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
Creating trading systems with fundamental variables and neural networks: The Aby case study (with Bruce Vanstone and Tobias Hahn), Mathematics and computers in simulation (2012)
Momentum returns to S&P/ASX 100 constituents (with Bruce Vanstone and Tobias Hahn), JASSA: The Finsia Journal of Applied Finance (2012)
An AHP method for evaluating usability of electronic government portals (with Dae-Ho Byun), Electronic government, an international journal (2011)
This paper proposes an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method to assess e-government website usability and...
Evaluating usability, user satisfaction and intention to revisit for successful e-government websites (with Dae-Ho Byun), Electronic government, an international journal (2011)
This paper determines a set of usability factors for evaluating e-government websites and describes causal...
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...
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 real time multiagent information systems architecture for actively monitoring chronic diseases (with Emma Chavez-Mora), Information systems development. Business systems and services: Modeling and development (2011)
In e-health, data warehouse systems have become an important strategy to integrate heterogeneous data sources....
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...
Financial trading systems using artificial neural networks (with Bruce Vanstone), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition (8 Volumes) (2009)
Soft computing represents that area of computing adapted from the physical sciences. Artificial intelligence techniques...
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...
Conference Papers
A meta-theoretic approach to theory integration in information systems (with Dirk Hovorka, K. R. Larsen, and James Birth), 46th Hawaii Conference of System Sciences (2013)
This research presents a meta-theoretic analysis of a nomological net for the purpose of identification...
Developing high frequency foreign exchange trading systems (with Bruce Vanstone and Tobias Hahn), 25th Australasian Finance & Banking conference (2012)
The foreign exchange (FX) spot markets are well suited to high frequency trading. They are...
Visualizing the core-periphery distinction: A meta-theoretical approach (with D. S. Hovorka, J. Birt, and K. R. Larsen), 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) (2012)
As the specific parts of a theory are refined over time the core concepts and...
Trading foreign currency using artificial neural network strategies (with Bruce Vanstone), NCTA 2011: International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications (2011)
The foreign exchange (FX) markets represent an enormous opportunity for traders. These markets have huge...
TTL: A transference, transformation and loading approach for active monitoring (with Emma Chavez-Mora), 13th international conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK'11) (2011)
In Data Warehouse (DW) environments, operational processes move data from sources to the warehouse. This...
Other
A Unified 2D Representation of Fuzzy Reasoning, CBR and Experience Based Reasoning (with Zhaohao Sun), Gavin Finnie (2006)
Fuzzy reasoning, case-based reasoning (CBR) and experience-based reasoning (EBR)or natural reasoning have been seriously studied...
Four New Fuzzy Inference Rules for Experience Based Reasoning (with Zhaohao Sun and Junquing Sun), Gavin Finnie (2005)
Experience-based reasoning (EBR) is a reasoning paradigm used in almost every human activity such as...