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Stevens Institute of Technology

Howe School Full-time Faculty

 

Dr. Edward A. Stohr

Professor

Location:Babbio 428 327
Phone:201.216.8915
Fax:201.216.5385
Email:estohr@stevens.edu
 

Research & Education

Research
Current Research:
  • Process automation and workflow management
  • Decision support
Education
  • Ph.D. (1973) Information Science, University of California, Berkeley
  • MBA. (1973) Information Systems, University of California, Berkeley
  • Bachelor of Civil Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia, 1959
 

Experience & Service

General Information
Professor Stohr holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree from Melbourne University, Australia, and M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Information Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently Associate Dean for Research and Academics at the Howe School of Technology Management, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. His research interests are centered on the problems of developing computer systems to support work and decision making in organizations. He is the editor of two books on decision support systems and has published articles in many leading journals. In 1992, Professor Stohr served as chairman of the executive board of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). He is on the editorial boards of a number of leading journals in the information systems field and has also acted as consultant to a number of major corporations.
 

Achievements & Professional Societies

Honors & Awards
  • Commercial Workflow Management System for Teaching and Research
  • Formation of Special Interest Group on Process Automation and Management (SIGPAM)
  • NJ State Capacity Grant - equipment for Howe School Research Computing Center
Professional Societies
  • Member, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Member, The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS)
  • Founding Member, Association for Information Systems (AIS)

Publications

    Conference

    • Huang, Wayne and Edward A. Stohr. (2007). "Design and Implementation of a Business Process Rules Engine", 2nd Annual International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST), Pasadena CA
    • Edward A. Stohr, Russell P. Stohr. (Jun 2001). "Transaction Breaks: A Litany of Errors", Proc. Thirteenth Bled Electronic Commerce Conference, Bled Slovenia
    • Michael Bieber, II Im, Ricki Goldman-Segall, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Ravi Paul, Jennifer Preece, Ron Rice, Edward A. Stohr, Murray Turoff. (2000). "Towards Knowledge-Sharing and Learning in Virtual Professional Communities", Hawaii International Conference on Information Sciences
    • Edward A. Stohr, Akhil Kumar, J. Leon Zhao. (Dec 2000). "Organizational Concept Space: A Dynamic Grouping Approach to Organizational Knowledge Distribution", Proc. WITS, 2000, Brisbane Australia
    • Edward A. Stohr, J. Leon Zhao. (Aug 2000). "Building Workflow Engines for Commerce Logic Applications", Proc.of Americas Conference on Information Systems, Long Beach, CA
    • J. Leon Zhao, Akhil Kumar, Edward A. Stohr. (Jan 2000). "A Workflow-Centric Model of Organizational Knowledge Distribution", Proc. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

    Books

    • Stohr, Edward and Nickerson, Jeffrey V. . (2003). "Enterprise Integration: Methods and Direction", J. Luftman, Strategic Alignment, Oxford University Press
    • Joseph Morabito, Edward A. Stohr. (2002), Bigdolil, Hossein, Online Analytical Processing and Applications in E-Commerce, The Internet Encyclopedia, John Wiley & Sons
    • Edward A. Stohr, Jeffrey V. Nickerson. (2002). "Intra Enterprise Integration: Methods and Direction", Competing in the Information Age: Align in the Sand, Oxford University Press, NY
    • Edward A. Stohr, Larry White , Sivakumar Viswanathan. (2000). "America Online Inc.: The Portal Era.", Sid Huff, Mike Wade, Michael Parent, Scott Schneberger and Peter Newson, Cases in Electronic Commerce, Irwin/McGraw-Hill
    • Edward A. Stohr, S. Viswana. (1999). "Recommendation Systems", Kendall, Kenneth E, Emerging Information Technologies, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

      Journals

      • Davern, M.J., R. Mantena, and E.A. Stohr. (2008). "Diagnosing Decision Quality". Download (258 kb kb PDF)
      • Kamis, Arnold A Stohr, Edward A. (2006). "Parametric Search Engines: What Makes them Effective when Shopping Online for Differentiated Products", Information & Management. 43 (7)
      • Lechler, T., Ronen, B., Stohr E. A.. (2005). "Critical Chain: A New Project Management Paradigm or Old Wine in New Bottles?", Engineering Management Journal. 17 (4)
      • Edward A. Stohr. (Aug 2001). "Workflow Automation: Overview and Research Issues", Informations Systems Frontiers
      • J. Leon Zhao, Akhil Kumar, Edward A. Stohr. (Mar 2000). "Workflow-centric Communication Mechanisms for Organizational Knowledge Distribution", Journal of Management Information Systems
      • John T. Gorgone and Paul Gray (Co-chairs) with David L. Feinstein, George M. Kasper, Jerry N. Luftman, Edward A. Stohr, Joseph S. Valacich, Rolf T. Wigand.. (Jan 2000). "MSIS 2000: Model Curriculum and Guidelines for Graduate Programs in Information Systems", Communications of AIS. 3 (1)
      • Edward A. Stohr, J. Leon Zhao. (Mar 1999). "Temporal Workflow Management in a Claim Handling System", Software Engineering Notes. 24 (2)

      Report

      • Wayne Huang and Edward A. Stohr. (2007). "Design and Implementation of a Business Process Rules Engine"
      • Edward A Friedman, Edward A. Stohr. (Oct 25, 2006). "Technology Management for Global Development - A Conceptual Framework"