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Daniel O'Leary
Professor of Accounting

USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808

Phone: 
213-740-4856
oleary@usc.edu
Education: 
PhD, Case Western Reserve University; MBA, University of Michigan; BS, Bowling Green University

Overview

Dan O'Leary has published articles in Management Science, Decision Sciences, IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Computer, International Journal of Human and Computer Studies, Communications of the ACM, and Decision Support Systems. He served as editor of IEEE Intelligent Systems and the International Journal of Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, and on the editorial board of Enterprise Information Systems, Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Information Technology and Management, and Journal of Information Systems. Prior to completing his PhD, he worked in consulting for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co.

Research

Cloud Computing and Crowdsourcing in Cities • 2013
Internal Corporate Prediction Markets: 'From each according to his bet" • 2013
"Big Data," The "Internet of Things," and the "Internet of Signs" • 2013
Knowledge Discovery for Continuous Financial Assurance Using Multiple Types of Digital Information • 2012
Developing Trust and Relationships in the Supply Chain Using Social Media • 2012
'Computer-based Political Action' on Intellectual Property (PIPA): Using Internet Blackouts, Social Media and Other Approaches • 2012
The Valuation of Knowledge Management • 2011
Social Media in DMSS System Design, Development and Management • 2011
Sysco's Best Business Practices • 2011
Prediction Markets as a Forecasting Tool • 2011
Blog Mining - Review and Extensions: "From Each According to his Opinion" • 2011
Building and Evolving Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Artifacts: The Case of SYSCO • 2011
The Use of Social Media in the Supply Chain: Survey and Extensions • 2011
Event Study Methodologies in Information Systems Research • 2011
The Emergence of Individual Knowledge in a Group Setting: Mitigating Cognitive Fallacies • 2011
Enterprise Ontologies: Review and An Activity Theory Approach • 2010
The Impact of Manager Philosophy on Knowledge Management Systems • 2010
Using Digital Media to Monitor and Forecast a Firm's Public Image • 2010
An Activity Theory Framework for Extreme Events: With a Hurricane Example • 2010
An Activity Theory Analysis of RFID in Hospitals • 2010
ISI Journal and Proceeding Citations and Research Issues from Most Cited Papers • 2010
Predictive Knowledge Management: Mirror Worlds • 2010
A Comparative Analysis of the Evolution of a Taxonomy for Best Practices • 2009
Ten Most Cited Papers in the Journal of Emerging Technologies: The First Five Years • 2009
The Impact of Gartner's Maturity Curve, Adoption Curve and Strategic Technologies on Accounting Information Systems Research • 2009
Business School Research: Measuring Value Contribution through Citations of Journals in Patents • 2009
Forecasting Using Internal Markets, Delphi and other Approaches: The Knowledge Distribution Grid • 2009
Downloads and Citations in Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management • 2009
Multilingual Knowledge Management • 2009
How Much and Where? Private vs. Public Universities? Publication Patterns in the Information Systems Discipline • 2009
Some Issues in Personalization of Intelligent Systems: An Activity Theory Approach for Meta Ontology Development • 2008
IEEE Intelligent Systems: The Most Cited Papers • 2008
Expert Systems • 2008
Wiki?s: From Each According to his Knowledge • 2008
Monitoring and Managing Data and Process Quality using Data Mining: Business Intelligence for the Purchasing and Accounts Payable Process (Business Process Management) • 2008
Decision Support System Evolution • 2008
Decision Support in Real Time Enterprises • 2008
Human Systems Management: The Most Cited Papers • 2007
Knowledge Representation of Rules • 2007
Empirical Analysis of the Evolution of a Taxonomy for Best Practices • 2007
A Cost Variance Investigation Using Belief Functions • 2006
Intelligent Guessing • 2006
Microsoft's Management Reporting: SAP, Data Warehousing and Reporting Tools (ERP Systems) • 2006
Using Mirror Worlds to Support Supply Network Management • 2006
The Impact of B2B Electronic Commerce Technology, Processes and Organization Changes: A Case Study in the Personal Computer Industry • 2006
ABB Industries: Implementing SAP's ABC (ERP Systems) • 2005
Review of "Ontologies: A Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce" by Dieter Fensel • 2005
Change in a Best Practices Ontology • 2004
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems: An Empirical Analysis of Benefits (Critical Success Factors) • 2004
On the Relationship Between REA and SAP (ERP System Databases) • 2004
Reengineering Security • 2004
Auditor Environmental Assessments (Knowledge Management and Rule-based Systems) • 2003
Review of "Mirror Worlds: Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox" by David Gelernter • 2003
Knowledge Management Across the Enterprise Resource Planning Life Cycle • 2002
Knowledge Management in Professional Services Firms • 2002
