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D. J. Power, Editor
August 17, 2003 -- Vol. 4, No. 17
A Bi-Weekly Publication of DSSResources.COM
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Data-Driven Decision Support Project" at DSSResources.COM
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Report from AMCIS 2003
by Dan Power
Sunday afternoon, August 3 began my whirlwind visit to the Americas
Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) in Tampa, FL. In the
registration area I spotted George Marakas and we checked on the room
scheduled for the SIG DSS business meeting. Shortly after 5pm, I called
the SIG DSS meeting to order. There were about 30 people at the meeting
including all of the officers and 3 board members (Courtney, Turoff,
Watson).
SIG DSS is growing in membership with about 135 dues paying members and
we have some money in the bank. If you are not a member, please consider
joining. The meeting discussion primarily focused on the proposed
bylaws. Mike Goul, Vice Chair, is coordinating development of the
bylaws. A revised version of the bylaws should be at the SIG DSS
website (http://www.sba.oakland.edu/faculty/sugumaran/sigdss/) in late
September.
Sunday evening the program committee chairs (Galletta & Ross) hosted a
reception for mini-track chairs. SIG DSS was well-represented at the
reception (good food always brings out a crowd). Overall there were 4
mini-tracks (11 co-chairs) in the SIG DSS sponsored Decision Support and
Knowledge Management meta-track. After the reception, I had dinner with
George Widmeyer and Ulrike Schultze at a seafood restaurant close to the
Mariott Waterside where the conference was being held. George has been
active with IFIP and its working group on DSS for many years. He's
always interesting to chat with and Ulricke added her perspective on IS
and Knowledge Management.
Monday morning the conference started with a keynote presentation and
then the paper sessions. I chaired 2 back-to-back DSS sessions and then
Karen Dowling chaired 2 afternoon sessions. In general, the papers I
heard presented were interesting. As always the decision support realm
is diverse and applied. In particular, Radhika Santhanam presented an
review paper titled "Common Factors among Management Support Systems
Success".
Paul Gray chaired the Communications of the Association for Information
Systems (CAIS) editorial board meeting Monday in the late afternoon.
More than 225 articles have been published in CAIS since 1999. Paul
briefly discussed a special issue on the brewing IS/IT identity crisis
-- What is the core of the IS field? Is it an IS/IT artifact? Is some
research in IS journals not really IS research? Such debates don't
really change much, but they put journal editors on notice and they are
a sign of a maturing discipline. Much of the time we in Information
Systems are too critical of each other's research and we do too little
to promote the field and the importance of IS/DSS research. Information
Systems exist, they are important, and we study them. Information
Systems are key channels of communications and data transfer, they are
important support tools for decision makers/knowledge workers, and
information systems are the "digital nervous system" for today's complex
organizations. I'll write more about this debate in a future Ask Dan!
Monday evening was the conference reception at the Tampa Florida
Aquarium. My former colleague and friend Al Hevner was there greeting
the crowd (almost 900 registered attendees). Al and Paul Cheney were the
conference chairs and they did a great job.
Tuesday morning at 7am, Ted Stohr and Chris Bullen, AMCIS 2004 program
chairs, had a meeting to discuss their plans. The room was crowded and
the enthusiasm was high so I'm assuming AMCIS in New York (August 5-8,
2004) will have an exciting program. Jerry Luftman, conference chair,
promised great social events as well. For more information check
http://attila.stevens-tech.edu/cis2004/ .
My free time was spent in meetings about SIG DSS, including the upcoming
pre-ICIS workshop, and meeting about projects I'm working on with Ramesh
Sharda and with Daewon Sun. I also had an interesting chat with Omar
El-Gayar about DSS and Design Science. I'll discuss Design Science and
its relation to building DSS in some future Ask Dan! Sean Eom brought me
up-to-date on his Inter-organizational Information Systems book project.
There is never enough time to see old friends at conferences, but AMCIS
2003 brought together a critical mass of DSS academic researchers and
that was great for me.
Shortly after lunch Tuesday I headed for the Tampa airport. My flight
back to Dayton was uneventful. Wednesday morning I drove home to Cedar
Falls, IA (580 miles!). For the past 10 days I have been vacationing,
but this e-newsletter is on a bi-weekly schedule so my vacation is now
officially at an end. Next week I'll get ready for classes -- the
circle of academic life begins again for me.
Many thanks to Karen Dowling (ASU), the mini-track chairs (Rollier,
Kang, Schuff, St. Louis, Turetken, Mennecke, Pick, Kulkarni, Raghu), and
the reviewers for their work in creating a great SIGDSS program for
AMCIS 2003.
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08/15/2003 Posted case by Barton, P., "The George Washington University
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DSS News Releases - August 3 to August 15, 2003 -
Read them at DSSResources.COM and search the DSS News archive.
08/15/2003 Satellite phones provide vital communications during U.S.
east coast blackout.
08/15/2003 Continuous monitoring is key to avoiding facility power
outages.
08/15/2003 Forbes.com uses Evergreen Assurance's automated DR Service to
ensure availability of mission-critical e-mail and data for employees
worldwide.
08/14/2003 American Insurance Association (AIA) warns that cyber risk
loss control should not just respond to worms or viruses.
08/14/2003 DSS Research among first to apply for new privacy
certification.
08/13/2003 SAIC awarded contract to design an integrated criminal
history system (ICHS) for the State of Florida.
08/13/2003 Wal-Mart Suppliers Draw on webMethods for EDI over the
Internet.
08/13/2003 IntelligentBPM Conference and Expo announces list of keynote
speakers.
08/13/2003 Microsoft releases Microsoft Office Project 2003, aims to
align resources and business activities with strategic objectives.
08/12/2003 BudgetLife cuts the paper chase and gets life insurance
policies to consumers faster.
08/12/2003 Charming Shoppes makes MicroStrategy’s BI platform integral
to operations.
08/11/2003 Crystal Decisions improves financial and sales reporting for
Sunsweet Growers executives.
08/11/2003 American Society of Civil Engineers extends use of Documentum
eRoom.
08/07/2003 Trimble chosen as GPS provider for Cattron-Theimeg's
ACCUSPEED locomotive radio remote control system.
08/07/2003 Scorex's Applicant Scoring Model and Performance Insight
implemented by Arizona Federal Credit Union.
08/06/2003 SGI becomes authorized reseller of TeraBurst optical
networking products for distributed visualization applications.
08/05/2003 The Wet Seal, Inc. expands MicroStrategy deployment
enterprise-wide to assess sales trends.
08/05/2003 Sybase and TIBCO to develop Sybase Real-time Services, a
real-time information delivery solution built on open standards.
08/05/2003 Sun declares Linux desktop ready for primetime with its
Project Mad Hatter.
08/04/2003 Bloomingdale's to use ProfitLogic's markdown optimization
solution to manage pricing of fashion and seasonal merchandise.
08/03/2003 CareDecision Corporation launches SateLink PDA for media and
cable industries.
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