March 15, 2013 -- The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-47) will be held January 6-9, 2014 (Monday-Thursday) at the Hilton Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii, USA. There are multiple minitracks including Multi-criteria Decision Support.

The DA/MS/SS Track focuses on emerging managerial and organizational decision-making strategies, processes, tools, technologies, services and solutions in the Digital Age. This track has four interrelated themes. Analytics focuses on decision making processes, models, tools and technologies. Mobile Services work with the development and delivery of data, information and services with mobile technology platforms. Challenges and issues of emerging ser-vice industries, and service orientation and -transformation of strategies, processes, organizations, systems and technologies are covered in Service Science. In this track, we also discuss innovative approaches of decision making for/with Critical and Emerging Solutions in a number of high-impact areas.

The DA/MS/SS Track focuses on emerging managerial and organizational decision-making strategies, processes, tools, technologies, services and solutions in the Digital Age. This track has four interrelated themes. Analytics focuses on decision making processes, models, tools and technologies. Mobile Services work with the development and delivery of data, information and services with mobile technology platforms. Challenges and issues of emerging ser-vice industries, and service orientation and -transformation of strategies, processes, organizations, systems and technologies are covered in Service Science. In this track, we also discuss innovative approaches of decision making for/with Critical and Emerging Solutions in a number of high-impact areas.

• Analytics and Design-led Innovations & Management
• Big Data: Challenges, Opportunities, and Realities
• Data Text Web Mining for Managerial Decision Support
• Decision Making in Production Processes
• Decision Support for Sustainability
• Network DSS: Decision Support in Mobile Social and Sensor Networks
• Information Filtering and Retrieval: Soft Computing Based Approaches
• Innovation, Design, and Development of ICT Enabled Services
• Intelligent Decision Support for Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• Mobile Value Services
• Multi-criteria Decision Support
• New Economic Models of the Digital Economy
• Open Data Services
• Service Analytics
• Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME)
• Soft Computing in Intelligent Data Analysis
• Telecommunications Analytics and Techno-Economics
• Visualization and Analytics for Decision Support, Operational Management, and Scientific Discovery

Track Chairs
Christer Carlsson
Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research
ICT House A4053
Abo Akademi University
20520 Turku, Finland
Tel: 358 2 215 4196
Fax: 358 2 251 9912
Email: christer.carlsson@abo.fi

Haluk Demirkan
Center for Services Leadership
W. P. Carey School of Business
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 874606
Tempe AZ 85287-4606
Tel: 480-965-9067
Fax: 480-727-0881
Email: Haluk.Demirkan@asu.edu

Follow Author Instructions posted on the conference web site http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_47/apahome47.htm

HICSS papers must contain original material. They may not have been previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere.

Important Dates:

June 15, 2013           Submit full manuscripts for review as instructed
August 15, 2013         Acceptance notices to authors
September 15, 2013      Final paper versions due
October 15, 2012        Author registration deadline (at least one author must register)
January 6-9, 2014       Conference