Research
Refereed Journal Publications
Agarwal, A., Singh, N., & Kartal, H.B. (2023). Does Your Company Engage Efficiently on Social Media? Improving Performance Using DEA Model and Visualization. e-Service Journal 14(3), 36-68. https://doi.org/10.2979/esj.2023.a905238
Emrouznejad, A., Panchmatia, V., Gholami, R., Rigsbee, C., & Kartal, H.B. (2023). “Analysis of smart meter data with machine learning for implications targeted towards residents” International Journal of Urban Planning and Smart Cities (IJUPSC), 4(1), 1-22. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJUPSC.318337
Kartal, H.B. and Li, X.B. (2020) “Protecting Privacy When Sharing and Releasing Data with Multiple Records per Person” Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Vol. 21: Issue 6, Article 8. DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00643 (ABDC: 'A*' ranked; listed in the 'Basket of Eight of IS Senior Scholars'). Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol21/iss6/8
Gholami, R., Emrouznejad, A., Alnsour, Y., Kartal, H.B., and Veselova, J. (2020) “The Impact of Smart Meter Installation on Attitude Change towards Energy Consumption Behavior among Northern Ireland Households” Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM), Vol. 28: Issue 4, October-December. DOI: 10.4018/JGIM.2020100102 (ABDC: 'A' ranked).
Kartal, H.B., Liu, X., & Li, X.B. (2019) “Differential Privacy for the Vast Majority” ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), 10(2), 8. (A high-quality emergent journal under ACM umbrella). (Indexing is in progress. Submitted to the CBM journal subcommittee for evaluation. See the editorial board: https://tmis.acm.org/editorial.cfm) Available at: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3329717)
Motiwalla, L.F., Albashrawi, M., and Kartal, H.B. (2019) "Uncovering unobserved heterogeneity bias: Measuring mobile banking system success” International Journal of Information Management (IJIM), 49, 439-451. (ABDC: 'A*' ranked). Available: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1Zb5Iz1m7LO3r
Albashrawi, M., Kartal, H.B., Oztekin, A., & Motiwalla, L. (2019) “Self-reported and computer-recorded experience in mobile banking: A multi-phase path analytic approach” Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), 21(4), 773-790. (ABDC: 'A' ranked). Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10796-018-9892-1
Kartal, H.B., Oztekin, A., Gunasekaran, A., and Cebi, F. (2016) “An Integrated Decision Analytic Framework of Machine Learning with Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Multi-Attribute Inventory Classification” Computers & Industrial Engineering (CAIE), 101 (2016) 599-613. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360835216301991
Kartal, H. B. and Cebi, F. (2013) “Support Vector Machines for Multi-attribute ABC Analysis” International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing (IJMLC), 3(1), Article 56.
Conference Proceedings and Presentations
Liu, X., Kartal, H.B., Li, X.-B. (2023, December 14-16) " Customer Profile Construction" 2023 Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium on Addressing Global and Grand Challenges with Analytics, Hyderabad, India (short paper accepted, and scheduled to be presented by Kartal, H.B.)
Liu, X., Kartal, H.B., Li, X.-B. (2022, December 14-16) "Constructing Profiles for New Customer Acquisition " The 32nd Annual Workshop on Information
Technologies and Systems (WITS) 2022 Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark (accepted, presented by co-author)
Agarwal, A, Singh, N., and Kartal, H.B. (2022, November 19-20) "Integrating DEA and Machine Learning: An Analysis of Student Engagement on Social Media". The 53rd Decision Sciences Institute Conference (DSI 2021) (presented by Agarwal, A.)
Kartal, H.B. (2022, October 16-19) “Aligning Utility and Cost for Private Data Sharing and Acquisition". The INFORMS 2022 Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA (presented in person)
Agarwal, A, Singh, N., and Kartal, H.B. (2021, November 20-22) "Assessing Social Media Engagement Using DEA Modeling and Visualization". The 52nd Decision Sciences Institute Conference (DSI 2021). Online on Pathable (presented by Agarwal, A.)
Kartal, H.B. (2021, March 18-20) “A Mechanism Design for Valuation of Privacy using Differential Privacy” The 76th Annual Society for Advancement of Management International Business Conference of (SAMIBC 2021) (Virtual)
Agarwal, A, Kartal, H.B, and Singh, N. (2020, November 23-25). "Student Engagement on Social Media: Efficiency Analysis using DEA and Machine Learning". The 51st Decision Sciences Institute Conference (DSI). Online on Pathable (presented by Agarwal, A.)
Kartal, H.B. (2020, March 16) “Monetizing Privacy: A Model for the Objective Assessment of Financial Value of Personal Data” 2020 International Business Conference, Society for Advancement of Management (SAM IBIC). Nashville, TN (virtual meeting via Zoom)
Agarwal, A, Kartal, H.B, and Singh, N. (2019, November 20-23). "Efficiency Analysis of Student Engagement with Social Media Platforms in Higher Education: A DEA Model". The 50th Decision Sciences Institute Conference (DSI), New Orleans, LA (presented by Agarwal, A.)