Technology for Knowledge Storage and Assimilation • 2002
When and How Do We Use Heterogeneous Expert Opinion as a Basis for Research on ERP Systems? (Critical Success Factors) • 2002
Functional Ontology Artifacts: Different Ontologies and No One Best Ontology • 2001
Verification and Validation of Multiple Agent Systems • 2001
How Knowledge Reuse Informs Effective System Design and Implementation • 2001
Knowledge Management for Best Practices • 2000
Different Firms, Different Ontologies, and No One Best Ontology • 2000
An Analytic Model for Credit Analysis • 2000
Game Playing Behavior in Requirements Analysis, Evaluation and System Choice for Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) (Critical Success Factors) • 2000
Internal Auditing and Expert Systems: Technology Adoption of an Audit Judgment Tool • 2000
Management of Reengineering Knowledge: AI-based Approaches • 2000
Reengineering Merge-in-Transit for Electronic Commerce • 2000
Supply Chain Processes and Relationships for Electronic Commerce • 2000
Supporting Decisions about Transborder Data Flows • 2000
The Impact of Information Technology Adoption on Status: An Exchange Theory Analysis of Expert System Adoption • 2000
The Use of Formal Methods for Specifying KBS: The Case of Business Systems • 2000
Value Creation from Expert Systems: An Economic Approach with Applications to Accounting, Auditing and Finance • 2000
The Impact of the Euro on Information Systems • 1999
REAL-D: A Schema for Data Warehouses • 1999
A Multiple Criterion Model for the Product Pricing Decision • 1999
Internet-based Information and Retrieval Systems • 1999
Planning for Multinational Firms Using an Intelligent Network Modeling System • 1999
Reengineering and Knowledge Management • 1999
Identifying Conflicting Probabilities in Multiple Knowledge Base Systems • 1999
Knowledge Management in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems • 1999
Knowledge Management: Forming an Internet Company • 1999
Knowledge Acquisition from Multiple Experts: An Empirical Study • 1998
Knowledge Management Systems: Converting and Connecting • 1998
Using AI in Knowledge Management: Knowledge Bases and Ontologies • 1998
Enterprise Knowledge Management • 1998
REA Accounting Database Evolution • 1998
Using Neural Networks to Predict Corporate Failure • 1998
Virtual Organizations: Two Choice Problems • 1998
Inference Engine Greediness in Rule-based Systems • 1997
Validation of Computational Models Based on Multiple Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources • 1997
An Intelligent Modeling System for Generalized Network Flow Problems: With Application to Planning for Multinationals • 1997
Impediments in the Use of Explicit Ontologies for KBS Development • 1997
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Accounting Work: The Case of Expert Systems Use in Auditing and Tax • 1997
Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Organizations • 1997
The Internet, Intranets, and the Renaissance of Artificial Intelligence • 1997
Intelligent Executive Information Systems • 1996
Verification of Uncertain Knowledge-based Systems: An Empirical Verification Approach • 1996
The Use of Mathematical Programming to Verify Rule-based Knowledge • 1996
AI and Navigation on the Internet and Intranet • 1996
The Relationship Between Errors and Size and Between Different Types of Errors in Expert Systems • 1996
Guest Editor Introduction to Conference on AI Applications • 1996
AI in Accounting, Finance and Management • 1995
AI on WWW: Supply and Demand Agents • 1995
Domain-knowledge-guided schema evolution for accounting database systems • 1995
Financial Planning with 0-1 Knapsack Problems, I • 1995
Financial Planning with 0-1 Knapsack Problems, II • 1995
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems • 1995
Issues in Bayes Nets and Influence Diagrams: With Applications in Accounting and Auditing • 1995
Short Run Financial Planning Using Embedded Processing Networks • 1995
Some Privacy Issues in Knowledge Discovery • 1995
The Impact of Semantic Ambiguity on Bayesian Weights • 1995
Towards a History of Applied AI, I • 1995
Towards a History of Applied AI, II • 1995
Validating Heterogeneous and Competing Knowledge Bases Using a Blackbox Approach • 1995
Verification of Object-Oriented Systems: Domain Dependent and Domain Independent Approaches • 1995
Verification and Validation of Knowledge-Based Systems: Multiple Agent Systems and Models • 1994
A Fuzzy-Set Approach for Analyzing the Validation of Expert Systems in a Multiple Agent Environment • 1994
AI in Business II: Development, Integration, Economic and Organizational Issues • 1994
Artifacts: Toward a Theory of Verification and Validation • 1994
Executive Information Systems • 1994
Green Eye Shade Accountants and other Issues: Discussion of a Computational Model of Auditor Knowledge and Reasoning Processes • 1994
Models of Consensus for Multiple Agent Systems • 1994
Schema Evolution for Object-based Accounting Systems • 1994
The Use of Mathematical Programming with Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems • 1993
Determining Differences in Expert Judgment: Implications for Knowledge Acquisition and Validation • 1993
