Third Annual SIGDSS Pre-ICIS Workshop
Designing Complex Decision Support: Discovery and Presentation of Information and Knowledge
December 11, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The workshop will be held in the conference hotel (the Venetian) in "Casanova 504."

Important Dates:
Submissions due:  Thursday, September 1, 2005
Notification of acceptance: Monday, October 17, 2005
Final version of accepted papers due: Friday, November 11, 2005

Sponsored by:
Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Decision Support, Knowledge and Data Management (SIGDSS)

SIGDSS Web Site: http://sigs.aisnet.org/sigdss/

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Overview | Call for Papers | Registration | Program Committee | Workshop Program (Full Program) | Attendee List

Overview

Organized by SIGDSS, the purpose of this annual workshop is to explore issues surrounding the design and use of Decision Support Systems. The workshop provides a forum for presentation and discussion of research regarding systems that support managerial decision-making. 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.

Call for Papers

Download the full Call for Participation here (PDF format)

The abundance of information available to today’s managers makes it essential to efficiently represent, filter, and present information for effective decision making. The rapid advances in hardware and software development have made it possible to discover patterns in data and present that knowledge visually from multiple perspectives. However, the challenge is to identify relevant and important information enhance organizational decision making. The analysis and graphical presentation of information applies to a variety of topics, including (but not limited to):

Format of Submissions

Both in-progress and completed research papers are welcome. Submissions will be double-blind peer reviewed. People who submit to the workshop may be asked to review one or two papers.

In-progress submissions should be no more than seven double-spaced pages (using Times Roman, 12 point font). Completed research should be no more than fifteen double-spaced pages. Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format (RTF) is preferred). The author must remove all author information from the submitted document. The specified lengths do not include the abstract, references, and figures.

Authors should submit their papers via email to the workshop chairs (Karen Corral and David Schuff) by Monday, September 1, 2005. The email should include all author information (with their affiliations), along with the contact information for the corresponding author. Authors will receive a confirmation of receipt of their paper upon submission.

The program committee will notify the corresponding author of the decision regarding their paper by Monday, October 17, 2005. This will give the authors time to register before early registration for ICIS ends.

Cooperative Agreement with the Journal of the AIS

The Journal of the AIS (JAIS) is one of the premier outlets for MIS research. Selected papers presented at the workshop will be chosen, based on reviewers' feedback and the input of the workshop chairs and the JAIS Editor-in-Chief) for further review and potential submission to JAIS.

Papers presented at the workshop will be considered to be "preliminary" versions and may require significant revision before submission to JAIS. Papers selected for submission will receive "fast-track" status during the review process.
 

Registration

You can register for the workshop when you register for ICIS. The workshop registration fee is $125 and includes two coffee breaks and lunch. The late registration fee is $150. The early and late registration dates will follow the regular ICIS registration timeline. The ICIS registration site is http://icis2005.unlv.edu/registration.htm.

Program Committee

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Karen Corral, Arizona State University (Karen.Corral@asu.edu)
David Schuff, Temple University (David.Schuff@temple.edu)

Vice-Chair, Reviewing Coordination:

David Mendonca, NJIT (David.Mendonca@njit.edu)

Advisory Board:

Michael Goul, Arizona State University (Mike.Goul@asu.edu)
David Paradice, Florida State University (paradice@cob.fsu.edu)
Mariam Zahedi, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (zahedi@uwm.edu)

Program Committee:

Zaheer Asif, Temple University
Tim Chenoweth, Boise State University
Mark Chignell, University of Toronto
Jim Courtney, University of Central Florida
Andy Crapo, General Electric Global Research Center
Haluk Demirkan, Arizona State University
Kasper Hornbæk, University of Copenhagen
Bryan Hosack, Florida State University
Yong Seog Kim, Utah State University
Shu Shiller, Temple University
Barbara Klein, University of Michigan
Jasna Kuljis, Brunel University
T.P. Liang, National Sun Yat-sen University
David Mendonça, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Joachim Meyer, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
David Modjeska, University of Toronto
Paul Mulholland, The Open University
James Pick, University of Redlands
Catherine Plaisant, HCIL/UMIACS
Julian Ray, University of Redlands
Kamran Sedig, University of Western Ontario
Behrooz Seyed-Abbassi, University of North Florida
Gregory Schymik, Arizona State University
Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
Ozgur Turetken, Temple University
Remko van der Lugt, Delft University of Technology
E. Vance Wilson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Bin Zhu, Boston University

Workshop Program

The program will include 10 paper presentations. Below is an outline of the schedule.  For the full schedule, click here.

8:00 - 8:30 Workshop Registration
8:30 - 10:00 Session 1
10:00 - 10:30 Break with refreshments
10:30 - 11:30 Session 2
11:30 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:30 Session 3
2:30 - 3:00 Break with refreshments
3:00 - 4:00 Session 4


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