Kartal, H.B, Singh, N., Alnsour, Y, and Hadidi, R. (2019, August 15-17). "A Taxonomy of Telehealth Services based on Survey of Hospital Websites" The 25th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS). Cancun, Mexico. (ISBN 978-0-9966831-8-0) (not presented, only the abstract is published in the proceedings)
Vu, H., Ibarra, E., Walters, T., and Kartal H.B. (2019, March 27-30) “Characteristics of Mobile Technologies Influencing User Perceptions of Usability and Security for Novel Authentication Schemes” 2019 International Management Conference, Society for Advancement of Management, Orlando, FL (presented by Kartal, H.B.)
Kartal, H. B. and Li, X.-B. (2018, December 13-16). “Protecting Privacy When Releasing Query Results with Multiple Records Per Person”. Proceedings of The International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2018. San Francisco, CA. (presented by Kartal, H.B.)
Liu, X., Kartal, H.B., Li, X.-B. (2018, November 4-7). “Constructing Profiles for New Customer Acquisition”. 2018 INFORMS Workshop on Data Science (DS 2018). Phoenix, AZ.
Kartal, H.B. and Li, X.-B. (2017, December). “Differential Privacy for Vast Majority” The 27th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Seoul, Korea.
Alnsour, Y., Kartal, H.B., Zhang Y., and Hazarika, B. (2017, December) “Exploring the Impact of Security and Privacy on Mobile Health Applications Ranking”16th Workshop on eBusiness, Seoul, Korea.
Kartal, H.B. and Li, X.-B (2017). “Pareto Principle for Differential Privacy”. The 12th INFORMS Workshop on Data Science, Houston, Texas, October 11, 2017.
Albashrawi, M., Motiwalla, L. Kartal, H.B. (2017, January) “The Impact of Subjective and Objective Experience on Mobile Banking Usage: An Analytical Approach” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
Kartal, H. B. and Li, X.-B (2016, December). “Pareto Principle for Differential Privacy”. Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on e-Business, Dublin, Ireland.
Motiwalla, L., Albashrawi, M., Kartal, H.B. (2016, December) “Understanding Mobile Banking Usage Behavior: An Analytics Approach” Proceedings of the Pre-ICIS SIGDSA/IFIP WG8.3 Symposium, Dublin, Ireland.
Kartal, H.B. and Li, X.B. (2016, December). “Assessing and Mitigating Disclosure Risk of Multiple Records” Proceedings of the Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium on Innovations in Data Analytics. Dublin, Ireland.
Kartal, H.B. and Li, X.-B. (2016, November) “Privacy-Preserving Health Data Sharing for Decision Analytics.” Proceedings of the 11th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining & Decision Analytics, Nashville, TN, USA.
Kartal, H.B. and Li, X.-B. (2015, December 15) “Protecting Privacy Against Multiple Record Linkage Attacks,” Proceedings of the 25th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Dallas, TX, USA, December 2015 (Best Paper Award).
Kartal, H.B. and Cebi, F. (2013) “Support Vector Machines for Multi-attribute ABC Analysis.” The 5th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (ICMLC), Hong Kong, February 2013.
Invited Talks
"Data Privacy for Business Analytics and the Adoption of the EU's GDPR in Turkey" Three-hour Lecture at the Sabanci Business School, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey (Turkey's #1 ranked university in the 2020 THE and QS rankings). July 3, 2021.
“Hanson Faculty Hanson Professional Services Faculty Scholar Presentation: Academic highlights, current research and trends in IS/IT fields” College of Business and Management, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL. February 6, 2020.
“Challenges in Protecting Privacy and Implications of European GDPR on USA Companies” 360 Leaders Forum, O'Shea Builders, O'Shea University, Springfield, Illinois. September 18, 2018.
“GDPR Compliance and Guidance on Conducting Research on Privacy” Istanbul Sehir University, Department of Management Information Systems, Istanbul, Turkey. July 24, 2018.
“Differential Privacy for Data Sharing” MIS Monthly Seminars, Department of Management Information Systems, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL. April 26, 2018.
“AHP and Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Data Analytics” University of Massachusetts Lowell, Operations and Information Systems Department, Lowell, MA, USA. (Video Conference). March 17, 2018.
“Public Health Data Sharing with Privacy Protection Against Multiple Record Linkage Attacks.” INFORMS Annual Meeting 2016 Nashville, TN, USA, November 2016.
Research-in-Progress
"Effectiveness of Social Media Strategies of the Nationally Ranked Universities" (with Agarwal, A., and Singh, N.)
"A Decision Model for Measuring Customer Engagement on Social Media Networks" (with Agarwal, A., and Singh, N.)
"An Econometric Model for Private Customer Profile Data Acquisition" (with Liu, X. and Li, X.-B.)
"Anonymizing and Acquiring Personal Data with Customized Privacy Protection"
"Private Data Publication with Sensitivity-based Anonymization"
"Characteristics of Mobile Technologies Influencing User Perceptions of Usability and Security for Novel Authentication Schemes" (with Vu, H., Ibarra, E., and Walters, T.)
A Clustering Analysis of Smart Meter Data with Policy Implications Targeted Towards Residents (with Gholami, R., Rigsbee, C., and others)
"An Integrated Analysis of Smart Meter Adoption of Energy Consumption Behaviors" (with Gholami, Roya; Singh, Neetu; and others)
"A Taxonomy of Telehealth Services based on the Survey of Hospital Websites in Midwest USA" (with Singh, N., Alnsour, Y., Hadidi, R.)
"Modelling Influencer Marketing Strategies in Social Media: An Experimental Study Using Real-World Data" (with Zhang, Y.)