Milwaukee, WI, August 7, 2006--AIS SIG DSS is planning a pre-ICIS 2006: Research Workshop with the theme: "The Strategic and Behavior Aspects of DSS: In e-Market and Traditional Markets." The workshop is scheduled for Sunday, December 10, 2006 (One day workshop) in Milwaukee, WI.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: September 15, 2006 (midnight USA central time)

Decision Date: October 15, 2006

Workshop Date: Sunday December 10, 2006 (Milwaukee, WI), full day, 8:00am-5:30pm

Submission

Submit the papers to the workshop co-chairs:

Mariam Zahedi: zahedi@uwm.edu

Jaeki Song: jsong@ba.ttu.edu

Objectives

The objective of the DSS research workshop is to provide a forum for communicating the latest research in decision support systems. Although the research workshop has a theme to encourage the submission in the areas related to the theme, submissions in other categories will also be considered. Completed as well as research in progress papers are welcome.

The best, completed research papers related to the theme of the workshop will be fast-tracked for publication consideration in the Canadian Journal of Administrative Science (CJAS), which potentially could form a special issue on the theme of the workshop. Visit the journal’s website at: http://cjas.management.dal.ca/.

The theme of this year’s pre-ICIS SIG-DSS workshop is the strategic and behavior aspects of DSS (in e-market and traditional markets). The successful design and deployment of decision support systems (DSS) require insights in users’ behaviors, attitudes, and affective responses to the DSS technology and the process and outcome of using it. This is particularly true for web-based decision support tools, which have been deployed on the Web to assist consumers in their assessments and decisions regarding products and services. Furthermore, the design and deployment of successful DSS in an organization may require certain cultural environment and may need to fit into the business and IT strategies. The workshop solicits innovative and creative approaches in understanding users’ behaviors and organizations’ concerns regarding the design, development, deployment, use of DSS, including, but not limited to:

• The design-science perspective of developing and validating innovative DSS within organizations and for web-based systems

• Case studies of the use of DSS in organizations and their impacts and lessons learned

• Survey research approaches in evaluating impacts of DSS in traditional and Internet markets

• The connections between data mining and the development and use of DSS

• Studies of intelligent systems and agents and their use as decisions stools on the Web

• New heuristics and methodologies in DSS and their evaluations from users’ and developers’ perspectives

• Evaluations of web-based decision support systems from users’ or organizations’ point of view.

Paper Format

Please submit the paper by email attachment (as a Word file) directly to both Mariam Zahedi and Jaeki Song.

Papers should be in English. The length of the completed paper should not exceed 40 pages, including references, figures, tables, and appendices. The length of the research in progress should not exceed 20 pages, including all materials.

Format: double space, font 12, minimum of 1 inch margin all around. Please use the reference style of the Canadian Journal of Administrative Science at http://cjas.management.dal.ca/.

Workshop Co-chairs

Mariam Zahedi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (zahedi@uwm.edu)

Jaeki Song, Texas Tech University (jsong@ba.ttu.edu)

Advisory Board and Program Committee Members:

Benbasat, Izak, University of British Columbia
Bharati, Pratyush , University of Massachusetts-Boston
Corral, Karen, Arizona State University
Demirkan, Haluk, Arizona State University
Fan, Weiguo (Patrick), Virginia Tech University
Goul, Michael, Arizona State University
Gray, Paul, Claremont Graduate University
Hall, Dianne, Auburn University
Jones, Mary, University of North Texas
Klein, Barbara, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Kulkarni, Uday , Arizona State University
Mendonca, David, New Jersey Institute of Technology
O'Leary, Daniel, University of Southern California
Padmanabhan, Balaji, University of Pennsylvania
Paradice, David, Florida State University
Pflughoeft, Kurt, Market Probe
Pick, James, University of Redlands
Power, Daniel, University of Northern Iowa
Schuff, David, Temple University
Sharda, Ramesh , Oklahoma State University
Shim, J. P., Mississippi State University
Silver, Mark, Fordham University
Srinivasan, Ananth, University of Auckland
Srite, Mark, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Thong, James, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 
Turetken, Ozgur, Temple University
Tuzhilin, Alexander, New York University
Warkentin, Merrill, Mississippi State University
Watson, Hugh, University of Georgia
Zhao, Huimin, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Local Arrangement Coordinator
Bansal, Gaurav ,University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee