INVITATION TO ATTEND: Pre-ICIS Workshop "Research Directions for Decision Support"

December 14, 2003 - Seattle, Washington, USA
Sponsored by AIS SIGDSS
AIS SIGDSS URL: http://www.sba.oakland.edu/faculty/sugumaran/sigdss/
Workshop URL: http://mis.temple.edu/sigdss/icis03/
Workshop Chair: David Schuff (David.Schuff@temple.edu), Temple University

Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 31, 2003 -- All those interested in research in the area of Decision Support Systems are invited to attend the First Annual Pre-ICIS Workshop on Decision Support Systems.

OVERVIEW AND GOALS

Organized by SIGDSS, this workshop will explore issues surrounding the design and use of Decision Support Systems. The workshop will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of research regarding systems which support managerial decision-making through both knowledge management and data management. This includes the design, history, theory, practice, methods and techniques, new developments, and applications of computing technologies to support decision processes and decision-making by individuals, groups and organizations.

Specifically, the goal of the inaugural workshop is to bring interested researchers together in order to provide networking opportunities for the academic community interested in these topics.

PROGRAM

The program is shaping up to be both busy and exciting, with papers on a wide variety of topics. The program will include 12 regular paper presentations, three poster presentations, and four invited paper presentations. We are also in the process of planning a panel to be held during the lunch session.

The schedule is available online at http://mis.temple.edu/sigdss/icis03/fullProgram.htm or see the tentative schedule below.

REGISTRATION

You can register for the workshop through the ICIS 2003 website at the same time as you register for the conference. The registration fee is $80, which includes lunch.

Tentative Workshop Schedule

Poster presentations:

“An XML-based Representation Framework for Modelbases”
(Full paper)
Thadthong Bhrammanee and Vilas Wuwongse
School of Advanced Technologies, Asian Institute of Technology

“TeamSpirit: The Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Web-based Group Problem Solving Support System for Distributed Teams”
(Full paper)
YiChing Liou
National Central University
Minder Chen
George Mason University
Ching-Wen Wang
Chung-Hsing University
Y.W. Fan
National Central University
Y.P. Jeffery Chi
National Chengchi University

“A New Approach to Group Multi Criteria Decision Making for Facilitating DSS Applicability”
(Extended Abstract)
Mohammad Mohammadpour, Saeed Zolfaghari, and M. Jabal Ameli
Ryerson University

Program committee members:

• Pamela Carter, University of Oklahoma (pcarter@ou.edu)
• Kaushal Chari, University of South Florida (kchari@coba.usf.edu)
• Houn-Gee Chen, National Tsing Hua University (hgchen@mx.nthu.edu.tw)
• James Courtney, University of Central Florida (jcourtney@bus.ucf.edu)
• Haluk Demirkan, Arizona State University (Haluk.Demirkan@asu.edu)
• Karen Dowling, Arizona State University (karen.dowling@asu.edu)
• Sean Eom, Southeast Missouri State University (sbeom@semovm.semo.edu)
• Michael Goul, Arizona State University (michael.goul@asu.edu)
• Rob Meredith, Monash University (rob.meredith@infotech.monash.edu.au)
• David Olson, University of Nebraska (dolson3@unl.edu)
• Vicki Sauter, University of Missouri - St Louis (vicki.sauter@umsl.edu)
• A.B. Schwarzkopf, University of Oklahoma (aschwarz@ou.edu)
• Ozgur Turetken, Temple University (turetken@temple.edu)
• William Wallace, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (wallaw@rpi.edu)
• Mariam Zehedi, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (zahedi@uwm.edu)
• Dan Zhu, Iowa State University, (dzhu@iastate.edu)

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                      David Schuff
                      Department of Management Information Systems
                      Temple University
                      David.Schuff@temple.edu

                      Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003

updated 11/22/2003