Debra VanderMeer

Knight Ridder Center Research Fellow

Associate Professor
Department of Decision Sciences & Information Systems

College of Business
Florida International University

Modesto A. Maidique Campus
11200 S.W. 8th St, RB 250
Miami, FL 33199

(305) 348-2931

vanderd@fiu.edu

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
  Concentration(s): French
  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

• Management Information Systems Internship
• Managing Distributed Architectures
• Seminar on Systems Analysis
• Systems Analysis
• Web Management

Recent Refereed Journal Articles

VanderMeer, D., Datta, A., Dutta, K., & Liang, Q. (2012). SOA performance enhancement through XML.  Information Systems Research,  23(2),  505-535.  

Dutta, K., & VanderMeer, D. (2011). Cost-based decision-making in middleware virtualization environments.  European Journal of Operational Research,  210(2),  344-357.  

Tremblay, M., 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),  1-19.  

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),  379-394.  

VanderMeer, D., & Dutta, K. (2009). Applying learner-centered design principles to UML sequence diagrams.  Journal of Database Management,  20(1),  25-47.  

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),  855-871.  

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),  1516-1528.  

Peer Reviewed Proceedings

Dutta, K., & VanderMeer, D. (2011, November). Reduce, reuse, recycle: Building greener software.  Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Charlotte, North Carolina. 

Fang, F., Pervin, N., Datta, A., Dutta, K., & VanderMeer, D. (2011, December). Detecting twitter trends in real-time.  Workship on Information Technolgies and Systems, Shanghai, China. 

Kajanan, S., Yang, B., Shaw, R., Datta, A., VanderMeer, D., & Dutta, K. (2010, December). Corpus-supported document-driven search.  Workshop on Informaiton Technology and Systems, St. Louis, Missouri. 

Datta, A., VanderMeer, D., & Dutta, K. (2008, December). Top-to-bottom mapping from high-level business services to their resource impacts.  Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Paris, France. 

Tremblay, M., & VanderMeer, D. (2008, December). Using data mining techniques to discover systematic biases in missing data.  Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Paris, France. 

VanderMeer, D., & Dutta, K. (2006, December). Digital rights management in multi-set authored e-learning materials.  Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

Recent Presentations

VanderMeer, D.  (2011, November). Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Building Greener Software.  Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Datta, A., VanderMeer, D., & Dutta, K. (2008, December). Top-to-bottom Mapping from High-Level Business Services to their Resource Impacts.  Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Paris, France.

VanderMeer, D.  (2007, August). Applying Learner-Centered Design to Learning UML Sequence Diagrams .  Americas Conference on Information Systems, Keystone, Colorado.

VanderMeer, D., & Dutta, K. (2006, December). Digital Rights Management in Multi-set Authored eLearning Materials.  Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.