Mr. Kenneth Sims is an alumnus of Cumberland College, having earned a B.S. in Accounting and Data Processing in 1987. In 1989, he earned both an M.S. in Information Management and an M.B.A. from Washington University. He is presently a doctoral candidate in Business Administration, with an emphasis on Management Information Systems, at the University of Kentucky.

Mr. Sims is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Association for Information Systems. His particular areas of interest and specialization are electronic commerce, genetic algorithms, C/C++, Internet applications, and information systems.

Courses Taught

Publications and Presentations

"The Search for Strategic Advantage from the World Wide Web," International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Summer 2001, with A. Lederer and D. Mirchandani.

"Groupware," Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 4^th ed. 2000, with C. Holsapple and A. Winston.

"The Link Between Information Strategy and Electronic Commerce," Doing Business Electronically, Eds. Springer-Verlag, 1998, 27-45, C.T. Romm and F. Sudweeks, rptd. From Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 1997.

"Using WISs to Enhance Competitiveness," Communications of the ACM, 1998, vol. 41, no. 7, 94-95, with A. Lederer and D. Michandani.

"Marketing on the Web: A Resource-Based Perspective," Americas Conference on Information Systems, Indianapolis, IN, August 1997, with A. Lederer and D. Michandani.

"A Hybrid, Synergistic Procedure for the Traveling Salesman Problem," INFORMS, San Diego, CA, May 1997, with D. Mirchandani and R. Pakath.

"The Link Between Information Strategy and Electronic Commerce," Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, vol 1, no. 7, 1997, with A. Lederer and D. Michandani.

Co-producer of "Case Demonstrations for Decision Support Systems: A Knowledge Based Approach, video, West Publishing, St. Paul, MN, 1996, with C. Holsapple and W. Luo.

"The Link Between Information Strategy and Electronic Commerce," Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research Conference, Denver, CO, April 1996, with A. Lederer and D. Mirchandani.

Mr. Kenneth Sims
Phone: 606.539.4344
Email: ksims@ucumberlands.edu