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The 2008 Winter Conference on Business Intelligence David Eccles School of Business University of Utah March 20 - 22, 2008 |
Tentative Agenda
| March 20, 2008 (Thursday) | |
| Before 6:00 pm | Arrival, getting rentals, skiing, snowboarding, massaging… endless choices |
| 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Dinner Reception and Transportation (Venue: Olivia Sheng's Home) |
| March 21 (Friday) | Venue: Meeting Room C, University Guest House |
| 7:00 am - 7:30 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 7:30 am - 8:20 am | Welcome Remark
Keynote Presentation - Slides by Jim Oliver, Group Product Marketing Manager, Google |
| 8:30 am - 10:30 am | Session I
Stay Elsewhere? The Economic Impact of Location-based Hotel Features: A View from Remote Sensing Image Analysis - Slides - Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis Ipeirotis, Beibei Li (NYU) Periodicity and Web Browsing Behavior: Same Old Same Old? - Slides - Catherine Yang (University of California, Davis), Balaji Padmanabhan (University of South Florida) Mining Process Knowledge - Algorithms and Experience with Simulated and Real Logs - Slides - Akhil Kumar, Zan Huang (Penn State) Learning Industry-Specific Voluntary Disclosures from SEC 10-K Regulatory Filings - Slides - Thomas Y. Lee (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Transportation to resorts |
| 11:30 am - 4:30 pm | Break: Snow sports optional (Venue: Snowbird/Alta) |
| 4:30 - 5:30 pm | Transportation back to UU Guest House |
| 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Buffet Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Session II
Data-Driven Optimization in State Tax Administration: Transition Challenges From Technological to Managerial Innovation - Slides - Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa (University of Texas at Austin) Piracy or Promotion? The Impact of Broadband Internet Penetration on DVD Sales - Slides - Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang (CMU) Simultaneous Auctions of Imperfect Goods by Sellers of Different Reputations: An Analytical Model and Laboratory Experiment - Slides - Ravi Bapna (Indian School of Business), Chrysanthos Dellarocas (University of Maryland), Sarah Rice (University of Connecticut) |
| March 22 (Saturday) | Venue: Meeting Room C, University Guest House |
| 7:00 am - 7:30 am | Continental breakfast |
| 7:30 am - 9:00 am | Session III
Social Network Discovery and Customer Network Value Assessment from Social Networking Websites - Slides - Hong Guo, Praveen Pathak, Hsing Kenneth Cheng (University of Florida) Mining Face-to-Face Interaction Networks Using Sociometric Badges to Predict Productivity in an IT Configuration Task - Slides - Lynn Wu (MIT), Ben Waber (MIT), Sinan Aral (NYU), Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT), Sandy Pentland (MIT) A System for Recommending Items Based on Viewing-Time-Weighted Preferences for Attributes - Slides - Jeffrey Parsons (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Paul Ralph (University of British Columbia), Katherine Gallagher (Memorial University of Newfoundland) |
| 9:10 am - 10:30 am | Panel: Data Driven Strategies for Web 2.0
Organizer: Gautam Pant, University of Utah Panelists: Kartik Hosanagar (Wharton), Balaji Padmanabhan (University of South Florida), David Watta (AARP)-Tentative |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Transportation to ski resorts |
| 11:30 am - 4:00 pm | Break: Snow Sports optional (Venue: Deer Valley/Park City Mountain Resorts) |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Collecting Rentals for return (Deer Valley Only). |
| 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm | Relaxing at Second Floor Lounge, Deer Valley Snow Park Lodge |
| 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Closing Dinner at Deer Valley |
| 8:30 pm | Transportation back to University Guest House |
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