Steven O. Kimbrough Faculty Profile

Steven O. Kimbrough
Professor of Operations and Information Management

PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1982; MS, University of Wisconsin, 1981; BA, University of Wisconsin, 1973

Research Areas
Decision support systems; electronic commerce; artificial intelligence and computational rationality; logic modeling; evolutionary computation (including genetic algorithms and genetic programming)

Current Projects
Knowledge-based decision support systems, U.S. Coast Guard; Intelligent filtering and retrieval of multi-media information, The Historic New Orleans Collection; Computational modeling of intelligent adaptation, The University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1984-present (Atlantic Richfield Foundation Term Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences, 1984-89). Visiting appointment: University of Michigan

Professional Leadership 2003-2007
Editorial Board, Information Systems Research, 1990-present

Representative Publications
(with M. Weber)
"An Empirical Comparison of Utility Assessment Programs." European Journal of Operational Research 75 (1994).

(with J. Oliver and C. Pritchett)
"On Post-Evaluation Analysis: Candle Lighting and Surrogate Models." Interfaces 23.3 (May-June 1993).

(with H.K. Bhargave)
"Model Management: An Embedded Languages Approach." Decision Support Systems 10 (1993).