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Ilias Pappas is a Full Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Information Systems, University of Agder (UiA), Norway.
He works at the Human-Centred AI (HCAI) research group.
His research and teaching activities include data science and digital transformation, human-centered AI, user experience in different contexts, as well as digital marketing, e-services, and information technology adoption. He has a key interest in applications of fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA). Pappas has led or worked on EU-funded projects (Horizon2020, Horizon Europe) and National Funded Projects (Research Council of Norway) among others. Focus has been on human-centered AI, data analytics, and innovation through collaboration platforms.
He has published over 150 articles in peer reviewed journals and conferences including the European Journal of Information Systems, Human Relations, British Journal of Management, International Journal of Information Management, Information & Management, Journal of Business Research, European Journal of Marketing, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Systems and Software.
He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Information Management, the Journal of Business Research, Communications of the AIS, Behaviour & Information Technology, and the International Journal of Information Management Data Insights. Also, he is an Executive Editor for Information Systems Frontiers journal.
Pappas has been a Guest Editor for the journals Information & Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Information Systems Frontiers, Information Technology & People, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, International Journal of Information Management, and Information Systems and e-Business Management. He is or has been a track chair on Artificial Intelligence as well as on Big Data Analytics at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), and the Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS), and on Information Management at the IEEE Conference on Business Informatics (CBI).
He serves as the vice-chair of the IFIP Working Group 6.11: Communication Aspects of the E-World. Pappas is an ERCIM and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow.
Pappas is also a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.
Research
Selected publications
Pappas, I. O., Mikalef, P., Giannakos, M. N., Krogstie, J., & Lekakos, G. (2018). Big data and business analytics ecosystems: paving the way towards digital transformation and sustainable societies. Information Systems and e-Business Management, 16(3).
Pappas, I. O. (2018). User experience in personalized online shopping: a fuzzy-set analysis. European Journal of Marketing, 52 (7/8), 1679-1703.
Mikalef, P., Pappas, I. O., Krogstie, J., & Giannakos, M. (2018). Big data analytics capabilities: a systematic literature review and research agenda. Information Systems and e-Business Management, 16(3), 547-578.
Berg, V., Birkeland, J., Pappas, I. O., & Jaccheri, L. (2018). The Role of Data Analytics in Startup Companies: Exploring Challenges and Barriers. In Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society (pp. 205-216). Springer, Cham.
Berg, V., Birkeland, J., Nguyen-Duc, A., Pappas, I., & Jaccheri, L. (2018). Software Startup Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study. Journal of Systems and Software.
Papamitsiou, Z., Economides, A. A., Pappas, I. O., & Giannakos, M. N. (2018, March). Explaining learning performance using response-time, self-regulation and satisfaction from content: an fsQCA approach. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (pp. 181-190). ACM.
Pappas, I., Jaccheri, L., Mikalef, P., & Giannakos, M. (2017). Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship through Big Data: Developing a Research Agenda. In 11th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS), Genoa, Italy.
Pappas, I. O., Giannakos, M. N., & Sampson, D. G. (2017). Fuzzy set analysis as a means to understand users of 21st-century learning systems: The case of mobile learning and reflections on learning analytics research. Computers in Human Behavior.
Pappas, I. O., Giannakos, M. N., Jaccheri, L., & Sampson, D. G. (2017). Assessing student behavior in computer science education with an fsQCA approach: The role of gains and barriers. ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), 17(2), 10.
Pappas, I. O., Kourouthanassis, P. E., Giannakos, M. N., & Chrissikopoulos, V. (2017). Sense and sensibility in personalized e‐commerce: How emotions rebalance the purchase intentions of persuaded customers. Psychology & Marketing, 34(10), 972-986.
Pappas, I. O., Kourouthanassis, P. E., Giannakos, M. N., & Lekakos, G. (2017). The interplay of online shopping motivations and experiential factors on personalized e-commerce: A complexity theory approach. Telematics and Informatics, 34(5), 730-742.
Pappas, I. O., Kourouthanassis, P. E., Giannakos, M. N., & Chrissikopoulos, V. (2016). Explaining online shopping behavior with fsQCA: The role of cognitive and affective perceptions. Journal of Business Research, 69(2), 794-803.
Pappas, I. O., Giannakos, M. N., & Jaccheri, L. (2016, July). Investigating factors influencing students' intention to dropout computer science studies. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp. 198-203). ACM.
Tuition
- IS-216 Data Science applications
- IS-404 Research Methods in Information Systems
- IS-427 Data Science Applications II