BSc Comp Sc (Natal) 

MSc, MBA(Cape Town) 

DBL(South Africa) 

MACS 

Professor Finnie has been involved in computer science and information systems teaching
and research for over 30 years. Prior to moving to Bond he was Professor and HOD of
Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg,
South Africa. He has also worked at Ohio State University and Florida Atlantic University
in the USA. 

His expertise encompasses applied artificial intelligence including case-based reasoning,
experience-based reasoning and expert systems, electronic business, supply chains and
business process redesign and Desktop systems. 

His teaching experience includes electronic business, business intelligence, systems
analysis and design, artificial intelligence, enterprise systems, visual basic and VBA
programming

Articles

Empowering data sources to manage clinical data (with Emma Chavez), The 23RD IEEE international symposium on computer-based medical systems (2010)

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Enhancing stockmarket trading performance with ANNs (with Bruce Vanstone), Expert systems with applications (2010)

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been repeatedly and consistently applied to the domain of trading...

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Strategic ICT alignment in emergency management (with Marcus Vogt, Kieth Hales, and Dieter Hertweck), 7th international ISCRAM conference (2010)

This paper shows preliminary results of an ongoing research project on the benefits of Strategic...

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The next generation demand network in quick response systems: Intelligent products, packet switching and dynamic information (with Jeffrey Barker), Information Technology papers (2010)

This chapter discusses several innovations in information and communication technology and develops their potential to...

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Fundamental investment research – Do US results apply to Australian investors? (with Bruce Vanstone and Tobias Hahn), JASSA: The Finsia journal of applied finance (2009)

For many investors, the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 has sparked renewed interest in...

Books

Intelligent techniques in e-commerce (with Zhaohao Sun), Information Technology papers (2004)

This comprehensive and in-depth study on intelligent techniques in e-commerce offers a general introduction to...

Book Chapters

A taxonomy of e-health standards to assist system developers (with Emma Chavez and Padmanabhan Krishnan), Information systems development: Towards a service provision society (2009)

Building e-health systems requires a good understanding of the range and characteristics of many relevant...

Designing short term trading systems with artificial neural networks (with Bruce Vanstone and Tobias Hahn), Advances in electrical engineering and computational science (2009)

There is a long established history of applying Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to financial data...

ORE: A framework to measure organizational risk during information systems evolution (with Aditya Agrawal and Padmanabhan Krishnan), Information systems development: Challenges in practice, theory and education (2009)

Information systems (IS) change initiatives often represent the single largest investment (and therefore risk) for...

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Experience management in knowledge management (with Zhaohao Sun), Knowledge-based intelligent information and engineering systems: Part 1 (2005)

This paper examines experience and knowledge, experience management and knowledge management, and their interrelationships. It...

Conference Papers

A push-based health information framework to monitor heart disease patients in real time (with Emma Chavez-Mora), 2011 International Conference on Medical Information and Bioengineering: ICMIB 2011 (2011)

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Stockmarket trading using fundamental variables and neural networks (with Bruce Vanstone and Tobias Hahn), Paper to be presented at ICONIP 2010: 17th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (2010)

This paper uses a neural network methodology developed by Vanstone & Finnie[1] to develop a...

A real time multiagent information systems architecture for actively monitoring chronic diseases (with Emma Chavez Mora), 19th International conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2010) (2010)

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Financial time series forecasting with machine learning techniques: A survey (with Bjoern Krollner and Bruce Vanstone), Paper presented at the European symposium on artificial neural networks: Computational and machine learning (2010)

Stock index forecasting is vital for making informed investment decisions. This paper surveys recent literature...

Returns to selecting value stocks in Australia – The Aby filters (with Bruce Vanstone and Tobias Hahn), Paper to be presented at the 22nd Australasian finance and banking conference (2009)

The development of the Financial Crisis throughout 2008 and into 2009 has caused many fund...