HENRY H. BI
Associate Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems
B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
M.S., Information Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology
M.B.A., Rochester Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Management Information Systems, University of Arizona

EML: hbi@willamette.edu

Henry Bi joined Willamette University in Fall 2009.  Prior to Willamette, he has been an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems in the Smeal College of Business at the Pennsylvania State University for five years.  He also has work experience with Xerox Corporation in Rochester, NY and with an import/export company in China. 

Henry has taught courses in the areas of information systems management and operations management at the Pennsylvania State University as well as at the University of Arizona when he was a doctoral student.  He won an award for outstanding teaching at the University of Arizona.

His research focuses on business process management, with emphasis on modeling, analyzing, and improving business processes.  He has published papers in academic journals and international conferences.

Henry is a member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).

Business process management, supply chain management, ERP, information systems management, operations management, e-commerce, e-government, enterprise architecture management, database management

University’s outstanding graduate student instructor award, University of Arizona, 2004

Editorial Review Board Member: Journal of Database Management

Conference Program Committee Member: Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS)

Reviewer:  Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, INFORMS Journal on Computing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part A), IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Database Management, Information Systems Frontiers,  Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Information Technology & Management, Journal of Information Systems and e-Business Management, Business Process Management Journal, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM), International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), NSF/NIJ Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Workshop on e-Business (WeB), Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL),  China Digital Library Conference (CDLC)

The following peer-reviewed publications can be downloaded online.

H.H. Bi, J. Wang, D.K.J. Lin. 2011. Comprehensive citation index for research networks. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 23(8) 1274-1278.

H.H. Bi. 2010. A structured language for manipulating process models. Business Process Management Journal. 16(4) 713-743.

H.H. Bi, D.K.J. Lin. 2009. RFID-enabled discovery of supply networks. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 56(1) 129-141.

L. Klotz, M. Horman, H.H. Bi, J. Bechtel. 2008. The impact of process mapping on transparency. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management. 57(8) 623-636.

R. Barton, H.H. Bi, M. Freimer, Z. Huang, D.K.J. Lin, J. Shu, D. Thomas, S. Xu. 2006. Challenges in RFID enabled supply chain management. Quality Progress. 39(11) 23-28.

J.L. Zhao, H.H. Bi, H. Chen, D.D. Zeng, C. Lin, M. Chau. 2006. Process-driven collaboration support for intra-agency crime analysis. Decision Support Systems. 41(3) 616-633.

H.H. Bi, J.L. Zhao. 2004. Applying propositional logic to workflow verification. Information Technology & Management. 5(3-4) 293-318.

H.H. Bi. 2008. Toward an algebra for manipulating process models. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2008), Paris, France, December, 13-14, 2008. pp. 206-211.

H.H. Bi, J.L. Zhao. 2004. Process logic for verifying the correctness of business process models (extended abstract). Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2004), Washington, D.C., USA, December 12-15, 2004. pp. 91-100.

H.H. Bi, A. Kumar. 2004. A canonical form for the definition, querying, and manipulation of workflows. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2004), Washington, D.C., USA, December 11-12, 2004. pp. 26-31.

H.H. Bi, J.L. Zhao. 2003. A formal classification of process anomalies for workflow verification. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2003), Seattle, WA, USA, December 13-14, 2003. pp. 207-212.

J.L. Zhao, H.H. Bi. 2003. On the completeness of logic-based workflow verification. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2003), Seattle, WA, USA, December 13-14, 2003. pp. 73-78.

H.H. Bi, A. Segev, J.L. Zhao. 2003. Verification of inter-organizational workflow models in supply chain management. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on e-Business (WeB 2003), Seattle, WA, USA, December 13-14, 2003. pp. 213-224.

J.L. Zhao, H.H. Bi, H. Chen. 2003. Collaborative workflow management for interagency crime analysis. Proceedings of the First NSF/NIJ Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2003), Tucson, AZ, USA, June 2-3, 2003. pp. 266-280.

H.H. Bi, J.L. Zhao. 2003. Mending the lag between commercial needs and research prototypes: A logic-based workflow verification approach. Proceedings of the Eighth INFORMS-Computing-Society Conference (ICS 2003), Chandler, AZ, USA, January 8-10, 2003. pp.191-212.