Journal of Management Information Systems / Summer 2008, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 49–78.
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DOI 10.2753/MIS0742-1222250103
Stylometric Identification in Electronic
Markets: Scalability and Robustness
AHMED ABBASI, HSINCHUN CHEN, AND JAY F. NUNAMAKER JR.
AHMED ABBASI is a Professor in the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business at the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He received his Ph.D. in Management Information
Systems from the University of Arizona and an MBA and B.S. in Information Tech-
nology from Virginia Tech. His research interests include application of text mining
and information visualization techniques for improved online trust and analysis within
electronic markets and computer-mediated communication. His research has appeared
in IEEE Intelligent Systems, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, and various
conferences, including the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.
HSINCHUN CHEN is McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems at the
University of Arizona. He received a B.S. from the National Chiao-Tung University
in Taiwan, an MBA from SUNY Buffalo, and a Ph.D. in Information Systems from
New York University. Dr. Chen is a Fellow of IEEE and AAAS. He received the IEEE
Computer Society 2006 Technical Achievement Award. He is author/editor of 13 books,
17 book chapters, and more than 130 Science Citation Index journal articles covering
digital library, intelligence analysis, biomedical informatics, data/text/Web mining,
knowledge management, and Web computing. He serves on ten editorial boards and
has served as a scientific counselor/advisor of the National Library of Medicine. He
has been an advisor for major research programs in digital library, digital government,
medical informatics, and national security research.
JAY F. NUNAMAKER JR. is Regents and Soldwedel Professor of MIS, Computer Science
and Communication, and Director of the Center for the Management of Information at
the University of Arizona, Tucson. He received his Ph.D. in systems engineering and
operations research from Case Institute of Technology, an M.S. and B.S. in engineering
from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr.
Nunamaker received the LEO Award from the Association of Information Systems
at ICIS in Barcelona, Spain, December 2002. This award is given for a lifetime of
exceptional achievement in information systems. He was elected as a fellow of the
Association of Information Systems in 2000. Dr. Nunamaker has over 40 years of
experience in examining, analyzing, designing, testing, evaluating, and developing
information systems. He has served as a test engineer at the Shippingport Atomic
Power facility, as a member of the ISDOS team at the University of Michigan, and as a
member of the faculty at Purdue University, prior to joining the faculty at the University
of Arizona in 1974. His research on group support systems addresses behavioral as
well as engineering issues and focuses on theory as well as implementation. He has
been a licensed professional engineer since 1965.
ABSTRACT: Online reputation systems are intended to facilitate the propagation of
word of mouth as a credibility scoring mechanism for improved trust in electronic