David Schwartz
Professor of information systems at Bar-Ilan University
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- Bar-Ilan University
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Biography
Bar-Ilan University
Prof. David G. Schwartz’s career spans both academia and business. David is professor of information systems, and former vice-chairman, at the Graduate School of Business Administration of Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His research has appeared in publications such as Information Systems Research, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Intelligent Systems, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications, JASIST, Review of Marketing Science, JMIR mHealth & uHealth, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. His books include Cooperating Heterogeneous Systems; Internet-Based Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory; and the Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, now in its second edition. David has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, Department of Biomedical Informatics (2004), Monash University, Faculty of Information Technology (2007-8) and National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (2017 and 2020-21). In 2016 he was awarded a Visiting Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand as well as a Visiting Scholar position at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. From 1998 to 2011 he served as editor-in-chief of the journal Internet Research and is currently an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems and of JMIR mHealth & uHealth. His main research interests are Cybersecurity, mHealth, Knowledge Management, Social Network Analysis, and Computer-mediated Communications.
David has served on the Board of Directors of multiple public companies including Psagot Investment House, Israel's leading investment house with over $35B assets under management (Acquired by APAX Partners, 2010); Cham Foods Ltd. (TASE), a multinational producer of ingredients for the food and nutriceutical industries; C.I. Systems (TASE) a producer of electro-optic systems for the military and semiconductor industries; and Copernic (NASDAQ: CNIC), an Internet search innovator (Acquired by DecisionPoint Systems/DPNI, 2010). For the past two decades David has been active in Israel’s world-class venture capital industry first identifying potential investments for a number of leading VC funds and then founding Apropos IT Ventures, an early-stage technology investment fund, serving as managing member of the partnership and chief investment officer. Prof. Schwartz received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University, USA; MBA from McMaster University, Canada; and B.Sc. from the University of Toronto, Canada.
Research areas:
mHealth ; Knowledge Management ; Social Network Analysis ; Cybersecurity ; Electronic Business ; Intelligent Systems ; Internet Technology ; Computer-mediated Communication
Research Grants:
- 2022 Israel Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, Behavioral Patterns Analysis of Islamic Influencers (‘Du‘āh’) on the DarkNet, Principal Investigator, NIS 320,000 (US$100,000)
- 2022 Israel Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, Empirical Study of the Psychological Ownership of mHealth Apps Model for Treatment Adherence to Digital Health Interventions, Principal Investigator, NIS 252,000 (US$78,000)
- 2020 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology, Investigating a model of Psychological Ownership for mHealth Applications, NTD 1,410,000 (US$50,000)
- 2018 Blavatnik Cybersecurity Research Center Israel, National Cybersecurity Directorate, Investigating a method for hybrid qualitative and quantitative text categorization, NIS 600,000 (US$180,000)
- 2018 National Institutes of Health (US), National Institute on Drug Abuse, Piloting a naloxone intervention in an emergency response community (ERC) to reduce opioid overdoses in Philadelphia – Expansion to test use of biosensors, Principal Investigator US$213,000.
- 2017 National Institutes of Health (US), National Institute on Drug Abuse, Piloting a naloxone intervention in an emergency response community (ERC) to reduce opioid overdoses in Philadelphia, Principal Investigator US$654,686. https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=9403417&icde=37394701
- 2016 Management Committee Member – EU COST CA15105 European Medicines Shortages Research Network, a Horizon 2020 program (2016-2020).
- 2012 Israel Ministry of Science and Technology, Cybersecurity Directorate, Data Leakage in Social Networks: Detection and Prevention, Principal Investigator US$303,712.
Courses
- 70-783 Doctoral Seminar
- 70-983 Selected Topics in Information Systems
- 70-692 Launching Startups
- 70-731 Information Systems Seminar
- 70-693 Introduction to Entrepreneurship
- 70-807 Information Systems Policy and Electronic Business Strategies
- 70-854 Electronic Commerce Skills and Strategies
- 70-782 Internet Resource Discovery
- 70-789 Knowledge Management
- 70-755 Electronic Governance
- 70-976 Introduction to Information Systems
Publications
Books and Proceedings
- Schwartz, D.G., and Te’eni, D. Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, 2nd Edition, IGI Reference, 2011.
- Schwartz, D.G., Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, Idea Group Publishing, 2006.
- Schwartz, D. G., Divitini, M., and Brasethvik, T., Internet-based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management, Idea Group Publishing, 2000.
- Schwartz, D. G., Divitini, M., and Brasethvik, T., Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Innovative Internet Information Systems, Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology, 1998.
- Schwartz, David G., Cooperating Heterogeneous Systems, Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995 (Republished 2012, Springer imprint).
