012.
  • Mini-Track Chair 17th American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) “The economics of data and information quality”, 2011.
  • Mini-Track Co-Chair 16th American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) “Data and Information Quality and Decision Quality”, 2010.
  • Mini-Track Chair 16th American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) “Data and Information Quality of Unstructured Data”, 2010.

Program Committee membership

  • ICEIS 2013 special session on Information Value Management (IVM 2013)
  • 2nd Ibero-American Workshop on Data Quality (IAwDQ'2011)
  • 5th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS) “Information Economics and Business,” 2010.
  • Web Services for Quality, Risk, and Trust (WebSQRT), 2010.
  • 1st Provenance in Practice Workshop 2009 (PPW '09)
  • 1st ADBIS Workshop on Trust, Risk, Reputation and Recommendation on the Web (TR4Web '2009)
  • 12th International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ’2008), MIT (USA), 2008.
  • 12th International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ’2007), MIT (USA), 2007.
  • VLDB International Workshop on Semantic Data and Service Integration (SDSI), Vienna, Austria, 2007.
  • Australasian Conference on Information Quality (AUSIQ’2007), Adelaide, Australia, 2007.
  • 2nd International Business Informatics Challenge and Conference 2007 (IBIC'07), Dublin, Ireland, 2007.
  • 6th International workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems (NGITS’2006), Israel, 2006.
  • 11th International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ’2006), MIT (USA), 2006.
  • 1st Australasian Workshop on Information Quality (AUSIQ’2006), Adelaide, Australia, 2006.

Reviewer for various conferences

  • International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
  • Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS)
  • European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
  • American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
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