Special Issue: Decision Support and Knowledge-Based Systems

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Robert W. Blanning is Professor of Management Information Systems at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. He holds a B.S. in Physics from the Pennsylvania State University, an M.S. in Operations Research from the Case Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in operations research and management information systems. He has been a member of the faculties of the School of Business at New York University and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His teaching and research interests are in model management systems, information economics, and the management applications of artificial intelligence. He has published in Management Science, Decision Sciences, Communications of the ACM, Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, Decision Support Systems, Information and Management, Omega, Policy Analysis and Information Systems, International Journal of Policy and Information, Human Systems Management, Journal of Information Science, Long Range Planning, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change. He has presented papers at the National Computer Conference, the International Conference on Decision Support Systems, the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, the International Workshop on Expert Database Systems , and the International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Economics and Management. He is a member of the Board of Editors of JMIS, a member of the Editorial Boards of Decision Support Systems and Information Systems Research, and Associate Editor of Information and Decision Technologies and in the Decision Support Systems Department of Management Science.