Bart L. Garner, Ph.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor of MIS/POM

School of Business Administration

The University of Mississippi

bgarner@bus.olemiss.edu

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D, Business Administration, August 2004

The University of Mississippi

 

            Major - Management Information Systems

            Minor – Production Operations Management

 

B.S. in Physics, June 1988

University of California at Riverside

 

 

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

 

Clinical Assistant Professor of MIS/POM;

The University of Mississippi

August 2002 to Present

 

Classes taught:

 

·        Applications of Database Management – Oracle’s SQL server is used to explore deeper issues of application development using database.

 

·        Management Information Systems I – Microsoft Office suite is used in the development of MIS concepts.

 

Developed an online class by using existing commercially available class material along with my original material, including recorded lecture material presented via streaming video. Much of this material is now used to support the instruction of 450 students per semester. 

 

·        Advanced Management Information Systems – Microsoft development tools along with Microsoft’s SQL server is used for instructional purposes.

 

·        Management Information Systems II – Lectures on management information systems and decision support systems.  Modeling was accomplished using Microsoft Excel and Access.  The course also covered the relationships between a wide variety of advanced information technologies.  (Last taught in 1998.)


 

RESEARCH:

 

Dissertation:

 

The dissertation titled “IMPROVING DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION USING MINIMUM CLIQUE PARTITION OF A SEMANTIC NETWORK AND FAST HEURISTIC METHODS” presents a new model for document classification and testing of different clustering methods. Accurate and efficient classification and retrieval of digital documents is a vital element of effective organizational knowledge management. The ability to correctly classify documents during or after their creation greatly increases the future usefulness of those documents and ensures that essential organizational knowledge is preserved and made available for all who need it. This dissertation synthesizes techniques from the fields of natural language processing (Semantic Network – WordNet from Princeton), operations research (non-linear programming), and graph theory (the minimum clique partition problem) to provide a method of topic and document clustering that improves upon current techniques such as k-nearest-neighbors (frequency occurrence) and naive Bayes (probability distributions describing the frequencies of feature occurrences).

 

Current Research Agenda:

 

Document clustering using unsupervised learning methods

Semantic network construction

Quadratic programming heuristic algorithms

Data mining

 

Published Precedings:

 

Aiken, M., Garner, B., Paolillo, J., and Vanjani, M., “A Neural Network Model of Group Support Systems,” Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Nov 20-23, 1999, New Orleans, LA, 463-465.

 

Aiken, M., Garner, B., and Motiwalla, L., "A Neural Network Model of Treasury Bills," 1999 IRMA International Conference, Hershey, Pennsylvania, May 16-19, 1999.

 

Conlon, Sumali, Sonny Mounicou, Jie Xu, Bart L. Garner, and Wendy Wang (2000). “Improving Internet Search: A Prototype Using  Natural Language Processing Techniques.”  Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute Conference (DSI-2000), Orlando, FL, Nov.

 

Conlon, Sumali, Tabitha James, and Bart Garner (1999). "A Natural Language Interface-Based Internet Search System."  presented at INFORMS'99.  Philadelphia, Nov.

 

Conlon, Sumali and Bart Garner (1998). "Improving Internet Search Using Linguistic Analysis." Proceedings of the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Conference (NEDSI-98), Boston, MA. March.

 

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION:

 

Nominated for the SWBDA Innovative Achievement Award in recognition of incorporating online material in the traditional classroom. 

 

 

SERVICE:

 

Member of the Computer and Information Infrastructure Committee in the School of Business Administration

 

Served on the Certified Web Developer Exam Committee of the Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals and participated in development of the Certified Web Developer Exam.

 

Faculty Search Committee summer 2004

 

Hearin Center for Enterprise Science web administrator