Chapters
- Schwartz D.G., Yahav I. (2021) Knowledge Contribution Diagrams for Design Science Research: A Novel Graphical Technique. In: Chandra Kruse L., Seidel S., Hausvik G.I. (eds) The Next Wave of Sociotechnical Design. DESRIST 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12807. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82405-1_19
- Matilainen, S., Schwartz, D.G., and Zeleznikow, J., Facebook and the elderly: The Benefits of Social Media Adoption for Aged Care Facility Residents, in D. Bajwa, S.T. Koeszegi, and R. Vetschera (eds.): Group Decision & Negotiation, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Volume 274, Springer-Verlag:Berlin 2017.
- Schwartz, D.G., Enhancing Knowledge Marketplaces through a Theory of Knowledge Measurement, in F.J. Martinez-Lopez (editor): Handbook of Strategic e-Business Management, Progress in IS Series, Springer-Verlag:Berlin, pp. 735-748, 2014
- Paredes-Moreno, A., Martínez-López, F.J., and Schwartz, D.G., The Semantic Integration Of Information: A Business Ontology Proposal With Semantic Interoperability, in M.M. Cruz-Cunha and J.E. Varajão (eds.): E-Business Issues Challenges and Opportunities for SMEs: Driving Competitiveness, Hershey: IGI, pp. 224- 246, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-765-4.ch013, 2011.
- Schwartz, D. G., and Te’eni, D., The Knowledge Management Pyramid: Unification of a Complex Discipline, in D.G. Schwartz and D. Te’eni (eds.): Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, 2nd Edition, IGI Reference, 2011.
- Schwartz, D. G., and Te’eni, D., The Impact of Computer Mediated Communication on Knowledge Transfer and Organizational Form, in I. Becerra-Fernandez and D. Leidner (eds.): Knowledge Management: An Evolutionary View of the Field, Advances in Management Information Systems (AMIS) Vol. 12, New York:M.E. Sharpe, 2008.
- Schwartz, D. G., A Birds-eye View of Knowledge Management: Creating a disciplined whole from many interdisciplinary parts, in M. Jennex (editor): Knowledge Management in Modern Organizations, 2007, 18-29.
- Schwartz, D. G., An Aristotelian View of Knowledge Management, in D.G. Schwartz (editor): Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, Idea Group Publishing, 2006, pp. 10-16
- Schwartz, D. G., Knowledge Management as a Layered Multi-Disciplinary Pursuit, in D.G. Schwartz (editor): Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, Idea Group Publishing, 2006, pp xxiv-xxviii.
- Tauber, D. and Schwartz, D. G., Integrating Knowledge Management with the Systems Analysis Process, in D.G. Schwartz (editor): Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, Idea Group Publishing, 2006, pp 259-266.
- Yaniv, E. and Schwartz, David G., Organizational Attention, in D.G. Schwartz (editor): Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, Idea Group Publishing, 2006, pp 728-733.
- Schwartz, David G., and Schreiber, Z., Semantic Information Management with a Common Business Language”, in L. C. Rivero, J. H. Doorn, V. E. Ferraggine (editors): Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications, Idea Group Publishing, 2005, pp 593-600.
- Schwartz, D. G., When Bad Email Happens to Good People – A case of information technology mismanagement, in A. Sagie, M. Koslowsky, and S. Stashevsky (editors): Misbehaviour and Dysfunctional Attitudes in Organizations, Palgrave/McMillan Publishing, 2003, pp 138-153.
- Schwartz, D.G., Divitini, M., and Brasethvik, T., On Knowledge Management in the Internet Age, in Schwartz, Divitini, and Brasethvik (editors): Internet-based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management, Idea Group Publishing, 2000, pp 1-23.
- Schwartz, D.G., Component-based Architectures and the Internet: Desiderata for Delivering High-End Business Applications, in James Martin (editor): IT and the 21st Century Corporation, Vol. 1, Computer Channel Inc, 1998.
- Te'eni, D., Schwartz, D.G., Boland, R.J., Cognitive Maps for Communication: Specifying Functionality and Usability, in J.Carey (editor): Human Factors in Management Information Systems: The Relationship Between User Interface Design and Human Performance, Greenwhich, Conn: Ablex, 1997, pp 83-100.
- Schwartz, D.G. and Te'eni D., Imaginal Agents, in P. Ein-D0r (editor): Artificial Intelligence in Economics and Management, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, pp. 51-59.
- Schwartz, D.G., Prolog Business Objects in a Three-tier Architecture, in P. Ein-D0r (editor): Artificial Intelligence in Economics and Management, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, pp 21-32.
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