Richard C. Hicks

Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor

Texas A&M International University

5201 University Blvd.

Laredo, TX 78041-1900

Email:rhicks@tamiu.edu

Home: (210) 455-4447

Education:

Ph.D.                           University of Texas at Austin, 1991, MIS

M.B.A.                                    Boston University, 1985

B.S.                             Troy State University, 1981

 

Teaching Experience:

2003 – present             Texas A&M International University, Associate Professor

                                    Member of Doctoral Faculty

1999- 2003                  Florida Atlantic University, Assistant Professor

1998-1999                                     Southern University at New Orleans, Assistant Professor

1991-1998                                     University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Assistant Professor

1988-1991                   University of Texas at Austin, Student Teacher

 

Journal Publications

Hicks, Richard C. “The No Inference Engine Theory”, Decision Support Systems, to appear.

 

Hicks, Richard C., Dattero, Ronald, and Galup, Stuart D. “A Metaphor for Knowledge Management: Explicit Islands in a Tacit Sea”, Journal of Knowledge Management, to appear.

 

Hicks, Richard C., Dattero, Ronald, and Galup, Stuart D. “The Five Tier Knowledge Management Hierarchy” Journal of Knowledge Management, to appear.

 

Gill, T. Grandon and Hicks, Richard C. “Task Complexity – A Synthesis”, Informing Science Journal, to appear.

 

Sanchez-Pena, Rolando and Hicks, Richard C., “Student’s Communications Media Usage for Competitive Academic Tasks Outside the Classroom Environment”, Competition Forum, to appear.

 

Sanchez-Pena, Rolando and Hicks, Richard C. “Faculty Perceptions of Communications Channels: A Survey”, International Journal of Innovation and Learning, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 45-62, 2006.

 

Galup, Stuart D, Dattero, Ronald, and Hicks, Richard C. “The Enterprise Knowledge Dictionary” Knowledge Management Research and Practice, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 95-101, Dec. 2003.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “Knowledge Base Management Systems -Tools For Creating Verified Intelligent Systems” Knowledge-Based Systems, April 2003.

 

Hicks, Richard C., Dattero, Ronald, Galup, Stuart D. “A Verification-Based Conflict Resolution Strategy for Knowledge Management Systems”, The Journal of Computer Information Systems, Winter 2003.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “The Impact of Verification on Rule Ordering and Inference,” PC AI Magazine (editorially reviewed), March 2002, pp. 56-60.

 

Galup, Stuart D, Dattero, Ron, Hicks, Richard C. “Knowledge Management Systems: An Architecture for Active and Passive Knowledge”, Information Resources Management Journal, Jan – Mar 2002, pp. 22-27.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “New Trends in Expert Systems Development and Implementation: The 3rd Generation of Expert Systems”, PC AI Magazine (editorially reviewed), January/February 2000, Volume 14, Number 1, pp. 37-40.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “Knowledge Base Management Systems: A Tool for Building Verified Expert Systems”, PC AI (editorially reviewed), January/February 1999, Volume 13, Number 1, pp. 34-36.

 

Hicks, Richard C. and Kohl, John. “Computerized Human Resource Systems and Organizational Downsizing”, International Journal of Computer and Engineering Management, Volume 6, No. 1, January – April 1998.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “Knowledge Verification”, PC AI Magazine (editorially reviewed), Volume 11, No. 4, July/August 1997, pp. 25-27.

 

Hicks, Richard C. And Newman, William A. “Multiple Database Access Tools for Audit Testing,” Internal Auditing, Vol. 12, No. 3, Winter 1997, pp. 22-27.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “Two-Tier Verification of Rule-Based Expert Systems,” Journal of Computer Information Systems, Vol. 37, No. 1, Fall, 1996, pp. 1-4.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “The TRIMM Methodology for Maintainable Rule-Based Systems,” Heuristics: The Journal of Intelligent Technologies, Vol. 8, No. 4, Winter, 1995, pp. 15-24.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “Verification Properties of Knowledge Dictionaries for Expert Systems,” Heuristics: The Journal of Intelligent Technologies, Vol. 8, No. 4, Winter, 1995, pp. 25-32.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “Minimizing Maintenance Anomalies in Expert System Rule Bases,” Information and Management, Vol. 28, 1995, pp. 177-184.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “YOYO Theory: A Strategy for Escalation Situations,” Journal of Business Strategies, Vol. 9, No. 1, March 1992, pp. 47-61.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “Decision Support Software: Integrating Artificial Intelligence Into the Commercial Software Course,” Interface, Vol. 12, No. 3, Fall 1990, pp. 42-44.

 

Professional Papers Presented

Gill, T. Grandon and Hicks, Richard C. “Task Complexity – A New Synthesis”, Informing Science + Information Technology Education Joint Conference, Manchester, England, June 2006.

 

Sanchez-Pena, Rolando and Hicks, Richard C., “Student’s Perceptions on the Effectiveness of Communications Channels – A Survey”, International College Teaching and Learning Conference, Cancun, Mexico, March 2006.

 

Sanchez-Pena, Rolando and Hicks, Richard C., “Student’s Communications Media Usage for Competitive Academic Tasks Outside the Classroom Environment”, The 16th Annual American Society Competiveness Conference, Falls Church, VA, November 2005.

 

Hicks, Richard C., Dattero, Ronald, Galup, Stuart D., “The Five Tier Knowledge Management Trapezoid”, Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, San Francisco, CA, November 2005.

 

Hicks, Richard C., Dattero, Ronald, Galup, Stuart D., “The Explicit Islands in a Tacit Lake with Bridges Paradigm for Knowledge Management”, Proceedings of the 4th Annual ISOneWorld Conference and Convention, Las Vegas, March 2005.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “Inference without the Engine! Performing Conflict Resolution During Development”, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Boston, MA, November 2004.

 

Hicks, Richard C., Galup, Stuart, and Dattero, Ronald, “The Five-Tier Knowledge Management Taxonomy”, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Boston, MA, November 2004.

 

Hicks, Richard C., Galup, Stuart, and Dattero, Ronald. “A Value Chain Perspective of Knowledge Definitions and Transformations”, Proceedings of the Allied Academies 2004 International Conference, Maui, Hawaii, October 2004.

 

Sanchez-Pena, Rolando and Hicks, Richard C. “Faculty Perceptions of Communications Channels”, Proceedings of the College Teaching and Learning Conference, Orlando, Florida, January 2004. Best Paper Award.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “…and the kids are all above average: the Impact of Drops on GPA”, Proceedings of the Allied Academics International Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2002.

 

Hicks, Richard C., Dattero, Ronald, and Galup, Stuart. “Knowledge Reuse in Active Knowledge Management Systems,” Proceedings of the ISOne World Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2002.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “Exhaustive Verification of Production-Rule Expert Systems,” Proceedings of IACIS '96, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 1996.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “Local and Global Verification of Expert Systems,” Proceedings of ANNES '93, Dunedin, New Zealand, November, 1993, pp. 177-180.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “Creating Appropriate Rule Structures for Expert Systems,” Proceedings of ANNES '93, Dunedin, New Zealand, November, 1993, pp. 181-182.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “TRIMMer: A CASE Tool for Maintainable Rule‑Based Systems,” Proceedings of The Golden West Conference on Intelligent Systems, Reno, Nevada, June, 1992, pp. 301-306.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “YOYO Theory: A Descriptive Theory for Escalation Situations,” presented at Texas Conference on Organizations '91, Austin, Texas, May, 1991.

 

Hicks, Richard C. “A Composite Methodology for Low Maintenance Expert Systems Development,” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kona, Hawaii, January 1990, pp. 293-302.

 

 

Book Chapters

Sanchez-Pena, Rolando and Hicks, Richard C., “Faculty Preferences of Communications Channels: A Survey”, Encyclopedia of E-Collaboration, to appear.

 

Sanchez-Pena, Rolando and Hicks, Richard C., “Faculty Use of Communications Channels: An Evaluation of Survey’s Reliability”, Encyclopedia of E-Collaboration, to appear.

 

Hicks, R., Dattero, R., & Galup, S. (2005) The Explicit Islands in a Tacit Lake with Bridges Paradigm for Knowledge Management. Editors: Andrew Wenn and K. Kathy Dhanda. Enabling Executive Information Technology Competencies, The Information Institute.  ISBN: 0-9729562-6-3.

Galup, S., Dattero, R., & Hicks, R. Client/Server and the Knowledge Directory. In Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Sciences and Technology. Pennsylvania: Idea Group Publishing, 2005, ISBN:1-59140-553-X.

Galup, S., Dattero, R., & Hicks, R. An Architecture for Active and Passive Knowledge Management Systems. In Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Advanced Topics of Information Resource Management, Vol. 2. (pp. 160-172). Pennsylvania: Idea Group Publishing, 2003 ISBN:1-59140-062-7.

Hicks, R., Dattero, R., & Galup, S. Accurate Active Knowledge Management Systems. In M. Gordon Hunter and K. Kathy Dhanda (Ed.), Information Systems: Academic and Practitioner Global Alliances (pp.66-83). Las Vegas, NV: The Information Institute, 2003, ISBN: 0-9729562-0-4

 

Books

Hicks, Richard and Lee, Ronald. VP-Expert for Business Applications, Holden-Day, 1989.

 

Summers, Edward L. and Hicks, Richard. Aurora Company, A Microcomputer-Based Accounting System Practice Set, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989.

 

Summers, Edward L. Accounting Information Systems, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. Created eighteen spreadsheet exercises to accompany text.

 

EZ-Xpert User's Guide, A I Developers, Inc., 1994-2004.

 

Awards

 

MIS Researcher of the Year, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1994.

Student Teacher of the Year, University of Texas at Austin, 1990.

 

Memberships

Member, Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Information and Management Sciences Journal, 2002 – present

Member, International Editorial Review Board, International Journal of e-Collaboration,

2005 – present.

Member, TAMIU CIO Search Committee, 2004 – 2005

Reviewer and Session Chair, DSI 2004

Reviewer, AMCIS 2004 - 5

Reviewer, Academy of Information and Management Science Journal

President, Las Vegas Chapter of the Data Processing Management Association (DPMA), 1996.

Faculty Advisor to UNLV Data Processing Management Association (DPMA) Student Chapter, January 1993 - 1997.

Member, Clark County Computer Magnet School Task Force, 1992-1994.

Member, Data Processing Management Association (DPMA), 1992-1998.

Member, International Association of Computer Information Systems (IACIS), 1993-1995.

Member, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2003–present.

Reviewer, Heuristics, 1995.

Reviewer, Decision Support Systems, 1994.

Reviewer, COCIS ‘91, 1991.

 

 

Classes Taught:

Database Management Systems (Oracle and Access, graduate and undergraduate)

Systems Analysis and Design

Intermediate Business Programming in C++

Management of Information Systems (MBA)

MIS Software Applications (Microsoft Office)

Management Information Systems Literacy (graduate and undergraduate)

Seminars in Artificial Intelligence

Adventures in MIS (Honors Program)