Faculty and ResearchExpert Guide

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science
  Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
• Master of Science in Management Information Systems
  University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
• Bachelor of Science in Languages
  Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia

Areas of Expertise

• Database Systems
• Dynamic Web-Caching
• Electronic Commerce
• Mobile Data Management

Professional Activities

Dr. VanderMeer´s research interests focus on applying concepts developed in Computer Science and Information Systems to solve real-world problems. She is widely published in well-known journals, such as Management Science, ACM Transactions on Database Systems and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, as well as prestigious conference proceedings, including the International Conference on Data Engineering, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems and the Very Large Database Conference.

She also has significant professional experience in the software industry. She has served in engineering and managerial roles in large companies, as well as early-stage venture-funded software enterprises.

Courses Taught

• Business Application Development
• Health Care Information Management
• Information Systems Planning
• Management Information Systems Internship
• Managing Distributed Architectures
• Ph.D. Dissertation
• Seminar on Systems Analysis
• Special Topics in Management Information Systems
• Systems Analysis
• Technical and Data Architectures and Standards for
• Web Management

Refereed Journal Articles

Dutta, K., & VanderMeer, D. (2018). Caching to Reduce Mobile App Energy Consumption. ACM Transactions on the Web, 12(1). View Article

Castillo, A., VanderMeer, D., & Castellanos, A. (2018). ExUP recommendations: Inferring user's product metadata preferences from single-criterion rating systems. Decision Support Systems, 108. View Article

Tremblay, M., VanderMeer, D., & Beck, R. (2018). The Effects of the Quantification of Faculty Productivity: The Influence of Journal List Adoption on Information Systems Research. Communications of the AIS, 43. View Article

Kajanan, S., Yang, B., Datta, A., VanderMeer, D., & Dutta, K. (2014). Efficient Automatic Search Query Formulation Using Phrase-Level Analysis. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 65(5). View Article

Dutta, K., & VanderMeer, D. (2014). Enabling Resource Access Visibility for Automated Enterprise Services. Journal of Database Management. View Article

Pervin, N., Fang, F., Datta, A., Dutta, K., & VanderMeer, D. (2013). Fast, Scalable, and Context-Sensitive Detection of Trending Topics in Microblog Post Streams. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 3(5). View Article

Shaw, R., Datta, A., VanderMeer, D., & Dutta, K. (2013). Building a scalable database-driven reverse dictionary. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 25(3). View Article

Dutta, K., VanderMeer, D., & Ramamritham, K. (2012). Managing RFID events in large-scale distributed RFID. Information Technology & Management, 12. View Article

VanderMeer, D., Datta, A., & Dutta, K. (2012). A cost-based database request distribution technique for online e-commerce applications. MIS Quarterly, 36(2). View Article

VanderMeer, D., Datta, A., Dutta, K., & Liang, Q. (2012). SOA performance enhancement through XML fragment caching. Information Systems Research, 23(2). View Article

Batra, D., VanderMeer, D., & Dutta, K. (2011). Extending Agile principles to larger, dynamic software projects: A theoretical assessment. Journal of Database Management, 22(4). View Article

Dutta, K., & VanderMeer, D. (2011). Cost-based decision-making in middleware virtualization environments. European Journal of Operational Research, 210(2). View Article

Batra, D., Xia, W., VanderMeer, D., & Dutta, K. (2010). Balancing agile and structured development approaches to successfully manage large distributed software projects: A case study from the cruise line industry. Communications of the AIS, 27(1). View Article

Tremblay, M. C., Dutta, K., & VanderMeer, D. (2010). Using data mining techniques to discover bias patterns in missing data. ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality, 2(1). View Article

VanderMeer, D., & Dutta, K. (2009). Applying learner-centered design principles to UML sequence diagrams. Journal of Database Management, 20(1). View Article

Dutta, K., Datta, A., VanderMeer, D., Thomas, H., & Ramamritham, K. (2007). REDAL: An efficient and practical request distribution technique for application server clusters. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 18(11). View Article

Dutta, K., VanderMeer, D., Datta, A., Keskinocak, P., & Ramamritham, K. (2007). A fast method for discovering critical edge sequences in e-commerce catalogs. European Journal of Operational Research, 181(2). View Article

Datta, A., Dutta, K., Thomas, H., VanderMeer, D., & Ramamritham, K. (2004). Proxy-Based Acceleration of Dynamically Generated Content on the World Wide Web. ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 29(2). View Article

Datta, A., Dutta, K., Thomas, H., & VanderMeer, D. (2003). World Wide Wait: A Study of Internet Scalability and Cache-Based Approaches to Alleviate It. Management Science, 49(10). View Article

VanderMeer, D., Datta, A., Dutta, K., & Ramamritham, K. (2003). Mobile User Recovery in the Context of Internet Transactions. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2(2). View Article

Datta, A., Dutta, K., Thomas, H., VanderMeer, D., & Ramamritham, K. (2002). Accelerating Dynamic Web Content Generation. IEEE Internet Computing, 6(5). View Article

Datta, A., VanderMeer, D., & Ramamritham, K. (2002). Parallel Star Join Data Indexes: Efficient Query Processing in Data Warehouses and OLAP. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 14(6). View Article

Datta, A., Dutta, K., VanderMeer, D., Ramamritham, K., & Navathe, S. (2001). An Architecture to Support Scalable Online Personalizations on the Web. Very Large Database Journal, 10(1). View Article

Datta, A., VanderMeer, D., Celik, C., & Kumar, V. (1999). Broadcast Protocols to Support Efficient Retrieval from Databases by Mobile Users. ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 24(1). View Article

Books

VanderMeer, D., Tremblay, M. C., Rothenberger, M., Gupta, A., & Yoon, V. (2014). Advancing the Impact of Design Science: Moving from Theory to Practice. Switzerland: Springer.