Yonghua Ji - Directory@UAlberta

Contact

Associate Professor, Department of Accounting and Business Analytics

Phone: (780) 492-0006
Address: 3-30E Business Building
11203 Saskatchewan Drive NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2R6

Overview

About

Hobbies

Sports: swimming, table tennis
Traveling

Life in Edmonton

Weather in Edmonton

Research

Research Interests

Economics of Information Systems
Dynamic Optimization of Software Development
Information Systems Performance Analysis and Optimization

Teaching

Teaching Interests

Accounting Information Systems
Electronic Commerce
Information Systems Security and Auditing
Programming Languages: VB.NET, Java, C/C++

Courses Taught

MIS/ACCT 437 - Accounting Information Systems, University of Alberta
MIS 418/618 - Introduction to E-commerce, University of Alberta
MIS 311 - Management Information Systems, University of Alberta
MIS 412 - Managerial Support Systems, University of Alberta
BA 4318 - Programming in Visual Basic, UT, Dallas
IS 320 - Fundamentals of Application Programming, University of Washington

Scholarly Activities

Research - Conference Presentations

“Optimal Timing of Dynamic Requirement Reviews for Software Development Process”, December 2006, WITS 2006, Milwaukie, Wisconsin.

"Dynamic Development of Software Product Line", May 2006, International Conference on Management Sciences: Optimization Models and Applications in honor of Dr. Suresh P. Sethi, Dallas

"Optimal Software Development: A Control Theoretic Approach", November 2005, INFORMS 2005, San Francisco (Invited talk)

"An Integrated Planning Model of Systems Development and Release", December 2003, WITS 2003, Seattle, Washington

"Real Options and Software Upgrades: An Economic Analysis", December 2002, ICIS 2002, Barcelona, Spain

"Optimal Software Development and Debugging Policies: A Control Theoretic Approach", December 2002, WITS 2002, Barcelona, Spain

Research - Peer-Reviewed Journals

Y. Ji, S. Kumar, V. Mookerjee, S. Sethi, and D. Yeh. Forthcoming. Optimal Enhancement and Lifetime of Software Systems: A Control Theoretic Analysis. Production and Operations Management Forthcoming.

K. Dogan, Y. Ji, V. Mookerjee, and S. Radhakrishnan. Forthcoming. Managing the Versions of a Software Product under Variable and Endogenous Demand. Information Systems Research Forthcoming.

Y. Tan, Y. Ji, and V. Mookerjee. 2006. Analyzing Document Duplication Effects on Joint Policies for Browser and Proxy Caching. INFORMS Journal on Computing 18(4) 506-522.

Y. Ji, V. Mookerjee, and S. Sethi. 2005. Optimal Software Development: A Control Theoretic Approach. Information Systems Research 16(3) 292-306, 2005.

Research - Refereed Conference Proceedings

Y. Ji, M. Fan and Y. Tan. 2006. Optimal Timing of Dynamic Requirement Reviews for Software Development Process. Proceedings of WITS 2006.

Y. Ji, S. Kumar, S. Sethi, and D. Yeh. 2006. Dynamic Optimization of Software Enhancement Effort. Proceedings of WITS 2006.

D. Liu, Y. Ji and V. Mookerjee. 2005. Information Security Investment with Different Information Types: A Two-Firm Analysis. Proceedings of AMCIS 2005.

Y. Ji, V. Mookerjee, and S. Sethi. 2003. An Integrated Planning Model of Systems Development and Release. Proceedings of WITS 2003. (Best paper nominee)

Y. Ji, V. Mookerjee, and S. Radhakrishnan. 2002. Real Options and Software Upgrades: An Economic Analysis. Proceedings of ICIS 2002.

Y. Ji and V. Mookerjee. Optimal Software Development and Debugging Policies: A Control Theoretic Approach. Proceedings of WITS 2002. (Best paper nominee)

Research - Working Papers

“Time and Materials versus Fixed Price Contracts for Software Maintenance Outsourcing: an Agency Theoretic Analysis”, with S. Radhakrishnan

“Knowledge Sharing and Investment Decisions in Information Security”, with Dengpan Liu and Vijay Mookerjee