Faculty Profile

Michael Brydon

Associate Professor
Ph.D. (UBC); M.Eng., B. Eng. (Royal Military College of Canada)

Burnaby Phone: 778-782-5408
Burnaby Office: WMC 3325

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Biography

Dr. Michael Brydon's twin research interests in technology and applied decision making are a natural result of his graduate engineering degree and a PhD in Commerce. His research straddles the disciplinary boundaries of computer science, economics and decision theory and examines the potential uses of information technology to support decision-making in complex, uncertain environments. His research has involved a number of firms including Alcan, DuPont, Avcorp, and VanCity and has been funded by both the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

However, Michael's interests outside of work have gradually been reduced to just one: parenting. He and his wife Stephanie enjoying raising their three young children and spending free time at the ice rink, soccer field, and dance studio.

Specialization and Research Interests

Decision support, meta-choice, public choice, decision-theoretic planning, combinatorial auctions, heuristic search.

Selected Publications

• Tingling, P., Brydon, M. (2010) "Is Decision-Based Evidence Making Necessarily Bad?" Sloan Management Review, Volume 51, Issue 4, 71-76.
  
• Brydon, M. J. and Vining, A. R. (2008) "Adoption, Improvement and Disruption: Predicting the Impact of Open Source Applications in Enterprise Software Markets," Journal of Database Management, 19(2), pp. 73-94.
  
• Brydon, M. J. and Gemino, A. C., (2007) "Classification Trees and Decision-Analytic Feedforward Control: A Case Study from the Video Game Industry," Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 17(2),  pp. 317-342.
  
• Brydon, M. J. (2006) "Economic metaphors for solving intrafirm allocation problems: What does a market buy us?" Decision Support Systems, 42(3), pp. 1657-1672.
• Brydon, M.J., (2006) "Evaluating strategic options using decision-theoretic planning'" Information Technology and Management, 7(1), pp. 35-49.
• Brydon, M. J. and Vining, A. R., (2006) "Understanding the failure of internal knowledge markets: A framework for diagnosis and improvement," Information & Management, 43(8), pp. 964-974.