Debra VanderMeer

Professor, Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics

College of Business
Florida International University

Modesto A. Maidique Campus
11200 S.W. 8th St, RB 256B
Miami, FL 33199

Phone: (305) 348-2931
Email: vanderd@fiu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

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

Conceptual modeling for system design
IS design to support work design
Recommendation systems

Professional Activities

Debra Vander Meer is a Professor of Information Systems at Florida International University. Her current research interests focus on applying concepts from computer science and information systems to real-world problems. Her work appears in premier journals and conferences in these areas. Prior to joining FIU, she spent a decade working in industry, including roles in a venture-funded startup. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, a Master of Science in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, and a PhD in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Courses Taught

Business Application Development
Health Care Information Management
Health Informatics/Analytics Practicum
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

Publications

Larsen K., Lukyanenko R., Mueller R. M., Storey V. C., Parsons J., VanderMeer D. E., & Hovorka D.
(2026).
Validity in Design Science.
MIS Quarterly
.
Jiang H., Gomes P., VanderMeer D. E., Castillo A., & Castellanos Bueso A.
(2024).
LLMs for thematic summarization in qualitative healthcare research: feasibility and insights .
JMIR AI
.
Sengupta A., Mukherjee A., & VanderMeer D. E.
(2024).
Impact of Perceived Barriers of Electronic Health Information Exchange on Physician’s Use of EHR: A Normalisation Process Theory Approach.
Information Systems Frontiers
.
Jiang H., Castellanos Bueso A., Castillo A., Gomes P., Li J., & VanderMeer D. E.
(2023).
Nurses’ Work Concerns and Disenchantment During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Machine Learning Analysis of Web-Based Discussions.
JMIR Nursing
, 6(6:e40676)
.
Jiang H., Gomes P. J., & VanderMeer D. E.
(2023).
Promoting continuity of care in nurse-patient assignment: A multiple objective heuristic algorithm.
Decision Support Systems
, 167()
.
Mukherjee A., Sundarraj R., VanderMeer D. E., & Dutta K.
(2022).
Domain-independent real-time service provisioning in digital platforms: Featuring bundling and customer time-preference.
Decision Support Systems
, 167()
.
Dutta, K., & VanderMeer, D. (2018). Caching to Reduce Mobile App Energy Consumption. ACM Transactions on the Web, 12(1).
Castillo, A., VanderMeer, D., & Castellanos, A. (2018). ExUP recommendations: Inferring user's product metadata preferences from single-criterion rating systems. Decision Support Systems, 108.
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.
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).
Dutta, K., & VanderMeer, D. (2014). Enabling Resource Access Visibility for Automated Enterprise Services. Journal of Database Management.
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).
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).
Dutta, K., VanderMeer, D., & Ramamritham, K. (2012). Managing RFID events in large-scale distributed RFID. Information Technology & Management, 12.
VanderMeer, D., Datta, A., & Dutta, K. (2012). A cost-based database request distribution technique for online e-commerce applications. MIS Quarterly, 36(2).
VanderMeer, D., Datta, A., Dutta, K., & Liang, Q. (2012). SOA performance enhancement through XML fragment caching. Information Systems Research, 23(2).
Batra, D., VanderMeer, D., & Dutta, K. (2011). Extending Agile principles to larger, dynamic software projects: A theoretical assessment. Journal of Database Management, 22(4).
Dutta, K., & VanderMeer, D. (2011). Cost-based decision-making in middleware virtualization environments. European Journal of Operational Research, 210(2).
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).
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).
VanderMeer, D., & Dutta, K. (2009). Applying learner-centered design principles to UML sequence diagrams. Journal of Database Management, 20(1).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
Datta, A., Dutta, K., Thomas, H., VanderMeer, D., & Ramamritham, K. (2002). Accelerating Dynamic Web Content Generation. IEEE Internet Computing, 6(5).
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).
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).
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).

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.