Omar F. El-Gayar

Omar F. El-GayarOmar El-Gayar is a Professor of Information Systems at Dakota State University. Dr. El-Gayar has an extensive administrative experience at the college and university levels as the Dean for the College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) and the Founding Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, Dakota State University. His research interests include: analytics, business intelligence, and decision support with applications in problem domain areas such as healthcare, environmental management, and security planning and management. His inter-disciplinary educational background and training is in information technology, computer science, economics, and operations research. Dr. El-Gayar’s industry experience includes working as an analyst, modeler, and programmer. His numerous publications appear in various information technology related fields. Dr. El-Gayar serves as a peer and program evaluator for accrediting agencies such as the Higher Learning Commission and ABET, as a panelist for the National Science Foundation, and as a peer-reviewer for numerous journals and conferences. He is a member of a number of professional organizations such as the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Publications

Fairness Challenges in Artificial Intelligence
Fairness Challenges in Artificial Intelligence
Shuvro Chakrobartty, Omar F. El-Gayar. © 2023. 18 pages.
Fairness is a highly desirable human value in day-to-day decisions that affect human life. In recent years many successful applications of AI systems have been developed, and...
Prospects of Deep Learning and Edge Intelligence in Agriculture: A Review
Prospects of Deep Learning and Edge Intelligence in Agriculture: A Review
Ali Shaheen, Omar F. El-Gayar. © 2023. 22 pages.
Agriculture is one of the high labor occupations around the globe. To meet the population growth and its demand, with the increase in labor cost, there is a need to explore...
Mobile Applications for Behavioral Change: A Systematic Literature Review
Mobile Applications for Behavioral Change: A Systematic Literature Review
Martinson Q. Ofori, Omar F. El-Gayar. © 2021. 25 pages.
Access to the internet and the proliferation of mobile phones has resulted in a rising trend of mobile apps developed for disease self-management. This use of mobile health...
Disrupting Agriculture: The Status and Prospects for AI and Big Data in Smart Agriculture
Disrupting Agriculture: The Status and Prospects for AI and Big Data in Smart Agriculture
Omar F. El-Gayar, Martinson Q. Ofori. © 2021. 42 pages.
The United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture (FAO) estimates that farmers will need to produce about 70% more food by 2050. To accommodate the growing demand, the agricultural...
Wearables, Artificial intelligence, and the Future of Healthcare
Wearables, Artificial intelligence, and the Future of Healthcare
Omar F. El-Gayar, Loknath Sai Ambati, Nevine Nawar. © 2020. 26 pages.
Common underlying risk factors for chronic diseases include physical inactivity accompanying modern sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy eating habits, and tobacco use. Interestingly...
Disrupting Agriculture: The Status and Prospects for AI and Big Data in Smart Agriculture
Disrupting Agriculture: The Status and Prospects for AI and Big Data in Smart Agriculture
Omar F. El-Gayar, Martinson Q. Ofori. © 2020. 42 pages.
The United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture (FAO) estimates that farmers will need to produce about 70% more food by 2050. To accommodate the growing demand, the agricultural...
DSS-CMM: A Capability Maturity Model for DSS Development Processes
DSS-CMM: A Capability Maturity Model for DSS Development Processes
Omar F. El-Gayar, Amit V. Deokar, Jie Tao. © 2013. 22 pages.
While DSS development methodologies and implementation research are abound in the DSS literature, a gap still exists in terms of the ability to provide a holistic conceptual...
DSS-CMM: A Capability Maturity Model for DSS Development Processes
DSS-CMM: A Capability Maturity Model for DSS Development Processes
Omar F. El-Gayar, Amit V. Deokar, Jie Tao. © 2011. 21 pages.
While DSS development methodologies and implementation research are abound in the DSS literature, a gap still exists in terms of the ability to provide a holistic conceptual...
Business Process Management Systems for Supporting Individual and Group Decision Making
Business Process Management Systems for Supporting Individual and Group Decision Making
Amit V. Deokar, Omar F. El-Gayar. © 2009. 9 pages.
The complexities involved in managing intrafunctional as well as interfunctional activities have triggered many organizations to deploy large information technology (IT) systems...
Distributed Model Management: Current Status and Future Directions
Distributed Model Management: Current Status and Future Directions
Omar F. El-Gayar, Amit V. Deokar. © 2008. 6 pages.
Modern organizations are faced with numerous information management challenges in an increasingly complex and dynamic environment. Vast amounts of data and myriads of models of...
Current Issues and Future Trends of Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS)
Current Issues and Future Trends of Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS)
Omar F. El-Gayar, Amit Deokar, Matthew Wills. © 2008. 7 pages.
The cost of healthcare is increasing exponentially worldwide. The adoption and diffusion of e-health and the application of Internet and Communication Technology (ICT) in...