The Impact of Data Accuracy on System Learning • 1993
Goal Programming Applications in Financial Management • 1993
A Generalized Network Modeling System for Financial Applications • 1993
AI in Business I: Applications, Representation, Acquisition and Explanation • 1993
Artificial Intelligence, Organizations and Management • 1993
Computational and Mathematical Models of Organizations • 1993
Expert System Verification and Validation • 1993
Expert Systems in Auditing • 1993
Integration of Intelligent Technologies into Conventional Information Systems • 1993
Issues in Expert Systems Security • 1993
Models of Consensus for Validation of Expert Systems • 1993
Performing and Managing Expert Systems Validation • 1993
Semantic Ambiguity in Expert Systems: A Probability Model of Data Categorization as Evidence • 1993
The Impact of Expert Systems in Accounting: System Characteristics, Productivity and Work Unit Effects • 1993
Verification and Validation of Case-based Systems • 1993
Verifying and Validating Expert Systems • 1993
Ordering Knowledge Sources in a Blackboard System • 1993
Single and Multiple Period Decision Models for Analysis of Quality and Quantity of Validation • 1992
Intrusion-Detection Systems • 1992
Accountant: A Domain Dependent Model for Natural Language Processing • 1992
Audit and Security Issues with Expert Systems • 1992
Case-based Reasoning and Multiple Agent Systems for Accounting Regulation Systems • 1992
Integration of Intelligent Systems and Conventional Systems: Requirements for Coordinating Multiple Agents for Diagnostic Systems • 1992
Measuring the Quality of a Computer Program's Performance • 1992
On Bankruptcy Information Systems • 1992
On the Representation of Source Reliability Through Weights on Rules • 1992
Tax-based Expert Systems: A First Principles Approach • 1992
AI Integration for Enhanced Decision Support • 1992
Knowledge Acquisition Opportunities Resulting from Verification, Validation and Maintenance • 1991
AI in Business • 1991
Faciliting Probability Judgments with Implications for Knowledge Acquisition • 1991
A Knowledge-based System for Cash Flow Analysis: With Implications for Structuring DSS: With Extensions for System Learning and Knowledge Acquisition • 1991
Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems in Accounting Databases • 1991
Design, Development and Validation of Expert Systems: A Survey of Developers • 1991
Knowledge Discovery as a Threat to Database Security • 1991
Knowledge Discovery as a Threat to Database Security (KD-for-DB-Security) • 1991
On Representation of Source Reliability in Weight of Evidence • 1991
Verification of Frames and Semantic Networks • 1990
Security in Expert Systems • 1990
Cash Manager: A Knowledge-based DSS for Cash Management • 1990
Knowledge Acquisition for a Diagnosis-based Task • 1990
Maximizing Reimbursement of Indirect Costs: A Mathematical Programming Approach • 1990
Measuring and Managing Complexity in Knowledge-based Systems: A Network and Mathematical Programming Approach • 1990
Soliciting Weights or Probabilities from Experts for Rule-Based Expert Systems • 1990
Tax-Based Expert Systems: Identifying Opportunities and Pitfalls (Knowledge-based Systems) • 1990
Use of Penalties in a Branch and Bound Procedure for the Fixed Change Transportation Problem • 1989
Computer Knowledge Requirements for Accountants: A Survey of Fortune 500 Controllers • 1989
Review of "Applied Expert Systems" by Turban and Watkins' • 1989
The Impact and Representation of Information System Reliability on Cost Variance Decisions • 1989
An Expert System for Cash Flow Analysis • 1989
Cost Variance Investigation with Fuzzy Sets • 1989
A Knowledge-based System for Cash Management Using Management Science Expertise • 1989
A Prototype Accounting Expert System • 1989
Expert Systems and Decision Support in Auditing • 1989
Review of Expert Systems in Auditing • 1989
Methods of Validating Expert Systems • 1988
Software Engineering and Research Issues in Accounting Information Systems • 1988
A Framework for Taxation-based Computer Decision Systems - Knowledge Based Systems • 1988
Developing Consolidated Financial Statements Using a Prototype Expert System • 1988
Expert Systems Prototyping as a Research Tool • 1988
On the Representation and Impact of Reliability on Expert System Weights • 1988
Prior Survey Research on Expert Systems in Accounting, Auditing and Related Areas • 1988
Validating the Weights in Rule-Based Expert Systems: A Statistical Approach • 1988
An Expert System for Cash Flow Analysis • 1987
Review of "Accounting Information Systems and Business Organizations, Fourth Edition" by Cushing and Romney • 1987
Knowledge Acquisition for Small Scale Expert Systems from Consulting Experts: A Field Study Approach • 1987
Validation of Expert Systems: With Applications to Auditing and Accounting Expert Systems • 1987
A Multiple Goal Approach to Pension Fund Management • 1987
Accounting Regulation-based Expert Systems • 1987
Artificial Intelligence in Accounting • 1987
The Organizational Impact of Expert Systems • 1987
Multiple Criterion Decision Making in Accounting Expert Systems • 1986
Artificial Intelligence in Production Management • 1986
Expert Systems in Accounting in a Personal Computer Environment • 1986